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# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Stephens (Philemon)

​STEPHENS (PHILEMON), bookseller in London, (1) Gilded Lyon in Paul's Churchyard, 1647; (2) White Lyon, St. Pauls Churchyard, 1654 [Probably the same house as No. 1]; (3) Chancery Lane, 1669 (1622-70). Took up his freedom May 3rd, 1620. [Arber, iii. 685.] Partner with Christopher Meredith, q.v. Master of the Company of Stationers, 1660. Smyth in his Obituary, p. 87, thus records his death, "15 July 1670, Philemon Stephens, bookseller in Chancery Lane died at Chelsey; buried at St. Dunstans in ye West." He made a nuncupative will in favour of his wife Dorothy. [P.C.C. 103 Penn.] The house known as the White or Gilded Lion belonged to John Bellamy, and was mentioned in his will. Stephens dealt almost entirely in theological literature. The following works contain lists of his publications: Rev. R. Abbott's Christian Family builded by God, 1653; John Trapp's Commentary upon the twelve minor prophets, 1654. [See also Bibliographica, vol. 3, p. 182.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Streater or Streator (John)

​STREATER or STREATOR (JOHN), (?) bookseller and printer in London; Bible in Budge Row [? Watling Street], 1646-87. Amongst the Bagford fragments [Harl. 5927 (494)] is the following: Aurefodina Linguæ Gallica, or the Gold Mine of the French language opened … By Edmund Gostlin, Gent., London. Printed for John Streater at the signe of the Bible in Budge-Row, 1646. No copy of this book can be traced, but if there is no mistake in the date, it would seem to prove that John Streater was a bookseller at the time of the outbreak of the Revolution. His subsequent history is obtained partly from his own petition to Parliament. [Harl. 5928, 13], and from other sources. He served throughout the Civil Wars, and was present at the battles of Edgehill and Newbury, and subsequently went to Ireland as Quarter Master General and Engineer. But in 1653 his views upon public matters changed, and he became a violent opponent of Cromwell, and in August, 1653, was expelled the army and thrown into prison for writing and printing a pamphlet entitled the Grand Politique Informer. After a confinement of some months and several appearances before the Judges, he was set at liberty by Judge Rolls. General Desborough urged him to make his peace with Cromwell, and he at length agreed not to print or write anything else against the Government. After Cromwell's death he appears to have been appointed one of the official printers, for on April 11th, 1660, in company with J. Macocke, q.v., he received a warrant for the payment of £528 13s. 3d. for printing Acts, Orders, etc. [Domestic State Papers, 1659-60, p. 596.] In the Act of 1662 was a special proviso exempting Streater from its provisions. He held a patent for printing law-books as one of the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns, but in 1664 he was imprisoned with other stationers at the instigation of the Stationers' Company for infringing their privileges [Chan. Proc. Rey. Bundle 31, Stationers' Co. v. Flesher.] In 1666 he gave information against Samuel Speed for selling law books printed during the Commonwealth, with the result that Speed was apprehended and fined. Streater was also the author of a pamphlet entitled The King's Grant of Privilege for sole printing Common Law Books defended and the legality thereof asserted, 1669.
# A Letter from Santa Claus

Palace of Saint Nicholas in the Moon Christmas Morning
My Dear Susy Clemens,
I have received and read all the letters which you and your little
sister have written me . . . . I can read your and your baby
sister's jagged and fantastic marks without any trouble at all. But
I had trouble with those letters which you dictated through your
mother and the nurses, for I am a foreigner and cannot read English
writing well. You will find that I made no mistakes about the things
which you and the baby ordered in your own letters--I went down your
chimney at midnight when you were asleep and delivered them all
myself--and kissed both of you, too . . . . But . . . there
were . . . one or two small orders which I could not fill because we
ran out of stock . . . .
There was a word or two in your mama's letter which . . . I took to
be "a trunk full of doll's clothes." Is that it? I will call at your
kitchen door about nine o'clock this morning to inquire. But I must
not see anybody and I must not speak to anybody but you. When the
kitchen doorbell rings, George must be blindfolded and sent to the
door. You must tell George he must walk on tiptoe and not speak--
otherwise he will die someday. Then you must go up to the nursery
and stand on a chair or the nurse's bed and put your ear to the
speaking tube that leads down to the kitchen and when I whistle
through it you must speak in the tube and say, "Welcome, Santa
Claus!" Then I will ask whether it was a trunk you ordered or not.
If you say it was, I shall ask you what color you want the trunk to
be . . . and then you must tell me every single thing in detail
which you want the trunk to contain. Then when I say "Good-by and a
merry Christmas to my little Susy Clemens," you must say "Good-by,
good old Santa Claus, I thank you very much." Then you must go down
into the library and make George close all the doors that open into
the main hall, and everybody must keep still for a little while. I
will go to the moon and get those things and in a few minutes I will
come down the chimney that belongs to the fireplace that is in the
hall--if it is a trunk you want--because I couldn't get such a thing
as a trunk down the nursery chimney, you know . . . .If I should
leave any snow in the hall, you must tell George to sweep it into
the fireplace, for I haven't time to do such things. George must not
use a broom, but a rag--else he will die someday . . . . If my boot
should leave a stain on the marble, George must not holystone it
away. Leave it there always in memory of my visit; and whenever you
look at it or show it to anybody you must let it remind you to be a
good little girl. Whenever you are naughty and someone points to
that mark which your good old Santa Claus's boot made on the marble,
what will you say, little sweetheart?
Good-by for a few minutes, till I come down to the world and ring the kitchen doorbell.
Your loving Santa Claus Whom people sometimes call "The Man in the Moon"
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A Letter from a Girl to her own Old Age

* Meynell, Alice (1875), "A Letter from a Girl to her own Old Age" in Preludes.
* Meynell, Alice (1921), "A Letter from a Girl to her own Old Age" in Poems.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Arnold, Thomas

​Arnold, Thomas (1795-1842).—Historian, s. of an inland revenue officer in the Isle of Wight, was ed. at Winchester and Oxford, and after some years as a tutor, was, in 1828, appointed Head Master of Rugby. His learning, earnestness, and force of character enabled him not only to raise his own school to the front rank of public schools, but to exercise an unprecedented reforming influence on the whole educational system of the country. A liberal in politics, and a zealous church reformer, he was involved in many controversies, educational and religious. As a churchman he was a decided Erastian, and strongly opposed to the High Church party. In 1841 he was appointed Professor of Modern History at Oxford. His chief literary works are his unfinished History of Rome (three vols. 1838-42), and his Lectures on Modern History. He d. suddenly of angina pectoris in the midst of his usefulness and growing influence. His life, by Dean Stanley (q.v.), is one of the best works of its class in the language.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Asser

​Asser (d. 909?).—Chronicler, a monk of St. David's, afterwards Bishop of Sherborne, was the friend, helper, and biographer of Ælfred. In addition to his life of Ælfred he wrote a chronicle of England from 849 to 887.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Atherstone, Edwin

​Atherstone, Edwin (1788-1872).—Poet and novelist. His works, which were planned on an imposing scale, attracted some temporary attention and applause, but are now forgotten. His chief poem, The Fall of Nineveh, consisting of thirty books, appeared at intervals from 1828 to 1868. He also produced two novels, The Sea Kings in England and The Handwriting on the Wall.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Ascham, Roger

​Ascham, Roger (1515-1568).—Didactic writer and scholar, s. of John A., house-steward in the family of Lord Scrope, was b. at Kirby Wiske, Yorkshire, and ed. first by Sir Humphrey Wingfield, and then at St. John's Coll., Cambridge, where he devoted himself specially to the study of Greek, then newly revived, and of which, having taken a fellowship, he became a teacher. He was likewise noted for his skill in penmanship, music, and archery, the last of which is the subject of his first work, Toxophilus, pub. In 1545, and which, dedicated to Henry VIII., gained him the favour of the King, who bestowed a pension upon him. The objects of the book are twofold, to commend the practice of shooting with the long bow as a manly sport and an aid to national defence, and to set the example of a higher style of composition than had yet been attempted in English. Soon afterwards he was made university orator, and master of languages to the Lady (afterwards Queen) Elizabeth. He then went abroad in various positions of trust, returning on being appointed Latin Secretary to Edward VI. This office he likewise discharged to Mary and then to Elizabeth—a testimony to his tact and caution in these changeful times. His principal work, The Schoolmaster, a treatise on education, was printed by his widow in 1570. He also pub. a book on the political state of Germany.
Editions: of Toxophilus, Arber; Schoolmaster, Arber, also Mayer (1883); English works, Bennet (1767), with life by Dr. Johnson; whole works, Giles (1864-5).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Asgill, John

​Asgill, John (1659-1738).—Eccentric writer, student at the Middle Temple, 1686, and called to the Bar 1692. In 1699 he pub. in an unlucky hour a pamphlet to prove that death was not obligatory upon Christians, which, much to his surprise, aroused the public wrath and led to his expulsion from the Irish and English House of Commons successively. A. thereafter fell on evil days, and passed the rest of his life between the Fleet and the King's Bench, where, strange to say, his zeal as a pamphleteer continued unabated. He d. in 1738.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Aubrey, John

​Aubrey, John (1626-1697).—Antiquary, was a country gentleman who inherited estates in several counties in England, which he lost by litigation and otherwise. He devoted himself to the collection of antiquarian and miscellaneous observations, and gave assistance to Dugdale and Anthony à-Wood in their researches. His own investigations were extensive and minute, but their value is much diminished by his credulity, and want of capacity to weigh evidence. His only publication is his Miscellanies, a collection of popular superstitions, etc., but he left various collections, which were edited and publ. in the 19th century.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Austen, Jane

​Austen, Jane (1775-1817).—Novelist, dau. of a clergyman, was b. at the rectory of Steventon near Basingstoke. She ​received an education superior to that generally given to girls of her time, and took early to writing, her first tale being begun in 1798. Her life was a singularly uneventful one, and, but for a disappointment in love, tranquil and happy. In 1801 the family went to Bath, the scene of many episodes in her writings, and after the death of her f. in 1805 to Southampton, and later to Chawton, a village in Hants, where most of her novels were written. A tendency to consumption having manifested itself, she removed in May, 1817, to Winchester for the advantage of skilled medical attendance, but so rapid was the progress of her malady that she died there two months later. Of her six novels, four—Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816)—were pub. anonymously during her life-time; and the others, Northanger Abbey—written in 1798—and Persuasion, finished in 1816, appeared a few months after her death, when the name of the authoress was divulged. Although her novels were from the first well received, it is only of comparatively late years that her genius has gained the wide appreciation which it deserves. Her strength lies in the delineation of character, especially of persons of her own sex, by a number of minute and delicate touches arising out of the most natural and everyday incidents in the life of the middle and upper classes, from which her subjects are generally taken. Her characters, though of quite ordinary types, are drawn with such wonderful firmness and precision, and with such significant detail as to retain their individuality absolutely intact through their entire development, and they are never coloured by her own personality. Her view of life is genial in the main, with a strong dash of gentle but keen satire: she appeals rarely and slightly to the deeper feelings; and the enforcement of the excellent lessons she teaches is left altogether to the story, without a word of formal moralising. Among her admirers was Sir W. Scott, who said, "That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements of feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with;" others were Macaulay (who thought that in the world there were no compositions which approached nearer to perfection), Coleridge, Southey, Sydney Smith, and E. FitzGerald.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Arnold, Sir Edwin

​Arnold, Sir Edwin (1832-1904).—Poet, s. of a Sussex magistrate, was b. at Gravesend, and ed. at King's School, Rochester, London, and Oxford. Thereafter he was an assistant master at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and was in 1856 appointed Principal of the Government Deccan College, Poona. Here he ​received the bias towards, and gathered material for, his future works. In 1861 he returned to England and became connected with The Daily Telegraph, of which he was ultimately editor. The literary task which he set before him was the interpretation in English verse of the life and philosophy of the East. His chief work with this object is The Light of Asia (1879), a poem on the life and teaching of Buddha, which had great popularity, but whose permanent place in literature must remain very uncertain. In The Light of the World (1891), he attempted, less successfully, a similar treatment of the life and teaching of Jesus. Other works are The Song of Songs of India (1875), With Saadi in the Garden, and The Tenth Muse. He travelled widely in the East, and wrote books on his travels. He was made K.C.I.E. in 1888.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Ashmole, Elias

​Ashmole, Elias (1617-1692).—Antiquary, was ed. at Lichfield, and became a solicitor in 1638. On the breaking out of ​the Civil War he sided with the royalists; went to Oxford and studied science, including astrology. The result of his studies in this region of mystery was his Theatrum Chymicum Britannicum, which gained him great repute and the friendship of John Selden. His last astrological treatise was The Way to Bliss, which dealt with the subject of "the philosopher's stone." He also wrote various works on antiquarian subjects, and a History of the Order of the Garter. A. held various posts under government, and presented to the University of Oxford a valuable collection of curiosities now known as the Ashmolean Museum. He also bequeathed his library to the University. His wife was a dau. of Sir W. Dugdale, the antiquary.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Atterbury, Francis

​Atterbury, Francis (1662-1732).—Controversialist and preacher, was b. near Newport Pagnel, Bucks, and ed. at Westminster School and Oxford. He became the leading protagonist on the High Church side in the ecclesiastical controversies of his time, and is believed to have been the chief author of the famous defence of Dr. Sacheverell in 1712. He also wrote most of Boyle's Examination of Dr. Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and pub. sermons, which, with his letters to Swift, Pope, and other friends, constitute the foundation of his literary reputation. During the reign of the Tories he enjoyed much preferment, having been successively Canon of Exeter, Dean of Christ Church, Dean of Westminster, and Bishop of Rochester. His Jacobite principles, however, and his participation in various plots got him into trouble, and in 1722 he was confined in the Tower, deprived of all his offices, and ultimately banished. He d. at Paris, Feb. 15, 1732, and was buried privately in Westminster Abbey.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Murfree, Mary Noailles ("Charles Egbert Craddock")

See also Mary Noailles Murfree on Wikipedia.
​Murfree, Mary Noailles ("Charles Egbert Craddock").—American novelist. In the Tennessee Mountains (1884), Down the Ravine (1885), The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains (1886), Story of Keedar Bluffs (1887), His Vanished Star (1894), The Juggler (1897), The Bushwhackers (1899), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry, LL.D., D.C.L., etc.

See also James Murray (lexicographer) on Wikipedia.
​Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry, LL.D., D.C.L., etc. (1837).—Philologist. Ed. of New English Dictionary, Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland, has ed. various works for the Early English Text Society, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Nicoll, Sir William Robertson, LL.D.

See also William Robertson Nicoll on Wikipedia.
​Nicoll, Sir William Robertson, LL.D. (1851).—Journalist, poet, and essayist, etc. Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century (1895), Songs of Rest (two series), ed. Letters on Life, The Church's One Foundation; has ed. Works of C. Bronté, Expositors' Greek Testament, etc. Editor of British Weekly.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Norris, William Edward

See also William Edward Norris on Wikipedia.
​Norris, William Edward (1846).—Novelist. Heaps of Money (1877), Mademoiselle de Mersac, My Friend Jim, The Dancer in Yellow (1896), An Octave (1900), The Credit of the Country (1902), Harry and Ursula (1907), The Perjurer (1909), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/O'Grady, Standish

See also Standish James O'Grady on Wikipedia.
​O'Grady, Standish (1846).—Writer on Irish history and literature. History of Ireland, Heroic Period, vols. i. and ii., History of Ireland, Critical and Philosophical, vol. i., The Flight of the Eagle, The Bog of Stars, Finn and his Companions, Ulrick the Ready, The Chain of Gold, The Coming of Cuculain, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Oppenheim, E. Phillips

See also E. Phillips Oppenheim on Wikipedia.
​Oppenheim, E. Phillips (1866).—Novelist. The Master Mummer, Mysterious Mr. Sabin, A Prince of Sinners, Conspirators, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Okey, Thomas

See also Thomas Okey on Wikipedia.
​Okey, Thomas.—Writer on topography and art. Venice and its Story, Paris and its Story, Venetian Palaces and Old Venetian Folk, Translator of Dante's Purgatorio.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Murray, George Gilbert Aimee, LL.D.

See also Gilbert Murray on Wikipedia.
​Murray, George Gilbert Aimee, LL.D. (1866).—Scholar. History of Ancient Greek Literature (1897), Euripidis Fabulae adnotatione critica instructae (1901 and 1904), Euripides, Verse Translations, Rise of the Greek Epic (1907), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Noyes, Alfred

See also Alfred Noyes on Wikipedia.
​Noyes, Alfred (1880).—Poet, etc. The Loom of Years (1902), The Flower of Old Japan (1903), Poems (1904), The Forest of Wild Thyme (1905), Drake (an English epic) (1906), William Morris (English Men of Letters) (1909), The Enchanted Island (1909).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Oman, Charles William Chadwick

See also Charles Oman on Wikipedia.
​Oman, Charles William Chadwick (1860).—Historian. A History of Greece (1888), Warwick the Kingmaker (1891), Short History of the Byzantine Empire (1892), A History of Europe, 476-918 (1893), Short History of England (1895), History of the Peninsular War, vols. i., ii., and iii., etc.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pascoe, John Eyre

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​PASCOE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
John Eyre Pascoe entered the Navy, 18 Aug. 1805, as Midshipman, on board the Warrior 74, Capts. Sam. Hood Linzee, Michael Seymour, and John Wm. Spranger, attached to the Channel fleet. He removed, in Dec. 1807, to the Indefatigable 46, Capts. John Tremayne Rodd, Henry Edw. Reginald Baker, and John Broughton, stationed off the coast of France; and he was next, between Aug. 1810 and Sept. 1815, employed, off Lisbon, at Portsmouth, on the north coast of Spain, and in the Mediterranean, on board the Dreadnought 98, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzee, Plover sloop, Capt. Colin Campbell, Hannibal 74, Capt. King, Union 98, Capt. Geo. Burgoyne Salt, Vesuvius bomb, Capt. Wm. Hext, and Clorinde 40, Capt. Sam. Geo. Pechell. He then took up a commission bearing date 7 March, 1815; and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Pascoe married, at Plymouth, in 1839, Sarah, third daughter of S. Kerswell, Esq.