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many publications in connection with the Early English Text, Chaucer, Ballad, New Shakespeare, and similar Societies, of several of which he was the founder.
GAIRDNER, JAMES, C.B., LL.D. (1828).--Historian. Ed. in Rolls Series _Memorials of Henry VII._, _Letters and Papers of the Reigns of Richard III. and Henry VII._, _Calendar of Henry VIII._, vols. v. to xx., ed. the _Paston Letters_ (1900), and various vols. for the Camden Society, author of _England_ in the Early Chroniclers of Europe Series, a Life of Richard III., _The English Church in the Sixteenth Century to the Death of Mary_ (1902), etc.
GALSWORTHY, JOHN (1867).--Novelist and playwright. Novels: _Jocelyn_ (1898), _Villa Rubein_ (1900), _The Island Pharisees_ (1904), _The Man of Property_ (1906), _The Country House_ (1907), _A Commentary_ (1908), _Fraternity_ (1909). Plays: _The Silver Box_ (1906), _Joy_ (1907), and _Strife_ (1909), _Justice_ (1910).
GALTON, SIR FRANCIS, F.R.S., D.C.L. (1822).--Traveller and anthropologist. _Tropical South Africa_ (1853), _Hereditary Genius_ (1869), _English Men of Science, their Nature and Nurture_ (1874), _Human Faculty_ (1883), _Natural Inheritance_ (1889), _Finger Prints_ (1893), _Noteworthy Families_ (with E. Schuster) (1906), etc.
GARDNER, EDMUND GARRATT (1869).--Miscellaneous writer. _Dante's Ten Heavens_ (1898), _Story of Florence_ (1900), _Dukes and Ports in Ferrara_ (1904), _The King of Court Poets_ (1906), _Saint Catherine of Siena_ (1907), _Lyrical Poetry of Dante Alighieri_ (1910), etc.
GARDNER, ERNEST ARTHUR (1862).--Writer on Greek antiquities. _Chapter on Inscriptions in Naukratis I._ (1886), _Naukratis II._ (1888), _Handbook of Greek Sculpture_ (1896-97), _A Companion to Greek Studies_ (1905), etc.
GARDNER, PERCY, Litt.D., LL.D. (1846).--Writer on Greek art, etc. Part ed. of the British Museum Coin Catalogues (1873-86), _The Parthian Coinage_ (1877), _Samos and Samian Coinage_ (1882), _The Types of Greek Coins_ (1883), _New Chapters in Greek History_ (1892), _Sculptured Tombs of h.e.l.las_ (1896), _Historic View of the New Testament_ (1901). etc.
GARNETT, CONSTANCE (1862).--Translator of _Novels and Tales of Turgenev_ (1895-99), etc.
GARNETT, EDWARD (1868).--Dramatic critic, etc. _An Imaged World_ (1894), _The Breaking Point_ (a censored play, 1907).
GASQUET, RIGHT REV. FRANCIS AIDAN, D.D. (1846).--Historical writer.
_Henry VIII. and the English Monasteries_ (1888-89), _Edward VI. and the Book of Common Prayer_ (1890), _The Great Pestilence_ (1893), _Sketch of Monastic Const.i.tutional History_ (1896), _Short History of the Catholic Church in England_ (1903), _Lord Acton and his Circle_, _Parish Life in Mediaeval England_ (1906), etc.
GIBERNE, AGNES.--Novelist and scientific writer. Tales, _Conlyng Castle_, _Life Tangles_, _Roy_, _Stories of the Abbey Precincts_, _Rowena_ (1906), _Astronomy_, _Sun, Moon, and Stars_, _Starry Skies_, _The World's Foundations_, _Radiant Suns_, etc.
GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836).--Dramatist and humorist. _The Palace of Truth_ (1870), _Pygmalion and Galatea_ (1871), _Trial by Jury_ (1878), _Pinafore_, _Pirates of Penzance_, _Patience_, _Iolanthe_, _The Mikado_, _Yeomen of the Guard_, _Bab Ballads_.
GOLLANCZ, ISRAEL, Litt.D. (1864).--Scholar. Ed. _Cynewulf's Christ_ (1892), _Exeter Book of Anglo-Saxon Poetry_ (Early English Text Society), and ed. Temple Shakespeare (1894-96).
GORDON-STABLES, WILLIAM (1840).--Novelist and writer of boys' books. Has written 136 books, including _Cruise of the "s...o...b..rd,"_ _Every Inch a Sailor_, _Our Humble Friends and Fellow-Mortals_, _Pirates' Gold_, _Frank Hardinge_, _The Rose o' Allandale_, etc.
GOSSE, EDMUND, LL.D. (1849).--Poet and critic. _On Viol and Flute_ (1873), _King Erik_ (1876), _New Poems_ (1879), _Firdausi in Exile_ (1885), _Collected Poems_ (1896), _Seventeenth Century Studies_ (1883), _History of Eighteenth Century Literature_ (1889), _Secret of Narcisse_ (1892), _The Jacobean Poets_ (1894), _History of Modern English Literature_ (1897), _French Profiles_ (1905), _Father and Son_ (1908), and Lives of Gray (1882), Congreve (1888), P.H. Gosse (1890), Donne (1899), Jeremy Taylor (1904), C. Patmore (1905), Sir Thomas Browne (1905), etc.
GOULD, NATHANIEL (1857).--Sporting novelist. _The Double Event_ (1891), _Running it Off_ (1892), _Thrown Away_ (1894), _The Miner's Cup_ (1896), _A Gentleman Rider_ (1898), _A Stable Mystery_ (1900), _The Rajah's Racer_ (1904), _A Sporting Squatter_ (1906), _A Run of Luck_ (1907), etc., and many others.
GRAHAME, KENNETH.--Novelist. _Pagan Papers_ (1893), _The Golden Age_ (1895), _Dream Days_ (1898), and _The Headswoman_ (1898).
GRAND, SARAH (CLARKE).--Novelist. _Singularly Deluded_, _Ideala_, _The Heavenly Twins_ (1893), _Our Manifold Nature_ (1894), _The Modern Man and Maid_ (1898), _Babs the Impossible_ (1900), etc.
GRAVES, ALFRED PERCEVAL (1846).--Writer of Irish songs, etc. _Songs of Killarney_ (1872), _Irish Songs and Ballads_ (1879), _Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics_ (1889), _Irish Song Book_ (1894), _The Post Bag_ (1902), etc.
"GRAY, MAXWELL" (TUTTIETT).--Novelist. _The Silence of Dean Maitland_ (1886), _Reproach of Annesley_ (1888), _An Innocent Impostor_ (1892), _Sweethearts and Friends_ (1897), _Four-leaved Clover_ (1891), _The Great Refusal_ (1906), and several vols. of poetry, etc.
GRUNDY, SYDNEY (1848).--Dramatist. _Mammon_ (1877), _Silver s.h.i.+eld_ (1885), _A White Lie_ (1889), _A Fool's Paradise_ (1889), _Sowing the Wind_ (1893), _The New Woman_ (1894), _A Marriage of Convenience_ (1897), _The Black Tulip_ (1899), etc.
GUTHRIE, THOMAS ANSTEY ("F. ANSTEY") (1856).--Novelist. _Vice-Versa_ (1882), _The Giant's Robe_ (1883), _The Black Poodle_ (1884), _The Tinted Venus_ (1885), _The Pariah_ (1889), _Voces Populi_, _The Statement of Stella Maberley_, _Baboo Jabberjee_, _Love Among the Lions_, _The Travelling Companions_, _The Bra.s.s Bottle_ (1900), _Salted Almonds_ (1906), etc.
HAGGARD, HENRY RIDER (1856).--Novelist, etc. _The Witch's Head_ (1885), _King Solomon's Mines_ (1886), _She_ (1887), _Jess_ (1887), _Allan Quatermain_ (1887), _Maiwa's Revenge_ (1888), _Cleopatra_ (1889), _Beatrice_ (1890), _Nada the Lily_ (1892), _Montezuma's Daughter_ (1894), _Joan Haste_ (1895), _A Farmer's Year_ (1899), _Lysbeth_ (1901), _Rural England_ (1902), _The Brethren_ (1904), _A Gardener's Year_ (1905), _Ayesha_ (1905), _The Poor and the Land_ (1905), _Fair Margaret_ (1907), etc.
HALES, JOHN WESLEY (1836).--Scholar, co-ed. of Percy's folio MS., ed.
_Longer English Poems_, author of _Shakespeare Essays and Notes_, etc.
HARDY, ERNEST GEORGE, D.Litt. (1852).--Writer on Roman History.
_Christianity and the Roman Government_, _A History of Jesus College_, _Studies in Roman History_, ed. Plato's _Republic_, book i. Juvenal's _Satires_, etc.
HARDY, THOMAS, LL.D. (1840).--Novelist. _A Short Story_ (1865), _Desperate Remedies_ (1871), _Under the Greenwood Tree_ (1872), _A Pair of Blue Eyes_ (1872-73), _Far from the Madding Crowd_ (1874), _Hand of Ethelberta_ (1876), _Return of the Native_ (1878), _The Trumpet Major_ (1879), _A Laodicean_ (1870-71), _Two on a Tower_ (1882), _The Mayor of Casterbridge_ (1884-85), _The Woodlanders_ (1886-87), _Wess.e.x Tales_ (1888), _A Group of n.o.ble Dames_ (1891), _Tess of the D'Urberville's_ (1891), _Life's Little Ironies_ (1894), _Jude, the Obscure_ (1895), _The Well-Beloved_ (1897), _Wess.e.x Poems_ (1898), _Poems of the Past and the Present_ (1901), _The Dynasts_ (drama), part i. (1904), and part ii.
(1906), _Time's Laughing Stocks_ (1909).
HARRADEN, BEATRICE (1864).--Novelist. _s.h.i.+ps that Pa.s.s in the Night_ (1893), _In Varying Moods_ (1894), _Hilda Strafford_ (1897), _The Fowler_ (1899), _Katharine Frensham_ (1903), _The Scholar's Daughter_ (1903), also tales for children, etc.
HARRIS, FRANK (1856).--Novelist, etc. _Elder Conklin_, _The Man William Shakespeare_ (1898), _Montes the Matador_ (1900). Play: _Mr. and Mrs.
Daventry_. Formerly editor of _Sat.u.r.day Review_ and _Fortnightly Review_.
HARRISON, FREDERIC, Litt.D. (1831).--Historical and miscellaneous writer.
_Meaning of History_ (1862), enlarged (1894), _Order and Progress_ (1875), _The Choice of Books_ (1886), _Oliver Cromwell_ (1888), _Annals of an Old Manor-house_ (1893), _Victorian Literature_ (1895), _Introduction to Comte's Positive Philosophy_, _Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill, and Others_ (1899), _Byzantine History in the Early Middle Ages_ (1900), _Life of Ruskin_ (1902), _Theophano_ (1904), _Nicephorus, a Tragedy of New Rome_ (1906), _The Creed of a Layman_ (1907), etc.
HARRISON, MISS JANE ELLEN, LL.D., etc. (1850).--Writer on Greek art and religion. _Myths of the Odyssey in Art and Literature_ (1882), _Introductory Studies in Greek Art_ (1885), _Mythology and Monuments of Ancient Athens_ (1890) (with Mrs. A.W. Verrall), _Prolegomena to Study of Greek Religion_, etc.
HARRISON, MARY ST. LEGER ("LUCAS MALET").--Novelist. _Mrs. Lorimer_ (1882), _Colonel Enderby's Wife_ (1885), _A Counsel of Perfection_ (1888), _The Wages of Sin_ (1891), _The Carissima_ (1896), _History of Sir Richard Calmady_ (1901), etc.
Ha.s.sALL, ARTHUR (1853).--Historian. _Handbook of European History_ (1897), _The Balance of Power_ (1715-89), in Periods of European History, of which he is ed. (1896), _A Cla.s.s Book of English History_ (1901), _History of France_ (1901), _The French People_ (1901), _The Tudor Dynasty_ (1904), arranged Stubbs' _Introductions_ in Rolls Series, and other works of his, author of Lives of Bolingbroke, Louis XIV., Mazarin, etc.