A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Part 59

MOLESWORTH, MRS. MARY LOUISA (STEWART) (1839).--Novelist and writer for children. _Carrots_, _Cuckoo Clock_, _Herr Baby_, _The Boys_, etc.; novels, _Hathercourt Rectory_, _The Laurel Walk_, etc.

MOORE, FRANK FRANKFORT (1855).--Novelist and dramatist. _Dawn_ (verse), _Told by the Sea_, _I forbid the Banns_ (1893), _The Jessamy Bride_ (1897), _A Damsel or Two_ (1902), _The King's Messenger_ (1907), etc.; plays, _A March Hare_, _The Queen's Room_, _Kitty Clive_, _The Food of Love_ (1909), etc.

MOORE, GEORGE (1857).--Novelist, playwright, and art critic. _Flowers of Pa.s.sion_ (verse) (1877), _A Mummer's Wife_ (1884), _Literature at Nurse_ (1885), _Vain Fortune_ (1890), _Ideals in Ireland_ (1891), _Modern Painting_ (1893), _Esther Waters_ (1894), _The Bending of the Bough_ (play), etc.

MORLEY, JOHN, 1ST LORD MORLEY of BLACKBURN, P.C., O.M., F.R.S., etc.

(1838).--Biographer and essayist. _Edmund Burke_ (1867), _Critical Miscellanies_ (1871-77) (two series), _Voltaire_ (1871), _Rousseau_ (1873), _On Compromise_ (1874), _Diderot and the Encyclopaedists_ (1878), _Studies in Literature_ (1891), _Oliver Cromwell_ (1900), _Life of Gladstone_ (1903), etc.

MORRISON, ARTHUR (1863).--Novelist. _Tales of Mean Streets_ (1894), _Martin Hewitt_ (1894), _A Child of the Jago_ (1896), _The Hole in the Wall_ (1902), etc.

MULLINGER, JAMES Ba.s.s (1834).--Historian. _Cambridge Characteristics in the Seventeenth Century_ (1867), _The Ancient African Church_ (1869), _The New Reformation_ (1875), _The Schools of Charles the Great_ (1876), _The University of Cambridge from the Earliest Times to the Accession of Charles I._, _Introduction to English History_ (with S.R. Gardiner), _History of St. John's College, Cambridge_ (1901), etc.

MUNRO, NEIL (1864).--Novelist, etc. _The Lost Pibroch_ (1896), _John Splendid_ (1898), _Gillian the Dreamer_ (1899), _Doom Castle_ (1901), _The Shoes of Fortune_ (1901), _Children of the Tempest_ (1903), _The Daft Days_ (1907), etc.

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.

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.

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.

"NESBIT, E.," (_see_ BLAND, MRS. HUBERT).

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. Bronte_, _Expositors' Greek Testament_, etc. Editor of _British Weekly_.

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 County_ (1902), _Harry and Ursula_ (1907), etc.

NOYES, ALFRED (1880).--Poet, etc. _The Loom of Years_ (1902), _The Flower of Old j.a.pan_ (1903), _Poems_ (1904), _The Forest of Wild Thyme_ (1905), _Drake_ (an English epic) (1906), _William Morris_ (1907), _The Enchanted Island_ (1909).

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.

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_.

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. and ii., etc.

OPPENHEIM, E. PHILLIPS (1866).--Novelist. _The Master Mummer_, _Mysterious Mr. Sabin_, _A Prince of Sinners_, _Conspirators_, etc.

"ORCZY, BARONESS" (MRS. MONTAGU BARSTOW).--Novelist and playwright. _The Emperor's Candlesticks_, _The Scarlet Pimpernel_ (1905), _A Son of the People_ (1906), _I will Repay_ (1906), etc.

OXENHAM, JOHN.--Novelist. _G.o.d's Prisoner_ (1898), _John of Gerisau_ (1902), _White Fire_ (1905), _Giant Circ.u.mstance_, _The Long Road_, etc.

PATRICK, DAVID, LL.D. (1849).--Ed. of _Chambers' Encyclopaedia_ (1888-92), _Chambers' Cyclopaedia of English Literature_ (1901-3), and _Chambers's Biographical Dictionary_ (with F.H. Groome) (1897).

PAIN, BARRY (1868).--Novelist, etc. _In a Canadian Canoe_ (1891), _Stories and Interludes_ (1892), _Graeme and Cyril_ (1893), _Kindness of the Celestial_ (1894), _The Romantic History of Robin Hood_ (1898), _Lindley Kays_ (1904), _Wilhelmina in London_ (1906), _Shadow of the Unseen_ (1907), etc.

PASTURE, MRS. HENRY DE LA (BONHAM).--Novelist and dramatist. _The Little Squire_ (1894), _A Toy Tragedy_, _Deborah of Tod's_ (1897), _Catherine of Calais_ (1901), _Peter's Mother_ (1905), _The Tyrant_ (1909).

PAUL, HERBERT WOODFIELD (1853).--Historian and biographer. _Men and Letters_ (1901), _History of Modern England_, _Stray Leaves_ (1906), _Queen Anne_ (1906), _Lives_ of W.E. Gladstone, Matthew Arnold (English Men of Letters), Lord Acton, and Froude.

PEARS, SIR EDWIN (1835).--War correspondent, etc, _Fall of Constantinople_ (1885), _The Destruction of the Greek Empire_ (1903), etc.

PEMBERTON, MAX (1863).--Novelist. _The Sea Wolves_ (1894), _The Impregnable City_ (1895), _Christine of the Hills_ (1897), _Pro Patria_ (1901), _Dr. Xavier_ (1903), _Red Morn_ (1904), _The Hundred Days_ (1905), _The Fortunate Prisoner_ (1909), etc.

PHELPS, ELIZABETH STUART (MRS. H.D. WARD) (1844).--American novelist.

_The Gates Ajar_ (1869), _Hedged In_ (1870), _Story of Avis_ (1877), _An Old Maid's Paradise_ (1879), _Beyond the Gates_ (1883), _The Madonna of the Tubs_ (1887), _The Gates Between_ (1887), _Struggle for Immortality_ (1889), _Come Forth_ (with H.D. Ward, 1890), _Avery_, _Trixy_ (1904), etc.

PHILLIPS, CLAUDE.--Writer on art. _Picture Gallery of Charles I._, _The Earlier Work of t.i.tian_, _The Later Work of t.i.tian_, _Lives_ of Reynolds, Watteau, etc.

PHILLIPS, STEPHEN (1868).--Poet. _Marpessa_ (1890), _Eremus_ (1894), _Christ in Hades_ (1896), _Poems_ (1897), _Paolo and Francesca_ (1899), _Herod_ (1900), _Ulysses_ (1902), _The Sin of David_ (1904), _Nero_ (1906), etc.

PHILLPOTTS, EDEN (1862).--Novelist. _Down Dartmoor Way_ (1894), _Lying Prophets_ (1896), _Children of the Mist_ (1898), _Sons of the Morning_ (1900), _The River_ (1902), _The Secret Woman_ (1905), _The Whirlwind_ (1907), etc.

PINERO, SIR ARTHUR WING (1855).--Dramatist. _The Magistrate_, _Sweet Lavender_, _The Profligate_, _The Weaker s.e.x_, _Lady Bountiful_, _The Second Mrs. Tanqueray_, _The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith_, _The Benefit of the Doubt_, _The Princess and the b.u.t.terfly_, _The Gay Lord Quex_, _His House in Order_, _Mid Channel_, etc.

POLLARD, ALBERT FREDERICK, F.R.Hist.S. (1869).--Historical writer. _The Jesuits in Poland_ (1892), _England under Protector Somerset_ (1900), _Henry VIII._ (Gougiel Series, 1902), _Life of Thomas Cranmer_ (1904), etc., and has contributed largely to _The Dictionary of National Biography_, and to the _Cambridge Modern History_, and ed. _Political Pamphlets_, _Tudor Tracts_, etc.