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MacDonald's England's Antiphon and Cornhill Mag., April, 1883._

=Creasy, Sir Edward Shepherd.= 1812-1878. Historian. Author Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, Hist. Ottoman Turks, Hist. of England.

_Pub. Ho. Har._

=Croker, John Wilson.= 1780-1857. Essayist and historical writer.

Style caustic and vigorous. _See H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches._

=Croker, Thos. Crofton.= 1798-1854. Irish novelist. Author of romances and fairy tales, the latter of great beauty.

=Croly, George.= 1780-1860. Irish poet. Author Angel of the World, Catiline, etc. His verse has a showy, tinsel brilliancy. _Pub. Har.

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=Cruden [kroo'den], Alexander.= 1701-1770. Scotch theologian. Famous as the author of the well-known Concordance to the Bible. _Pub. Lip.

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=Cudlip, Mrs. Annie Pender=, ”Annie Thomas.” 18-- ----. Novelist.

Author Denis Donne, A Pa.s.sion in Tatters, Playing for High Stakes, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Cudworth, Ralph.= 1617-1688. Philosopher. His True Intellectual System ranks among Eng. prose cla.s.sics. _See edition 1845, 3 vols._

=c.u.mberland, Richard.= 1632-1718. Bp. Peterborough. Philosophical writer.

=c.u.mberland, Richard.= 1732-1811. Great-grandson to preceding. Poet and dramatist. Wrote The West Indian, Wheel of Fortune, and other rather sentimental comedies. _See edition of his dramas, by Jansen, 1813._

=c.u.mming, John.= 1810-1881. Scotch theologian and popular London preacher. Author Apocalyptic Sketches, Fall of Babylon Foreshadowed, etc.

=Cunningham, Allan=. 1785-1842. Scotch poet and critic. C. wrote many spirited songs, among which A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea is best known. Author Hist. British Painters, Life of Wilkie, etc. _See Poems and Songs of, edited by Peter Cunningham, 1847._ _Pub. Har._

=Cunningham, John.= 1729-1773. Irish lyrical poet.

=Cunningham, John Wm.= 1780-1861. Poet.

=Cunningham, Peter.= 1816-1869. Son to A. C. Antiquary. Author Handbook of London, Modern London, Memoir of J. M. W. Turner, etc.

=Dalrymple, Sir David.= 1726-1792. Scotch historian. Author Annals of Scotland, etc.

=Dalrymple, John Hamilton.= 1726-1810. Scotch historian. Author Memoirs of Great Britain.

=Daniel, Samuel.= 1562-1619. Poet and historian. D. wrote a Hist. of the Civil Wars in 8-line stanzas, also a prose Hist. of England. _See Campbell's Specimens of Eng. Poets._

=D'Arblay, Madame,= _nee_ =Frances Burney.= 1752-1840. Novelist.

Author Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, etc. _See her Diary, pub. 1846; also Contemporary Rev., Dec., 1882._ _Pub. Har. Rob._

=Darwin, Chas. Robert.= 1809-1882. Naturalist. The most notable scientist of the age, and the originator of the Evolution Theory. He had a clear, well-balanced mind, and his statements are based on careful observation and reflection. Origin of Species, Variation under Domestication, Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals, Descent of Man, Insectivorous Plants, and Movements in Plants are his chief works. _See Atlantic Monthly, June, 1882; Century Mag., Jan., 1883._ _Pub. Apl._

=Darwin, Erasmus.= 1731-1802. Grandfather to C. D. Poet and physician.

Author of The Botanic Garden, a hard, metallic poem of a scientific cast, polished and elaborated to excess. _See Miss Seward's Memoirs of; Craik's Eng. Lit., vol. 2; Krause's Life of._