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of the Great Rebellion. His style is defective, but he is fully master of his subject.

=Inchbald, Mrs. Elizabeth.= 1753-1821. Novelist and dramatist. Her novels, A Simple Story and Nature and Art were once popular, and some of her plays are yet acted. The best are Such Things Are, Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are, and Lovers' Vows. _See Boaden's Life of, 1833; also Miss Kavanagh's Eng. Women of Letters._ _Pub. Har._

=Ingelow [[)i]n'j[)e]-low], Jean.= 183 Poet and novelist. Her novels Off the Skelligs, Don John, etc., though popular and entertaining, are inartistic in construction. Her poetry, though occasionally obscure, is always graceful and beautiful. Songs of Seven, The High Tide, and Divided are among the best. _Pub. Rob. Rou._

=Ingleby, Clement Mansfield.= 182 Shakespearean scholar. Author of Shakespeare--the Man and the Book, View of the Shakespeare Controversy, etc.

=Inglis, Henry David.= 1795-1835. Scotch writer of travels.

=Ingulphus.= 1030?-1109. A monk to whom was long ascribed the famous History of the Abbey of Croyland. _See Bohn's Antiquarian Library._

=Ireland, Wm. Henry.= 1777-1835. Shakespearean forger. Author of a wretched play called Vortigern, which he a.s.serted to be by Shakespeare. _See Ingleby's Shakespeare, The Man and the Book, Part 2._

=Irons, Wm.= 1812-1883. Theologian. Author of The Whole Doctrine of Final Causes, Parochial Lect., Sermons for the People, Hymns from the Hebrew, Athanasius Contoa Mundum, etc. _Pub. Dut._

=Irving, Edward.= 1792-1834. Scotch theologian. Founder of the Irvingite, or Catholic Apostolic Church. _See Lives by Wilkes and Mrs.

Oliphant; also Carlyle's Reminiscences._

=James I.= King of Scotland. 1394-1437. Poet. The King's Quhair is a long love poem in 7-line stanzas, and pure and sweet in sentiment.

_See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._

=James V.= King of Scotland. 1511-1542. Poet. Supposed author of Peebles to the Play and Christ's Kirk on the Green: comic and satirical ballads.

=James VI.= of Scotland, I. of England. 1566-1625. Author of some feeble poetry, a number of theological treatises and a famous Counterblast Against Tobacco.

=James, George Payne Rainsford.= 1801-1860. Novelist. Author of an immense number of novels with a strong likeness to each other.

Beginning by imitating Scott, he ended by copying himself. _Pub. Har.

Rou._

=Jameson, Mrs. Anna.= 1797-1860. An able writer who touched upon many topics. Characteristics of Women, Sacred and Legendary Art, and Diary of an Ennuyee, are some of her books. Her dissertations upon Shakespeare's women are keenly appreciative. _See Memoir of, by Geraldine Macpherson; also H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches._ _Pub. Apl. Har. Hou. Por. Rou._

=Jeaffreson, John Cordy.= 183 Novelist and biographer. Author Live It Down, The Real Lord Byron, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Jeffrey, Lord Francis.= 1773-1850. Scotch critic and essayist. One of the founders of the Edinburgh Review. A writer of great merit, but one whose judgment was often warped by prejudice. _See Life by Lord c.o.c.kburn, 1852._

=Jenkins, Edward.= 183 Political satirist. Author Ginx's Baby, Lord Bantam, Haverholme, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Jenyns, Soame.= 1704-1787. Moralist. _See complete works of, London, 1790._

=Jephson, Robert.= 1736-1803. Dramatist. The Court of Narbonne and Duke of Braganza were successful tragedies in their day.

=Jerdan, Wm.= 1782-1869. Journalist. _See Autobiography, 1853._

=Jerrold, Douglas Wm.= 1803-1857. Dramatist and humorist. Black-Eyed Susan and Rent Day are his best dramas. Of his other works, A Man Made of Money, Chronicles of Clovernook, and The Caudle Lectures are most noted. _See Life by his son._ _Pub. Har. Hou. Rou._

=Jerrold, Wm. Blanchard.= 182 Miscellaneous writer. Son to D. W.