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J. Author Imperial Paris, Napoleon III., etc.
=Jevons, Wm. Stanley.= 1835-1882. Political economist. Author The State in Relation to Labor, Methods of Social Reform and other Essays, Investigations in Currency and Finance, etc. _Pub. Apl. Mac._
=Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor.= 1821-1880. Novelist and journalist.
Author of Zoe, Half Sisters, Constance Herbert, etc. _Pub. Har._
=Jewsbury, Maria Jane.= Sister to G. E. J. See Fletcher, Mrs.
=Johnson, Samuel.= 1705-1773. Dramatist. Author Hurlothrumbo, etc.
=Johnson, Samuel.= 1709-1784. Lexicographer and miscellaneous writer.
Author of London, a poetical satire, Ra.s.selas, a didactic novel, Lives of the Poets, Dict. of the Eng. Lang., and numerous other works. His style is heavy and ponderous, but dignified, sonorous, and peculiarly his own. He was the greatest literary figure in England between 1745 and 1784. _See Boswell's Life of, edited by J. W. Croker; also Johnson by Leslie Stephen in Eng. Men of Letters._ _Pub. Har. Le. Lit. Mac._
=Johnston, Arthur.= 1587-1641. Scotch poet. Noted for a fine Latin translation of the Psalms.
=Johnstone, Charles.= ---- 1800. Novelist. His Adventures of a Guinea was once popular. _See W. Scott's Lives of Eminent Novelists._
=Jones, Sir Wm.= 1746-1794. Poet, Orientalist, and translator. _See edition of 1807 with Life._
=Jonson, Ben.= 1574-1637. Dramatist. A robust, dignified writer, more popular in his day than Shakespeare. Volpone, Silent Woman, Alchemist, Every Man in his Humor, and Every Man out of his Humor are his best comedies: Catiline and Seja.n.u.s his only tragedies. His pastoral drama, The Sad Shepherd, is graceful and sweet. _See Cunningham's edition of Johnson, 1870, and Schlegel's Dramatic Literature._ _Pub. Apl. Rou._
=Jortin, John.= 1698-1770. Ecclesiastical historian.
=Jowett, Benjamin.= 181 Greek scholar. Translator of Plato and Thucydides. _Pub Scr._
=Junius.= See Francis, Sir Philip.
=Kames, Lord.= See Home, Henry.
=Kavanagh [kav'a-na' or kav'a-nah'], Julia.= 1824-1877. Irish novelist. Author Nathalie, Eng. Women of Letters, Beatrice, etc. _Pub.
Apl. Ho._
=Kaye, Sir John Wm.= 1814-1876. Military historian. Author Hist. War in Afghanistan [1851], Hist. Sepoy War, Lives of Indian Officers, Essays of an Optimist, etc. _Pub. Lip. Rou._
=Keary, Annie.= 1825-1879. Novelist. Author Castle Daly, A Doubting Heart, Heroes of Asgard, Clemency Franklyn, etc. _See Memoir of, by her Sister; also Catholic World, July, 1879._ _Pub. Har. Mac. Por._
=Keats, John.= 1795-1821. Poet. A great master of the music of verse.
The Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale are nearly perfect poems. The Eve of St. Agnes, Isabella, Hyperion and Endymion are longer poems, full of sensuous richness of expression and intensity of feeling. _See Rossetti's edition of._ _See Life of, by Lord Houghton._
=Keble [k[)e]b'l], John.= 1792-1866. Religious poet. Author Christian Year, Lyra Innocentium, etc. Versification musical and refined. _See Shairp's Studies in Poetry and Philosophy, C. Yonge's Musings over the Christian Year, Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4, and Memoir by J. T.
Coleridge._ _Pub. Dut._
=Keddie, Henrietta=, ”Sarah Tytler.” 182 Novelist. Author Citoyenne Jacqueline, What She Came Through, and several valuable literary and artistic handbooks. _Pub. Har. Rob. Rou._
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