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=Wallace, Donald Mackenzie.= 184 Traveler. Author of Russia, etc. _Pub. Ho._
=Waller, Edmund.= 1605-1687. Poet. Go, Lovely Rose, On a Girdle, and Old Age and Death are some of his best poems. _See Bell's edition, 1866._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._
=Waller, John Francis.= 181 Poet and prose writer. Author Poems, The Slingsby Papers, etc., and editor of the Imperial Dict. of Universal Biography. _Pub. Cas._
=Wallis, John.= 1616-1703. Mathematician. Author numerous works on algebra, geometry, etc.
=Walpole [w[)o]l'pol], Horace.= 1717-1797. Miscellaneous writer.
Author Castle of Otranto, a sensational romance, The Mysterious Mother, a tragedy, Historic Doubts concerning Richard III., etc. A brilliant but superficial writer. _See Memoirs of, 1851; also, Living Age, vol. 13, ”Strawberry Hill.”_
=Walter, John.= 1739-1812. Journalist. Founder of the London Times, 1788.
=Walton, Brian.= 1600-1661. Bp. Chester. Editor of the London Polyglott Bible. _See Life, by Todd, 1821._
=Walton, Izaak.= 1593-1683. Biographer and angler. The Complete Angler, his chief work, is a book of much quiet beauty. _Pub. Lit._
=Warburton, Eliot Bartholomew Geo.= 1810-1852. Irish novelist and miscellaneous writer. Author The Crescent and the Cross, Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers, etc.
=Warburton, George.= ---- 1857. Bro. to E. B. G. W. Author Conquest of Canada, Hochelaga, etc. _Pub. Har._
=Warburton, Wm.= 1698-1779. Bp. Gloucester. A learned and brilliant but arrogant author. He wrote The Divine Legation of Moses, and published an edition of Shakespeare in 1747. _See Life, by Watson, 1863, and Quarterly Rev. June, 1812._
=Ward, Robert Plumer.= 1765-1846. Novelist. Author Tremaine, De Vere, De Clifford, and Chatsworth; metaphysical, philosophical, and political narratives. _See Memoirs, 1850._ _Pub. Har._
=Waring, Anna L.= 18-- ----. Welsh poet. Author of Hymns and Meditations. _Pub. Dut._
=Warner, Ferdinando.= 1703-1768. Historian. Author Eccl. Hist.
England, Hist. Ireland, etc.
=Warner, Wm.= 1558-1609. Poet. Author of Albion's England, a hist. of England from the Deluge to Elizabeth, containing 10,000 14-syllable lines. It is humorous, spirited, and even pathetic in places. _See Craik's Eng. Lit., vol. 1, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._
=Warren, John Leicester.= 18-- ----. Poet. Author Philoctetes, Rehearsals, Orestes, Searching the Net, etc. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Rou._
=Warren, Samuel.= 1807-1877. Novelist and physician. Author Diary of a Physician, and the famous novel Ten Thousand a Year. _Pub. Har. Por._
=Warton, Joseph.= 1722-1800. Poet and critic. _See Biography, by Wool, 1806._
=Warton, Thomas.= 1728-1790. Poet and critic. Bro. to J. W. A valuable Hist. Eng. Poetry is his chief prose work. _See Carew Hazlitt's edition._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._ _Pub. Rou._
=Waterton, Charles.= 1782-1865. Naturalist. Author Essays on Nat.
Hist., etc. _Pub. Mac._
=Watson, Richard.= 1737-1816. Bp. Llandaff. Theologian. Author of Apologies for Christianity and the Bible, etc. _See Autobiography, 1817._ _Pub Phi._
=Watson, Robert.= 1730-1780. Scotch historian. Author of a worthless Hist. of Philip II.
=Watson, Thomas.= 1560-1592. Poet. His Sonnets have been much praised.
_See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._
=Watts, Alaric Alexander.= 1799-1864. Poet. Author Poetical Sketches, Lyrics of the Heart, etc.
=Watts, Mrs. Anna Mary [Howitt].= 182 Artist and miscellaneous writer. Author of The Art Student in Munich, Pioneers of Spiritualism, containing Lives of Dr. Justinius Kerner and Wm. Howitt, written from the psychological point of view, etc.