Selections
from his writings were published in 4 vols.
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He was connected with J.
B.
Lippin-
cott & Co. from 1876, and in 1886 became edi-
tor of Lippincott's Magazine. He has written
many essays, also juveniles, and historical and
scientific books for the young; and has pub-
lished a critical commentary, Faust: The
Legend and the Poem (1887), and “Paradoxes
of a Philistine) (1888).
Walter, Ferdinand (väl'ter). A German
jurist; born at Wetzlar, Nov. 30, 1794; died at
Bonn, Dec. 13, 1879. His principal works are :
(Text-Book of Canon Law) (1822); (Ancient
German Law) (3 vols. , 1824); History of
Roman Law down to Justinian) (1840); (His-
tory of German Law) (1853); (Sources of An-
cient and Modern Ecclesiastical Law) (1862);
Natural Law and Politics in the Light of the
Present) (1863).
Walters, William Thompson. An American
merchant and art virtuoso; born in Pennsyl-
vania, 1820; died 1891. He was educated as an
engineer; became identified with the coal and
iron industry; was art commissioner from the
United States at the Paris Expositions (1867-
78), at Vienna (1873), and trustee of the Cor-
coran Gallery at Washington, D. C. His private
art gallery is the most extensive and valuable
(especially in Oriental ceramics) in this country.
He has published: (Barye) (1885); (The Per-
cheron Horse) (1886); and Notes upon Certain
Masters of the XIXth Century) (1886).
Walther von der Vogelweide (väl'ter fon
der fö'gel-vi-dė). «The greatest lyric poet of
Germany before Goethe, and the first supremely
great lyric poet that the nations of modern
Europe produced, flourished in the early part
of the thirteenth century. The best critical edi-
tion of his poems is K. Lachmann's (1827). *
Walton, Brian. An English bishop and
biblical scholar; born at Seymour, Yorkshire,
1600; died in London, Nov. 29, 1661. He was
made chaplain to Charles II. and bishop of
Chester at the Restoration. His greatest work
is “Biblia Sacra Polyglotta) (6 vols. , folio 1657),
including the Hebrew original of the Old
Testament, the Samaritan Pentateuch, the
Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, and Latin
Vulgate, with various readings, notes, etc. ; still
thought to be “the most complete Biblical
apparatus in any language. ) He wrote in 1658
his Dissertation on the Antiquity and Author-
ity of his Texts,' in later editions called the
Prolegomena, under which name it was pub-
lished in the original Latin (2 vols. , 1827-28).
(The Considerator Considered, etc. (1659), was
written in answer to Dr. John Owen's (Vindi-
cation of the Purity and Integrity of the Hebrew
and Greek Texts,' etc. which was a criticism
upon his great Biblical work.
Walton, Izaak. The celebrated author of
(The Compleat Angler'; born at Stafford, Eng.
land, Aug. 9, 1593;. died at Winchester, Dec.
15, 1683. He wrote the following biographies,
known as (Walton's Lives): of Dr. John Donne
( 1640 ), Sir Henry Wotton ( 1640 ), Richard
Hooker (1662), George Herbert (1670), and
Dr. Robert Sanderson (1678). (The Compleat
Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recre.
ation) (1653) is one of the great English clas-
sics. *
Walworth, Clarence Alphonsus. An Amer-
ican clergyman; born in Plattsburg, N. Y. , May
30, 1820. At first a lawyer, afterwards an Epis-
copalian clergyman, he united with the Roman
Catholic Church, and was one of the founders
of the Congregation of St. Paul; since 1864
rector of St. Mary's Church, Albany, N. Y.
He has written : ( The Gentle Sceptic) (1860);
(The Doctrine of Hell (1874); (Andiatorocté,
and Other Poems) (1888).
Walworth, Jeannette Ritchie Hadermann.
An American novelist; born in Philadelphia,
Feb. 22, 1837. She has written for periodicals,
and published a number of works, among them:
“The Silent Witness) (1871); Nobody's Busi-
ness) (1878); (The Bar Sinister) (1885); (South-
ern Silhouettes) (1888).
Walworth, Mansfield Tracy. An American
novelist, son of Chancellor Walworth; born in
Albany, N. Y. , Dec. 3, 1837 ; died in New York
city, June 3, 1873. Abandoning the law for lit-
erature, he became connected with The Home
Journal, and subsequently wrote many novels
and romances. He was shot by his son, who
was acquitted on the ground of insanity. He
wrote: Mission of Death); (Lulu) (1860);
(Hotspur) (1861); (Warwick) (1868); (Beverly)
(1873); and two posthumous works, (Married
in Mask) (1888) and (Tahara) (1888). He
had completed a Life of Chancellor Living-
ston); and was writing (Lives of the Chancel.
lors of New York State. )
Wang-Chi-Fou. (wäng-che-fö'). One of the
greatest Chinese dramatic poets; lived in the
13th century. He was the creator of the Chi.
nese opera (called Thsa-Khi, lyrical dramas),
and is placed by his countrymen among the
ten Thsai-tseu, or writers of genius. He com-
posed thirteen plays, of which only two sur.
vive : (Si-siang-ki) (Western Pavilion) like all
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Chinese plays a sort of novel in dialogue,- his
best work, which obtained and still holds
great popularity with the Chinese; and the
comedy (The State Minister's Feast. The
former was partly translated into French by
Stanislas Julien in Europe Littéraire) (Literary
Europe).
Wangemann, Hermann Theodor (väng'e-
män). A German traveler; born at Wilsnack
in Brandenburg, March 27, 1818; died there,
June 18, 1894. He was for several years a
director of Lutheran missions. He wrote:
(Short History of Evangelical Hymnology)
(1855); (A Year's Travel in South Africa) (1809);
(Pictures of Life in South Africa' (1871); (South
Africa and its Inhabitants) (1881); History of
the Berlin Missionary Society in South Africa)
(1886); (W. Posselt, the Kaffir Missionary)
(1888); (The Present Lutheran Church in its
Relation to the Una Sancta' (7 vols. , 1883-84);
(The Church Politics of William III. (1884).
Wangemann, Otto. A German musician;
born at Loitz on the Peene, Jan. 9, 1848. Author
of (Sketch of the History of Music) (1882);
(History of the Organ' (3d ed. 1891); History
of the Oratorio) (1882); «The Organ and its
Construction (3d ed. 1895); (Choral Songs for
Gymnasiums) (3d ed. 1892).
Wappæus, Johann Eduard (väp-pā-ös'). A
German geographer and statistician; born at
Hamburg, May 17, 1812; died at Göttingen,
professor in the university there, Dec. 16, 1879.
He edited and largely wrote the Stein-Hörschel-
mann Manual of Geography and Statistics)
(10 vols. , 1871). He also wrote : (Researches
on the Geographical Discoveries of the Portu-
guese under Henry the Navigator) (1842); (The
Republics of South America) (1843); (German
Emigration and Colonization' (1846).
Warburton, Eliot Bartholomew George.
An Irish barrister and author; born at Aughrim,
County Galway, 1810; lost in the burning of
the steamer Amazon, off Land's End, Jan. 4,
1852. His works are : (The Crescent and the
Cross; or, Romance and Reality of Eastern
Travel (2 vols. , 1844); (Memoirs of Prince
Rupert and the Cavaliers) (3 vols. , 1849); (Regi-
nald Hastings) (3 vols. , 1850), a novel of the
great rebellion; (Memoirs of Horace Walpole
and his Contemporaries) (2 vols. , 1851); Da-
rien; or, The Merchant Prince: An Historical
Romance) (3 vols. , 1851); and (A Memoir of
Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough) (3
vols. , 1853).
Warburton, Peter Egerton. An Australian
explorer ; born at Norwich, England, Aug. 15,
1813; died near Adelaide, Nov. 5, 1889. He
wrote: (Major Warburton's Diary) (1866);
Journey Across the Western Interior of Aus-
tralia) (1875).
Warburton, William. An English author:
born at Newark-upon-Trent, Dec. 24, 1698; died
June 7, 1779. He became bishop of Gloucester.
His defense of Pope's Essay on Man) against
the charge of atheism won the gratitude of the
poet, who made the bishop his literary executor.
Warburton thereupon brought out an edition of
Pope (1751). He published: (Miscellaneous
Translations in Prose and Verse) (1723); An
Inquiry into the Causes of Prodigies and Mira.
cles) (1727); (Alliance between Church and
State) (1736); Divine Legation of Moses Dem-
onstrated, on the Principles of a Religious Deist,
from the Omission of the Doctrine of the Future
State of Reward and Punishment in the Jewish
Dispensation' (1738-41; 10th ed. 3 vols. , 1846);
an edition of Shakespeare (very poor, 1747);
Julian; or, A Discourse Concerning the Earth-
quake and Fiery Eruption which Defeated the
Emperor's Attempt to Rebuild the Temple at
Jerusalem (1750); 'View of Bolingbroke's Post-
humous Writings) (1754); and (The Doctrine
of Grace) (1762).
Ward, Adolphus William. An English edu-
cator, literary historian, and biographer; born
at Hampstead, London, Dec. 2, 1837. In addi-
tion to being professor of history and princi.
pal of Owens College, Manchester, and con-
tributing to the Encyclopædia Britannica)
and leading English reviews, he is the author
of The House of Austria in the Thirty Years'
War! (1869); Dramatic Literature of the
Age of Elizabeth) (2 vols. , 1875); Lives) of
Chaucer (1879) and Dickens (1882) in the
(English Men of Letters) series; translator of
Curtius's (History of Greece (5 vols. , 1868-74);
and editor of Pope's Poems) (Globe edition,
1869), and of Byron's Poems) (Chetham So-
ciety's edition).
Ward, Artemus. See Browne, Charles Far-
rar.
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. An Amer-
ican novelist and poet; born at Andover,
Mass. , August 1844. In 1888 she married
Herbert D. Ward, with whom she sometimes
collaborates. Among her books are: "The
Gates Ajar) ( 1868 ), one of the most successful
of American stories; Men, Women, and
Ghosts) (1869); “The Silent Partner? ( 1870 ) ;
(The Trotty Book) (1870 ); (The Story of
Avis) ( 1877 ) ; (Old Maid's Paradise (1879);
(Beyond the Gates) (1883); Dr. Zay' (1884);
(The Gates Between (1887); (The Master of
the Magicians) (1890); and (Come Forth)
( 1890'). Jointly with her husband she wrote:
(Poetic Studies,' verse (1885); “Songs of the
Silent World) ( 1885); and (The Struggle for
Immortality) (1889), a volume of essays. Her
most recent work is (The Story of Jesus
Christ) (1897. ) *
Ward, Herbert Dickinson. An American
writer of juvenile books; born in Massachu-
setts in 1861. He has published: (The Captain
of the Kittie Wink); (A Dash to the Pole);
( The New Senior at Andover); (The White
Crown,' etc. ; (The Burglar who Moved Para-
dise.
Ward, Mrs. Humphry (Mary Augusta Ar-
nold). An English novelist of great celebrity;
born at Hobart Town, Tasmania, in 1851. She
is a granddaughter of Dr. Arnold of Rugby, and
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was married in 1872 to Thomas Humphry Ward.
Her books are: Milly and Ollie) (1881); (Miss
Bretherton (1884); a translation of Amiel's
Journal) (1885); (Robert Elsmere) (1888), a
story of religious doubt, stirring up a great in-
terest and having an enormous circulation;
«The History of David Grieve) (1892); Mar-
cella) (1894); and (The Story of Bessie Cos-
trell (1895). She helped to establish, and
still takes an active interest in, University Hall,
a social settlement among the London poor.
Ward, Nathaniel. An English-American
lawyer, clergyman, and author; born at Haver-
hill, England, about 1578; died at Shenfield,
Essex, about October, 1653. While a pastor
in Massachusetts he wrote the Body of Lib-
erties, adopted December 1641, the first code
of laws established in New England. His other
writings are: (The Simple Cobler of Aga-
wam) (1647); (A Religious Retreat Sounded to
a Religious Army) (1647); (A Sermon Before
Parliament' (1647); and (Mercurius Anti-Me-
chanicus; or, The Simple Cobler's Boy, with
his Lap-full of Caveats) (1648).
Ward, Robert Plumer. An English writer
of fiction and miscellaneous works; born in
London, 1765; died 1846. His novels, (Tre-
maine) (1825), and (De Vere) (1827), published
anonymously, were exceedingly popular. His
other works include treatises on the law of
nations and essays on juristic topics.
Ward, Thomas. An American writer and
littérateur of New York city ; born 1807; died
1873. He was the author of : A Month of
Freedom); Passaic); (A Group of Poems);
(Flora : A Pastoral Opera); (War Lyrics. '
Ward, William Hayes. An American editor,
clergyman, and eminent Assyriologist; born in
Abington, Mass. , Jan. 25, 1835. He was a pastor
of the Congregational church and professor at
Ripon College, 1860–68, when he became editor
of the Independent. In 1884 he went to Bab-
ylon in charge of an expedition. He has written
much on Oriental archæology for the Bibli-
otheca Sacra, and other journals, and prepared
the report of the exploring expedition of 1884,
and published Notes on Oriental Antiquities.
Warden, David Baillie. An Irish-American
scholar; born in 1788; died in Paris, Oct.
9, 1845. He graduated at the New York Med-
ical College, was United States secretary
of legation at Paris, and subsequently consul
from 1804 to his death. He was a member of
the French Institute, and published: (Inquiry
concerning the Intellectual and Moral Facul-
ties and Literature of the Negroes) (18101;
"Origin and Nature of Consular Establish-
ments) (1816); Description of the District of
Columbia) (1816); "Statistical, Political, and
Historical Account of the United States) (1819);
"L'Art de vérifier les dates : Chronologie His-
torique de l'Amérique) (10 vols. , Paris, 1826-44);
(Bibliotheca Americana Septentrionalis, etc.
(1820); (Recherches sur les Antiquités de
l'Amérique Septentrionale) (1827); and (Bibli-
otheca Americana' (1831).
Warden, Florence. Pseudonym of Mrs.
George E. James. An English novelist; born
Florence Alice Price, 18— She won note with
(The House on the Marsh (1882), which had
a wide sale. She has since published: (At the
World's Mercy); A Vagrant Wife); “A Prince
of Darkness); A Dog With a Bad Name);
(Doris's Fortune); "Scheherazade : A London
Night's Entertainment); and others.
Ware, Henry, Jr. An American clergyman
and religious writer; born at Hingham, Mass. ,
April 21, 1794 ; died at Framingham, Mass. , Sept.
22, 1843. He took an active part in the organ-
ization of the Unitarian movement. Among
his writings are: (Hints on Extemporaneous
Preaching) (1824); (Recollections of Jotham
Anderson) (about 1824); (On the Forma-
tion of the Christian Character) (1831); Life
of the Saviour) (1832; new ed. 1868); (The
Feast of the Tabernacle, an oratorio poem
(1837); (Memoirs) of Rev. Dr. Parker (1834),
Dr. Noah Webster, Dr. John Priestley, and
Oberlin; and (Scenes and Characters Illustrat.
ing Christian Truth' (2 vols. , 1837).
Selections
from his writings were published in 4 vols. ,
1846-47.
Ware, Mrs. Katharine Augusta (Rhodes).
An American poet; born in Quincy, Mass. ,
in 1797 ; died in Paris, in 1843. She edited
The Bower of Taste, and published a volume
of poems, Power of the Passions, etc. (1842).
Ware, William. An American clergyman,
editor, and author; born at Hingham, Mass. ,
Aug. 3, 1797; died at Cambridge, Mass. , Feb.
19, 1852. In addition to his pastorates, and his
editorship of the Christian Examiner, he wrote
the following: (Letters from Palmyra) (1837),
first published in the Knickerbocker Magazine,
subsequently republished as "Zenobia; or, The
Fall of Palmyra! (new ed. 1868); Probus; or,
Rome in the Third Century' (1838), republished
as Aurelian) (new ed. 1868); “Julian; or, Scenes
in Judea) (1841); (Sketches of European Cap-
itals) (1851); Lectures on the Works and
Genius of Washington Allston' (1852); and a
"Life of Nathaniel Bacon, in Sparks's series.
He edited (American Unitarian Biography)
(1850).
Warfield, Catharine Ann (Ware). An
American poet and novelist; born near Natchez,
Miss. , June 6, 1816; died in Kentucky, May 21,
1877. She published, with her sister Eleanor,
( The Wife of Leon, and Other Poems) (1844);
( The Indian Chamber,' etc. (1846): and wrote
(The Household of Bouverie) (1860); (The Ro-
mance of the Green Seal (1867); (Miriam Mon-
fort) (1873); Hester Howard's Temptation
(1875); A Double Wedding (1875); “Sea and
Shore) (1876); “The Romance of Beausein-
court) (1876); (Ferne Fleming' (1877); (The
Cardinal's Daughter) (1877).
Waring, George Edwin. An American sani-
tary engineer, author, and lecturer. He was
born in Poundridge, West Chester County,
N. Y. , July 4, 1833. He was colonel of the 6th
Missouri Cavalry in the Civil War. He was
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superintendent of the street-cleaning depart-
ment of New York city, 1895-98. Soon after
the War he published very spirited stories
of army experience, and has since published
many works on drainage and sanitary science;
also (A Farmer's Vacation, (The Bride of the
Rhine, Village Improvement, etc.
Warneck, Gustav Adolf (vär'nek). A Ger-
man theological writer; born at Naumburg,
March 6, 1834. He wrote: (Missions in the
Light of the Bible) (1878); "The Relations
between Missions and Modern Civilization
(1879); (The Mission in Pictures from its His-
tory) (1884); (Sketch of the History of Mis-
sions from the Reformation to the Present
Time); «The Ultramontane Art of Fence)
(1889); (The Romanism of To-day in the Light
of its Missions to the Heathen) (1889); (The
Evangelical Alliance and its Opponents (1889);
Position of the Evangelical Mission Toward
the Question of Slavery) (1889).
Warner, Anna Bartlett. (“Amy Lothrop. ”]
An American author; born in New York in
1820. In conjunction with her sister, Susan
Warner, she published the novels (Say and
Seal (1860); (Wych Hazel (1876); and (The
Gold of Chickaree) (1876). Among her sepa-
rate works, published under her pen-name
“Amy Lothrop, are: Dollars and Cents)
(1853); My Brother's Keeper) (1855); (Sto-
ries of Vinegar Hill (1871); (The Fourth
Watch); ( The Blue Flag,' etc. (1879); (The
Other Shore); (Three Little Spades,' a child's
book; and (Gardening by Myself. .
Warner, Charles Dudley. An American
man of letters and novelist; born in Plainfield,
Mass. , Sept. 12, 1829. He graduated at Hamil-
ton College in 1851, was admitted to the bar
in 1856, and practiced in Chicago till 1860, when
he removed to Hartford, Conn. , became editor
of the Press in 1861, and of the Courant upon its
consolidation with the Press in 1867. He has
been connected with Harper's Monthly Maga-
zine, as the contributor of an editorial depart-
ment, since 1884. His literary work began
while in college, in contributions of stories to
the Knickerbocker and Putnam's Magazine.
His first book was a compilation for the use of
students in schools, called (A Book of Elo-
quence) (1853). In 1870 he published (My Sum-
mer in a Garden,' which was followed by
"Saunterings) (1872); (Backlog Studies) (1872);
' The Gilded Age' (with S. L. Clemens, 1873);
(Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing) (1874);
(Mummies and Moslems) (1876-re-issued under
the title (My Winter on the Nile'); "In the
Levant) (1877); ( Being a Boy) (1877); “In the
Wilderness) (1878); (The American News-
paper) (1879); “Studies of Irving) (with W. C.
Bryant and George P. Putnam, 1880); Life of
Washington Irving) (1881); edited (American
Men of Letters) (of this series (Washington
Irving,' 1881, was the initial volume; the thir-
teenth volume, 'George William Curtis, by Ed-
ward Cary, appeared in 1894); Captain John
Smith, Sometime Governor of Virginia, and
Admiral of New England: A Study of his Life
and Writings) (1881); (A Roundabout Journey)
(1883); Papers on Penology) (with others;
Reformatory Press, Elmira, N. Y. , 1886); (Their
Pilgrimage) (1886); (On Horseback: A Tour
in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee,
Published with Notes of Travel in Mexico and
California) (1888); (Studies in the South and
West, with Comments on Canada) (1889); (A
Little Journey in the World: A Novel (1889);
Looking Forward: The Dual Government
Realized) (1890); Our Italy, Southern Cali-
fornia) (1890); As We Were Saying' (1891);
(Washington Irving) (1892); (The Work of
Washington Irving' (1893); "As We Go' (1893);
( The Golden House: A Novel (1894); (The
Relation of Literature to Life (1896); (The
People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote' (1897);
edited (A Library of the World's Best Litera.
ture) (1896-98).
Warner, Susan. An American novelist ;
born in New York, July II, 1819; died at
Highland Falls, N. Y. , March 17, 1885. Her
books are: (The Wide, Wide World) (1850);
(Queechy) (2 vols. , 1852); a theological treatise,
(The Law and the Testimony) (1853); (The
Hills of the Shatemuc) (1856); Lyrics from
the Wide, Wide World); (The Golden Ladder'
(1862); (The Old Helmet' (1803); Wych
Hazel) (1876); and an essay, "American Fe.
male Patriotism. Her pen-name was "Eliza-
beth Wetherell. ”
Warner, William. An English lawyer and
poet ; born in Oxfordshire, about 1558; died at
Amwell, March 9, 1609. He wrote : Pan his
Syrinx) (1584), a pastoral novel; and Albion's
England, a Continued History of the Same
Kingdom from the Originals of the First Inhab-
itants Thereof,' etc. (1586), a poem, in rhymed
fourteen-syllable lines, of history, legend, and
anecdote, very popular in his day, running
through nine editions, the last being that of
1810.
Warren, Gouverneur Kemble. An Ameri-
can general; born in Cold Spring, N. Y. , Jan.
8, 1830; died in Newport, K. I. , Aug. 8. 1882.
He graduated at West Point in 1850. He was
a member of many scientific associations, and
contributed to their journals. His published
works include: Explorations in the Dacota
Country) (1855-56); “Explorations in Nebraska
and Dakota) (1858); and a pamphlet, (The
Battle of Five Forks) (1866), in which he had
a notable part.
Warren, John Byrne Leicester. See De
Tabley.
Warren, Mercy Otis. An American poet,
historian, and patriot; born at Barnstable, Mass. ,
Sept. 25, 1728; died at Plymouth, Mass. , Oct.
19, 1814. An ardent patriot, she corresponded
with the leaders of the Revolution, among them
Samuel and John Adams, and Thomas Jeffer-
The (Correspondence of John Adams
and Mercy Warren) was published by the
Massachusetts Historical Society in 1878. She
wrote dramatic and satirical poems against the
son.
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(
royalists (1773-75), which were included in her
volume of Poems, Dramatic and Miscellane-
ous) (1790). She published A History of the
Rise, Progress, and Termination of the Amer-
ican Revolution, Interspersed with Biographical,
Political, and Moral Observations) (3 vols. ,
1805).
Warren, Samuel. A celebrated English nov-
elist; born in Wales, 1807; died in London,
1877. He was by profession a lawyer. He
contributed to Blackwood's the story (Blucher)
when he was in his seventeenth year. His
later works include : (Passages from the Diary
of a Late Physician) (1830–31); (Ten Thou-
sand a Year) (1839); Now and Then (1847);
(Miscellanies) (1854). He wrote several legal
works, and also an attack on the Catholic
Church, entitled (The Queen and the Pope)
(1850).
Warren, William Fairfield. An American
clergyman and educator; born at Williams-
burg, Mass. , March 13, 1833. He wrote : (True
Key to Ancient Cosmology and Mythological
Geography) (1882 ); «Paradise Found: The
Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole)
(1885), a very curious speculation ; (The Quest
of the Perfect Religion (1887); (In the Foot-
steps of Arminius) (1888); (The Story of Gott-
lieb, a study of ideals (1891); Constitutional
Law Questions in the Methodist Episcopal
Church) (1894).
Warriner, Edward Augustus. An Ameri-
can clergyman and writer; born in Massa-
chusetts in 1829. He has written : (Victor La
Tourette); (Kear: A Poem); "I Am That I
Am: A Metrical Essay.
Warton, Joseph. An English clergyman,
critic, and editor; born at Dunsford in 1722;
died at Wickham, Feb. 23, 1800. He wrote:
"Odes on Various Subjects) (1746); a poeti-
cal translation of the (Eclogues and Georgics
of Virgil (1753); twenty-four critical papers
to the Adventurer (1753-56); an Essay on
the Genius and Writings of Pope) (2 vols. ,
1856-82). He edited the works of Pope (9
vols. , 1797); and the works of Dryden (4 vols. ,
1811; completed after his death).
Warton, Thomas. An English clergyman,
who was poet-laureate (1785); born at Basing-
stoke in 1728; died at Oxford, May 21, 1790.
He wrote: 'Observations on the Faerie Queene
of Spenser) (1754); (The Life of Sir Thomas
Pope) (1772); History of English Poetry)
(3 vols. , 1774-81); and several occasional
poems, collected in 1777. He edited the Greek
Anthology) (1766); the works of Theocritus
(2 vols. , 1770); and the Minor Poems of Mil-
ton' ( 1785).
Washburn, Charles Ames. An American
editor, historian, and novelist; born at Liver-
more, Me. , March 16, 1822; died in New York,
Jan. 26, 1889. He was editor and proprietor of
the Alta California, and the San Francisco
Daily Times (1858-61); minister to Paraguay
(1861-65), residing in that country also from
1866 to 1868. He wrote History of Paraguay)
(2 vols. , 1871); the novels Philip Thaxter)
(1861), «Gomery of Montgomery) (1865); etc.
Washburne, Elihu Benjamin. An Ameri-
can statesman; born in Maine, 1816 ; died 1887.
He was made minister to France by President
Grant, and remained at his post in Paris dur-
ing the Commune, a fact which imparts special
interest to his (Recollections of a Minister to
France — 1869-77' (1887).
Washburne, William Tucker. An Ameri-
can novelist and versifier; born in Massachu-
setts in 1841. He has written : (Fair Harvard,'
the recognized « College Song » of Harvard
University ; (The Unknown City: A Story of
New York); and (Spring and Summer,' a vol-
ume of verse.
Washington, George. The first President of
the United States; born at Pope's Creek, West-
moreland County, Va. , Feb. 22, 1732; died at
Mt. Vernon, Va. , Dec. 14, 1799. *
Wasielevski, Wilhelm Joseph von (vä-se-ā-
lev'skē). A German violinist; born at Gross-
Leesen near Dantzic, June 17, 1822; died Dec.
13. 1896. He wrote: "The Violin and its
Masters) (1869); (R. Schumann: A Biography)
(1858); (The Violin in the 17th Century and
the Beginnings of Instrumental Composition
(1874); History of Instrumental Music in the
16th Century) (1878); (Schumanniana) (1883);
(Beethoven) (2 vols. , 1888); (The Violoncello
and its History) (1889).
Wasilewski, Edmund (vä-se-lev'skē). A Pol-
ish poet; born at Rogozna, 1814; died 1846.
The hardships, misfortunes, and sorrows of his
life are reflected in the irony, doubt, despair,
resignation, and spiritual revolt of his verse.
Among his best productions were : (The Cra-
covians) (1840); (Child of Folly) (1845); (The
Cathedral on the Wesel (1846); etc. ("Various
Poems, Cracow, 1839. )
Wasson, David Atwood. An American
clergyman, poet, and essayist; born at Brooks-
ville, Me. , May 14, 1823; died Jan. 21, 1887.
He wrote chiefly for periodicals, but his works
were collected as Bugle Notes, (Seen and
Unseen,' (Ideals, etc. *
Waters, Mrs. Clara Erskine (Clement).
An American miscellaneous writer; born in St.
Louis, Mo. , Aug. 28, 1834. In 1883-84 she made
a tour round the world. The first of her many
publications was the (Simple Story of the
Orient) (1869). Legendary and Mythological
Art) (1871); (Artists of the Nineteenth Century
and their Works, with Laurence Hutton (1879);
(Eleanor Maitland,' a novel (1881); "Stories of
Art and Artists) (1886); and a translation of
Dosia's Daughter,' a novel by Henri Gréville,
are included in her works.
Watson, Henry Clay. An American jour-
nalist and writer of historical stories; born in
Baltimore, 1831; died in Sacramento, Cal. , July
10, 1869. He was the author of :'Camp-Fires
of the Revolution) (1851); Nights in a Block-
House) (1852); (Old Bell of Independence)
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(1852); «The Yankee Teapot! (1853); 'Heroic
Women (1853); (The Masonic Musical Manual
(1855); (Camp Fires of Napoleon' (1856); and
(Lives of the Presidents) (1858).
Watson, John. ["Ian Maclaren. ”] A noted
Scottish Presbyterian preacher, and novelist;
born in Essex, 1850. Since 1880 he has been
settled over the Sefton Park Church, Liver-
pool. He has published: (The Days of Auld
Lang Syne) (1893), (Beside the Bonnie Briar
Bush) (illustrated ed. , 1896), both very popular;
(The Upper Room (1895); (Kate Carnegie)
(1896); (The Cure of Souls) (1896); Home
Making); (The Mind of the Master) (1896);
(Ideals of Strength) (1897); (The Potter's
Wheel) (1897); etc.
Watson, John Whittaker. An American
journalist and poet ; born in New York city,
Oct. 14, 1824; died there, July 18, 1890. He
wrote many stories for periodicals, and is one
of the many authors of the poem, Beautiful
Snow,' contained in Beautiful Snow and
Other Poems) (1869).
Watson, Paul Barron. An American lawyer
and historical writer. He was born in Morris-
town, N. J. , March 25, 1861. He has published :
Bibliography of the Pre-Columbian Discover-
ies of America' (1881); Life of Marcus Aure-
lius) (1884); and (The Swedish Revolution
under Gustavus Vasa.
Watson, Richard. An English theologian;
born at Barton-upon-Humber, Feb. 22, 1781;
died in London, Jan 8, 1833. His principal
works are: (Theological Institutes) (6 parts,
1823-28);( The Life of Rev. John Wesley'(1831);
(A Biblical and Theological Dictionary) (1831);
(An Exposition of the Gospels of Matthew
and Mark) (1833).
Watson, Rosamund Marriott. An English
poet, writing sometimes under the pseudonyms
Graham R.
cott & Co. from 1876, and in 1886 became edi-
tor of Lippincott's Magazine. He has written
many essays, also juveniles, and historical and
scientific books for the young; and has pub-
lished a critical commentary, Faust: The
Legend and the Poem (1887), and “Paradoxes
of a Philistine) (1888).
Walter, Ferdinand (väl'ter). A German
jurist; born at Wetzlar, Nov. 30, 1794; died at
Bonn, Dec. 13, 1879. His principal works are :
(Text-Book of Canon Law) (1822); (Ancient
German Law) (3 vols. , 1824); History of
Roman Law down to Justinian) (1840); (His-
tory of German Law) (1853); (Sources of An-
cient and Modern Ecclesiastical Law) (1862);
Natural Law and Politics in the Light of the
Present) (1863).
Walters, William Thompson. An American
merchant and art virtuoso; born in Pennsyl-
vania, 1820; died 1891. He was educated as an
engineer; became identified with the coal and
iron industry; was art commissioner from the
United States at the Paris Expositions (1867-
78), at Vienna (1873), and trustee of the Cor-
coran Gallery at Washington, D. C. His private
art gallery is the most extensive and valuable
(especially in Oriental ceramics) in this country.
He has published: (Barye) (1885); (The Per-
cheron Horse) (1886); and Notes upon Certain
Masters of the XIXth Century) (1886).
Walther von der Vogelweide (väl'ter fon
der fö'gel-vi-dė). «The greatest lyric poet of
Germany before Goethe, and the first supremely
great lyric poet that the nations of modern
Europe produced, flourished in the early part
of the thirteenth century. The best critical edi-
tion of his poems is K. Lachmann's (1827). *
Walton, Brian. An English bishop and
biblical scholar; born at Seymour, Yorkshire,
1600; died in London, Nov. 29, 1661. He was
made chaplain to Charles II. and bishop of
Chester at the Restoration. His greatest work
is “Biblia Sacra Polyglotta) (6 vols. , folio 1657),
including the Hebrew original of the Old
Testament, the Samaritan Pentateuch, the
Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, and Latin
Vulgate, with various readings, notes, etc. ; still
thought to be “the most complete Biblical
apparatus in any language. ) He wrote in 1658
his Dissertation on the Antiquity and Author-
ity of his Texts,' in later editions called the
Prolegomena, under which name it was pub-
lished in the original Latin (2 vols. , 1827-28).
(The Considerator Considered, etc. (1659), was
written in answer to Dr. John Owen's (Vindi-
cation of the Purity and Integrity of the Hebrew
and Greek Texts,' etc. which was a criticism
upon his great Biblical work.
Walton, Izaak. The celebrated author of
(The Compleat Angler'; born at Stafford, Eng.
land, Aug. 9, 1593;. died at Winchester, Dec.
15, 1683. He wrote the following biographies,
known as (Walton's Lives): of Dr. John Donne
( 1640 ), Sir Henry Wotton ( 1640 ), Richard
Hooker (1662), George Herbert (1670), and
Dr. Robert Sanderson (1678). (The Compleat
Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recre.
ation) (1653) is one of the great English clas-
sics. *
Walworth, Clarence Alphonsus. An Amer-
ican clergyman; born in Plattsburg, N. Y. , May
30, 1820. At first a lawyer, afterwards an Epis-
copalian clergyman, he united with the Roman
Catholic Church, and was one of the founders
of the Congregation of St. Paul; since 1864
rector of St. Mary's Church, Albany, N. Y.
He has written : ( The Gentle Sceptic) (1860);
(The Doctrine of Hell (1874); (Andiatorocté,
and Other Poems) (1888).
Walworth, Jeannette Ritchie Hadermann.
An American novelist; born in Philadelphia,
Feb. 22, 1837. She has written for periodicals,
and published a number of works, among them:
“The Silent Witness) (1871); Nobody's Busi-
ness) (1878); (The Bar Sinister) (1885); (South-
ern Silhouettes) (1888).
Walworth, Mansfield Tracy. An American
novelist, son of Chancellor Walworth; born in
Albany, N. Y. , Dec. 3, 1837 ; died in New York
city, June 3, 1873. Abandoning the law for lit-
erature, he became connected with The Home
Journal, and subsequently wrote many novels
and romances. He was shot by his son, who
was acquitted on the ground of insanity. He
wrote: Mission of Death); (Lulu) (1860);
(Hotspur) (1861); (Warwick) (1868); (Beverly)
(1873); and two posthumous works, (Married
in Mask) (1888) and (Tahara) (1888). He
had completed a Life of Chancellor Living-
ston); and was writing (Lives of the Chancel.
lors of New York State. )
Wang-Chi-Fou. (wäng-che-fö'). One of the
greatest Chinese dramatic poets; lived in the
13th century. He was the creator of the Chi.
nese opera (called Thsa-Khi, lyrical dramas),
and is placed by his countrymen among the
ten Thsai-tseu, or writers of genius. He com-
posed thirteen plays, of which only two sur.
vive : (Si-siang-ki) (Western Pavilion) like all
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Chinese plays a sort of novel in dialogue,- his
best work, which obtained and still holds
great popularity with the Chinese; and the
comedy (The State Minister's Feast. The
former was partly translated into French by
Stanislas Julien in Europe Littéraire) (Literary
Europe).
Wangemann, Hermann Theodor (väng'e-
män). A German traveler; born at Wilsnack
in Brandenburg, March 27, 1818; died there,
June 18, 1894. He was for several years a
director of Lutheran missions. He wrote:
(Short History of Evangelical Hymnology)
(1855); (A Year's Travel in South Africa) (1809);
(Pictures of Life in South Africa' (1871); (South
Africa and its Inhabitants) (1881); History of
the Berlin Missionary Society in South Africa)
(1886); (W. Posselt, the Kaffir Missionary)
(1888); (The Present Lutheran Church in its
Relation to the Una Sancta' (7 vols. , 1883-84);
(The Church Politics of William III. (1884).
Wangemann, Otto. A German musician;
born at Loitz on the Peene, Jan. 9, 1848. Author
of (Sketch of the History of Music) (1882);
(History of the Organ' (3d ed. 1891); History
of the Oratorio) (1882); «The Organ and its
Construction (3d ed. 1895); (Choral Songs for
Gymnasiums) (3d ed. 1892).
Wappæus, Johann Eduard (väp-pā-ös'). A
German geographer and statistician; born at
Hamburg, May 17, 1812; died at Göttingen,
professor in the university there, Dec. 16, 1879.
He edited and largely wrote the Stein-Hörschel-
mann Manual of Geography and Statistics)
(10 vols. , 1871). He also wrote : (Researches
on the Geographical Discoveries of the Portu-
guese under Henry the Navigator) (1842); (The
Republics of South America) (1843); (German
Emigration and Colonization' (1846).
Warburton, Eliot Bartholomew George.
An Irish barrister and author; born at Aughrim,
County Galway, 1810; lost in the burning of
the steamer Amazon, off Land's End, Jan. 4,
1852. His works are : (The Crescent and the
Cross; or, Romance and Reality of Eastern
Travel (2 vols. , 1844); (Memoirs of Prince
Rupert and the Cavaliers) (3 vols. , 1849); (Regi-
nald Hastings) (3 vols. , 1850), a novel of the
great rebellion; (Memoirs of Horace Walpole
and his Contemporaries) (2 vols. , 1851); Da-
rien; or, The Merchant Prince: An Historical
Romance) (3 vols. , 1851); and (A Memoir of
Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough) (3
vols. , 1853).
Warburton, Peter Egerton. An Australian
explorer ; born at Norwich, England, Aug. 15,
1813; died near Adelaide, Nov. 5, 1889. He
wrote: (Major Warburton's Diary) (1866);
Journey Across the Western Interior of Aus-
tralia) (1875).
Warburton, William. An English author:
born at Newark-upon-Trent, Dec. 24, 1698; died
June 7, 1779. He became bishop of Gloucester.
His defense of Pope's Essay on Man) against
the charge of atheism won the gratitude of the
poet, who made the bishop his literary executor.
Warburton thereupon brought out an edition of
Pope (1751). He published: (Miscellaneous
Translations in Prose and Verse) (1723); An
Inquiry into the Causes of Prodigies and Mira.
cles) (1727); (Alliance between Church and
State) (1736); Divine Legation of Moses Dem-
onstrated, on the Principles of a Religious Deist,
from the Omission of the Doctrine of the Future
State of Reward and Punishment in the Jewish
Dispensation' (1738-41; 10th ed. 3 vols. , 1846);
an edition of Shakespeare (very poor, 1747);
Julian; or, A Discourse Concerning the Earth-
quake and Fiery Eruption which Defeated the
Emperor's Attempt to Rebuild the Temple at
Jerusalem (1750); 'View of Bolingbroke's Post-
humous Writings) (1754); and (The Doctrine
of Grace) (1762).
Ward, Adolphus William. An English edu-
cator, literary historian, and biographer; born
at Hampstead, London, Dec. 2, 1837. In addi-
tion to being professor of history and princi.
pal of Owens College, Manchester, and con-
tributing to the Encyclopædia Britannica)
and leading English reviews, he is the author
of The House of Austria in the Thirty Years'
War! (1869); Dramatic Literature of the
Age of Elizabeth) (2 vols. , 1875); Lives) of
Chaucer (1879) and Dickens (1882) in the
(English Men of Letters) series; translator of
Curtius's (History of Greece (5 vols. , 1868-74);
and editor of Pope's Poems) (Globe edition,
1869), and of Byron's Poems) (Chetham So-
ciety's edition).
Ward, Artemus. See Browne, Charles Far-
rar.
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. An Amer-
ican novelist and poet; born at Andover,
Mass. , August 1844. In 1888 she married
Herbert D. Ward, with whom she sometimes
collaborates. Among her books are: "The
Gates Ajar) ( 1868 ), one of the most successful
of American stories; Men, Women, and
Ghosts) (1869); “The Silent Partner? ( 1870 ) ;
(The Trotty Book) (1870 ); (The Story of
Avis) ( 1877 ) ; (Old Maid's Paradise (1879);
(Beyond the Gates) (1883); Dr. Zay' (1884);
(The Gates Between (1887); (The Master of
the Magicians) (1890); and (Come Forth)
( 1890'). Jointly with her husband she wrote:
(Poetic Studies,' verse (1885); “Songs of the
Silent World) ( 1885); and (The Struggle for
Immortality) (1889), a volume of essays. Her
most recent work is (The Story of Jesus
Christ) (1897. ) *
Ward, Herbert Dickinson. An American
writer of juvenile books; born in Massachu-
setts in 1861. He has published: (The Captain
of the Kittie Wink); (A Dash to the Pole);
( The New Senior at Andover); (The White
Crown,' etc. ; (The Burglar who Moved Para-
dise.
Ward, Mrs. Humphry (Mary Augusta Ar-
nold). An English novelist of great celebrity;
born at Hobart Town, Tasmania, in 1851. She
is a granddaughter of Dr. Arnold of Rugby, and
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was married in 1872 to Thomas Humphry Ward.
Her books are: Milly and Ollie) (1881); (Miss
Bretherton (1884); a translation of Amiel's
Journal) (1885); (Robert Elsmere) (1888), a
story of religious doubt, stirring up a great in-
terest and having an enormous circulation;
«The History of David Grieve) (1892); Mar-
cella) (1894); and (The Story of Bessie Cos-
trell (1895). She helped to establish, and
still takes an active interest in, University Hall,
a social settlement among the London poor.
Ward, Nathaniel. An English-American
lawyer, clergyman, and author; born at Haver-
hill, England, about 1578; died at Shenfield,
Essex, about October, 1653. While a pastor
in Massachusetts he wrote the Body of Lib-
erties, adopted December 1641, the first code
of laws established in New England. His other
writings are: (The Simple Cobler of Aga-
wam) (1647); (A Religious Retreat Sounded to
a Religious Army) (1647); (A Sermon Before
Parliament' (1647); and (Mercurius Anti-Me-
chanicus; or, The Simple Cobler's Boy, with
his Lap-full of Caveats) (1648).
Ward, Robert Plumer. An English writer
of fiction and miscellaneous works; born in
London, 1765; died 1846. His novels, (Tre-
maine) (1825), and (De Vere) (1827), published
anonymously, were exceedingly popular. His
other works include treatises on the law of
nations and essays on juristic topics.
Ward, Thomas. An American writer and
littérateur of New York city ; born 1807; died
1873. He was the author of : A Month of
Freedom); Passaic); (A Group of Poems);
(Flora : A Pastoral Opera); (War Lyrics. '
Ward, William Hayes. An American editor,
clergyman, and eminent Assyriologist; born in
Abington, Mass. , Jan. 25, 1835. He was a pastor
of the Congregational church and professor at
Ripon College, 1860–68, when he became editor
of the Independent. In 1884 he went to Bab-
ylon in charge of an expedition. He has written
much on Oriental archæology for the Bibli-
otheca Sacra, and other journals, and prepared
the report of the exploring expedition of 1884,
and published Notes on Oriental Antiquities.
Warden, David Baillie. An Irish-American
scholar; born in 1788; died in Paris, Oct.
9, 1845. He graduated at the New York Med-
ical College, was United States secretary
of legation at Paris, and subsequently consul
from 1804 to his death. He was a member of
the French Institute, and published: (Inquiry
concerning the Intellectual and Moral Facul-
ties and Literature of the Negroes) (18101;
"Origin and Nature of Consular Establish-
ments) (1816); Description of the District of
Columbia) (1816); "Statistical, Political, and
Historical Account of the United States) (1819);
"L'Art de vérifier les dates : Chronologie His-
torique de l'Amérique) (10 vols. , Paris, 1826-44);
(Bibliotheca Americana Septentrionalis, etc.
(1820); (Recherches sur les Antiquités de
l'Amérique Septentrionale) (1827); and (Bibli-
otheca Americana' (1831).
Warden, Florence. Pseudonym of Mrs.
George E. James. An English novelist; born
Florence Alice Price, 18— She won note with
(The House on the Marsh (1882), which had
a wide sale. She has since published: (At the
World's Mercy); A Vagrant Wife); “A Prince
of Darkness); A Dog With a Bad Name);
(Doris's Fortune); "Scheherazade : A London
Night's Entertainment); and others.
Ware, Henry, Jr. An American clergyman
and religious writer; born at Hingham, Mass. ,
April 21, 1794 ; died at Framingham, Mass. , Sept.
22, 1843. He took an active part in the organ-
ization of the Unitarian movement. Among
his writings are: (Hints on Extemporaneous
Preaching) (1824); (Recollections of Jotham
Anderson) (about 1824); (On the Forma-
tion of the Christian Character) (1831); Life
of the Saviour) (1832; new ed. 1868); (The
Feast of the Tabernacle, an oratorio poem
(1837); (Memoirs) of Rev. Dr. Parker (1834),
Dr. Noah Webster, Dr. John Priestley, and
Oberlin; and (Scenes and Characters Illustrat.
ing Christian Truth' (2 vols. , 1837).
Selections
from his writings were published in 4 vols. ,
1846-47.
Ware, Mrs. Katharine Augusta (Rhodes).
An American poet; born in Quincy, Mass. ,
in 1797 ; died in Paris, in 1843. She edited
The Bower of Taste, and published a volume
of poems, Power of the Passions, etc. (1842).
Ware, William. An American clergyman,
editor, and author; born at Hingham, Mass. ,
Aug. 3, 1797; died at Cambridge, Mass. , Feb.
19, 1852. In addition to his pastorates, and his
editorship of the Christian Examiner, he wrote
the following: (Letters from Palmyra) (1837),
first published in the Knickerbocker Magazine,
subsequently republished as "Zenobia; or, The
Fall of Palmyra! (new ed. 1868); Probus; or,
Rome in the Third Century' (1838), republished
as Aurelian) (new ed. 1868); “Julian; or, Scenes
in Judea) (1841); (Sketches of European Cap-
itals) (1851); Lectures on the Works and
Genius of Washington Allston' (1852); and a
"Life of Nathaniel Bacon, in Sparks's series.
He edited (American Unitarian Biography)
(1850).
Warfield, Catharine Ann (Ware). An
American poet and novelist; born near Natchez,
Miss. , June 6, 1816; died in Kentucky, May 21,
1877. She published, with her sister Eleanor,
( The Wife of Leon, and Other Poems) (1844);
( The Indian Chamber,' etc. (1846): and wrote
(The Household of Bouverie) (1860); (The Ro-
mance of the Green Seal (1867); (Miriam Mon-
fort) (1873); Hester Howard's Temptation
(1875); A Double Wedding (1875); “Sea and
Shore) (1876); “The Romance of Beausein-
court) (1876); (Ferne Fleming' (1877); (The
Cardinal's Daughter) (1877).
Waring, George Edwin. An American sani-
tary engineer, author, and lecturer. He was
born in Poundridge, West Chester County,
N. Y. , July 4, 1833. He was colonel of the 6th
Missouri Cavalry in the Civil War. He was
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superintendent of the street-cleaning depart-
ment of New York city, 1895-98. Soon after
the War he published very spirited stories
of army experience, and has since published
many works on drainage and sanitary science;
also (A Farmer's Vacation, (The Bride of the
Rhine, Village Improvement, etc.
Warneck, Gustav Adolf (vär'nek). A Ger-
man theological writer; born at Naumburg,
March 6, 1834. He wrote: (Missions in the
Light of the Bible) (1878); "The Relations
between Missions and Modern Civilization
(1879); (The Mission in Pictures from its His-
tory) (1884); (Sketch of the History of Mis-
sions from the Reformation to the Present
Time); «The Ultramontane Art of Fence)
(1889); (The Romanism of To-day in the Light
of its Missions to the Heathen) (1889); (The
Evangelical Alliance and its Opponents (1889);
Position of the Evangelical Mission Toward
the Question of Slavery) (1889).
Warner, Anna Bartlett. (“Amy Lothrop. ”]
An American author; born in New York in
1820. In conjunction with her sister, Susan
Warner, she published the novels (Say and
Seal (1860); (Wych Hazel (1876); and (The
Gold of Chickaree) (1876). Among her sepa-
rate works, published under her pen-name
“Amy Lothrop, are: Dollars and Cents)
(1853); My Brother's Keeper) (1855); (Sto-
ries of Vinegar Hill (1871); (The Fourth
Watch); ( The Blue Flag,' etc. (1879); (The
Other Shore); (Three Little Spades,' a child's
book; and (Gardening by Myself. .
Warner, Charles Dudley. An American
man of letters and novelist; born in Plainfield,
Mass. , Sept. 12, 1829. He graduated at Hamil-
ton College in 1851, was admitted to the bar
in 1856, and practiced in Chicago till 1860, when
he removed to Hartford, Conn. , became editor
of the Press in 1861, and of the Courant upon its
consolidation with the Press in 1867. He has
been connected with Harper's Monthly Maga-
zine, as the contributor of an editorial depart-
ment, since 1884. His literary work began
while in college, in contributions of stories to
the Knickerbocker and Putnam's Magazine.
His first book was a compilation for the use of
students in schools, called (A Book of Elo-
quence) (1853). In 1870 he published (My Sum-
mer in a Garden,' which was followed by
"Saunterings) (1872); (Backlog Studies) (1872);
' The Gilded Age' (with S. L. Clemens, 1873);
(Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing) (1874);
(Mummies and Moslems) (1876-re-issued under
the title (My Winter on the Nile'); "In the
Levant) (1877); ( Being a Boy) (1877); “In the
Wilderness) (1878); (The American News-
paper) (1879); “Studies of Irving) (with W. C.
Bryant and George P. Putnam, 1880); Life of
Washington Irving) (1881); edited (American
Men of Letters) (of this series (Washington
Irving,' 1881, was the initial volume; the thir-
teenth volume, 'George William Curtis, by Ed-
ward Cary, appeared in 1894); Captain John
Smith, Sometime Governor of Virginia, and
Admiral of New England: A Study of his Life
and Writings) (1881); (A Roundabout Journey)
(1883); Papers on Penology) (with others;
Reformatory Press, Elmira, N. Y. , 1886); (Their
Pilgrimage) (1886); (On Horseback: A Tour
in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee,
Published with Notes of Travel in Mexico and
California) (1888); (Studies in the South and
West, with Comments on Canada) (1889); (A
Little Journey in the World: A Novel (1889);
Looking Forward: The Dual Government
Realized) (1890); Our Italy, Southern Cali-
fornia) (1890); As We Were Saying' (1891);
(Washington Irving) (1892); (The Work of
Washington Irving' (1893); "As We Go' (1893);
( The Golden House: A Novel (1894); (The
Relation of Literature to Life (1896); (The
People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote' (1897);
edited (A Library of the World's Best Litera.
ture) (1896-98).
Warner, Susan. An American novelist ;
born in New York, July II, 1819; died at
Highland Falls, N. Y. , March 17, 1885. Her
books are: (The Wide, Wide World) (1850);
(Queechy) (2 vols. , 1852); a theological treatise,
(The Law and the Testimony) (1853); (The
Hills of the Shatemuc) (1856); Lyrics from
the Wide, Wide World); (The Golden Ladder'
(1862); (The Old Helmet' (1803); Wych
Hazel) (1876); and an essay, "American Fe.
male Patriotism. Her pen-name was "Eliza-
beth Wetherell. ”
Warner, William. An English lawyer and
poet ; born in Oxfordshire, about 1558; died at
Amwell, March 9, 1609. He wrote : Pan his
Syrinx) (1584), a pastoral novel; and Albion's
England, a Continued History of the Same
Kingdom from the Originals of the First Inhab-
itants Thereof,' etc. (1586), a poem, in rhymed
fourteen-syllable lines, of history, legend, and
anecdote, very popular in his day, running
through nine editions, the last being that of
1810.
Warren, Gouverneur Kemble. An Ameri-
can general; born in Cold Spring, N. Y. , Jan.
8, 1830; died in Newport, K. I. , Aug. 8. 1882.
He graduated at West Point in 1850. He was
a member of many scientific associations, and
contributed to their journals. His published
works include: Explorations in the Dacota
Country) (1855-56); “Explorations in Nebraska
and Dakota) (1858); and a pamphlet, (The
Battle of Five Forks) (1866), in which he had
a notable part.
Warren, John Byrne Leicester. See De
Tabley.
Warren, Mercy Otis. An American poet,
historian, and patriot; born at Barnstable, Mass. ,
Sept. 25, 1728; died at Plymouth, Mass. , Oct.
19, 1814. An ardent patriot, she corresponded
with the leaders of the Revolution, among them
Samuel and John Adams, and Thomas Jeffer-
The (Correspondence of John Adams
and Mercy Warren) was published by the
Massachusetts Historical Society in 1878. She
wrote dramatic and satirical poems against the
son.
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royalists (1773-75), which were included in her
volume of Poems, Dramatic and Miscellane-
ous) (1790). She published A History of the
Rise, Progress, and Termination of the Amer-
ican Revolution, Interspersed with Biographical,
Political, and Moral Observations) (3 vols. ,
1805).
Warren, Samuel. A celebrated English nov-
elist; born in Wales, 1807; died in London,
1877. He was by profession a lawyer. He
contributed to Blackwood's the story (Blucher)
when he was in his seventeenth year. His
later works include : (Passages from the Diary
of a Late Physician) (1830–31); (Ten Thou-
sand a Year) (1839); Now and Then (1847);
(Miscellanies) (1854). He wrote several legal
works, and also an attack on the Catholic
Church, entitled (The Queen and the Pope)
(1850).
Warren, William Fairfield. An American
clergyman and educator; born at Williams-
burg, Mass. , March 13, 1833. He wrote : (True
Key to Ancient Cosmology and Mythological
Geography) (1882 ); «Paradise Found: The
Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole)
(1885), a very curious speculation ; (The Quest
of the Perfect Religion (1887); (In the Foot-
steps of Arminius) (1888); (The Story of Gott-
lieb, a study of ideals (1891); Constitutional
Law Questions in the Methodist Episcopal
Church) (1894).
Warriner, Edward Augustus. An Ameri-
can clergyman and writer; born in Massa-
chusetts in 1829. He has written : (Victor La
Tourette); (Kear: A Poem); "I Am That I
Am: A Metrical Essay.
Warton, Joseph. An English clergyman,
critic, and editor; born at Dunsford in 1722;
died at Wickham, Feb. 23, 1800. He wrote:
"Odes on Various Subjects) (1746); a poeti-
cal translation of the (Eclogues and Georgics
of Virgil (1753); twenty-four critical papers
to the Adventurer (1753-56); an Essay on
the Genius and Writings of Pope) (2 vols. ,
1856-82). He edited the works of Pope (9
vols. , 1797); and the works of Dryden (4 vols. ,
1811; completed after his death).
Warton, Thomas. An English clergyman,
who was poet-laureate (1785); born at Basing-
stoke in 1728; died at Oxford, May 21, 1790.
He wrote: 'Observations on the Faerie Queene
of Spenser) (1754); (The Life of Sir Thomas
Pope) (1772); History of English Poetry)
(3 vols. , 1774-81); and several occasional
poems, collected in 1777. He edited the Greek
Anthology) (1766); the works of Theocritus
(2 vols. , 1770); and the Minor Poems of Mil-
ton' ( 1785).
Washburn, Charles Ames. An American
editor, historian, and novelist; born at Liver-
more, Me. , March 16, 1822; died in New York,
Jan. 26, 1889. He was editor and proprietor of
the Alta California, and the San Francisco
Daily Times (1858-61); minister to Paraguay
(1861-65), residing in that country also from
1866 to 1868. He wrote History of Paraguay)
(2 vols. , 1871); the novels Philip Thaxter)
(1861), «Gomery of Montgomery) (1865); etc.
Washburne, Elihu Benjamin. An Ameri-
can statesman; born in Maine, 1816 ; died 1887.
He was made minister to France by President
Grant, and remained at his post in Paris dur-
ing the Commune, a fact which imparts special
interest to his (Recollections of a Minister to
France — 1869-77' (1887).
Washburne, William Tucker. An Ameri-
can novelist and versifier; born in Massachu-
setts in 1841. He has written : (Fair Harvard,'
the recognized « College Song » of Harvard
University ; (The Unknown City: A Story of
New York); and (Spring and Summer,' a vol-
ume of verse.
Washington, George. The first President of
the United States; born at Pope's Creek, West-
moreland County, Va. , Feb. 22, 1732; died at
Mt. Vernon, Va. , Dec. 14, 1799. *
Wasielevski, Wilhelm Joseph von (vä-se-ā-
lev'skē). A German violinist; born at Gross-
Leesen near Dantzic, June 17, 1822; died Dec.
13. 1896. He wrote: "The Violin and its
Masters) (1869); (R. Schumann: A Biography)
(1858); (The Violin in the 17th Century and
the Beginnings of Instrumental Composition
(1874); History of Instrumental Music in the
16th Century) (1878); (Schumanniana) (1883);
(Beethoven) (2 vols. , 1888); (The Violoncello
and its History) (1889).
Wasilewski, Edmund (vä-se-lev'skē). A Pol-
ish poet; born at Rogozna, 1814; died 1846.
The hardships, misfortunes, and sorrows of his
life are reflected in the irony, doubt, despair,
resignation, and spiritual revolt of his verse.
Among his best productions were : (The Cra-
covians) (1840); (Child of Folly) (1845); (The
Cathedral on the Wesel (1846); etc. ("Various
Poems, Cracow, 1839. )
Wasson, David Atwood. An American
clergyman, poet, and essayist; born at Brooks-
ville, Me. , May 14, 1823; died Jan. 21, 1887.
He wrote chiefly for periodicals, but his works
were collected as Bugle Notes, (Seen and
Unseen,' (Ideals, etc. *
Waters, Mrs. Clara Erskine (Clement).
An American miscellaneous writer; born in St.
Louis, Mo. , Aug. 28, 1834. In 1883-84 she made
a tour round the world. The first of her many
publications was the (Simple Story of the
Orient) (1869). Legendary and Mythological
Art) (1871); (Artists of the Nineteenth Century
and their Works, with Laurence Hutton (1879);
(Eleanor Maitland,' a novel (1881); "Stories of
Art and Artists) (1886); and a translation of
Dosia's Daughter,' a novel by Henri Gréville,
are included in her works.
Watson, Henry Clay. An American jour-
nalist and writer of historical stories; born in
Baltimore, 1831; died in Sacramento, Cal. , July
10, 1869. He was the author of :'Camp-Fires
of the Revolution) (1851); Nights in a Block-
House) (1852); (Old Bell of Independence)
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(1852); «The Yankee Teapot! (1853); 'Heroic
Women (1853); (The Masonic Musical Manual
(1855); (Camp Fires of Napoleon' (1856); and
(Lives of the Presidents) (1858).
Watson, John. ["Ian Maclaren. ”] A noted
Scottish Presbyterian preacher, and novelist;
born in Essex, 1850. Since 1880 he has been
settled over the Sefton Park Church, Liver-
pool. He has published: (The Days of Auld
Lang Syne) (1893), (Beside the Bonnie Briar
Bush) (illustrated ed. , 1896), both very popular;
(The Upper Room (1895); (Kate Carnegie)
(1896); (The Cure of Souls) (1896); Home
Making); (The Mind of the Master) (1896);
(Ideals of Strength) (1897); (The Potter's
Wheel) (1897); etc.
Watson, John Whittaker. An American
journalist and poet ; born in New York city,
Oct. 14, 1824; died there, July 18, 1890. He
wrote many stories for periodicals, and is one
of the many authors of the poem, Beautiful
Snow,' contained in Beautiful Snow and
Other Poems) (1869).
Watson, Paul Barron. An American lawyer
and historical writer. He was born in Morris-
town, N. J. , March 25, 1861. He has published :
Bibliography of the Pre-Columbian Discover-
ies of America' (1881); Life of Marcus Aure-
lius) (1884); and (The Swedish Revolution
under Gustavus Vasa.
Watson, Richard. An English theologian;
born at Barton-upon-Humber, Feb. 22, 1781;
died in London, Jan 8, 1833. His principal
works are: (Theological Institutes) (6 parts,
1823-28);( The Life of Rev. John Wesley'(1831);
(A Biblical and Theological Dictionary) (1831);
(An Exposition of the Gospels of Matthew
and Mark) (1833).
Watson, Rosamund Marriott. An English
poet, writing sometimes under the pseudonyms
Graham R.
