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CHARLES LAMB, (p. 311.)

For what distinguished? When and where born? Where educated? How employed? To whom did he devote his attention almost exclusively? First appearance as an author? What else publish? Most celebrated work? What is said of it? What else publish? What in conjunction with his sister? When die? Rank as a poet? Prose? Style?

JAMES HOGG, (p. 321.)

Familiar appellation? Early life? Mother's influence? First effort? What in 1813?

Other works? Death?

FELICIA HEMANS, (p. 326.) Maiden name? When born? Early life? First publication? What in 1812? To whom married? Result? Whither retreat? How there employed? What prize obtain in 1819? What in 1821? What publish in 1823? What subsequently? Whom visit in 1829? What publish in 1830? Where afterward reside? Health? When die? Jeffrey's opinion of her poetry? (note.) General character of her writings?

NATHAN DRAKE, (p. 338.)

Where and when born? Where educated? Where settled as a physician? How long? When die? What of him as a physician? What are his publications? Influence on the mind? What of his general character? What says Gillies? (note.)

SIR EGERTON BRYDGES, (p. 345.) How distinguished? When born? Where

educated? To what devote his time? What profession enter? Where reside? How embarrassed? What claim prefer? Influence? When enter Parliament? Where afterward reside? When die? For what are we indebted to him? To what did he chiefly devote his attention? His first publications? What commence in 1805? Ilis subsequent publications? What has been remarked of him as a writer? What of his "Autobiography?" (note.) What of his Sonnets?

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JAMES SMITH, (p. 373.)

Birth? Education? Profession? Writings? For what most celebrated? Death? Occasion of "Rejected Addresses?" (note.)

LANT CARPENTER, (p. 379.) Where educated? Profession? When die? For what distinguished? What did he publish? For what most known?

JOHN IRELAND, (p. 383.)

When born? Station? For what review

write? For what work most known? What of it? What of his life? Of his benevolence? When die?

THOMAS ARNOLD, (p. 386.) Where and when born? Where educated? How early distinguished? What profession enter? To what distinguished post elected? When die? What of his general character and influence? As a scholar? As a historian? As a schoolmaster? As a theologian? As a man? Give the account from his jour nal on his last day. For what most zealous? Correspondence?

ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, (p. 398.) Birth? Apprenticeship? Removal and cocupation? As a writer? His songs?

ROBERT SOUTHEY, (p. 404.)

Where born? Where educated? To what opinions inclined? Description by Cottle? In what scheme interested? To whom married? Whither journey? What publish? Where settle on his return? What publish in 1805? Subsequent publications? To what review largely contribute? What of his latter years? When die? Opinion of Coleridge? Of Professor Wilson? What as a prose writer? Works?

JOHN FOSTER, (p. 419.)

When born? Where educated? First publication? Its character? To what review contribute? His general character?

THOMAS CAMPBELL, (p. 424.)

When born? Where educated? First publication? Its reception? Whither travel? To whom married? What receive in 1805? Subsequent publications? What of his "Specimens of British Poets? (note.) What maga zine edit? To what post elected in 1827? With what other magazine connected? Subsequent publications? Whither go for his health? When die? What of him as a poet? Best work on his life?

THOMAS MITCHELL, (p. 436.) Whose son? Where educated? For what eminently distinguished? What articles contribute to the "Quarterly?" What of his scholarship? For what especially distinguished?

THOMAS HOOD, (p. 440.)

What of his writings? Early employment? What post occupy in 1821? For what magazine write? What of his life? When die? What of his works?

SYDNEY SMITH, (p. 448.)

When and where born? Where educated? With what did he early become connected? Give the substance of his account of it. How On occupied after his removal to London? what subjects write? What celebrated letters publish? What of his general character? Distinguishing traits? When die? His account of himself?

THOMAS CHALMERS, (p. 464.) When born? Where educated? Profession? What publish? Where settle? What subsequent publications? To what professor ship appointed? To what removed in 1828? What noble stand take in 1843? What of his academic honors? When die? Character?

JOSEPH JOHN GURNEY, (p. 470.)

For what distinguished? Whose son? When born? By whom early trained? Where educated? Attainments? To what sect belong? What as a speaker? What journeys take? For what object? Where go in 1837 ? What islands visit, and for what object, in 1839? What subsequent visits on the Continent? Object? When die? His various works? In what societies chiefly interested? His benevolence? His habits? His general character?

RICHARD MANT, (p. 478.)

When born? Where educated? What post Occupy? When die? What publish? His poems? For what most known?

HORACE SMITII, (p. 480.)

Whose son? Of what the author? "Re-
His business?
jected Addresses?" (note.)
Death?

MARIA EDGEWORTH, -(p. 486.)
Whose daughter? Where reside? First
Death?
Other writings?
literary effort?
Rank? Character of her writings?

BERNARD BARTON, (p. 494.)
Where and when born? His occupation?
His health? Death? How now known?
Character of his poetry? Private character?

EBENEZER ELLIOTT, (p. 502.)

sequent? What called out his talent? Where spend his last years? Testimony of Montgomery?

FRANCIS JEFFREY, (p. 509.)

How distinguished? Where educated? What profession enter? What society join in 1792? Whom there meet? When called to the bar? To whom married? Projectors of the "Edinburgh Review ?" How published? Who the first editor? Who the liberal publisher? (note.) Who composed the fraternity of critics? Remarks of Stanton? When did the first number appear? What demand for it? Greatest circulation? What of the times? What of the ability of its contributors? What of Jeffrey's part? To what post elected in 1820? In 1829? In 1830? When enter Parliament? What publish in 1844? What of the influence he has exerted? Who subsequent editor of the "Review?" How employ his latter days? When die? General character? His great influence in the literary world?

WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES, (p. 527.)

Whose son? Birth? Youth? Education? How distinguished in college? Whom marry? Death? Publications? His edition of Pope? Best poems?

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, (p. 532.)

When and where born? Profession? What first publish, and when? With whom form a friendship? Next publication? Its reception? Who condemned it? To whom married? Where reside? By whom there visited? Consequent appellation? What publish in 1814? How received? Opening of the " Edinburgh" article? Next publication? Whom visit in 1831? How honored in 1835? In 1839? In 1842? When die? Opinions of the literary world? What does Southey say? What Walter Scott? (note.) What Mr. Talfourd? (note, p. 534.) What sure test to try the merits of a poet? (See under Moir, p. 562.) Lord Jeffrey's subsequent opinions? General estimate of his character?

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DAVID MACBETH MOIR, (p. 552.) Birth? Influence of his writings? For what magazine write? Signature? Profession? Where settle? Professional rank? For what celebrated? Where and when What Publish in 1831? In 1843? In 1851? born? How early employed? What of his is said of them? Death? Character? What early developments? What first stimulated him? Who was his favorite author? Where of his poetry? The true test of poetry? (com. enter into business? First publication? Submit, on p. 562, 563.)

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MARTIN F. TUPPER, (p. 715.) Now distinguished? Whose son? When born? Where educated? First publication? Subsequent publications? By what most known? His characteristics? Origin of the "Crock of Gold?"

RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, (p. 724.) Birth? Education? Poetical works? Cha racter of his poetry?

LEIGH HUNT, (p. 727.)

Birth? Education? Profession? Employment in 1805? What paper establish? Its character? Imprisonment? Chief fame? Publications?

ALARIC WATTS, (p. 732.)

MARY HOWITT, (p. 760.)

What rank as a poet? Early tastes? What distinction deserve? In what style of poetry Publications? Rowton's does she excel? opinion?

CAROLINE ANNE SOUTHEY, (p. 765.) Character tics of her poetry? Publications? Whc wife? Best works? Moir's opinion? (note, p. 769.)

LORD BROUGHAM, (p. 769.)

How distinguished? With what important subjects inseparably identified? Whose son? When born? Where educated? In what work engaged in 1802? What drew public

How excel? What does ir. Moir say of attention to him? When enter Parliament? him? Publications?

MRS. JAMESON, (p. 736.)

What bill introduce in 1815? How engaged in 1820? In 1823? What soon after publish? In what cause of philanthropy did he early Her own account of her objects in writing? engage? To what post elected in 1825? Of Her various works? (note.) By what most what society President? With what univer known? What of it? Cause of its excel-sity connected? Speech in 1828? When aplences? What of her "Essays?"

BRYAN WALLER PROCTOR, (p. 743.)
Works? Assumed name? Jeffrey's opinion
Moir's?
of him?

pointed Lord Chancellor? Why was it not well for him to accept the appointment? When go out of office? How employed since? What works has he published? His general character?

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