graduated at the Institute for Deaf-Mutes, Hartford, Conn., 1842; superintendent of the New England Industrial School for Deaf-Mutes (founded by himself at Beverly) 1879-84. The Adventures of a Deaf-Mute in the White Mountains, Henniker, N.H., 1874. Swettenham, Frank A., C.M.G., British resident, Selangor, Malay Peninsula. Vocabulary of the Eng lish and Malay Languages: vol. i., Lon., 1886, 8vo. Swift, Baroness. The Daisy Chain: Poems, Original and Translated, Venice, 1884. Swift, Augustus M., d. 1884. Cupid, M.D., N. York, 1882, 16mo. Swift, Edmund. 1. (Ed.) Manual of the Doctrines of the New Church: compiled from the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, Lon., 1879, Svo; new ed., 1880. 2. Emanuel Swedenborg: the Man and his Works, Lon., 1883, p. 8vo. Swift, Harold. Heart Voices in Poetry and Prose, Lon., 1881, p. 8vo. Swift, James A. The Practical Telegrapher: a Manual. Illust. N. York, 1883, 12mo. Swift, John Franklin, [ante, vol. ii., add.] Robert Greathouse, N. York, 1870, 12mo. Swift, John L. About Grant, Bost., 1880, 12mo. Swift, Julia M. Field-Flowers, [verse;] 2d ed., 1872, 16mo; Phila., 1873. Swift, William. Wilhelm's Wanderings: an Autobiography, Lon., 1878, p. 8vo. Anon. Swinbourne, Alfred. Picture Logic; or, The Grave made Gay, Lon., 1874, 8vo; 2d ed., 1875. it may for a time disguise, definite thoughts which emerge 7. George Chapman: a Critical Essay, Lon., 1875, p. 8vo. 8. Erechtheus: a Tragedy, Lon., 1876, p. 8vo; 2d ed. same year. "In some respects the finest work that the poet has produced."-Sat. Rev., xli. 50. "A long and noble fragment of Euripides, preserved by Lycurgus, the orator, in his oration against Leocrates,-his one surviving work,-has supplied Mr. Swinburne with his subject.. It may, perhaps, be... doubted whether to his model are the happiest, or whether he is not most the passages in which Mr. Swinburne approaches closest himself when, as in the two odes respectively descriptive of the North-wind and the commencement of battle, he gives the rein to his imagination and indulges in a prodigality of splendid imagery such as finds no place in Greek literature."-Ath., No. 2514. 9. Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade, Lon., 1876, 8vo. 10. A Note on Charlotte Brontë, Lon., 1877, cr. 8vo. Haworth moors, who had no nonsense about her,' if ever "Notwithstanding the violence of some of the political sonnets, this volume is in no way unworthy of the posi tion he has taken. Moreover, it displays a love of nature such as was not seen in his previous books."—Ath., No. 2745. Swinburne, Algernon Charles, [see ante, vol. ii., where the date and place of his birth are incorrectly given,] b. 1837, in Chester Street, Grosvenor Place, London; son of the late Admiral Charles Henry Swinburne, and of his wife, Lady Jane Henrietta, daughter of the third Earl of Ashburnham; was educated in France, and entered Balliol College, Oxford, in 1857. 12. A Study of Shakespeare, Lon., 1879, p. 8vo. During his stay at the university, which he left without "Much more sober and dignified in style, and much less taking a degree, he was one of a small band of students overweighted with ornament, than anything we have rewho wrote and published a periodical entitled "Under-ceived from his pen of late years.... When Mr. Swingraduate Papers." After leaving Oxford he spent some burne is happy and alert, his sentences are admirable; but when he is constrained by the nature of his theme to trav time in Florence with Walter Savage Landor. He has erse ground which does not specially attract him, he recontributed to the Fortnightly Review and to the Enminds us of Satan pursuing that arduous earthward jourcyclopædia Britannica. 1. Ode on the Proclamation of ney outside the gates of Hell.... The great interest of the French Republic, September 4, 1870, Lon., 1870, this newest study is the light which Mr. Swinburne throws Svo. 2. Songs before Sunrise, Lon., 1871, p. 8vo. on missing links and collateral branches of the main argument."-Sat. Rev., xlix. 159. "Mr. Swinburne perhaps acts wisely in scattering through his writings passages so utterly devoid of sense as to force his readers to believe that they must spring from a disordered brain. . . . And yet among all this extravagance, this fustian worthy of a second Ancient Pistol, there are lines, stanzas, and poems which are in every way admirable. Indeed, there is, we believe, more real poetic power shown in this volume than in any of the poet's earlier works."-Sat. Rev., xxxi. 54. Whenever he "The misfortune of his present book is, that his subjects are allegorical rather than individual. gets a chance of blending his passion for freedom with descriptions of nature, we are struck once more by that marvellous power-in which he has no superior-of quick; ening material things with a spirit of conscious life, and of leaving all their features more salient and defined through the higher analogies by which he interprets them." -Ath., No. 2255. 3. Under the Microscope, Lon., 1872, 12mo. 4. Bothwell a Tragedy, Lon., 1874, p. 8vo. "Ignorant, apparently, or oblivious of the laws of construction and proportion, Mr. Swinburne has heaped together the valuable stores he has accumulated, and has given us a mound where we looked for a temple. How lamentable a mistake has been made will be known to the few who read the book through, and see what fine, what magnificent things are there to reward exertion. Splendid pictures, subtle analyses of passion, and wonderful studies of character, will repay him who attains the end. As art, however, the whole is incomprehensible. As a picture, this work of a man of genius is without central interest; as a play, it is without a climax."-Ath., No. 2430. 5. Songs of Two Nations, Lon., 1875, p. 8vo. (Contains the "Song of Italy," ""Ode on the French Republic," and "Diræ.") 6. Essays and Studies, Lon., 1875, p. 8vo; 2d ed., 1876. "His genius is for style simply, and not in the least for thought nor for real analysis; he goes through the motions of criticism, and makes a considerable show of logic and philosophy, but with deep appreciation his writing seems to us to have very little to do."-Nation, (Henry James.) xxi. 73. "His wealth and command of words give him singular power of throwing a general atmosphere and colouring over his treatment of a subject, which go for much in the resulting impression, and at first seem to be the whole impression. But the rich veil of diction clothes, though 13. The Modern Heptalogia; or, The Seven against Sense: a Cap with Seven Bells: I., The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell; II., John Jones; III., The Poet and the Woodlouse; IV., The Person of the House, (Idyl CCCLXVI. ;) V., Last Words of a Seventh- Rate Poet; VI., Sonnet for a Picture; VII., Nephelidia, Lon., 1880, p. Svo. Anon. 14. Songs of the Springtides, Lon., 1880, p. 8vo. "Mr. Swinburne's passion for the sea is well known: in writing about it he is always at his best, and in this book it is clear that he has caught those very sea secrets which only Coleridge among poets has caught before him. His present volume consists of three poems of some length, which, as the descriptions are chiefly of the sea and the sea-coast, have a connection with each other, followed by a birthday ode to Victor Hugo."-Ath., No. 2743. "Mr. Swinburne's new poems seem to us prolonged and tedious repetitions of old themes, often obscure and personal in allusion, and almost always clouded with mists of words and noisy with the shock of adjectives."-sat. Rev., xlix. 698. 15. Studies in Song, Lon., 1880, p. 8vo. "He has no curious nor profound thoughts to explain, and he appears to have never come in contact with the world; he knows nothing of its sorrows, its delights, its hopes: at least, he cannot identify himself with them and mould them into poems, as Mr. Tennyson or Mr. Browning. He therefore stands apart, and sings of grief, love, hate, and despair as abstract sentiments. . . . The artist who limits himself to the abstract soon finds himself at the end of his tether. Love, hate, hope, and despair have been sung of in the first volume; in the second, third, and fourth he sings of them again, in a different set of phrases; but after a little time this becomes no more fruitful in surprises than a game of dominoes. This is exactly Mr. Swinburne's present position; he has sung of the strength of the sea and of death, and he sings of them again precisely as he sang of them before. . . . There is nothing exact, nothing complete, nothing true; no observation, no delineation of character or sentiment; nothing, either physiological or psychological."-Spectator, liv. 316. 16. Mary Stuart: a Tragedy. Lon., 1881, p. 8vo. "The play is, as it strikes us, undramatic, by which we do not mean merely untheatrical. If it does not lose the name of action,' yet the action moves so slowly, and at such length, that the interest of a reader cannot but flag at some points where it should be most aroused. The verse is throughout fine, and it need hardly be said that many passages are striking and in every way worthy of their author; but they are, on the whole, outweighed by the mass of mere talk, which is indeed framed in words that are fine in the best sense, but are superfluous so far as the development of character and action is concerned."-Sat. Rev., lii. 702. 17. Tristram of Lyonesse, and other Poems, Lon., 1882. p. 8vo. "This is the most varied and important volume of verse that Mr. Swinburne has yet published, and in all probability it will be the most popular. Wider in its appeal than any previous book of his,-more romantic, too, and more interesting, it yet retains the rhythmical power and prophetic passion which have hitherto been the most noticeable characteristics of his work."-Ath., No. 2856. Tristram of Lyonesse' is full of genius,-too full of passion, because the passion is not the higher imaginative passion, but an imaginative expression of the lowest physical passion,-but in its elements confused and sadly wanting in clearness of outline. There are glorious flashes of sunlight in it, but not unfrequently, for pages together, the words, fine as they are. are more like the lavish spray of a waterfall flashing in the sunlight or glimmering in the shade, than the interpreters to the mind of any definite and specific meaning."-Spectator, lv. 1055. 18. A Century of Roundels, Lon., 1883, 4to. "The restraint imposed on him by the vehicle he has chosen is obviously an advantage in one respect. His great faults, diffuseness of expression and looseness of thought, are here held in check by the chains to which he has subjected himself; on the other hand, his greatest merits, his rush of emotion and verbal movement, cannot find vent here."-Ath., No. 2903. 19. A Midsummer Holiday, and other Poems, Lon., 1884, p. 8vo. Altogether, this volume shows a vigour of hand, a brilliant mastery over artistic means towards artistic ends, such as Mr. Swinburne has never surpassed and rarely equalled." -Ath., No. 2978. 20. Marino Faliero: a Tragedy, Lon., 1885, p. 8vo. "Though neither Mr. Swinburne nor any one else could make such a motive as that of Marino Faliero's revenge strong enough to support a five-act play,-especially a play full of such magnificent writing as Mr. Swinburne was sure to put into it.-he has, by the importation of other issues,-love and patriotism,-produced a tragedy of a noble and, in many respects, of a unique kind."-Ath., No. 3007. 21. Miscellanies, Lon., 1886, p. 8vo. "Of the judicial faculty-which is, in other words, the faculty of seeing things as they are, despite any temptation to see them as they are not-Mr. Swinburne has not even a trace. . . . When.. his enthusiastic love of literature has free play, . . . then, and very often, he writes admirable sense, and puts it in language which is more than admirable."-Sat. Rev., lxii. 100. 22. A Study of Victor Hugo, Lon., 1886, p. 8vo. "Not for a moment does Mr. Swinburne hesitate or quail to place the object of his adoration alongside the very greatest names in the literature of the world... Apart altogether from the critic's own comments, the facts of Hugo's literary life are focussed with so much knowledge and so much skill, the selections from Hugo's poetry are so admirably made, . . . that to the French as well as to the English student the book is quite indispensable."Ath., No. 3046. "No living English poet is in certain ways more brilliant or powerful than Mr. Swinburne, and it would be difficult to name any who is so unequal to himself. . . . He plays on the English language as a musical instrument, and is never weary of producing new studies and variations of its tones. Many of his slighter pieces must be regarded purely as such studies. It would be perverse to demand a serious meaning in them."-Sat. Rev., xlvi. 85. "His nature is essentially yielding and receptive, with stormy gusts of passion and indiscriminating impulses of about him, which explains why he uses so many adjectives emotion. There is no strong masculine formative quality and suggests so few thoughts. ... The total impression left on us by Swinburne's prose is the same as that of his verse. Brilliantly gifted, profusely voluble, passionately rhetorical, it puts before us too often phrases instead of thoughts, verbal contortions instead of conceptions. however cultured, yet still an amateur: for he is not crea Mr. Swinburne is, however artistic, yet not an artist, and tive, not original in the best and largest sense of the word, because not instinct with illuminating ideas."-W. L. COURTNEY: Fortnightly Review, xliii. 597. Swinburne, James. 1. Practical Electrical Units Popularly Explained. Illust. Lon., 1883, 12mo. 2. Practical Electrical Measurements. Illust. Lon., 1888, Svo. Swinburne, Louis Judson, 1855-1887, b. at Albany, N.Y.; graduated at Yale 1879. Paris Sketches, Albany, 1875. Swindells, Rupert. A Summer Trip to the Island of St. Michael, the Azores, Manchester, 1877, 8vo. Privately printed. Swing, Rev. David, b. 1830, at Cincinnati; graduated at Miami University 1852; became pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, 1866, and continued for several years, but charges of heterodoxy were preferred against him by Rev. Francis L. Patton 1874. He was acquitted, but afterwards withdrew from the Presbyterian Church. 1. Sermons, Chic., 1874, p. 8vo. 2. Truths for To-Day, Chic., 1874-76, 2 vols. 12mo. 3. Motives of Life, Chic., 1879, 16mo. 4. Club Essays, Chic., 1881, 16mo. 5. Sermons, Chic., 1884, 12mo. Swinglehurst, Henry. Notes from the Continent; or, Germany and the Rhine, 1869-70; 2d ed., Edin., 1870, p. 8vo. Swingler, W. H. Painting for the Million, and Property-Owner's Companion of Useful Information upon Painting, &c., Wakefield, 1878, 12mo. Swinney, Alfred J. G. A Hand-Book to the Examination for Colliery Managers' Certificates of Competency, Lon., 1878, 8vo. Swinstead, P. E. How to Draw a Map from Memory, Lon., 1885, 4to. Swinton, A. H., member of the Entomological Society of London. 1. Insect Variety: its Propagation and Distribution: treating of the Odours, Dances, Colours, and Music in All Grasshoppers, Cicada, and Moths; Beetles, Leaf- Insects, Bees, and Butterflies; Bugs, Flies, and Ephemera; and exhibiting the Bearing of the Science of Entomology on Geology. Illust. Lon., 1880, 8vo; new ed., 1885. 23. Locrine: a Tragedy, Lon., 1887, p. 8vo. "That under such artistic restrictions as he has chosen for himself, Mr. Swinburne should have produced a poem and logical analysis which the subjects discussed require "It is, unfortunately, deficient in the clear judgment so full of dramatic life as 'Locrine' is really wonderful. for their proper elucidation. Yet readers of very different Guendolen is one of the strongest characters in nineteenthcentury drama. In her we get not so much love turned to tastes may find the work interesting and instructive. The hate as love at war with hate,-a much more subtle connaturalist will appreciate the close observation of insect ception. Locrine, too, is a living man, and Sabrina is ex-blage of facts which he has industriously brought together life displayed by the writer, and will find the large assemceedingly winsome. Altogether the book must add to Mr. Swinburne's reputation. Of beauties of a purely poetic turesque descriptions of scenery and of insect habits, the of considerable value; while to the less scientific the pickind the play is more full than anything Mr. Swinburne has before given the public in dramatic form."-Ath., No. style and the enigmatical philosophy, will have a greater wealth of literary quotation and allusion, the eccentric attraction."-ALFRED R. WALLACE: Acad., xviii. 295. 3139. 24. Selections from his Poetical Works, Lon., 1887, 12mo. (Selections understood to have been made by the author.) GENERAL CRITICISM: 2. An Almanack of the Christian Era: a Record of the Past, Lon., 1883, 4to. Swinton, Alan A. Campbell, associate S.T.E. The Principles and Practice of Electric Lighting, Lon., 1884, p. 8vo. 2. The Elementary Principles of Electric Lighting, Lon., 1886, p. 8vo. "The high claims of his political and philosophical. poetry rest upon the swing and rush of versification, the vigour and vehemence of diction, the grand musical effect, clashing and chiming like some great cataract, far more than upon the reiteration of a few unfruitful and unorigi: nal ideas."-R. GARNETT: art. Literature, in The Reign of Queen Victoria, ii. 487. No one of his faults happens to be of those which are fatal to a great poet; and all his merits are those which are to a great poet necessary. Above all, he has the one thing needful, he sings."-GEORGE SAINTSBURY: Acad., xiii. 25. "Before the advent of Swinburne we did not realize the full scope of English verse. In his hands it is like the violin of Paganini. The range of his fantasias, roulades, arias, new effects of measure and sound is incomparable with anything hitherto known."-E. C. STEDMAN: Vic torian Poets, 380. 1412 Mexico, Lon., 1886, 12mo. Swinton, John, brother of William Swinton, infra; b. 1830, at Salton, Scotland; emigrated to Canada 1843; educated at Williston Seminary, Mass., and adopted journalism as a profession. 1. The New Issue: the Chinese-American Question, N. York, 1870, 8vo. 2. John Swinton's Travels: Current Views and Notes of Forty Days in France and England, N. York, 1880, 8vo. Swinton, William, [ante, vol. ii., add.] His later publications, which are principally school-books, include the following: 1. A Condensed History of the United States, N. York, 1871, 16mo. 2. Outlines of the World's History, Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, 1874, 12mo. 3. Bible Word-Book; Glossary of Scripture Terms which have changed Meaning, or are no longer in General Use. Edited by T. J. Conant. N. York, 1876, 16mo. 4. (Ed.) Masterpieces of English Literature: being Typical Selections of British and American Authorship, from Shakespeare to the Present Time, N. York, 1880, 8vo. 5. (Ed.) A Treasury of Tales: containing One Hundred Choice Stories by the Best American and Foreign Authors, N. York, 1885, 4to. With CATHCART, GEORGE R., (ed.) Golden Book of Tales: Holiday Readings in the Legend-Lore of All Nations. Illust. N. York, 1882, 8vo. Swisshelm, Mrs. Jane Grey, (Cannon,) [ante, vol. ii., add.,] 1815-1884. Half a Century, Chic., 1880, 12mo; 3d ed. same year. "The chapters on Mrs. Swisshelm's hospital experience are consecutive, exclude every other topic, and, as they fill the last third of the book, obscure by their more vivid and painful interest the impression produced by the earlier history. They are frank to the verge of self-laudation."-Nation, xxxi. 139. Switzler, W. F. Illustrated History of Missouri, from 1541 to 1877. Illust. St. Louis, Mo., 1879, 8vo. Swope, Cornelius E. The Provincial System. By C. E. S. N. York, 1870. Swormstedt, James M. The End of the World near; or, Antichrist the Beast of Rev. xiii., Cin., 1877, 12mo. Swynnerton, (formerly Swinnerton,) Rev. Charles, ordained 1868; army chaplain in India since 1877. The Afghan War: Gough's Action at Futtehabad, Lon., 1880, p. 8vo. Syckelmoore, William. The Centennial City: an Illustrated Hand-Book of Philadelphia. Illust. and Map. Phila., 1875, 12mo. 2. Sydenham, Rev. George, vicar of Farewell. 1. Twelve Practical Sermons, Stone, 1871, 12mo. Church Catechism Explained: with Notes, Lon., 1873, 12mo. Syed Ameer Ali. See AMEER, supra. Sykes, Charles. My Evening Hours, and other Poems, Adwalton, 1870, 8vo. Sykes, Joseph. 1. Selected Works, Poetic and Prose: with an Autobiographical Introduction, Brighton, 1853-55, 3 vols. 8vo. 2. Lectures on French History, from the Restoration of the Bourbons to the Fall of Louis Philippe. By J. S. Brighton, 1863, 8vo. 3. Occasional Poems: prefixed by a Few Words on Metrical Composition. By J. S. Brighton, 1865, 8vo. 4. Detached Thoughts. By J. S. Brighton, 1865. 5. Poems by Julio, (Later Poems,) Brighton, 1870-77, vols. 12mo. Sylvester, E. E. Geographical Guide to England and Wales, Lon., 1875, 12mo. Sylvester, Herbert Milton, b. 1849, at Lowell, Mass.; admitted to the bar in Portland 1872. 1. Prose Pastorals, Bost., 1887, 12mo. "There is next to nothing of character and no human nature except his own in the pages; but he has the artist's eye and the fisherman's infatuation, and gives us still life and speckled trout in about equal profusion."-Nation, xlv. 40. Sylvester, James Joseph, LL.D., F.R.S., D.C.L., b. 1814, in London, Eng., and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated as second wrangler; was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1855-71, at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1876-83, and in 1883 became Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford. He was the founder and first editor of the American Journal of Mathematics, the author of a large number of important scientific papers, and the discoverer of a theory of reciprocants which is said to more than double the resources of algebra. 1. Nuga Mathematicæ, Lon., 1866, 8vo. 2. Laws of Verse; or, Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Lon., 1870, p. 8vo. With HAMMOND, —, Hamilton's Numbers, (Philosophical Transactions,) Lon., 1887-88, 2 parts, 4to. mark, N.Y.; admitted to the bar at Oswego 1852; appointed commissioner of the U.S. Circuit Court at Troy, N.Y., 1866. 1. Saratoga and Kay-Ad-Ros-Se-Ra an Historical Address, Troy, N.Y., 1876, 8vo. 2. Historical Sketches of Northern New York and the Adirondack Wilderness, Troy, N.Y., 1877, Svo. 3. History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, Troy, 1879, 4to. 4. History of Ulster County, New York: with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Phila., 1880, 4to. 5. Indian Legends of Saratoga and the Upper Hudson Valley, 1884. 6. Historical Narratives of the Upper Hudson, Lake George, and Lake Champlain, Phila., 1888. Sylvester, W. A. The Modern House-Carpenter's Companion and Builder's Guide. Plates. Bost., 1882, 16mo; 3d thousand, 1883. Sylvis, James C. Life, Speeches, Labors, and Essays of W. H. Sylvis, Phila., 1871, 12mo; 2d ed., 1872. Syme, David. 1. Outlines of an Industrial Science, 2. Representative Lon., 1876, p. 8vo; 2d ed., 1877. Government in England: its Faults and its Failures, Lon., 1881, p. 8vo. "Mr. Syme has a very low opinion of the British Constitution. It is cumbrous, it is unwieldy, it does very little, and even that little it does ill.... He makes the specific suggestion that the constituencies shall have the same power over their representatives which the Crown exercises over Parliament,-namely, the power of dismissal."Spectator, lv. 364. Symes, Rev. John Elliotson, M.A., graduated at Downing College, Cambridge, 1871; ordained 1873; professor of literature in University College, Nottingham, since 1881; licensed preacher for the diocese of Lincoln since 1882. 1. The Theology of Life: Sermons preached in Newcastle-on-Tyne, Lon., 1882, cr. 8vo. A Short Text-Book of Political Economy: with Problems for Solution and Hints for Supplementary Reading, Lon., 1888, cr. 8vo. 2. Symes, Joseph. Philosophic Atheism: a Bundle of Fragments, Lon., 1879, 8vo. Also, pamphlets. Symington, Rev. Alexander Macleod. 1. Jehovah Jesus: Scripture Studies of Seven Sayings of Our Lord in the Gospel according to John, Lon., 1876, p. 8vo. 2. The Story of Esther the Queen: a Popular Exposition: with an Introduction, Lon., 1878, p. 8vo. 3. The Man on the Top of the Ark, and other Gospel Parables, founded on Old Testament History, Edin., 1880, 16mo. 4. The Last First: Sketches of some of the Less Noted Characters of Scripture History, Lon., 1880, 8vo. 5. The Apostles of Our Lord: Practical Studies, Lon., 1880, p. Svo. 6. Work and Prayer: the Story of Nehemiah, Lon., 1881, 12mo. 7. Elder and Friends: Christian Friendship in the Letters of John, Lon., 1882, 12mo. 8. Vox Clamantis: Life and Ministry of John the Baptist, Lon., 1882, p. 8vo. 9. Good Lives: Some Fruits of the Nineteenth Century, Lon., 1883, p. 8vo. 10. The Story of Joseph, read in the Light of the Son of Man, Lon., 1884, p. 8vo. Symington, Andrew James, [ante, vol. ii., add.,] b. 1825, at Paisley, Scotland. 1. The Reasonableness of Faith with an Appendix containing Hymns and Verses of Consolation and Hope, Lon., 1870, 16mo. 2. Thomas Chalmers: the Man, his Time and Work, Ardrossan, 1878. Anon. 3. Samuel Lover: a Sketch : Selections, Lon., 1880, 12mo. 4. William Cullen Bryant: with Selections from his Poems and other Writings. Lon., 1880, 12mo. 5. Thomas Moore the Poet: his Life and 6. William Wordsworth: a Works, Lon., 1880, 12mo. Biographical Sketch: with Selections from his Writings in Poetry and Prose, Lon., 1881, 2 vols. 12mo. 7. Hints to our Boys, Paisley, 1883, 32mo; 2d ed., with Introduction by Lyman Abbott, 1885. 8. Poems, Paisley, 1885, 8vo. 9. Some Personal Reminiscences of Carlyle, Lon., 1886, p. 8vo. Symington, J. Topographical Anatomy of the Child. Illust. Lon., 1887, fol. Symington, Maggie. See BLATHWAYT, MRS. MAGGIE, supra. Symmes, Americus. The Symmes Theory of Concentric Spheres, demonstrating that the Earth is Hollow, Habitable within, and Widely Open about the Poles. Compiled from the Writings of his Father, John Cleves Symmes. Louisville, 1878, 8vo. (See SYMMES, J. C., ante, vol. ii.) Symonds, Rev. Alfred Radford, [ante, vol. ii., "Sylvester, Joshua," (Pseud.) See HOTTEN, SYMONDS, A. R., add.,] 1815-1883, graduated at WadJOHN CAMDEN, supra. ham College, Oxford, 1837; vicar of Walter, Kent, 1877 Sylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett, b. 1825, at Den- | -83. 1. The Holy Bible arranged in Chronological and kindle into eloquence under a diction which sometimes has less of the sobriety of the historian than of the ardour of the rhapsodist."-Sat. Rev., xliv. 181. "To the subjects which he treats in this volume Mr. Symonds brings an insight both intelligent and sympathetic; in expression he is copious and facile; but the exact and final phrase, I think, he does not often hit."-SIDNEY COLVIN: Acad., xii. 122. Historical Order and Harmonized; 2d ed., Madras, 1838, | ment. . . . His descriptions show quick perceptions, and 8vo. 2. A Family Liturgy, compiled from Various Sources, Madras, 1865, 8vo. 3. The Responsive Portions of the Family Liturgy, Madras, 1865, 8vo. 4. Have Missions to the Heathen been a Failure? being a Reply to some Current Objections, Lon., 1873, 8vo. 5. The Kingdom of Christ: its Ultimate Triumph over Evil, in the Subjection and Reconciliation of All Things to God, Lon., 1873, 8vo. 6. The Ultimate Reconciliation and Subjection of All Souls; 2d ed., Lon., 1878. Symonds, H. C., formerly major and commissary of subsistence in the army of the United States. Report of a Commissary of Subsistence 1861-65, Sing Sing, N. York, 1888. Recollections of a Commissary' would be a more suitable title.... The book throws valuable side-lights upon some important questions of history."-Nation, xlvii. 198. Symonds, John Addington, M.D., F.R.C.P., [ante, vol. ii., add.,] 1807-1871, b. at Aston, Oxfordshire, and educated at Edinburgh; practised medicine at Bristol, where he was physician to the hospital. In 1851 he removed to Clifton. Miscellanies: Selected and Edited, with an Introductory Memoir, by his Son, Lon. and Bristol, 1871, 8vo. Also, single lectures. 7. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature. In Two Parts. Lon., 1881, 2 vols. 8vo. subject yet published in English; and they include, be "The two volumes give the completest account of the sides what belongs strictly to the period of the Renaissauce, introductory chapters of great interest, tracing the earlier growth of the Italian language and literature. Of the whole series they form probably the most practically useful part."-Sat. Rev., lii. 236. 8. Renaissance in Italy: the Catholic Reaction, Lon., 1886, 2 vols. 8vo. "Mr. Symonds's two volumes form a very necessary supplement to his history of the Renaissance.... It is perhaps to be regretted that the author has not cast it more in the form of a regular history, instead of a series of essays. As it stands, it is calculated rather to stimulate than to satisfy the serious student of the period."-Ath., No. 3084. "Mr. Symonds's study of the Renaissance . . . must cerSymonds, John Addington, son of the preceding, tainly rank among the considerable literary monuments b. 1840, at Bristol, Eng.; was educated at Harrow School, book. The author knows a great deal about his subject, of our time. It is a learned, a thoughtful, and a brilliant and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained the weighs carefully what he has to say regarding it, and exNewdigate prize and a first class in Classics in 1862 and presses himself with precision and strength, and often was elected to a Fellowship at Magdalen College. He with eloquence. .. Mr. Symonds is not dogmatic or praghas for many years been obliged on account of ill health matic, but he is confident in his own views; and as these to reside at Davos-Platz in Switzerland. 1. An Intro-fidence is in the main a benefit to the reader, who is thus are founded upon extensive and minute studies, his conduction to the Study of Dante, Lon., 1872, p. 8vo. furnished with distinct results rather than suggestions, suppositions, or notions still in process of formation."Ath., No. 2811. It is rather a series of criticismns on Dante than an introduction to his poems."-Ath., No. 2353. 2. Studies of the Greek Poets, Lon., 1873-76, 2 vols. p. 8vo. "They popularize the results of scholarship with great ability. They are neither very profound nor flimsily superficial. They hit the right level of pleasurable reading; and, while they demand an educated mind for their full appreciation, they yield much which will inform and interest those who know merely the broader facts of ancient history and a few of the greater literary names. It would not be difficult to cite a good many passages in which we feel carried off our legs by the rush of promiscuous imagery; but this is readily condoned by a reader of any generosity, as a result perhaps inseparable from the enthusiasm for his subject without which the book would lose all its fascination and much of its solid value."-Sat. Rev., xxxvi. 379. "While we have careful and scholarly analyses of the books and their contents, Mr. Symonds never forgets to show us how these contents are lighted up and made really and completely intelligible only in so far as we enter into the mental and social conditions of the writers and of their original readers, and verify thereby the thoughts and feelings which they have still power to call forth in themselves."-Spectator, xlix. 954. 3. Sketches in Italy and Greece, Lon., 1874, p. 8vo. "Sketches is perhaps scarcely the right word for pictures of travel so careful in composition, so finished and elaborate, as these by Mr. Symonds. . . . He brings before the reader the very secret of the charm of Perugia or Girgenti; he grasps and expresses the personality, as it were, of Ra venna or of Orvieto; he conveys the sentiment of Syracuse or Athens. . . Sometimes we may think that the colour and beauty of mere words becomes a a temptation to him, that his style has a southern fragrance as heavy as that of the lemon-blossoms, and a glitter in Asiatic taste." -A. LANG: Acad., v. 505. 4. Renaissance in Italy: the Age of the Despots, Lon., 1875, 8vo; 2d ed., 1880. "The present volume... is historical, and shows us the political and social conditions in and out of which Italy and then the rest of Europe awoke to new life. Yet it is not a history proper, but rather a light by which to read all Italian histories."-Spectator, xlviii. 953. 5. Renaissance in Italy: the Revival of Learning, Lon., 1877, 8vo. "He has waded through amazing expanses of the dullest, the dirtiest, the most tedious literature, and has compressed the result of his search into a goodly, but still a handy, volume. ... Excellent as it is by itself as an addition to general culture, the volume will probably gain when read in its proper place, in connection with the author's works on Italian art and Italian literature."-Sat. Rev., xliii. 584. 6. Renaissance in Italy: the Fine Arts, Lon., 1877, 8vo. "He tells us that he does not pretend to retrace the history of the Italian arts, but rather to define their relations to the main movement of Renaissance culture.' In this retrospective view he goes as far back as the end of the thirteenth century. . . . Mr. Symonds has consulted the best written authorities; but he rightly attaches more importance to that personal knowledge of pictorial, plastic, and structural works which forms the premises to the argu 9. The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarotti and into Rhymed English, Lon., 1878, p. 8vo. Tommaso Campanella, now for the First Time Translated "The translator has made a real, a definite, and. I think, an enduring addition to the spiritual wealth of English readers."-E. DOWDEN: Acad., xiii. 247. 10. Many Moods: a Volume of Verse, Lon., 1878, p. 8vo. "As a descriptive poet Mr. Symonds cannot take a high rank, but as a poet of emotion and speculation, and a finished sonneteer, he can certainly hold his own."-Ath., No. 2644. "He tells us modestly in his preface that he does not claim'the sacred name of a poet, but this volume assuredly entitles him to a place, and to a place of distinction, among living poets."-Spectator, li. 1185. 11. Shelley, ( English Men of Letters,") Lon., 1878, P. 8vo. "It is written with knowledge, grace, and tact.”—Ath., No. 2662. "Mr. Symonds is a refined and enthusiastic writer, and enters into the transcendent beauties of Shelley's genius with an ardent and a thoughtful admiration. But he takes no intelligible standard with him by which to try Shelley's curiously tainted nobility of nature."-Spectator, li, 1401. 12. Sketches and Studies in Italy, Lon.. 1879, p. 8vo. "Consists in part of sketches of Italian life and landscape, in part of critical studies, written perhaps in Italy, Where it answers to the first part of its title and dealing with Italian or old Roman topics.. it is thoroughly good. The 'Studies' are of less equal value."-Sat. Rev., xlvii. 624. 13. New and Old: a Volume of Verse, Lon., 1880, 8vo. To some extent the poetry of Mr. Symonds evinces the self-reliant boldness which is one element of originality, yet his best efforts are so far less numerous than those which belong to verse of mere taste and sentiment that it may be doubted whether the former will make their due impression."-Ath., No. 2672. 14. Animi Figura, Lon., 1882, 12mo. "This interesting volume is made up of a series of sonnet sequences, each sequence being the soul's dialogue with itself concerning some problem or mystery of life, or some special experience of the lover of beauty who is at the same time a lover of truth."-E. DOWDEN: Acad., xxii. 3. 15. Italian Byways, Lon., 1883, p. Svo. "Though the author's account of what he has seen, and of the associations which it awakes in his mind, is given in language too exuberant for the taste of persons brought up on plain English, the intelligence and learning of the book, as of all Mr. Symonds's, must give it considerable value." -Sat. Rev., lvi. 52. 16. Shakspeare's Predecessors in the English Drama, Lon., 1884, 8vo. "Goes down only to the death of Marlowe. . . . He is always conscious that there is a great deal to say, and laudably anxious to say it well; but his consciousness of how much there is not to say would appear to be much less keen. . . . The most rigid critic must pronounce the book a good and useful one, containing not only much sound criticism, but a general view of literature which is very well worth viewing, and which few readers are likely to have the opportunity of examining at first hand."-Sat. | Mast; or, Life as a Sea Apprentice, Lon. and Edin., Rev., lvii. 481. 1876, p. 8vo. 17. Wine, Woman, and Song: Medieval Songs in English Verse, Lon., 1884, 12mo. Symons, Arthur, b. 1865, at Milford Haven; resident at Nuneaton. An Introduction to the Study of Browning, Lon., 1886, p. 8vo. The title of the book might lead the hasty bibliographer to treat it as 'a frivolous performance with no particular Symons, George James, F.R.S. 1. Distribupurpose; but it is, in fact. à serious contribution to literary history in the shape of an admirably written critical essay tion of Rain over the British Isles, 1872-79, Lon., 1872 on the Latin songs of twelfth-century students, freely in--80, 8vo. 2. Pocket Altitude Tables, Lon., 1877, 32mo. terspersed with spirited English translations."-Ath., No. 2991. 18. Vagabundi Libellus, Lon., 1884, p. 8vo. "Even those who appreciate the sonnet most highly may well feel disheartened, and almost appalled, when they open a volume of over 200 pages which has a sonnet on every page. Many of Mr. Symonds's sonnets lack only one thing, but it happens to be the one thing needful,-an interesting and sufficing theme."-Spectator, Iviii. 392. 19. Sir Philip Sidney, ("English Men of Letters,") Lon., 1886, p. 8vo. "There are plenty of readers who will doubtless be fascinated by Mr. Symonds's well-written narrative, which rightly treats Sidney as something more than a man of letters, and the critical expositions of Sidney's writings will certainly be of service to those who do not possess Sidney's books. But the biography is little more than a résumé of Mr. Fox Bourne's well-known work." -Ath., No. 3089. 20. Ben Jonson, ("English Worthies,") Lon., 1886, p. Svo. "It is a work that the student of to-day cannot so safely neglect as he may the writings which it lauds and analyzes so well."-Spectator, 1x. 770. 21. (Trans.) Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Newly Translated with Etchings, Lon., 1887, 2 vols.; 2d ed., 1888, p. 8vo. And see SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON, (the elder,) supra. Symonds, Rev. William Samuel, [ante, vol. ii., add.,] 1818-1887, rector of Pendock, Worcestershire, Eng.; contributed numerous papers on local geology to the British Association and to scientific journals. He possessed an intimate knowledge of the geology of the Malvern Hills. 1. Records of the Rocks; or, Notes on the Geology, Natural History, and Antiquities of North and South Wales, Devon, and Cornwall: with Numerous Illustrations, Lon., 1872. "While it will serve as a very useful itinerary for geologists on their rambles, it will be still more welcome to the more discursive naturalist and to the ordinary tourist, on account of the variety of fields over which it conducts him."-Sat. Rev., xxxv. 592. 3. 2. Malvern Chase: an Episode of the Wars of the Roses and the Battle of Tewkesbury: an Autobiography. Edited by W. S. S. Tewkesbury, 1881, p. 8vo. Hanley Castle: Civil Wars and Battle of Worcester, Lon., 1883, p. 8vo. 4. Severn Straits; or, Notes on Glacial Drifts, &c., Lon., 1883, 8vo. Also, single lectures, &c. Symondson, F. W. H. Two Years abaft the 3. British Rainfall, 1881, Lon., 1882, 8vo. 4. British Rainfall at More than Two Thousand Stations, 1885, Lon., 1886, 8vo. 5. British Rainfall, 1886, Lon., 1887, 8vo. 6. (Ed.) The History and Description of the Eruption of Krakatoa in the Bay of Sunda. Compiled by the Committee of the Royal Society. Illust., Maps, and Diagrams. Lon., 1888, 4to. Symons, John C. Life of Rev. Daniel J. Draper, who was lost in the" London," January 11th, 1866: with Historical Notices of Wesleyan Methodism in Australia, Lon., 1870, p. 8vo. Symons, R. A Commercial Traveller's Reminiscences, Lon., 1884. Sympson, Thomas. 1. Letters concerning the Lincoln County Hospital, Lincoln, 1873, Svo. 2. Old and New Lincoln County Hospitals, Lon., 1878, 12mo. Syms, Frederick Richard. A Code of English Law, (Principles and Practice :) for Handy Reference in a Solicitor's Office, Lon., 1870, 8vo. Sypher, Josiah Rhinehart, [ante, vol. ii., add.] 1. The American Popular Speaker, Phila., 1870, 12mo. 2. The Art of Teaching School, Phila., 1872, 12mo. Syvret, De C. H. Raymond and Irene, Lon., 1888. Privately printed. 1. A F.R.H.S., [ante, vol. ii., add.,] b. 1841, at Devonport; Szyrma, Rev. Wladyslaw Somerville Lach-, graduated at Brasenose College, Oxford, 1862; ordained 1865; vicar of Newlyn, Cornwall, since 1874. Biblical Catechism, Redruth, 1871, 8vo. 2. Some Pleas for the Faith, especially designed for the Use of Missionaries at Home and Abroad, Oxf., 1873, 12mo. 3. A Short History of Penzance, St. Michael's Mount, St. Ives, and the Land's End District, Truro and Lon., 1878, 4to. "Scarcely more than an abstract from some twenty or thirty well-known books about Cornwall."--Ath., No. 2651. 4. Aleriel; or, A Voyage to other Worlds, Lon., 1883, p. 8vo; 2d ed., 1886. 5. Church History of Cornwall and of the Diocese of Truro, 1887. 1. Taber, Mary J. 1. The German-English Puzzle Primer, New Bedford, 1886. "An ingenious little study of comparative philology in its simplest form."-Critic, v. 257. 2. (Trans.) The Chancellor's Secret: a Tale of the Twelfth Century, by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, New Bedford, Mass., 1887, 16mo. Tabor, Eliza. See STEPHENSON, MRS. ELIZA, (TABOR,) supra. Tadema, Miss Laurence Alma-, daughter of Alma Tadema, the well-known artist. Love's Martyr, Lon., 1886, p. 8vo. Tafel, Rev. Rudolph Leonhard, Ph.D., [ante, vol. iii., add.,] son of J. F. L. Tafel, (ante, vol. iii. :) professor of modern languages and comparative philology in Washington University, St. Louis, 1862-68, and since then a Swedenborgian minister in London. 1. Emanuel Swedenborg as a Philosopher and Man of Science, Chic., 1867, 12mo. 2. Our Heavenward Journey, Lon., cr. 8vo. 3. The Issues of Modern Thought, Lon., cr. 8vo. 4. Authority in the New Church, Lon., cr. 8vo. 5. The Preaching Gift: Abrogation of Representatives, and other Subjects, Lon., 1874. 6. (Trans. and ed.) The Brain considered Anatomically, Physiologically, and Philosophically, by Emanuel Swedenborg: vols. i. and ii., Lon., 8vo. Taft, C. P., Storer, B., Jr., and Taft, P. R. (Ed.) The Cincinnati Superior Court Reporter, vols. i.ii., Cin., 1872-73, 8vo. Taft, Jonathan, [ante, vol. iii., add.] Index of Dental Periodical Literature, Phila., 1886, 8vo. Tainsh, Edward Campbell. 1. Saint Alice, Lon., 1867, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 2. Crowned, Lon., 1868, 2 vols. p. 8vo. 3. Study of the Works of Alfred Tennyson; new ed., Lon., 1870, p. 8vo. 4. One Maiden Only, Lon., 1870, 3 vols. p. 8vo. Tait, Mrs. (Trans.) The Two Chancellors: Prince Gortchakof and Prince Bismarck, by M. Julian Klaczko, Lon., 1876. 8vo; new ed., 1877, p. 8vo. Tait, Very Rev. Andrew, Ph.D., D.D., LL.D., F.R.S. Edin., ordained 1850; rector of Moylough since 1873; canon of Tuam since 1874; provost of Tuam since 1888. 1. Outlines of Dogmatic Theology, 1859. 2. Tractatus de Matrimonia ejusque Impedimentis, Göttingen, 1866. 3. The Messages to the Seven Churches of Asia Minor: an Exposition of the First Three Chapters of the Book of the Revelation, Lon., 1884, 8vo. 4. The Charter of Christianity: an Examination, in the Light of Modern Criticism, of Our Blessed Lord's Sermon on the Mount, and its Ethical Precepts compared with the Best Moral Teaching of the Ancient World, Lon., 1886, 8vo. |