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Reverend Edward Burbidge (1839-1903) was a liturgical scholar. He was the author of: The Kingdom of Heaven: What is it? (1879) and Liturgies and Offices of the Church (1885). In the latter he throws much light upon the extraordinary range of his reading, and on his deep learning. "There is nothing new in the following pages, except it be that they call popular attention to facts which have been commonly recognised only by scholars.

Allen Chapman was the house pseudonym used for a number of books for young people published since 1905. Included amongst these are: Bart Stirling's Road to Success, or, The Young Express Agent (1908), Frank Roscoe's Secret, or, the Darewell Chums in the Woods (1908), Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck (1913) and The Radio Boys' First Wireless, or, Winning the Ferberton Prize (1922).

Maurice Chase Burritt (1883-1959) was an American Agriculturist and professor of the Department of Pomology at Cornell University. In 1908 he was graduated from Cornell University. He was a vice-director and later director of Extension, Cornell University from 1917 until 1924. He was a member of the board of the Western New York Fruit Growers Cooperative Packing Association in 1924. He was also the director and fiscal officer of the Grange Lea...

Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson PC RN (1697-1762) was a British admiral and a wealthy aristocrat, noted for his circumnavigation of the globe and his role overseeing the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War. He entered the navy in 1712, and by rapid steps became lieutenant in 1716, commander in 1722, and post-captain in 1724. While Great Britain was at war with Spain in 1740, he led a squadron of eight ships on a mission to disrupt or ...

Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), who published under the byline M. R. James, was a noted medieval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905-1918) and of Eton College (1918-1936), best remembered today for his ghost stories in the classic Victorian Yuletide vein. He is most widely known for his ghost stories, but as a medieval scholar his output was phenomenal and remains highly respected in scholarly circles. His discovery of a ...

It was on the road from Neufchateau to La Foche, where Base Hospital 117 was located, that I first became acquainted with the author of this book. He evidently knew how to run a Ford camionette, even though it was not in just the shape in which it left the factory. I remember that I asked him what he did for a living back in the States-those service uniforms were great levelers-and he said he was a parson. "But now you are a chauffeur, " I obj...

Madame Sarah Grand (1854-1943), born Frances Bellenden Clarke was a feminist writer active from 1873 to 1922 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Her work dealt with the New Woman in fiction and in fact, she wrote treatises on the subject of the failure of marriage, and her novels may be considered strongly anti-marriage polemics. For some women, the New Woman movement provided support for women who wanted to work and learn for ...

Amanda Minnie Douglas (1831-1916) was a prolific American writer. Born in New York City, she attended the City Institute there and after moving studied English and American literature with a private tutor. She later took up writing and sold several stories to periodicals, including the Saturday Evening Post, New York Ledger, and Lady's Friend. In 1866 her first book In Trust was published. Her other works include: Home Nook, or, The Crown of D...

Nina Hill Robinson was the American author of: Aunt Dice: The Story of a Faithful Slave (1897), That Boy o' Mine (1908) and The Pillars of Rehoboth Church (1911). "As the details of everyday life would prove monotonous to the reader, the writer has given but little more than the outlines of the life of this beloved servant, and though a short work-only a recreative hour for the busy American-a simple story simply told, it is written as a tribu...

Marcel Allain (1885-1970) was a French writer mostly remembered today for his co-creation with Pierre Souvestre (1874-1914) of the fictional arch-villain and master criminal Fantomas. Allain studied law before becoming a journalist. He then became the assistant of Souvestre, who was already a well-known figure in literary circles. In 1909, the two men published their first novel, Le Rour. Investigating Magistrate Germain Fuselier, later to bec...

To the uninitiated-as were we in those days when we returned to the Somme, too late to see the tanks make their first dramatic entrance-the name conjures up a picture of an iron monster, breathing fire and exhaling bullets and shells, hurling itself against the enemy, unassailable by man and impervious to the most deadly engines of war, sublime, indeed, in its expression of indomitable power and resolution. This picture was one of the two fact...

1913 narrative and descriptive biography with pen-pictures and personal recollections by those who knew him. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was the sixteenth President of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During his term, he helped preserve the United ...

The following pages were written to beguile the tediousness of a long voyage from Hong Kong to England, during the spring and summer of 1844. When I state, that the whole was written with the paper on my knee, for want of a desk, amid continual interruptions from three young children lacking amusement during their long confinement on ship-board, and with a perpetual liability to be pitched to leeward, paper and all, -I shall have said enough t...

Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and worked on the organization of organic chemistry. As a professor, he devised the modern laboratory-oriented teaching method, and for such innovations, he is regarded as one of the greatest chemistry teachers of all time. He is known as the "father of the fertilizer industry" for his discovery of nitrogen as an essential ...

Lida nee Brown McMurry (1853-1942) was a primary school teacher in DeKalb, Illinois and an author of books for children. Among her works are: Songs of the Tree-Top and Meadow (with Agnes Spofford Cook Gale) (1899), Classic Stories For Little Ones (1900), Nature Study Lessons for Primary Grades (with Charles A. McMurry) (1905), Songs of Mother and Child (with Agnes Spofford Cook Gale) (1905), Fifty Famous Fables (1910), More Classic Stories: Fo...

I believe the old Italian proverb says, that every man, before he dies, should do three things: "Get a son, build a house, and write a book. " Now, whether or not I am desirous, by beginning at the end, to end at the beginning of this quaint axiom, I leave the reader to conjecture. My book may afford amusement to him who will smile when I am glad, and sympathise with the impressions I have caught in other moods of mind, but I have little affin...

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his magnificent blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his own mysterious and untimely death. His first drama was Dido, Queen of Carthage. His first play performed on the London stage was Tamburlaine about the conqueror Timur, who rises from shepherd...

Donald Ogden Stewart (1894-1980) was an American author and screenwriter. He graduated from Yale University in 1916 and was in the Naval Reserves in World War I. After the war he started to write and found success with A Parody Outline of History (1921), a satire of The Outline of History (1920) by H. G. Wells. This led him to becoming a member of the Algonquin Round Table. Around that time a friend of his got him interested in theatre and he ...

Metta Victoria Victor nee Fuller (1831-1886) was an American author who wrote under a number of pseudonyms including Walter T. Gray, George Wilbur Peck, Seeley Regester, The Singing Sybil and The Sisters of the West. She married Orville James Victor (1827-1910), the American theologian, journalist, editor and abolitionist in 1856. As an author Metta Victor wrote many works, including: Poems of Sentiment and Imagination (with F. F. Victor) (185...

Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, KG, GCB, GCMG, PC (1854-1925) was a controversial German-born British statesman and colonial administrator. He was noted for Milner's Kindergarten, a group of young men he mentored and who in some cases became important figures in running the British Empire and for his key influence on South African history, through the pursuit of British hegemony. He was educated first at Tubingen, then at King's College Lo...