Volume 1

A supplement to Allibone's Critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors : containing over thirty-seven thousand articles (authors), and enumerating over ninety-three thousand titles / by John Foster Kirk.

  • John Foster Kirk
Date:
1891
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    With Abbott, Austin: 1. Forms of Conveyancing, Con- tracts and Legal Proceedings, N. York, 8vo. 2. A Collection of Forms of Practice and Pleading in Actions, 2 vols. 8vo. 3. General Digest of the Laws of Corpora- tions, N. York, 1869, r. 8vo. 4. Collection of Laws of Practice and Pleading in Actions; new ed., N. York, 1870, 2 vols. 8vo. 5. Clerks' and Conveyancers' As- sistant, 1866, 8vo. 6. Enactments relative to Federal Courts, 1869, 8vo. 7. Reports of Practice Cases in the Courts of the State of New York, 1854-65, N. York, 19 vols. 8vo; new ser., 1865-75, N. York, 1866-76, 16 vols, r. 8vo. 8. Treatise on the Practice of the United States Courts, 1869, r. 8vo. He also wrote in conjunc- tion with his brothers Austin and Lyman, under the pseudonyme of Benauly, formed from the first syl- lables of their respective names, in addition to the novel mentioned atite, vol. i., Matthew Caraby, 1858. Abbott, Charles Conrad, M.D., b. 1843, at Tren- ton, N.J., graduated in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1865, but has since de- voted himself especially to archKological researches and studies in natural history. In 1872 he discovered remains of paleolithic man in the valley of the Delaware, and he has brought forward facts and arguments tending to prove the early dispersion of the Eskimo race in the continent of America as far south as New Jersey. 1. Primitive Industry; or, Illustrations of the Handiwork, in Stone, Bone, and Clay, of the Native Races of the Northern Atlantic Seaboard of America, Salem, Mass., 1881. While, from the nature of the case, his immediate object is to describe the implements which remain—imper- isliable because of stone—yet the fact that they are im- plements leads us Imek to theuses to which they were put; and by degrees the primitive Indian life grows to a vivid picture before the mind of the reader.—Nalion, xxxiv. 37. 2. A Naturalist's Rambles about Home, N. York, 1884, 8vo. One of the best popular works on the natural history of the United States.—iYu(io?i, xl. 18. 3. Cyolopajdia of Natural History, Troy, N.Y., 1886, 12mo. 4. Upland and Meadow : a Poaetquessings Chron- icle, N. York, 1886, 12mo. 5. Waste-land Wanderings, N. York, 1887, 12mo. Abbott, Rev. Edward, son of Jacob Abbott, [infra,) b. 1841, at Farmington, Maine; educated at the University of New York and at Andover Theo- logical Seminary; ordained in the Congregational Church 1863; pastor of Stearns Chapel, Dorchester, 1865-69 ; associate editor of The Congregatioualist from 1869 to 1878, when he entered the Protestant Episcupal communion, and became minister of St. James' Church, Cambridge. He was editor of the Literary World, Bos- ton, from 1878 till 1888. 1. The Baby's Things: a Christmas Story in Verse. Illust. N. York, 1871, 4to. 2. Dialogues of Christ, Bost., 32mo. 3. Paragraph His- tory of the American Revolution, Bost., 1375, sq. 18mo. 4. Revolutionary Times: Sketches of our Country One Hundred Years Ago, Bost., 1876, sq. 18mo. 5. Long Look House. Illust. Bost., 12mo. 6. Out-Doors at Long Look. Illust. Bost., 12mo. 7. Three last form series of Long Look Books, Bost., 1876-80, 3 vols. 12mo. Illust. 8. A Trip Eastward : a Book for Boys and Girls. Illust. Bost., 1884, 12mo. Abbott, Edwin, 1808-1882, b. in London, was from 1827 to 1872 head master of the Philological School in Marylebone. He published some school-books, and A Concordance to the Original Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Introduction by Edwin A. Abbott, Lon., 1875, 8vo. Abbott, Rev. Edwin Abbott, D.D., b. 1838, in London, was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated a senior in the classical tripos and was elected a Fellow in 1861. He was assistant master in King Edward's School, Birmingham, 1862-64, and in 1865 was appointed head master of the City of London School. He has been select preacher at both Oxford and Cambridge, and was Hulsean Lecturer in the latter university in 1876. Dr. Abbott's publications include several school-books, viz. : How to Write Clearly ; How to Parse, 1878; How to Tell the Parts of Speech, 1881 ; Latin Prose through English Idioms, etc. ; also, several religious books for children, viz. : Bible Lessons; Child's Christmas Sheaf from the Bible Fields; Good Voices: a Child's Guide to the Bible, 1871; Parables for Children, 1873 ; also, Hints on Home Teaching. His more im- portant works are: 1. A Shakespearean Grammar: an Attempt to Illustrate some of the Differences between Elizabethan and Modern English, 1869, 12mo; newed., 1871. 2. Cambridge Sermons: Preached before the University, Lon., 1875, 8vo. We have to do in the sermons before us with a man who fears nothing, ignores nothing, takes nothing for granted. . . . With extreme fairness, as it seems to us, I)r. Abbott faces the position of Christianity at this moment on its darkest side.—Spectator, xlviii. 887. 3. (Ed.) Bacon's Essays : with Introduction, Notes, and Inde.x, Lon., 1876, 2 vols. 18mo. 4. Bacon and Essex : a Sketch of Bacon's Earlier Life, Lon., 1877, 8vo. The Interest of an inquiry such as that conducted by Dr. Abbott speaks for itself; and the ability which he has brought to bear upon it will insure the fulfilment of his hope that by diligent sifting of facts and interpretations we may at least come nearer to the truth.—Sat. Rev., xliv. 19. 5. Through Nature to Christ; or. The Ascent of Wor- ship through Illusion to the Truth, Lon., 1877, 8vo. Dr. Abbott thinks that the young people of our day who reject the faith of Christ because this faith demands a belief in the supernatural, and therefore incredible, may be won over to the truth by presenting the worship of Christ so that they shall be called upon to accept nothing that is unnatural or incredible. . . . We question whether his work, honest and earnest though it be, will prove of service In this way. . . . There is much in this volume which has our heartiest sympathy.—spectator, 1. 949. 6. Philochristus: Memoirs of a Disciple of the Lord, Lon., 1878, 8vo ; 2d ed., same year. Anon. Scholarship, capacity, and a freshness and fascination due to rare literary skill are visibly impressed upon these pages: the tone iselevatcd, and Ihere is preserved through- out a grave delicacy and rcfiiR-nient of feeling; yet the author delights in broad ]ian()ramic colouring:, and the nar- rative moves rapidly onward, with the vividness and animation of a drama. The work bears everywhere the self-attesting signature of an original and a richly gifted mind.. . . This study of the life of Christ has some advan- tages over the most noted handlings of the same subject which have preceded it. More Christian than that of Strauss, more readable than that of Neander. more earnest and genuinely reverential than that of Kenan, and more thorough-goiiig than that i f the author of Ecce Homo, it will reward a careful perusal by any one who is seriously interested in the subject. Its realization of the circum- stances of Christ's life is perhaps unequalled, its conception of Christ's spiritual character is sublime, but its logical and liistorical basis is feeble.—Spectator, li. 069. 7. Oxford Sermons : Preached before the Universit}', Lon., 1879, 8vo. 8. Onesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul, Lon., 1882, 8vo. Anon. Quite apart from the substructure of genuine scholar- ship upon which the story is built up, and which is wrought with an amount of skilful labour and a range of selection which will be hidden from all but the expert, the mere story itself is a fascinating piece of narration. . . . If the author had proposed no further object than to instruct and amuse the ordinary reader, he might claim to have succeeded. The pleasantness of the narrative, however, and the life-likeness of the individual portrai- ture, are mere accidents. The motive of the narrator is not literary, but doctrinal—or perhaps we should be more correct if we were to say that it is anti-doctrinal. The most obtrusive feature in'the story to the critical reader is its amazingly ingenuous anachronism. . . . The persons named in the Acts of the Apostles and St. Paul's Epistles are compelled to talk in the critical speech of Baur and Volkmar.—Sat. Rev., liii. 605. 9. Flatland : a Romance of Many Dimensions. By A. Square. Lon., 1884, 4to. Anon. He tells of his mysterious and painful initiation into the larger world of Three Dimensions. . . . Flatland is inhabited by a race whose shape is that of geometrical figures. The women are straight lines, the men vary from triangles in the lower orders to circles in the highest. . . . IMuch of it will be read with amusement, as satire, by those who do not appreciate its scientific bearing. . . . The assumption of the author is worked out with wonderful consistency, and his mathematics are thoroughly sound. —Spectator, Ivii. 1583. 10. Francis Bacon : an Account of his Life and Works, Lon., 1885, 8vo. Dr. Abbott's volume on Bacon maintains pretty much the same view of Bacon's career as Dean Church's more concise and also more elegant one. . . . One thing only will be wanting to this kind of teaching, but a vital one. It will not have the qualities of searching and serious criticism, the power of realizing the conditions of a society widely different from one's own.—Sat. Rev., lix. 761. If diligent study of all that Bacon wrote, combined with a general knowledge of the history of his times, had been sufficient to make a perfect biography. Dr. Abbott would have no one to question his claim to that title. Unfortunately, though his apparatus would have been complete if the subject of his biography had lived in the nineteenth century, and therefore in an atmosphere with which both author and reader are familiar, it is not enough when the subject of the biography has been dead for more than two hundred years. The author who would succeed under such conditions must be, not merely thoroughly, but instinctively, familiar with the problems of the age
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