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Title: The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ...
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: New York : The Fifth avenue library society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e Royal College of Mauri-tius. This position he resigned on account of ill-health, and returned to England. His first work,Studies m Early French Poetry, was produced in1868. Since that time he has been an industriouswriter. In 1873 he brought out The French Hu-morists, and in 1877 Rabelais, for the Ancient andForeign Classics. He was one of the editors of theNew Plutarch Series, ior which, in 1879, he broughtout Coligny, and in 1881 Whittington. For manyyears Mr. Bcsant was the Secretary of the Pal-estine Exploration Fund. In 1871 he wrote, inconjunction with Professor Palmer, a History ofJerusalem. He edited The Survey of AncientPalestine. Fie was also a frequent contributor toperiodical literature. In 1871 he and the late Mr.James Rice entered into a literary partnershipand produced a series of novels bearing theirjoint name. They also put upon the stage twoplays. Ready Money Mortiboy, and Such a GoodMa7i. Among the works produced under hisown name are: The Revolt of Man, All Sorts
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WALTER I1S8ANT. WALTER BESANT 209 and Conditions of Men, Let Nothing You Dis-may, The Humbling of the Memblings, All in aGarden Fair, Uncle Jack, Dorothy Forster, In Luckat Last, T/te Captain s Room, The Children of Gib-eon, Armor el of Lyonesse, For Faith and Freedom,The Ivory Gate, By Celids Arbor, Golden Butterfly,Biography of Captain Cook, Biography of Sir Ricluard, and Fifty Years Ago. THE FOREST OF HAINAULT. It is not a very great forest; beside Fontainebleau andthe forests of Eu, or Chantilly, or the New Forest, orthe Forest of Dean, it is small, but it is real forest,it is wild. An active lad would soon cover the wholeground. But then a forest is not a park, nor is it afield ; there are endless things to explore in it; there arecreatures—wild creatures—which may be started in theunderwood ; among them are the tame cats who havegrown wild and now pass precarious lives in great dis-comfort ; in the spring and summer the air is musicalwith birds of which these children knew e

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