POLLARD, ALFRED WILLIAM (1859).--Bibliographer, etc. _Books about Books_ (1893), _Bibliographica_ (1894-96), _Early Ill.u.s.trated Books_ (1893), _Italian Book Ill.u.s.trations_ (1894), etc.; and has ed. _English Miracle Plays_ (1890), Herrick, Chaucer (Globe ed.), etc.

POLLOCK, WALTER HERRIES (1850).--Poet and miscellaneous writer. _The Modern French Theatre_ (1878), _Verse, Old and New_, _Sealed Orders and other Poems_, _Lectures on French Poets_, _A Nine Men's Morrice_, _King Zub_, _Jane Austen, her Contemporaries and Herself_, etc.

POOLE, REGINALD LANE, Ph.D. (1857).--Historical writer. _History of the Huguenots of the Dispersion_ (1880), _Ill.u.s.trations of the History of Modern Thought_ (1884), _Wycliffe and Movements for Reform_ (1889), _Historical Atlas of Modern Europe_ (1897-1902), etc.

PRAED, MRS. ROSA CAROLINE MACKWORTH ("MRS. CAMPBELL PRAED") (1851).--Australian novelist. _Policy and Pa.s.sion_ (1881), _Nadine_ (1882), _The Head Station_ (1885), _Miss Jacobsen's Chance_ (1887), _December Roses_ (1893), _The Insane Root_, _The Luck of the Leura_ (1907), etc.

PREVOST, FRANCIS, (_see_ BATTERSBY).

PROTHERO, GEORGE WALTER, Litt.D., LL.D., etc. (1848).--Historian. _Life and Times of Simon de Montfort_ (1877), _Memoir of Henry Bradshaw_ (1889), ed. Voltaire's _Louis Quatorze_, _Select Statutes, etc., of Elizabeth and James I._, co-ed. of _Cambridge Modern History_, etc.

PROTHERO, ROWLAND EDMUND, M.V.O. (1852).--Biographer, etc. _Life and Correspondence of Dean Stanley_ (1893), ed. _Letters of Edward Gibbon_, _Letters and Journals of Lord Byron_, _The Psalms in Human Life_, etc.

QUILLER-COUCH, ARTHUR THOMAS ("Q") (1863).--Novelist. _Dead Man's Rock_ (1887), _Troy Town_ (1888), _The Splendid Spur_ (1889), _The Blue Pavilions_ (1891), _The Golden Pomp_ (1895), _The Ship of Stars_ (1899), _Shining Ferry_ (1905), finished R.L. Stevenson's _St. Ives_, etc.

"RAIMOND, C.E.," (_see_ ROBINS, ELIZABETH).

RALEIGH, WALTER (1861).--Biographer and critic. _The English Novel_ (1894), _Robert Louis Stevenson_ (1895), _Style_ (1897), books on Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, etc.

REEVES, MRS. H., (_see_ MATHERS, HELEN).

RHYS, ERNEST (1859).--Poet, novelist, etc. _A London Rose_ (verse), _The Fiddler of Carne_ (1896), _Welsh Ballads_ (1898), _The Whistling Maid_ (1900), _The Man at Odds_, _Gwenevere_ (play); has ed. the Camelot Series (1886-91), _Dekker's Plays_ in Mermaid Series, etc.

RHYS, MRS. GRACE (1865).--Novelist and essayist. _Mary Dominic_ (1898), _The Wooing of Sheila_ (1901), _The Bride_ (1909), _Five Beads on a String_ (essays) (1907), etc.

RHYS, SIR JOHN, D.Litt. (1840).--Celtic philologist. _Celtic Britain_ (1882), _Studies in the Arthurian Legend_ (1891), _Celtic Folklore_ (1901), etc.

RIDGE, WILLIAM PETT.--Novelist. _A Clever Wife_ (1895), _Mord Em'ly_ (1898), _A Son of the State_ (1899), _Erb_ (1903), _Mrs. Galer's Business_ (1905), _The Wickhamses_ (1906), _Name of Garland_ (1907), etc.

RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB (1858).--American poet and humorist. _The Old Swimmin' Hole_ (1883), _Pipes o' Pan at Zekesbury_ (1887), _Rhymes of Childhood_ (1889), _Old-fashioned Roses_ (1891), _Green Fields and Running Brooks_ (1893), _A Child World_ (1896), _While the Heart beats Young_ (1906), etc.

RITCHIE, MRS. ANNE ISABELLA (THACKERAY) (1837).--Novelist, etc. _The Story of Elizabeth_ (1863), _The Village on the Cliff_ (1865), _To Esther_ (1869), _Old Kensington_ (1873), _Blue Beard's Keys_ (1874), _Miss Angel_ (1875), _Mrs. Dymond_ (1885), etc.

ROBERTS, CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS (1860).--Canadian poet and naturalist. In verse, _Orion_ (1880), _In Divers Tones_ (1887), _Songs of the Common Day_ (1893), _New York Nocturnes_ (1898), _Book of the Rose_ (1903); prose, _The Raid from Beausejour_ (1894), _Around the Camp Fire_ (1896), _The Forge in the Forest_ (1897), _The Kindred of the Wild_ (1902), _Haunters of the Silences_ (1907), etc.

ROBERTSON, JOHN MACKINNON (1856).--Critic, etc. _Buckle and his Critics_, _Montaigne and Shakespeare_, _The Dynamics of Religion_, _History of Free Thought_, _Christianity and Mythology_, _Introduction to English Politics_, _Short History of Christianity_, _Essays in Ethics and Sociology_, etc.

ROBINS, ELIZABETH ("C.E. RAIMOND").--American novelist and actress. _New Moon_ (1895), _Below the Salt_ (1896), _The Open Question_ (1898), _The Convert_ (1907), etc.

ROBINSON, AGNES MARY FRANCES (MME. DUCLAUX) (1857).--Poetess. _A Handful of Honeysuckles_ (1878), _The Crowned Hippolytus_ (1881), _Arden_ (novel) (1883), _The New Arcadia_ (1884), _Italian Garden_ (songs) (1886), _A Mediaeval Garland_ (1897), _The Fields of France_ (1903), _The End of the Middle Ages_, books in French on Froissart, Renan, etc.

ROSE, JOHN HOLLAND, Litt.D. (1855).--Historical and biographical writer.

_A Century of Continental History_, _The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era_, _Napoleonic Studies_, _Life of Napoleon I._ (1902), _The Development of the European Nations_, 1870-1900 (1905), etc.

ROSEBERY (ARCHIBALD PHILIP PRIMROSE), 5TH EARL of, K.G., K.T., LL.D., etc. (1847).--Statesman and biographical writer. _Pitt_ (1891), _Appreciations and Addresses_ (1899), _Sir Robert Peel_ (1899), _Napoleon, the Last Phase_ (1900), and _Oliver Cromwell_ (1900).

ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL (1829).--Biographer, ed., etc. Translator of Dante's _h.e.l.l_ (1865), _Lives of Famous Poets_ (1878), _Life of Keats_ (1887), _Memoir of Dante G. Rossetti_, and has ed. many poets, etc.

RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844).--Novelist. _John Holdsworth_, _Chief Mate_ (1874), _A Sailor's Sweetheart_ (1877), _An Ocean Tragedy_ (1881), _The Convict Ship_ (1895), _List, ye Landsmen_ (1897), _Overdue_ (1903), _The Yarn of Old Harbour Town_ (1905), etc.

SAINTSBURY, GEORGE EDWARD BATEMAN, LL.D., D.Litt., etc. (1845).--Critic and biographer. _Short History of French Literature, etc._ (1882), _Essays in English Literature_ (1890), _Nineteenth Century Literature_ (1896), _A History of Criticism_ (1900-4), _History of English Prosody_, vol. i. (1906), etc., _Lives_ of Dryden (English Men of Letters) and Sir W. Scott, etc.

SANDYS, JOHN EDWIN, Litt.D. (1844).--Scholar; joint ed. of _Dictionary of Cla.s.sical Mythology, Religion, etc._ (1891), _History of Cla.s.sical Scholarship from Sixth Century_, B.C., _to the End of the Middle Ages_ (1903), _History of Cla.s.sical Scholarship from Revival of Learning to Present Day_ (1907), etc.; has produced many ed. of cla.s.sics.

SAYCE, ARCHIBALD HENRY, D.Litt., LL.D., etc. (1846).--Orientalist and philologist, etc. _Principles of Comparative Philology_ (1874), _Babylonian Literature_ (1877), _Monuments of the Hitt.i.tes_ (1881), _Ancient Empires of the East_ (1884), _Races of the Old Testament_ (1891), _Babylonians and a.s.syrians_ (1900), _Archaeology of Cuneiform Inscriptions_ (1907), etc.

SEAMAN, OWEN (1861).--Parodist, etc. _Oedipus and the Wreck_ (1888), _Horace at Cambridge_ (1894), _In Cap and Bells_ (1899), _A Harvest of Chaff_ (1904), etc. Ed. of _Punch_ since 1906.

SECCOMBE, THOMAS (1866).--Miscellaneous writer. _Twelve Bad Men_ (1894), _The Age of Johnson_ (1900), _The Age of Shakespeare_ (with J.W. Allen, 1903), _Bookman History of English Literature_ (1905-6), _In Praise of Oxford_, etc.; was a.s.sistant ed. of _The Dictionary of National Biography_.

SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON ("SETON THOMPSON") (1860).--Naturalist. _Wild Animals I have Known_ (1898), _Biography of a Grizzly_, _Two Little Savages_, books on natural history of Manitoba, etc.

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD (1856).--Novelist, critic, and dramatist. Novels, _The Irrational Knot_, _Cashel Byron's Profession_, etc.; _Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant_ (1898), _Three Plays for Puritans_ (1900), _Man and Superman_ (1903), _The Doctor's Dilemma_ (1906), _The Devil's Disciple_ (1907), etc.

SHIEL, MATTHEW PHIPPS (1865).--Novelist. _The Rajah's Sapphire_, _Shapes in the Fire_, _The Yellow Danger_, _Unto the Third Generation_, etc.