See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

JOHN See also:

• DAVIDSON, ANDREW BRUCE (1831–1902)
• JOHN DAVIDSON (1857–1909)
• DAVIDSON, RANDALL THOMAS (1848– )
• DAVIDSON, SAMUEL (1807-1898)
• DAVIDSON, THOMAS (1817-1885)

DAVIDSON (1857–1909)  , See also:

• BRITISH

British poet, playwright and novelist, son of the Rev . See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander See also:

• DAVIDSON, ANDREW BRUCE (1831–1902)
• DAVIDSON, JOHN (1857–1909)
• DAVIDSON, RANDALL THOMAS (1848– )
• DAVIDSON, SAMUEL (1807-1898)
• DAVIDSON, THOMAS (1817-1885)

Davidson, a See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of the Evangelical See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

Union, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BARRHEAD

Barrhead, See also:

• RENFREWSHIRE

Renfrewshire, See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland, on the 11th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1857 . After a schooling at the Highlanders' See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, See also:

• GREENOCK

Greenock, at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of thirteen he was set to See also:

• WORK

work in that See also:

• TOWN

town, by helping in a See also:

• SUGAR

sugar factory laboratory and then in the town See also:

• ANALYST

analyst's See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office; and at fifteen he went back to his old school as a See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil-teacher . In 1876 he studied for a session at See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh University, and then went as a See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master to various Scotch See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools till 1890, varying his experiences in 1884 by being a clerk in a See also:

• GLASGOW

Glasgow See also:

• THREAD (0. Eng. praed, literally, that which is twisted, prawan, to twist, to throw, cf. " throwster," a silk-winder, Ger. drehen, to twist, turn, Du. draad, Ger. Draht, thread, wire)

thread See also:

• FIRM

firm . He had married in 1885, and meanwhile his See also:

• LITERARY

literary inclinations had shown themselves, without attracting any public success, in the publication of his poetical and fantastic plays, See also:

• BRUCE
• BRUCE, ALEXANDER BALMAIN (1831-1899)
• BRUCE, JAMES (1930-1794)
• BRUCE, MICHAEL (1746-1767)

Bruce (1886), See also:

• SMITH
• SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
• SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
• SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
• SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
• SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
• SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
• SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
• SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
• SMITH, G
• SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
• SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
• SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
• SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
• SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
• SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
• SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
• SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
• SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
• SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
• SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
• SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
• SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
• SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
• SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
• SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
• SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
• SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
• SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
• SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
• SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)

Smith; a tragic See also:

• FARCE

farce (1888) and See also:

• SCARAMOUCH

Scaramouch in See also:

• NAXOS

Naxos (1889) . Determining at all See also:

• COSTS

costs to follow his literary vocation, he went to See also:

• LONDON

London in 18go, but at first had a hard struggle . There his See also:

• PROSE

prose-See also:

• ROMANCE

romance Perfervid (1890) was published, one of the most See also:

• ORIGINAL

original and fascinating stories of "See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young See also:

• BLOOD

blood " and See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child See also:

• ADVENTURE (from Lat. res adventura, a thing about to happen)

adventure ever written, but for some See also:

• REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason it did not catch the public; and a sort of sequel in The See also:

• GREAT

Great Men (1891) met no better See also:

• FATE

fate . He contributed, however, to See also:

• NEWSPAPERS

newspapers and became known among literary journalists, and his See also:

• VOLUME

volume of See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse In a See also:

• MUSIC

Music-See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

Hall (1891) prepared the way for the genuine success two years later of his See also:

• FLEET

Fleet See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

Street Eclogues (1893), which sounded a new and vigorous See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note and at once established his position among the younger See also:

• GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race)

generation of poets . He subsequently produced several more books in prose, romantic stories like Baptist See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

Lake (1894) and See also:

• EARL

Earl See also:

• LAVENDER

Lavender (1895), and an admirable piece of descriptive landscape See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing in A See also:

• RANDOM (older forms randon, randrun; from the French, cf. randir, to run quickly, impetuously; generally taken to be of Teutonic origin and connected with Ger. Rand, edge, brim, the idea being possibly of a brimming river)

Random Itinerary (1894) ; but his See also:

• ACCEPTANCE (Lat. acceptare, frequentative form of accipere, to receive)

acceptance as a poet gave a more emphatic impulse to his work in verse, and most See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention was given to the increasing See also:

• PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof of his See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers shown in his See also:

• BALLADS

Ballads and Songs (1894), Second See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

Series of Fleet Street Eclogues (1895), New Ballads, (1896), The Last Ballad, &.c.( 898) , all full of remarkably fresh and unconventional beauty . In spite of the strangely neglected See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius of this See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early Perfervid, it is accordingly as a writer of verse rather than of prose-fiction that he occupies a leading See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, with a decided See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of his own, in See also:

• RECENT

recent See also:

• ENGLISH

English literature, his revival of a modernized ballad See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form being a considerable achievement in itself, and his poems being packed with See also:

• FINE

fine thought, robust and masterful in expression and imagery . Meanwhile in 1896 he produced an English verse See also:

• ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation, in For the See also:

• CROWN

Crown (acted by See also:

• FORBES
• FORBES, ALEXANDER PENROSE (1817-1875)
• FORBES, ARCHIBALD (1838-1900)
• FORBES, DAVID (1828--1876)
• FORBES, DUNCAN
• FORBES, EDWARD (1815—1854)
• FORBES, JAMES DAVID (1809—1868)
• FORBES, SIR JOHN (1787—1861)

Forbes See also:

• ROBERTSON, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1816-1853)
• ROBERTSON, GEORGE CROOM (1842-1892)
• ROBERTSON, JOSEPH (1810-1866)
• ROBERTSON, THOMAS WILLIAM (1829-1871)
• ROBERTSON, WILLIAM BRUCE (182o-1886)

Robertson and Mrs See also:

• PATRICK, SIMON (1626–1707)
• PATRICK, ST

Patrick See also:

• CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
• CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
• CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
• CAMPBELL, JOHN
• CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
• CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
• CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
• CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
• CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
• CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)

Campbell), of See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

Francois See also:

• COPPEE, FRANCOIS EDOUARD JOACHIM (1842—1908)
• COPPEE, HENRY (1821-1895)

Coppee's See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama Pour la couronne, which had considerable success and was revived in 1905; and he wrote several other literary plays, remarkable none the less for dramatic qualities ,Godfrida (1898), Self's the See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

Man (1901), The See also:

• KNIGHT, CHARLES (1791-1873)
• KNIGHT, DANIEL RIDGWAY (1845– )
• KNIGHT, JOHN BUXTON (1843–1908)

Knight of the Maypole (1902) and The Theatrocrat (1905), in the last of which a tendency to be extra-See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary is rather too See also:

• MANIFEST (Lat. manifestus, clear, open to view)

manifest . This tendency was not absent from his volume of See also:

• HOLIDAY

Holiday and Other Poems (1906), containing many fine things, together with an " See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay on See also:

• BLANK (from the Fr. blanc, white)

blank verse" illustrated from his own compositions, the outspoken criticisms of a writer of admitted originality and insight, but not devoid of See also:

• ECCENTRIC (from Gr. F,c, out of, and Kivrpov, centre)

eccentric volubility .

But if the See also:

• IDENTIFICATION (Lat. idem, the same)

identification of "eccentricity" and " greatness " by Cosmo See also:

• MORTIMER (Family)

Mortimer in Mr Davidson's own Perfervid sometimes obtrudes itself on the memory in considering his more peculiarly " robust " and somewhat volcanic deliverances, no such objection can detract from the genuine See also:

• INSPIRATION (Lat. inspirare, breathe upon or into)

inspiration of his best work, in which the true poetic afflatus is unmistakable . This is to be found in his poems published from 1893 to 1898, five years during which his reputation steadily and deservedly See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew,—the Fleet Street Eclogues, with their passionate See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism of See also:

• LIFE

life combined with their breath of rural beauty, and such intense ballads as those " Of a See also:

• NUN (O. Eng. nunne, from Lat. nonnus, nonna, familiar terms for an old man or woman)

Nun," and " Of See also:

• HEAVEN (0. Eng. hefen, heofon, heofone; this word appears in O.S. hevan; the High. Ger. word appears in Ger. Himmel, Dutch hemel; there does not seem to be any connexion between the two words, and the ultimate derivation of the word is unknown; the sugges

Heaven and See also:

• HELL (0. Eng. hel, a Teutonic word from a root meaning " to cover," cf. Ger. Holle, Dutch hel)

Hell." In his ethical and didactic utterances, The Testament of a Vivisector and The Testament of a Man Forbid (1901), The Testament of an See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire Builder (1902), See also:

• MAMMON

Mammon and his See also:

• MESSAGE (a word occurring in slightly different forms in several languages, e.g. Fr. message, Span. mensaje, Ital. messagio; adapted from the Low Lat. missaticum, from mittere)

Message (1908), &c., the fine quality of the verse is wedded with a certain fervid satirical journalism of subject, less admirable than the detachment of thought in the earlier volumes . In later years he lived at See also:

• PENZANCE

Penzance, provided with a small See also:

• CIVIL

Civil See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

List See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension, but otherwise badly off, for his writings brought in very little See also:

• MONEY

money . On See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 23rd, 1909, he disappeared, in circumstances pointing to See also:

• SUICIDE (from Lat. sui, of oneself, and cidium, from cued ere, to kill)

suicide, and six months later his See also:

• BODY

body was found in the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea . See an See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article by Filson Young on " The New See also:

• POETRY

Poetry," in the Fortnightly See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review, See also:

• JANUARY

January 1909 .