JOHN

See also:

• COLIN, ALEXANDRE (1526-1612)

COLIN

See also:

• JOHN COLIN DUNLOP (1785-1842)

DUNLOP (1785-1842)  , Scottish man of letters, was born on the 30th of December 1785 . In 1816 he became sheriff of Renfrewshire, and retained this office until his death at Edinburgh, on the 26th of January (according to others, in February) 1842 . The work by which he is best known, and which will always hold an honourable place in English literature, is his History of Fiction (1814; new edition, 1888, with notes by H . Wilson, in Bohn's "Standard Library") . In spite of the somewhat contemptuous notices in Blackwood's Magazine (September 1824) and the Quarterly Review (July 1815), it may be pronounced the best book on the subject in English . F . Liebrecht, by whom it was translated into German (1851) with valuable notes, describes it as the only work of its kind . Dunlop was also the author of A History of Roman Literature (1823—1828), and of Memoirs of Spain during the Reigns of Philip IV. and Charles II . (1834) .