See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

CHARLES See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

JAMES See also:

• LEVER (through O. Fr. leveour, levere, mod. levier, from Lat. levare, to lift, raise)
• CHARLES JAMES LEVER (1806-1872)

LEVER (1806-1872)  , Irish novelist, second son of See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James See also:

• LEVER (through O. Fr. leveour, levere, mod. levier, from Lat. levare, to lift, raise)
• LEVER, CHARLES JAMES (1806-1872)

Lever, a See also:

• DUBLIN

Dublin architect and builder, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in the Irish See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital on the 31st of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1806 . His descent was purely See also:

• ENGLISH

English . He was educated in private See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools, where he wore a See also:

• RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra, wheel, circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a band of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f

ring, smoked, read novels, was a ringleader in every See also:

• BREACH (Mid. Eng. breche, derived from the common Teutonic root brec, which appears in " break," Ger. brechen, &c.)

breach of discipline, and behaved generally like a boy destined for the See also:

• NAVY

navy in one of See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain See also:

• MARRYAT, FREDERICK (1792-1848)

Marryat's novels . His escapades at Trinity See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, Dublin (1823-1828), whence he took the degree of M.B. in 1831, See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form the basis of that vast cellarage of See also:

• ANECDOTE (from av-, privative, and isSLSwµu, to give out or publish)

anecdote from which all the best vintages in his novels are derived . The inimitable See also:

• FRANK, JAKOB (1726-1791)

Frank Webber in See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles O'Malley (spiritual ancestor of Foker and Mr Bouncer) was a college friend, See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• BOYLE
• BOYLE, JOHN J
• BOYLE, ROBERT (1627-1691)

Boyle, later on an Irish See also:

• PARSON

parson . Lever and Boyle sang See also:

• BALLADS

ballads of their own composing in the streets of Dublin, after the manner of See also:

• FERGUSSON, JAMES (18o8-r886)
• FERGUSSON, ROBERT (1750-1774)
• FERGUSSON, SIR WILLIAM

Fergusson or See also:

• GOLDSMITH
• GOLDSMITH, LEWIS (c. 1763–1846)
• GOLDSMITH, OLIVER (1728–1774)

Goldsmith, filled their caps with coppers and played many other pranks embellished in the pages of O'Malley, See also:

• CON

Con Cregan and See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord Kilgobbin . Before seriously embarking upon the medical studies for which he was designed, Lever visited See also:

• CANADA

Canada as an unqualified surgeon on an emigrant See also:

• SHIP

ship, and has See also:

• DRAWN

drawn upon some of his experiences in Con Cregan, See also:

• ARTHUR (Fr. Arius)
• ARTHUR, CHESTER ALAN (1830 – 1886)

Arthur O'Leary and See also:

• ROLAND
• ROLAND, LEGEND OF

Roland See also:

• CASHEL

Cashel . Arrived in Canada he plunged into the backwoods, was affiliated to a tribe of See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians and had to See also:

• ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape at the See also:

• RISK

risk of his See also:

• LIFE

life, like his own Bagenal See also:

• DALY, AUGUSTIN (1838-1899)

Daly . Back in See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, he travelled in the See also:

• GUISE
• GUISE, HOUSE OF

guise of a student from See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen to See also:

• WEIMAR

Weimar (where he saw See also:

• GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON (1749-1832)

Goethe), thence to See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna; he loved the See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German student life with its See also:

• BEER

beer, its fighting and its fun, and several of his merry songs, such as " The See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

Pope he loved a merry life " (greatly envied by Titmarsh), are on Student-lied See also:

• MODELS

models . His medical degree admitted him to an See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment from the See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

Board of See also:

• HEALTH

Health in Co . See also:

• CLARE
• CLARE, JOHN (1793-1864)
• CLARE, JOHN FITZGIBBON, 1ST EARL OF (1749-1802)

Clare and then as dispensary See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor at See also:

• PORT

Port See also:

• STEWART, ALEXANDER TURNEY (1803-1876)
• STEWART, BALFOUR (1828-1887)
• STEWART, CHARLES (1778–1869)
• STEWART, DUGALD (1753-1828)
• STEWART, J
• STEWART, JOHN (1749—1822)
• STEWART, JULIUS L
• STEWART, SIR DONALD MARTIN (1824–19o0)
• STEWART, SIR HERBERT (1843—1885)
• STEWART, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1540—c. 1605)
• STEWART, STUART
• STEWART, WILLIAM (c. 1480-c. 1550)

Stewart, but the liveliness of his diversions as a See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country doctor seems to have prejudiced the authorities against him . In 1833 he married his first love, See also:

• CATHERINE
• CATHERINE, SAINT

Catherine See also:

• BAKER, HENRY (1698-1774)
• BAKER, SIR BENJAMIN (1840-1907)
• BAKER, SIR RICHARD (1568-1644/5)
• BAKER, SIR SAMUEL WHITE (1821-1893)
• BAKER, THOMAS (1656-1740)
• BAKER, VALENTINE [BAKER PASHA] (1827-1887)

Baker, and in See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1837, after varied experiences, he began See also:

• RUNNING

running The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer through the pages of the recently established Dublin University See also:

• MAGAZINE

Magazine .

During the previous seven years the popular See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste had declared strongly in favour of the service novel as exemplified by Frank Mildmay, Tom Cringle, The Subaltern, See also:

• CYRIL (376-444)
• CYRIL (827-869)
• CYRIL (c. 315–386)

Cyril See also:

• THORNTON, HENRY (1760—1815)
• THORNTON, ROBERT (1623-1678)
• THORNTON, WILLIAM THOMAS (1813-188o)

Thornton, Stories of See also:

• WATERLOO

Waterloo, See also:

• BEN (from Old Eng. bennan, within)

Ben See also:

• BRACE (through the Fr. from the plural of the Lat. bracchium, the arm)
• BRACE, CHARLES LORING (1826-189o)
• BRACE, JULIA (1806-1884)

Brace and The See also:

• BIVOUAC (a French word generally said to have been introduced during the Thirty Years' War, perhaps derived from Beiwacht, extra guard)

Bivouac; and Lever himself had met See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• HAMILTON
• HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
• HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
• HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
• HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
• HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
• HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
• HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
• HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
• HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
• HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
• HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
• HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
• HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
• HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
• HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
• HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)

Hamilton See also:

• MAXWELL
• MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK (1831–1879)

Maxwell, the titular founder of the genre . Before Harry Lorrequer appeared in See also:

• VOLUME

volume form (1839), Lever had settled on the strength of a slight See also:

• DIPLOMATIC

diplomatic connexion as a fashionable physician in See also:

• BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels (16, See also:

• RUE (Fr. rue, Lat. ruta, from Gr. pur)

Rue Ducale) . Lorrequer was merely a See also:

• STRING

string of Irish and other stories See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good, See also:

• BAD, BCD

bad and indifferent, but mostly rollicking, and Lever, who strung together his anecdotes See also:

• LATE

late at See also:

• NIGHT

night after the serious business of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day was done, was astonished at its success . " If this sort of thing amuses them, I can go on for ever." Brussels was indeed a superb See also:

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

place for the observation of See also:

• HALF

half-pay See also:

• OFFICERS

officers, such as See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

Major See also:

• MONSOON
• MONSOON (Arabic Mausim, season)

Monsoon (See also:

• COMMISSIONER

Commissioner See also:

• MEADE, GEORGE GORDON (1815—1872)
• MEADE, WILLIAM (1789-1862)

Meade), Captain Bubbleton and the like, who terrorized the tavernes of the place with their endless See also:

• PENINSULAR

peninsular stories, and of English society a little damaged, which it became the specialty of Lever to depict . He sketched with a See also:

• FREE

free See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand, wrote, as he lived, from hand to mouth, and the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief difficulty he experienced was that of getting rid of his characters who " hung about him like those tiresome See also:

• PEOPLE

people who never can make up their minds to bid you good night." Lever had never taken See also:

• PART

part in a See also:

• BATTLE

battle himself, but his next three hooks, Charles O'Malley (1841), See also:

• JACK

Jack See also:

• HINTON, JAMES (1822–1875)

Hinton and See also:

• TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

Tone See also:

• BURKE
• BURKE, ROBERT
• BURKE, SIR JOHN BERNARD (1814–1892)
• BURKE, WILLIAM (1792–1829)

Burke of Ours (1843), written under the See also:

• SPUR (A.S. spura, spora, related to spornan, spurnan, to kick, spurn; cf. M.H.G. sporn, mod. Ger. Sporn)

spur of the writer's chronic extravagance, contain some splendid military See also:

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

writing and some of the most animated battle-pieces on See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record . In pages of O'Malley and Tom Burke Lever anticipates not a few of the best effects of See also:

• MARBOT, JEAN BAPTISTE ANTOINE MARCELIN, BARON DE (1782-18J4)

Marbot, Thiebaut, See also:

• LEJEUNE, LOUIS FRANCOIS, BARON (1776-1848)

Lejeune, Griois, Seruzier, See also:

• BURGOYNE, JOHN (1722-1792)
• BURGOYNE, SIR JOHN FOX

Burgoyne and the like . His See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the See also:

• DOURO (Span. Duero, Port. Douro, anc. Durius)

Douro need hardly fear comparison, it has been said, with See also:

• NAPIER
• NAPIER, JOHN (1550-1617)
• NAPIER, SIR CHARLES (1786-1860)
• NAPIER, SIR CHARLES JAMES (1782-1853)
• NAPIER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS PATRICK (1785-1860)

Napier's . Condemned by the critics, Lever had completely won the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general reader from the See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

Iron See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

Duke himself downwards . L1 1842 he returned to Dublin to edit the Dublin University Magazine, and gathered See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round him a typical coterie of Irish wits (including one or two hornets) such as the O'See also:

• SULLIVAN, JOHN (1740–1795)
• SULLIVAN, SIR ARTHUR SEYMOUR (1842—1900)
• SULLIVAN, THOMAS BARRY (1824-1891)

Sullivan, See also:

• ARCHER, WILLIAM (1856— )

Archer See also:

• BUTLER
• BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
• BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
• BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
• BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
• BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
• BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
• BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
• BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
• BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
• BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
• BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
• BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)

Butler, W . See also:

• CARLETON, WILLIAM (1794-1869)

Carleton, See also:

• SIR

Sir William See also:

• WILDE, OSCAR

Wilde, See also:

• CANON

Canon Hayman, D . F . McCarthy, McGlashan, Dr See also:

• KENEALY, EDWARD VAUGHAN HYDE (1819–188o)

Kenealy and many others .

In See also:

• JUNE

June 1842 he welcomed at Templeogue, 4 M. See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south-See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west of Dublin, the author of the Snob Papers on his Irish tour (the See also:

• SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

Sketch See also:

• BOOK

Book was, later, dedicated to Lever) . See also:

• THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE (1811-1863)

Thackeray recognized the fund of Irish sadness beneath the See also:

• SURFACE

surface merriment . "The author's See also:

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

character is not See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour but sentiment . The See also:

• SPIRITS

spirits are mostly artificial, the fond is sadness, as appears to me to be that of most Irish writing and people." The Waterloo See also:

• EPISODE

episode in Vanity See also:

• FAIR

Fair was in part an outcome of the talk between the two novelists . But the " See also:

• GALWAY

Galway See also:

• PACE (through O. Fr. pas, from Lat. passus, step, properly the stretch of the leg in walking, from pandere, to stretch)
• PACE, RICHARD (c. 1482-1536)

pace," the display he found it necessary to maintain at Templeogue, the See also:

• STABLE

stable full of horses, the See also:

• CARDS, PLAYING

cards, the See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends to entertain, the quarrels to compose and the enormous rapidity with which he had to See also:

• COMPLETE

complete Tom Burke, The O'Donoghue and Arthur O'Leary (1845), made his native See also:

• LAND

land an impossible place for Lever to continue in . Templeogue would soon have proved another See also:

• ABBOTSFORD

Abbotsford . Thackeray suggested See also:

• LONDON

London . But Lever required a new See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field of See also:

• LITERARY

literary observation and anecdote . His she See also:

• ORIGINAL

original was exhausted and he decided to renew it on the See also:

• CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent . In 1845 he resigned his editorship and went back to Brussels, whence he started upon an unlimited tour of central Europe in a See also:

• FAMILY

family See also:

• COACH (through the Fr. coche, originally from the Magyar kocsi, an adjective from the Hungarian place named Kocs, between Raab and Buda, i.e. the sort of vehicle used there in the 15th century)

coach . Now and again he halted for a few months, and entertained to the limit of his resources in some ducal See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle or other which he hired for an off See also:

• SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season . Thus at Riedenburg, near See also:

• BREGENZ (anc. Brigantium)

Bregenz, in August 1846, he entertained Charles See also:

• DICKENS, CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM (1812-187o)

Dickens and his wife and other well-known people .

Like his own Daltons or See also:

• DODD, WILLIAM (1729-1977)

Dodd Family Abroad he travelled continentally, from Carlsruhe to See also:

• COMO (anc. Comum)
• COMO, LAKE OF (the Lacus Larius of the Romans, and so sometimes called LARIO to the present day, though in the 4th century it is already termed Lacus Comacinus)

Como, from Como to See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence, from Florence to the See also:

• BATHS

Baths of See also:

• LUCCA (anc. Luca)
• LUCCA, BAGNI DI (Baths of Lucca, formerly Bagno a Corsena)

Lucca and so on, and his letters See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home are the See also:

• LITANY

litany of the literary remittance See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, his ambition now limited to See also:

• DRIVING (from " to drive," i.e. generally to propel, force along or in, a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages)

driving a pair of novels abreast without a diminution of his See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard See also:

• PRICE
• PRICE, BARTHOLOMEW (1818–1898)
• PRICE, BONAMY (1807-1888)
• PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791)

price for serial See also:

• WORK

work (" twenty pounds a See also:

• SHEET

sheet "), In the See also:

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

Knight of Gwynne, a See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story of the See also:

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

Union (1847), ConCregan (184o), Roland Cashel (185o) and See also:

• MAURICE (1521–1553)
• MAURICE (MAURICIUS FLAVIUS TIBERIUS) (c. 539–602)
• MAURICE [or MAURITIUS], ST (d. c. 286)
• MAURICE, JOHN FREDERICK DENISON (1805-1872)

Maurice Tiernay (1852) we still have traces of his old manner; but he was beginning to lose his original joy in See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition . His fond of sadness began to See also:

• CLOUD (from the same root, if not the same word, as " clod," a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages for a mass or lump; it is first applied in the usual sense in the late 13th century; the Anglo-Saxon chid is only used in the sense of " a ma

cloud the See also:

• ANIMAL
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

animal joyousness of his temperament . Formerly he had written for the happy See also:

• WORLD

world which is 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 and See also:

• CURLY, JEAN NICOLAS (1774-1827)

curly and merry; now he See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew See also:

• FAT (O.E. fdett; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vet, Ger. Fett, &c., and may be ultimately related to Greek Irian, and =apos, and Sanskrit pivan)

fat and bald and See also:

• GRAVE

grave . " After 38 or so what has life to offer but one universal declension . Let the See also:

• CREW (sometimes explained as a sea term of Scandinavian origin, cf. O. Icel. kris, a swarm or crowd, but now regarded as a shortened form of accrue, accrewe, used in the 16th century in the sense of a reinforcement, O. Fr. acreue, from accrofire, to grow,
• CREW, NATHANIEL CREW, 3RD BARON (1633–1721)

crew See also:

• PUMP

pump as hard as they like, the leak gains every See also:

• HOUR

hour." But, depressed in spirit as he was, his wit was unextinguished; he was still the delight of the salons with his stories, and in 1867, after a few years' experience of a similar See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind at See also:

• SPEZIA

Spezia, he was cheered by a See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter from Lord See also:

• DERBY
• DERBY, EARLS OF

Derby offering him the more lucrative consulship of See also:

• TRIESTE (Ger. Triest; Slay. Trst; the Roman Tergeste, q.v.)

Trieste . " Here is six See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred a See also:

• YEAR

year for doing nothing, and you are just the man to do it." The six hundred could not atone to Lever for the lassitude of prolonged See also:

• EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

exile . Trieste, at first " all that I could See also:

• DESIRE

desire," became with characteristic abruptness " detestable and damnable." " Nothing to eat, nothing to drink, no one to speak to." " Of all the dreary places it has been my See also:

• LOT
• LOT (Lat. Oltis)

lot to sojourn in this is the worst " (some references to Trieste will be found in That Boy of Norcott'.s, 1869) . He could never be alone and was almost morbidly dependent upon literary encouragement . Fortunately, like See also:

• SCOTT, ALEXANDER (fl. 1550)
• SCOTT, DAVID (18o6-1849)
• SCOTT, MICHAEL (1789-1835)
• SCOTT, ROBERT (1811-1887)
• SCOTT, SIR GEORGE GILBERT (1811-1878)
• SCOTT, SIR WALTER, BART
• SCOTT, WILLIAM BELL (1811-1890)
• SCOTT, WINFIELD (1786-1866)

Scott, he had unscrupulous friends who assured him that his last efforts were his best . They include The Fortunes of Glencore (1859), Tony Butler (1865), See also:

• LUTTRELL, HENRY (c. 1765–1851)

Luttrell of See also:

• ARRAN
• ARRAN, EARLS OF

Arran (1865), Sir See also:

• BROOKE, FRANCES (1724-1789)
• BROOKE, FULKE OREVILLE, 1ST BARON (1554-1628)
• BROOKE, HENRY (c. 1703-1783)
• BROOKE, SIR JAMES (1803-1868)
• BROOKE, STOPFORD AUGUSTUS (1832– )

Brooke Fosbrooke (i866), Lord Kilgobbin (1872) and the table-talk of See also:

• CORNELIUS
• CORNELIUS, CARL AUGUST PETER (1824-1874)
• CORNELIUS, PETER VON (1784–1867)

Cornelius O'Dowd, originally contributed to See also:

• BLACKWOOD, WILLIAM (1776-1834)

Blackwood . His depression, partly due to incipient See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

heart disease, partly to the growing conviction that he was the victim of literary and See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical See also:

• CONSPIRACY (from Lat. conspirare, literally to breathe together, to agree, combine, and especially to form a secret plot)

conspiracy, was confirmed by the See also:

• DEATH

death of his wife (23rd See also:

• APRIL

April 18.70), to whom he was tenderly attached . He visited See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland in the following year and seemed alternately in very high and very See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low, spirits .

Death had already given him one or two runaway knocks, and, after his return to Trieste, he failed gradually, dying suddenly, however, and almost painlessly, from failure of the heart's See also:

• ACTION

action on the 1st of June 1872 . His daughters, one of whom, See also:

• SYDNEY

Sydney, is believed to have been the real author of The See also:

• RENT

Rent in a Cloud (1869), were well provided for . See also:

• TROLLOPE, ANTHONY (181 1882)

Trollope praised Lever's novels highly when he said that they were just like his conversation . He was a born raconteur, and had in perfection that easy flow of See also:

• LIGHT

light description which without tedium or See also:

• HURRY (or URRV), SIR JOHN (d. 165o)

hurry leads up to the point of the good stories of which in earlier days his See also:

• SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply seemed inexhaustible . With little respect for unity of action or conventional novel structure, his brightest books, such as Lorrequer, O'Malley and Tom Burke, are in fact little more than recitals of scenes in the life of a particular " See also:

• HERO (Gr. open)
• HERO, THE YOUNGER

hero," unconnected by any continuous intrigue . The type of character he depicted is for the most part elementary . His See also:

• WOMEN

women are mostly rouges, romps or Xanthippes; his heroes have too much of the See also:

• PICKLE

Pickle See also:

• TEMPER (from Lat. temperare, to mingle or compound in due proportion, to qualify, rule, regulate, to be moderate, formed from tempos, time, fit or due season)

temper about them and fall an easy See also:

• PREY (0. Fr. preie, mod. proie, Lat. praeda, booty, from prae and the root hed—seen in prehendere, prendere, to grasp)

prey to the serious attacks of See also:

• POE, EDGAR ALLAN (18og-1849)

Poe or to the more playful gibes of Thackeray in Phil Fogarty or Bret See also:

• HARTE, FRANCIS BRET (1839–1902)

Harte in See also:

• TERENCE

Terence Denville . This last is a perfect See also:

• BIT (from the verb " to bite," either in the sense of a piece bitten off, or an act of biting, or a thing that bites or is bitten)

bit of See also:

• BURLESQUE (Ital. burlesco, from burla, a joke, fun, playful trick)

burlesque . Terence exchanges nineteen shots with the Hon . Captain See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry See also:

• SOMERSET, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• SOMERSET, EDMUND BEAUFORT, DUKE OF (c. 1404–1455)
• SOMERSET, EDWARD SEYMOUR, DUKE OF (c. 1506–1552)
• SOMERSET, LORD ROBERT EDWARD HENRY (1776-1842)
• SOMERSET, ROBERT CARR (or KER), EARL OF (e. 1590-1645)

Somerset in the glen . " At each See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire I shot away a See also:

• BUTTON (Fr. bouton, O. Fr. boton, apparently from the same root as bouter, to push)

button from his See also:

• UNIFORM

uniform . As my last See also:

• BULLET (Fr. boulet, diminutive of boule, ball)

bullet shot off the last button from his See also:

• SLEEVE (O. Eng. slieve, slyf, a word allied to " slip," cf. Dutch sloof, apron)

sleeve, I remarked quietly, ` You seem now, my lord, to be almost as ragged as the gentry you sneered at,' and rode haughtily away." And yet these careless sketches contain such haunting creations as Frank Webber, Major Monsoon and Micky Free, " the Sam Weller of Ireland." Falstaff is alone in the literature of the world; but if ever there came a later Falstaff, Monsoon was the man .

As for Baby See also:

• BLAKE, EDWARD (1833– )
• BLAKE, ROBERT (1599-1657)
• BLAKE, WILLIAM (1757-1827)

Blake, is she not an Irish Di See also:

• VERNON
• VERNON, EDWARD (1684-1757)

Vernon ? The critics may praise Lever's thoughtful and careful later novels as they will, but Charles O'Malley will always be the See also:

• PATTERN

pattern of a military See also:

• ROMANCE

romance . See also:

• SUPERIOR

Superior, it is sometimes claimed, in construction and See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style, the later books approximate it may be thought to the good See also:

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

ordinary novel of See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce, but they lack the extraordinary qualities, the incommunicable " go " of the See also:

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

early books—the elan of Lever's untamed youth . Artless and almost formless these productions may be, but they represent to us, as very few other books can, that pathetic ejaculation of Lever's own—" Give us back the See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild freshness of the See also:

• MORNING

morning!" We know the novelist's teachers, Maxwell, Napier, the old-fashioned compilation known as Victoires, con quotes et desastres See also:

• DES

des See also:

• FRANCAIS, ANTOINE, COUNT (1756-1836)

Francais (1835), and the old buffers at Brussels who emptied the See also:

• ROOM

room by uttering the word " Badajos." ,But where else shall we find the equals of the military scenes in O'Malley and Toni Burke, or the military episodes in Jack Hinton, Arthur O'Leary (the story of Aubuisson) or Maurice Tiernay (nothing he ever did is finer than the See also:

• CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter introducing " A remnant of See also:

• FONTENOY

Fontenoy ") .? It is here that his true See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius lies, even more than in his See also:

• TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent for conviviality and fun, which makes an early copy of an early Lever (with Phiz's illustrations) seem literally to exhale an See also:

• ATMOSPHERE (Gr. fir µ6r, vapour; orkaipa, a sphere)

atmosphere of past and See also:

• PRESENT

present entertainment . It is here that he is a true romancist, not for boys only, but also for men . Lever's lack of artistry and of sympathy with the deeper traits of the Irish character have been stumbling-blocks to his reputation among the critics . Except to some extent in The Martins of Cro'See also:

• MARTIN (Martinus)
• MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
• MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
• MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
• MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
• MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
• MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
• MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
• MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
• MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
• MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)

Martin (1856) it may be admitted that his portraits of Irish are drawn too exclusively from the type: depicted in Sir See also:

• JONAH
• JONAH, RABBI (ABULWALID MERWAN IBN JANAH, also R. MARINUS) (c. 996-c. 1050)

Jonah See also:

• BARRINGTON, DAINES (1727-1800)
• BARRINGTON, GEORGE (b. 1755)
• BARRINGTON, JOHN SHUTE, 1ST V1SCOUNT (1678-1734)
• BARRINGTON, SAMUEL (1729-1800)
• BARRINGTON, SHUTE (1734-1826)
• BARRINGTON, WILLIAM WILDMAN SHUTE, 2ND VISCOUNT (1717-1793)

Barrington's See also:

• MEMOIRS

Memoirs and already well known on the English See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage . He certainly had no deliberate intention of " lowering the See also:

• NATIONAL

national character." Quite the See also:

• REVERSE

reverse . Yet his See also:

• POSTHUMOUS

posthumous reputation seems to have suffered in consequence, in spite of all his Gallic sympathies and not unsuccessful endeavours to apotheosize the " Irish See also:

• BRIGADE (Fr. and Ger. brigade, Ital. brigata, Span. brigada; the English use of the word dates from the early 17th century)

Brigade." The chief authorities are the Life, by W . J . Fitzpatrick (1879), and the Letters, ed. in 2 vols. by See also:

• EDMUND
• EDMUND, or EADMUND (c. 980-1016)
• EDMUND, SAINT [EDMUND RICE] (d. 1240)

Edmund Downey (1906), neither of which, however, enables the reader to penetrate below the surface .

See also Dr See also:

• GARNETT, RICHARD (1835–1906)

Garnett in Did . Nat . Biog.; Dublin Univ . Meg . (188o), 465 and 570; See also:

• ANTHONY, SAINT
• ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL (1820-1906)

Anthony Trollope's Autobiography; Blackwood (August 1862) ; Fortnightly See also:

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

Review, vol. xxxii.; See also:

• ANDREW (Gr. 'AvBp4as, manly)
• ANDREW, JOHN ALBION (1818-1867)

Andrew See also:

• LANG, ANDREW (1844— )
• LANG, KARL HEINRICH, RITTER VON (1764-1835)

Lang's Essays in Little (1892) ; See also:

• HENLEY, JOHN (1692-1759)
• HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST (1849-1903)

Henley's Views and Reviews; See also:

• HUGH
• HUGH, ST

Hugh See also:

• WALKER, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-1897)
• WALKER, FREDERICK (184o--1875)
• WALKER, GEORGE (c. 1618-169o)
• WALKER, HENRY OLIVER (1843— )
• WALKER, HORATIO (1858– )
• WALKER, JOHN (1732—1807)
• WALKER, OBADIAH (1616-1699)
• WALKER, ROBERT (d. c. 1658)
• WALKER, ROBERT JAMES (1801-1869)
• WALKER, SEARS COOK (1805—1853)
• WALKER, THOMAS (1784—1836)
• WALKER, WILLIAM (1824-1860)

Walker's Literature of the Victorian Era (1910); The Bookman Hist. of English Literature (1906), p . 467; Bookman (June 1906; portraits) . A library edition of the novels in 37 vols. appeared 1897–1899 under the superintendence of Lever's daughter, Julie Kate See also:

• NEVILLE, GEORGE (c. 1432-1476)
• NEVILLE, or NEVILL
• NEVILLE, RALPH (d. 1244)

Neville . (T .