See also:

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

ARTHUR See also:

• MELVILLE, ANDREW (1545-1622)
• ARTHUR MELVILLE (1858-1904)
• MELVILLE, JAMES (1556-1614)
• MELVILLE, SIR JAMES (1535-1617)

MELVILLE (1858-1904)  , See also:

• BRITISH

British painter, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born and detained, without hardship, four months; was rescued by in See also:

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

Scotland, in a See also:

• VILLAGE

village of See also:

• HADDINGTONSHIRE, or EAST LOTHIAN

Haddingtonshire . He took up paint- 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 of an Australian See also:

• VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel, which he joined, and two years See also:

• ING

ing at an See also:

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

early See also:

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

age, and though he attended a See also:

• NIGHT

night-school and later reached New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York . Thereafter, with the exception of a studied afterwards in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris and Grez, he learnt more from passenger voyage around the See also:

• WORLD

world in 186o, See also:

• MELVILLE, ANDREW (1545-1622)
• MELVILLE, ARTHUR (1858-1904)
• MELVILLE, JAMES (1556-1614)
• MELVILLE, SIR JAMES (1535-1617)

Melville remained practice and See also:

• PERSONAL

personal observation than from school training. in the See also:

• UNITED

United States, devoting himself to literature—though for a The remarkable See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour-sense which is so notable a feature of his considerable See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period (1866–1885) he held a See also:

• POST

post in the New York See also:

• WORK

work, whether in See also:

• OILS (adopted from the Fr. oile, mod. huile, Lat. oleum, olive oil)

oils or in See also:

• WATER

water-colour, came to him during his See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom-See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house—and being perhaps See also:

• HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL (1804-1864)

Hawthorne's most intimate friend among the See also:

• LITERARY

literary men of See also:

• AMERICA

America . His writings are numerous, and of varying merit; his 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, patriotic and other, is forgotten; and his See also:

• WORKS

works of fiction and of travel are of irregular See also:

• EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution . Nevertheless, few authors have been enabled so freely to introduce romantic personal experiences into their books: in his first work, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian See also:

• LIFE

Life, or Four Months' See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

Residence in a Valley of the See also:

• MARQUESAS

Marquesas (1846), he described his 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 from the cannibals; while in Omoo, a Narrative of Adventures in the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South Seas (1847), See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

White Jacket, or The World in a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

Man-of-See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War (185o), and especially Moby See also:

• DICK, ROBERT
• DICK, THOMAS (1774-1857)

Dick, or The See also:

• WHALE

Whale (1851), he portrayed seafaring life and See also:

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

character with vigour and originality, and from a personal knowledge equal to that of See also:

• COOPER
• COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
• COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
• COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
• COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
• COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
• COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
• COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
• COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
• COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
• COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
• COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)

Cooper, See also:

• MARRYAT, FREDERICK (1792-1848)

Marryat or See also:

• CLARK, FRANCIS EDWARD (1851- )
• CLARK, GEORGE ROGERS (1752—1818)
• CLARK, JOHN BATES (1847— )
• CLARK, JOSIAH LATIMER (1822—1898)
• CLARK, SIR ANDREW
• CLARK, SIR JAMES (1788—1870)
• CLARK, THOMAS (1801—1867)
• CLARK, WILLIAM (1770-1838)
• CLARK, WILLIAM GEORGE (1821—1878)

Clark See also:

• RUSSELL (FAMILY)
• RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
• RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
• RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
• RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
• RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
• RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
• RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
• RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
• RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )

Russell . But these records of See also:

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

adventure were followed by other tales so turgid, See also:

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

eccentric, opinionative, and loosely written as to seem the work of another author . Melville was the product of a period in See also:

• AMERICAN

American literature when the fiction written by writers below See also:

• IRVING, EDWARD (1792-1834)
• IRVING, SIR HENRY (1838-1905)
• IRVING, WASHINGTON (1783-18J9)

Irving, See also:

• POE, EDGAR ALLAN (18og-1849)

Poe and Hawthorne was measured by humble See also:

• ARTISTIC

artistic See also:

• STANDARDS

standards . He died in New York on the 28th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1891 .