LORD MACAULAY (THOMAS BABINGTON).

1800-1859.

Barrister; Edinburgh Reviewer; M.P.; Member of the Supreme Council of India; Cabinet Minister; poet; essayist; historian; peer.

Milton (in the Edinburgh

Review,' 1825); Lays of William IV. as- 1830

Ancient Rome (1842); His-
tory of England-unfinished
(1849-59). "His pictorial
faculty is amazing."

cends the
throne, 1830.

The Reform Bill,
1832.

Total Abolition

of Slavery,
1834.

Poet; poet laureate; peer.

Poems (1830); In Memoriam
(1850); Maud (1855); Idylls
of the King (1859-73); Queen
Mary -a Drama (1875);
Becket -a Drama (1884).

Franco- Austrian
War, 1859.

He is at present our greatest Emancipation of 1860 living poet.

Russian serfs,
1861.

ELIZABETH B.
BARRETT

(afterwards

MRS BROWNINg).

1809-1861.

Poet; prose-writer; translator.

Prometheus Bound- trans-
lated from the Greek of
Eschylus (1833); Poems
(1844); Aurora Leigh
(1856); and Essays con-
tributed to various maga-
zines.

Austro-Prussian
"Seven Weeks'
War," 1866.

Suez Canal fin-
ished, 1869.

WRITERS.

WORKS.

CONTEMPORARY DE-
EVENTS.
CADES.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.

1811-1863.

Novelist; writer in 'Punch'; artist.

CHARLES DICKENS. 1812-1870.

Novelist.

Third French Re-
public, 1870.

The Paris Sketch-Book Franco-Prussian 1870
War 1870-71.
(1840); Vanity Fair (1847):
Esmond (1852); The New-
comes (1855); The Vir-
ginians (1857). The great-
est novelist and one of the
most perfect stylists of this
century. "The classical
English humorist and sat-
irist of the reign of Queen
Victoria."

Sketches by Boz (1836); The
Pickwick Papers (1837);
Oliver Twist (1838); Nicho-
las Nickleby (1838); and
many other novels and

William I. of

Prussia made
Emperor of the
Germans at Ver-
sailles, 1871.

works; Great Expectations Russo - Turkish
(1863). The most popular
writer that ever lived.

Derivations from names of persons, etc., | Labials, 5, 6.