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and repub. in his Essays, 1856, 140; Gilfillan's Third Gallery of Lit. Portraits.

17. The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family; Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq.; with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Richard Doyle, Lon., Svo, in monthly Parts, i., Oct. 1, 1853-xxiii., xxiv., July 31, 1855: together, (vol. i., 1854, 8vo,) in 2 vols. 8vo, Aug. 8, 1855; N. York, 1855, 2 vols. 8vo; Leipzig, 1854, 4 vols. 12mo; without illustrations, Lon., Dec. 1859, cr. 8vo.

"Mr. Thackeray's fourth novel, now complete, furnishes little new matter for the critic. His one view of life and manners, his habitual mode of balancing good and evil, are not consistent with the variety expected from a fertile and popular novelist." -Lon. Athen., 1855, 895. See, also, 1853, 1158.

"This is Mr. Thackeray's master-piece, as it is undoubtedly one of the master-pieces of English fiction, if fiction is the proper term to apply to the most minute and faithful transcript of actual life which is anywhere to be found."-Lon. Quar. Rer., July, 1855, (xcvii.,) art. iii.

"This is by far the best of Thackeray's stories."-A. P. PEABODY, D.D.: N. Amer. Rev., Jan. 1856, (lxxxii.) 284.

See, also, Putnam's Mon. Mag., Sept. 1855, 283.

18. The Rose and the Ring; or, The History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo: a Fireside Pantomime for Great and Small Children, by Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, (Christmas Book: with 58 cuts by the author,) Dec. 9, 1854, sq. 12mo, 58.; 2d ed., Dec. 23, 1854; N. York, 1854, sm. 4to; 3d ed., Lon., Jan. 1855, sq. 12mo; 4th ed., 1866, sq. 16mo, 58.; col'd, 78. 6d.

"A most sensible piece of nonsense."-Lon. Athen., 1854, 1519. "This most humorous and pleasant little book.”—Lon. Exam., 1854.

"A book of broad fun."-Lon. Spec., 1854.

We have next to notice-19-a collective edition of Mr. Thackeray's early writings, complete in 4 vols. cr. 8vo, 68. ea., (uniform with the Cheap Editions of Vanity Fair, Pendennis, Esmond, The Newcomes, and The Virginians,) entitled Miscellanies in Prose and Verse: vols. i., ii., Nov., Dec., 1855, (2d ed., 1856;) iii., 1856; iv., 1857. Contents: vol. i., Ballads; The Snob Papers; The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan; The Fatal Boots; Cox's Diary. Vol. ii., The Yellowplush Memoirs; Jeames's Diary; Sketches and Travels in London; Novels by Eminent Hands; Character Sketches. Vol. iii., Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, [this was translated into French by A. F. L. De Waille;] A Legend of the Rhine; Rebecca and Rowena; A Little Dinner at Timmins's; The Bedford Row Conspiracy. Vol. iv., The Fitzdoodle Papers; Men's Wives; A Shabby-Genteel Story; The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond. The contents of the 4 volumes are also pub. in 13 Parts, (viz.: vol. i. in 4 Parts; vol. ii. in 3 Parts; vol. iii. in 3 Parts; vol. iv. in 3 Parts,) sold separately; and a number of the above and of other fugitive pieces of the author have been repub. from time to time in New York, (e.g. Appleton, 1864, 5 vols. 12mo, Leypoldt & Holt, 1866, 8 vols. sq. 16mo,) Boston, and Philadelphia.

"Mr. Thackeray, by collecting his earlier writings in the volumes before us, [4 vols. cr. 8vo, Lon., 1855-57,] has done a service both to himself and the world. . . . It is impossible to read these volumes without seeing what a growing mind that of the author is.”—Lon. Athen., 1857, 1220.

See, also, 1855, 1301, (same in Liv. Age, xlviii. 114,) and notice of his Ballads (repub. Bost., 1855,-some 1856, 16mo, pp. 228) in Chambers's Journal, 1856, (same in Liv. Age, xlix. 142,) and Putnam's Magazine, Dec. 1855, 623.

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satirical, the merely worldly, view of life and society; he can take no other. His characters are compounded of many vices and few He has never drawn a true and dignified woman, nor a gentleman if any virtues; or, if the virtues predominate, the result is a fool. of the highest type. He has no conception of that simplicity in which nobleness of nature most largely consists."-PRESIDENT C. C. FELTON, of Harvard University: N. Amer. Rev., Oct. 1860, 580, (Everett's Life of Washington.)

See, also, South. Lit. Mess., 1858, (by J. R. Thompson;) Lon. Athen., 1858, ii. 515; 1859, ii. 459; Univ. Rev., Dec. 1859; Lon. Times, Dec. 1859.

21. Lovell the Widower, (with illustrations,) N. York, June 30, 1860, 8vo; Lon., Nov. 1861, cr. 8vo; 1866, p. Svo. Originally pub. in The Cornhill Mag., Jan. 1860 et seq., and repub. in Harper's (N. York) Monthly, Feb. 1860 et seq.

"The sad failure of a man of genuine powers.... There is not one single touch to kindle in the reader a spark of generosity or kindly feeling; not one word to awaken or stimulate a noble thought. After closing the book, the reader will feel conscious of having suffered a moral deterioration from the intense ingrained vulgarity of spirit which pervades and shapes the whole story."-Lon. Athen., 1861, ii. 758.

22. The Four Georges: Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court and Town Life. (with illustrations,) N. York, Nov. 1860, 12mo; Lon., Nov. 1861, er. 8vo; 1866, cr. 8vo. See No. 16. Delivered in the United States in 1855-56, lished in The Cornhill Magazine, June, July, August, and in Scotland and England in 1857. Originally puband October, 1860.

"An airy, humorous, and brilliant picture of English life and manners, produced by honest reading out of many books, and lighted with the glow of individual sympathy and intellect." -Lon. Athen., 1861, ii. 720.

The book was censured in Sir C. F. L. Wraxall's Remarkable Adventures, &c., 1863, 2 vols. p. 8vo. See, also, Chambers's Journal, 1857, (same in Liv. Age, lii. 205.)

23. The Adventures of Philip on his Way through the World; showing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him By, (with illustrations,) Lon., July 21, 1862, 3 vols. cr. 8vo; N. York, Sept. 19, 1862, 8vo; Lon., 1866, p. 8vo. Originally published in the Cornhill Magazine, 1861-62, and republished in Harper's Monthly,

1861-62.

"Mr. Thackeray must look to his laurels. The world, whether it be the world of fine gentlemen or of innocent women-the world of the first or of the second table-will at last get tired of being led down alley after alley of Vanity Fair.' . . . The ear cannot bear too long the drone of a hurdy-gurdy, or the peal of an organ."-Lon. Athen., 1862, ii. 174.

Plot bad, characters good, moral dubions. It leaves Mr. Thackeray's reputation just exactly what it was, and ourselves in a state of placid indifference as to whether he writes more or not."-Lon. Lit. Budget, Aug. 9, 1862, 111.

"We think that Philip' will prove to be one of the works by which Mr. Thackeray will be best known to posterity."-John Bull, 1862.

24. Roundabout Papers, (reprinted from The Cornhill Magazine, Jan. 1860 et seq., with illustrations.) Lon., Dec. 1862, cr. 8vo; N. York, 1863, 12mo. See Lon. Athen., 1862, ii. 739, 772, 809; Lon. New Rev., Sept. 1863.

The Cornhill Magazine, referred to above, was started by Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co., 65, Cornhill, London, with Mr. Thackeray (at an enormous compensation) as editor, Jan. 1860, at one shilling per monthly number. Of No. 1 about 100,000, and of No. 2 about 70,000 copies, were sold. Mr. Thackeray retained the editorship until April, 1862. See Lon. Athen., 1860, i. 25; Lon. Lit. Budget, July 26, 1862, 265, (Mr. Thackeray as an Editor.)

20. The Virginians; a Tale of the Last Century, with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by the Author, Lon., Mr. Thackeray added the Short Notices to the Sketches 8vo, in monthly Parts: i., Oct. 31, 1857-xxiv., Oct. 1, 1859: after the English Landscape-Painters by L. Marvey, Lon. together, in 2 vols. 8vo: i., Oct. 1858; ii., Oct. 1, 1859. and Glasgow, 1850, sm. fol., 218., col'd, 428., and conAlso pub. in Harper's (N. York) Monthly, Nov. 1857-tributed a piece entitled Sketches of Travel to The VicNov. 1859, and together, N. York, Nov. 1859, 8vo. New ed., without illustrations, Lon., Nov. 1862, cr. 8vo. "The Virginians' is a sort of continuation of · Esmond.' 'The Virginians' is neither antiquarian, nor, in the strict sense, historical. It is an attempt to create a good story and good characters and at the same time to call from its grave a past age, in which the writer happens, probably from his admiration and deep study of Fielding, to take a great interest. . . . In this hybrid sort of composition, between history and fiction, we think his powers misapplied. It is at best an expenditure of strength in a tour de force.... To say that this novel will not rank with Mr. Thackeray's best works is very slight blame; to say that it will rank with those of his works which are less good is no slight praise."-Edin. Rev., Oct. 1859, (cx.) 438-453.

"A popular writer, Mr. Thackeray, in The Virginians,' has ventured to introduce Washington, in his youth, as a personage of fiction. The thought was rash and infelicitons, had the anthor succeeded in his daring attempt; but magnis excidit ausis,-and Dever was failure more complete. Mr. Thackeray takes the

toria Regia, Dec. 1861, sup. r. Svo. The London Quarterly Review is to be added to the periodicals for which he has written. French versions of some of his works have been published from time to time in the periodicals of Paris. In the United States the sale of his works up to 1853 had been, it was asserted, (see H. C. Carey's Letters on International Copyright, Phila., 1853, 8vo, 43,) quadruple the sale in England.

The author of Jane Eyre was among the first to read the signs of the "coming man" in Mr. Thackeray's earlier acknowledged writings.

"Why have I alluded to this man? I have alluded to him, reader, because I think I see in him an intellect profounder and more unique than his contemporaries have yet recognised; be cause I regard him as the first social regenerator of the day— as the very master of that working corps who would restore to rectitude the warped system of things; because I think that no

commentator on his writings has yet found the comparison that | suits him, the terms which rightly characterise his talent. They say he is like Fielding; they talk of his wit, humour, comic powers. He resembles Fielding as an eagle does a vulture; Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does. His wit is bright, his humour attractive,-but both bear the same relation to his serious genius that the mere lambent sheet-lightning playing under the summer cloud does to the electric deathspark hid in its womb."-CHARLOTTE BRONTÉ.

We quote a few later opinions:

'It is Thackeray's aim to represent life as it is actually and historically, men and women as they are, in those situations in which they are usually placed, with that mixture of good and evil and of strength and foible which is to be found in their characters, and liable only to those incidents which are of ordinary occurrence. He will have no faultless characters, no demigods,-nothing but men and brethren. And from this it results that, when once he has conceived a character, he works downwards and inwards in his treatment of it, making it firm and clear at all points in its relations to hard fact, and cutting down, where necessary, to the very foundations."-DAVID MASSON: British Novelists and their Styles, (1859,) Lect. IV.: Dickens and Thackeray. See, also, Lect. III.

Satirist ;) Westm. Rev., Oct. 1860, (Mr. Thackeray as a
Novelist and Photographer;) Lon. Lit. Budget, Dec.
1861, 1862, ii. 16. In Mr. Lewes's Life and Works of
Goethe, 1855, 2 vols. 8vo, will be found a letter from Mr.
Thackeray containing reminiscences of his residence at
Weimar in his early years, and recollections of the great
German poet. In July, 1857, Mr. Thackeray was an
unsuccessful candidate-Cardwell 1085, Thackeray 1018
-for the representation in Parliament of the city of Ox-
ford. This result we find it impossible to regret-desiring
that the maturer years of the graphic novelist and brilliant
essayist should be devoted to those historical researches
to which he has been earnestly invited by one of his late
critics, (see Edin. Rev., Oct. 1859,) and trusting that
there is some truth in the assertion (see Lon. Critic,
March, 1861, notice of Lord Macaulay's History of Eng-
land, vol. v.) that he has accumulated materials for a
History of England in the Reign of Queen Anne.
Since the above (with the exception of notices of new

"It it were asked what one aspect of life Mr. Thackeray has editions, &c.) was written, Mr. Thackeray has ceased to

distinctively exhibited, the answer could be given in one word, -the trivial aspect. The characters he draws are neither the best of men nor the worst. But the atmosphere of triviality which envelopes them all was never so plainly perceivable. He paints the world as a great Vanity Fair, and none has done that 80 well.

"The realism of Thackeray can hardly fail to have a good effect in fictitious literature. It represents the extreme point of reaction against the false idealism of the Minerva Press. It is a pre-Raphaelite school of novel-writing. And, as pre-Raphaelitism is not to be valued in itself so much as in being the passage to a new and nobler ideal, the stern realism of Thackeray may lead the way to something better than itself."-PETER BAYNE: Essays in Biography and Criticism, First Series, (1857,) VII: The Modern Novel: Dickens-Bulwer-Thackeray.

“Mr. Thackeray's humour does not mainly consist in the creation of oddities of manner, habit, or feeling, but in so representing actual men and women as to excite a sense of incongruity in the reader's mind-a feeling that the follies and vices described are deviations from an ideal of humanity-always present to the writer. The real is described vividly with that perception of individuality which constitutes the artist; but the description imples and suggests a standard higher than itself, not by any direct assertion of such a standard, but by an unmistakable irony. . . . No one could be simply amused with Mr. Thackeray's descriptions or his dialogues. A shame at one's own defects, at the defects of the world in which one was living, was irresistibly aroused along with the reception of the particular portraiture. But while he was dealing with his own age, his keen perceptive faculty prevailed, and the actual predominates in his pictures of modern society."-GEORGE BRIMLLY: Essays, 1860.

"There is one point in which Fielding is a model for all times, and in which Mr. Thackeray is his worthy disciple, and, we venture to think, perfectly his equal. That point is, style and beauty of composition. The last century was certainly more studious, generally speaking, of form than ours. You may open any page of Fielding at random, and read it with pleasure, without reference to the story or context, merely as a piece of exquisite writing. The same may be said of Mr. Thackeray. England in our day may regard it as some proof of her moral soundness that her greatest novelist is in all his sentiments and sympathies the deadly enemy of hypocrisy, but the constant friend of virtue."-Edin. Rer., Oct. 1859, (ex.) 458-453.

"On one point the reviewer (ubi supra] might have dwelt a little. He merely hints at the perfection of Thackeray's composition. Now, this is his strong point. He writes the best and purest English of any author now living."-R. SHELTON MACKENZIE, M.D., D.C.L., Nov. 23, 1859.

"He is, we should say, one of the healthiest writers who has attained celebrity since the days of Scott and Byron. His style -and a man's style is, as it were, his mind's complexion-is an index of it. Agreeable, manly, colloquial English,-the English of cultivated men, but still with as little bookishness about it as possible,-such is the clear atmosphere we breathe in reading him. Very sparing of imagery, perfectly free from conceits, rarely touching the deep-toned chords of passion and sentiment, -he is always at once a master of himself, and never takes his eye off his reader. . What powers he has are in fair proportion with each other, and he has them all equally under control."-Lon. Athen., Oct. 3, 1857, 1229, 1230.

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"Suddenly," remarks the London Times of Dec. 25, 1863, "one of our greatest literary men has departed. Never more shall the fine head of Mr. Thackeray, with its mass of silvery hair, be seen towering among us. It was but two days ago that he might be seen at his club, radiant and buoyant with glee. Yesterday morning he was found dead in his bed. With all his high spirits, he did not seem well; he complained of illness; but he was often ill, and he laughed off his present attack. He said that he was about to undergo some treatment which would work a perfect cure in his system, and so he made light of his malady. He was suffering from two distinct complaints, one of which has now wrought his death. More than a dozen years ago, while he was writing Pendennis,' it will be remembered that the publication of that work was stopped by his serious illness. He was brought to death's door; and he was saved from death by Dr. Elliotson, to whom, in gratitude, he dedicated the novel when he lived to finish it. But ever since that alment he has been subject every month or six weeks to attacks of sickness, attended with violent retching. He was congratulating himself the other day on the failure of his old enemy to return, and then he checked himself, as if he ought not to be too sure of a release from his plague. On Wednesday morning the complaint returned, and he was in great suffering all day. He was no better in the evening, and his servant, about the time of leaving him for the night, proposed to sit up with him. This he declined. He was heard moving about midnight, and he must have died between two and three in the morning of yesterday. His medical attendants attribute his death to effusion on the brain. They add that he had a very large brain, weighing no less than 581 oz.

“He thus died of the complaint which seemed to trouble him least. He died full of strength and rejoicing, full of plans and hopes. On Monday last he was congratulating himself on having finished four numbers of a new novel; he had the mannscript in his pocket, and with a boyish frankness showed the last pages to a friend, asking him to read them and see what he could make of them. When he had completed four numbers more, he said, he would subject himself to the skill of a very clever surgeon, and be no more an invalid. In the fulness of his powers he has fallen before a complaint which gave him no alarm."

Since his death have appeared-25. Denis Duval, N, York, 1864, 8vo; Lon., 1867, p. 8vo. From Cornhill Mag., Mar. et seq., 1864.

"In respect of earnest feeling, far-seeing purpose, character, incident, and a certain loving picturesqueness blending the whole, I believe it to be much the best of all his works. That he fully meant it to be so, that he had become strongly attached to it, and that he bestowed great pains upon it, I trace in almost every page."-CHARLES DICKENS.

26. Early and Late Papers, hitherto uncollected, Bost., Ticknor & Fields, 1867, 16mo, pp. 407. Mr. J. T. Fields, the editor, gives us reason to hope that he will favour us with further collections of Thackeray's contributions to periodicals.

The monument erected to Thackeray in the Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, was uncovered Oct. 21, 1865. It consists of a bust by Baron Marochetti, (a friend of the deceased,) upon a base of red serpentine, mounted upon a bronze support, bearing a simple record of his name and the dates of birth and death. It is fixed against a wall column in the south transept, behind the statue of Addison. To our references we now add: Poems and Essays, by W. C. Roscoe, Lon., 1860, 2 vols. p. Svo; Essays, by S. F. Williams, Lon., 1862, p. 8vo; Photog. Port. of Emin. Men, vol. i., Pt. 2, June, 1863; Mrs. Jameson's Common-Place Book, 1863, p. 8vo; National Shakespeare Committee and the Late Mr. Thackeray, 1864, 8vo, (see Lon. Rev., Dec. 26, 1863;) Essays on Fiction, by N. W. Senior, 1864, p. 8vo; Brief Me

See, also, Carlyle's Life of John Sterling: Jeaffreson's Novels and Novelists: Bungay's Off-Hand Takings: Emerson's English Traits; Alison's Hist. of Europe, 18151852, ch. v. N. Brit. Rev., xv. 30,-same in Liv. Age, xxx. 97,-(Thackeray and Dickens :) Irish Quar. Rev., ii. 489; Oxf. and Camb. Mag., No. 6; South Quar. Rev., xix. 74, (Genius and Writings of Thackeray ;) Eclec. Mag., xvi. 370, (Thackeray and Dickens,) xxii. 80, (by P. Frank;) Lon. Gent. Mag., 1851, ii. 628; N. Amer. Rev., July, 1853, 199,-Thackeray as a Novelist,-(by J. Foster Kirk ;) Rev. des Deux Mondes, Oct. 15, 1853, and Sept. 1, 1854; Blackw. Mag, Jan. 1855, (Mr. Thackeray and his Novels;) Chris. Exam., Jan. 1856, by H. T.moir of W. M. Thackeray, by James Hannay, Edin., Tuckerman, (Mr. Thackeray as a Novelist,) Sept. 1860, (The Women of Thackeray :) Lon. Athen., 1857, 207; Dubl. Univ. Mag., Nov. 1859, (Mr. Thackeray as a

1864, fp. 8vo, (from Edin. Courant, Jan. 1864 ;) Studies on Thackeray, by James Hannay, Lon., 1869, fp. 8vo; Thackeray the Humorist and the Man of Letters, &c.,

by Theo. Taylor, (J. C. Hotten,) 3d ed., 1864, 12mo, and, with "In Memoriam," by C. Dickens, and "A Sketch," by A. Trollope, N. York, 1864, 12mo; The Pedigree of Thackeray, &c., Lon., 1864, (50 copies p. p.;) Brother Fabian's Manuscript, and other Poems, by S. Evans, 1865, 12mo; Taine's Hist. of Eng. Lit., Supp. vol., Paris, 1865; Spare Hours, by John Brown, M.D., 2d Ser., Bost., 1866, 12mo: Character and Characteristic Men, by E. P. Whipple, 1867, 12mo. We also refer, for notices of Thackeray and his writings, to the following periodicals: Home and For. Rev., April, 1863; Illust. Lon. News, Jan. 1864, (by Shirley Brooks;) N. York Albion, Jan. 16, 1864, (by G. A. Sala;) Macmillan's Mag., Feb. 1864, by H. Kingsley :) Amer. Lit. Gaz., Jan. 15, 1864, (by Dr. R. S. Mackenzie,) Feb. 1, June 15, 1864; N. Brit. Rev., Feb. 1864, (by John Brown, M.D.:) Englishwoman's Domestic Mag., Feb. 1864, (by T. Hood ;) Colburn's New Mor. Mag., Feb. 1864, (by N. Michel; (Victoria Mag., Feb. 1864, by Hon. Roden Noel; Art Jour., Feb. 1864, (by S. C. Hall;) Lon. Society, Feb. 1864; Good News, Feb. 1864; Temple Bar, Feb. 1864, (The Doctor's Wife, by Miss Braddon :) Cornhill Mag., Feb. 1864, (by C. Dickens, A. Trollope, and Lord Houghton.) Mar. 1864, Jan. 1865; Lon. Reader, 1864, i. 3, 225, 426, 457, 1865, i. 701; Atlantic Mon., Mar. 1864; Home and For. Rev., April, 1864; N. Amer. Rev., April, 1864: N. York Eclec. Mag., May, 1864; Westm. Rev., July, 1864; Lon. Quar. Rev., No. xliv., July, 1864; The Broadway, Sept. et seq., 1864, (by J. Hannay ;) Nouv. Biog. Gén., xlv., 1866, (by W. L. Hughes;) Lippincott's Mag., Feb. 1869, (by James N. Barnes.) See, also, REED, WILLIAM B., No. 12.

In 1866 Mr. J. C. Hotten announced as in preparation: I. Students' Quarters; or, Paris Life Five-and-Twenty Years Since, by W. M. Thackeray. II. Thackeray's Humour, Illustrated by the Pencil of George Cruikshank, (24 designs, illustrating "The Fatal Boots" and "The Diary of Barber Cox," with letter-press descriptions.) sm. 4to. A complete uniform edition of Thackeray's Works, with new matter, in 22 vols. r. cr. 8vo, 78. 6d. each, was published by Smith, Elder & Co., of London, and J. B. Lippincott & Co., of Phila., 1868-69; an edition of his Novels, by Harpers, N. York, in 6 vols. Svo, was issued in 1869; an edition of his Works, by Appletons, N. York, in 12 vols., appeared in 1869–70; and Housebold Editions of his Novels in 6 vols. 16mo, and of his Miscellanies in 5 vols. 16mo, were published, the first in 1869 and the last in 1869-70, by Fields, Osgood & Co., of Boston.

"It is long since England has lost such a son; it will be long before she has such another to lose. He was indeed emphatically English,-English as distinct from Scotch, no less than English as distinct from Continental. The highest, purest English novelist since Fielding, he combined Addison's love of virtue with Johnson's hatred of cant; Horace Walpole's lynx eye for the mean and ridiculous with the gentleness and wide charity for mankind, as a whole, of Goldsmith. Non omnis motuus est. He will be remembered in his succession with these men for ages to come, as long as the hymn of praise rises in the old Abbey of Westminster, and wherever the English tongue is native to men, from the banks of the Ganges to those of the Mississippi."-HANNAY.

"In his subtle, spiritual analysis of men and women, as we see them and live with them; in his power of detecting the enduring passions and desires, the strengths, the weaknesses, and the deceits of the race, from under the mask of ordinary worldly and town life-making a dandy or a dancing-girl as real, as moving, delicate, and full of life,' as the most heroic incarnations of good and evil; in his vitality and yet lightness of handling, doing it once and forever, and never a touch too little or too much,-in these respects he stood and stands alone and matchless."-DR. JOHN BROWN.

Thackrah, Charles Turner, a surgeon, of Leeds, England. 1. Inquiry into the Blood, Lon., 1819, 8vo; Ed. by Wright, Svo. 2. Lects. on Digestion and Diet, 1824, 8vo. 3. Effects of Arts, &c. and Habits of Living on Health and Longevity, &c., 1831, 8vo; 2d ed., 1832, 8vo. A valuable publication: it may be regarded as a modern Ramazzini."-McCulloch's Lit. of Polit. Econ., 273.

Also commended by Johnson's Med.-Chir. Rev., April, 1831, and Edin. Med. and Surg. Jour., July, 1831, &c. 4. Cholera: its Character and Treatment, Leeds, 1832, 8vo.

Thackwell, Edward Joseph, late Aide-de-Camp to General Thackwell. Narrative of the Second Sikh War in 1848-49, Lon., Feb. 1851, p. 8vo; 2d ed., May, 1851, p. 8vo. See Lon. Athen., 1851, 183, 208; Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1851, 95.

Thackwray, William. 1. Use of the Globes, 1810, 12mo. Key, 1810, 12mo. 2. Example Book for Answers to No. 1, 1811.

Thalheimer, Miss. Summary of American History, N. York, 1869, 12mo.

Thaly, Sigismund, Colonel in the Hungarian Army, and Chief Director of Fortifications at Komárom. The Fortress of Komárom (Comorn) during the War of Independence in Hungary in 1848-49; Trans. from the German by William Rushton, Lon., 1852, p. 8vo. Commended by Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1852, 623.

Thame. Schola Thamensis ex Fondatione Iohannis Williams Militis, Domini Williams de Thame, s. l., 1575, fol., 54 leaves. J. Lilly's Cat., 1859, p. 61, ("the only one that has ever been offered for sale,") £31 108. See Upcott's Eng. Topog., 1074, and Bibl. Grenvill., 725,where it is asserted that "only three other copies [in addition to the vellum copy in that library] are known, and all imperfect." But Lilly's copy is perfect. Dr. Bliss's copy (Cat., Pt. 2) sold in 1858 for £8 158. Add to this work, Preces Matutinæ, &c. in Schola Thamensi recens; Excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius, 8. l., (1578,) fol., 5 leaves. Bliss, Pt. 2, 28. 6d.

Thane, J. 1. British Autography: a Collection of Authentic Portraits and Fac-Similes of the Handwritings of Royal and Illustrious Personages, Lon., (1788,) in Nos., 4to, bound in 3 vols. Supp., 40, 1854. 2. Zetner's Collection of Landscapes, &c., with Portraits and Biographical Accounts, 1791, ob. fol.

Thane, John, D.D., Preb. of Chester, 1686. 1. Two Serms., John xii. 26, 1700, 8vo. 2. Serm., Gal. vi. 9, 10, 1706, 4to.

Tharin, Robert S., a Baptist divine, b. in Charleston, S.C., 1830, graduated at the College of Charleston, A.B. 1857, A.M. 1860; admitted to the Philadelphia Bar, 1869. Arbitrary Arrests in the South; or, Scenes from the Experience of an Alabama Unionist, N. York, 1863, 12mo. Tharmott, Maria. Sans Souci Park; a Novel, 1806, 3 vols. 12mo.

Thatcher, Benjamin Bussey, b. in Warren, Maine, 1809; graduated at Bowdoin College, 1826: subsequently studied the law, which he resigned on account of ill health; travelled about two years in Europe, 183638, contributing occasionally to British and American periodicals; d. in Boston, July 14, 1849. 1. Indian Biography, N. York, 1832, 2 vols. 18mo; new ed., 1842, (some 1843,) 2 vols. 18mo.

"The subject has fallen into the right hands."-N. Amer. Rev., xxxvi. 472.

2. Traits of the Boston Tea Party, 1835, 18mo. 3. Indian Traits, 1840, 2 vols. 18mo: 1854, 2 vols. 18mo. 4. American Revolution, 1846, 18mo. He also edited The Boston Book, Bost., 1837, 12mo. (see Chris. Exam., xix. 314, by B. B. Thatcher;) published a brief memoir of Phillis Wheatley; and contributed to N. Amer. Rev. (1831, &c., eight articles) and other periodicals, A specimen of his poetry will be found in Griswold's Poets and Poetry of America, 16th ed., 1855, 424. He left in MS. an account of his residence in Europe. Of his reviews, essays, and poems (never collected) Dr. Griswold says, (ubi supra,) "many are creditable to his abilities, taste, and character." See, also, Griswold's Biog. Annual, 1842, 35.

Thatcher, George. On Annuities for Fixed Periods, Lon., 1825, 8vo.

Thaxter, Adam Wallace, b. at Boston, Mass., 1832; graduated at Harvard College, 1852, and took the degree of LL.B. at Dane Law School, 1854; d. at Boston, 1864. 1. Poem delivered before "The Iadma" of Harvard College, Camb., 1850, 12mo. 2. The Grotto Nymph, Bost., 1859, 12mo. He was the author of the following Plays, successfully acted: Olympia; or, The Heart of the Stage, a drama; The Sculptor of Florence, a drama; The Painter of Naples, a drama: The Regicide, a tragedy; Blood Tells, a comedy; Mary Tudor, a play; Birds of a Feather, a comedy. He was for seven years co-editor of the Boston Evening Gazette, and contributed to many periodicals. At the time of his death he had been for some time engaged upon two historical works,— Rebellions that were Failures, and The Bastards of History.

Thayer. Pocket Maps of the United States, sep., in case, N. York, 1854. Manual for Sponsors, N.

Thayer, Rev. A. D. York, 1853, 16mo.

Thayer, Alexander W. Signor Masoni, and other Papers of the Late J. Brown; Ed. by Alexander W. Thayer, Berlin, 1862, 12mo, pp. 282. This is a collection of Mr. Thayer's contributions to American periodicals. He has long been absent in Europe,-engaged in

the preparation of a Life of Beethoven, (the first volume | 12. The Poor Girl and True Woman, (Mary Lyon,) Dec. of which was published in German, at Berlin, in 1866,) | 1858, 16mo; 12th ed. by May, 1863. 13. The Bobbin occasionally sending a letter to Dwight's Journal of Mu- Boy, (Gen. N. P. Banks,) 1860, 12mo; 12th ed., 1864. sic, Atlantic Monthly, &c. 14. Tales from the Bible for the Young, 1860, 12mo; 1867, 16mo. 15. The Printer Boy, (Ben. Franklin,) Dec. 1860, 12mo; 8th ed., 1864; 1867, 16mo. 16. Working and Winning, (John Kitto, D.D.,) 1862, 16mo. Pioneer Boy, and how he became President, (A. Lincoln,) 1863, 12mo; 21st 1000, April, 1864. Commended in N. Amer. Rev., April, 1863, 584, (by A. P. Peabody.) "Mr. Thayer is a master in this sort of work."-C. P. KRAUTH, JR., D.D.

Thayer, Mrs. Caroline Matilda, a granddaughter of General Warren, d. in Louisiana, 1844. Religion recommended to Youth, in a Series of Letters, N. York, 24mo; Lon., 1826, 18mo. She contributed prose and poetry to periodicals.

Thayer, Christopher T., pastor of the First Church, Beverly, Mass., 1831-59. Valedictory Discourse, Beverly, 1859, 8vo.

Thayer, Ebenezer, a native of Boston, graduated at Harvard College, 1708, pastor of the Second Church in Roxbury, Mass., 1712, until his death, 1733, aged about 45, published three single sermons, 1722-27. Thayer, Elihu, b. in Braintree, Mass., 1747, graduated at Princeton College, 1769, and pastor of the church at Kingston, N.H., 1776, until his death, 1812, published a sermon, 1795, and a Summary of Doctrines and Duties. A vol. of his Sermons was published after his death, 1813, 8vo. See Sprague's Annals, ii., Trin. Congreg., 104-107.

Thayer, Elisha. Family Memorial, in 2 Parts, Hingham, 1835, 8vo. See W. H. Whitmore's Amer. Genealog., Albany, 1862, 8vo, 40.

Thayer, G. F. Address, Opening of Chauncy Hall,

8vo.

Thayer, Rev. H. B., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Kankakee, Illinois. Lectures to Young Men, Kankakee, 1867, pp. 46.

Thayer, Mrs. J. 1. Floral Gems, Bost., 32mo. 2. Passion, and other Tales, 16mo. 3. Drunkard's Daughter, 18mo. 4. The Vacation.

Thayer, John. Discourse at the Catholic Church in Boston on the National Fast, May 9, 1798, Bost., 1798, Svo.

Thayer, M. Russell, b. in Petersburg, Virginia, 1819; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, 1840; became a member of the Philadelphia Bar, and was elected M.C. 1862; appointed by Gov. Geary Associate Judge of the District Court, Philadelphia, Nov. 13, 1867. 1. Reply to Mr. Charles Ingersoll's Letter to a Friend in a Slave State, Phila., 1862, 8vo. 2. The Duties of Citizenship, 1862, 8vo. Other pamphlets, and contributions to periodicals.

Thayer, Nathaniel, D.D., b. in Hampton, N.H., 1769; graduated at Harvard College, 1789; became assistant to Mr. Harrington, minister of the (Unitarian) church at Lancaster, 1793, and retained his connection with this congregation until his death, 1840. He published twenty-three occasional sermons, &c., 1795-1831. See Sprague's Annals, viii., Unitarian, 1865, 246.

Thayer, Sylvanus, a native of Massachusetts, Superintendent West Point Military Academy, 1817–33, Lieut. Col. Engineers U.S. Army, July 7, 1838. Papers on Practical Engineering, 1844, 8vo, &c.

Thayer, Thomas Baldwin, minister of the Warren Universalist Church, Boston, Mass., was b. in Boston, 1812, and commenced, but did not finish, the collegiate course at Harvard. 1. Christianity rs. Infidelity, Bost., 1836, 12mo; 2d ed., Cin., 1849, 12mo. 2. Bible-Class Assistant, Bost., 1840, 16mo. 3. Origin and History of the Doctrine of Endless Punishment, 1854, 16mo; 2d ed., 1855. 4. Theology of Universalism, in prep., 1863, 12mo. 5. Over the River; or, Pleasant Walks into the Valley of Shadow and Beyond, 1864, 18mo. 6. Origin and History of the Belief in a Devil, &c., in prep., 1864, 12mo. Edited The Golden Rule, The Star of Bethlehem, and The Universalist Quarterly, and contributed to Universalist Expos. and Quar. Rev., Universalist Miscellany,

&c.

Thayer, William Makepeace, D.D., b. at Franklin, Mass., 1820; graduated at Brown University, 1843, and became pastor of an (Orthodox) Congregational church at Ashland, Mass., 1849. 1. Gem and Casket. 2. Merry Christmas. 3. Happy New-Year. 4. Hints for the Household, Bost., 1853, 12mo. 5. Life at the Fireside, 1854, 12mo; 6th ed., 1858. 6. Spots in our Feasts of Charity, &c., 1854, 16mo; 4th ed., 1860. 7. Pastor's Wedding Gift, 1854, 12mo; 5th ed. by May, 1863. 8. The Morning Star, and other Symbols of Christ, 1856, 12mo; about 8 edits. by May, 1863. 9. The Poor Boy and the Merchant Prince, (A. Lawrence,) 1857, 16mo; more than 20,000 by May, 1863. 10. Doing and Not Doing, 16mo. 11. From Poor-House to Pulpit, (John Kitto, D.D.,) Dec. 1858, 12mo; 5th ed., 1862.

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18. The Old Horseshoe, 1863, 16mo; 1867, 16mo. 19. Tales from Genesis, for the Young, 1863, 2 vols. 16mo; 1867, 2 vols. 16mo. 20. The Farmer Boy, and how he became Commander-in-Chief, by Uncle Juvinell: edited, 1863, 16mo. 21. Soldiers of the Bible, for the Young, 1864, 12mo. 22. Character and Public Services of A. Lincoln, 1864, 16mo. 23. A Youth's History of the Rebellion, 1864-66, 4 vols. 16mo. 24. Communion Wine and Bible Temperance: being a Review of Rev. Dr. Thomas Laurie's Article in the Bibliotheca Sacra of January, 1869, N. York, 1869, 8vo. He edited the Home Monthly and The Mother's Assistant, and contributed to The Congregationalist and The Puritan Recorder.

Thayer, William S., has been connected with the New York Evening Post, and has contributed to To-Day, the North American Review, &c.

Theaker, Robert. Light to the Longitude, Lon., 1665, 4to.

Theed, Richard. 1. Two Serms. on Dives and Lazarus, Lu. xvi. 27, 28, 1711, Svo. 2. Sacred Biography: Discourses, 1712, 8vo.

Theiner, Augustinus. Vetera Monumenta Hibernorum et Scotorum Historiam illustrantia, quæ ex Vaticani, Neapolis ac Florentia Tabulariis deprompsit et Ordine Chronologico disposuit Augustinus Theiner, A.D. 1216-1547, Romæ, typ. Vaticanis, 1864, fol. Quatrich's Cat., 1868, No. 2117, £3 38.

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Theller, Edward Alexander, M.D., Brigadier in the Canadian republican service, removed to Cali|fornia in 1853, and became connected in San Francisco with the Public Ledger and The Argus, and was Superintendent of Public Schools. He died at Hornitos, Cal., 1859. Canada in 1837-38: showing the Causes of the Late Attempted Revolution and of its Failure, &c., Phila., 1841, 2 vols. 8vo. See Hist. Mag., 1859, 257.

Theleur, E. A. Letters on Dancing, Lon., 4to. Theloall, Simon. Le Digest des Briefes originales, et des Choses concernant eux, Lon., 1579, 8vo.

"That eminent lawyer ... was the first that reduced all the readings and discourses upon writs into a methodical commonplace. -BISHOP NICOLSON: Eng. Hist. Lib., ed. 1776, 167.

See, also, Fulbeck, 73; Registrum Brevium, 1687, fol. Thelwall, Algernon Sydney, son of John Thelwall, (infra,) graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, 18th Wrangler in 1818, M.A. in 1826; minister at the English Chapel, Amsterdam, 1819-22; missionary to the Jews, 1822 to 1827, and then became Curate of Blackford, Somersetshire, and successively minister of Bedford Chapel, Bloomsbury, and Curate of St. Matthew's, Pell Street; Lecturer in Public Reading and Elocution, King's Chapel, London, from 1850 until his death, Dec. 1863, aged 68. 1. Refutation of Irving's Heresy, Lon., 18mo. 2. Tracts for the Jews, 1823. Afterwards incorporated in The Old Testament Gospel. 3. Consolatory Thoughts in Affliction, 1832, 18mo; 3d ed., 1845, 32mo; 1865, 18mo. 4. Sermons on the Relations of the Church to the World, 1833, 8vo. 5. Letters on Objections to the Church of England, 1835, 12mo. 6. Appeal to Truth, 1839, 8vo. 7. Iniquities of the Opium Trade with China, 1839, p. 8vo. 8. Idolatry of the Church of Rome, 1846, 18mo. 9. Lectures and Exercises in Elocution, in Prose and Verse, 1850, 8vo. 10. "Open His Grief," 1859, tract. See, also, ELLABY, JAMES.

Thelwall, John, the political agitator, anatomist, lecturer on elocution, and curer of stammering, was b. in London, 1764; tried, with John Horne Tooke and Thomas Hardy, for treason, and acquitted, 1794; d. in Bath, 1834. Among his publications are: 1. Poems, 1787, 2 vols. 2. Essay on Animal Vitality, Lon., 1793, 4to. 3. The Peripatetic, 1793, 3 vols. 12mo. 4. Poems, 1795, 4to. 5. The Tribune, 1796, 3 vols. 8vo. 6. Poems, with Memoir of his Life, 2d ed., Hereford, 1802, 8vo. Reviewed unfavourably by Lord Jeffrey in Edin. Rev., ii. 197. Thelwall responded in-7. A Letter to Mr. Francis Jeffrey, Edin., 1804, 8vo. 8. Reply to the Editors of the

&c., Calcutta, 1861, 8vo. 10. Indian Penal Code, Act No. xlv. of 1860, &c., 1864, 8vo.

See, also, JONES, SIR WILLIAM, p. 992.

Theocritus, Junior. Dictionary of Love, containing a Definition of all the Terms used in the History of the Tender Passion, N. York, 1859, 12mo.

Edinburgh Review, 1804, 8vo. See Blackw. Mag., x. 672, n., 679, n. 9. Illustrations of Rhythms, Lon., 1811, 8vo. 10. Letter to Henry Cline, 1810, 8vo. 11. Results of Experience, 1814, 8vo. He contributed to Med. and Phys. Jour. and New Month. Mag., and in early life edited a magazine. See Life by his Widow, 8vo, vol. i., 1837; Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Trial of Tooke, Thelwall, and Theodore, a monk of Tarsus, was ordained Bishop Hardy, 1795, 8vo; Westm. Rev., xl. 474: Lon. Gent. at Rome by Pope Vitalianus, March 26, 668, enthroned Mag., 1834, ii. 549, (Obituary ;) Talfourd's Final Me- Archbishop of Canterbury, May 27, 669, d. Sept. 29, 690, morials of C. Lamb, in Works of Charles Lamb: Cole-aged 88. He is said to have imported into Rome many ridge's Table-Talk: Pursuits of Lit.; Diary, &c. of Henry valuable MSS. What remains of his form of discipline Crabb Robinson, 1869, 3 vols. 8vo. called the Penitential, and of his other works, were collected by James Pettit, and printed, with learned annotations, Paris, 1677, 2 vols. 4to. See Godwin de Præsulibus; Dupin; Wharton's Anglia Sacra; D'Achery Spicil., i. 486; Nichols's Illust. of Lit., iv. 104.

Themylthorp, Nicholas. The Posie of Godly Prayers, fit for every Christian to Use, 47th ed., Lon., 1706, 24mo.

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Theobald, James. Some Account of St. Peter's Church, Oxford, from an old MS., Archæol., 1770. Nichols's Lit. Anec., vii. (Index) 417.

Theobald, John, M.D., d. 1760. 1. Merope; trans. from Voltaire, 1744, 8vo. 2. Musa Panegyrica, 1753. Other works.

Theobald, John, M.D. 1. Medulla Medicinæ. 2. New Compendious Dispensatory, Lon., 1761, 12mo. 3. Every Man his own Physician, 1764, 8vo. See Dr. Watt's Bibl. Brit. 4. Young Wife's Guide.

Theobald, Lewis, a literary attorney-at-law, a native of Sittingbourne, Kent, d. September, 1744, already noticed as an editor of Shakspeare, (see SHAKSPEARE, WILLIAM: COLLECTIVE EDITIONS OF SHAKSPEARE'S PLAYS AND POEMS, No. 7,) and as the hero of the Dunciad, (see CIBBER, COLLEY,) was the author of A Critical Discourse on Homer's Iliad, Lon., 1714; A Translation of the First Book of the Odyssey, with Notes, 1716; Memoirs of Sir Walter Raleigh, 1719, 8vo; Shakespear Restored; or, Specimens of Blunders Committed and Unamended in Pope's Edition of this Poet, (title-pages vary,) 1726, r. 4to; 20 or 21 forgotten plays, (see Biog. Dramat. ;) of several translations, pieces of poetry, essays, &c., and many articles in Mist's Weekly Journal, The Daily Journal, and The Censor. He commenced, but did not live to finish, an edition of Beaumont and Fletcher. See, also, WYCHERLEY, WILLIAM, No. 6. As an editor of Shakspeare, Dr. Johnson thus grades him:

"Pope was succeeded by Theobald, a man of narrow comprehension and small acquisitions, with no native and intrinsic splendour of genius, with little of the artificial light of learning, but zealous for minute accuracy, and not negligent in pursuing it. He collated the ancient copies, and rectified many errors. A man so anxiously scrupulous might have been expected to do more, but what little he did was commonly right."-Preface to Johnson's ed. of Shakspeare.

Later in the Preface he treats him with less respect; in his Life of Pope he calls him "a man of heavy diligence with very slender powers;" and he told Burney (see Boswell's Johnson, ch. xii.) that Warburton "would make two and fifty Theobalds, cut into slices." An eminent critic of our day gives a very different verdict:

"Among the commentators on Shakspeare, Warburton, always striving to display his own acuteness and scorn of others, deviates more than any one else from the meaning. Theobald was the first who did a little."-HALLAM: Lit. Hist. of Europe, 4th ed., 1854, iii. 93.

If Theobald did only a "little," doubtless many of the poet's editors have done too much. We think Theobald often very happy in his suggestions. See Nichols's Lit. Anec., vii. 417, 689, (Index ;) Nichols's Illust. of Lit., viii. 107, (Index;) Cibber's Lives; Bowles's Pope; Disraeli's Quarrels of Authors; Malone's, Steevens's, and later Prefaces and Notes to Shakspeare's Plays.

Theobald, William. 1. Law of Principal and Surety, Lon., 1832, 8vo; repub. in Law Lib., 8vo, vol. i., Phila., 1833, and separate, 1834, 8vo, and with Elisha Hammond's Law of Principal and Agent, N. York, 1836, 8vo.

"Written with judgment and fidelity."-Hoff. Leg. Stu., 417. "Mr. Theobald is a very sensible and generally accurate author."-2 Chitty's Pr., 84.

See, also, 3 Kent, Com., 125; 8 Amer. Jur., 315.

2. Act for the further Amendment of the Law 3 & 4 Wm. IV., c. 42, Lon., 1833, 12mo. 3. Poor-Law Amendment Act, 1834, 12mo. 4. Treatise on the Poor-Laws, 1837, 8vo. 5. Law for Abolishing Imprisonment for Debt on Mesne Process, 2d ed., 1838, 12mo. 6. Questions on the Practice of the Common Law Courts, with the Answers, 1839, 12mo. 7. Elementary Practice of the Courts of Q. B., C. P., and Ex. for Students, &c., 1841, 12mo. 8. Acts of the Legislative Council of India, Calcutta, 1844, r. 8vo. 9. Code of Criminal Procedure,

Theodorus, Verax. Mystery of the Two Juntos, Presbyterian and Independent, Lon., 1647, 4to.

Therry, Roger, of Gray's Inn, Barrister-at-Law, and subsequently for many years one of the Judges, latterly Chief Justice, of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. 1. Comparison between the Oratory of the House of Commons Thirty Years Ago and the Present Time; a Lecture at Sydney, Lon., 1857, 8vo, pp. 41. 2. Reminiscences of Thirty Years' Residence in New South Wales and Victoria, 1863, Svo. Valuable. Noticed in Lon. Athen., 1863, i. 253, and Lon. Reader, 1863, i. 256.

Borrow [buy] Chief-Justice Therry's book, and read pages 271 to 278, and see if you can sleep after it."-The Hillyars and the Burtons, by H. Kingsley, ch. Ixiii.

See, also, CANNING, GEORGE; STAPLETON, AUGUSTUS GRANVILLE, No. 1.

Theta, M.D., (i.e. Thorn, William.) The History of the "Thorn-Tree and Bush," &c., 1863, sm. cr. Svo. (Printed for private circulation.) Intended to prove the Israelitish descent of Queen Victoria and her Anglo-Saxon people. See Lon. Athen., 1862, ii. 212, 376; Hand-Book for Fictitious Names, by Olphar Hamst, 1868, 151.

Thetford, Launcelot. Perfect Horse-Man, Lon., 1656, 8vo.

Theuvenot, Professor V. The Elements of Moral Philosophy, N. York, 1866, 8vo.

Thew, Robert, engraver to the Prince of Wales, b. at Patrington, Yorkshire, 1758, d. in Hertfordshire, 1802, engraved 19 plates and part of a 20th plate for Boydell's Shakspeare Gallery-some of them among the best in the collection. See Lon. Gent. Mag., 1802, ii. 788, 971, (Obituary.)

Thew, William. Poems, with Life. Lon., 8vo. Theyer, John. Aerio-Mastix; or, A Vindication of the Government of the Church by Bishops, against the Aerians, Oxon., 1643, 4to.

Thibaudin, M. A. 1. Le Dictionnaire de tous les Verbes conjugués, Lon., 1851, r. Svo. 2. New System of French Pronunciation, 1855, 8vo. 3. Twelfth Edition of F. Grandineau's Conversations familières, 1858, 12ino.

Thicknesse, Ann, the daughter of John Ford, was b. in London, 1737, married to Philip Thicknesse, (infra,) 1762, and d. near London, 1824. See Lon. Gent. Mag., 1802, ii. 89, (Obituary.) 1. Sketches of the Lives and Writings of the Ladies of France, Lon., 1778-82, 3 vols. 12mo. See Lon. Mon. Rev., 1778, 466. 2. School for Fashion; a Novel, 1800, 2 vols. 12mo.

"Had a prodigious run."-Lon. Gent. Mag., ubi supra. She also published, anonymously, many religious

tracts.

Thicknesse, Philip, b. 1720; served in the West Indies and Georgia, subsequently became LieutenantGovernor of Landguard Fort, and d. at Boulogne, 1792. His principal works are: 1. Midwifery Analysed, Lon., 1765, 4to; 1768, 8vo. 2. Treatise on Decyphering, 1772, Svo. 3. Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, (some Bath,) 1777, 2 vols. 8vo; 2d ed., 1778, 2 vols. 8vo; 3d ed., 1789, 2 vols. 8vo.

"Entertaining."-DR. JOHNSON: Boswell's Johnson, ch. lxii. 4. New Prose Bath Guide, 1778, 8vo. 5. Valetudinarian's Bath Guide, 1780, 8vo. 6. Year's Journey through the Pais Bas and Austrian Netherlands, 1786, 8vo. 7. Sketch of T. Gainsborough, 1788, Svo. 8. Memoirs and Anecdotes of Philip Thicknesse, &c., 1788-91, 3 vols. 8vo. To this should be added, Curious Facts and Anecdotes not contained in the Memoirs of Philip Thicknesse, Esq., 1790, 8vo, by Dr. Adair: see ADAIR, JAMES MAKITTRICK, M.D. See Nichols's Lit. Anec., vii. (Index) 689; Nichols's Illust. of Lit., viii. 107, (Index ;) Lon. Gent. Mag., 1816, ii. 105.

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