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Besant, Walter, Sir (1836–1901)

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By R.R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

SEE ALSO: Kinglake, Alexander William; Austin, Alfred; Swinburne, Algernon Charles; Lang, Andrew; Anecdotes; Art critics; Webster, Augusta; Birrell, Augustine; Dobson, Austin; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron; Biography; Rossetti, Christina Georgina; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel; Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of; Gosse, Edmund; English literature; Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max); Farrar, Frederic William; Locker-Lampson, Frederick; Saintsbury, George; Haweis, H.R. (Hugh Reginald); Manning, Henry Edward; Maudsley, Henry; Morley, Henry; Spencer, Herbert; Historians; Carr, J. Comyns (Joseph Comyns); Froude, James Anthony; Ingelow, Jean; Symonds, John Addington; Newman, John Henry; Morley, John; Ruskin, John; Tyndall, John; McCarthy, Justin; Literary journeys; Litterateurs; Tupper, Martin Farquhar; Arnold, Matthew; Hamerton, Philip Gilbert; Bailey, Philip James; Portraits; Religious literature, English; Browning, Robert; Buchanan, Robert Williams; Hall, S.C. (Samuel Carter); Smiles, Samuel; Arnold, Edwin, Sir; Besant, Walter, Sir; Colvin, Sidney, Sir; Galton, Francis, Sir; Herkomer, Hubert von, Sir; Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir; Lockyer, Norman, Sir; Lubbock, John, Sir; Martin, Theodore, Sir; Morris, Lewis, Sir; Richardson, Benjamin Ward, Sir; Stephen, Leslie, Sir; Ward, Adolphus William, Sir; Societies, etc.; Brooke, Stopford Augustus; Huxley, Thomas Henry; Hughes, Thomas; Ward, Thomas Humphry; Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount; Mallock, W.H. (William Hurrell); Pater, Walter; Smith, William George; Morris, William
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SEE ALSO: A guide to modern English history (Book); A modern instance, a novel (Book); L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan; All adrift; or the Goldwing Club (Book); All sorts and conditions of men (Book); Allerton towers (Book); America and France; the influence of the United States on France in the XVIIIth century (Book); An adventure in Thule (Book); Thomas, Annie; Trollope, Anthony; Aunt Jo's scrap-bag (Book); Harte, Bret; Brooks, Byron Alden; Gibbon, Charles; “Curfew must not ring to-night” (Book); Daisies and buttercups (Book); Doctor Ben: an episode in the life of a fortunate unfortunate (Book); Doctor Zay (Book); Drake, the sea-king of Devon (Book); Sears, Edmund H. (Edmund Hamilton); Freeman, Edward Augustus; Abbey, Edwin Austin; Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart; Ingersoll, Ernest; Flip and Found at Blazing Star (Book); Folk and fairy tales (Book); Towle, George M. (George Makepeace); MacDonald, George; Sheldon, George William; Mabie, Hamilton Wright; Harper's young people (American periodical); Campbell, Helen; Trowbridge, J.T. (John Townsend); Otis, James; Rice, James; Kept in the dark. A novel (Book); Knocking round the Rockies (Book); Lectures to American audiences (Book); Rosenthal, Louis; Alcott, Louisa May; Lillie, Lucy C. (Lucy Cecil); Veley, Margaret; Mitford, Mary Russell; Mildred's bargain and other stories (Book); Mr. Stubbs's brother (Book); Parr, Mrs. (Louisa Taylor); Riddell, J.H., Mrs.; Natural religion (Book); Norse stories retold from the Eddas (Book); Of high degree. A story (Book); Optic, Oliver; Witherspoon, Orlando; Asbjörnsen, Peter Christen; Proverb stories (Book); Rachel's inheritance (Book); Herrick, Robert; Robin (Book); Thorpe, Rosa Hartwick; Gurteen, S. Humphreys; Kettlewell, S. (Samuel); Selections from the poetry of Robert Herrick (Book); Shakespeare's history of King Henry VI, part III (Book); Shakespeare's history of Troilus and Cressida (Book); Shakespeare's works (Book); Lanier, Sidney; Besant, Walter, Sir; Scott, Walter, Sir; Seeley, John Robert, Sir; “That glorious song of old” (Book); The boy's Percy, being old ballads of war (Book); The friendships of Mary Russell Mitford, as recorded in letters from her literary correspondents (Book); The jolly rover (Book); The lady of the lake (Book); The life of Major-General George H. Thomas (Book); The poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Illustrated by the paint and clay club (Book); The story of the Volunteer Fire Department of the City of New York (Book); Van Horne, Thomas B. (Thomas Budd); Aldrich, Thomas Bailey; Thomas à Kempis and the Brothers of the common life (Book); Percy, Thomas; Knox, Thomas Wallace; Those children and their teachers, a story of to-day (Book); Under green apple boughs (Book); Rolfe, W.J. (William James); Weighed and wanting. A novel (Book); Black, William; Howells, William Dean; Cory, William Johnson; Shakespeare, William
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SEE ALSO: A child of nature (Book); A matter-of-fact girl (Book); A question; the idyl of a picture by his friend Alma Tadema (Book); Beale, Anne; Bellah, a tale of Brittany (Book); Bible. N.T.; Book; Boyd, C.R.; Christ in modern thought (Book); Complete regular army register of the United States: for one hundred years (1779 to 1879) (Book); Defoe, Daniel; Eastman, Elaine Goodale; Farm festivals (Book); Ebers, Georg; Hepworth, George P.; Harry Joscelyn. A novel (Book); Rochefort, Henri; Calderwood, Henry; Parton, James; Burroughs, John; Cairns, John; Habberton, John; Cook, Joseph; Journal of a farmer's daughter (Book); Oliphant, Laurence; Life of Voltaire (Book); Mademoiselle Bismarck (Book); Manuela Parédes (Book); Hay, Mary Cecil; Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret); My first offer, and other stories (Book); Feuillet, Octave; Crawfurd, Oswald; Pepacton (Book); Portugal, old and new (Book); Buchanan, Robert Williams; Robinson Crusoe (Book); Besant, Walter, Sir; Southwest Virginia: mineral resources and railway facilities (Book); The chaplain of the Fleet (Book); The land of Gilead, with excursions in the Lebanon (Book); The miller's daughter. A novel (Book); The Old Testament in the Jewish church: twelve lectures on Biblical criticism (Book); The relations of science and religion. The Morse lecture, 1880, connected with the Union Theological Seminary, New York (Book); Gift, Theo; Hamersly, Thomas Holdup Stevens; Knox, Thomas Wallace; Unbelief in the eighteenth century as contrasled with its earlier and later history, being the Cunningham lectures for 1880 (Book); Versions; Smith, W. Robertson (William Robertson); Who was Paul Grayson? (Book); Carleton, Will; Chamberlain, William Mellen
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SEE ALSO: Alexander Pope (Book); American manual of Parliamentary law; or, the common law of deliberative assemblies (Book); Symington, Andrew James; Trollope, Anthony; Nichols, Arthur; Beauty's daughters (Book); Conder, C.R. (Claude Reignier); Chapters from the physical history of the earth an introduction to geology and palaeontology (Book); Duchess; Every-day English. A sequel to “Words and their uses” (Book); Burney, Fanny; Jausz, Ferencz; Underwood, Francis Henry; Gaspard de Coligny (marquis de Chatillon) admiral of France; colonel of French infantry; governor of Picardy, Ile de France, Paris, and Havre (Book); Ebers, Georg; George Bailey; a tale of New York mercantile life (Book); Fish, George T.; Richardson, H.W.; Brugsch, Heinrich Karl; Homo sum; a novel (Book); Bushnell, Horace; Austin, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin); Tuckey, Janet; Joan of Arc, “the maid” (Book); Judas Maccabæus and the Jewish war of independence (Book); Kossuth, Lajos; Life and letters of Horace Bushnell (Book); Memories of my exile (Book); Heilprin, Michael; Miss Bouverie. A novel (Book); Mrs. Beauchamp Brown (Book); Molesworth, Mrs.; Oldboy, Oliver; Renouf, P. Le Page(Peter Le Page); White, Richard Grant; Samuel Lover, a biographical sketch with selections from his writings and correspondence (Book); Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey; Besant, Walter, Sir; Stephen, Leslie, Sir; The diary and letters of Frances Burney (Book); The duke's children. A novel (Book); The historical poetry of the ancient Hebrews (Book); The origin and growth of religion as illustrated by the religion of ancient Egypt (Book); The sisters. A romance (Book); The true story of the exodus of Israel, together with a brief view of the history of monumental Egypt (Book); The undiscovered country (Book); Howells, William Dean; Words and their uses, past and present (Book)
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SEE ALSO: A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains (Book); A short history of German literature (Book); A strange disappearance (Book); Green, Anna Katharine; Gilman, Arthur; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron; Taylor, Bayard; Brazil, the Amazons and the coast (Book); Camps in the Caribbees: the adventures of a naturalist in the Lesser Antilles (Book); Gibbon, Charles; Tabor, Eliza; Ober, Frederick A.(Frederick Albion); Smith, George Barnett; Calvert, George H.; Golden-rod, an idyl of Mount Desert (Book); Great authors of all ages. Being selections from the prose works of eminent writers from the time of Pericles to the present day (Book); Hawthorne (Book); James, Henry; Smith, Herbert H.(Herbert Huntington); Bonitz, Hermann; His majesty, myself (Book); History of the English language (Book); Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy); DeKoven, James; Hosmer, James Kendall; Rice, James; McCarthy, Justin; Winsor, Justin; Packard, Lewis R. (Lewis Richard); Little Miss Primrose. A novel (Book); Harrison, Burton, Mrs.; Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret); Brooks, Phillips; Queen of the meadow. A novel (Book); Anderson, Rasmus Björn; Allibone, S. Austin (Samuel Austin); Sermons preached on various occasions (Book); Shakespeare's history of King Henry the Fourth (Book); Shakespeare's morals (Book); Shakspeare: a biographic æsthetic study (Book); Besant, Walter, Sir; Songs from the published writings of Alfred Tennyson set to music by various composers (Book); Studies in German literature (Book); Sweet Nelly, my heart's delight, by Walter Besant and James Rice, and A bundle of letters, by Henry James, Jr. (Book); The greatest heiress in England (Book); The influence of Jesus (Book); The life of the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone, D.C.L., etc. (Book); The limitations of life, and other sermons (Book); The origin of Homeric poems (Book); The origin of the Homeric poems; a lecture (Book); The Younger Edda: also called Snorre's Edda, or the prose Edda (Book); Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford; Cusins, W.G. (William George); Rolfe, W.J. (William James); Baker, William M. (William Mumford); Taylor, William M. (William Mackergo); Shakespeare, William
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SEE ALSO: A guide to family devotion (Book); A revised list of postage-stamps and stamped envelopes of all nations (Book); Fletcher, Alexander; Randolph, Anson D.F. (Anson Davies Fitz); Trollope, Anthony; Art in America; a critical and historical sketch (Book); Gilman, Arthur; Sidgwick, Arthur; At the beautiful gate, and other relligious poems (Book); Taylor, Bayard; Blanid (Book); Reade, Charles; Christie Johnstone (Book); Cousin Henry (Book); Goodale, D.H.R. (Dora Hill Read); Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock; Eastman, Elaine Goodale; Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart; Chaucer, Geoffrey; Waring, George E. (George Edwin); Jay, Harriett; Hays, Helen Ashe; Baird, Henry Martyn; Butterworth, Hezekiah; History of the rise of the Huguenots of France (Book); Homer; In Berkshire with the wild flowers (Book); Scott, J. Walter; Austen, Jane; Lessons from my masters, Carlyle, Tennyson and Ruskin (Book); Madge Dunraven: a tale (Book); Arnold, Matthew; Old friends and new (Book); Bayne, Peter; Poems of Wordsworth (Book); Rabelais (Book); Joyce, Robert Dwyer; Keep, Robert P. (Robert Porter); Benjamin, S.G.W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler); Jewett, Sarah Orne; Sealed orders (Book); Sense and sensibility. A novel (Book); Besant, Walter, Sir; The Bertrams. A novel (Book); The boy travellers in the Far East. Adventures of two youths in a journey to Japan and China (Book); The essential uses of the moods in Greek and Latin, set forth in parallel arrangement (Book); The Iliad of Homer (Poem); The palace of the king, and other religious poems (Book); The poetical works of Bayard Taylor (Book); The poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer, to which are appended poems attributed to Chaucer (Book); The Princess Idleways; a fairy story (Book); Knox, Thomas Wallace; Tyrol and the skirt of the Alps (Book); Unto the desired haven, and other religious poems (Book); Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton); Wordsworth, William; Young Mrs. Jardine (Book); Zigzag journeys in Europe. Vacation rambles in historic lands (Book)
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SEE ALSO: Weston, A.H.; Afternoons with the poets (Book); Clark, Alfred Corning; An illustrated commentary on the Gospel according to St. John. For family use and reference, and for the great body of Christian workers of all denominations (Book); Annual record of science and industry (Book); Trollope, Anthony; Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron; Blanc, Charles; Deshler, Charles D. (Charles Dunham); Brush, Christine C. (Christine Chaplin); Cousins (Book); Hume, David; Frazar, Douglas; Arndt, Ernst Moritz; Gaspard de Coligny (marquis de Chatillon) admiral of France; colonel of French infantry; governor of Picardy, Ile de France, Paris, and Havre (Book); Geier-Wally: a tale of the Tyrol (Book); Warren, Henry White; History of the United Netherlands: from the death of William the Silent to the twelve years' truce—1609 (Book); How to get strong and how to stay so (Book); O'Reilly, John Boyle; John Caldigate. A novel (Book); Motley, John Lothrop; Green, John Richard; Doggett, Kate Newell; Walford, Lucy Bethia; Abbott, Lyman; Maid, wife, or widow? (Book); Miss Margery's roses. A love story (Book); Moondyne: a story from the under-world (Book); Alexander, Mrs.; Practical boat-sailing: a concise and simple treatise on the management of small boats and yachts under all conditions (Book); Recreations in astronomy: with directions for practical experiments and telescopic work (Book); Meyers, Robert Cornelius V.; Roman days (Book); Romance of history. Hallam's constitutional history (Book); Besant, Walter, Sir; Scott, Walter, Sir; Baird, Spencer Fullerton; Tales from Euripides (Book); The colonel's opera cloak (Book); The grammar of painting and engraving (Book); The history of Henry Esmond (Book); The lay of the last minstrel; a poem in six cantos (Book); The life and adventures of Ernst Moritz Arndt, the singer of the German fatherland (Book); The lover's tale (Book); “The lover's tale” (Poem); The rifle club and range (Book); The yellow mask (Book); Rydberg, Viktor; Cooper, Vincent King; Hamley, W.G. (William George); Hillern, Wilhelmine von; Collins, Wilkie; Blaikie, William; Thackeray, William Makepeace
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SEE ALSO: Johnson, A.H. (Arthur Henry); Warner, Anna Bartlett; Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron; Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron; Castle Blair; a story of youthful days (Book); Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn); Elinor Dryden. A novel (Book); Notley, F.E.M. (Frances Eliza Millett); Robinson, F.W. (Frederick William); Shaw, Flora L.(Flora Louise); Charlot, Francis; Eggleston, George Cary; Towle, George M. (George Makepeace); Hannibal's man, and other tales (Book); O'Flanagan, J. Roderick (James Roderick); Inglis, James; Rice, James; Runeberg, Johan Ludvig; Sandeau, Jules; McCarthy, Justin; Macquoid, Katharine S.; Lady Charmichael's will and other Christmas stories (Book); Kip, Leonard; Love's crosses. A novel (Book); Madeleine: a story of French love (Book); Hay, Mary Cecil; Shipley, Marie Adelaide Brown, Mrs.; Nadeschda. A poem in nine cantos (Book); Nadeschda. A poem in nine cantos (Poem); Our professor (Book); Schaff, Philip; Pizarro: his adventures and conquests (Book); Red Eagle, and the wars with the Creek Indians of Alabama (Book); Gilder, Richard Watson; Besant, Walter, Sir; Sport and work on the Nepaul frontier; or, twelve years sporting reminiscences of an indigo planter, by “Maori” (Book); Warner, Susan; The broken walls of Jerusalem and the rebuilding of them (Book); The house of Israel (Book); The Irish bar: comprising anecdotes, bon-mots, and biographical sketches of the bench and bar of Ireland (Book); The kingdom of Judah (Book); The last days of Pompeii (Book); The Normans in Europe (Book); The poet and his master, and other poems (Book); The return of the native (Book); The sorrow of a secret; a story (Book); The star out of Jacob (Book); Hardy, Thomas; 'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay (Book); Walks from Eden (Book)
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SEE ALSO: A plea for art in the house, with special reference to the economy of collecting works of art (Book); Across Africa (Book); Garrett, Agnes; Gray, Albert Zabriskie; Trollope, Anthony; Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau); Auerbach, Berthold; Lamb, Charles; Christmas at Thompson Hall (Book); Freeman, Edward Augustus; Martineau, Harriet; He will come; or, Meditations upon the return of the Lord Jesus Christ to reign over the earth (Book); Van Laun, Henri; History of England from the commencement of the XIXth century to the Crimean War (Book); History of French literature (Book); Stillman, J.D.B.(Jacob Davis Babcock); Miller, John; Corson, Juliet; Letters from high latitudes; being some account of a voyage in 1856 in the schooner yacht “Foam” to Iceland, Jan Meyen, and Spitzbergen (Book); Liver complaint, nervous dyspepsia, and headache: their causes, prevention, and cure (Book); Lorley and Reinhard (Book); Holbrook, M.L. (Martin Luther); Grant, Maria M.; Twain, Mark; Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of; Lamb, Mary; Pine needles (Book); Questions awakened by the Bible (Book); Garrett, Rhoda; Russia (Book); Seeking the Golden fleece; a record of pioneer life in California (Book); Shakespeare's tragedy of Macbeth (Book); Besant, Walter, Sir; Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, Sir; Stephen H. Tyng; Suggestions for house decoration in painting, woodwork, and furniture (Book); Warner, Susan; Tales from Shakespeare (Book); The apologies of Justin Martyr (Book); The cooking manual of practical directions for economical every-day cookery (Book); The land and the life: sketches and studies in Palestine (Book); The sun-maid: a romance (Book); The Turks in Europe (Book); Cameron, Vernon Lovett; Loftie, W.J. (William John); Rolfe, W.J. (William James); When the ship comes home (Book); Shakespeare, William
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SEE ALSO: Coxe, A. Cleveland (Arthur Cleveland); Johnson, A.J. (Alvin Jewett); A short history of the English people (Book); Monod, Adolphe; Kinglake, Alexander William; White, Andrew Dickson; Annual record of science and industry (Book); Hare, Augustus J.C. (Augustus John Cuthbert); Farjeon, B.L. (Benjamin Leopold); Henry, C.S. (Caleb Sprague); Christian dogmatics: a text-book for academical instruction and private study (Book); Christian truth and modern opinion (Book); Commentary on the New Testament (Book); Covenant prayers (Book); Estes, Dana; Days near Rome (Book); Russell, John Russell, Earl; Edward III (Book); Curtius, Ernst; Ezra Stiles Gannett, Unitarian minister in Boston, 1824-1871; a memoir (Book); Fireside homilies (Book); Benedict, Frank Lee; Half-hour recreations in popular science (Book); Meyer, Heinrich August Wilhelm; Alford, Henry; History of Germany (Book); Hours in a library (Book); Ideas in nature overlooked by Dr. Tyndall (Book); Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas); Froude, James Anthony; Martineau, James; McCosh, James; Sime, James; Oosterzee, Johannes Jacobus van; Bigelow, John; Green, John Richard; Love's victory: a novel (Book); Mr. Vaughan's heir. A novel (Book); Alexander, Mrs.; Nature and the Bible. A course of lectures delivered in New York, in December, 1874, on the Morse foundation of the Union theological seminary (Book); New illustrated universal cyclopedia (Book); Ralph Wilton's weird (Book); Recollections and suggestions 1813-1873 (Book); Religion as affected by modern materialism: an address delivered in Manchester New college, London, at the opening of its eighty-ninth session, on Tuesday, October 6, 1874 (Book); Besant, Walter, Sir; Dawson, John William, Sir; Martin, Theodore, Sir; Stephen, Leslie, Sir; Baird, Spencer Fullerton; Supernatural religion: an inquiry into the reality of divine revelation (Book); The chronicles of Baltimore: being a complete history of “Baltimore town” and Baltimore city from the earliest period to the present time (Book); The English in Ireland in the eighteenth century (Book); The French humorists from the twelfth to the nineteenth century (Book); The French Revolution and First Empire: an historical sketch (Book); The history of Greece (Book); The history of the reign of the emperor Charles the Fifth (Book); The life of Benjamin Franklin, written by himself (Book); The life of His Royal Highness the prince consort (Book); The parting words of Adolphe Monod (Book); Cassels, Walter Richard; Gannett, William C. (William Channing); Prescott, William Hickling; Morris, William O'Connor; Warburton, William Parsons; Robertson, William
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November 2009

FINAL EDITION
Twilight of the American Newspaper
By Richard Rodriguez

THE INTELLIGENCE FACTORY
How America Makes Its Enemies Disappear
By Petra Bartosiewicz

PROSPEROUS FRIENDS
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