Author:William Minto

William Minto
(1845–1893)

Works

• A Manual of English Prose Literature, Biographical and Critical, designed mainly to show Characteristics of Style (1872) (external scan)
• Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to Shirley (1874)
• Daniel Defoe (1879) (external scan)
• Logic, Inductive and Deductive (1893) (external scan)
• Plain Principles of Prose Composition (1893)
• The literature of the Georgian era (1894), edited by William Angus Knight

Novels

• The Crack of Doom (1886)
• The Mediation of Ralph Hardelot (1888)
• Was she good or bad? (1889)

As editor

• The Lady of the Lake (1891), by Walter Scott
• Autobiographical notes of the life of William Bell Scott ... and notices of his artistic and poetic circle of friends, 1830 to 1882 (1892), by William Bell Scott

Contributions to EB9

• "Byron, Lord," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (4) (1878)
• "Dekker, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (7) (1878)
• "Dickens, Charles," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (7) (1878)
• "Dryden, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (7) (1878)
• "Massinger, Philip," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (15) (1883)
• "Thomson, James (1700-1748)," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (23) (1888)

Contributions to EB1911

• "Dekker, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Dryden, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Mill, John Stuart," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (with John Malcolm Mitchell)
• "Pope, Alexander," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Scott, Sir Walter," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (updated for the 11th edition by an anonymous co-author)
• "Spenser, Edmund," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Steele, Sir Richard," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Sterne, Laurence," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Wordsworth, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)

Works about Minto

• "Minto, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Minto, William," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Minto, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Minto, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)