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Roberts, Charles George Douglas (1860).—Canadian poet and naturalist. In verse, Orion (1880), In Divers Tones (1887), Songs of the Common Day (1893), New York Nocturnes (1898), Book of the Rose (1903); prose, The Raid from Beauséjour (1894), Around the Camp Fire (1896), The Forge in the Forest (1897), The Kindred of the Wild (1902), Haunters of the Silences (1907), etc.

Robertson, John Mackinnon (1856).—Critic, etc. Buckle and his Critics, Montaigne and Shakespeare, The Dynamics of Religion, History of Free Thought, Christianity and Mythology, Introduction to English Politics, Short History of Christianity, Essays in Ethics and Sociology, etc.

Robins, Elizabeth ("C. E. Raimond").—American novelist and actress. New Moon (1895), Below the Salt (1896), The Open Question (1898), The Convert (1907), etc.

Robinson, Agnes Mary Frances (Mme. Duclaux) (1857).—Poetess. A Handful of Honeysuckles (1878), The Crowned Hippolytus (1881), Arden (novel) (1883), The New Arcadia (1884), An Italian Garden (songs) (1886), A Mediæval Garland (1897), The Fields of France (1903), The End of the Middle Ages, books in French on Froissart, Renan, etc.

Rose, John Holland, Litt.D. (1855).—Historical and biographical writer. A Century of Continental History, The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era, Napoleonic Studies, Life of Napoleon I. (1902), The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1900 (1905), etc.

Rosebery (Archibald Philip Primrose), 5th Earl of, K.G., K.T., LL.D., etc. (1847).—Statesman and biographical writer. Pitt (1891), Appreciations and Addresses (1899), Sir Robert Peel (1899), Napoleon, the Last Phase (1900), and Oliver Cromwell (1900).

Rossetti, William Michael (1829).—Biographer, ed., etc. Translator of Dante's Hell (1865), Lives of Famous Poets (1878), Life of Keats (1887), Memoir of Dante G. Rossetti, and has ed. many poets, etc.

Rouse, William Henry Durham, Litt.D., etc. (1863).—Scholar. The Jataka, or Studies of Buddha's Former Births (vols. ii., iv., and vi.), The Giant Crab and Other Tales of Old India (1897), The Talking Thrush (1899), Tales from the Isles of Greece (1897), A Garland of Greek Song (1900), Greek Votive Offerings (1902); ed. many classics, etc.

Russell, William Clark (1844).—Novelist. John Holdsworth, Chief Mate (1874), A Sailor's Sweetheart (1877), An Ocean Tragedy (1881), The Convict Ship (1895), List, ye Landsmen (1897), Overdue (1903), The Yarn of Old Harbour Town (1905), etc.

Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman, LL.D., D.Litt., etc. (1845).—Critic and biographer. Short History of French Literature, etc. (1882), Essays in English Literature (1890), Nineteenth