Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/White, Richard Grant

WHITE, RICHARD GRANT, an American Shakespearean scholar; born in New York City, May 23, 1822. His journalistic work was in connection with the New York &ldquo;Courier and Enquirer&rdquo; (1851-1858), and &ldquo;World&rdquo; (1860-1861); and the London &ldquo;Spectator&rdquo; (1863-1867), for which he wrote &ldquo;Yankee Letters.&rdquo; Among his published books are: &ldquo;Biographical and Critical Handbook of Christian Art&rdquo; (1853); &ldquo;Shakespeare's Scholar&rdquo; (1854); &ldquo;National Hymns: A Lyrical and National Study for the Times&rdquo; (1861); &ldquo;Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare, with an Essay Toward the Expression of His Genius,&rdquo; etc. (1865); &ldquo;Poetry of the Civil War&rdquo; (1866); &ldquo;Words and Their Uses&rdquo; (1870); &ldquo;England Without and Within&rdquo; (1881); &ldquo;The Riverside Shakespeare,&rdquo; with Biography, introductions and notes (1883, 3 vols.); an annotated edition of

(1857-1865, 12 vols.). He published one novel, &ldquo;The Fate of Mansfield Humphreys&rdquo; (1884). He died in New York City, April 8, 1885.