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 (1838).—Writer on Biblical and literary subjects. Shakespearian Grammar (1870), ed. of Bacon’s Essays (1876), Bacon and Essex (1877), Francis Bacon . . . his Life and Works (1885), Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), St. Thomas of Canterbury (1898), Paradosis (1904), Johannine Vocabulary (1905), Silanus the Christian (1906), etc.   (1849).—American novelist. A Kentucky Cardinal, The Choir Invisible, A Summer in Arcady, Blue Grass Region of Kentucky, The Increasing Purpose, Aftermath, part ii. of A Kentucky Cardinal, The Mettle of the Pasture, The Reign of Law, Bride of the Mistletoe (1909).  , D.C.L. (1843).—Legal and constitutional writer, etc. Law and Custom of the Constitution, ed. Memoirs of the third Duke of Grafton, etc.   (see ).  —Literary antiquary. Has issued many reprints of rare books. English Reprints, English Scholars' Library, ed. An English Garner (1880-83), British Anthologies (1899-1901), A Christian Library (1907).   (1856).—Writer on the drama and translator of Ibsen; ed. Ibsen’s Prose Dramas, 5 vols., Colleted Works of Ibsen, 11 vols., translated with his brother, Major Chas. A., Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, Life of Macready, Masks or Faces, Study and Stage, Real Conversations (1904), etc.  .—Elizabeth and her German Garden, A Solitary Summer, The April Baby’s Book of Tunes, The Benefactress, Elizabeth's Adventures in Ruegen, Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther.   (1834).—Literary antiquary, etc. History of Chap-books of Eighteenth Century (1882), Humour, Wit, and Satire of Seventeenth Century (ed. 1883), Adventures and Discoveries of Capt. John Smith (1884), Romances of Chivalry (1886), Social England under the Regency (1890), etc.<section end="Ashton, John" />