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See also:LANG, See also:ANDREW (1844— ) , See also:British See also:man of letters, was See also:born on the 31st of See also:March 1844, at See also:Selkirk, See also:Scotland. He was educated at the See also:Edinburgh See also:Academy, St See also:Andrews University and at Balliol See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where he took a first class in the final classical See also:schools in 1868, becoming a See also:fellow and subsequently honorary fellow of Merton College. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the See also:day. His first publication was a See also:volume of metrical experiments, The See also:Ballads and Lyrics of Old See also:France (1872), and this was followed at intervals by other volumes of dainty See also:verse, xxii. Ballades in See also:Blue See also:China (188o, enlarged edition, 1888), Ballads and Verses Vain (1884), selected by Mr See also:Austin See also:Dobson; Rhymes d la Mode (1884), Grass of See also:Parnassus (1888), See also:Ban and Arriere Ban (1894), New Collected Rhymes (1905). He collaborated with S. II. See also:Butcher in a See also:prose See also:translation (1879) of the Odyssey, and with E. See also:Myers and See also:Walter See also:Leaf in a prose version (1883) of the Iliad, both of them remark-able for accurate scholarship and excellence of See also:style. As a Homeric See also:scholar, of conservative views, he took a high See also:rank. His See also:Homer and the Epic appeared in 1893; a new prose translation of The Homeric See also:Hymns in 1899, with essays See also:literary and mythological, in which See also:parallels to the See also:Greek myths arc given from the traditions of See also:savage races; and his Homer and his See also:Age in 1906. His purely journalistic activity was from the first of a varied description, ranging from sparkling " leaders " for the Daily See also:News to See also:miscellaneous articles for the See also:Morning See also:Post, and for many years he was literary editor of Longman's See also:Magazine; no critic was in more See also:request, whether for occasional articles and introductions to new See also:editions or as editor of dainty reprints. To the study of Scottish See also:history Mr Lang brought a scholarly care for detail, a piquant literary style, and a See also:gift for disentangling complicated questions. The See also:Mystery of See also:Mary See also:Stuart (1901, new and revised ed., 1904) was a See also:consideration of the fresh See also:light thrown on Mary's history by the See also:Lennox See also:MSS. in the University library, See also:Cambridge, strengthening her See also:case by restating the perfidy of her accusers. He also wrote monographs on The Portraits and Jewels of Mary Stuart (1906) and See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James VI. and the See also:Gowrie Mystery (1902). The somewhat unfavourable view of See also:John See also:Knox presented in his See also:book John Knox and the See also:Reformation (19o5) aroused considerable controversy, He gave new See also:information about the See also:continental career of the See also:Young Pretender in See also:Pickle the See also:Spy (1897), an See also:account of Alastair Ruadh See also:Macdonell, whom he identified with Pickle, a notorious Hanoverian spy. This was followed in 1898 by The Companions of Pickle, and in 1900 by a monograph .on See also:Prince See also:Charles See also:Edward. In 1900 he began a History of Scotland from the See also:Roman Occupation, the See also:fourth volume of which (1907) brought Scottish history down to 1746. The See also:Valet's Tragedy (1903), which takes its See also:title from an See also:essay on the" Man with the See also:Iron See also:Mask," (see IRON MASK), collectstwelve papers on See also:historical mysteries, and A See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
Monk of See also:Fife (1896) is a fictitious narrative purporting to be written by a young See also:Scot in France in 1429—1431. Mr Lang's versatility was also shown in his valuable See also:works on folk-See also:lore and on See also:primitive See also:religion. The earliest of these works was See also:Custom and Myth (1884); in Myth, Literature and Religion (2 vols., 1887, See also:French trans., 1896) he explained the irrational elements of See also:mythology as survivals from earlier savagery; in The Making of Religion (an idealization of savage See also:animism) he maintained the existence of high spiritual ideas among savage races, and instituted comparisons between savage practices and the 'occult phenomena among civilized races; he dealt with the origins of See also:totemism (q.v.) in Social Origins, printed (1903) together with J. J. See also:Atkinson's Primal See also:Law. He was one of the founders of the study of " Psychical See also:Research," and his other writings on See also:anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (19o1) and The See also:Secret of the Totem (1905). He carried the See also:humour and sub-acidity of discrimination which marked his See also:criticism of fellow folk-lorists into the discussion of purely literary subjects in his Books and Bookmen (1886), Letters to Dead Authors (1886), Letters on Literature (1889), &c. His Blue See also:Fairy See also:Tale Book (1889), beautifully produced and illustrated, was followed annually at See also:Christmas by a book of fairy tales and romances See also:drawn from many See also:sources. He edited The Poems and Songs of See also:Robert See also:Burns (1896), and was responsible for the See also:Life and Letters (1897) of J. G. See also:Lockhart, and The Life, Letters and Diaries (189o) of See also:Sir See also:Stafford See also:Northcote, first See also:earl of See also:Iddesleigh.
End of Article: LANG, ANDREW (1844— )
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