Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . of ancient India. His statement of Indian philo-sophy has not been accepted by experts as im-peccable, and his fluent and sometimes grandioseblank verse was by critics generally regarded aslacking in distinction ; but the work attained greatpopularity, and by the end of the century hadgone through sixty English and eighty Americaneditions. In The Light of the World (1891) he attempted, more audaciousl
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . of ancient India. His statement of Indian philo-sophy has not been accepted by experts as im-peccable, and his fluent and sometimes grandioseblank verse was by critics generally regarded aslacking in distinction ; but the work attained greatpopularity, and by the end of the century hadgone through sixty English and eighty Americaneditions. In The Light of the World (1891) he attempted, more audaciously and less successfully,to do for Jesus Christs life and teaching what hehad done for Buddha. The subject was less un-familiar, the inadequacy of the treatment moregenerally recognised, and the not infrequent in-felicities more inevitably conspicuous. There waslittle to rivet attention, the paraphrases of thegospel story were found pedantic or purposeless,and, spite of much fine writing in smooth andcopious (but monotonous) blank verse, the wholefailed of effect. Other works are Pearls of theFaith; With Sdadi in the Garden (translations fromthe Gulistan) ; The Tenth Muse, and other Poems;. SIR EDWIN a Photograph by Russell & Sons. Potiphafs Wife; Adznma, or the Japanese Wife(a play) ; The Voyage of Ithobal. He has visitedIndia and Japan, and given readings in the UnitedStates ; and has written books on his travels, someof them originally articles in his paper. He (1877) and (1888), and has Siamese,Japanese, Persian, and Turkish decorations. Histhird wife is a Japanese lady. Lord Avebnry had made his name in litera-ture as Sir John Lubbock long ere he was createda peer (1900). The son of the astronomer SirJohn William Lubbock (1803-65), he was born inLondon in 1834 ; from Eton he passed at fourteeninto his fathers banking-house ; in 1856 becamea partner; ser\ed on several educational andcurrency commissions ; and in 1870 was returnedfor Maidstone in
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