Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . -pointed professor of English literatureat the University of Birmingham. Heedited many editions of English classicsand wrote Sir Joshua Reynolds as aPortrait Painter (1874) ; Study ofEnglish Literature (1891); Essaysand Studies (1895); Essays in Poetryand Criticism (1905) ; and Rousseauand Voltaire (1908). He died in 1908. COLLINS, WILLIAM, an Englishpoet; born in Chichester, Dec. 25, melancholy temperament and poeticmusings marked him as a boy, and atOxford. The P
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . -pointed professor of English literatureat the University of Birmingham. Heedited many editions of English classicsand wrote Sir Joshua Reynolds as aPortrait Painter (1874) ; Study ofEnglish Literature (1891); Essaysand Studies (1895); Essays in Poetryand Criticism (1905) ; and Rousseauand Voltaire (1908). He died in 1908. COLLINS, WILLIAM, an Englishpoet; born in Chichester, Dec. 25, melancholy temperament and poeticmusings marked him as a boy, and atOxford. The Passions, the Ode toEvening, the Dirge in Cymbeline, andthe Ode on the Death of Thomson,chiefly perpetuate his fame. He died ina madhouse at Chichester, June 12, 1759. COLLINS, WILLIAM, an Englishpainter; born in London, Sept. 8, 1788;father of William Wilkie Collins. Hismost popular works are: Happy as aKing, The Stray Kitten, PuttingSalt on the Birds Tail, and The NewlyFound Nest. He died in London, , 1847. COLLINS, WILLIAM WILKIE, an English novelist; born in London, , 1824. He was educated at a private. ^#^ ^ms^^ms WILLIAM WILKIE COLLINS school. After a short time in the tea-trade he studied law at Lincolns wrote a biography of his father in1848 and made literature his —Vol. Ill—Cyc COLLINSVILLE 62 COLLUSION His first novel was Antonina (1850);Rambles Beyond Railways follow. In1852 he returned to fiction with Basil,and Mr. Wrays Cash Box, Hide andSeek followed in 1854. In HouseholdWords, After Dark and one of hismost successful works, The DeadSecret, were originally published. Several of his novels, including TheWoman in White and No Name, werepublished originally in All the YearRound. Armadale and many of hissubsequent stories were printed in Amer-ican magazines before appearing inbook-form. The Moonstone, Man andWife, The New Magdalen, and TheLaw and the Lady are other works ofhis that had wide circulation. His prin-cipal books have been t
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