E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Doyle, Arthur Conan
(b. Edinburgh, 1859). A Study in Scarlet (1888); The Mystery of Cloomber (1889); Micah Clarke (1889); The Firm of Girdlestone (1890); The Sign of Four (1890); The Captain of the Polestar, etc. (1890); The White Company (1891); The Doings of Raffles Haw (1892); Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892); Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893); The Great Shadow, etc. (1893); The Refugees (1893); Round the Red Lamp (1894); The Parasite (1894); The Stark-Munro Letters (1895); The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896).