E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Stephen, Leslie
(b. 1832). “The Playground of Europe” (1871); “Essays on Free Thinking and Plain Speaking” (1873), “Hours in a Library” (1874–79); “History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century” (1876); “Samuel Johnson” (1878), “The Science of Ethics” (1882); “Life of Henry Fawcett” (1885), “An Agnostic’s Apology,” etc. (1893); “Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen,” his brother (1895); and “Pope” and “Swift” in the English Men of Letters series. Edited Cornhill, and was first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.
