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White, Richard Grant

scholar, author, poet, was born May 22, 1821, in New York city. He was an eminent Shakespearean scholar of New York city.

His critical twelve-volume edition of Shakespeare appeared in 1865, and the Riverside edition in 1883. His original works comprise Words and Their Uses; Every-Day English; England Without and Within; Biographical and Critical Handbook of Christian Art; Shakespeare's Scholar; Memoirs of Shakespeare; Studies in Shakespeare; The New Gospel of Peace, a political satire; Revelations: a Companion to The New Gospel of Peace; The Fate of Mansfield Humphreys, novel; The Fall of Man, or the Loves of the Gorillas; The American View of the Copyright Question; and The Chronicles of Gotham. He died April 8, 1885, in New York city. a WHITE, MRS. RHODA ELIZABETH [WATERMAN], author, was born in 18-, She is the author of Portraits of My Married Friends; From Infancy to Womanhood, a Book for Young Mothers; and What Will the World Say? a novel.