Excerpt from A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Vol. 3: From the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century Tate, Thomas, formerly Mathematical Professor and Lecturer on Chemistry in the National Society's Training College, Battersea, and subsequently of Kneller Training College, Twickenham. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.