Baring-Gould, Sabine

baring-gold, Sabine (1834-), an English clergyman and author. He was born at Exeter, received his education at Cambridge, and some years later became rector of Lew-Trenchard in Devon. He is the author of many novels and miscellaneous writings. Germany Past and Present and The Story of Germany are, perhaps, his best known works. Iceland, its Songs and Sagas and Curious Myths of the Middle Ages may also be mentioned, and, among his novels, Mehalah, a Story of the Salt Marshes, The Broom Squire, and Miss Quillet.

His secret of popularity lies not in his treatment, which is neither critical nor scientific, but rather in a clever, easy, diffuse, jovial, amusing way of saying clearly what at the moment comes to him to say.--Warner's World's Best Literature.

Mehalah is still one of the most powerful romances of recent years.--J. M. Barrie.