Birrell
AUGUSTINE, an English essayist, born in Wavertree, near Liverpool, Jan. 19, 1850. He graduated from Cambridge and was called to the bar.
He is author of charming critical and biographical essays on literary subjects, collected in the two series of "Obiter Dicta" (1884, 2d series 1887) and "Res Judicatæ" (1892), really the third of the same series. "Men, Women and Books" (1895) is a collection of short newspaper pieces. In 1885 he published a "Life of Charlotte Brontë"; in 1897 edited Boswell's "Life of Johnson," "Life of Sir Frank Lockwood" (1898); "Collected Essays" (1900); "William Hazlitt" (1902); "In the Name of the Bodleian" (1905). President Board of Education, 1905; Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1907-1916. The Irish Rebellion which broke out in Dublin in April, 1916, BIRTH-RATE led to his resignation in May of that year.