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Phillips (STEPHEN an English poet Born)

STEPHEN, an English poet. Born at Oxford in 1868; entered a few years he joined a company of play- Queen's College, Cambridge, in 1886. For ers and played in Shakespearean drama, playing in the Globe Theater in London (1909); "The Worth of a Woman" (1908). ancient people, descended from Ham, the son of Noah.

They emigrated at a very early date from Egypt into Syria, called after them Greeks, and others than Bulgarians. sa," which in though they possessed only the portion as well as in other large cities of Engon the S. coast bounded by the hilly coun- land. After leaving the stage he turned tries of Ephraim and Judah, and extend- to literature. In 1890 appeared a volume land. After leaving the stage he turned chief city, Gaza, is mentioned as early ceeding years appeared "Christ in as 2218 B. C. on the S. coast bounded by the hilly countries of Ephraim and Judah, and extend- ," but were compelled to set them at liberty some respects is his best work. These by Samson, who destroyed their chief volumes won him the prize from the Lonnobility by by pulling down the temple don Academy for the best verse of the where they were assembled, 1117 B. C. year. Phillips also wrote some dramas, (Judges xvi: 30). In the time of Eli, the most famous of which are: "Ulysses" PHILLIPS (1902); "Herod" (1900); "Paolo and Francesca" (1899); "Pietro of Siena" (1910); "Armageddon" (1915). This was the last work of Stephen Phillips. He died in 1915.