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Wright (WILLIAM ALDIS an English)

WILLIAM ALDIS, an English editor, noted as a Shakespeare scholar; born about 1836. He was the principal contributor in Biblical geog- WUNDT WÜRZBURG raphy and biography to Dr. Smith's and pine. Of minerals, by far the most "Dictionary of the Bible" (3 vols. 1860- 1863), and made an abridged edition.

He edited Bacon's essays (1862), and his "Advancement of Learning" (1869); was coeditor with W. Clark, of the "Cambridge Shakespeare" (9 vols. 1863- 1866), and the "Globe Shakespeare" (1 vol. 1864); and edited the "Bible Word- Book" (1866), Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale," the "Metrical Chronicle" of Robert of Gloucester, and other works. He died in 1914.