Bland
Bland names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Bland RICHARD PARKS, an American legislator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RICHARD PARKS, an American legislator, born near Hartford, Ky., Aug. 19, 1835; received an academical education, and, between 1855 and 1865, practiced law in Missouri, California, and Nevada, and was engaged for some time in mining. In 1865 he settled in Rolla, Mo., and practiced there till 1865 when he removed to Lebanon in the same State. He was a member of Congress in 1873-1895 and from 1897 till his death. In 1896 he was a conspicuous candidate for the Presidential nomination in the Democratic National Convention. Mr. Bland was best known as the leader in the Lower House of Congress of the Free-Silver movement, and the author of the Bland Silver Bill. He died in Lebanon, Mo., June 15, 1899. See BLAND SILVER BILL.
Bland JOHN OTWAY PERCY, an English journalist and author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN OTWAY PERCY, an English journalist and author; born in Whiteabbey, County Antrim, Ireland, Nov. 15, 1863. He studied in Switzerland and at Trinity College, Dublin. He was secretary of Sir Robert Hart, when the latter was in China on his work in connection with the Chinese customs finances (1883-1885), and in 1906 became the representative in China of the British and Chinese Corporation. He was Chinese correspondent of the London "Times" from 1897 to 1910. His knowledge of Chinese life and character was extensive and subject both in England and America. Among his works are "Houseboat Days China" (1909), "China Under the Empress Dowager" (1910), "Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking" (1913) and "Li Hung Chang" (1917).
Bland EDITH NESBIT, an English writing under the name "E
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDITH NESBIT, an English writing under the name "E. author,, writin author, Nesbit," born in London, Aug. 15, 1858. She has been a prolific writer of books for the young that have met with popular favor, and has also published some volumes of verse. Among her works are "Leaves of Life" (1888); "The Marden Mystery" (1896); "The Story of the Treasure Seekers" (1899); "The Red House" (1903); "Man and Mail" (1906); "Salome and the Head" (1909); and "Wings and the Child" (1913).
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote in 1921 that Edith Nesbit "has been a prolific writer of books for the young" — she died in 1924, and the titles the entry lists have been eclipsed by the ones it omits: Five Children and It (1902) and The Railway Children (1906), which made her a founder of modern children's fiction and an admitted influence on C. S. Lewis. J. O. P. Bland's reputation went the other way: China Under the Empress Dowager (1910), praised here, was written with Edmund Backhouse, whose central source — the Ching-shan diary — was shown to be a forgery, most damningly in Hugh Trevor-Roper's Hermit of Peking (1976). Richard Parks Bland's Free-Silver cause, still a live memory in 1921, ended for good when the United States abandoned the domestic gold standard in 1933 and the last link to gold in 1971; he is remembered now chiefly for the Bland–Allison Act of 1878.
Written for this edition, 2026.