Browne
Browne names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below. 1 of them is described by more than one encyclopedia.
Browne Charles Farrar (pseudonym
Described by 2 of the 6 encyclopedias.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
Charles Farrar (pseudonym, Artemus Ward) (1834-1867), an American humorist. He was born at Waterford, Maine, and died at Southampton, England. He learned the printer's trade, working on The Carpet Bag, a Boston comic weekly. He set the type for many of Saxe's humorous poems, and for Shillaber's Mrs. Partington's Gripsack. It is possible that this atmosphere of humor acted as an inspiration, for he soon started out, with a grotesque Panorama, as a comic lecturer. Successful from the first, he became the "dear delight of lecture halls." His works, in book form--Artemus Ward, his Book, Artemus Ward, his Travels among the Mormons, Artemus Ward, his Book of Goaks, Artemus Ward in London,--all have loss that which made his lectures irresistible, the personality of the lecturer. His manner was solemn--so naturally and simply solemn--as to be in itself mirth-provoking. Combined with this was a wit capable of giving to the commonplace some sudden turn or twist that would reveal a surprisingly comic side. Some of the witticisms of Artemus Ward are still current: Always live within your income, if you have to borrow money to do it. An occasional joke improves a comic paper.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES FARRAR, an American humorist, best known as AR- TEMUS WARD, born at Waterford, Me., April 26, 1834. Originally a printer, he became editor of papers in Ohio, where his humorous letters became very popиlar. He su subsequently lectured on California and Utah, and in England, where he contributed to "Punch." He died in Southampton, England, March 6, 1867.
Browne SIR THOMAS, an English antiquary and physician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR THOMAS, an English antiquary and physician, born in London in 1605. After receiving an academic and a professional education in England, he visited the Continent and took the degree of M. D. at Leyden. He was knighted by Charles II. His principal work is "Religio Medici" (1642), a liberal confession of faith for that day. "Vulgar Errors," was directed against the current superstitions of his contemporaries. "Urn Burial" appeared in 1658. He died in 1682.
Browne WILLIAM, an English poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM, an English poet, born in Tavistock, Devonshire, in 1591; was educated at Oxford. His poetry is graceful and fanciful, and pe abounds in beautiful pictures of English is "Britannia's scenery. His chief work is Pastorals" (1613-1616). 5). "The Shepherd's Pipe" (1614). "The Inner Temple Masque" (1614-1615) tells the story of Ulysses and Circe. His minor poems are very fine. He died in Ottery St. Mary about 1643. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Browne JUNIUS HENRI, American journalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JUNIUS HENRI, American journalist, born in Seneca Falls, N. Y., in 1833. He resided in New York City. Among his works are "Four Years in Secessia" (1865); "The Great Metropolis, a Mirror of New York" (1869); "Sights and Sensations in Europe" (1872). He died in 1902.
Browne HABLOT KNIGHT, an English artist (pseudonym PHIZ)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HABLOT KNIGHT, an English artist (pseudonym PHIZ); ; best known as the illustrator of Dickens' works, beginning with "Pickwick" in 1836; born June 15, 1815; died July 8, 1882. an
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The dates and works listed here still stand; what has moved is the standing of the men. Artemus Ward, whom Aiton's in 1910 called the "dear delight of lecture halls," is now read almost only by students of American humour and of Mark Twain, while Sir Thomas Browne — given a bare paragraph by Collier's in 1921 — has become the star of the page, his "Urn Burial" and "Religio Medici" prized by Woolf, Borges and W. G. Sebald, whose "The Rings of Saturn" (1995) opens with Browne's remains. Those remains had a strange afterlife: his skull, dug up in 1840 and kept for decades in the Norwich hospital museum, was finally reburied in St Peter Mancroft in 1922, the year after Collier's went to press. Hablot Knight Browne is still the face of Dickens, his Phiz plates reproduced in most illustrated editions; Junius Henri Browne, the busiest journalist of the five in his day, is now the least remembered.
Written for this edition, 2026.