Chapman
Chapman names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Chapman GEORGE, an English poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE, an English poet, the earliest, and perhaps the best, He translator of Homer, born in 1557. was educated at Oxford, and in 1576 proceeded to London; but little is known of his personal history. His translation of the "Iliad" was published in three separate portions in 1598, 1600, and 1603. In 1614 appeared his translation of the "Odyssey," followed in the same year by that of the "Battle of the Frogs and Mice," and the Homeric hymns. He also translated Hesiod's "Works and Days" and portions of various classic poets. He wrote numerous plays, almost all now forgotten, though containing some fine passages. He died in 1634.
Chapman FRANK MICHLER, an American ornithologist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANK MICHLER, an American ornithologist, born at Englewood, N. J., in 1864. He received an academic education. From 1887 to 1908 he was assistant curator of ornithology and mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History, and was full curator from 1908. He carried on many expeditions and explorations in temperate and tropical America and was awarded many medals for his work in ornithology. Among his books are "Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America" (1895); "Bird Studies with a Camera" (1900); "The Economic Value of Birds to the State" (1903); "The Travels of Birds" (1916); "Our Winter Birds" (1918). He was also a frequent contributor to magazines.
Chapman JOHN JAY, an American essayist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN JAY, an American essayist, born in New York City in 1862. He graduated from Harvard in 1884 and, after studying law, was admitted to the bar in 1888, but ceased active practice in 1898. He was the author of many volumes of essays, including (1898); "Causes and Consequences" (1898); "Learning and Other Essays" (1911), He and "Greek Genius" (1915), etc. also wrote several plays, a tragedy in verse, and "Songs and Poems" (1919). He edited "The Letters of Victor Chapman, with Memoirs." His son, Victor, was one of the first American aviators killed in the World War.
Chapman J. WILBUR, an American clergyman and evangelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
J. WILBUR, an American clergyman and evangelist, born in Richmond, Ind., in 1859. He graduated from Lake Forest University in 1879 and from Lane Theological Seminary in 1882. In the latter year he was ordained Presbyterian minister. He served as pastor in Albany, N. Y., and Philadelphia, and in 1893 began evangelistic work, which he carried on with great activity in all parts of the United States. Among his published writings were "The Lost Crown"; "The Secret of a Happy Day"; "Present-Day Parables"; "Chapman's Pocket Sermons," and "When Home Is Heaven." He died ۱ in 1918.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the four men, two were still living when Collier's wrote in 1921, and their stories have since closed. Frank Michler Chapman stayed at the American Museum of Natural History until the 1940s and died in 1945; his lasting legacy is less his books than the Christmas Bird Count, which grew from his 1900 proposal in the magazine Bird-Lore that he founded, and which is still run annually by the Audubon Society. John Jay Chapman died in 1933 and was afterwards championed by Edmund Wilson as one of the sharpest American critics of his era, a reputation he did not have in 1921. On George Chapman, the claim that his plays are "almost all now forgotten" no longer holds: "Bussy d'Ambois" and "The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois" are staples of Jacobean drama courses, and his Homer survives above all through Keats's sonnet on first looking into it.
Written for this edition, 2026.