Phelps
Phelps names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Phelps WILLIAM LYON, author and university professor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM LYON, author and university professor. Born in New Haven, Conn., in 1865; graduated from Yale in the class of 1887, receiving his doctor's degree four years later from the same university. The year following he became an instructor in English at Yale University and in 1901 Lampson professor of English language and literature. He has edited many school and college as many works for periodicals. He wrote classics, especially the novelists. several volumes of essays on the English ringless plumage, and is about two feet in length. textbooks in English as well as reviewed Other species known respectively the Formosan, the rin Shaws, the Yarkand, the Mongolian, the ring-necked, the Chinese, the Japanese, the green-backed golden, Wallich's, Reeves', and Sæmmering's pheasant, the golden, Lady Amherst's pheasant and silver pheasant.
Phelps highly prized game birds
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
highly prized game birds. The adult England in 1885-1889. During the Bermale pheasant is a beautiful bird, about ing Sea dispute he was senior counsel for three feet long. Head and neck deep the steel-blue, shot with greenish-purple and brown; eye surrounded by a patch of scarlet skin, speckled with blue-black; See WARD, ELIZABETH STUART (PHELPS). ear-coverts brown; back a light red, the feathers of the upper part tipped with velvet-black, of the lower part marked with brown. Quill feathers brown, of various shades, tail feathers oaken-brown, barred with a darker shade and with black. Breast and front of the abdomen golden-red with purple reflections, feathers edged with black; rest of abdomen and under tail-coverts blackishbrown. The female has yellowish-brown
Phelps Elizabeth Stuart
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
Elizabeth Stuart. See Ward ; Mrs. Elizabeth Phelps
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote this in 1921, William Lyon Phelps was mid-career as Lampson professor at Yale; he went on to become one of America's best-known popularizers of literature through newspaper columns and radio talks, retired in 1933 and died in 1943, and his Yale chair and reputation as a celebrity teacher are now largely a historical curiosity rather than a scholarly legacy. Aiton's 1910 cross-reference to Elizabeth Stuart Phelps points to a writer who was still living when it was printed: she died in 1911, and her 1868 bestseller The Gates Ajar, then read as consoling religious fiction, has since been recovered by feminist critics as a landmark of nineteenth-century American women's writing. The page also shows the hazards of scanning old print: the Collier's text here has become spliced with the encyclopedia's article on the pheasant, and with a fragment on Edward John Phelps, the American minister to England in 1885-89 and counsel in the Bering Sea arbitration.
Written for this edition, 2026.