A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

by John W. Cousin

RHYS, SIR JOHN, D.Litt. (1840). —Celtic philologist. Celtic Britain (1882), Studies in the Arthurian Legend (1891), Celtic Folklore (1901), etc.

RIDGE, WILLIAM PETT. —Novelist. A Clever Wife (1895), Mord Em'ly (1898), A Son of the State (1899), Erb (1903), Mrs. Galer's Business (1905), The Wickhamses (1906), Name of Garland (1907), etc.

RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB (1858). —American poet and humorist. The Old Swimmin' Hole (1883), Pipes o' Pan at Zekesbury (1887), Rhymes of Childhood (1889), Old-fashioned Roses (1891), Green Fields and Running Brooks (1893), A Child World (1896), While the Heart beats Young (1906), etc.

RITCHIE, MRS. ANNE ISABELLA (THACKERAY) (1837). —Novelist, etc. The Story of Elizabeth (1863), The Village on the Cliff (1865), To Esther (1869), Old Kensington (1873), Blue Beard's Keys (1874), Miss Angel (1875), Mrs. Dymond (1885), etc.

ROBERTS, CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS (1860). —Canadian poet and naturalist. In verse, Orion (1880), In Divers Tones (1887), Songs of the Common Day (1893), New York Nocturnes (1898), Book of the Rose (1903); prose, The Raid from Beauséjour (1894), Around the Camp Fire (1896), The Forge in the Forest (1897), The Kindred of the Wild (1902), Haunters of the Silences (1907), etc.