A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

by John W. Cousin

SEAMAN, OWEN (1861). —Parodist, etc. Œdipus and the Wreck (1888), Horace at Cambridge (1894), In Cap and Bells (1899), A Harvest of Chaff (1904), etc. Ed. of Punch since 1906.

SECCOMBE, THOMAS (1866). —Miscellaneous writer. Twelve Bad Men (1894), The Age of Johnson (1900), The Age of Shakespeare (with J.W. Allen, 1903), Bookman History of English Literature (1905-6), In Praise of Oxford, etc.; was assistant ed. of The Dictionary of National Biography.

SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON ("SETON THOMPSON") (1860). —Naturalist. Wild Animals I have Known (1898), Biography of a Grizzly, Two Little Savages, books on natural history of Manitoba, etc.

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD (1856). —Novelist, critic, and dramatist. Novels, The Irrational Knot, Cashel Byron's Profession, etc.; Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898), Three Plays for Puritans (1900), Man and Superman (1903), The Doctor's Dilemma (1906), The Devil's Disciple (1907), etc.

SHIEL, MATTHEW PHIPPS (1865). —Novelist. The Rajah's Sapphire, Shapes in the Fire, The Yellow Danger, Unto the Third Generation, etc.