=Crabbe, George.= 1754-1832. Poet. Writer of realistic, matter-of-fact narrative poems: The Village, The Parish Register, etc. _See complete edition of 1834, 8 vols., with Life._ _See Atlantic Monthly, May, 1880, "A Neglected Poet."_ =Crabbe, George.= 1778-1834. Philologist. Author of Hist. Eng. Law and a noted work on Eng. Synonyms. _Pub. Har._ =Craig-Knox, Mrs. Isa.= 183 Scotch poet. Author Ode to Burns, Duchess Agnes, etc. _Pub. Cas._ =Craik, Mrs. Dinah Maria Mulock.= 182 Novelist and poet. Author of quiet, helpful, earnest stories, among which John Halifax, Gentleman, is the most noted. Others are, A Brave Lady, A Noble Life, A Woman's Kingdom, Mistress and Maid, etc. Philip My King and Douglas are two of her finest poems. _Pub. Har. Hou. Mac._ =Craik, George Lillie.= 1799-1866. Historian. Author of a valuable Hist. Eng. Lit., The English of Shakespeare, Bacon and his Philosophy, etc. _See Rolfe's Craik's English of Shakespeare._ _Pub. Scr._ =Cranmer, Thos.= 1489-1555. Abp. Canterbury. Theologian. _See Archdeacon Todd's Life of, 1831._ =Crashaw [cr[)a]sh´aw], Richard.= c. 1620-1650. Poet. Author of Steps to the Temple, etc. His verse is fanciful and mystical, but always melodious. _See Turnbull's complete edition of London, 1858._ _See G. MacDonald's England's Antiphon and Cornhill Mag., April, 1883._ =Creasy, Sir Edward Shepherd.= 1812-1878. Historian. Author Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, Hist. Ottoman Turks, Hist. of England. _Pub. Ho. Har._ =Croker, John Wilson.= 1780-1857. Essayist and historical writer. Style caustic and vigorous. _See H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches._ =Croker, Thos. Crofton.= 1798-1854. Irish novelist. Author of romances and fairy tales, the latter of great beauty. =Croly, George.= 1780-1860. Irish poet. Author Angel of the World, Catiline, etc. His verse has a showy, tinsel brilliancy. _Pub. Har. Rou._ =Cruden [kroo´den], Alexander.= 1701-1770. Scotch theologian. Famous as the author of the well-known Concordance to the Bible. _Pub. Lip. Ran. Wh._ =Cudlip, Mrs. Annie Pender=, "Annie Thomas." 18-- ----. Novelist. Author Denis Donne, A Passion in Tatters, Playing for High Stakes, etc. _Pub. Har._ =Cudworth, Ralph.= 1617-1688. Philosopher. His True Intellectual System ranks among Eng. prose classics. _See edition 1845, 3 vols._ =Cumberland, Richard.= 1632-1718. Bp. Peterborough. Philosophical writer. =Cumberland, Richard.= 1732-1811. Great-grandson to preceding. Poet and dramatist. Wrote The West Indian, Wheel of Fortune, and other rather sentimental comedies. _See edition of his dramas, by Jansen, 1813._ =Cumming, John.= 1810-1881. Scotch theologian and popular London preacher. Author Apocalyptic Sketches, Fall of Babylon Foreshadowed, etc.