WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. +1811-1863+. Novelist; writer in ‘Punch’; artist. +The Paris Sketch-Book+ (1840); +Vanity Fair+ (1847); +Esmond+ (1852); +The Newcomes+(1855); +The Virginians+ (1857). The greatest novelist and one of the most perfect stylists of this century. “The classical English humorist and satirist of the reign of Queen Victoria.” Franco-Prussian War 1870-71. Third French Republic, 1870. William I. of Prussia made Emperor of the Germans at Versailles, 1871. CHARLES DICKENS. +1812-1870+. Novelist. +Sketches by Boz+ (1836); +The Pickwick Papers+ (1837); +Oliver Twist+ (1838); +Nicholas Nickleby+ (1838); and many other novels and works; +Great Expectations+ (1868). The most popular writer that ever lived. Rome the new capital of Italy, 1871. Russo-Turkish War 1877-78. Berlin Congress and Treaty, 1878. ROBERT BROWNING. +1812----+. Poet. +Pauline+ (1833); +Paracelsus+ (1836); _Poems_ (1865); +The Ring and the Book+ (1869); and many other volumes of poetry. Leo XIII. made Pope in 1878. +1880+ JOHN RUSKIN. +1819----+. Art-critic; essayist; teacher; literary man. +Modern Painters+ (1843-60); +The Stones of Venice+ (1851-53); +The Queen of the Air+ (1869); +An Autobiography+ (1885); and very many other works. “He has a deep, serious, and almost fanatical reverence for art.” Assassination of Alexander II., 1881. Arabi Pasha’s Rebellion 1882-83. War in the Soudan, 1884. GEORGE ELIOT. +1819-1880+. Novelist; poet; essayist. +Scenes of Clerical Life+ (1858); +Adam Bede+ (1859); and many other novels down to +Daniel Deronda+ (1876); +Spanish Gypsy+ (1868); +Legend of Jubal+ (1874). Murder of Gordon, 1884. New Reform Bill, 1885. INDEX. [Spellings in the Index are sometimes different from those used in the main text, as with the names “Shakespeare” and “Wycliffe”, or the use of ligatures in names such as “Bæda” and “Cædmon”. Paragraph references given in {braces} were added by the transcriber. Parts III and IV are separately indexed.] PART III. +African+ words in English, 263. +American+ words in English, 263. +Analytic+ English (= modern), 239 {III.2}. +Ancient+ English, 199 {I.4}. synthetic, 239 {III.1}. +Anglo-Saxon+, specimen from, 250 {IV.2}. contrasted with English of Wyclif and Tyndale, 251 {IV.3}. +Arabic+ words in English, 263. +Aryan+ family of languages, 195 {intro.7}. +Bible+, English of the, 256 {IV.11}. +Bilingualism+, 222 {II.33}. +Changes+ of language, never sudden, 198 {I.2}. +Chinese+ words in English, 264. +Dead+ and living languages, 198 {I.1}. +Dialects+ of English, 238 {II.52}. +Doublets+, English and other, 236-238 {II.47-II.51}. Greek, 233 {II.45}. Latin, 230-233 {II.41-II.43}. +Dutch+ and Welsh contrasted, 197 {intro.10}. words in English, 260 {V.5}.