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Dodson & Fogg. Pickwick Papers, Dickens. Mrs. 

 BardelPs attorneys in her suit against Mr. Pickwick. 



Dogberry. Much Ado About, Nothing, Shakespeare. 

 An absurd character who travesties justice. 



Dombey, Florence, Mr. and Paul. Dombci/ <nitl 

 Son, Dickens. Characters in the novel. 



Dominie, Sampson. Ouy Mannering, Scott. An 

 eccentric clergyman. 



Don yuixote. Don Quixote, Cervantes. The hero of 

 the novel. This has been described by eminent critics 

 as the best work of fiction which the world has yet pr- 

 duced. It was written in Spanish by Miguel de Cer- 

 vantes, as a protest against the ridiculous extrava- 

 gances of what are known as Chivalric Romances. Don 

 Quixote is the type upon which thousands of later 

 novels have been founded. Crazed by the reading of 

 knightly tales, he arms himself and goes out in search 

 of adventures, on his steed Rozinante, and accompanied 

 by his squire Sancho Panzo. These adventures are told 

 so wittily, that the world has been laughing at them for 

 centuries, and the book has never lost its fresh, boyish 

 interest. The best English translation is Smollett's. 

 Gustavo Dore, the famous French artist, some years 

 since (completed a set of illustrations for Don Quixote, 

 which have added greatly to its interest. 



Dora. David Copperfteld, Dickens. Copperfield's 

 child-wife. 



Dorimant. The Man of Mode, Ether eye. A dandy. 



Dorothea. Middlemarch, George Eliot. The heroine 

 of the tale. 



Dorrit, Edward, and "Little." Little Dorrit, 

 Dickens. The father of the Marshalsea prison and his 

 interesting daughter. 



Drawcansir. The Rehearsal, The Duke of Bucking- 

 ham. A bully. 



Dulcinea del Toboso. Don Quixote, Cervantes. A 

 country girl whom Don Quixote selects as his lady 

 love. 



Dundreary, Lord. Our American Cousin, Taylor. 

 A typical and absurd English lord. The character was 

 really created by the actor Sothern. 



Edgar. King Lear, Shakespeare. The son of Glou- 

 cester. 



Emilia. Othello, Shakespeare. Wife of lago, the 

 villain of the play. 



Esmond, Beatrix, and Henry. Henry Esmond, 

 Thackeray. Heroine and hero of the novel, which is of 

 the time of the English Revolution. 



Eugenia. The Return of the Native, Hardy. A beau- 

 tiful and unfortunate girl. 



Evangeline. Evangeline, Longfellow. Heroine of 

 the poem; her wanderings are told inverse that will 

 never die. 



Evans, Sir Hugh. Tlie Merry Wives of Windsor, 

 Shakespeare. A welsh clergyman. 



Evelina. Evelina, Miss liurney. Heroine of the 

 novel. 



Eyre, Jane. Jane Eyre, Bronte. Heroine of the novel. 



Fag. The Rivals, Sheridan. A servant. 



Fagin. Oliver Twist, Dickens. The preceptor in the 

 thieves' academy, where Oliver Twist is held a prisoner. 



Faithful, Jacob. Jacob Faithful, Marryat. The 

 hero of the novel. 



Falkland. The Rivals, Sheridan. A jealous lover of 

 Julia's, and friend to Captain Absolute. 



Falstaff, Sir John. Henry IV. and the Merry Wives 

 of Windsor, Shakespeare. This is Shakespeare's most 

 comic character ; Queen Elizabeth was so pleased with 

 Sir John in Henry IV. that, at her request, Shakespeare 

 composed The Merry Wives of Windsor, in order to 

 give the fat knight a 'wider field for fun. 



Fanny. Under the Greenwood Tree, Hardy. A pretty 

 schoolmistress. 



Fat Boy, The. Pickwick Papers, Dickens. One of the 

 minor characters in the novel, given to sleep and pie. 



Faust. Faust, Goethe. The hero of the great Ger- 

 man tragedy, who sells his soul to the Devil, and gets in 

 return youth, wealth, and an attendant devil, Mephis- 

 topheles. Goethe was to Germany what Shakespeare 

 was to England. 



Felton, Septimius. Septimius Felton, Hawthorne. 

 The mystical hero of the novel. 



Ferdinand. The Tempest, Shakespeare. Son of the 

 king, falls in love with Prospero's daughter, Miranda. 



~*errers, Endymion. Endymion, Benjamin Dis- 

 .*eU. Hero of the novel. 



Figaro. The Marriage of Figaro, Beaumarchais. 

 An exceedingly comical and sharp-witted barber. 



linn in, Philip. The Adventures of Philip, Thack- 

 eray. The hero of the novel . 



Florizel. A Winter's Tale, Shakespeare. The prince 

 of Bohemia. 



Fluellen. Henry V., Shakespeare. A pedantic but 

 brave Welsh officer. 



Foker, Harry. PenAenntt, Thackeray. One of the 

 minor characters. 



Foppington, Lord. The Relapse, Van lirugli. An 

 idiotic dandy. 



Fosco, Count. Woman in, White, Collins. A com- 

 plicated scoundrel. 



Frankenstein. Frankenstein, Mrs. Southey. The 

 dreadful result of the labors of a German student, who 

 makes a man in the dissecting room out of corpses, and 

 brings him to life by galvanism. The hideous hero of 

 the novel has a series of most blood-curdling adven- 

 tures. 



Friar Tuck. Reliques, Percy. The jolly companion 

 of Robin Hood, the outlaw of Sherwood FoVest. 



Friday. Robinson Crusoe, De Foe. Crusoe's savage 

 servant. 



Gadgrind, Jeremiah. Hard Times, Dickens. A 

 tyrannical " practical " man. 



Gamp, Sairy. Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens. A comi- 

 cal and hard-drinking monthly nurse. 



Gargantua. Oargantua, Rabelais. Hero of the tale. 



Gaunt, Griffith. Griffith Gaunt, Reade. Hero of 

 the novel. 



Gay, "Walter. Dombey and Son, Dickens. Marries 

 Florence Dombey. 



Gihbie, Goose. Old Mortality, Scott. A half-witted 

 boy. 



Gil Bias. Gil Bias, Le Sage. The hero of a very 

 famous novel. His adventures are of the most surpris- 

 ing character, and are told in a most interesting man- 

 ner. 



Gilpin, John. John Gilpin's Ride, Counter. The 

 absurd hero of the poem. 



Ginevra. Ginevra, Rogers. The heroine of the poem, 

 accidentally locked in a trunk on her wedding day, and 

 not found for years and years. 



Gobbo, Launcelot. The Merchant of Venice, Shakes- 

 peare. A merry servant. 



Goneril. Xing Lear, Shakespeare. The eldest daugh- 

 ter of the king, a traitor and an ingrate. 



Gonzalo. The Tempest, Shakespeare. An old coun- 

 cilor. 



Gosling, Giles. Kenihcorth, Scott. A landlord. 



Grandison, Sir Charles. Sir Charles Grandison, 

 Richardson. Hero of the novel. 



Gray, Vivian. Vivian Gray, Disraeli. Hero of the 

 novel. 



Grundy, Mrs. Speed the Plow, Morton. A old lady 

 who represents worldly propriety and talebearing. 



Gulliver, Lemuel. Gulliver's Travels, Su-ift. Hero 

 of the romance. 



Hamlet. Hamlet, Shakespeare. The melancholy 

 Dane, hero of the play. 



Harley. The Man of Feeling, Mackenzie. Hero of 

 the novel. 



Harlowe, Clarissa. Clarissa Harlowe, Richardson. 

 Heroine of the novel. 



Harris, Mrs. Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens. A ficti- 

 tious person invented by Sairy' Gamp, for the purpose 

 of enforcing her statements by quoting the opinions of 

 Mrs. Harris upon the subject under discussion. 



Headstone, Bradley. Our Mutual Friend, Dickens. 

 A schoolmaster in love with Lizzie Hexam. 



Heep, Uriah. David Copperneld, Dickens. A hyp- 

 ocrite and sneak. 



Helena. All's Well that Ends Well, Shakespeare. 

 Heroine of the play. 



Hero. Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare. 

 Daughter of Leonato. 



Hexam, Lizzie. Our Mutual Friend, Dickens. Hero- 

 ine of the novel. 



Holofernes. As You Like it, Shakespeare. A school- 

 master and pedant. 



Holt, Felix. Felix Holt, George Eliot. Hero of the 

 novel. 



Honeyman, Charles. The Neiccomes, Thackeray. 

 A fashionable preacher. 



Honor, Mrs. Tom Jones, Fielding. Sophia Western's 

 waiting woman. 



Hopeful. Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan. A pilgrim. 



Horatio. Hamlet, ShuJcespeare. The friend f 

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