E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Forster, John
(b. Newcastle, 1812; d. February 1st, 1876). “Statesman of the Commonwealth of England” (1831–34); “A Life of Oliver Goldsmith” (1848); “Biographical and Historical Essays” (1859); “The Arrest of the Five Members by Charles the First” and “Debates on the Grand Remonstrance” (1860); “Sir John Eliot,” a biography (1864); “Walter Savage Landor,” a biography (1868); “The Life of Charles Dickens” (1872–74); and “A Life of Jonathan Swift” (unfinished), (1876). Edited the Daily News (1846) and the Examiner (1847–58).
