AUGUSTINE BIRRELL
\ˈɔːɡəstˌiːn bˈɜːɹə͡l], \ˈɔːɡəstˌiːn bˈɜːɹəl], \ˈɔː_ɡ_ə_s_t_ˌiː_n b_ˈɜː_ɹ_əl]\
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An English essayist; born in Wavertree, near Liverpool, Jan. 19, 1850. He graduated from Cambridge and was called to the bar. He is author of charming critical and biographical essays on literary subjects, collected in the two series of "Obiter Dicta" (1884, 2d series 1887), and "Res Judicatae" (1892, really the third of the same series). "Men, Women, and Books" (1895) is a collection of short newspaper pieces. In 1887 he published a "Life of Charlotte Bronte".
By Charles Dudley Warner
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Snake's-head
- Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head.