BARTLETT, JOHN (1820-19o5), American publisher and compiler, was born in Plymouth (Mass.), on June 14, 182o. He became a bookseller and publisher in Cambridge (Mass.), was a volunteer paymaster for a short time on the South Atlantic Squadron, and from 1865 to 1889, when he retired, was a mem ber of the publishing house of Little, Brown and Company in Boston. In 1855 he published the first edition of his Familiar Quotations, subsequently greatly expanded, and in 1894, after many years' labour, he published his New and Complete Con cordance . . . of Shakespeare, surpassing any of its predecessors in the number and fullness of its citations from the poet's writ ings. In all of his work he was greatly assisted by his wife, a granddaughter of President Joseph Willard of Harvard and a daughter of Sidney Willard, professor of Hebrew there. Bartlett died at Cambridge (Mass.), on Dec. 3, 1905.
See the sketches by M. H. Morgan in Amer. Acad. of Arts and Sciences, Proceedings (vol. 41, 1908) and by T. W. Higginson in Carlyle's Laugh and Other Surprises (19o9) .