MORLEY, HENRY (1822-94). An English author, burn in London, September 15, 1822. Ile was educated at a Moravian school at Neu wied On the Rhine. and at King's College, London ( 1838-43) ; practiced medicine at Madeley, in Shropshire (1544-4S) ; and. having been fleeced by a colleague. he started a school on Moravian methods at Manchester, but after two years he started it afresh at Liverpool. A series of ironi cal essays entitled How to Make home Un healthy attracted the attention of Dickens, and eventually led to Morley's settling in London and taking a hand in House/cold Words and All the Year hound (1850-65). Ile also became con nected with the Examiner as sub-editor and then as editor (1856-64). \leanw•lhile he was appointed lecturer in English at King's College (1857-65), and then professor of English at University Col lege, London (1865-S9). Ile died May 14, 1894. Chief among Morley's works are: A Defence of Ignorance (1851)4 a bit of irony; Lives of Pa lissy the Potter (1852), Jerome Cardan (1854), and Cornelius Agrippa (1836) ; Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair ( 1537) : two volumes of fairy tales- (1859-60) ; English (Writers, to Dunbar (1864-67). rewritten and brought down to the
seventeenth century (11 vols., 1887-95) : A First sketch of English Literature (1,973: rev. 18S6) ; and English Literature in the Reign of Victoria 118811. Ile also edited a Library of English Literature (5 vols., 1875-51): Universal Library (63 vols., 1883-85) ; Cassell's National Library (214 vols.. 1886-00) ; and the Carisbrooke Li brary. a series of reprints (14 vols., 1889-91 ). Though Morley was not a critic and editor of the first rank. he had catholic tastes, a talent for finding the best in things, and he performed a most valuable service in making easily acces sible the treasures of English literature.