HEROES AND HEROINES OF FICTION MODERN PROSE AND POETRY FAMOUS CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS AUTHOR OF "CURIOSITIES OF POPULAR CUSTOMS,' HANDY BOOK OF LITERARY CURIOSITIES," COPYRIGHT, 1914 BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY Aaron, in Titus Andronicus, attributed to Shakespeare, a Moorish prisoner introduced into Act i, Sc. 1. Savage, uncouth and unnatural, cursing the day in which fate has restrained him from committing "some notorious ill," his subsequent conduct justifies the description he gives of himself. Abaddon, in Milton's Paradise gained (iv, 624) a personification of the Jewish hades. See vol. II. A Abdallah, titular hero of Abdallah or the Four-leaved Clover (Fr. Abdallah, ou le Trèfle à Quatre Feuilles) an Arabian romance by Edouard Laboulaye (1859); English translation by Mary L. Booth (1868). Abdallah, son of a Bedouin woman, widowed before his birth, is charged by an astrologer to seek the fourRe-leaved clover, subsequently explained to be a mystic flower hastily snatched up by Eve at her expulsion from Eden. The leaves are respectively copper, silver, gold and diamond. The diamond leaf had dropped from Eve's trembling hand inside the garden; the others were scattered over the world. The deeds by which Abdallah seeks to win the successive leaves form the staple of the plot. Abadonna, the penitent fallen angel of Klopstock's Messiah. See vol. II. Abberville, Lord, hero of a comedy, The Fashionable Lover (1780), by Richard Cumberland, a young nobleman who, under the guardianship of the nerveless and incompetent Dr. Druid, a Welsh antiquary, recklessly squanders his patrimony and becomes enmeshed in the toils of an unscrupulous woman of the town, Lucinda Bridgemore. He is saved from his evil courses by his father's executor, Mr. Mortimer, and his honest Scotch bailiff. Abbot The, titular character in Scott's, romance The Abbot. See GLENDENNING, EDWARD. Abdael, in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, a character intended for General Monk, afterwards Duke of Albemarle, who was a loyal partisan of Charles II. Abdaldar, in Robert Southey's oriental epic, Thalaba the Destroyer (1797), a magician chosen as the destroyer of Thalaba who died as he was on the point of stabbing Thalaba. Abdallah, in Byron's poem, The Bride of Abydos, a brother of Giaffer, murdered by the latter. Abdallah el Hadji (the Pilgrim), in Scott's romance, The Talisman, an ambassador from Saladin to Richard Coeur-de-Lion, who arranged all the preliminaries for the combat between Kenneth of Scotland (q.v.) and Conrade de Montserrat. Abdelazer, hero of a tragedy, Abdelazer, or the Moor's Revenge (1677), which Mrs. Aphra Behn founded on Lust's Dominion, or the Lascivious Queen, an Elizabethan play falsely attributed to Marlowe. Mrs. Behn was, in turn, laid under contribution by Young in The Revenge. Abdelazer is son of the King of Fez, who has been conquered and |