AN

EXPLANATORY AND PRONOUNCING

DICTIONARY

OF THE

NOTED NAMES OF FICTION;

INCLUDING ALSO

FAMILIAR PSEUDONYMS, SURNAMES BESTOWED ON EMINENT MEN, AND
ANALOGOUS POPULAR APPELLATIONS OFTEN REFERRED

TO IN LITERATURE AND CONVERSATION.

BY WILLIAM A. WHEELER.

So eine Arbeit eigentlich nie fertig wird; ... man fie für fertig erklären muß,
wenn man nach Zeit und Umständen das Möglichste daran gethan hat.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by

WILLIAM A. WHEELER,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.