Introduction

Biography

After or­di­na­tion as an Epis­co­pal min­is­ter, Wil­son be­came a mis­sion­ary to Lab­ra­dor, New­found­land.

Afterward, he was a pro­fess­or of clas­sics at Queens Col­lege, Wind­sor, No­va Sco­tia, and lat­er, rect­or of St. Mark’s Church, Mount Kis­co, New York.

After leav­ing St. Mark’s, he was li­ter­ary ed­it­or of the Church­man for ma­ny years. He was for­eign ed­it­or for the Li­ter­ary Di­gest (1904–14), trans­lat­ing ex­tracts from Span­ish, Ita­li­an, French and Ger­man news­pa­pers, and was one of the ed­it­ors of the Lib­ra­ry of Mo­dern Elo­quence.

Works

• Dante In­ter­pret­ed: A Brief Sum­ma­ry of the Life, Times, and Char­ac­ter of Dan­te (New York & Lon­don: G. P. Put­nam’s Sons, 1899)
• Cathedrals of France: Po­pu­lar Stu­dies of the Most In­ter­est­ing French Ca­thed­rals (New York: Church­man, 1900)
• Chinese Li­te­ra­ture: Com­pris­ing the Ana­lects of Con­fu­cius, the Say­ings of Men­ci­us, the Shi-King, the Tra­vels of Fa-Hien, and the Sor­rows of Han, re­vised edi­tion, 1900
• The Li­te­ra­ture of Ara­bia, with Cri­ti­cal and Bio­gra­phi­cal Sketch­es, 1900
• The Wis­dom of Co­nf­ucius, with Cri­ti­cal and Bio­gra­phi­cal Sketch­es (New York & Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Books, Inc. 1900)
• Hindu Li­te­ra­ture (Lon­don & New York: Co­lo­ni­al Press, 1900)
• Japanese Li­te­ra­ture (Lon­don & New York: Co­lo­ni­al Press, cir­ca 1900)
• Literature of the Ori­ent (Lon­don & New York: Co­lo­ni­al Press, cir­ca 1900)
• The Li­te­ra­ture of In­dia (New York: Co­lo­ni­al Press, cir­ca 1900)
• Moorish Li­te­ra­ture: Com­pris­ing Ro­man­tic Ballads, Tales of the Ber­bers, Sto­ries of the Ka­by­lie, Folk­lore and Na­tion­al Tra­di­tions (New York: Co­lo­ni­al Press, circa 1901)
• Babylonian and As­sy­ri­an Li­te­ra­ture: Com­pris­ing the Epic of Iz­du­bar, Hymns, Tab­lets, and Cu­ne­iform In­scrip­tions, 1901
• Hebrew Li­te­ra­ture(New York: P. F. Coll­ier & Son, 1901)
• Turkish Li­te­ra­ture: Com­pris­ing Fables, Belles-Lettres, and Sac­red Tra­di­tions (Lon­don: Co­lo­ni­al Press, 1901)
• Moorish Li­te­ra­ture: Com­pris­ing Ro­man­tic Bal­lads, Tales of the Ber­bers, Sto­ries of the Ka­byles, Folk-Lore, and Na­tion­al Tra­di­tions, re­vised edi­tion (New York: Co­lo­ni­al Press, cir­ca 1901)
• Egyptian Li­te­ra­ture: Com­pris­ing Egypt­ian Tales, Hymns, Li­ta­nies, In­vo­ca­tions, the Book of the Dead, and Cu­ne­iform Writ­ings (New York: Co­lo­ni­al Press, cir­ca 1901)
• Sacred Books of the East (Lon­don & New York: Co­lo­ni­al Press, 1902)
• A Com­men­ta­ry on the New Tes­ta­ment (New York: Funk & Wag­nalls, 1906)