Henry Cadwallader Adams

He was the grandson of Simon Adams of

Works

Fiction

Adams wrote children's novels, specialising in tales of

• The Cherry-stones, or Charlton School (1851)
• Who Did It?, or Holmwood Priory. A Schoolboy's Tale (1852)
• Sivan the Sleeper (1857)
• Schoolboy Honour; a tale of Halminster College (1861)
• The Indian Boy (1865)
• Balderscourt, or Holiday Tales (1866)
• Falconshurst; or, Birthday tales (1869)
• Hair-breadth escapes, or, The adventures of three boys in South Africa London: Griffith & Farran (1876)
• The Boy Cavaliers, or The Siege of Clidesford (1878)
• The Winborough Boys, or Ellerslie Park (1879)
• Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh (1887)
• Travellers' Tales: a book of marvels (1883)
• Wroxby College, Or, the Luscombe Prize: A Tale of Boy Life
• School and University; Or, Dolph Woodward
• The Mystery of Beechey Grange Or the Missing Host: A Tale for Boys
• College days at Oxford, or, Wilton of Cuthbert's (1887)
• The Lost Rifle, or, Schoolboy Faction
• Schooldays at Kingscourt

School textbooks

• A New Greek Delectus, London, 3rd edition (1855)
• Greek Exercises, Adapted to Adams's Greek Delectus, and Wordsworth's Greek Grammar (1856)
• A New Latin Delectus: Adapted to the Arrangement of the Eton, and Edward the Sixth's Latin Grammars (1857)
• Latin Exercises, Adapted to the Arrangement of the Eton and Edward VI's Grammars, and Adams's Latin Delectus
• Adams's Principia Graeca, Being a Grammar and Delectus Combined (1871)

Religious

• The Greek text of the Gospels: with prolegomena, notes and references, for the use of schools and colleges (1886)
• The Judges of Israel, or Tales for Sunday Reading
• Sunday Evenings at Home (1880)
• Sundays at Encombe
• The History of the Jews from the war with Rome to the present time (1887)

Poetry

• The twelve foundations and other poems (1859)

Other

• Wykehamica: A History of Winchester College and Commoners: Oxford, London and Winchester (1878)

References