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=Labagh, Isaac Peter.= _N. Y._, 1804-1879. An Episcopal clergyman of Iowa, but formerly a clergyman of the Dutch Reformed faith. Great Events of Unfulfilled Prophecy; The Great Events that are Coming; The Two Witnesses, Moses and Elijah; Theoklesia.

=La Borde, Maximilian.= _S. C._, 1804-1873. An educator who was professor in the University of South Carolina, 1842-73. Introduction to Physiology; Story of Lethea and Verona; History of South Carolina College.

=Ladd, George Trumbull.= _O._, 1842- ----. A Congregational clergyman of prominence, professor of philosophy at Yale University from 1881. Principles of Church Polity; The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture; Philosophy of Mind; A Primer of Psychology; Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory; Outlines of Psychological Psychology; Elements of Psychological Psychology; Introduction to Philosophy; What is the Bible? He has translated Lotze’s Philosophical Outlines, from the German. _Gi. Scr._

=Ladd, Horatio Oliver.= _Me._, 1839- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, but formerly of the Congregational faith, at one period president of the University of New Mexico. History of the War with Mexico; The Story of New Mexico. _Do. Lo._

=La Farge, John.= _N. Y._, 1835- ----. A noted figure and landscape artist of New York city. Lectures on Art. _Mac._

=Laighton, Albert.= _N. H._, 1829-1887. A banker of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, cousin of Mrs. Thaxter, _infra_. Poems, a collection of quiet, thoughtful verse, was published in 1878.

=Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte.= _Ga._, 1798-1859. The second of the four presidents of the Republic of Texas, 1838, and United States minister to Central America, 1857-58. Verse Memorials. _See Bibliography of Texas._

=Lamb=, =Mrs. Martha Joan Reade= [=Nash=]. _Ms._, 1829-1893. An historical writer of New York city, editor of the Magazine of American History, 1883-93. The History of the City of New York, her chief work, is the result of a vast amount of patient labour and research. Her other works include, Spicy, a novel; Play-School Stories; The Christmas Owl; Snow and Sunshine, a Story for Girls; Wall Street in History. _Bar. Do._

=Lambert, Mrs. Mary Eliza [Perine] [Tucker].= _Al._, 1838- ----. A writer of Philadelphia. Poems; Loew’s Bridge, a Broadway Idyl; Life of Mark Pomeroy.

=Lamon, Ward Hill.= _Va._, 1828-1893. An Illinois lawyer, law partner of Abraham Lincoln. Recollections of Abraham Lincoln; Life of Abraham Lincoln. _Mg._

=Lamson, Alvan.= _Ms._, 1792-1864. A Unitarian clergyman of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1818-60. History of the First Church in Dedham; Sermons; The Church of the First Three Centuries.

=Lamson, Daniel Lowell.= _N. H._, 1834-18--. A physician of Fryeburg, Maine. Lectures; Differential Diagnosis of Diseases.

=Lamson, Mrs. Mary [Swift].= _Ms._, 1822- ----. For five years a teacher of Laura Bridgman, the noted blind deaf-mute, and for three years in entire charge of her education. Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman. _Hou._

=Lance, William.= 1791-1840. A lawyer and political writer of Charleston, who published a Life of Washington in Latin.

=Lander, Meta.= _See Lawrence, Mrs._

=Lander, Sarah West.= _Ms._, 1810-1872. A writer of Salem, Massachusetts, whose Spectacles for Young Eyes, a series of volumes of travel, was very popular.

=Landon, Judson Stuart.= _Ct._, 1832- ----. A lawyer of Schenectady, justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York and lecturer in the Albany Law School. The Constitutional History and Government of the United States. _Hou._

=Landon, Melville De Lancey.= “Eli Perkins.” _N. Y._, 1839- ----. A popular humourous lecturer. The Franco-Prussian War in a Nutshell; Saratoga in 1901; Eli Perkins at Large; Eli Perkins’s Wit, Humor, and Pathos; Fun and Fact, Thirty Years of Wit; Money: Silver, Gold, or Bimetallism, include the most of his writing. _Cas. Ke._

=Langdell, Christopher Columbus.= _N. H._, 1826- ----. A legal writer of distinction, dean of the Harvard Law School. Cases on the Law of Contracts; Summary of Equity Pleading; Cases in Equity Pleading; Elementary Treatise on the Law of Contracts.

=Langdon, William Chauncey.= _Vt._, 1831-1895. An Episcopal clergyman of Bedford, Pennsylvania. The Defects of our Practical Catholicity; Plain Papers for Parish Priests and Peoples; The Catholic Reform Movement in the Italian Church; Conflict of Practice and Principle in the American Church.

=Langley, Samuel Pierpont.= _Ms._, 1834- ----. An astronomer of eminence, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1887. Researches on Solar Heat; The New Astronomy. _Hou._

=Langston, John Mercer.= _Va._, 1829-1897. A distinguished educator of African birth, minister to Hayti, 1877-85, and president of the Virginia Normal Institute at Petersburg from the latter date. He published Freedom and Citizenship.

=Lanier= [la-neer´], =Clifford Anderson.= _Ga._, 1844- ----. A Georgia writer of fiction. Two Hundred Bales; Thorn-Fruit.

=Lanier, Sidney.= _Ga._, 1842-1881. Brother of C. A. Lanier, _supra_. A distinguished Southern writer over whose rank as a poet much controversy has arisen. His verse can hardly be said to appeal to many readers, and its formlessness at times repels rather than attracts. A Centennial Ode, written for the opening of the Exposition of 1876, first brought him into general notice. Subsequently he lectured upon English literature in Baltimore. Poems; Tiger Lilies, a novel; The Science of English Verse; The English Novel and its Development; Florida: its Scenery, History, and Climate. He edited The Boys’ Percy; The Boys’ Mabinogion; The Boys’ King Arthur; The Boys’ Froissart. _See Century Magazine, April, 1884; Gosse’s Questions at Issue._ _Lip. Scr._

=Lanigan, George Thomas.= _Q._, 1845-1886. A journalist of Montreal, and subsequently of New York city. Canadian Ballads; Fables Out of the World.

=Lanman, Charles.= _Mch._, 1819-1895. An artist and author of Washington, at one time the private secretary of Daniel Webster. Essays for Summer Hours; Summer in the Wilderness; Private Life of Daniel Webster; Dictionary of Congress; The Red Book of Michigan; Leading Men of Japan; Letters from a Landscape Painter; Tour to the River Saguenay; Farthest North; Haphazard Personalities, include the most of his works. _Ap. Le. Lo._

=Lanman, Charles Rockwell.= _Ct._, 1850- ----. A professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University from 1880. Noun Inflection in the Vedas; A Sanskrit Reader, with Notes. _Gi._

=Lansing, John Gulian.= _La._, 1851- ----. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, professor of Old Testament Languages in the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Jersey. American Revised Version of the Book of Psalms; An Arabic Manual. _Scr._

=Lanza, Marchioness Clara [Hammond].= _Ks._, 1858- ----. Daughter of W. A. Hammond, _supra_. A novelist of New York city. Tit for Tat; Mr. Perkins’s Daughter; A Righteous Apostate; Tales of Eccentric Life; A Modern Marriage; David Morton’s Transgression; A Golden Pilgrimage.

=Lapham= [lăp´a̯m], =Increase Allen.= _N. Y._, 1811-1875. A prominent scientist of Milwaukee. Antiquities of Wisconsin; Wisconsin: its Geography, Topography, History, Geology, and Mineralogy. _See Popular Science Monthly, April, 1883._

=Lapham, William Berry.= _Me._, 1828-1894. An agricultural editor of Maine, who published several histories of Maine localities, including Woodstock, Paris, Norway, Bar Harbor, and Mount Desert Island. _See Bibliography of Maine._

=Larcom, Lucy.= _Ms._, 1824-1893. A popular verse and prose writer of Beverly, Massachusetts, who in early life worked in the Lowell factories, and was a contributor to the noted Lowell Offering. Her writings in verse include, At the Beautiful Gate; Childhood Songs; Wild Roses of Cape Ann; An Idyl of Work; Easter Gleams; Complete Poems. Skipper Ben and Hannah Binding Shoes are her best known lyrics. Her original work in prose comprises, Ships in the Mist, and Other Stories; The Sunbeam; Similitudes; Leila among the Mountains; The Unseen Friend; As It is in Heaven; A New England Girlhood, an autobiographic work. _See Life by D. D. Addison._ _Hou._

=Larned, Augusta.= _Vt._, 1835- ----. A journalist of New York city. Home Story Scenes; Talks with Girls; Old Tales from Grecian Mythology; Tales from the Norse Grandmother; Village Photographs, a work of the nature of Miss Mitford’s “Our Village,” and with much of the same charm; In Woods and Fields, a book of verse. _Ho. Meth. Put._

=Larned, Josephus Nelson.= _Ont._, 1836- ----. The superintendent of the public library at Buffalo, 1877-1897. History for Ready Reference; Talks About Labor. _Ap._

=Larned, Walter Cranston.= _Il._, 1850- ----. A lawyer and littérateur of Lake Forest, Illinois. Churches and Castles of Mediæval France. _Scr._

=La Roche, René.= _Pa._, 1794-1872. A Philadelphia physician. Pneumonia: its Supposed Connection with Autumnal Fevers; Treatise on Yellow Fever.

=Larrabee, William Clark.= _Me._, 1802-1859. A once prominent Methodist clergyman and educator of Indiana, professor in De Pauw University for a number of years. Scientific Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion; Wesley and his Co-Laborers; Asbury and his Co-Laborers; Rosebower, a volume of essays. _Meth._

=Latham, Charles Sterrett.= _Cal._, 1861-1890. A Translation of Dante’s Eleven Letters, with Explanatory Notes and Historical Comments. _Hou._

=Lathbury, Mary Artemisia.= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. That Sweet Story of Old; Bethlehem and her Children; Child’s History of Paul; Fleda and the Voice; From Meadow Sweet to Mistletoe. _Meth._

=Lathrop, George Parsons.= _H. I._, 1851-1898. A littérateur of New York city, and more recently of New London. His writings in verse include, Rose and Rooftree; Dreams and Days. In fiction they comprise, Afterglow; An Echo of Passion; In the Distance; Newport; Would You Kill Him?; True; Two Sides of a Story; Love Wins; Gold of Pleasure; Behind Time. Other works are, A Study of Hawthorne; Spanish Vistas; A Story of Courage: Annals of the Georgetown Convent (with Mrs. Lathrop, _infra_). _Cas. Fu. Har. Hou. Lip. Scr._

=Lathrop, Mrs. Rose [Hawthorne].= _Ms._, 1851- ----. Wife of G. P. Lathrop, _supra_, and daughter of N. Hawthorne, _supra_. Along the Shore, a volume of verse; Some Memories of Hawthorne. _Hou._

=Latimer, Charles.= _D. C._, 1827-1888. An engineer of note who published Roadmaster’s Assistants; The Divining Rod; Battle of Standards.

=Latimer, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [Wormeley].= _E._, 1822-1904. An educator of Baltimore. Familiar Talks on Shakespeare’s Comedies; France in the Nineteenth Century, 1830-90; Russia and Turkey in the Nineteenth Century; England in the Nineteenth Century; Europe in Africa in the Nineteenth Century; Italy in the Nineteenth Century. _Mg. Rob._

=Latrobe, John Hazelhurst Boneval.= _Pa._, 1803-1891. A lawyer of Baltimore. Son of the architect Benjamin Latrobe. History of Mason and Dixon’s Line; Three Great Battles; Justices’ Practice under the Laws of Maryland; Reminiscences of West Point; Odds and Ends, a book of verse; History of Maryland in Liberia.

=Latta, Samuel Arminius.= _O._, 1804-1852. A Methodist clergyman of Ohio, subsequently a physician in Cincinnati, who published The Chain of Sacred Wonders.

=Laughlin, James Lawrence.= _O._, 1850- ----. A political economist of note, professor at Harvard University, 1883-87, and at Chicago University from 1892. Facts About Money; Study of Political Economy; Elements of Political Economy; History of Bi-Metallism in the United States. _Ap. Am._

=Lawrence, Eugene.= _N. Y._, 1823-1894. An historical writer of New York city. Lives of the British Historians; Historical Studies; Essays and Papers; Literature Primers; The Jews and their Persecutors; Columbus and his Contemporaries. _Har._

=Lawrence, Mrs. Margaret Oliver [Woods].= “Meta Lander.” _Ms._, 1813-1901. Daughter of L. Woods, _infra_. Light on the Dark River; Fading Flowers; L’Espérance; The Tobacco Problem; Marion Graham. _Le._

=Lawrence, William.= _O._, 1819-1899. A jurist of Ohio who was comptroller of the national treasury, 1880-85. Decisions of Ohio Supreme Court; The Treaty Question; Law of Religious Societies and Religious Corporations; Law of Claims Against the Government; Organization of the United States Treasury Department; Decisions of the First Comptroller of the Treasury.

=Lawrence, William.= _Ms._, 1850- ----. The seventh Protestant Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts. Life of Amos A. Lawrence; Visions and Service, discourses in collegiate chapels. _Hou._

=Lawrence, William Beach.= _N. Y._, 1800-1881. An eminent jurist of New York city, and after 1850 of Newport, Rhode Island. Letters on the Treaty of Washington; an edition of Wheaton’s Elements of International Law; Visitation and Search; Institutions of the United States; Commentaire sur les éléments du droit international; Administration of Equity Jurisprudence, include his principal writings.

=Lawson, James.= _S._, 1799-1880. A New York city journalist. Tales and Sketches by a Cosmopolite; Poems; Giordana, a tragedy. _See Wilson’s Poets and Poetry of Scotland._

=Lawson, John.= _E._, 16-- -1712. The surveyor-general of North Carolina, burned at the stake by hostile Indians. His entertaining travels were published with the title of History of North Carolina. _See Tyler’s American Literature._

=Lawton, William Cranston.= _Ms._, 1853- ----. A classical teacher and lecturer, formerly of Cambridge, now (1897) of Brooklyn and professor in Adelphi College there. Three Dramas of Euripides; Folia Dispersa, a book of verse; Art and Humanity in Homer. _Hou. Mac._

=Lay, Henry Champlin.= _Va._, 1823-1885. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Easton (Maryland), but from 1859 to 1869 the third bishop of Arkansas. Studies in the Church; The Church and the Nation.

=Lazarus, Emma.= _N. Y._, 1849-1887. A talented Jewish writer of New York city who wrote much in verse and prose for The Century and other periodicals. Alide, an Episode of Goethe’s Life; Poems; Admetus, and Other Poems; Songs of a Semite; Poems and Ballads translated from Heine. Her Complete Poems, with a brief memoir, appeared in 1889. _Hou._

=Lazarus, Josephine.= _N. Y._, 1846- ----. Sister of E. Lazarus, _supra_. The Spirit of Judaism; The Love-Letters of a Portuguese Nun, a translation from the French. _Cas. Do._

=Lazelle, Henry Martyn.= _Ms._, 1832- ----. A United States army officer, since 1887 in charge of the bureau of war records. One Law in Nature; Improvements in the Art of War.

=Lea, Henry Charles.= _Pa._, 1825- ----. Son of I. Lea, _infra_. A prominent writer and publisher of Philadelphia. Superstition and Force; An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church; Chapters from the Religious History of Spain; Studies in Church History; Translations, and Other Rhymes; History of the Inquisition. _See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement; Catholic World, March, 1897._ _Har. Hou._

=Lea, Isaac.= _Del._, 1792-1886. A publisher and naturalist of Philadelphia. Contributions to Geology; Observations on the Genus Unio, in thirteen volumes; Fossil Footmarks in the Red Sandstones of Pottsville.

=Lea, Matthew Carey.= _Pa._, 1823-1897. Son of I. Lea, _supra_. A chemist of Philadelphia whose Manual of Photography is a standard work.

=Leaming, Jeremiah.= _Ct._, 1717-1804. An Episcopal clergyman of Connecticut. Defense of Episcopal Government; Evidences of the Truth of Christianity; Dissertations.

=Learned, Walter.= _Ct._, 1847- ----. A verse-writer of New London who has published Between Times, a collection of poems, and translated Ten Tales from Coppée. _Sto._

=Leavitt, John McDowell.= _O._, 1824- ----. An Episcopal clergyman. Faith, a Poem; Afranius; The Siege of Babylon, a tragedy; Hymns to Our King; New World Tragedies from Old World Life; Reasons for Faith; Visions of Solyma.

=Le Conte= [le-kŏnt], =John.= _Ga._, 1818-1891. A naturalist and physician, president of the University of California, 1875-81, and professor of physics there before and after his presidency. Philosophy of Medicine; Study of the Physical Sciences; Vital Statistics.

=Le Conte, John Eaton.= _N. J._, 1784-1860. Uncle of J. Le Conte, _supra_. A naturalist who in early life served in the corps of army engineers with the rank of major. Monographs of North American Species of Utricularia, Gratiola, and Ruellia; North American Species of Viola.

=Le Conte, John Lawrence.= _N. Y._, 1825-1883. Son of J. E. Le Conte, _supra_. An entomologist of distinction, author of List of Coleoptera of North America, and other technical publications.

=Le Conte, Joseph.= _Ga._, 1823-1901. Brother of John Le Conte, _supra_. A geologist of eminence, professor of geology in the University of California from 1869. Elements of Geology; Sight; Evolution and its Relation to Religious Thought; Religion and Science. _Ap._

=Lee, Alfred.= _Ms._, 1807-1887. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Delaware, and prominent as a Low Churchman. The Harbinger of Christ; Life of St. Peter; Eventful Nights in Bible History; Life of St. John; Treatise on Baptism. _Har. Ran._

=Lee, Benjamin.= _Ct._, 1833- ----. Son of A. Lee, _supra_. A physician of Philadelphia. Treatment for Angular Curvature of the Spine; Tracts on Massage.

=Lee, Benjamin Franklin.= _N. J._, 1841- ----. A Methodist clergyman of African birth, president of Wilberforce University from 1876. Wesley the Worker; Causes of the Success of Methodism.

=Lee, Charles Alfred.= _Ct._, 1810-1872. A physician of New York city who published Elements of Geology for Popular Use; Human Physiology.

=Lee, Day Kellogg.= _N. Y._, 1816-1869. A Universalist clergyman of New York city. Summerfield, or Life on a Farm; Master Builders, or Life at a Trade; Merrimack, or Life at a Loom.

=Lee, Mrs. Eliza [Buckminster].= _N. H._, 1794-1864. Sister of J. S. Buckminster, _supra_. A once popular Boston writer. Life of Richter; Sketches of a New England Village; Naomi; Florence, the Parish Orphan; Parthenia, or the Last Days of Paganism.

=Lee, Mrs. Hannah Farnham [Sawyer].= _Ms._, 1780-1865. A once prominent writer of Boston. Grace Seymour; Luther and his Times; Sculpture and Sculptors; Three Experiments in Living, which was extraordinarily popular both in America and England; Familiar Sketches of the Old Painters; The Huguenots in France and America; Memoir of Pierre Toussaint.

=Lee, Henry.= _Va._, 1756-1818. A famous general in the American army during the Revolution. He published Memoirs of the War in the Southern Departments of the United States. In his oration in Congress on the death of Washington first occurs the familiar phrase, “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”

=Lee, Henry.= _Va._, 1786-1837. Son of H. Lee, _supra_. A Virginia writer who published The Campaign of 1781 in the Carolinas; Life of Napoleon.

=Lee, Jesse.= _Va._, 1758-1816. A Methodist missionary, called “the Apostle of Methodism,” who published a History of Methodism, which is a valuable record of the early years of that faith. _See Life and Times by L. M. Lee._

=Lee, Luther.= _N. Y._, 1800-1889. A Wesleyan clergyman of Michigan. Universalism Examined and Refuted; Church Polity; Immortality of the Soul; Slavery in the Light of the Bible; Elements of Theology.

=Lee, Mrs. Mary Catherine [Jenkins]=. _Ms._, 18-- - ----. A novelist of Springfield, Massachusetts. A Quaker Girl of Nantucket; In the Cheering-Up Business; A Soulless Singer. _Hou._

=Lee, Mary Elizabeth.= _S. C._, 1813-1849. A writer of Charleston, author of Historical Tales for Youth, and a volume of Poems issued in 1851 with memoir by S. Gilman, _supra_.

=Leech, Samuel Van Derlip.= _N. Y._, 1837- ----. A Methodist clergyman and temperance reformer. The Drunkard; Ingersoll and the Bible; The Inebriates. _Fu._

=Leeds, David.= _E._, 1652-1720. A prominent figure among the early settlers of Burlington, New Jersey, and a violent opponent of the Quakers. His writings, directed almost entirely against them, include The Temple of Wisdom; The News of a Trumpet; Hue and Cry against Error; A Trumpet Sounded; The Rebuker Rebuked; The Great Mystery of Fox-Craft Discovered.

=Leeser= [lā´zer], =Isaac.= _Wa._, 1806-1868. A Jewish rabbi of Philadelphia who published The Jews and the Mosaic Law; Discourses on the Jewish Religion; Portuguese Forms of Prayer; a Translation of the Scriptures from the original Hebrew.

=Lefferts, George Morewood.= _L. I._, 1846- ----. A physician of New York city. Diseases of the Nose; Diagnosis of Nasal Catarrh; Pharmacopœia for Diseases of the Throat and Nose.

=Legare= [lā-gree´], =Hugh Swinton.= _S. C._, 1799-1843. A South Carolina jurist and essayist, attorney-general of the United States in 1841. Constitutional History of Greece; Essay on Classical Learning; Essay on Roman Literature.

=Legare, James Matthews.= _S. C._, 1823-1859. An inventor and verse writer. Orta-Undis, and Other Poems.

=Leggett, William.= _N. Y._, 1802-1839. A journalist once prominent in New York city. Leisure Hours at Sea; Tales by a Country Schoolmaster; Naval Stories; Political Writings. _See Memoir by T. Sedgwick, infra._

=Leidy= [lī´dĭ], =Joseph.= _Pa._, 1823-1891. A Philadelphia scientist of distinction who was a constant contributor to scientific periodicals. Among his writings are, The Extinct Species of the American Ox; Ancient Fauna of Nebraska; Cretaceous Reptiles of the United States; Elementary Text-Book on Human Anatomy. _Lip._

=Leighton= [lī´ton], =William.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. A writer of Wheeling, West Virginia. The Sons of Godwin, a tragedy that appeared simultaneously with Tennyson’s “Harold” on the same theme; At the Court of King Edwin, a drama; Shakespeare’s Dream; Change; The Subjection of Hamlet.

=Leland, Charles Godfrey.= “Hans Breitmann.” _Pa._, 1824-1903. A very versatile Philadelphia author who lived much in Europe, and was considered an authority upon Gypsy lore. Hans Breitmann Ballads; The Music Lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems; Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land; The English Gypsies and their Language; Origin of the Gypsies; The Gypsies; The Algonquin Legends of New England; Egyptian Sketch Book; Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery; Practical Education; Manual of Wood Carving; Memoirs, include his more important works. _See Allibone’s Dictionary and Supplement; Appletons’ American Biography._ _Ap. Hou. Lip. Mac. Scr._

=Leland, Henry Perry.= _Pa._, 1828-1868. Brother of C. G. Leland, _supra_. A Philadelphia writer who served as lieutenant in a Pennsylvania regiment during the Civil War. The Americans in Rome; The Grey Bay Mare, and Other Humorous Sketches.

=Lemmon, John Gill.= _Mch._, 1832- ----. A botanist attached to the California department of forestry from 1880. Ferns of the Pacific Coast; Discovery of the Potato.

=Leonard, Agnes.= _See Hill, Mrs. Agnes._

=Leonard, William Andrew.= _Ct._, 1848- ----. The fourth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio. Via Sacra; The Christmas Festival, its Origin, etc.; Summary of Herbert Spencer’s “First Principles;” Brief History of the Christian Church.

=Leonowens, Mrs. Anna Harriette [Crawford].= _W._, 1834- ----. An Englishwoman who was governess in the royal family of Siam for four years, came to New York in 1867, and has since taught there. The English Governess at the Siamese Court; The Romance of the Harem; Life and Travels in India; Our Asiatic Cousins. _Co. Lo._

=Le Plongeon, Mrs. Alice [Dixon].= _E._, 1851- ----. The wife of the archæologist and explorer, Dr. Le Plongeon. Here and There in Yucatan.

=Lesley, John Peter.= _Pa._, 1819-1903. A Philadelphia geologist of distinction. Man’s Origin and Destiny from the Platform of the Sciences; Coal and its Topography; The Iron Manufacturer’s Guide.

=Leslie, Eliza.= _Pa._, 1787-1858. A Philadelphia writer of tales and sketches whose work was extremely popular in her day. She was a sister of the famous English artist Charles Robert Leslie. Among her writings are, Domestic Cookery; Mrs. Washington Potts; The Behaviour Book; Pencil Sketches; American Girl’s Book; The Dennings. She wrote nothing that will live, but much that was of service to her generation. _See Hart’s American Literature._ _Bai._

=Lesquereux= [lā-ke-rü´], =Leo.= _Sd._, 1806-1889. A Swiss paleontologist who came to America in 1848 and settled in Columbus, Ohio. Catalogue of the Mosses of Switzerland; Musci Americani Exsiccati (with Sullivant); Icones Muscarum; Land Plants in the Lower Silurian; The Tertiary Flora; The Coal Flora; Mosses of North America (with T. P. James).

=Leslie, Madeline.= _See Baker, Mrs._

=Lester, Charles Edwards.= _Ct._, 1815-1890. A journalist and littérateur of New York city, at one time consul at Genoa. Life of Vespucius; The Napoleon Dynasty; Artists of America; The Glory and Shame of England; My Consulship; Condition and Fate of England; Samuel Houston and his Republic; Life of Charles Sumner; Our One Hundred Years; America’s Advancement; The Mexican Republic; History of the United States; Stanhope Burleigh, a novel; with several translations of standard Italian authors, include the greater portion of his work.

=Leverett, Frederick Percival.= _Ms._, 1803-1836. A once distinguished educator of Boston. Besides annotated editions of Juvenal and other classics, he prepared a much valued Lexicon of the Latin Language. _Lip._

=Le Vert, Mrs. Octavia [Walton].= _Ga._, 1820-1877. A once prominent social leader of Mobile, whose literary reputation was greater than her actual accomplishment seemed to warrant. Souvenirs of Travel was her only published book.

=Lewis, Abram Herbert.= _N. Y._, 1836- ----. A Seventh Day Baptist clergyman of Plainfield, New Jersey, and a writer of much prominence in his denomination. Sabbath and Sunday; Biblical Teachings Concerning the Sabbath and Sunday; Critical History of the Sabbath; Critical History of Sunday Legislation; Biography of the Puritan Sunday; Paganism in Christianity. _Ap. Put._

=Lewis, Alonzo.= _Ms._, 1794-1861. A verse-writer of Lynn, once styled “The Lynn Bard.” Forest Flowers and Sea Shells; History of Lynn. A complete edition of his poems was issued in 1883.

=Lewis, Charles Bertrand.= “M. Quad.” _O._, 1842- ----. A journalist of Detroit on the staff of the Free Press for many years, and since 1891 on that of The New York World. Quad’s Odds; Goaks and Tears; The Lime Kiln Club.

=Lewis, Charlton Thomas.= _Pa._, 1834-1904. Grandson of Enoch Lewis, _infra_. A lawyer and mathematician of Morristown, New Jersey. History of the German People; Latin Dictionary for Schools; Elementary Latin Dictionary. _Har._

=Lewis, Dio.= _N. Y._, 1823-1886. A well-known Boston physician and health reformer. New Gymnastics; Our Girls; Our Digestion; Chastity; Weak Lungs and How to Make Them Strong, are among his most important works.

=Lewis, Elisha Joseph.= _Md._, 1820- ----. A Philadelphia physician. Hints to Sportsmen; The American Sportsman. _Lip._

=Lewis, Enoch.= _Pa._, 1776-1856. An educator among the Friends of Pennsylvania. Vindication of the Society of Friends; Oaths; Baptism; Life of William Penn.

=Lewis, Mrs. Estelle Anna Blanche [Robinson].= “Stella.” _Md._, 1824-1880. A Brooklyn writer whose life was largely spent in Europe. Her verse, which once received much more praise than its degree of excellence at all warranted, is now nearly forgotten. Sappho of Lesbos; Records of the Heart; Child of the Sea; Myths of the Minstrel; Helémah, or the Fall of Montezuma.

=Lewis, Mrs. Harriet.= 1841-1878. Amber, the Adopted; Her Double Life.

=Lewis, Laurence.= _Pa._, 1857-1890. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Courts in the 17th Century; History of the Bank of North America; Memoir of Edward Shippen; Original Land Titles in Philadelphia.

=Lewis, Tayler.= _N. Y._, 1802-1877. An educator of note who was professor of Greek in Union College from 1849 until his death. The Platonic Theology; The Bible and Science; Six Days of Creation; Defence of Capital Punishment (with G. B. Cheever, _supra_); The Divine-Human in the Scriptures; States’ Rights; Heroic Periods in the Nation’s History; The Light by which we See Light.

=Lieber= [lee´be̯r], =Francis.= _P._, 1800-1872. An eminent publicist, professor of political economy in the University of South Carolina, 1835-56, and subsequently at Columbia College. Reminiscences of Niebuhr; The West, and Other Poems; Manual of Political Ethics; Laws of Property; Civil Liberty and Self-Government; Legal and Political Hermeneutics; Instructions for the Armies in the Field; The Character of the Gentleman; Miscellaneous Writings. _See Life and Letters of, by T. S. Perry; Life, by Harley._ _Lip._

=Lieber, Oscar Montgomery.= _Ms._, 1830-1862. Son of F. Lieber, _supra_. A soldier in the Federal army during the Civil War. The Assayer’s Guide; The Analytical Chemist’s Assistant; The Geology of Mississippi. _Bai._

=Light, George Washington.= _Me._, 1809-1860. A journalist of Boston. Life of Timothy Claxton; Keep Cool, Go Ahead, and a Few More Poems.

=Lillie, John.= _S._, 1812-1867. A Presbyterian clergyman of Kingston, New York, who published The Perpetuity of the Earth.

=Lillie, Mrs. Lucy Cecil [White].= _N. Y._, 1855- ----. A writer of popular juveniles. Mildred’s Bargain; Nan; The Story of Music and Musicians; Rolf House; The Colonel’s Money; Jo’s Opportunity; The Household of Glen Holly; The Story of English Literature; Prudence, a Novel of Æsthetic London; Ruth Endicott’s Way; Alison’s Adventures. _Co. Har._

=Lincoln, Abraham.= _Ky._, 1809-1865. The sixteenth president of the United States. His place in literature is determined by his famous Gettysburg Address and the equally admirable Second Inaugural Address. His Complete Works are contained in two volumes, edited by Nicolay and Hay. _See Lives by Holland, 1865; Arnold, 1868; Lamon, 1872; Nicolay and Hay, 1890; Herndon, 1892; Abraham Lincoln, an Essay, by C. Schurz, 1892._

=Lincoln, Mrs. Almira.= _See Phelps, Mrs. A._ _Cent._

=Lincoln, Daniel Francis.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. A physician of Boston. School Hygiene; Electro-Therapeutics; School and Industrial Hygiene.

=Lincoln, Heman.= _Ms._, 1821-1887. A Baptist divine, professor of church history at Newton Theological Seminary from 1868. Outline Lectures in Church History; Outline Lectures in History of Doctrine.

=Lincoln, Mrs. Jeanie [Gould].= _N. Y._, 1846- ----. Granddaughter of James Gould, _supra_. A writer of Washington city. A Chaplet of Leaves, a book of verse; Marjorie’s Quest, a story for young people; Her Washington Winter; A Genuine Girl. _Hou._

=Lincoln, John Larkin.= _Ms._, 1817-1891. Brother of H. Lincoln, _supra_. A professor of Latin in Brown University, well known as a classical scholar, and editor of editions of Livy, Horace, and Cicero. _See In Memoriam: John Larkin Lincoln._

=Lincoln, Mrs. Mary Johnson [Bailey].= _Ms._, 1844- ----. A Boston teacher of cookery, culinary editor of The American Kitchen Magazine. Boston Cook Book; Carving and Serving; Twenty Lessons in Cookery; Kitchen Text-Book. _Rob._

=Linderman, Henry Richard.= _Pa._, 1825-1879. The director of the United States mint at Philadelphia from 1873, whose annual report for 1877 is a powerful argument for the gold standard. Money and Legal Tender in the United States.

=Lindsey, William.= _Ms._, 1858- ----. A Boston littérateur. Apples of Istakhar, a volume of verse; Cinder-Path Tales; At Start and Finish.

=Linen, James.= _S._, 1808-1873. A bookbinder of New York city. Songs of the Seasons; Poetical and Prose Writings.

=Lining, John.= _S._, 1708-1760. A physician and scientist of Charleston who published in 1753 a History of Yellow Fever, the earliest American treatise on the subject.

=Linn, John Blair.= _Pa._, 1777-1804. Son of W. Linn, _infra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. The Power of Genius, a Poem; Valerian, a Poem; The Gallic Orphan, a drama; Miscellanea.

=Linn, John Blair.= _Pa._, 1831-1899. Grandson of W. Linn, _infra_. A Pennsylvania lawyer. Annals of Buffalo Valley; Pennsylvania Archives (with W. H. Egle); History of Centre and Clinton Counties.

=Linn, William.= _Pa._, 1752-1808. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia famous in his day as a preacher. Discourses on Leading Personages of Scripture History; Signs of the Times. His sermon on the death of Washington was formerly much quoted.

=Linn, William.= _N. Y._, 1790-1867. Son of W. Linn, _supra_. A lawyer of Ithaca. Life of Thomas Jefferson; The Roorback Papers; Legal and Commercial Commonplace Book.

=Linton, William James.= _E._, 1812-1897. An English engraver and poet who came to the United States in 1867 and settled in New Haven. Beside ably editing several poetical anthologies, he was the author of Claribel, and Other Poems; Life of Thomas Paine; a valuable History of Wood Engraving in America; The English Republic; The Flower and the Star, and Other Stories; Practical Hints on Wood Engraving; Wood Engraving, a Manual of Instruction; Poems and Translations; Three Score and Ten Years; Life of Whittier. _See Stedman’s Victorian Poets; Atlantic Monthly, February, 1883._ _Le. Mac. Rob. Scr._

=Lippard, George.= _Pa._, 1822-1854. A sensational romancer of Philadelphia, among whose now nearly forgotten tales are, Blanche of Brandywine; Legends of Mexico; The Ladye Annabel.

=Lippincott, Mrs. Esther J---- [Trimble].= _Pa._, 1838-1888. An educator of Pennsylvania, professor of literature in the Westchester Normal School. Handbook of English and American Literature; Short Course in Literature.

=Lippincott, Mrs. Sara Jane [Clarke].= “Grace Greenwood.” _N. Y._, 1823-1904. A popular littérateur of Philadelphia who wrote much in the line of newspaper correspondence, but whose early fame was gained as a writer for young people. Greenwood Leaves; Records of Five Years; Poems; Life of Queen Victoria; New Life in New Lands; Recollections of My Childhood; Merrie England, include the most of her books.

=Lippitt, Francis James.= _R. I._, 1812-1902. A soldier who served in the Federal army during the Civil War, and was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms; Treatise on Intrenchments; Special Operations of War; Field Service in War; Massachusetts Criminal Law; Physical Proofs of Another Life. _Hou._

=Lippmann, Julie Mathilde.= _L. I._, 1864- ----. A writer of Brooklyn. Through Slumbertown and Wakeland; Jack O’Dreams; Miss Wildfire.

=Lipscomb, Andrew Adgate.= _D. C._, 1816-1890. A Methodist clergyman and educator of Tennessee, who was professor in Vanderbilt University. Studies in the Forty Days; Supplementary Studies; Our Country; Christian Heroism, are among his works.

=Litchfield, Grace Denio= [dē-nī´o]. _N. Y._, 1849- ----. A fiction-writer of Washington. Only an Incident; The Knight of the Black Forest; Criss-Cross; A Hard-Won Victory; Little Venice, and Other Stories; Mimosa Leaves; Little He and She; In the Crucible. _Lo. Put._

=Littell, Squier.= _N. J._, 1803-1886. A Philadelphia physician. Manual of Diseases of the Eye; Illustrations of the Prayer Book.

=Littell, William.= _N. J._, _c._ 1780-1825. Cousin of S. Littell, _supra_. A lawyer of Frankfort, Kentucky. Statute Law of Kentucky; Selected Cases; Festoons of Fancy.

=Little, George.= _Ms._, 1754-1809. A United States naval officer who published The American Cruiser; Life on the Ocean.

=Little, Mrs. Sophia Louise [Robbins].= _R. I._, 1799-18--. A verse-writer of Newport, Rhode Island. The Last Days of Jesus, and Other Poems (1877), is a reprint of the contents of her several previous volumes.

=Littlejohn, Abram Newkirk.= _N. Y._, 1824-1901. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Long Island. Conciones ad Clenem; Individualism; The Christian Ministry; The Philosophy of Religion.

=Livermore, Abiel Abbot.= _N. H._, 1811-1892. A Unitarian clergyman who was president of the theological seminary at Meadville, Pennsylvania, from 1863 to 1890. Lectures to Young Men; Discourses; Commentaries on the Gospels, Acts, Romans, Corinthians to Philemon, Hebrews to Revelation; The Marriage Offering; History of Wilton, New Hampshire. _A. U. A. El._

=Livermore, Mrs. Mary Ashton [Rice].= _Ms._, 1821- ----. A noted lecturer upon temperance and woman-suffrage whose home is in Melrose, Massachusetts. Superfluous Women, and Other Lectures; Pen Pictures; Thirty Years Too Late: a Temperance Tale; What Shall we Do with Our Daughters?; My Story of the War. _Le._

=Livermore, Samuel.= _Circa_ 1786-1833. A lawyer of New Orleans. Treatise on Law of Principal and Agent and Sales by Auction; Contrariety of Laws of Different States and Nations.

=Livingston, Edward.= _N. Y._, 1764-1836. An eminent jurist of New York city, and subsequently of New Orleans, who was secretary of state, 1831-32, and minister to France, 1833-35. System of Penal Law for Louisiana; Penal Law for the United States; Criminal Jurisprudence. _See Life by Hunt, 1864; Recollections of by Davezac; Appletons’ American Biography._

=Livingston, Mrs. Margaret Vere [Farrington].= _Me._, 1863- ----. The wife of an Episcopal clergyman in Augusta, Maine. Tales of King Arthur and His Knights; Fra Lippo Lippi, a Romance of Florence. _Put._

=Livingston, Robert R.=[5] _N. Y._, 1747-1813. Brother of E. Livingston, _supra_. The chancellor of New York, 1771-1801. He administered the oath of office to Washington at his inauguration in 1789. Essays on Agriculture; Essay on Sheep. _See Life by F. De Peyster, 1878._

=Livingston, William.= _N. Y._, 1723-1790. An eminent statesman who was governor of New Jersey, 1776-90. Philosophic Solitude, a poem; Review of the Military Operations in North America, 1757; Digest of the Laws of New York. _See Memoir by T. Sedgwick; Tyler’s American Literature._

=Lloyd, David Demarest.= _N. Y._, 1851-1889. A journalist and playwright of New York city. His plays include, For Congress; The Woman Hater; The Dominie’s Daughter; The Senator.

=Lloyd, Henry Demarest.= _N. Y._, 1847-1903. Brother of D. D. Lloyd, _supra_. A writer of Winnetka, Illinois, but formerly a journalist of Chicago. A Strike of Millionaires against Miners, or the Story of Spring Valley; Wealth Against Commonwealth. _Har._

=Locke, David Ross.= “Petroleum V. Nasby.” _N. Y._, 1833-1888. A widely known political humourist whose satires had much effect upon public opinion. A Paper City, a novel; Swingin’ Round the Cirkle; The Moral History of America’s Life Struggle; Ekkoes from Kentucky; Struggles of Petroleum V. Nasby; Nasby in Exile; Morals of Abou Ben Adhem; The Demagogue, a novel; Hannah Jane, a poem. _Le._

=Locke, Mrs. Jane Erminia [Starkweather].= _Ms._, 1805-1859. A verse-writer of Boston. Poems; Rachel, or the Little Mourner; Boston, a Poem; Eulogy in rhyme on the Death of Webster.

=Locke, John Staples.= _Me._, 1836- ----. A writer of Saco, Maine. Shores of Saco Bay; Historical Sketches of Old Orchard; The Art of Correspondence; A Brave Struggle, a novel; Pleasing Rhymes for Happy Times; Bright Hours. _Cas._

=Locke, Richard Adams.= _N. Y._, 1800-1871. A journalist of New York city who published, in 1835, Great Astronomical Discoveries lately made by Sir John Herschel, since known as “The Moon Hoax.” He subsequently issued The Lost Manuscript of Mungo Park, another hoax.

=Lockhart, Arthur John.= _N. S._, 1850- ----. A Methodist clergyman and verse-writer. The Mask of Minstrels; Beside the Narragaugus.

=Lockwood, Henry Hayes.= _Del._, 1814-1899. A United States army officer. Manual of Naval Batteries; Exercises in Small Arms.

=Lockwood, Ingersoll.= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. Nephew of R. I. Lockwood, _infra_. A lecturer and littérateur of New York city. The Travels of Little Baron Trump; Wonderful Deeds of Little Giant Roab; Extraordinary Experience of Little Captain Doppelkopp; Baron Trump’s Journey Underground. _Le._

=Lockwood, Ralph Ingersoll.= _N. Y._, 1798-1855. A lawyer of New York city. Rosine Laval, a novel; The Insurgents, a novel; Lockwood’s Reversed Cases.

=Lockwood, Samuel.= _E._, 1819-1894. A Reformed Dutch clergyman who after 1867 was school superintendent of Monmouth County, New Jersey, and wrote much on scientific themes. Temperance, Fortitude, Justice; The American Oyster; Abnormal Entozoa in Man; The Life of an Oyster; Animal Memoirs.

=Lodge, Giles Henry.= _Ms._, 1805-1880. A physician of Boston, the author of a scholarly translation of Winckelmann’s History of Ancient Art.

=Lodge, Henry Cabot.= _Ms._, 1850- ----. Nephew of G. H. Lodge, _supra_. A Massachusetts politician of prominence, representative in Congress, 1886-1892, and senator from 1893. Essay on Anglo-Saxon Land Law; Life and Letters of George Cabot; Short History of the English Colonies in America; Lives of Washington, Webster, Hamilton; Studies in History; Historical and Political Essays; Speeches; History of Boston; Hero Tales from American History (with T. Roosevelt, _infra_). _Cent. Har. Hou. Lit. Lgs._

=Logan, Celia.= Daughter of C. A. Logan, 2d, =infra=. _See Connelly, Mrs._

=Logan, Cornelius Ambrose.= _Ms._, 1836-1896. Son of C. A. Logan, _infra_. A physician of Leavenworth, Kansas, minister to Chili, 1873, and 1881-1883. Sanitary Relations of Kansas; Climatology of the Missouri Valley; Physics of Infectious Diseases.

=Logan, Cornelius Ambrosius.= _Md._, 1806-1853. A dramatist and theatrical manager of Cincinnati among whose plays are The Wag of Maine; The Wool Dealer; Yankee Land.

=Logan, James.= _I._, 1674-1751. Chief justice of Pennsylvania, and a man of much note in the early history of that colony. He founded the Loganian Library at Philadelphia. Duties of Man; Defence of Aristotle; Experimenta de Plantarum Generatione; Essays on Languages; a translation, with notes, of Cicero’s De Senectute, printed by Franklin in 1744.

=Logan, John Alexander.= _Il._, 1826-1886. A major-general in the Federal army during the Civil War who was nominated as the Republican candidate for vice-president in 1884. The Great Conspiracy; The Volunteer Soldier of America.

=Logan, John Henry.= _S. C._, 1822-1885. A physician who was a professor in the medical college at Atlanta. History of the Upper Country of South Carolina; Students’ Manual of Chemico-Physics.

=Logan, Olive.= Daughter of C. A. Logan, 2d, _supra_. _See Sikes, Mrs._

=Lomax, John Tayloe.= _Va._, 1781-1862. A Virginia jurist. Digest of United States Real Property Laws; Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators.

=Long, Charles Chaillé.= _Md._, 1842- ----. A soldier who served in the Federal army during the Civil War, became colonel in the Egyptian army in 1869, and in 1887 was American consul-general in Corea. Central Africa; The Three Prophets,--Chinese Gordon, the Mahdi, Arabi Pacha. _Ap. Har._

=Long, John Davis.= _Me._, 1838- ----. A prominent jurist of Boston who was governor of Massachusetts, 1880-82. After-Dinner and Other Speeches; a blank-verse translation of the Æneid; The New American Navy. _Do. Hou._

=Long, Robert Carey.= _Circa_ 1819-1849. An architect of New York city who published a work on Ancient Architecture in America.

=Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.= _Me._, 1807-1882. The most widely read of American poets. He was born in Portland, Maine, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825 in the class with Nathaniel Hawthorne. After three years of study in Europe he was professor of modern languages at Bowdoin College, 1829-35, and filled the same position at Harvard University, 1835-1854, his home being at Cambridge from 1835. The range of his thought is not wide, and his genius was rather adaptive than creative, but his poetry appeals to a larger number of readers of verse than, perhaps, any other poet of his time. Its finished execution is especially noteworthy in most of his later work, his sonnets, for example, being nearly flawless specimens of their kind. Coplas de Manrique, a verse translation from the Spanish (1833); Outre-Mer, a prose volume of travels (1835); Hyperion, a prose romance (1839); Voices of the Night (1839); Ballads, and Other Poems (1841); Poems on Slavery (1842); The Spanish Student (1843); The Belfry of Bruges, and Other Poems (1846); Evangeline (1847); Kavanagh, a prose tale (1849); Seaside and Fireside (1850); The Golden Legend (1851); Hiawatha (1855); The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858); Tales of a Wayside Inn, 1st series (1863); Flower de Luce (1867); New England Tragedies (1868); Dante’s Divina Commedia; a translation (1867-1870); The Divine Tragedy (1872); Three Books of Song (1872); Aftermath (1874); The Masque of Pandora (1875); Kéramos (1878); Ultima Thule (1880); In the Harbor (1882); Michael Angelo (1883). _See Lives by S. Longfellow, infra, Stoddard, Underwood, Austin; Atlantic Monthly, December, 1863, and June, 1882; Scribner’s Magazine, November, 1878; Harper’s Magazine, June, 1882; Living Age, November 4, 1882; Fortnightly Review, January, 1883; Century Magazine, October, 1883; Hazeltine’s Chats About Books; Stedman’s Poets of America; Works on American Literature by Nichol, Richardson, Hawthorne; Cheney’s That Dome in Air; Bibliography of Maine; Memorial Address by D. R. Goodwin._ _Hou._

=Longfellow, Samuel.= _Me._, 1819-1892. Brother of H. W. Longfellow, _supra_. A Unitarian clergyman who held pastorates at Fall River, Brooklyn, and Germantown, but whose latest years were spent in Cambridge. He was a poet with a very distinct individuality, and as a hymn-writer had few equals, a large number of the best of Unitarian hymns being from his pen. Life of H. W. Longfellow; Hymns and Verses; Memoir of S. Johnson; Essays and Sermons. With S. Johnson, _supra_, he edited Hymns of the Spirit. _See Memoir and Letters, edited by J. May; New England Magazine, October, 1894._ _Hou._

=Longfellow, William Pitt Preble.= _Me._, 1836- ----. Nephew of H. W. Longfellow, _supra_. An architect of note, editor of the Cyclopædia of Architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant. The Column and the Arch. _Scr._

=Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin.= _S. C._, 1790-1870. A jurist and educator of Georgia who became a Methodist minister in 1838, and was subsequently president of several Southern colleges. He is remembered for his genuinely humourous Georgia Scenes. Among his other works are, Master William Mitten; Letters from Georgia to Massachusetts.

=Longstreet, James.= _S. C._, 1821-1904. A noted general of the Confederate army. From Manassas to Appomattox. _Lip._

=Loomis, Alfred Lebbeus.= _Vt._, 1831-1895. A physician of New York city, professor in the University of the City of New York from 1865. Lessons in Physical Diagnosis; Diseases of the Respiratory Organs; Lectures on Fevers; Diseases of Old Age; Text-Book of Practical Medicine.

=Loomis, Augustus Ward.= _Ct._, 1816- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, for many years a missionary among the Chinese of California. Learn to Say No; Scenes in Chusan; Scenes in the Indian Country; The Profits of Godliness; Confucius and the Chinese Classics; English and Chinese Lessons.

=Loomis, Eben Jenks.= _N. Y._, 1828- ----. An astronomer of Washington city, senior assistant in the Nautical Almanac office. Wayside Sketches; An Eclipse Party in Africa. _Rob._

=Loomis, Elias.= _Ct._, 1811-1889. An astronomer and mathematician who was professor at Yale University from 1860. He published a series of text-books in thirteen volumes, among which are, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; Treatise on Astronomy; Treatise on Meteorology. _Har._

=Loomis, Justin Rudolph.= _N. Y._, 1810-1898. An educator of Pennsylvania, president of Lewisburg University, 1858-78. Elements of Geology; Elements of Anatomy.

=Loomis, Lafayette Charles.= _Ct._, 1824- ----. A physician and educator of Washington city. Mizpah: Prayer and Friendship; Mental and Social Culture; Summer Guide to Central Europe; Index Guide to Travel and Art Study in Europe. _Lip. Scr._

=Loomis, Samuel Lane.= _Ms._, 1856- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Boston. Modern Cities and their Religious Problems.

=Loomis, Silas Laurence.= _Ms._, 1822-1896. Brother of L. C. Loomis, _supra_. A physician and educator of Washington city. Analytical Arithmetic; Normal Arithmetic. _Lip._

=Lord, David Nevins.= _Ct._, 1792-1880. A merchant and importer of New York city. Exposition of the Apocalypse; Characteristics of Figurative Language; Louis Napoleon: is he to be Anti-Christ?; Visions of Paradise, an Epic.

=Lord, Eleazer.= _Ct._, 1788-1871. Brother of D. N. Lord, _supra_. A noted financier of New York city who was the founder of the Manhattan Insurance Company. Among his rather numerous writings are, Credit, Currency, and Banking; Six Letters on a National Currency; The Epoch of the Creation; Analysis of Isaiah; The Prophetic Office.

=Lord, John.= _N. H._, 1809-1894. A Congregational clergyman widely known as an historical lecturer, who did much to arouse an interest in the study of history. History of the United States; Modern History; Points of History; The Old Roman World; Ancient States and Empires; Life of Emma Willard, _infra_; Beacon Lights of History; Two German Giants. _Ap. Fo._

=Lord, John Chase.= _N. Y._, 1805-1877. A prominent Presbyterian clergyman of Buffalo. The Land of Ophir, and Other Lectures; Occasional Poems. _See Memoir, 1878._

=Lord, William Wilberforce.= _N. Y._, 1819- ----. Brother of J. C. Lord, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Vicksburg, Mississippi, and more recently of Cooperstown, New York, whose verse attracted the praise of Wordsworth simultaneously with the ridicule of Poe. Poems; Christ in Hades; André, a tragedy.

=Lord, Willis.= _Ct._, 1809-1889. A Presbyterian clergyman who held several theological professorships as well as pastorates in Chicago and elsewhere. Men and Scenes Before the Flood; Christian Theology for the People; The Blessed Hope.

=Lorimer, George Claude.= _S._, 1837-1904. A noted Baptist clergyman of Boston, pastor of Tremont Temple. Isms Old and New; Under the Evergreens; The Great Conflict; Jesus: the World’s Saviour; Studies in Social Life. _Le. Sc._

=Loring, Charles Greeley.= _Ms._, 1794-1868. A lawyer of Boston. The Neutral Relations of England and the United States; English Liability for Indemnity; Life of William Sturgis.

=Loring, Edward Greeley.= _Ms._, 1837-1881. A physician of New York city. Text-Book of Ophthalmoscopy: I. The Normal Eye; II. Diseases of the Retina. _Ap._

=Loring, Frederic Wadsworth.= _Ms._, 1848-1871. A Boston journalist killed by the Apaches in Arizona. Two College Friends, a novel; The Boston Dip, and Other Verses.

=Loring, George Bailey.= _Ms._, 1817-1891. A noted agriculturist of Salem, Massachusetts, United States commissioner of agriculture, 1881-85, minister to Portugal, 1889-90. The Farmyard Club of Jotham.

=Loring, William Wing.= _N. C._, 1818-1886. A soldier who, after serving successively in the United States and Confederate armies, served in the Egyptian army, 1869-79. A Confederate General in Egypt is a narrative of personal adventure.

=Loskiel, George Henry.= _R._, 1740-1814. A Moravian bishop in Pennsylvania whose two books have been many times reprinted. Etwas fürs Herz; History of the Moravian Missions among the North American Indians.

=Lossing, Benson John.= _N. Y._, 1813-1891. An artist and wood-engraver of Poughkeepsie who made many valuable contributions to American history. His later years were spent at Dover Plains, New York. The more important of his many works include, Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution; Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812; Pictorial Field-Book of the Civil War; Life of General Philip Schuyler; The Two Spies: Nathan Hale and John André; Cyclopædia of United States History; Mary and Martha Washington; History of the United States Navy for Boys; Mount Vernon and its Associations; The Empire State, a History of New York; Life of Washington; Lives of the Presidents (1847). _Ap. Fu. Har. Ho._

=Lothrop, Amy.= _See Warner, Anna._

=Lothrop, Mrs. Harriet Mulford [Stone].= “Margaret Sidney.” _Ct._ 1844- ----. A popular writer of juvenile literature, living at Concord, Massachusetts. Among her many books of this character are, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew; The Pettibone Name; So as by Fire; Half Year at Bronckton; What the Seven Did; Rob; The Golden West; How they Went to Europe; Hester, and Other New England Stories. _Lo._

=Lothrop, Thornton Kirkland.= _N. H._, 1830- ----. A lawyer of Boston. The Life of William H. Seward, _infra_.

=Loughborough= [luf´boro], =Mrs. Mary Webster.= _N. Y._, 1836-1887. A writer of Little Rock, Arkansas. My Cave Life in Vicksburg, an account of life in Vicksburg during the siege; For Better, for Worse, and Other Stories.

=Loughead, Mrs. Flora [Haines].= _Wis._, 1855- ----. A writer of Santa Barbara, California. The Libraries of California; The Man Who was Guilty, a novel; Quick Cookery; The Abandoned Claim, a story for young people; Practical Handbook of Science. _Hou._

=Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A professor of English at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University from 1871. History of the English Language; Life of James Fenimore Cooper; Studies in Chaucer. _Ho. Hou._

=Love, William De Loss.= _N. Y._, 1819-1898. A Congregational clergyman. Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion.

=Love, William De Loss.= _Ct._, 1851- ----. Son of W. D. Love, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman, pastor in Hartford, Connecticut, from 1885. The Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England. _Hou._

=Lowe, Mrs. Martha Ann [Perry].= _N. H._, 1829-1902. A verse-writer of Somerville, Massachusetts, whose husband, Charles Lowe, was a Unitarian minister of prominence. The Olive and the Pine, a book of verse; Love in Spain, and Other Poems; The Story of Chief Joseph (verse); Life of Charles Lowe.

=Lowell, Abbott Lawrence.= _Ms._, 1856- ----. A lawyer of Boston. Essays on Government; Governments and Parties in Continental Europe. _Hou._

=Lowell, Mrs. Anna Cabot [Jackson].= _Ms._, 1819-1874. Sister-in-law of J. R. Lowell, _infra_. Theory of Teaching; Edward’s First Lessons in Grammar and Geometry; Outlines of Astronomy; Letters to Madame Pulksky; Seed Grains for Thought, and several compilations. _Rob._

=Lowell, Charles.= _Ms._, 1782-1861. A prominent Unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of the West Church from 1806 until his death. Occasional Sermons; Practical Sermons; Meditations for the Afflicted; Devotional Exercises for Communicants.

=Lowell, Edward Jackson.= _Ms._, 1845-1894. Grand-nephew of C. Lowell, _supra_. A lawyer of Boston. The Hessians and Other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War, an exhaustive survey of the subject; The Eve of the French Revolution. _Har. Hou._

=Lowell, Francis Cabot.= _Ms._, 1855- ----. A Boston jurist. Joan of Arc, a valuable historical biography. _Hou._

=Lowell, James Russell.= _Ms._, 1819-1891. Son of C. Lowell, _supra_. The foremost American man of letters. He was born in Cambridge, and was graduated from Harvard University in 1838, where he succeeded Longfellow as professor of belles-lettres in 1855. He was one of the founders of The Atlantic Monthly, editing that periodical from the start in 1857 until 1862, and co-editor of The North American Review with C. E. Norton, _infra_, 1863-72. In 1877 he was appointed minister to Spain, and in 1878 transferred to England, where he remained as minister until 1885. He did much to make America and American letters respected in England, and was very popular with the English people both as a man and as a writer, a window having been placed to his memory in the chapter-house of Westminster Abbey in 1893. His work in verse includes: A Year’s Life (1841); Poems (1844); The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848); A Fable for Critics (1848); The Biglow Papers (1848); Poems (editions of 1848, 1849, 1854, 1858); The Commemoration Ode (1865); The Biglow Papers, Second Series (1866); Under the Willows, and Other Poems (1869); Three Memorial Poems (1876); Heartsease and Rue (1888); Last Poems (1895). In prose his writing comprises Conversations with Some of the Old Poets (1845); Life of Keats (with an edition of his works) (1854); Fireside Travels (1864); The President’s Policy (1864); Among My Books (1870); My Study Windows (1871); Among My Books, Second Series (1876); Democracy, and Other Addresses (1886); Political Essays (1888); Latest Literary Essays and Addresses (1891); The Old English Dramatists (1892); Letters, edited by C. E. Norton (1893). _See Lives by E. E. Brown, Underwood, Lowell, by G. W. Curtis; Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors, 1890; Haweis’s American Humourists; Stedman’s Poets of America; works on American Literature, by Nichol, Richardson, Hawthorne; Cheney’s That Dome in Air._ _Har. Hou._

=Lowell, Mrs. Josephine [Shaw].= _Ms._, 1843- ----. Daughter-in-law of Mrs. Anna Lowell, _supra_. A philanthropist of New York city. Public Relief and Private Charity. _Put._

=Lowell, Mrs. Maria [White].= _Ms._, 1821-1855. The first wife of J. R. Lowell, _supra_. A verse-writer whose only volume of poems was privately printed. The Alpine Sheep is her best known poem.

=Lowell, Percival.= _Ms._, 1855- ----. Brother of A. L. Lowell, _supra_. A Boston writer, traveller, and astronomical investigator. Chosön, a sketch of Korea; The Soul of the Far East; Noto: an Unexplored Corner of Japan; Occult Japan; Mars. _Hou._

=Lowell, Robert Traill Spence.= _Ms._, 1816-1891. Son of C. Lowell, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, head master of St. Mark’s School, Southborough, 1869-73, and professor of Latin at Union College, 1873-79. After the latter date he continued to live at Schenectady, which is the _locale_ of his book, A Story or Two from an Old Dutch Town, as Southborough suggests that of his popular story of school life, Antony Brade. His other works include The New Priest in Conception Bay, a novel of life in Newfoundland, the scene of his first rectorship; Fresh Hearts that Failed Three Thousand Years Ago, and Other Poems. The Defence of Lucknow is his most familiar poem. _Rob._

=Lowrie, John Cameron.= _Pa._, 1808-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Travels in Northern India; Two Years in Upper India; Manual of Foreign Missions; Missionary Papers; Presbyterian Missions.

=Lowrie, John Marshall.= _Pa._, 1817-1867. Cousin of J. C. Lowrie, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of New Jersey. Esther and Her Times; Adam and His Times; A Week with Jesus; The Translated Prophet; The Prophet Elisha; The Life of David.

=Lucas, Daniel Bedinger.= _W. Va._, 1836- ----. A lawyer of Charlestown, West Virginia, who was a United States senator in 1887. A Wreath of Eglantine, and Other Poems; The Maid of Northumberland, a dramatic poem; Ballads and Madrigals.

=Luce, Stephen Bleecker.= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. A rear-admiral of the United States navy, retired in 1887, who, beside publishing a treatise on Seamanship, has edited a collection of Naval Songs.

=Lüders, Charles Henry.= _Pa._, 1858-1891. A verse-writer of Philadelphia. The Dead Nymph, and Other Poems; Hallo, My Fancy! a collection of verse (with S. D. Smith). _Scr._

=Ludlam, Reuben.= _N. J._, 1831-1899. A Chicago physician, dean of the Hahnemann Medical College. Clinical Lectures on Diphtheria; Clinical Lectures on Diseases of Women.

=Ludlow, Fitzhugh.= _N. Y._, 1836-1870. A littérateur and journalist of New York city. The Hasheesh-Eater; The Opium Habit; The Heart of the Continent; Little Brother, and Other Genre Pictures; Augustus Jones, Jr. _Le._

=Ludlow, James Meeker.= _N. J._, 1841- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of East Orange, New Jersey, from 1886. My Saint John; Concentric Chart of History; The Captain of the Janizaries, a tale of the times of Scanderbeg; A King of Tyre, a tale of the times of Ezra and Nehemiah; That Angelic Woman, a novel. _Fu. Har._

=Ludlow, Noah Miller.= _N. Y._, 1795-1886. An actor and theatrical manager in the Southern States. Dramatic Life as I found It.

=Lukens, Henry Clay.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. A journalist of New York city. The Marine Circus at Cherbourg, and Other Poems; Lean Nora, a travesty; Story of the Types; Jets and Flashes.

=Lum, Daniel Dyer.= 18-- - ----. The Spiritual Delusion; Early Social Life of Man; Utah and its People. _Lip._

=Lummis, Charles Fletcher.= _Ms._, 1859- ----. A Los Angeles writer. The Land of Poco Tiempo; A Tramp Across the Continent; The Spanish Pioneers; The Man who Married the Moon: Indian folk-lore stories; Some Strange Corners of our Country; The Gold Fish of Grand Chimú; A New Mexico David, and Other Stories. _Cent. Lam. Mg. Scr._

=Lund, Mrs. Mary Dwinell [Chellis].= _N. H._, 18-- - ----. A prolific writer of Sunday-school fiction, among whose works are, All for Money; Old Sunapee; Fife and Drum; Good Work; Mystery of the Lodge; Father Merrill. _Cr. Lo._

=Lundy, John Patterson.= _Pa._, 1823-1892. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. Review of Bishop Hopkins’s “Bible View of Slavery;” Monumental Christianity; Forestry.

=Lunt, Edward Clark.= 186- - ----. A writer on economics. The Present Condition of Economic Science.

=Lunt, George.= _Ms._, 1803-1885. A lawyer of Newburyport, and later a resident of Scituate, among whose writings in verse and prose are, The Age of Gold, and Other Poems; Lyric Poems: Sonnets and Miscellanies; Old New England Traits; Three Eras of New England. The latest collection of his verse was made in 1883.

=Lunt, William Parsons.= _Ms._, 1805-1857. A Unitarian clergyman of Quincy, Massachusetts, from 1835 until his death, whose literary work was much admired for the beauty of its style. Union of the Human Race; Gleanings.

=Lupton, Nathaniel Thomas.= _Va._, 1830-1893. An educator and scientist of Alabama, State chemist from 1885, and author of The Elementary Principles of Scientific Agriculture.

=Lusk, William Thompson.= _Ct._, 1838-1897. A prominent obstetric physician of New York city. The Science and Art of Midwifery.

=Luska, Sidney.= _See Harland, Henry._

=Lyle, William.= _S._, 1822- ----. A verse-writer of Rochester, New York. The Martyr Queen, and Other Poems.

=Lyman, Henry Munson.= _H. I._, 1835- ----. A Chicago physician, professor of medicine in Rush College. Insomnia and Other Disorders of Sleep; Artificial Anæsthesia; Practice of Medicine.

=Lyman, Joseph Bardwell.= _Ms._, 1829-1872. An agricultural journalist of New York city. Philosophy of Housekeeping; Resources of the Pacific States; Women of the War; Cotton Culture.

=Lyman, Theodore.= _Ms._, 1792-1849. A noted philanthropist of Boston, the founder of the Lyman School at Westborough. Three Weeks in Paris; The Political State of Italy; Account of the Hartford Convention; The Diplomacy of the United States with Foreign Nations.

=Lyman, Theodore.= _Ms._, 1833-1897. Son of T. Lyman, _supra_. A scientist of note associated with the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy in Cambridge from 1860. His principal work is the Ophiuroidea of the Challenger Expedition.

=Lynch, Anne C.= _See Botta, Mrs._

=Lynch, James Daniel.= _Va._, 1836- ----. A political writer of Mississippi. Kemper County Vindicated; Bench and Bar of Mississippi; Bench and Bar of Texas.

=Lynch, William Francis.= _Va._, 1801-1865. A naval officer of prominence as an explorer. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea; Naval Life, or Afloat and Ashore.

=Lyon, Anne Bozeman.= _Al._, 1860- ----. A Southern writer of fiction. No Saint; A Sterlings Camp.

=Lyon, David Gordon.= _Al._, 1852- ----. An educator of Cambridge, Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard University from 1882. Keilschrifttexte Sargons Koenigs von Assyrien; An Assyrian Manual. _Scr._

=Lyon, Irving Whitall.= _N. Y._, 1840-1896. A Hartford physician who wrote Colonial Furniture in New England. _Hou._

=Lyons, Albert Brown.= _H. I._, 1841- ----. A prominent chemist of Detroit who has published a Manual of Practical Assaying.

=Lytle, William Haines.= _O._, 1826-1863. A general in the Federal army during the Civil War, remembered in literature for the poem beginning, “I am Dying, Egypt, Dying.” _See Poems of, edited, with Memoir, by W. Venable, infra._ _Clke._