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=Metcalfe, Samuel L----.= _Va._, 1798-1856. A physician and scientist of New York city. Narratives of Indian Warfare in the West; New Theory of Terrestrial Magnetism; Caloric. _Lip._

=Michie= [my´key], =Peter Smith.= _S._, 1839-1901. A military engineer, professor of mathematics at West Point from 1871. Wave Motion Relating to Sound and Light; Life of General Upton, _infra_; Analytical Mechanics; Hydromechanics; Practical Astronomy (with Harlow). _Wil._

=Middleton, Henry.= _F._, 1797-1876. A once prominent writer of Charleston. Prospects of Disunion; The Government and the Currency; Economical Causes of Slavery in the United States, and Obstacles to its Abolition; The Government of India; Universal Suffrage.

=Milburn, William Henry.= _Pa._, 1823-1903. A Methodist clergyman, famous as “the blind preacher,” who has been six times chaplain of the United States House of Representatives. Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-Bags; Ten Years of Preacher Life; Pioneers and People of the Mississippi Valley.

=Miles, George Henry.= _Md._, 1824-1871. A Maryland lawyer and educator, professor of English literature at Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmettsburg, Maryland, popular at one period as a verse-writer and dramatist. Besides his dramas, Cromwell; Mahomet; De Soto, he published Christine, and Other Poems; Abu Hassan the Wag, or the Sleeper Awakened; A Review of Hamlet; The Truce of God.

=Miles, Henry Adolphus.= _Ms._, 1809-1895. A Unitarian clergyman of Eastern Massachusetts. Lowell as It Was and Is (1845); Grains of Gold; Gospel Narratives; Words of a Friend; Modern Ideas of the Birth of Jesus; Traces of Picture Writing in the Bible. _El._

=Miles, James Warley.= _S. C._, 1818-1875. An Episcopal clergyman of Charleston. Philosophic Theology, or Ultimate Grounds of all Religious Belief based on Reason (1849).

=Miles, Nelson Appleton.= _Ms._, 1839- ----. A noted soldier of the United States army who served as a brigadier-general of volunteers during the Civil War. He became a major-general in 1890. Personal Recollections.

=Miles, Pliny.= _N. Y._, 1818-1865. A traveller who made his home in London in his later years. Statistical Register; Elements of Mnemotechny, or Art of Memory; Northufari, or Rambles in Iceland; Ocean Steam Navigation; Postal Reform.

=Miley, John.= _O._, 1813-1895. A Methodist minister and educator, professor of systematic theology in Drew Seminary, Madison, New Jersey, from 1873. The Atonement in Christ; Systematic Theology.

=Millard, David.= _N. Y._, 1794-1873. A minister of the Christian denomination, professor at Meadville Seminary, Pennsylvania, 1845-67. The True Messiah Exalted; Journal of Travels in Egypt, etc., 1841. _See Life by D. E. Millard, 1874._

=Miller, Mrs. Annie [Jenness].= _N. H._, 1859- ----. A dress reformer of New York city, publisher of The Jenness Miller Magazine. Physical Beauty; Mother and Babe; Barbara Thayer, a novel. _Le._

=Miller, Charles Henry.= _N. Y._, 1842- ----. An art critic of New York city. The Philosophy of Art in America.

=Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner.= “Joaquin Miller.” _Ind._, 1841- ----. A poet and prose-writer who, after a life of adventure in California, went to London in 1870, and speedily became famous as the author of Songs of the Sierras. For a time his work continued popular, but his fame has since greatly declined, though his writings continue to be read. Since 1887 he has lived in Oakland, California. His more important works include, Songs of the Sierras; The Ship of the Desert; Songs of the Sunland; in prose: The Danites in the Sierras; Shadows of Shasta; Memorie and Rime; ’49, or the Gold Seekers of the Sierras; The One Fair Woman; The Destruction of Gotham; The Building of the City Beautiful, a poetic romance. _See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement; Vedder’s American Writers._ _Fu. St._

=Miller, Elihu Spencer.= _N. J._, 1817-1879. Son of S. Miller, _infra_. A lawyer of Philadelphia, professor in the University of Pennsylvania. Treatise on the Law of Partition by Writ in Pennsylvania; Caprices, a volume of verse.

=Miller, Mrs. Emily Clark Huntington.= _Ct._, 1833- ----. An educator of Evanston, Illinois, president of the Woman’s College of the Northwestern University, and a popular writer of semi-religious fiction for young people. Among her various writings are, From Avalon and Other Poems; The Royal Road to Fortune; The Kirkwood Series; Captain Fritz; Little Neighbors. _Dut._

=Miller, Mrs. Harriet Mann.= “Olive Thorne Miller.” _N. Y._, 1831- ----. A writer of Brooklyn whose books and magazine articles upon birds have been widely popular. A Bird-Lover in the West; Little Brothers of the Air; Bird-Ways; In Nesting Time; Four-Handed Folk; Little Folks in Feathers and Fur; Nimpo’s Troubles; Queer Pets at Marcy’s; Our Home Pets; Little People of Asia. _Dut. Har. Hou._

=Miller, James Russell.= _Pa._, 1840- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. Week Day Religion; Home Making; In His Steps; Silent Time; Come Ye Apart; The Marriage Altar; Practical Religion; Bits of Pasture; Making the Most of Life; Mary of Bethany; The Dew of Thy Youth; The Every Day of Life. _Rev._

=Miller, Joaquin.= _See Miller, C. H._

=Miller, John.= _N. J._, 1819-1895. Son of S. Miller, _infra_. A Presbyterian clergyman who was a colonel in the Confederate army during the Civil War, and who lived in Princeton, New Jersey, from 1871. He was tried for heresy, but allowed to withdraw from the Presbytery, and subsequently established several independent churches in the vicinity of Princeton. Design of the Church; Commentary on the Proverbs; Fetich in Theology; Metaphysics; Are Souls Immortal?; Was Christ in Adam?; Is God a Creed?; Theology; Commentary on Romans. _Ran._

=Miller, Mrs. Minnie [Willis] [Baines].= _N. H._, 1845- ----. A religious writer of Springfield, Ohio. The Silent Land; His Cousin the Doctor; The Pilgrim Vision.

=Miller, Olive Thorne.= _See Miller, Mrs. Harriet._

=Miller, Samuel.= _Del._, 1769-1850. A Presbyterian clergyman, pastor of the Brick Church, New York city, 1793-1813, and professor of ecclesiastical history at Princeton Theological Seminary for the remainder of his life. Presbyterianism the Truly Primitive and Apostolic Constitution of the Church of Christ; Letters on Clerical Habits and Manners; Letters on Unitarians; Life of Jonathan Edwards; Letters on the Christian Ministry; Letters on Church Government, include his more important writings. _See Life by his son._

=Miller, Samuel Freeman.= _Ky._, 1816-1890. A jurist of Kentucky, and after 1850 of Iowa; a strong opponent of slavery. The Supreme Court of the United States, a series of Biographies; Reports of Supreme Court Decisions.

=Miller, Stephen Franks.= _N. C._, _c._ 1810-1867. A once noted Georgia lawyer. Bench and Bar of Georgia; Wilkins Wylder, or the Successful Man; Memoir of General Blackshear and the War in Georgia, 1813-14. _Lip._

=Millet, Francis Davis.= _Ms._, 1846- ----. An artist and littérateur of New York city. A Capillary Crime, and Other Stories; The Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea. _Har._

=Milligan, Robert.= _I._, 1814-1875. A Campbellite clergyman and educator, president of Kentucky University, 1859-66. Brief Treatise on Prayer; Reason and Revelation; Scheme of Redemption; The Great Commission; Analysis of the New Testament Commentary on Hebrews.

=Mills, Abraham.= _N. Y._, 1769-1867. A once popular educator of New York city who, besides editing a number of text-books, was author of Literature and Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland; Outlines of Rhetoric; Poets and Poetry of the Ancient Greeks; Compendium of the History of the Ancient Hebrews. _Har._

=Mills, Charles Karsner.= _Pa._, 1845- ----. A physician of Philadelphia, a specialist in nervous diseases. The Nursing and Care of the Nervous and Insane.

=Mills, Robert.= _S. C._, 1781-1855. An architect of Washington, the original designer of the Washington Monument. Statistics of South Carolina; American Pharos, or Lighthouse Guide; Guide to the National Executive Offices.

=Miner, Alonzo Ames.= _N. H._, 1814-1895. A prominent Universalist clergyman of Boston. Bible Exercises; Right and Duty of Prohibition; Old Forts Taken. _See Life by Emerson, 1896._

=Miner, Charles.= _Ct._, 1780-1865. A journalist of the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. History of Wyoming; Essays from the Desk of Poor Robert.

=Mines, John Flavel.= _F._, 1835-1891. A journalist of New York city. The Heroes of the Last Lustre, a poem; A Tour Around New York by Mr. Felix Oldboy. _Har._

=Minifie, William.= _E._, 1805-1880. An architect and educator of Baltimore. Text-Book of Mechanical Drawing; Text-Book of Geometrical Drawing; Theory and Application of Color; Popular Lectures on Drawing and Design.

=Minor, John Barbee.= _Va._, 1813-1895. A professor of law in the University of Virginia. Virginia Report of 1799-1800; Synopsis of the Law of Crimes and Punishments; Institutes of Common and Statute Law.

=Minor, Lucian.= _Va._, 1802-1858. Brother of J. B. Minor, _supra_. A lawyer of Williamsburg, Virginia. Reasons for Abolishing the Liquor Traffic; Travels in New England.

=Minot, Henry Davis.= _Ms._, 1859-1890. At the time of his death a railway president in Minnesota. While a schoolboy of Roxbury, Massachusetts, he wrote at the age of sixteen The Land-Birds and Game-Birds of New England. _Hou._

=Minot, William.= _Ms._, 1849-1900. A Boston lawyer. Taxation in Massachusetts (1877); Local Taxation and Municipal Extravagance.

=Minturn, Robert Bowne.= _N. Y._, 1836- ----. From New York to Delhi, a popular book of travels.

=Mitchel, Frederick Augustus.= 1839- ----. A son of O. M. Mitchel, _infra_. Fiction editor of the American Press Association. Chattanooga, a Romance of the American Civil War; Chickamauga, a Romance of the American Civil War; Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, Astronomer and General. _Hou._

=Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight.= _Ky._, 1810-1862. An astronomer of distinction, director of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, and a prominent Union general in the Civil War. Planetary and Stellar Worlds; The Orbs of Heaven; Elementary Treatise on the Sun, Planets, etc.; Astronomy of the Bible. _See Headley’s Old Stars; Popular Science Monthly, March, 1884; Life by F. A. Mitchel._

=Mitchell, Annie Maria.= _Ms._, 1847- ----. A writer of religious juveniles, among which are Martha’s Gift; Freed Boy in Alabama.

=Mitchell, Donald Grant.= “Ik Marvel.” _Ct._, 1822- ----. A littérateur of New Haven, who is best known by his earlier and still popular works, Dream Life; Reveries of a Bachelor, books of a pleasantly sentimental cast. His other works include, My Farm at Edgewood; Dr. Johns, a novel; Rural Studies; Fresh Gleaning from the Old Fields of Europe; The Battle Summer, or Paris in 1848; The Lorgnette; Fudge Doings; Seven Stories; Wet Days at Edgewood; About Old Story-Tellers; The Woodbridge Record, a genealogy; Bound Together: a Sheaf of Papers; Out of Town Places, a revision of Rural Studies; English Lands, Letters, and Kings; American Lands and Letters. _Scr._

=Mitchell, Edward Coppée.= _Ga._, 1836-1887. A real estate lawyer of Philadelphia. Separate Use in Pennsylvania; Contracts for Land Sales in Pennsylvania; Equitable Relations of Buyer and Seller.

=Mitchell, Edward Cushing.= _Ms._, 1829-1900. Grandson of N. Mitchell, _infra_. A Baptist clergyman and educator, president of Leland University, New Orleans, from 1887. Les Sources du Nouveau Testament; Hebrew Introduction; Guide to the Authenticity, Canon, and Text of the New Testament; The Critical Handbook.

=Mitchell, Elisha.= _Ct._, 1793-1857. An educator of note, professor of geology in the University of North Carolina from 1825. While exploring the mountain region of North Carolina, he lost his life. He is buried on the summit of the mountain bearing his name. Elements of Geology; Reports on North Carolina Geology.

=Mitchell, Henry.= _Ms._, 1830-1902. A hydrographer of prominence, among whose scientific monographs are, Physical Hydrography of the Maine Coast; The Estuary of the Delaware; Reclamation of Tide Lands.

=Mitchell, Hinckley Gilbert.= _N. Y._, 1846- ----. A Methodist clergyman and educator, a professor at Boston University from 1883. Final Constructions of Biblical Hebrew; Hebrew Lessons; Amos, an Essay in Exegesis; The Pentateuch.

=Mitchell, James Tyndale.= _Il._, 1834- ----. A jurist of Philadelphia. History of the District Court; Mitchell on Motions and Rules.

=Mitchell, John.= _Ct._, 1794-1870. A Congregational minister of Stratford, Connecticut. Letters to a Disbeliever in Revivals; Notes from Over the Sea; Reminiscences of College Scenes and Characters; My Mother; Rachel Kell, or the Diamond.

=Mitchell, John Ames.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. A journalist of New York city, founder of Life in 1883, and its editor from that date. The Summer School of Philosophy at Mount Desert; The Romance of the Moon; The Last American; Amos Judd, a novel; That First Affair, and Other Stories. _Ho. Scr._

=Mitchell, John Kearsley.= _W. Va._, 1798-1858. A physician of Philadelphia, of eminence as a medical lecturer. Indecision, and Other Poems; St. Helena: a poem; Remote Consequences of Injuries of Nerves; Cryptogamic Origin of Malarious and Epidemic Fevers; Five Essays on Fevers. _See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._ _Lip._

=Mitchell, Langdon Elwyn.= “John Philip Varley.” _Pa._, 1862- ----. Son of S. W. Mitchell, _infra_. A verse-writer of promise. Sylvian, a Tragedy; Poems; Love in the Backwoods, prose stories. _Har. Hou._

=Mitchell, Mrs. Lucy Myers [Wright].= _Per._, 1845-1888. An archæologist (the wife of S. S. Mitchell, an artist), who spent much of her life abroad. Her only writing, a History of Ancient Sculpture, is one of the best books in English upon Greek art. _Do._

=Mitchell, Maria.= _Ms._, 1818-1889. Sister of H. Mitchell, _supra_. A distinguished astronomer, professor at Vassar College from 1865. Her scientific papers have not [1897] been collected. _See Mrs. Hale’s Woman’s Record; Life by Mrs. Kendall._

=Mitchell, Nahum.= _Ms._, 1769-1853. An eminent jurist of Massachusetts, well known in his day as a musical composer. History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater; Grammar of Music.

=Mitchell, Samuel Augustus.= 1792-1888. A noted geographer of Philadelphia who besides publishing a series of geographies was author also of General View of the World; New Traveller’s Guide.

=Mitchell, Silas Weir.= _Pa._, 1829- ----. Son of J. K. Mitchell, _supra_. A distinguished physician of Philadelphia, well known also as novelist and poet. His professional writings include Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked; Injuries of the Nerves; Nurse and Patient; Fat and Blood; Doctor and Patient. In fiction he has published Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker; Hephzibah Guinness; In War Time; Roland Blake; Far in the Forest; Philip Vernon; Prince Little Boy, and Other Tales out of Fairy Land; Characteristics; A Madeira Party; When all the Woods are Green; and, in verse, Francis Drake, a Tragedy of the Sea; The Mother, and Other Poems; The Cup of Youth; The Hill of Stones, and Other Poems; A Psalm of Death; A Masque, and Other Poems. _See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement._ _Cent. Hou. Lip._

=Mitchell, Walter.= _Ms._, 1826- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. Two Strings to His Bow; Bryan Maurice, a novel; Poems. Tacking Ship off Shore is the poem by which he is best known. _Hou. Wh._

=Mitchell, William.= _Ct._, 1793-1867. Brother of John Mitchell, _supra_. A Congregational minister of Texas who published A Doctrinal Guide for Young Christians; Coleridge and the Moral Tendency of his Writings.

=Mitchill, Samuel Latham.= _L. I._, 1764-1831. A once famous physician and man of letters of New York city who filled there a position very similar to that of Oliver Wendell Holmes in Boston at a later day, the two men having many points of resemblance. He was long a professor of chemistry in Columbia College, and for more than a generation one of the prominent literary and social figures of the metropolis. Among his writings are: Life of Tammany, the Indian Chief; Picture of New York; Description of Schooley’s Mountain. _See Reminiscences of, by J. W. Francis, 1859; Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Moak, Nathaniel Cleveland.= _N. Y._, 1833-1892. An Albany lawyer. Albany Penitentiary Statutes; English Reports; English Digest.

=Moffat, James Clement.= _S._, 1811-1890. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1853-90. Comparative History of Religions; Life of Dr. Chalmers; Song and Scenery, or a Summer Ramble in Scotland; Alwyn, a Romance of Study (verse); The Church in Scotland; Church History in Brief; Rhyme of the North Countrie; The Story of a Dedicated Life. _Do. Ran._

=Mombert, Jacob Isidor.= _G._, 1829- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Paterson, New Jersey. Faith Victorious; Handbook of the English Versions of the Bible; Great Lives; History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; History of Charles the Great; Short History of the Crusades. _Ap. Ran._

=Monfort, Francis Cassatt.= _Ind._, 1844- ----. A Presbyterian minister and editor of Cincinnati. Sermons for Silent Sabbaths; Socialism and City Evangelization.

=Monroe, Harriet.= _Il._, 1860- ----. A verse-writer of Chicago. Valeria, and Other Poems; Life of John Wellborn Root; The Passing Show. _Hou. Mg._

=Monroe, James.= _Va._, 1758-1831. The fifth President of the United States. An able though not brilliant statesman. State Papers; Tour of Observation in 1817; The People: the Sovereigns; View of the Conduct of the Executive in the Foreign Affairs of the United States. _See Lives by J. Q. Adams, 1850, D. C. Gilman, 1885; Concise History of the Monroe Doctrine by G. F. Tucker, 1885; Appletons’ American Biography._

=Montague, Charles Howard.= _Ms._, 1858-1889. A journalist of Boston, city editor of The Globe. The Romance of the Lilies; The Face of Rosenfel; Two Strokes of the Bell; The Doctor’s Mistake; The Countess Muta.

=Montague, William Lewis.= _Ms._, 1831- ----. A Congregational clergyman, professor of modern languages at Amherst College from 1862. Comparative Spanish Grammar; Manual of Italian Grammar; Introduction to Italian Literature.

=Montefiore, Joshua.= _E._, 1762-1843. A Hebrew lawyer, brother of Sir Moses Montefiore, who came to the United States, and settled in St. Albans, Vermont. Commercial and Notatorial Precedents; Commercial Dictionary; Traders’ Compendium; United States Traders’ Compendium; Law and Treatise on Bookkeeping; Laws of Land and Sea.

=Montgomery, George Washington.= _Sp._, 1804-1841. A United States consul at Tampico. Tarcas de un Solitario, a collection of tales; El Bastarde de Castilla; Journey to Guatemala in 1838.

=Montgomery, George Washington.= _Me._, 1810-1898. A Universalist clergyman of Rochester, New York. Illustrations of the Law of Kindness; Sermons.

=Montgomery, Marcus Whitman.= _N. Y._, 1839-1894. A Congregational clergyman, instructor in Chicago Theological Seminary from 1890. History of Jay County, Indiana; A Wind from the Holy Spirit; The Mormon Delusion.

=Monti, Luigi.= _Sy._, 1830- ----. An educator of New York city who appears in Longfellow’s Tales of a Wayside Inn as “The Young Sicilian.” An American Consul Abroad; Leone, a novel. _Le._

=Mooar, George.= _Ms._, 1830- ----. A Congregational clergyman, professor in Pacific Theological Seminary at Oakland, California, from 1870. The Religion of Loyalty; Prominent Characteristics of Congregational Churches.

=Moody, Dwight Lyman.= _Ms._, 1837-1899. A celebrated evangelist. Among his more important writings are The Second Coming of Christ; The Way and the Word; Secret Power; The Way to God; Glad Tidings; Great Joy; To All People; Bible Characters; How to Study the Bible. _Ran. Rev._

=Moody, James.= _N. J._, 1744-1809. A New Jersey farmer, active as a Royalist spy during the Revolution. Lieutenant James Moody’s Narrative of his Exertions and Sufferings in the Cause of Government.

=Moody, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1676-1747. A once famous Congregational clergyman. The Doleful State of the Damned; Judas Hung in Chains.

=Moore, Mrs. Annie Aubertine [Woodward].= “Auber Forestier.” _Pa._, 1841- ----. A Wisconsin translator of note from the Norse; co-translator with Anderson of Björnson’s novels, and editor of Echoes from Mist Land. _See Bibliography of Wisconsin._ _Sc._

=Moore, Mrs. Bloomfield.= _See Bloomfield-Moore, Mrs. Clara._

=Moore, Charles Herbert.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A professor of art at Harvard University. The Development and Character of Gothic Architecture, a work of much value; Examples for Elementary Practice in Delineation. _Hou. Mac._

=Moore, Charles Leonard.= _Pa._, 1854- ----. A lawyer and verse-writer of Philadelphia. Poems Antique and Modern; Banquet of Palacios, a Comedy; A Book of Day Dreams (verse). _Ho._

=Moore, Clement Clarke.= _N. Y._, 1779-1863. An educator of New York city, professor of Oriental literature in the General Theological Seminary, 1821-63. He published a Hebrew-English Lexicon and a volume of Poems, but is more widely known as the author of the famous poem, The Visit of St. Nicholas.

=Moore, David Albert.= “Paul Wright.” _N. Y._, 1814- ----. A physician of Syracuse. A Panorama of Time; How She Won Him.

=Moore, Erasmus Darwin.= _Ct._, 1802-1889. A Congregational minister and editor of Boston. Life Scenes in Mission Fields; The New Heart.

=Moore, Frank.= _N. H._, _c._ 1828- ----. Son of J. B. Moore, _infra_. A writer of New York city who has edited a Cyclopædia of American Eloquence; The Rebellion Record, and other compilations. Women of the War is one of his original works.

=Moore, George Henry.= _N. H._, 1823-1892. Son of J. B. Moore, _infra_. The superintendent of the Lenox Library, New York city, from 1872 till his death. History of the Jurisprudence of New York; Treason of Charles Lee; Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts; Washington as an Angler; Employment of Negroes in the Revolutionary Army.

=Moore, Horatio Newton.= _N. J._, 1814-1859. Orlando, a Tragedy; The Regicide, a drama; Memoir of the Duanes; Mary Morris, a novel; Lives of Marion and Wayne.

=Moore, Jacob Bailey.= _N. H._, 1797-1853. A journalist who was postmaster of San Francisco, 1849-53. Laws of Trade in the United States; Gazetteer of New Hampshire; Annals of Concord, New Hampshire.

=Moore, John Weeks.= _N. H._, 1807-1889. Brother of J. B. Moore, _supra_. Historical Gatherings relating to Printers, Printing, and Publishing (1820-86).

=Moore, Joseph West.= 18-- - ----. Picturesque Washington; The American Congress: a History of National Legislation and Political Events, 1774-1895. _Har._

=Moore, Mrs. Susan Teackle [Smith].= _Md._, 18-- - ----. Sister of F. H. Smith, _infra_. A novelist of Brooklyn. Ryle’s Open Gate. _Hou._

=Moore, Thomas Vernon.= _Pa._, 1818-1881. A Presbyterian minister of Nashville. Last Words of Jesus; God’s University, or the World a School; The Culdee Church; Corporate Life of the Church; The Last Days of Jesus.

=Moore, William Eves.= _Pa._, 1823-1899. A Presbyterian clergyman of Columbus, Ohio, from 1872. New Digest of the General Assembly; The Presbyterian Digest.

=Moorehead, Warren King.= _Iy._, 1866- ----. An archæologist of Italian birth, but American parentage, curator of the Ohio State Archæological Museum at Columbus. Primitive Man in Ohio; Fort Ancient: the Great Prehistoric Earthwork of Warren County, Ohio; Wanneta the Sioux, a Story of Indian Life; Field Work. _Clke. Do. Put._

=Mordecai, Alfred.= _N. C._, 1804-1887. A soldier and military engineer, secretary of the Pennsylvania Canal Company from 1867. Digest of Military Laws; Ordnance Manual; Reports of Gunpowder Experiments; Artillery for United States Land Service.

=More, Paul Elmer.= _Mo._, 1864- ----. An instructor in Sanskrit and Greek at Bryn Mawr College. The Great Refusal: Being Letters of a Dreamer in Gotham. _Hou._

=Morfit, Campbell.= _Md._, 1820-1897. A chemist who lived in London from 1861. Practical Treatise on the Making of Soaps; Pure Fertilizers and Phosphates; Arts of Tanning and Currying; Use and Manufacture of Perfumery, are among his works.

=Morford, Henry.= _N. J._, 1823-1881. A journalist of New York city who wrote a number of novels, dramas, and poems of ephemeral merit. The Bells of Shandon is his best-known play, and among his novels are, Shoulder Straps; Days of Shoddy; Only a Commoner. Other works are, Rhymes of Twenty Years; Rhymes of an Editor; Sprees and Splashes.

=Morgan, Abel.= _W._, 1673-1722. A Welsh Baptist minister who came to Philadelphia from Wales in 1712. He was the author of Cyd Gordiad, a Scripture concordance published in 1730, the second Welsh book printed in America.

=Morgan, Henry.= _Ct._, 1823-1884. A once prominent Methodist minister and lecturer of Boston. Ned Nevins, the Newsboy; The Fallen Priest; Sketches and Sermons; The Shadowy Hand, or Life Struggles; Boston Inside Out.

=Morgan, [James] Appleton.= _Me._, 1849- ----. A lawyer of New York city. Laws of Literature; The Shakespearean Myth; A History of the Shakespeare Text; Some Shakespearean Commentators; Shakespeare in Fact and Criticism; Venus and Adonis: a Study in Warwickshire Dialect; English Version of Legal Maxims. _Clke._

=Morgan, Lewis Henry.= 1819-1881. A lawyer of Rochester, New York, widely known as an ethnologist. League of the Iroquois; Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family; The American Beaver and his Works; Ancient Society; Horses and Horse Life of the American Aborigines. _See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement._ _Ho._

=Morgan, Morris Hicky.= _R. I._, 1859- ----. A professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard University. De ignis eliciendi modis apud antiquos; Dictionary to Xenophon’s Anabasis; The Art of Horsemanship by Xenophon, a translation with Essays and Notes. _Gi._

=Moriarty, James Joseph.= _I._, 1843-1887. A Roman Catholic clergyman of New York state. Wayside Pencillings; Stumbling Blocks made Stepping Stones on the Way to the Catholic Faith; All for Love; The Keys of the Kingdom.

=Moriarty, Patrick Eugene.= _I._, 1804-1875. An Augustinian priest of Philadelphia, father superior of his order in the United States. Life of St. Augustine.

=Morrell, Benjamin.= _Ms._, 1795-1839. A navigator who published a noted Narrative of Four Voyages to the South Seas.

=Morrill, Justin Smith.= _Vt._, 1810-1898. A distinguished Vermont statesman, a member of Congress from 1855, and a senator from 1867. Self-Consciousness of Noted Persons.

=Morris, Caspar.= _Pa._, 1805-1884. A noted Philadelphia physician. Life of William Wilberforce; Lectures on Scarlet Fever; Hospital Construction; Heart Voices and Home Songs.

=Morris, Charles.= _Pa._, 1833- ----. A Philadelphia author and compiler. Manual of Classical Literature; The Aryan Race; The Stolen Letter; The Detective’s Crime; Broken Fetters, an historical review of the drinking habit. _Lip. Sc._

=Morris, Charles D’Urban.= _E._, 1827-1886. An educator who was professor of Latin and Greek in Johns Hopkins University from 1876. A Compendious Grammar of Attic Greek; Compendious Grammar of the Latin Language; Principia Latina.

=Morris, Edmund.= _N. J._, 1804-1874. A journalist and agricultural writer of Burlington, New Jersey. Ten Acres Enough; How to Get a Farm and Where to Find One; Farming for Boys.

=Morris, Edward Joy.= _Pa._, 1817-1881. A diplomatist who was minister to Turkey, 1861-70. He published A Tour Through Turkey; The Turkish Empire; Afraja, or Life and Love in Norway; Corsica, Social and Political, all but the first-named being translations from the German.

=Morris, Edwin Dafydd.= _N. Y._, 1825- ----. A Presbyterian minister and educator, professor of theology in Lane Seminary from 1874. Outlines of Christian Doctrine; Ecclesiology; Salvation After Death; A Defence of Lane Seminary.

=Morris, Mrs. Eugenia Laura [Tuttle].= “Alyn Yates Keith.” _Ct._, 1833- ----. A writer of New Haven. A Spinster’s Leaflets; A Hilltop Summer; Aunt Billy. _Le._

=Morris, George Pope.= _Pa._, 1802-1864. A journalist of New York city, long famous as a song-writer, and now chiefly remembered for such poems as My Mother’s Bible; Woodman, Spare that Tree. He was for many years editor of The Home Journal, and one of the prominent literary figures of the metropolis. Briarcliff, a drama; The Little Frenchman; Poems.

=Morris, George Sylvester.= _Vt._, 1840-1889. An educator and philosophical writer, who was professor at the University of Michigan from 1870. British Thought and Thinkers; Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, a Critical Exposition; Philosophy and Christianity; Hegel’s Philosophy of the State and of History. _Sc._

=Morris, Gouverneur.= _N. Y._, 1752-1816. A New York statesman of distinction, prominent in the formative period of the republic. Observations on the American Revolution. _See Sparks’s Memoirs of, with Selections from his Papers and Correspondence; Diary and Letters, edited by Annie Cary Morris; Life by T. Roosevelt, infra, 1888._

=Morris, Harrison Smith.= _Pa._, 1856- ----. A littérateur of Philadelphia. A Duet in Lyrics (verse, with J. A. Henry); Madonna, and Other Poems. He has edited Tales from Ten Poets; In the Yule Log Glow; Where Meadows Meet the Sea, and an edition of Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare with a continuation and completion. _Lip._

=Morris, Herbert William.= _W._, 1818-1897. A Presbyterian clergyman, from 1877 retired from the ministry and devoted to literary pursuits. Science and the Bible; Present Conflict of Science with Religion; The Testimony of the Ages; The Celestial Symbol Interpreted; Natural Law and Gospel-Teachings.

=Morris, James Cheston.= _Pa._, 1831- ----. Son of Caspar Morris, _supra_. A Philadelphia physician. The Milk Supply of Large Cities; The Water Supply of Philadelphia; Annals of Hygiene.

=Morris, John Gottlieb.= _Pa._, 1803-1895. A noted Lutheran divine of Baltimore, founder of The Lutheran Observer, and long professor of natural history in the University of Maryland. Catechumen’s and Communicant’s Companion; Popular Exposition of the Gospels; Life of John Arndt; Life of Catherine de Bora; The Blind Girl of Wittenberg; Fifty Years in the Lutheran Ministry; The Diet of Augsburg; Journeys of Luther; Luther at Wartburg and Coburg; Lutheran Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper, comprise his chief works.

=Morris, Phineas Pemberton.= _Pa._, 1817-1888. A lawyer of Philadelphia, professor of law in the University of Pennsylvania from 1862. The Law of Replevin; Mining Rights in Pennsylvania.

=Morris, Ramsay.= _N. Y._, 1858- ----. An actor and playwright of New York city. He dramatized his own novel, Crucify Him, with the title, The Tigress.

=Morris, Robert.= _Ms._, 1818-1888. A writer of Lagrange, Kentucky. History of the Morgan Affair; Lights and Shadows of Freemasonry; Code of Masonic Law; History of Freemasonry in Kentucky; Freemasonry in the Holy Land; The Poetry of Freemasonry.

=Morris, Thomas Asbury.= _W. Va._, 1794-1874. A Methodist bishop in Ohio. Church Polity; Essays, etc.; Sketches of Western Methodism. _Meth._

=Morris, William Hopkins.= _N. Y._, 1820-1900. Son of G. P. Morris, _supra_. A brigadier-general of United States volunteers in the Civil War, brevetted major-general. Field Tactics for Infantry; Infantry Tactics.

=Morrison, Charles Robert.= _N. H._, 1819-1893. A jurist of Concord, New Hampshire. Digest of New Hampshire Reports; Probate Directory; Justice and Sheriff and Attorney’s Assistant; Town Officer; Digest of Common-School Laws; Proofs of Christ’s Resurrection from a Lawyer’s Standpoint.

=Morrison, Leonard Allison.= _N. H._, 1843- ----. A New Hampshire antiquarian. History of the Morison or Morrison Family; History of Wyndham in New Hampshire; Rambles in Europe, with Historical Facts Relating to Scotch-American Families.

=Morse, Abner.= _Ms._, 1793-1865. A Congregational clergyman and genealogist of Sharon, Massachusetts. Memorial of the Morses; Genealogy of Early Planters in Massachusetts; Descendants of Several Ancient Puritans, are his more important publications.

=Morse, Mrs. Charlotte Dunning [Wood].= “Charlotte Dunning.” _N. Y._, 1858- ----. A novelist. Upon a Cast, a society novel; A Step Aside; Cabin and Gondola. _Har. Hou._

=Morse, Edward Sylvester.= _Me._, 1838- ----. An eminent biologist of Salem, Massachusetts, who has published First Book on Zoölogy; Japanese Homes, and many scientific papers. _Har._

=Morse, James Herbert.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. An educator and verse-writer of New York city. Summer Haven Songs.

=Morse, Jedidiah.= _Ct._, 1761-1826. A Congregational clergyman of New England, very active as a controversialist and eminent as a geographer. He is sometimes styled the “Father of American Geography,” his being the first school text-books in America of any importance. Elements of Geography; American Gazetteer; Annals of the American Revolution; Compendious History of New England; Geography Made Easy; American Geography. _See Life by W. Sprague, infra._

=Morse, John Torrey.= _Ms._, 1840- ----. Nephew of the wife of O. W. Holmes, _supra_. A lawyer of Boston. Lives of Hamilton, J. Q. Adams, Jefferson, John Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lincoln, Franklin; Banks and Banking; Arbitration and Award; Famous Trials. _Hou. Lit._

=Morse, Mrs. Lucy [Gibbons].= _N. Y._, 1839- ----. A novelist of New York city. Rachel Stanwood, a Story; The Chezzles, a Story of Young People. _Hou._

=Morse, Samuel Finley Breese.= _Ms._, 1791-1872. Son of J. Morse, _supra_. The inventor of the electro-magnetic telegraph. Foreign Conspiracies against the Liberties of the United States; Our Liberties Defended; Imminent Dangers through Foreign Immigration.

=Morse, Sidney Edwards.= _Ms._, 1794-1871. Son of J. Morse, _supra_. A journalist and geographer of New York city. System of Modern Geography; Premium Questions on Slavery. With a younger brother he founded The New York Observer in 1823.

=Morton, Charles.= _E._, 1620-1698. A Puritan clergyman who came to New England in 1686, and was minister at Charlestown and vice-president of Harvard College. The Ark: its Loss and Recovery; System of Logic, long a text-book at Harvard.

=Morton, Henry.= _N. Y._, 1836-1902. A noted physicist, president of the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, New Jersey, from 1870. The Student’s Practical Chemistry (with A. R. Leeds) and many valuable scientific monographs. _Lip._

=Morton, James St. Clair.= _Pa._, 1829-1864. Son of S. G. Morton, _infra_. A Federal officer killed in the attack upon Petersburg. Instruction in Engineering; New System of Fortifications; Memoir on Fortification; Dangers and Defences of New York City.

=Morton, Nathaniel.= _H._, 1613-1685. The secretary of the Plymouth Colony from 1647 till his death, whose New England’s Memoriall is well known among colonial annals. _See Tyler’s American Literature._ _C. P. S._

=Morton, Oliver Throck.= _Ind._, 1860-1898. A lawyer of Chicago. The Southern Empire, with Other Papers. _Hou._

=Morton, Samuel George.= _Pa._, 1799-1851. A once prominent Philadelphia physician and scientist, and president of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Crania Americana; Crania Egyptica; Illustrated System of Human Anatomy.

=Morton, Mrs. Sarah Wentworth [Apthorp].= _Ms._, 1759-1846. A verse-writer of Quincy, Massachusetts. Ouabi, an Indian Tale in four cantos; My Mind and its Thoughts.

=Morton, Thomas.= _E._, _c._ 1575-1646. A famous adventurer who, settling himself at Mount Wollaston, which he termed Ma-re Mount, scandalized the colonists at Plymouth and Boston by his sports and carousals. The New English Canaan is a sarcastic and humourous description of his pious neighbours and their country. _See Motley’s Morton’s Hope and Merry Mount; Hawthorne’s Merry Mount; Mrs. Jane Austin’s Betty Alden, chapters 8 and 9; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 39._

=Morton, Thomas George.= _Pa._, 1835-1903. Son of S. G. Morton, _supra_. A Philadelphia physician. Surgery in the Pennsylvania Hospital: an Epitome of Practice from 1756; Transfusion of Blood and its Practical Application.

=Mosby, John Singleton.= _Va._, 1833- ----. A famous Confederate cavalry leader, consul at Hong Kong, 1878-85, and subsequently a lawyer in San Francisco. War Reminiscences. _See Scott’s Partisan Life with Mosby; Crawford’s Mosby and his Men._ _Do._

=Motley, John Lothrop.= _Ms._, 1814-1877. A distinguished historian, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, who was minister to Austria, 1861-67, and to England, 1869-70. His writings are remarkable for colour and dramatic vigour, while his estimates are tinged more or less with personal feeling. But though not a dispassionate historian, he is nevertheless quite removed from a spirit of blind partisanship. His work evinces immense research, but the main lines of the narrative are always clear. Morton’s Hope, a romance; Merry Mount, a romance; The Rise of the Dutch Republic; The History of the United Netherlands; Life and Death of John of Barneveld. _See Correspondence of, edited by G. W. Curtis, supra; Life, by O. W. Holmes; Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement._ _Har._

=Mott, George Scudder.= _N. Y._, 1829-1901. A Presbyterian minister of Flemington, New Jersey. The Prodigal Son; The Resurrection of the Dead; The Perfect Law. _Ran._

=Mott, Henry Augustus.= _S. I._, 1852-1896. Grandson of V. Mott, _infra_. A chemist of New York city. The Chemist’s Manual; Was Man Created?; The Air We Breathe; Fallacy of the Present Theory of Sound. _Wil._

=Mott, Valentine.= _L. I._, 1785-1865. A celebrated surgeon of New York city. Travels in Europe and the East; Mott’s Cliniques; a translation of Velpeau’s Operative Surgery, and surgical papers. _See Lives by S. D. Gross and S. W. Francis; Appletons’ American Biography._

=Moulton, Mrs. Ellen Louise [Chandler].= _Ct._, 1835- ----. A prominent poet and prose-writer of Boston. Her verse is characterized by a great degree of feeling, and her sonnets display a remarkable mastery of technique. Her volumes of verse include, Poems; Swallow Flights; In the Garden of Dreams; In Childhood’s Country. Her prose comprises, This, That, and the Other; Juno Clifford; My Third Book; three collections of Bed-Time Stories; Some Women’s Hearts; Random Rambles, a volume of travel sketches; Ourselves and Our Neighbors; Miss Eyre from Boston; Firelight Stories; Stories Told at Twilight; Lazy Tours in Spain; Life of Arthur O’Shaughnessy. _Cop. Har. Rob. St._

=Moulton, Joseph White.= _Ct._, 1789-1875. An antiquarian writer of Roslyn, Long Island. History of the State of New York (with J. Yates); Chancery Practice of New York.

=Moulton, Richard Green.= _E._, 1849- ----. An educator of note, professor in the University of Chicago. Ancient Classical Drama; The University Extension Movement; Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist. _Mac. Rev._

=Moultrie, William.= _S. C._, 1731-1805. A soldier of distinction in the American army during the Revolution, made major-general in 1782. He was governor of South Carolina, 1785-87 and 1794-1796. Memoirs of the Revolution (1802).

=Mountford, William.= _E._, 1816-1885. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston who became a spiritualist in his later years. Martyria; Euthanasy, or Happy Talk Toward the End of Life; Christianity the Deliverance of the Soul; Minutes Past and Present; Thorpe, a Quiet English Town. _Hou._

=Moustache, Vieux.= _See Gordon, C._

=Mowatt, Mrs.= _See Ritchie, Mrs._

=Mowry, Sylvester.= _R. I._, 1830-1871. An army officer who resigned in 1858. Arizona and Sonora: the Geography, History, and Resources of the Silver Regions of North America.

=Mowry, William Augustus.= _Ms._, 1829- ----. An educator of Boston. Talks with My Boys; Studies in Civil Government; Elements of Civil Government; School History of the United States (with A. M. Mowry). _Rob. Sil._

=Mudge, Enoch.= _Ms._, 1776-1850. A once noted Methodist itinerant preacher of New England. Notes on the Parables; Lynn, a Poem; The Juvenile Expositor; Lectures to Seamen.

=Mudge, Zachariah Atwell.= _Me._, 1813-1888. Nephew of E. Mudge, _supra_. A Methodist clergyman of Massachusetts. Among his miscellaneous writings are, The Christian Statesman; Views from Plymouth Rock; Witch Hill, a History of Salem Witchcraft; Life of Abraham Lincoln; Footprints of Roger Williams; Arctic Heroes; Fur-clad Adventurers; History of Suffolk County, Massachusetts; The Luck of Alden Farm. _Lo. Meth._

=Muhlenberg, Gotthilf Henry Ernst.= _Pa._, 1753-1815. A Lutheran divine of Philadelphia, famous as a botanist in his day. Catalogus Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis; Descriptio uberior Graminum et Plantarum Calamiarum Americæ Septentrionalis; English and German Lexicon and Grammar. _See G. H. E. Muhlenberg als Botaniker, by Maisch, 1886._

=Muhlenberg, William Augustus.= _Pa._, 1796-1877. A distinguished Episcopal clergyman, rector of the Church of the Holy Communion, in New York city, 1846-77. He was the founder of St. Luke’s Hospital, and organized the first Protestant Sisterhood in America. His hymn, “I would not live alway,” is widely known. Church Poetry; Music of the Church; People’s Psalter; Evangelical Catholic Papers; Christ and the Bible, Family Prayers; Letters on Protestant Sisterhoods; St. Johnland; Ideal and Actual. _See Lives by Anne Ayres, supra, W. W. Newton, infra; Atlantic Monthly, October, 1880._ _Ran. Wh._

=Muir, James.= _S._, 1757-1820. A Presbyterian clergyman of Alexandria, Virginia. An Examination of the Principles in the “Age of Reason” in Ten Discourses; Sermons.

=Muir, John.= _S._, 1838- ----. A noted California scientist and explorer, discoverer of the Muir Glacier in Alaska. The Mountains of California. _Cent._

=Mulford, Elisha.= _Pa._, 1833-1885. An Episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, lecturer in the Episcopal Theological School there, and prominent among Broad Church thinkers. The Nation; The Foundations of Civil Order and Political Life in the United States; The Republic of God. _Hou._

=Mulford, Prentice.= _L. I._, 1834-1891. A journalist of New York city and San Francisco. The Swamp Angel; Life by Land and Sea; Your Forces and How to Use Them.

=Mullany, Patrick Francis.= “Brother Azarias.” _I._, 1847-1893. A Roman Catholic educator of the order of Brothers of the Christian Schools; president of Rock Hill College, 1878-89, and subsequently a resident of New York city. The Development of English Literature: Old English Period; Philosophy of Literature; Psychological Aspects of Education; Address on Thinking; Aristotle and the Christian Church; Culture of the Spiritual Sense; Phases of Thought and Criticism. _Ap. Hou._

=Müller, Nikolaus.= _G._, 1809-1873. A German poet who emigrated to New York city in 1853 and established himself there as a printer. Zehn gepanzerte Sonette; Neuere Gedichte; Frische Blätter auf die Wunden deutscher Krieger.

=Munday, John William.= “Charles Sumner Seeley.” _Ind._, 1844- ----. A lawyer of Chicago. The Spanish Galleon; The Lost Canyon of the Toltecs, both tales of adventure for boys. _Mg._

=Munde, Paul Fortunatus.= _Sxy._, 1846-1902. A prominent New York physician. Obstetric Palpation; Minor Surgical Gynæcology; Management of Pregnancy.

=Munford, William.= _Va._, 1775-1825. A lawyer of Richmond, Virginia, who, beside several volumes of Law Reports, published a volume of Poems (1798) and a scholarly blank-verse translation of the Iliad. _See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America._

=Munger, Theodore Thornton.= _N. Y._, 1830- ----. A Congregational clergyman of New Haven, prominent among liberal thinkers of that faith. On the Threshold; The Freedom of Faith; Lamps and Paths; The Appeal to Life. _See Atlantic Monthly, July, 1883._ _Hou._

=Munkittrick, Richard Kendall.= _E._, 1853- ----. A humorous writer of New York city, on the editorial staff of Puck. The Moon Prince, a juvenile; Farming; The Acrobatic Muse, a collection of humourous verse. _Har. Wy._

=Munroe, [Charles] Kirk.= _Wis._, 1850- ----. A popular writer, now resident in Florida, whose writings are mainly for juvenile readers. Wakulla; Life of Mrs. Stowe (with her son); The Flamingo Feather; Derrick Sterling; Chrystal Jack and Co.; The Golden Days of ’49; Dorymates; Under Orders; Prince Dusty; Campmates; Canoemates; Cab and Caboose; Raftmates; The Coral Ship; The White Conquerors; The Fur Seal’s Tooth; Big Cypress; Snow-Shoes and Sledges; Totem of the Bear; Rick Dale; A Young War Chief; At War with Pontiac. _Do. Har. Put. Scr._

=Munsell, Franklin.= _N. Y._, 1857- ----. Son of J. Munsell, _infra_. A publisher of Albany. Chips for the Chimney Corner; The Bibliography of Albany.

=Munsell, Joel.= _Ms._, 1808-1880. A printer and publisher of Albany. Outlines of the History of Printing; Every-Day Book of History and Chronology; Chronology of Paper and Paper-Making.

=Munsey, Frank Andrew.= _Me._, 1854- ----. A prominent magazine publisher of New York city. Afloat in a Great City; The Boy Broker; Deringforth.

=Munson, James Eugene.= _N. Y._, 1835- ----. A phonographer of New York city. The Complete Phonographer; Dictionary of Practical Phonography; Phrase Book of Practical Phonography. _Har._

=Murat, Napoléon Achille.= _F._, 1801-1847. The son of Joachim Murat, King of Naples. In his youth he bore the title of Prince of the Two Sicilies. He came to the United States in 1821, was naturalized and settled at Tallahassee, Florida. He was mayor of that place in 1824, and postmaster, 1826-28. Lettres d’un citoyen des États Unis à ses amis d’Europe; Esquisses morales et politiques sur les États Unis d’Amérique; Exposition des principes du gouvernement republicain tel qu’il à été perfectionné en Amérique, which went through more than fifty editions.

=Murdoch, James Edward.= _Pa._, 1811-1893. A noted actor and lecturer. Orthophony (with W. Russell); The Stage; Plea for Spoken Language; Analytic Elocution. _Clke. Lip._

=Murdock, Harold.= _Ms._, 1862- ----. A bank cashier of Boston. The Reconstruction of Europe, a Sketch of the Diplomatic and Military History of Continental Europe from the Rise to the Fall of the Second French Empire. _Hou._

=Murdock, James.= _Ct._, 1776-1856. A Congregational clergyman and educator of New Haven. He was the author of Sketches of Modern Philosophy, and translator of Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History, and other works, as well as of a Literal Translation of the New Testament from the Ancient Syriac.

=Murfree, Fanny Noailles Dickinson.= _Tn._, 185- - ----. Sister of M. N. Murfree, _infra_. Felicia, a Novel. _Hou._

=Murfree, Mary Noailles.= “Charles Egbert Craddock.” _Tn._, 1850- ----. A novelist of Tennessee whose stories are all concerned with the life of the mountaineers in North Carolina and Tennessee. They display close, sympathetic observation and strong, vivid characterization. In the Tennessee Mountains; Where the Battle was Fought; The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains; Down the Ravine; His Vanished Star; In the Clouds; The Story of Keedon Bluffs; The Despot of Broomsedge Cove; In the “Stranger People’s” Country; The Phantoms of the Footbridge; The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain, and Other Stories; The Juggler. _See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement._ _Har. Hou._

=Murphy, Lady Blanche Elizabeth Mary Annunciata [Noel].= _E._, 1846-1881. The eldest daughter of the Earl of Gainsborough. She married her father’s organist, came to America, and wrote stories and sketches for the magazines. On the Rhine, and Other Sketches.

=Murphy, Henry Cruse.= _L. I._, 1810-1882. A lawyer and journalist of Brooklyn. The Voyage of Verrazano; Henry Hudson in Holland; Anthology of the New Netherlands.

=Murphy, Thomas.= _I._, 1823-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. Pastoral Theology; Pastor and People; Duties of Church Members.

=Murray, David.= _N. Y._, 1830- ----. An educator of New York city, foreign adviser to the Japanese government on education. Manual of Land Surveying; Outline History of Japanese Education; The Story of Japan.

=Murray, James Ormsbee.= 1827-1899. An educator, professor of English literature in Princeton College, and dean of the college from 1886. Life of Francis Wayland, _infra_.

=Murray, John O’Kane.= _I._, 1847-1885. A physician and author of New York city. Popular History of the Catholic Church in the United States; Catholic Pioneers of America; Lessons in English Literature; The Prose and Poetry of Ireland; Little Lives of the Great Saints; Catholic Heroes and Heroines of America.

=Murray, Lindley.= _Pa._, 1745-1826. A famous grammarian whose life after 1784 was passed near York, England. Grammar of the English Language; Power of Religion on the Mind; Compendium of Religious Faith and Practice. _See Memoirs written by Himself with continuation by E. Frank, 1826; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 39; Allibone’s Dictionary; Bibliography of Maine._ _Lip._

=Murray, Nicholas.= “Kirwan.” _I._, 1802-1861. A Presbyterian clergyman of Elizabeth, New Jersey, famous in his day as a controversialist. Letters by Kirwan to Bishop Hughes; Romanism at Home; Men and Things; The Happy Home; Preachers and Preaching; Parish and Other Pencillings. _See Life by Prime._ _Har._

=Murray, William Henry Harrison.= _Ct._, 1840-1904. A noted Congregational minister, pastor of Park Street Church, Boston, 1868-74. Adventures in the Wilderness; Adirondack Tales; Deacons; Music Hall Sermons; The Perfect Horse; Sermons from Park Street Pulpit; How Deacon Tubner Kept New Year’s; The Doom of Mamelons; Daylight Land; Words Fitly Spoken. _Le._

=Murray, William Vans.= _Md._, 1762-1803. A Maryland statesman who was minister to the Netherlands from 1793 till his death, and author of a treatise on The Constitution and Laws of the United States.

=Musick, John Roy.= _Mo._, 1849-1901. A novelist and historian of Kirksville, Missouri. The Banker of Bedford; History Stories of Wisconsin; Calamity Row; Brother Against Brother; Mysterious Mr. Howard; and a series of twelve Columbian historical novels, including Columbia; Estevan; St. Augustine; Pocahontas; The Pilgrims; A Century Too Soon, a story of Bacon’s Rebellion; The Witch of Salem; Braddock; Independence; Sustained Honor; Humbled Pride; Union. _Fu. Lo._

=Mussey, Reuben Dimond.= _N. H._, 1780-1866. A Boston physician who published Health: its Friends and its Foes.

=Muzzey, Artemas Bowers.= _Ms._, 1802-1892. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts who retired from active ministry in 1865. The Blade and the Ear; Prime Movers of the Revolution; The Young Men’s Friend; Moral Teacher; Christ in the Will, the Heart, and Life; The Higher Education; Immortality in the Light of Scripture and Science; Truths Consequent upon Belief in God; Education of Old Age, comprise his chief works. _A. U. A. Le. Lo._

=Myer, Albert James.= _N. Y._, 1827-1880. A brigadier-general in the United States army, for some years chief signal officer and author of Manual of Signals for Use in the Field.

=Myers, Peter Hamilton.= _N. Y._, 1812-1878. A lawyer and romancer of Brooklyn. The First of the Knickerbockers, a tale; The Young Patroon; The King of the Hurons; The Prisoner of the Border.

=Myers, Philip Van Ness.= _N. Y._, 1846- ----. An educator of Cincinnati, professor of history and political economy in the University of Cincinnati from 1890, and dean of the University from 1895. Life and Nature under the Tropics; Remains of Lost Empires; Outlines of Ancient History; Outlines of Mediæval and Modern History; A History of Greece; The Eastern Nations and Greece; A History of Rome; General History. _Gi. Har._

=Myers, Mrs. Sarah Ann [Irwin].= _Del._, 1800-1876. A writer and artist of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Among her many contributions to juvenile literature are, Margaret Gordon; Impatient Ellen; The Silk-Weaver of Lyons.

=Myrtle, Mollie.= _See Hill, Mrs. Agnes._

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=Nack, James.= _N. H._, 1809-1879. A deaf and dumb verse-writer of New York city. The Legend of the Ark; Earl Rupert; The Immortal, a dramatic romance; The Romance of the King, and Other Poems. _See Duyckinck’s American Literature._

=Nadal, Bernhard Harrison.= _Md._, 1812-1870. A Methodist clergyman and educator of Virginia who published New Life Dawning. _Meth._

=Nadal, Ehrman Syme.= _W. Va._, 1843- ----. Son of B. H. Nadal, _supra_. A journalist who has lived much in London as secretary of legation, 1870-1871, and 1877-1884. Essays at Home and Elsewhere; Impressions of London Social Life; Zweiback, or Notes of a Professional Exile. _Cent. Scr._

=Naphegi, Gabor.= _Hy._, 1824-1884. A native of Buda-Pesth who became a naturalized American citizen in 1868. Ghardia, or Ninety Days in the Desert; The Album of Language; Hungary; Among the Arabs; The Grand Review of the Dead (verse). _Lip._

=Napheys= [nā´feez], =George Henry.= _Pa._, 1842-1876. A prominent physician and medical writer of Philadelphia. The Body and its Ailments; Modern Medical Therapeutics; Modern Surgical Therapeutics; The Transmission of Life; Physical Life of Woman; Prevention and Cure of Disease; Personal Beauty (with D. G. Brinton, _supra_). _My._

=Nasby, Petroleum Vesuvius.= _See Locke, D. R._

=Nash, Simeon.= _Ms._, 1804-1879. A jurist of Gallipolis, Ohio. Digest of Ohio Reports; Pleading and Practice under the Civil Code; Morality and the State; Crime and the Family. _Clke._

=Nason, Elias.= _Ms._, 1811-1887. A Congregational minister of North Billerica, Massachusetts, among whose numerous religious biographical and historical writings are, Gazetteer of Massachusetts; Life of John A. Andrew; Lives of Moody and Sankey; Life of Charles Sumner; Life of Henry Wilson, _infra_; History of Middlesex County; Originality; Thou Shalt Not Steal; Fountains of Salvation. _Lo._

=Nason, Mrs. Emma [Huntington].= _Me._, 1845- ----. A verse-writer of Augusta, Maine. White Sails (verse); The Tower, with Legends and Lyrics. _Hou. Lo._

=Nason, Henry Bradford.= _Ms._, 1831-1895. Cousin of Elias Nason, _supra_. A professor of chemistry in the Troy Polytechnic Institute. Table of Reactions for Qualitative Analysis; Table for Qualitative Analysis in Colors, are among his published works.

=Nast, William.= _G._, 1807-1899. A Methodist minister of Cincinnati, editor of The Christian Apologist for many years. Christological Meditations; Gospel Records; A German Commentary on the New Testament; Das Christenthum und seine Gegensätze.

=Nauman, Mary.= _See Robinson, Mrs. Mary._

=Navarro, Madame Mary Antoinette [Anderson] de.= _Cal._, 1859- ----. A once popular actress who retired from the stage in 1890, was married to M. de Navarro soon after, and has since lived in England. A Few Memories, an autobiography. _See Lives by Farrar, 1884, Winter, 1886._

=Nead, Benjamin Matthias.= _Pa._, 1847- ----. A lawyer and journalist of Harrisburg. Sketches of Early Chambersburg; Guide to County Officers; Early Government of Pennsylvania; Brief Review of the Financial History of Pennsylvania.

=Neal, Alice B.= Wife of J. C. Neal, _infra_. _See Haven, Mrs._

=Neal, John.= _Me._, 1793-1876. A once famous littérateur of Portland, Maine, who early gained a hearing, and, as poet, novelist, dramatist, and magazinist, was constantly before the public for the rest of his long life, though little of his work can be said to survive, able as some of it is. The more important of his writings include, Keep Cool, a novel; The Battle of Niagara, a poem; Goldau, and Other Poems; Rachel Dyer, a novel; Downeasters, a novel; True Womanhood; Bentham’s Morals and Legislation; Great Mysteries and Little Plagues; Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life (1870). _See Duyckinck’s American Literature; Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Allibone’s Dictionary; Appletons’ American Biography; Bibliography of Maine._

=Neal, Joseph Clay.= _N. H._, 1807-1847. A journalist of Philadelphia who founded The Saturday Gazette, and was a popular humourist in his day. Charcoal Sketches; Peter Ploddy, and Other Oddities. _See Griswold’s American Prose Writers._

=Neely, Thomas Benjamin.= _Pa._, 18-- - ----. A Methodist clergyman. Young Workers in the Church; The Church Lyceum; Parliamentary Practice; Evolution of Episcopacy and Organic Methodism; The Parliamentarian; The Governing Conference in Methodism. _Meth._

=Neill, Edward Duffield.= _Pa._, 1823-1893. A Reformed Episcopal clergyman of St. Paul, but formerly a Presbyterian clergyman. History of Minnesota; Terra Mariæ, or Threads of Maryland History; The Fairfaxes of England and America; History of the Virginia Company; English Colonization of America in the 17th century; Founders of Virginia; Virginia Vetusta; Virginia Carolorum; Concise History of Minnesota. _Lip._

=Neill, John.= _Pa._, 1819-1880. Brother of E. D. Neill, _supra_. A Philadelphia physician. Neill on the Veins; Compend of Medicine (with F. G. Smith).

=Neill, William.= _Pa._, 1778-1860. A Presbyterian minister of Philadelphia, president of Dickinson College, 1824-1829. Lectures on Bible History; Divine Origin of the Christian Religion; Ministry of Fifty Years.

=Neilson, Joseph.= _N. Y._, 1813-1888. Memoirs of Rufus Choate, with some Consideration of his Studies, Opinions, and Style. _Hou._

=Nelson, David.= _Ind._, 1793-1844. A Presbyterian minister and educator of Missouri and Illinois. His principal work, Cause and Cure of Infidelity, has been widely read.

=Nelson, Harry Leverett.= _Ms._, 1858-1889. A lawyer of Worcester, Massachusetts. Bird Songs About Worcester, a collection of nature studies. _Lit._

=Nelson, Henry Addison.= _Ms._, 1820- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor at Lane Seminary, 1868-74, and from 1886 editor of The Church at Home and Abroad. Seeing Jesus; Sin and Salvation; Home Whispers. _Ran._

=Nelson, Henry Loomis.= _N. Y._, 1846- ----. A journalist of New York city, editor-in-chief of Harper’s Weekly, 1894-99. The Money We Need; Our Unjust Tariff Law; John Rantoul, a novel. _Har. Hou._

=Nesmith, James Ernest.= _Ms._, 1856-1898. An artist and verse-writer of Lowell, Massachusetts. Monadnoc, and Other Sketches in Verse; Philoctetes, and Other Poems; Life and Addresses of Governor Greenhalge.

=Nevin, Alfred.= _Pa._, 1816-1890. A prominent Presbyterian clergyman and religious editor of Philadelphia. His more important writings include, Words of Comfort for Doubting Hearts; The Voice of God; The Man of Faith; Letters to Colonel Ingersoll; Christian’s Rest; Guide to the Oracles; Triumph of Truth.

=Nevin, Edwin Henry.= _Pa._, 1814-1899. Brother of A. Nevin, _supra_. A German Reformed clergyman of Philadelphia. The City of God; Humanity and its Responsibilities; Thoughts About Christ; The Minister’s Handbook.

=Nevin, John Williamson.= _Pa._, 1803-1886. Cousin of A. Nevin, _supra_. An eminent German Reformed clergyman of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, president of Franklin and Marshall College, 1866-76. Prior to his presidency he had been active as a theologian at Mercersburgh, and his works form the basis of what is styled the “Mercersburgh Theology.” Among his writings are, History and Genesis of the Heidelberg Catechism; The Mystical Presence; Anti-Christ; The Anxious Bench; Biblical Antiquities. _See Life by T. Appel. 1889._

=Nevin, William Channing.= _O._, 1844- ----. Son of E. H. Nevin, _supra_. A lawyer of Philadelphia. History of All Religions; Life of Albert Barnes, _supra_; The Blue Ray of Sunlight; A Slight Misunderstanding; A Wild Goose Chase; In the Nick of Time; Joshua Whitcomb’s Tribulations; A Summer School Adventure.

=Nevin, William Wilberforce.= _Pa._, 1836-1899. Son of J. W. Nevin, _supra_. A journalist and railway director of Philadelphia who published Vignettes of Travel.

=Nevins, William.= _Ct._, 1797-1835. A Presbyterian minister of Baltimore. Thoughts on Popery; Practical Thoughts; Select Remains, with Memoir.