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=Porter, Fitz-John.= _N. H._, 1822-1901. A brevet brigadier-general dismissed from the service in 1863, reinstated by act of Congress, 1886. Narrative of the Services of the Fifth Army Corps in 1862 in Northern Virginia.

=Porter, James.= _Ms._, 1800-1888. A once prominent Methodist clergyman of Boston. History of Methodism; The Winning Worker; Hints to Self-Educated Ministers; Compendium of Methodism, comprise a portion of his writings. _Meth._

=Porter, John Addison.= _N. Y._, 1822-1866. A professor of chemistry at Yale College, 1852-64. Principles of Chemistry; First Book of Chemistry.

=Porter, John Addison.= _Ct._, 1856-1900. Son of J. A. Porter, _supra_. The Corporation of Yale College; Administration of the City of Washington; Sketches of Yale Life.

=Porter, Linn Boyd.= “Albert Ross.” _Ms._, 1851- ----. A novelist of Cambridge whose writings have been extremely popular, although severely criticised from a literary point of view as well as from an ethical standpoint. Among them are, Thou Shalt Not; Speaking of Ellen; A Black Adonis; Out of Wedlock. _Dil._

=Porter, Mrs. Lydia Ann [Emerson].= _Ms._, 1816- ----. Cousin of R. W. Emerson, _supra_. An educator of Springfield, Vermont. Uncle Jerry’s Letters to Young Mothers; The Lost Will, are among her writings.

=Porter, Noah.= _Ct._, 1811-1892. A Congregational clergyman of Connecticut, president of Yale College, 1871-85, and a metaphysician of distinction. The Human Intellect; Books and Reading; Elements of Intellectual Science; Elements of Moral Science; The American Colleges and the American Public; Science and Sentiment; Bishop Berkeley; Fifteen Years in Yale College Chapel, a volume of sermons; The Science of Nature and the Science of Man. _Scr._

=Porter, Rose.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. An author of New Haven who has written and compiled a large number of religious books. Among her original works are, Summer Driftwood for the Winter Fire; A Modern St. Christopher; Our Saints, a Family Story; My Son’s Wife. _Lo. Ran. Rev._

=Porter, Thomas Conrad.= _Pa._, 1822-1901. A German Reformed clergyman famous as a botanist, and professor of botany at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, from 1866. Sketch of the Flora of Pennsylvania; Sketch of the Botany of the United States; Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado (with J. M. Coulter); The Carices of Pennsylvania; The Grasses of Pennsylvania.

=Posse, Nils.= Baron Posse. _Sn._, 1862-1895. A Boston instructor in gymnastics. Special Kinesiology of Educational Gymnastics; Medical Gymnastics; Scientific Aspect of Swedish Gymnastics. _Le._

=Post, Truman Marcellus.= _Vt._, 1810-1866. A Congregational clergyman and editor of St. Louis, professor of history in Washington University. The Skeptical Era in Modern History. _See Life of, by T. H. Post._

=Post, Waldron Kintzing.= _N. Y._, 1868- ----. A lawyer of New York city. Harvard Stories. _Put._

=Potter, Alonzo.= _N. Y._, 1800-1865. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania and an active promoter of educational movements. The Principles of Science Applied to Domestic and Mechanic Arts; Religious Philosophy; Political Economy; co-author with G. B. Emerson, _supra_, of The School and the Schoolmaster. _See Memoirs of, 1870._

=Potter, Burton Willis.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. A lawyer of Worcester, Massachusetts. The Road and Roadside, a legal treatise. _Lit._

=Potter, Eliphalet Nott.= _N. Y._, 1836-1901. Son of A. Potter, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, president of Hobart College, Geneva, New York, 1884-96. Parochial Sermons; Christian Evidences.

=Potter, Henry Codman.= _N. Y._, 1835- ----. Son of A. Potter, _supra_. The sixth Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York, and prominent among Broad Church thinkers. Sermons of the City; The Gates of the East; a Winter in Egypt and Syria; Sisterhoods and Deaconesses; Waymarks. _Dut._

=Potter, Platt.= _N. Y._, 1800-1891. A jurist of Schenectady. Potter’s Dwarris; Treatise on Corporations; Equity Jurisprudence.

=Potter, William James.= _Ms._, 1830-1894. A Unitarian clergyman of New Bedford for many years, prominent as a radical thinker. Twenty-Five Sermons of Twenty-Five Years; Lectures and Sermons. _El._

=Potts, James Henry.= _Ont._, 1848- ----. A Methodist clergyman, editor of The Michigan Christian Advocate from 1877. Methodism in the Field; Golden Dawn; Spiritual Life; Our Thorns and Crowns; Faith Made Easy.

=Potts, Stacey Gardner.= _Pa._, 1799-1865. A jurist of Trenton, New Jersey. Village Tales; Precedents and Notes of Practice in the New Jersey Chancery Court.

=Powell, Edward Payson.= _N. Y._, 1833- ----. A clergyman who has held pastorates in Congregational and Unitarian churches successively, and has long been resident in Clinton, New York. Our Heredity from God; Liberty and Life. _Ap._

=Powell, John Wesley.= _N. Y._, 1834-1902. An eminent geologist, director of the United States Geological Survey, 1879-94. Exploration of the Uinta Mountains; The Arid Regions of the United States; Introduction to the Study of the Indian Languages; Studies in Sociology; Canyons of the Colorado. _Am. Fl._

=Powell, Thomas.= _E._, 1809-1887. An English writer who came to America in 1849, and was for many years connected with the Frank Leslie publications. He wrote a number of plays, among which are, True at Last; The Shepherd’s Well. Other works of his are, Florentine Tales; Tales from Boccaccio; Living Authors of England; Living Authors of America.

=Powers, Edward.= _N. Y._, 1830- ----. Brother of H. N. Powers, _infra_. A civil engineer who published a work entitled War and the Weather, or the Artificial Production of Rain.

=Powers, Horatio Nelson.= _N. Y._, 1826-1890. An Episcopal clergyman of Chicago, Bridgeport, and, in his latest years, of Piermont, New York, who was favourably known as a poet. His writings include, Early and Late; Poems; Ten Years of Song; Lyrics of the Hudson; Through the Year, a volume of religious essays. _Lo. Rob._

=Poyas, Catherine Gendron.= _S. C._, 1813-1882. A verse-writer of Charleston. Huguenot Daughters, and Other Verses; A Year of Grief.

=Pratt, Daniel Johnson.= _N. Y._, 1827-1884. Annals of Public Education in the State of New York, 1626-1746.

=Pratt, Mrs. Ella [Farman].= _N. Y._, 18-- - ----. A popular writer for young people, long the editor of The Wide Awake, and more recently of Our Little Men and Women. Among her writings are, Good-for-Nothing Polly; A Girl’s Money; A Little Woman; A White Hand; Happy Children. _Cr. Lo._

=Pratt, Jacob Loring.= 1835-1891. A clergyman of Maine. Evening Rest; Branches of Palm; Broken Fetters; The Mask Lifted; Bonnie Aerie; Mecca; The Crown of Silver. _Lo._

=Pratt, Orson.= _N. Y._, 1811-1881. A Mormon apostle and educator, professor of mathematics in Deseret University. Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon; Cubic and Bi-Quadratic Equations; The Great First Cause; The Absurdities of Immaterialism.

=Pratt, Parley Parker.= _N. Y._, 1807-1857. Brother of O. Pratt, _supra_. A Mormon apostle and missionary. Voice of Warning and Instruction to All People; History of the Persecutions of Missouri; Key to the Science of Theology.

=Pratt, Samuel Wheeler.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman at Monroe, Michigan, from 1883. A Summer at Peace Cottage, or Talks About Home Life; The Gospel of the Holy Spirit; Life of St. Paul. _Ran._

=Pray, Isaac Clark.= _Ms._, 1813-1869. A journalist, playwright, and theatrical manager of New York city. Prose and Verse; The Book of the Drama; Memoirs of James Gordon Bennett, are among his miscellaneous works. Virginius; Hermit of Malta; Giulietta Gordoni, and the first and last acts of The Corsican Brothers, are a portion of his dramatic writings.

=Pray, Lewis Glover.= _Ms._, 1793-1882. A Boston philanthropist who published Child’s First Book of Thought; History of Sunday-Schools; The Sylphid’s School, and Other Pieces in Verse.

=Preble, George Henry.= _Me._, 1816-1885. A rear-admiral in the United States navy. History of the American Flag; Chronological History of Steam Navigation; The Preble Family in America.

=Preble, Henry.= _Me._, 1853- ----. An educator who was professor of Latin at Harvard University. He has edited a revised edition of Andrews and Stoddard’s Latin Grammar, and several volumes of Latin classics, and has published (with C. Parker) a Handbook of Latin Writing; and Latin Lessons (with L. C. Hull). _Gi. Hou._

=Prentice, George.= _Ms._, 1834-18--. A Methodist clergyman, professor of modern languages at Wesleyan University. Life of Bishop Gilbert Haven, _supra_; Rome and Italy at the Opening of the Œcumenical Council, from the French of Pressensé; Life of Wilbur Fisk, _supra_. _Hou._

=Prentice, George Denison.= _Ct._, 1802-1870. A once famous Kentucky journalist who was editor of The Louisville Journal, 1831-70, and widely known for his witticisms. Life of Henry Clay; Prenticeana. _See Poems, with Memoir of, by J. J. Piatt; Lippincott’s Magazine, November, 1869; Harper’s Magazine, January, 1875._ _Clke._

=Prentiss, Charles.= _Ms._, 1774-1820. A journalist of Washington. Fugitive Essays in Prose and Verse; Poems; History of the United States; Trial of Calvin and Hopkins; Lives of Robert Treat Paine and General William Eaton.

=Prentiss, Mrs. Elizabeth [Payson].= _Me._, 1818-1878. Wife of G. L. Prentiss, _infra_. A popular writer of religious fiction whose Stepping Heavenward has been widely read. Among her many other works are, Pemaquid; The Home at Graylock; Aunt Jane’s Hero; The Flower of the Family; Little Susy Series; Fred, Maria, and Me. _See Life by her husband._ _Ran. Scr._

=Prentiss, George Lewis.= _Me._, 1816-1903. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor of pastoral theology in Union Seminary from 1873. Memoir of Sargent Prentiss; Life of Elizabeth Prentiss, _supra_; Our National Bane; The Problem of the Veto Power; The Argument between Union Seminary and the General Assembly; Fifty Years of Union Seminary. _Ran._

=Prescott, Albert Benjamin.= _N. Y._, 1832- ----. A chemist who has been dean of the school of pharmacy at Michigan University from 1876. Outlines of Proximate Organic Analysis; Chemical Examination of Alcoholic Liquors; Organic Analysis; Qualitative Analysis (with S. Douglas).

=Prescott, George Benjamin.= _N. H._, 1830-1894. A prominent electrician of New York city. History of the Electric Telegraph; Dynamo Electricity; Invention of Bell’s Telephone, are his principal writings.

=Prescott, Mary Newmarch.= _Me._, 1849-1888. Sister of Mrs. H. Spofford, _infra_. A popular magazine-writer of Newburyport who published Matt’s Follies, a juvenile tale.

=Prescott, William Hickling.= _Ms._, 1796-1859. A celebrated historian of Boston. While a student at Harvard College, he lost the use of one eye and not long afterwards the free use of the other, and, until in later life his eyesight improved, he was obliged to depend upon the reading of others in his historical researches. In 1837 his History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella appeared and brought him instant fame. It was followed by The Conquest of Mexico; The Conquest of Peru; an edition of Robertson’s Charles V., with Prescott’s own work on the cloister life of that monarch; History of Philip II.; Biographical and Critical Miscellanies. _See Lives by R. Ogden (1904) and Ticknor, infra; Allibone’s Dictionary._ _Lip._

=Preston, Harriet Waters.= _Ms._, _c._ 1843- ----. A high authority upon Provençal literature and a writer of literary criticism and historical studies who has lived much in Europe. Her writings include, Aspendale; Love in the Nineteenth Century; Troubadours and Trouvères; A Year in Eden; Is That All? a novel; The Georgics of Virgil in English Verse; and a translation from the Provençal of Frédéric Mistral’s Mirèio.

=Preston, Mrs. Margaret [Junkin].= _Va._, 1820-1897. A poet and prose-writer of Lexington, Virginia, and later of Baltimore. Old Song and New; Beechenbrook, a Rhyme of the War; Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse; For Love’s Sake; The Young Ruler’s Question; Silverwood, a novel; A Handful of Monographs. _Hou._

=Preston, Thomas Scott.= _Ct._, 1824-1891. A Roman Catholic clergyman, but prior to 1849 in orders in the Episcopal Church. From 1881 he was a domestic prelate of the papal household with the title of Monsignore. Protestantism and the Bible; Reason and Revelation; Christ and the Church; The Ark of the Covenant; Sermons for the Seasons; Life of St. Mary Magdalene; Life of St. Vincent de Paul; Christian Unity; Purgatorian Manual.

=Price, Bruce.= _N. Y._, 1845-1903. An architect of New York city. A Large Country House.

=Price, Eli Kirk.= _Pa._, 1797-1884. A Philadelphia lawyer of eminence. Law of Limitations and Liens against Real Estate. _See Memoir of, by Rothrock, 1880._

=Price, Ira Maurice.= _O._, 1856- ----. An educator of Chicago, professor of Semitic languages in the University of Chicago from 1892. Syllabus of Old Testament History. _Rev._

=Price, Thomas Randolph.= _Va._, 1839-1903. A professor of English literature at Columbia College from 1882. The Teaching of the Mother Tongue; Shakespeare’s Verse Construction.

=Priest, Josiah.= _N. Y._, _c._ 1790-_c._ 1850. A harness-maker of New York State, some of whose books were very popular. Wonders of Nature; View of the Millennium; Stories of the Revolution; American Antiquities; Slavery in the Light of History and Scripture.

=Prime, Benjamin Young.= _L. I._, 1733-1791. A physician of Huntington, Long Island, who wrote patriotic verses during the Revolutionary period. The Patriot Muse, published in 1764, includes his earlier poems. Columbia’s Glory, or British Pride Humbled, is a long poem printed in 1791.

=Prime, Edward Dorr Griffin.= _N. Y._, 1814-1891. Son of N. S. Prime, _infra_. A Presbyterian clergyman who was one of the editors of The New York Observer, to which he contributed the Letters of Eusebius. Around the World; Forty Years in the Turkish Empire, or Memoirs of Reverend William Goodell.

=Prime, Nathaniel Scudder.= _L. I._, 1785-1856. Son of B. Y. Prime, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of Newburgh, New York. Familiar Illustration of Christian Baptism; History of Long Island.

=Prime, Samuel Irenæus.= _N. Y._, 1812-1885. Son of N. S. Prime, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman, editor of The New York Observer for forty-five years. Among his many works are, Fifteen Years of Prayer; Irenæus Letters; The Old White Meeting-House; Life in New York; Annals of the English Bible; Songs of the Soul; Life of S. B. F. Morse, _supra_; Prayer and its Answer; Walking with God; Travels in Europe and the East; The Bible in the Levant; The Alhambra and the Kremlin; Under the Trees. _See Autobiography, 1886._ _Ap. Har. Ran. Scr._

=Prime, William Cowper.= _N. Y._, 1825- ----. Son of N. S. Prime, _supra_. A lawyer and journalist, professor of the history of art at Princeton College from 1884. Boat Life in Egypt; Tent Life in the Holy Land; Pottery and Porcelain; The Owl Creek Letters; Coins, Medals, and Seals; I Go A-Fishing; Holy Cross; Along New England Roads; Among the Northern Hills. _Har. Ran._

=Prince, Mrs. Helen Choate [Pratt].= _Ms._, 1857- ----. A granddaughter of R. Choate, _supra_. A novelist now living in France. The Story of Christine Rochefort; A Transatlantic Chatelaine; The Strongest Master. _Hou._

=Prince, Le Baron Bradford.= _L. I._, 1840- ----. Son of W. R. Prince, _infra_. A jurist of New Mexico. Agricultural History of Queen’s County, Long Island; E Pluribus Unum, or American Nationality; General Laws of New Mexico; History of New Mexico; The American Church and its Name.

=Prince, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1687-1758. A Congregational minister, pastor of the Old South Church in Boston, 1718-58, and one of the most fair-minded, accurate historical writers that America has had. His library now forms a separate collection in the Boston Public Library. Earthquakes of New England (1755); Chronological History of New England. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Prince, William.= _L. I._, 1766-1842. A horticulturist of Flushing, Long Island, whose Treatise on Horticulture (1826) was the first comprehensive work on the subject published in the United States.

=Prince, William Robert.= _L. I._, 1795-1869. Son of W. Prince, _supra_. A horticulturist of Flushing. History of the Vine (with W. Prince); Pomological Manual; Manual of Roses.

=Proctor, Edna Dean.= _N. H._, 1838- ----. A littérateur formerly of Brooklyn, New York, now (1904) of South Framingham, Massachusetts. Poems; A Russian Journey; The Song of the Ancient People. _Hou._

=Proctor, Lucien Brock.= _N. H._, 1826-1900. A legal writer of Albany. The Bench and Bar of the State of New York; Lives of the State Chancellors; Life of Thomas Emmet; Lawyer and Client; Bench and Bar of King’s County; Legal History of Albany and Schenectady Counties.

=Proudfit, Alexander Moncrief.= _Pa._, 1770-1843. An Associate Reformed Presbyterian clergyman. Discourses on the Parables; Theological Works (four volumes, 1815). _See Life of, by Forsyth._

=Proudfit, David Law.= “Peleg Arkwright.” _N. Y._, 1842-1897. A Federal officer during the Civil War, and subsequently a resident of New York city. Love Among the Gamins, and Other Poems; Mask and Domino (verse). _Co._

=Proudfit, John Williams.= _N. Y._, 1803-1870. Son of A. M. Proudfit, _supra_. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, professor of Greek in Rutgers College, 1840-64. Man’s Two-Fold Life.

=Prudden, Theophile Mitchell.= _Ct._, 1849- ----. A New York physician, professor of pathology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Manual of Normal Histology (with Delafield); Dust and its Dangers; Water and Ice; Handbook of Pathological Anatomy; Story of the Bacteria. _Put._

=Pugh= [pew], =Mrs. Eliza Lofton [Phillips].= “Arria.” _La._, 1841- ----. A novelist of Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Not a Hero; In a Crucible.

=Pulte, Joseph Hippolyt.= _G._, 1811-1884. A physician of Cleveland. The Homœopathic Domestic Physician; The Science of Medicine; The Woman’s Medical Guide.

=Pumpelly= [pum-pĕl´ly], =Mrs. Mary Hollenback [Welles].= _Pa._, 1803-1879. A verse-writer whose religious historical Poems were collected in a volume in 1852.

=Pumpelly, Raphael.= _N. Y._, 1837- ----. Son of Mrs. Pumpelly, _supra_. A geologist of note, professor of mining engineering at Harvard University from 1866. Geological Researches in China; Across America and Asia; Notes of a Five-Years’ Journey Around the World. _Ho._

=Punchard, George.= _Ms._, 1806-1881. A Boston journalist, for many years editor of The Traveller, but who, prior to 1845, was a Congregational clergyman in New Hampshire. History of Congregationalism from A. D. 250; View of Congregationalism. _C. P. S._

=Purinton, Daniel Boardman.= _Pa._, 1850- ----. A Baptist clergyman and educator of Ohio, president of Denison University from 1889. Christian Theism; The Battle of the Frogs, a poem. _Put._

=Purple, Samuel Smith.= _N. Y._, 1822-1900. A physician of New York city. The Corpus Luteum; Menstruation; Contributions to the Practice of Midwifery; Observations on Wounds of the Heart.

=Purves, George Tybout.= _Pa._, 1852-1901. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of New Testament literature at Princeton College from 1892. The testimony of Justin Martyr to Early Christianity. _Ran._

=Putnam, Albigence Waldo.= _O._, 1799-1869. A lawyer of Nashville; History of Middle Tennessee; Life and Times of General James Robertson; Life of General John Sevier.

=Putnam, Eleanor.= _See Bates, Mrs. H._

=Putnam, George Haven.= _E._, 1844- ----. Son of G. P. Putnam, _infra_. A prominent publisher of New York city. Authors and Publishers; International Copyright; Authors and their Public in Ancient Times. _Put._

=Putnam, George Palmer.= _Me._, 1814-1872. A well-known publisher of New York city, the founder of the present publishing house of G. P. Putnam’s Sons. The Tourist in Europe; American Facts; The World’s Progress. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._ _Put._

=Putnam, Mrs. Katharine Hunt [Palmer].= _Ms._, 1792-1869. A Boston writer. Scripture Text Book; The Old Testament Unveiled.

=Putnam, James Osborne.= _N. Y._, 1818-1903. A Buffalo lawyer who was minister to Belgium in 1880. Addresses, Speeches, and Miscellanies.

=Putnam, Mrs. Mary [Lowell].= _Ms._, 1810-1898. Sister of J. R. Lowell, _supra_. A lifelong resident of Boston. Fifteen Days; History of the Court of Hungary; Records of an Obscure Man; Tragedy of Errors; Tragedy of Success.

=Putnam, Ruth.= 18-- - ----. Daughter of G. P. Putnam, _supra_. Life of William the Silent. _Put._

=Putnam, Mrs. Sarah A.---- Brock.= _Va._, _c._ 1845- ----. A writer of New York city. Richmond During the War; The Southern Amaranth; Kenneth, My King; Myra, a novel.

=Pyle, Howard.= _Del._, 1853- ----. Artist and littérateur of Wilmington, Delaware. The Merrie Adventures of Robin Hood; Within the Capes: a novel; Otto of the Silver Hand; Twilight Land; The Garden Behind the Moon; Pepper and Salt, or Seasoning for Young Folk; A Modern Aladdin; The Rose of Paradise; Men of Iron, a romance of chivalry; Jack Ballister’s Fortunes. _Cent. Har. Scr._

=Pynchon, Thomas Ruggles.= _Ct._, 1823-1904. Descendant of W. Pynchon, _infra_. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, president of Trinity College, 1874-83, and professor of chemistry there. Bishop Butler: a Religious Philosopher for All Time; Introduction to Chemical Physics. _Ap._

=Pynchon, William.= _E._, 1590-1662. A noted colonist of New England who founded the town of Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1636. In 1652 he returned to England. The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, first published in 1650, excited a storm of controversy, and was publicly burned on Boston Common as an heretical book. It was reprinted in 1655 as The Meritorious Price of Man’s Redemption, or Christ’s Satisfaction discussed and explained, with a rejoinder to Rev. John Norton’s Answer; The Jewes Synagogue; How the First Sabbath was Ordained; The Covenant of Nature made with Adam.

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=Quackenbos, George Payn.= _N. Y._, 1826-1881. An educator of New York city. School History of the United States; Natural Philosophy; a series of English grammars; An Advanced Course of Rhetoric.

=Quackenbos, John Duncan.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. Son of G. P. Quackenbos, _supra_. An adjunct professor of English literature at Columbia College from 1884. Illustrated History of the World; History of the English Language; History of Ancient Literature; Practical Rhetoric. _Har._

=Qualtrough, Edward F----.= _N. Y._, 1850- ----. A United States naval officer who has published The Sailor’s Handy Book and Yachtsman’s Manual; The Boat Sailor’s Manual. _Scr._

=Quiet, Charles.= _See Noyes, C. H._

=Quinby, George Washington.= _Me._, 1810-1884. A Universalist clergyman in Maine and Ohio. The Salvation of Christ; Brief Exposition of Universalism; Marriage and Its Duties; The Gallows, the Prison, and the Poor House; Heaven Our Home.

=Quincy, Edmund.= _Ms._, 1703-1788. A Boston merchant who wrote a Treatise on Hemp Husbandry. One of his daughters married John Hancock.

=Quincy, Edmund.= _Ms._, 1808-1877. Son of J. Quincy, 2d, _infra_. A Boston writer whose literary fame was hardly proportioned to his deserts. Wensley, and Other Stories; The Haunted Adjutant, and Other Stories; Life of President Josiah Quincy. _Hou. Lit._

=Quincy, Josiah.= _Ms._, 1744-1775. Nephew of E. Quincy, 1st. A famous Boston lawyer and patriot, very prominent at the opening of the Revolutionary period. Observations on the Boston Port Bill. _See Life of, by his son._

=Quincy, Josiah.= _Ms._, 1772-1864. Son of J. Quincy, _supra_. An eminent Massachusetts statesman, mayor of Boston, 1823-29; president of Harvard University, 1829-45; representative in Congress, 1805-13. History of Harvard University; Speeches and Orations in Congress; History of Boston; Life of Josiah Quincy, Jr. _See Life by E. Quincy; Duyckinck’s American Literature; Lowell, My Study Windows._ _Lit._

=Quincy, Josiah.= _Ms._, 1802-1882. Son of J. Quincy, 2d, _supra_. A citizen of Boston, and mayor of that city, 1845-1849. Figures of the Past. _Rob._

=Quincy, Josiah Phillips.= _Ms._, 1829- ----. Son of J. Quincy, 3d, _supra_. A littérateur of Boston. Charicles, a drama; Lyteria, a drama; The Peckster Professorship, a Story; The Protection of Majorities, and Other Papers. _Hou. Rob._

=Quincy, Samuel Miller.= _Ms._, 1833-1887. Son of J. Quincy, 3d. A Boston lawyer who served in the Federal army during the Civil War. The Man Who was Not a Colonel; A Prisoner’s Diary.

=Quint, Alonzo Hall.= _N. H._, 1828-1896. A prominent Congregational clergyman of Boston. The Potomac and the Rapidan, or Army Notes; Records of the Second Massachusetts Infantry, 1861-65.

=Quitman, Frederick Henry.= _Wa._, 1760-1832. A Lutheran clergyman of Rhinebeck, New York. Treatise on Magic; Sermons on the Reformation, are his more important writings.

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=Raff, George Wertz.= _O._, 1825-1888. A savings bank president of Canton, Ohio. Guide to Executors and Administrators in Ohio; Manual of Pensions; The Law Relating to Roads in Ohio; War Claimant’s Guide.

=Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel.= _Ty._, 1784-1842. An eccentric naturalist and botanist of French parentage who, after years of travel, settled in Philadelphia. The value of his work is impaired as much by his inaccuracy as by his very eccentric methods. Among his many works are, Medical Flora of the United States; A Life of Travel and Researches; Annals of Kentucky; Recent and Fossil Conchology (edited by Binney and Tryon, 1864). _See Silliman’s Journal, 1841; Life by R. E. Call._ _Mor._

=Ragozin, Madame Zénaïde Alexeïevna.= _R._, _c._ 1835- ----. A Russian historical writer, naturalized in the United States in 1874. The Story of Chaldea; The Story of Assyria; The Story of Media and Babylon; The Story of Vedic India. _Put._

=Raguet= [ra-gā´], =Condy.= _Pa._, 1784-1842. A merchant and lawyer of Philadelphia. The Principles of Free Trade; Currency and Banking; An Inquiry into the Present State of the Circulating Medium of the United States (1815).

=Rains, George Washington.= _N. C._, 1817-1898. A Confederate army officer, professor of chemistry at the University of Georgia from 1867. Steam Portable Engines; Rudimentary Course of Analytical and Applied Chemistry; Chemical Qualitative Analysis.

=Rainsford, William Stephen.= _I._, 1850- ----. A prominent Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of St. George’s Church from 1883, and an active worker in philanthropic and other reforms. Sermons Preached in St. George’s; The Church’s Opportunity in the City of To-Day. _Do._

=Ralph, Julian.= _N. Y._, 1853-1903. A popular journalist and littérateur. On Canada’s Frontier; Dixie; Our Great West; Chicago and the World’s Fair; People We Pass; Alone in China, and Other Stories. _Har._

=Ralston, Samuel.= _I._, 1756-1851. A Presbyterian clergyman in what is now Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, from 1796 till his death. On Baptism; The Last Plagues; The Currycomb, are among his writings.

=Ralston, Thomas Neely.= _Ky._, 1806-1891. A Methodist clergyman and religious editor of Kentucky. Elements of Divinity; Evidences of Christianity; Ecce Unitas; Bible Truths.

=Ramsay, David.= _Pa._, 1749-1815. A physician of Charleston, eminent among early American historians. History of the American Revolution; History of the United States; Life of Washington; History of South Carolina, include his chief works. _See Tuckerman’s Sketch of American Literature; Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Ramsay, Mrs. Vienna G---- [Morrell].= _Me._, 1817- ----. Facts on Missions; Evenings With the Children; A Legend of the White Hills, and other Poems. _Lo._

=Rand, Asa.= _N. H._, 1783-1871. A Congregational clergyman in Maine and New York prominent as an opponent of slavery. Teachers’ Manual in English Grammar; The Slave-Catcher Caught in the Meshes of Eternal Law.

=Rand, Benjamin.= _N. S._, 1856- ----. An instructor in philosophy at Harvard University. Economic History Since 1763; A Bibliography of Economics; and also bibliographies of æsthetics, ethics, psychology, metaphysics, logic, history of philosophy, philosophy of religion.

=Rand, Benjamin Howard.= _Ms._, 1792-1862. A Philadelphia teacher of penmanship who published The American Penman and similar works.

=Rand, Benjamin Howard.= _Pa._, 1827-1883. Son of B. H. Rand, _supra_. A physician of Philadelphia. Outlines of Medical Chemistry; Elements of Medical Chemistry. _Lip._

=Rand, Edward Augustus.= _N. H._, 1837-1903. An Episcopal clergyman, rector at Watertown, Massachusetts, from 1883. Christmas Jack; Behind Manhattan Gables; School and Camp Series; Sailor Boy Bob; Pushing Ahead; Fighting the Sea Series, are among his many books for juvenile readers. _Lo. Meth. Wh._

=Rand, Edward Sprague.= _Ms._, 1834-1897. Formerly a floriculturist of Dedham, Massachusetts. Garden Flowers; Complete Manual of Orchid-Culture; Popular Flowers; Rhododendrons; Flowers for the Parlor and Garden; The Window Gardener; Life Memoirs, and Other Poems. _Hou._

=Rand, Mrs. Mary Frances [Abbott].= _Me._, 1840- ----. Wife of E. A. Rand, _supra_. Holly and Mistletoe; Home-Spun Yarns for Christmas Stockings.

=Randall, David Austin.= _Ct._, 1813-1884. A Baptist clergyman and religious editor of Ohio. God’s Handwriting in Egypt; The Wonderful Tent, or the Mosaic Tabernacle. _Clke._

=Randall, Henry Stephens.= _N. Y._, 1811-1876. A once prominent advocate of public instruction in New York State. Sheep Husbandry; Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry; Practical Shepherd; Life of Thomas Jefferson. _Lip._

=Randall, James Ryder.= _Md._, 1839- ----. A journalist of Augusta, Georgia, and elsewhere in the South, who has written a number of spirited lyrics, the best known of which is the famous song, Maryland, My Maryland.

=Randall, Samuel Sidwell.= _N. Y._, 1809-1881. Cousin of H. S. Randall, _supra_. A superintendent of public schools in New York city, 1854-70. History of the State of New York; Mental and Moral Culture; Principles of Popular Education; Incitements to the Study of Geology, include his more important works. _Har._

=Randolph, Anson Davies Fitz.= _N. J._, 1820-1896. A publisher and religious verse-writer of New York city. Hopefully Waiting; Verses; At the Beautiful Gate; The Palace of the King; Unto the Desired Haven. _Ran._

=Randolph, Sarah Nicholas.= _Va._, 1839-190-. A great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. An educator of Baltimore. The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson; The Lord Will Provide; The Life of Stonewall Jackson. _Har. Lip. Ran._

=Ranger, Robert.= _See Freeman, J. M._

=Rankin, Jeremiah Eames.= _N. H._, 1828-1904. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of Howard University. Auld Scotch Mither, and Other Poems; Subduing Kingdoms; The Hotel of God, and Other Sermons; Atheism of the Heart; Christ His Own Interpreter; Ingleside Rhaims.

=Rankin, John.= _Tn._, 1793-1886. A Presbyterian clergyman of Ripley, Ohio, famous as an abolitionist, and many times mobbed for his anti-slavery zeal. Letters on American Slavery; The Covenant of Grace. _See Ritchie’s Life of, entitled The Soldier, the Battle, and the Victory._

=Rankin, John Chambers.= _N. C._, 1816-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman of Baskingridge, New Jersey, from 1851. The Coming of the Lord.

=Ranney, Ambrose Loomis.= _Ms._, 1848- ----. A physician, professor of nervous diseases in the University of the City of New York. A Practical Treatise on Surgical Diagnosis; Applied Anatomy of the Nervous System; Practical Medical Anatomy; Lectures on Nervous Diseases, include his principal writings. _Ap._

=Rapelje, Stewart.= _N. Y._, 1842-1896. A legal writer of New York city. Digest of Decisions of New York Courts to 1881; Digest of Federal Decisions and Statutes from the Earliest Period to 1880; Treatise on the Law of Witnesses; Dictionary of American and English Decisions.

=Raphall, Morris Jacob.= _Sn._, 1798-1868. A Jewish clergyman once prominent in New York city. Post-Biblical History of the Jews; Literature of the Jews in Spain; Social Condition of the Jews; Festivals of the Lord; The Path to Immortality. _Ap._

=Rarey, John S----.= _O._, 1828-1866. A famous horse-tamer who wrote a Treatise on Horse-Taming that was very extensively circulated.

=Rau, Charles.= _Bm._, 1826-1887. An archæologist of distinction of Belgian birth who settled in the United States in 1848, and was curator of antiquities in the United States National Museum, 1875-87. Early Man in Europe; Prehistoric Fishing. _Har._

=Rauch, Friedrich Augustus.= _G._, 1806-1841. A psychologist of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, prominent among thinkers of the German Reformed faith. Psychology: a View of the Human Soul; The Inner Life of the Christian.

=Raum, Green Berry.= _Il._, 1829- ---- A commissioner of internal revenue, 1876-83; later United States commissioner of pensions. The Existing Conflict between Republican Government and Southern Oligarchy (1884).

=Ravenel, Henry William.= _S. C._, 1814-1887. A botanist of Aiken, South Carolina, distinguished for his knowledge of fungi. Fungi Caroliniani Exsiccati; Fungi Americani Exsiccati (with Cooke).

=Rawle, Francis.= _E._, 1660-1727. A Quaker colonist of Pennsylvania whose Ways and Means for the Inhabitants of Delaware to become Rich is said to have been the first book printed by Franklin.

=Rawle, William.= _Pa._, 1759-1836. Great-grandson of F. Rawle, _supra_. A distinguished lawyer of Philadelphia. View of the Constitution of the United States; The Study of the Law. _See Memoir of, by Wharton, 1840; Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Rawle, William Brooke.= _Pa._, 1843- ----. Grand-nephew of W. Rawle, _supra_. A lawyer of Philadelphia who has published The Right Flank at Gettysburg; With Gregg in the Gettysburg Campaign.

=Rawle, William Henry.= _Pa._, 1823-1889. Grandson of W. Rawle, _supra_. A prominent lawyer of Philadelphia. Law of Covenants for Title; Some Contrasts in the Growth of Pennsylvania in English Law; Equity in Pennsylvania. _Lit._

=Rawson, Albert Leighton.= _Vt._, 1829-1902. A traveller of note who was the author of Histories of all Religions; Antiquities of the Orient; The Unseen World, and a number of dictionaries and vocabularies of Oriental tongues.

=Ray, Anna Chapin.= _Ms._, 1865- ----. A writer of West Haven, Connecticut, whose tales for juvenile reading have been popular. Cadets of Fleming Hall; Half a Dozen Boys; Half a Dozen Girls; In Blue Creek Cañon; Dick; Margaret Davis Tutor. _Cr._

=Ray, Isaac.= _Ms._, 1807-1881. A physician of Philadelphia. Conversations on Animal Economy; Education in Relation to the Health of the Brain; Mental Hygiene; Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity.

=Ray, Joseph.= _Va._, 1807-1855. A mathematician and educator of Cincinnati, who published an Eclectic Series of Arithmetics long popular in the Western States.

=Raymond, George Lansing.= _Il._, 1839- ----. A professor of oratory at Princeton College from 1881. His writings in verse include, Colony Ballads; A Life in Song; Ballads of the Revolution, and Other Poems; Sketches in Song; Pictures in Verse. Other works of his are, The Orator’s Manual; Modern Fishers of Men, a novel; Poetry as a Representative Art; The Genesis of Art Form; Art in Theory; Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture as Representative Arts; Rhythm and Harmony in Poetry and Music; Ideals Made Real. _Put._

=Raymond, Henry Jarvis.= _N. Y._, 1820-1869. A journalist who founded and edited The New York Times. Life of Lincoln; Political Lessons of the Revolution; History of the Administration of Lincoln; Letters to Mr. Yancey. _See Maverick’s Raymond and the New York Press._

=Raymond, Miner.= _N. Y._, 1811-1897. A Methodist clergyman of Illinois, theological professor in Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanston, Illinois, from 1864. Systematic Theology. _Meth._

=Raymond, Rossiter Worthington.= _O._, 1840- ----. A mining engineer of Brooklyn, editor of The Engineering and Mining Journal from 1868. Among his technical and other writings are included, Mines and Mining of the Rocky Mountains; Mines, Mills, and Furnaces of the Pacific Slope; Silver and Gold; Brave Hearts, a novel; The Man in the Moon, and Other People; The Book of Job; Essays and a Metrical Paraphrase; The Merry-Go-Round; Two Ghosts, and Other Tales. _Lo._

=Rea, Mrs. Julie [de Marguerittes] [Foster].= _E._, 1814-1866. An opera singer and dramatic critic of Philadelphia. The Ins and Outs of Paris; Italy and the War of 1859; Parisian Pickings.

=Read, Hollis.= _Vt._, 1802-1887. A Presbyterian foreign missionary who after 1835 was settled over various New Jersey parishes. Journal in India; The Hand of God in History, a very popular book at one time; The Palace of the Great King; India and its People; The Coming Crisis of the World; The Negro Problem Solved; The Devil in History.

=Read, Jane Maria.= _Ms._, 1853- ----. A verse-writer of Colebrook Springs, Massachusetts, who has published, Between the Centuries, and Other Poems.

=Read, John Meredith.= _Pa._, 1837-1896. A lawyer of Albany who was minister to Greece 1873-79, and subsequently filled other important diplomatic positions. An Historical Inquiry Concerning Hendrick Hudson.

=Read, Opie.= _Tn._, 1852- ----. A journalist now living in Chicago who edited The Arkansaw Traveller for some years, and whose studies of Arkansas life have been widely read. My Young Master; An Arkansaw Planter; Len Gansett; Up Terrapin River; A Kentucky Colonel; On the Suwannee River; Miss Polly Lopp, and Other Stories; The Captain’s Romance; The Jucklins, a novel.

=Read, Thomas Buchanan.= _Pa._, 1822-1872. A poet and artist of Philadelphia whose later years were spent in Florence and Rome. As a poet he is best known by the famous Sheridan’s Ride; Drifting; and The Closing Scene, and it is by these poems that he will continue to be remembered. Poems; Lays and Ballads; The Pilgrims of the Great St. Bernard, a prose romance; The New Pastoral; The House by the Sea; The Wagoner of the Alleghanies, in which occurs the fine lyric beginning, “The maid who binds her warrior’s sash;” Sylvia; A Voyage to Iceland; A Summer Story; Sheridan’s Ride, and Other Poems. His complete poems were issued in 1882. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._ _Lip._

=Realf= [rĕlf], =Richard.= _E._, 1834-1878. A journalist and verse-writer of Pittsburg who was a Federal officer during the Civil War. Guesses at the Beautiful. _See Lippincott’s Magazine, February, 1879._

=Reavis= [rĕv´is], =Logan Uriah.= _Il._, 1831-1889. A St. Louis journalist, who published St. Louis the Future Great City of the World; Life of Horace Greeley; Thoughts for the Young Men and Women of America; Life of General Harney; Railway and River System.

=Redden, Laura.= _See Searing, Mrs._

=Redfield, Amasa Angell.= _N. Y._, 1837-1902. A lawyer of New York city. Handbook of United States Tax Laws; Law and Practice of Surrogates’ Courts; Reports of Surrogates’ Courts of New York State, 1864-82; The Law of Negligence (with Shearman).

=Redfield, Isaac Fletcher.= _Vt._, 1804-1876. A lawyer who was chief justice of Vermont, 1852-60, and a resident of Boston after the latter date. The Law of Railways; The Law of Wills; Law of Carriers and Bailments; Leading American Railway Cases; Civil Pleading (with Herrick). _Lit._

=Redfield, William Charles.= _Ct._, 1789-1857. A once noted meteorologist. On Whirlwind Storms, and many monographs upon meteorology. _See Biography of, by D. Olmsted._

=Redpath, James.= _E._, 1833-1891. A New York journalist for many years on the staff of The Tribune, and prominent as an abolitionist. The Roving Editor; Handbook of Kansas Territory; Public Life of Captain John Brown; Echoes of Harper’s Ferry; Guide to Hayti; Talks About Ireland.

=Redway, Jacques Wardlaw.= _Tn._, 1849- ----. A geographer and educator of California. Complete Geography; Manual of Physical Geography; Manual of Geography and Travel.

=Reed, Edwin.= _Me._, 1835- ----. A Shakespearean scholar who has published Bacon _vs._ Shakspere, a history of the controversy, with arguments pro and con. _Kt._

=Reed, Henry.= _Pa._, 1808-1854. An educator of Philadelphia, professor of English literature in the University of Pennsylvania. Lectures on English History; Lectures on English Literature; Lectures on the British Poets. _See Memoir, by W. B. Reed, infra._

=Reed, Henry.= _Pa._, 1846- ----. Son of H. Reed, _supra_. A Philadelphia jurist who has published The Law of the Statute of Frauds.

=Reed, Hugh.= _Ind._, 1850- ----. A military educator of Virginia. Signal Tactics; Cadet Regulations; Military Science and Tactics; Broom Tactics.

=Reed, James.= _Ms._, 1834- ----. Son of S. Reed, _infra_. A Swedenborgian clergyman of Boston from 1858. Men and Women; Religion and Life; Swedenborg and the New Church. _Hou._

=Reed, John.= _Pa._, 1786-1850. A Pennsylvania jurist, professor of law in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1834-50, and author of The Pennsylvania Blackstone.

=Reed, Sampson.= _Ms._, 1800-1880. A Swedenborgian writer of Boston, editor of The New Church Magazine for Children. Observations on the Growth of the Mind. _Hou._

=Reed, William Bradford.= _Pa._, 1806-1876. Brother of H. Reed, 1st, _supra_. A lawyer of Philadelphia, minister to China, 1857-58. Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed; Memoir of Henry Reed, _supra_.

=Rees, John Krom.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. An astronomer, professor at Columbia College, and director of the Observatory from 1881. Report on the Solar Eclipse, 1878; International Time System; Observations of the Transit of Venus, 1882.

=Reese, David Meredith.= _Pa._, 1800-1861. An eminent physician of New York city, superintendent of the city public schools at one period. Strictures on Health; Review of the Anti-Slavery Society’s First Annual Report; Quakerism _versus_ Calvinism; Phrenology Known by its Fruits; Medical Lexicon of Modern Terminology; Humbugs of New York.

=Reese, John James.= _Pa._, 1818-1892. A Philadelphia physician, professor of jurisprudence in the University of Pennsylvania. American Medical Formulary; Analysis of Physiology; Manual of Toxicology; Text-Book of Medical Jurisprudence.

=Reese, Lizette Woodworth.= _Md._, 1856- ----. A verse-writer and educator of Baltimore. A Branch of May; A Handful of Lavender; A Quiet Road. _Hou._

=Reeve, James Knapp.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. A novelist of Franklin, Ohio. Vawder’s Understudy; The Three Richard Whalens. _Sto._

=Reeve, Tapping.= _L. I._, 1744-1823. An eminent jurist of Litchfield, Connecticut. Law of Baron and Femme, of Parent and Child, of Guardian and Ward, of Servant and Master; Treatise on the Law of Descents in the Several United States.

=Reeves, Marian Colhoun Legaré.= _S. C._, _c._ 1854- ----. A novelist of Washington. Ingemisco; Randolph Honor; Sea Drift; A Little Maid of Arcadie; Wearithorne; and with Emily Read, Old Martin Boscawen’s Jest; Pilot Fortune. _Hou._

=Reichel, William Cornelius.= _N. C._, 1824-1876. A Moravian clergyman and educator of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, among whose writings are Moravianism in New York and Connecticut; Memorials of the Moravian Church; A Red Rose from the Olden Time.

=Reichert, Edward Tyson.= _Pa._, 1855- ----. A Philadelphia physician and educator, professor of physiology in the University of Pennsylvania from 1886. A Text-Book of Physiology.

=Reid, Christian.= _See Tiernan, Mrs. Frances._

=Reid, David Boswell.= _S._, 1805-1863. A chemist who came to America in 1856, and was director of the medical inspection of the United States Sanitary Commission. Introduction to the Study of Chemistry; Rudiments of Chemistry of Daily Life; Ventilation for American Dwellings, are among his writings.

=Reid, John Morrison.= _N. Y._, 1820-1896. A Methodist clergyman and editor of religious journals who secured the library of Von Ranke for Syracuse University. Missions of the Methodist Church; Doomed Religions (edited). _Meth._

=Reid, Samuel Chester.= _N. Y._, 1818-1897. A lawyer of New Orleans. The United States Bankrupt Law of 1841; The Battle of Chickamauga.

=Reid, Whitelaw.= _O._, 1837- ----. A journalist of prominence in New York city and editor of The Tribune from 1872. After the War, a Southern Tour; Ohio in the War; Schools of Journalism; Newspaper Tendencies. _See Hart’s American Literature._ _Clke._

=Reid, William James.= _N. Y._, 1834-1902. A United Presbyterian clergyman, pastor at Pittsburg from 1889. Lectures on the Revelation; United Presbyterianism.

=Reily, William McClellan.= _Pa._, 1837- ----. A German Reformed clergyman and educator of Allentown, Pennsylvania, president of the Female College there from 1888. The Artist and his Mission.

=Remensnyder, Junius Benjamin.= _Va._, 1843- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of New York city from 1880. Heavenward; Doom Eternal; Lutheran Literature: its Distinctive Traits; Work and Personality of Luther; Six Days of Creation; Lutheran Manual. _Fu._

=Remington, Frederic.= _N. Y._, 1861- ----. A popular artist and illustrator, whose work in the main reflects the life of the far West. Pony Tracks. _Har._

=Remington, Joseph Price.= _Pa._, 1847- ----. A professor of pharmacy in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy from 1874. The Practice of Pharmacy. _Lip._

=Remington, Stephen.= _N. Y._, 1803-1869. A Baptist minister, but prior to 1845 a preacher of the Methodist faith. Reasons for Becoming a Baptist; A Defence of Restricted Communion.

=Remsen, Ira.= _N. Y._, 1846- ----. An eminent chemist, professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins University from 1876. Chemical Experiments (with W. Randall). _Ho._

=Reno, Conrad.= _Al._, 1859- ----. A lawyer of Boston. Employers’ Liability Acts. _Hou._

=Renwick, James.= _N. Y._, 1792-1863. A once prominent scientist of New York city, professor of natural and experimental philosophy and chemistry at Columbia College from 1820 to 1853. Lives of Rittenhouse, Fulton, Count Rumford, in Sparks’s American Biography; Outlines of Natural Philosophy; Treatise on the Steam Engine; Elements of Mechanics; Lives of Jay, Hamilton, De Witt Clinton, include the greater number of his works. _Har._

=Repplier, Agnes.= _Pa._, 1859- ----. A popular essayist of Philadelphia. Books and Men; Points of View; In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers; Essays in Idleness; Essays in Miniature; Varia. _Hou._

=Requier, Augustus Julian.= _S. C._, 1825-1887. A lawyer of Mobile prior to the Civil War, and subsequently of New York city. The Old Sanctuary, a romance; Poems; and the dramas, Marco Bozzaris; The Spanish Exile.

=Revere, Joseph Warren.= _Ms._, 1812-1880. A grandson of Paul Revere, and an officer in the Federal army during the Civil War. Keel and Saddle: Retrospect of Forty Years’ Military Service (1872).

=Rexdale, Robert= (_pseud._). _Me._, 1859- ----. A journalist and verse-writer of Portland, Maine. Drifting Songs and Sketches; Saved by the Sword, a novel; The Cuban Liberated.

=Rexford, Eben Eugene.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. A popular verse and song writer of Shiocton, Wisconsin, whose poem Silver Threads Among the Gold has been set to music and widely sung. Brother and Lover; Grandmother’s Garden; John Fielding and his Enemy.

=Reynolds, Elmer Robert.= _N. Y._, 1846- ----. An ethnologist in the United States civil service from 1877. A Scientific Visit to the Caverns of Luray; Shell Mounds, etc., of the Choptank Indians; Aboriginal Soapstone Quarries in the District of Columbia, are among his professional monographs.

=Reynolds, John.= _Pa._, 1789-1865. An Illinois lawyer and journalist, governor of Illinois, 1832-34. Pioneer History of Illinois; Glance at the Crystal Palace; My Life and Times.

=Reynolds, William Morton.= _Pa._, 1812-1876. An Episcopal clergyman, but prior to 1864 a Lutheran clergyman. Discourse on the Swedish Churches. He translated, from the Swedish of Israel Acrelius, A History of New Sweden, with introduction and notes.

=Rhees, William Jones.= _Pa_, 1830- ----. The chief clerk of the Smithsonian Institution from 1852, who has published, among other works, The Smithsonian Institution; James Smithson and His Bequest.

=Rhodes, Albert.= _Pa._, 1840- ----. A writer who was successively United States consul at Jerusalem, Rotterdam, Rouen, and Elberstadt, and since 1885 has been a resident of Paris. Jerusalem as It Is; The French at Home; Monsieur at Home.

=Rhodes, James Ford.= _O._, 1848- ----. An historian, of Boston. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850. _Har._

=Rhodes, Mosheim.= _Pa._, 1837- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of St. Louis from 1874. Life Thoughts for Young Men; Life Thoughts for Young Women; Recognition in Heaven; Vital Questions; The Throne of Grace; Expository Lectures on Philippians.

=Rice, David Hall.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. A lawyer of Boston, living in Brookline, Massachusetts. Protective Philosophy; Digest of Decisions of Commissioner of Patents, 1869-80 (with C. Lepine).

=Rice, Edwin Wilbur.= _N. Y._, 1831- ----. A Congregational clergyman connected with the Sunday-School Union from 1871. People’s Lesson Book in Matthew; Stories of Great Painters; Historical Sketch of the United States; People’s Commentary on the Acts.

=Rice, George Edward.= _Ms._, 1822-1861. A verse-writer of Boston. Ephemera; Nugamenta; An Old Play in a New Garb, a fanciful adaptation of Hamlet.

=Rice, Harvey.= _Ms._, 1800-1891. A prominent lawyer of Cleveland. Mount Vernon, and Other Poems; Select Poems; Nature and Culture; Pioneers of the Western Reserve; Sketches of Western Life; The Founder of the City of Cleveland. _Le._

=Rice, Isaac Leopold.= _Bo._, 1850- ----. A lawyer of New York city who has written What Is Music?

=Rice, Nathan Lewis.= _Ky._, 1807-1877. A Presbyterian clergyman of note who held pastorates in St. Louis, Cincinnati, and New York city, and was an active controversialist. Romanism the Enemy of Free Institutions; The Signs of the Times; Baptism; The Pulpit; Discourses.

=Rich, Mrs. Helen [Hinsdale].= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. A verse-writer of Chicago. A Dream of the Adirondacks, and Other Poems; Madame de Staël. _S._

=Richards, Mrs. Cornelia Holroyd [Bradley].= _N. Y._, 1822-1892. Wife of W. C. Richards, _infra_, and sister of Mrs. Alice Haven, _supra_. At Home and Abroad, or How to Behave; Pleasure and Profit, or Lessons on the Lord’s Prayer; Hester and I; Memoir of Mrs. Haven.

=Richards, Mrs. Ellen Henrietta [Swallow].= _Ms._, 1842- ----. An instructor in sanitary chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wife of Professor Richards of the same institution. Chemistry of Cookery and Cleaning; Food Materials and their Adulterations; First Lessons in Minerals. _Est._

=Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth [Howe].= _Ms._, 1850- ----. Daughter of Mrs. J. W. Howe, _supra_. A writer of juvenile books, whose home is in Gardiner, Maine. The Joyous Story of Toto; Toto’s Merry Winter; In My Nursery; Five Mice; Captain January; Jim of Hellas; Queen Hildegarde, are among her books. _Est. Rob._

=Richards, Mrs. Maria [Tolman].= _Ms._, 1821- ----. An educator and lecturer of Providence. Life in Judea; Life in Israel.

=Richards, William Carey.= _E._, 1818-1892. A Baptist minister of Chicago, widely known as a lecturer upon physical science. Baptist Banquets; The Lord is My Shepherd; The Mountain Anthem; Our Father in Heaven, a series of sonnets; Science in Song. _Le._

=Richardson, Mrs. Abby [Sage].= _Ms._, 1837-1900. Wife of A. D. Richardson, _infra_. An educator and lecturer upon literature. Familiar Talks on English Literature; Stories from Old English Poetry; History of Our Country; Abelard and Heloise, a Mediæval Romance. She edited Songs from the Old Dramatists; Old Love Letters, and other works. _Hou. Mg._

=Richardson, Albert Deane.= _Ms._, 1833-1869. A journalist of New York city, famous as the war correspondent of The Tribune during the Civil War. Beyond the Mississippi; Personal History of Ulysses Grant; The Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape; Garnered Sheaves. _See Memoir._

=Richardson, Charles Francis.= _Me._, 1851- ----. A professor of English literature at Dartmouth College from 1882. Primer of American Literature; The Cross, a collection of verse; American Literature, 1607-1885; The Choice of Books. Co-editor with H. A. Clark of The College Book. _Hou. Lip. Put._

=Richardson, Hobart Wood.= 1831-1889. A journalist of Portland, Maine. Paper Money; The National Banks; The Standard Dollar. _Ap. Har._

=Richardson, Nathaniel Smith.= _Ct._, 1810-1883. An Episcopal clergyman who was editor of The American Church Review. Reasons Why I Am a Churchman; Reasons Why I Am Not a Papist; Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, are among his writings.

=Richardson, William Adams.= _Ms._, 1821-1896. A Massachusetts jurist, chief justice of the United States Court of Claims from 1885, and secretary of the United States Treasury, 1873-74. The Banking Laws of Massachusetts; History of the Court of Claims; Practical Information concerning the United States Public Debt; National Banking Laws.

=Richardson, William Merchant.= _N. H._, 1774-1838. Chief justice of New Hampshire, 1816-38. The New Hampshire Justice; The Town Officer.

=Richmond, Mrs. Euphemia Johnson [Guernsey].= _N. Y._, 1825- ----. A writer of Upton, New York. Hope Raymond; Two Paths; The McAllisters, a temperance tale; The Jewelled Serpent; The Fatal Dower; Anna Maynard, the King’s Daughter, form a portion of her writings. _Meth._

=Ricord= [rē-cor´], =Mrs. Elizabeth [Stryker].= _L. I._, 1788-1865. Wife of J. B. Ricord, _infra_. An educator of Geneva, New York, and after 1845 a resident of Newark, New Jersey. Philosophy of the Mind; Zamba, or the Insurrection, a Dramatic Poem.

=Ricord, Frederick William.= _W. I._, 1819-1897. Son of J. B. Ricord, _infra_. A lawyer and educator of Newark, New Jersey. History of Rome; The Youth’s Grammar; English Songs from Foreign Tongues; The Self-Tormentor, from the Latin of Terentius, with More English Songs.

=Ricord, Jean Baptiste.= _F._, 1777-1837. A French physician and naturalist who settled in New York city. Improved French Grammar; Recherches et expériences sur les poissons d’Amérique.

=Riddle, Albert Gallatin.= _Ms._, 1816-1902. A lawyer of Washington who wrote a number of romances of early life in Ohio. The House of Ross; Bart Ridgeley; Alice Brand; The Tory’s Daughter; Mark Loan; The Portrait; Personal Recollections of War Times; Students and Lawyers; Life of Benjamin Wade; Life of Garfield; Speeches and Arguments, include his principal works. _Put._

=Rideing, William Henry.= _E._, 1853- ----. A Boston littérateur on the editorial staff of The Youth’s Companion. Pacific Railway Illustrated; A Saddle in the Wild West; Boys in the Mountains and on the Plains; Boys Coastwise; Stray Moments with Thackeray; Alpenstock; Young Folks’ History of London; The Boyhood of Living Authors; Thackeray’s London; A Little Upstart, a novel; In the Land of Lorna Doone; The Captured Cunarder. _Ap. Cop. Cr. Est._

=Ridgaway, Henry Bascom.= _Md._, 1830-1895. A Methodist clergyman and educator of Illinois, president of Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanston, Illinois, from 1882. Life of Alfred Cookman; The Lord’s Land, or Travels in Sinai and Palestine; Lives of Bishops Janes, Waugh, Simpson. _Meth._

=Ridgway, Robert.= _O._, 1850- ----. An eminent ornithologist of Washington, curator of the department of birds in the National Museum from 1879. The Birds of Colorado; Ornithology of the Fortieth Parallel; Manual of North American Birds; History of North American Birds (with Baird and Brewer, _supra_). _Lip._

=Ridpath, John Clark.= _Il._, 1840-1900. A professor of belles-lettres at De Pauw University. Popular and Academic Histories of the United States; History of Texas; Life of Garfield; History of the World; Christopher Columbus; Columbia, a Quadricentennial Story; Great Races of Mankind; Epic of Life, a poem. _Meth._

=Riggs, Elias.= _N. J._, 1810-1901. A Congregational missionary in Constantinople, famous as a linguist, among whose writings are, Manual of the Chaldee Language; Grammar of the Modern Armenian Language; Notes of Difficult Passages of the New Testament; A Harmony of the Gospels, in Bulgarian. _Ran._

=Riggs, James Stevenson.= _N. Y._, 1853- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor in Auburn Theological Seminary from 1881, who has published The Bible in Art.

=Riggs, Mrs. Kate Douglas [Smith] [Wiggin].= _Pa._, 1857- ----. A popular writer of New York city. Timothy’s Quest; Polly Oliver’s Problem; The Birds’ Christmas Carol; The Story of Patsy; A Summer in a Cañon; Children’s Rights; A Cathedral Courtship, and Penelope’s English Experiences; The Village Watch-Tower; Marm Lisa; Nine Love Songs and a Carol. She has also written in collaboration with her sister, Nora Archibald Smith, The Story Hour; and The Republic of Childhood, a work on the kindergarten. _Hou._

=Riggs, Stephen Return.= _O._, 1812-1883. A missionary to the Indians in Minnesota and Dakota. Forty Years Among the Sioux; The Bible in Dakota (with Williamson); and many translations and other writings relating to the Dakota Indians.

=Riis, Jacob August.= _Dk._, 1849- ----. A New York writer on social problems. How the Other Half Lives; The Children of the Poor; Nibsy’s Christmas; The Making of an American. _Scr._

=Riley, Charles Valentine.= _E._, 1843-1895. A distinguished entomologist of Washington, at one period State entomologist of Missouri, and from 1881 till his death in charge of the entomological division of the United States Department of Agriculture. The Locust Plague in the United States; Potato Pests; Noxious, Beneficial, and Other Insects of Missouri.

=Riley, Henry Hiram.= _Ms._, 1813-1888. A lawyer of Constantine, Michigan, once known as a humourous writer. Paddleford and Its People; The Paddleford Papers, or Humors of the West. _Le._

=Riley, James.= _Ct._, 1777-1840. A mariner who was enslaved by the Arabs of Africa in 1815 and ransomed by Mr. Willshire, the British consul, at Mogadore. In 1821 he settled in Ohio and founded the town of Willshire, named in honour of the consul. From his journals was prepared, in 1816, the Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce on the West Coast of Africa, with a Description of Timbuctoo.

=Riley, James.= _I._, 1848- ----. A verse-writer of Boston whose unpretentious Poems, published in 1886, reached a third edition in 1888.

=Riley, James Whitcomb.= _Ind._, 1852- ----. A very popular poet of Indianapolis whose dialect poems of Hoosier life have been greatly praised. His earliest work appeared over the signature “Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone.” His dialect and other poems display much real feeling and originality. The Old Swimmin’ Hole and ’Leven More Poems; The Boss Girl, and Other Sketches; Afterwhiles; Old-Fashioned Roses; Pipes o’ Pan at Zekesbury; Rhymes of Childhood; Flying Islands of the Night; Neighborly Poems; An Old Sweetheart of Mine; Green Fields and Running Brooks; Poems Here at Home; Armazindy; A Child World. _Bo. Cent. Lgs._

=Riley, John Campbell.= _D. C._, 1828-1879. A Washington physician who wrote a Compend of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. _Lip._

=Rimmer, Caroline Hunt.= _Ms._, 1851- ----. Daughter of W. Rimmer, _infra_. Animal Drawing. _Hou._

=Rimmer, William.= _E._, 1816-1879. A Boston painter, sculptor, and teacher of art anatomy, who also practiced medicine, but gave up his profession to devote himself to art. Art Anatomy; Elements of Design. _Hou._