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=Smith, Elihu Hubbard.= _Ct._, 1771-1798. A physician and verse-writer of New York city. Edwin and Angelina, an opera; American Poems, Original and Selected.

=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes [Prince].= _Me._, 1806-1893. Wife of Seba Smith, _infra_. A once prominent writer of prose and verse, who was the first woman lecturer in America. Her later years were passed in Hollywood, South Carolina. Among her many works are, The Sinless Child, and Other Poems; The Newsboy, which first directed public attention to a hitherto neglected class; Riches Without Wings; Old New York, or Jacob Leisler, a tragedy; Woman and Her Needs; Bertha and Lily; The Western Captive.

=Smith, Erasmus Peshine.= _N. Y._, 1814-1882. A jurist and political economist. Manual of Political Economy.

=Smith, Mrs. Erminnie Adelle [Platt].= _N. Y._, 1837-1886. An ethnologist who published an Iroquois-English dictionary. _See Memorial, 1890._

=Smith, Ethan.= _Ms._, 1762-1849. A Congregational clergyman, city missionary of Boston, 1832-49. A View of the Trinity; A View of the Hebrews, in which the origin of the American Indians was traced to the ten tribes of Israel. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Smith, Mrs. Eugenia M. [Bryce].= _Vt._, 1852- ----. A fiction-writer of Dubuque. Winsome but Wicked; The Parson’s Sin; Our Money-Makers, a poultry book.

=Smith, Florence.= _N. Y._, 1845-1871. A verse-writer of New York city who published Piero’s Painting, and Other Poems.

=Smith, Mrs. Frances Irene [Burge].= _See Griswold, Mrs. Frances._

=Smith, Francis Henney.= _Va._, 1812-1890. A Confederate officer who was professor of mathematics at Hampden Sidney College, Virginia, 1837-39, and superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, 1839-61 and 1865-90. Best Methods of Conducting Common Schools; College Reform; and a series of algebras.

=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= _Md._, 1838- ----. An artist, civil engineer, and popular littérateur of New York city. Well-Worn Roads of Spain, Holland, and Italy; Old Lines in New Black and White; A White Umbrella in Mexico; Colonel Carter of Cartersville, a novel; A Day at Laguerre’s, and Other Days; American Illustrators; A Gentleman Vagabond, and Some Others; Tom Grogan; Gondola Days; Caleb West. _Hou. Scr._

=Smith, Gerrit.= _N. Y._, 1797-1874. A famous philanthropist of Peterboro, New York, who was an ardent opponent of slavery. Speeches in Congress; Sermons and Speeches; The Religion of Reason; The Theologies; Nature the Basis of a Free Theology. _See Life of, by O. B. Frothingham, supra._

=Smith, Gertrude.= _Cal._, 1860- ----. Sister of M. C. Smith, _infra_. A Boston writer, whose early life was spent in the West. The Rousing of Mrs. Potter, and Other Stories; The Arabella and Araminta Stories; Dedora Heywood. _Cop. Do. Hou._

=Smith, Gustavus Woodson.= _Ky._, 1822-1896. A Confederate general who lived in New York city from 1876. Notes on Life Insurance; Confederate War Papers.

=Smith, Hamilton Lanphere.= _Ct._, 1819-1903. An educator who was professor of natural philosophy at Hobart College from 1868. Natural Philosophy; First Lessons in Astronomy and Geology.

=Smith, Henry Boynton.= _Me._, 1815-1877. A Presbyterian clergyman of eminence as a theologian, and professor of systematic theology in Union Seminary, New York city, 1854-74. Faith and Philosophy; Apologetics; Chronological History of the Church of Christ; Introduction to Christian Theology; System of Christian Theology. _See Life and Work of, 1881; Life by Stearns, 1892._ _Scr._

=Smith, Henry Hollingsworth.= _Pa._, 1815-1890. A surgeon of Philadelphia. Minor Surgery; System of Operative Surgery; Practice of Surgery; Professional Visit to London and Paris.

=Smith, Herbert Huntington.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. A scientist who has been engaged upon geological surveys in Ohio, New York, and Brazil. Brazil, the Amazons, and the Coast. _Scr._

=Smith, Horace Wemyss.= _Pa._, 1825-1891. Son of R. P. Smith, _infra_. A Philadelphia journalist whose principal works include, Nuts for Future Historians to Crack; Yorktown Orderly Book; Life of Reverend William Smith, _infra_.

=Smith, James.= _I._, _c._ 1720-1806. A lawyer of York, Pennsylvania, who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He wrote The Constitutional Power of Great Britain over the Colonies in America, which materially aided the cause of the patriots.

=Smith, James.= _Pa._, 1737-1812. A once noted Kentucky pioneer. Shakerism Developed; Shakerism Detected; Remarkable Adventures in the Life of Colonel James Smith; Mode and Manner of Indian War. _See Bibliography of Ohio._

=Smith, Jerome Van Crowninshield.= _N. H._, 1800-1879. A physician of Boston, where he was mayor in 1854, and subsequently of New York city. Class Book of Anatomy; Life of Andrew Jackson; Natural History of the Fishes of Massachusetts; Pilgrimage to Palestine; Turkey and the Turks; The Ways of Women.

=Smith, Job Lewis.= _N. Y._, 1827-1897. A physician of New York city who wrote a Treatise on Diseases of Children.

=Smith, John.= _E._, 1579-1631. A celebrated sea captain and adventurer who was one of the founders of Virginia, and of the company who settled at Jamestown in 1607. He was a forcible, vigourous writer, much given to magnifying his own exploits, and not always to be trusted in the absence of other testimony. A True Relation of Virginia; The Generall Historie of Virginia, which is partly original and partly compiled; A Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Country; A Description of New England (1616); An Accidence, or Pathway to Experience; A Sea Grammar; The True Travels of Captain John Smith, a work in which his imagination is under very little restraint as regards facts. _See Lives by Hillard in Sparks’s American Biography, Mrs. Robinson, 1845, Simms, 1846, Deane, 1859, Warner, 1881, True, 1882; Tyler’s American Literature; North American Review, January, 1867; Appletons’ American Biography._

=Smith, John.= _N. H._, 1752-1809. A Congregational minister and educator, professor of languages at Dartmouth College and college pastor, 1778-1809, as well as librarian of the college for some thirty years. He was the author of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin Grammars, as well as some minor publications. _See Memoir by his Wife, 1815._

=Smith, John Augustine.= _Va._, 1782-1865. A physician of New York city, previously president of William and Mary College, 1814-26. Mutations of the Earth; Moral and Physical Science; Functions of the Nervous System.

=Smith, John Cotton.= _Ms._, 1826-1882. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of the Church of the Ascension, 1860-82. The Church’s Law of Development; Certain Aspects of the Church; Miscellanies; Old and New; The Liturgy as a Basis of Union.

=Smith, John Hyatt.= _N. Y._, 1824-1886. A prominent Baptist clergyman of Brooklyn, a member of Congress, 1880-82. Gilead; The Open Door.

=Smith, John Jay.= _N. J._, 1798-1881. A librarian of Philadelphia who edited many works, and was author of Notes for a History of the Library Company of Philadelphia; A Summer’s Jaunt Across the Water; Historical and Literary Curiosities (with J. F. Watson).

=Smith, John Lawrence.= _S. C._, 1818-1883. A chemist of note who was professor of chemistry in the University of Louisville. Mineralogy and Chemistry: Original Researches.

=Smith, John Talbot.= _N. Y._, 1855- ----. A Roman Catholic clergyman in the diocese of Ogdensburg. History of Ogdensburg Diocese; A Woman of Culture, a novel; Solitary Island, a novel; Prairie Boy, a juvenile tale; Our Seminaries: an essay on Clerical Training.

=Smith, Joseph.= _Pa._, 1796-1868. A Presbyterian clergyman, once prominent in western Pennsylvania. History of Jefferson College; Old Redstone, or Historical Sketches of Western Presbyterianism.

=Smith, Joseph Edward Adams.= “Godfrey Greylock.” 1822-1896. A writer of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Taghconic: the Romance and Beauty of the Hills; A History of Paper.

=Smith, Joseph Mather.= _N. Y._, 1789-1866. A physician of New York city. Elements of the Etiology and Philosophy of Epidemics; Illustrations of Medical Phenomena in Public Life.

=Smith, Judson.= _Ms._, 1837- ----. A Congregational clergyman and educator, secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1884. Lectures in Church History; Lectures on Modern History.

=Smith, Justin Almerin.= _N. Y._, 1819-1896. A Baptist clergyman of Chicago, editor of The Standard from 1853. The Martyr of Vilvorde; Sinclair Thompson, the Shetland Apostle; The Spirit in the Word; Modern Church History; Patmos.

=Smith, Mrs. Luella [Dowd].= _Ms._, 1847- ----. A verse-writer of Hudson, New York. Wayside Leaves; Wind Flowers.

=Smith, Mrs. Lura Eugenie [Brown].= _N. Y._, 1864- ----. A journalist of Little Rock. On the Track and Off the Train.

=Smith, Mrs. Margaret [Bayard].= _Pa._, 1778-1844. Wife of S. H. Smith, _infra_, and once a social leader in Washington. A Winter in Washington; What is Gentility?

=Smith, Mrs. Mary Louise [Riley].= _N. Y._, 1842- ----. A popular verse-writer of New York city. Sometime, and Other Poems; The Inn of Rest; A Gift of Gentians, and Other Verses; Cradle and Armchair. _Ran._

=Smith, Mrs. Mary Prudence [Wells].= “P. Thorne.” _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A Cincinnati writer for young people. The Browns; Child Life on a Farm; Jolly Good Times at School; Jolly Good Times at Hackmatack; More Good Times at Hackmatack; Miss Ellis’s Mission. _A. U. A. Rob._

=Smith, Mrs. Mary Stuart [Harrison].= _Pa._, 1834- ----. The wife of a professor at the University of Virginia. She has made many translations from the German and French, and has also published, Heirs of the Kingdom; Virginia Cookery Book. _Har._

=Smith, Matthew Hale.= _Me._, 1810-1879. Son of Elias Smith, _supra_. A clergyman of the Universalist and subsequently of the Presbyterian and other faiths, who was also a lawyer and a brilliant journalist, known as “Burleigh.” Universalism Examined, Renounced, and Exposed; Universalism not of God; Sabbath Evenings; Mount Calvary; Sunshine and Shadow in New York; Bulls and Bears of Wall Street, include his chief works.

=Smith, Minna Caroline.= _Cal._, 1860- ----. A journalist of Boston. The Boys of Cary Farm, a juvenile tale; Trilby, the Fairy of Argyle, from the French of Nodier. _Lam. Lo._

=Smith, Nathan.= _N. H._, 1762-1828. A physician who was a medical professor in Dartmouth College, 1798-1813. Practical Essays on Typhus Fever; Medical and Surgical Memoirs.

=Smith, Nathan Ryno.= _N. H._, 1797-1877. Son of N. Smith, _supra_. A professor of surgery in the University of Maryland, 1840-70. Surgical Anatomy of the Arteries; Legends of the South, are among his works.

=Smith, Oliver Hampton.= _N. J._, 1794-1859. A once prominent United States senator from Indiana. Recollections of a Congressional Life; Early Indian Trials.

=Smith, Persifor Frazer.= _Pa._, 1808-1882. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Forms of Procedure in Pennsylvania Courts; Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reports, 1865-82.

=Smith, Richard Penn.= _Pa._, 1790-1854. Grandson of William Smith, 1st, _infra_. A lawyer and dramatist of Philadelphia, fifteen of whose plays were placed on the stage, and were once popular, Caius Marius being one of the best. He wrote also The Forsaken, a novel; The Actress of Padua, and Other Tales; Lives of Crockett and Martin Van Buren. His complete works in four volumes were issued in 1888.

=Smith, Richard Somers.= _Pa._, 1813-1877. A soldier and educator, president of Girard College, 1863-68, and for the last seven years of his life in charge of the department of drawing at the United States Naval Academy. Manual of Topographical Drawing; Manual of Linear Perspective.

=Smith, Richmond Mayo.= _O._, 1854-1901. A professor of political economy at Columbia College from 1883. Statistics and Economics; Emigration and Immigration; Statistics and Sociology. _Mac. Scr._

=Smith, Samuel.= _N. J._, 1720-1766. A colonial treasurer of the province of West Jersey, who published a History of Nova Cæsarea, or New Jersey, from its Settlement to 1721.

=Smith, Samuel Francis.= _Ms._, 1808-1895. A Baptist clergyman near Boston, who wrote much religious verse, but will probably be longest remembered for the familiar “My Country, ’tis of thee.” He published, for juvenile readers and others, Knights and Sea Kings; Mythology and Early Greek History; Noble Workers; Poor Boys who Became Great; Rambles in Mission Fields. _Lo._

=Smith, Samuel Stanhope.= _Pa._, 1750-1819. A Presbyterian divine, president of Princeton College, 1794-1812. Lectures on the Evidences of the Christian Religion; Moral and Political Philosophy; Sermons; Comprehensive View of Natural and Revealed Religion; On the Variety of Complexion and Figure of the Human Species, which was much noticed in its day.

=Smith, Mrs. Sarah Louisa [Hickman].= _Mch._, 1811-1832. A Cincinnati verse-writer whose Poems appeared in 1829.

=Smith, Seba.= “Jack Downing.” _Me._, 1792-1868. A journalist of Portland, Maine, and, after 1842, of New York city, very popular as a humourist in the earlier part of his career. The Letters of Major Jack Downing; Powhatan, a metrical romance; New Elements of Geometry; Way Down East, or Portraitures of Yankee Life; My Thirty Years Out of the Senate; Dew-Drops of the Nineteenth Century.

=Smith, Sebastian Bach.= _G._, 1845-1895. A Roman Catholic clergyman at Paterson, New Jersey. Elements of Ecclesiastical Law; New Procedure in Criminal and Disciplinary Causes of Ecclesiastics in the United States.

=Smith, Solomon Franklin.= _N. Y._, 1801-1869. A once popular low comedian who left the stage in 1853, and was afterward a noted lawyer of St. Louis. Theatrical Apprenticeship; Theatrical Journey Work; Autobiography (1868). _Har._

=Smith, Stephen.= _N. Y._, 1823- ----. A New York surgeon, professor of clinical surgery in the University of the City of New York from 1874. Handbook of Surgical Operations; Principles of Operative Surgery.

=Smith, Uriah.= _N. H._, 1832-1903. A Seventh Day Adventist writer of Battle Creek, Michigan. Looking Unto Jesus; Here and Hereafter; The Destiny of the Wicked; Nature and Destiny of Man; A Word for the Sabbath (verse); The United States in the Light of Prophecy; Daniel and the Revelation, a very popular work, the sale of which has reached 72,000 copies; The Sure Foundation; Scripture Pathways Cleared of Stumbling-Stones.

=Smith, William.= _S._, 1721-1803. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia who came to America from Scotland in 1751, and in 1754 was made first provost of the University of Pennsylvania. A General Idea of the College of Mirania first brought him to the knowledge of Franklin, who was then laying plans for the university. He was author, also, of Brief Account of the Province of Pennsylvania; Sermons; Discourses on Public Occasions. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Life and Correspondence of H. W. Smith, supra; Fisher’s Pennsylvania: Colony and Commonwealth._

=Smith, William.= _N. Y._, 1728-1793. A jurist of New York city who was a loyalist during the Revolution, and in 1786 was appointed chief justice of Canada. History of the Province of New York from its Discovery to 1732. _See Tyler’s American Literature._

=Smith, William.= _S._, 1754-1821. Nephew of W. Smith, 1st, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island, and elsewhere, of some note as an educator in his day. Essays on the Christian Ministry. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Smith, William Andrew.= _Va._, 1802-1870. A Methodist clergyman of Virginia whose Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery are considered the ablest presentation of the pro-slavery side of the question.

=Smith, William Farrar.= _Vt._, 1824-1903. A brevet major-general in the United States army who resigned in 1867. From Chattanooga to Petersburg under Generals Grant and Butler. _Hou._

=Smith, William Henry.= _O._, 1833-1896. A journalist of Cincinnati, subsequently collector of Chicago. The St. Clair Papers; Political History of the United States.

=Smith, William Loughton.= _S. C._, 1758-1812. A diplomatist who was minister to Portugal (1797-1800) and to Spain (1800-01), and an active Federalist politician. Speeches; Comparative View of the Constitutions of the States; American Arguments for British Rights.

=Smith, William L---- G----.= _Vt._, 1814- ----. Uncle Tom’s Cabin as It Is.

=Smith, William Rudolph.= _Pa._, 1787-1868. A Wisconsin lawyer, author of Observations on Wisconsin Territory, 1831; History of Wisconsin.

=Smith, William Russell.= _Al._, 1813-1896. A lawyer of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who was a congressman prior to the Civil War, and during that period sat in the Confederate congress. The Alabama Justice; The Uses of Solitude, a poem; As It Is, a novel; Condensed Alabama Reports.

=Smith, Worthington.= _Ms._, 1795-1856. A Congregational clergyman of Vermont, pastor at St. Albans, 1823-1849, and president of the University of Vermont, 1849-56. His Select Sermons were much read. _See Memoir by Torrey, 1861._

=Smith, Zachariah Frederick.= _Ky._, 1827- ----. An educator who was superintendent of public instruction in Kentucky for four years and author of a History of Kentucky.

=Smock, John Conover.= _N. J._, 1842- ----. A geologist, assistant in charge of the New York State Museum from 1885. Report on Clay Deposits; On Building-Stones in New York.

=Smyth, Albert Henry.= _Pa._, 1863- ----. An educator of Philadelphia, professor of English at the Central High School from 1886. Life of Bayard Taylor. _Hou._

=Smyth, Egbert Coffin.= _Me._, 1829-1904. Son of W. Smyth, _infra_. A Congregational clergyman prominent among liberal thinkers in his denomination, and professor of ecclesiastical history at Andover Seminary from 1863. The Value of the Study of Church History in Ministerial Education; translation of Uhlhorn’s Conflict of Christianity and Heathenism (with W. Ropes).

=Smyth, Herbert Weir.= _Del._, 1857- ----. A professor of Greek in Bryn Mawr College from 1888. Der Diphthong EI in Griech; Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects. _Mac._

=Smyth, Julian Kennedy.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. A Swedenborgian clergyman of Boston. Footprints of the Saviour; Holy Names as Interpretations of the Story of the Manger and the Cross. _Rob._

=Smyth, [Samuel] Newman [Phillips].= _Me._, 1843- ----. Son of W. Smyth, _infra_. A Congregational clergyman of prominence and of liberal theology, pastor of the First Church at New Haven from 1882. Old Faiths in New Light; The Orthodox Theology of To-Day; The Religious Feeling; The Morality of the Old Testament; Personal Creeds; Christian Ethics; Dorner on the Future State; the Reality of Faith. _Cas. Scr._

=Smyth, Thomas.= _I._, 1808-1873. A Presbyterian clergyman of Charleston, pastor of the Second Church, 1832-73, and very active as a controversialist, among whose many writings are, Lectures on the Prelatical Doctrine of the Apostolical Succession; History of the Westminster Assembly; Why Do I Live?; Solace for Bereaved Parents; Calvin and his Enemies; Ecclesiastical Republicanism.

=Smyth, William.= _Me._, 1797-1868. An educator who was professor of mathematics at Bowdoin College from 1825. Elements of Algebra; Treatise on Algebra; Trigonometry, Surveying, and Navigation; Elements of Analytical Geometry; Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus; Lectures on Modern History.

=Snead, Thomas Lowndes.= _Va._, 1828-1890. A St. Louis lawyer who served in the Confederate army, and after 1865 resumed his profession in New York city. The Fight for Missouri in 1861. _Scr._

=Snelling, Henry Hunt.= _N. Y._, 1817- ----. Brother of W. J. Snelling, _infra_. A writer living at Cornwall, New York, from 1871. History and Practice of Photography; Dictionary of the Photographic Art.

=Snelling, William Joseph.= _Ms._, 1804-1848. A journalist of Boston. The Polar Regions of the Western Continent Explored; Truth: a Satirical Poem; Six Months in a House of Correction.

=Snethen, Nicholas.= _L. I._, 1769-1845. A Methodist itinerant preacher, active in the formation of the Methodist Protestant denomination. Preaching the Gospel; Lay Representation; Lectures on Biblical Subjects. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Snider, Denton Jaques.= _O._, 1841- ----. A literary lecturer of St. Louis. System of Shakespeare’s Dramas; A Walk in Hellas; Delphic Days, an idyl in the elegiac distich; Agamemnon’s Daughter, a classic romantic poem; An Epigrammatic Voyage; Goethe’s Faust: a Commentary; The Shakespearean Drama.

=Snively, William Andrew.= _Pa._, 1833-1901. An Episcopal clergyman of Louisville. Family Prayers for the Christian Year; Testimonies to the Supernatural; Parish Lectures on the Prayer Book; Æsthetics in Worship; The Oberammergau Passion Play. _Wh._

=Snow, Caleb Hopkins.= _Ms._, 1796-1835. A Boston physician who published A History of Boston; Geography of Boston and Adjacent Towns.

=Snow, Marshall Solomon.= _Ms._, 1842- ----. A professor of history in Washington University, author of The City Government of St. Louis. _J. H. U._

=Snowden, James Ross.= _Pa._, 1810-1878. A numismatist who was director of the mint, 1856-61. The Mint at Philadelphia; The Mint Manual of Coins; The Coins of the Bible and its Money Terms; Medals; The Cornplanter Memorial. _Lip._

=Soley, James Russell.= _Ms._, 1850- ----. An educator, professor at the Naval Academy, 1871-82, and lecturer on international law at Newport Naval College from 1885. The Rescue of Greeley (with W. Schley, _supra_); Foreign Systems of Education; The Blockade and the Cruisers; The Boys of 1812 and Other Naval Heroes; History of the Naval Academy; The Sailor Boys of ’61. _Est. Scr._

=Somerville, William Clarke.= _Md._, 1790-1826. A writer who was appointed minister to Sweden, but died before reaching there and was buried at the Marquis Lafayette’s home at Lagrange. Letters from Paris on the Causes of the French Revolution.

=Sophocles, Evangelinus Apostolides.= _Gr._, 1807-1883. A Greek scholar of distinction, professor at Harvard University, 1849-83. His chief work is a Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods; and among his other publications are, Greek Grammar for Learners; History of the Greek Alphabet. _Scr._

=Sotheran, Charles.= _E._, 1847-1902. An English bibliographer who came to America in 1874, and, settling in New York city, engaged in journalism. Alessandro di Cagliostro: Impostor or Martyr; Shelley as Philosopher and Reformer.

=Soule= [soo´lay], =Mrs. Caroline Augusta [White].= _N. Y._, 1824-1904. The widow of a Universalist minister who entered the ministry herself, was the first foreign missionary of that denomination, and in 1888 was in charge of a congregation in Glasgow, Scotland. House Life; The Pet of the Settlement; Wine or Water.

=Soule= [sole], =Richard.= _Ms._, 1812-1877. A lexicographer of Boston. Manual of English Pronunciation (with W. H. Wheeler, _infra_); Dictionary of English Synonyms; Pronouncing Handbook (with L. Campbell). _Le._

=Southgate, Horatio.= _Me._, 1812-1894. The first and only Protestant Episcopal bishop of Constantinople. He was consecrated in 1844, but resigned his office in 1850, and held various rectorships subsequently, including that of Zion Church, New York city, 1859-72, in which latter year he retired from active duties. The Cross Above the Crescent; Parochial Sermons; Narrative of a Tour Through Armenia, etc.; The War in the East; Practical Directions for the Observance of Lent.

=Southworth, Mrs. Emma Dorothy Eliza [Nevitte].= _D. C._, 1819-1899. A voluminous writer of sensational romances, mainly of Southern life and some sixty in number, for many years a resident of Washington, but from 1876 of Yonkers, New York. The literary merit of her works is very slender. They were in nearly every case first issued serially in The New York Ledger, and have been very popular amongst uncritical readers. Among them are, Ishmael; The Widow’s Son; Retribution; The Family Doom. _See Hart’s American Literature._

=Spaeth= [spāt], =Adolph.= _Wg._, 1839- ----. A prominent Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, pastor of St. John’s Church from 1867. Die Evangelien des Kirchenjahrs; Brosamen von des Herrn Tische; Saarkörner; Luther in Lied seiner Zeitgenossen; Phœbe the Deaconess; Liederlust; Faith and Life Represented by Luther; Annotations on the Gospel according to St. John.

=Spahr, Charles Barzillai.= _O._, 1860-1904. A political economist, associate editor of The Outlook from 1886. The Distribution of American Wealth. _Cr._

=Spalding, John Franklin.= _Me._, 1828-1902. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Colorado. The Threefold Ministry; Manual of Prayers; The Church and its Apostolic Ministry.

=Spalding, John Lancaster.= _Ky._, 1840- ----. Nephew of M. J. Spalding, _infra_. The Roman Catholic bishop of Peoria, and widely known as a thoughtful essayist and educator. Life of Archbishop Spalding; Essays and Reviews; Religious Mission of the Irish People and Catholic Colonization; Lectures and Discourses; America, and Other Poems; The Poet’s Praise; Education and the Higher Life; Means and Ends of Education; Things of the Mind; Songs, chiefly from the German. _Mg._

=Spalding, Lyman.= _N. H._, 1775-1821. A physician at Portsmouth, in his native State, and subsequently of New York city, who was one of the early advocates of vaccination. Reflections on Fever; Reflections on Yellow Fever Periods.

=Spalding, Martin John.= _Ky._, 1810-1872. A Roman Catholic archbishop of Baltimore, 1864-72, active as a controversialist. Review of D’Aubigné’s History of the Reformation; Modern Civilization; Evidences of Catholicity; Life of Bishop Flaget; Early Catholic Missions in Kentucky; Miscellanea. _See Life by J. L. Spalding, supra; Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._

=Spalding, Mrs. Susan [Marr].= _Me._, 18-- - ----. A verse-writer of Philadelphia whose poems are much above the level of average verse. The Wings of Icarus, and Other Poems. _Rob._

=Sparhawk, Frances Campbell.= _Me._, 1847- ----. A novelist and philanthropist of Newton, Massachusetts, who has written much in behalf of the Indian cause. A Chronicle of Conquest, a romance of the Indian school at Carlisle; Little Polly Blatchley; Miss West’s Class in Geography; Elizabeth, a colonial romance; The Query Club; A Lazy Man’s Work; Onoqua, an Indian Story; Senator Intrigue and Inspector Nosely. _Le. Lo._

=Sparks, Jared.= _Ct._, 1789-1866. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at Baltimore, 1819-23, professor of history at Harvard University, 1839-49, and president of Harvard University, 1849-53. He is best known by the American Biography which he edited, and of which he was in part the author. It includes sixty lives, of which he wrote those of Ethan Allen; Benedict Arnold; Marquette; La Salle; Pulaski; Ribault; Charles Lee; Ledyard. He was also author of a Life of Gouverneur Morris. He published editions of the works of Franklin and Washington, with notes and life of each; and also Correspondence of the American Revolution. His editing has been sometimes criticised because he occasionally toned down passages of unorthodox vigour and corrected the spelling of his subjects, but his eminent merits in other respects have been generally recognized. _See Lives by Mayer, supra, 1867; G. E. Ellis, supra, 1869; Herbert Adams, supra._ _Har._

=Sparks, William Henry.= _Ga._, 1800-1882. A Mississippi planter, after 1850 a lawyer of New Orleans, who published Memories of Fifty Years. He was a popular verse-writer, his best-known poems being, Somebody’s Darling; The Dying Year.

=Spaulding, Elbridge Gerry.= _N. Y._, 1809-1897. A banker of Buffalo, author of a History of Legal Tender Money During the Great Rebellion.

=Spaulding, Henry George.= _Ms._, 1837- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts, among whose writings are, The Teachings of Jesus; Later Heroes of Israel; Forty Hymns and their Authors.

=Spaulding, Solomon.= _Ct._, 1761-1816. A Congregational clergyman of New England who left the ministry in 1795 and was subsequently an iron-founder at Conneaut, Ohio, where he wrote a romance called The Manuscript Found, published in 1812, and sometimes asserted to be the basis of the Mormon Bible. _See Patterson’s, Who Wrote the Mormon Bible? 1882._

=Spear, Charles.= _Ms._, 1801-1863. A Universalist minister of Boston active in prison reform. Names and Titles of Christ; Essays on the Punishment of Death; Plea for Discharged Convicts; Voices from Prison.

=Spear, Samuel Thayer.= _N. Y._, 1812-1891. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn, editor of The New York Independent from 1871. Family Power; Religion and the State; Constitutionality of the Legal Tender Act; The Law of the Federal Judiciary; The Law of Extradition; The Bible Heaven. _Fu._

=Spears, John Randolph.= _O._, 1850- ----. A journalist of New York city. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn; The Port of Missing Ships, and Other Stories of the Sea. _Mac. Put._

=Speed, John Gilmer.= _Ky._, 1853- ----. A journalist of New York city. Life of Keats.

=Speer, William.= _Pa._, 1822- ----. A Presbyterian missionary in China. China and the United States; The Great Revival of 1800; God’s Rule for Christian Giving.

=Spencer, Mrs. Bella Zilfa.= _E._, 1840-1867. A novelist who was the first wife of General George E. Spencer, formerly of the United States army. Ora, the Lost Wife; Tried and True; Surface and Depth.

=Spencer, Mrs. Cornelia [Phillips].= _N. Y._, 1825- ----. A North Carolina writer who published The Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina; History of North Carolina.

=Spencer, Ichabod Smith.= _Vt._, 1798-1854. A Presbyterian clergyman prominent in Brooklyn for many years. A Pastor’s Sketches; Sermons; Sacramental Discourses; Evidences of Divine Revelation.

=Spencer, Jesse Ames.= _N. Y._, 1816-1898. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, professor in the College of the City of New York, 1869-83, and editor of many valuable classical text-books. His other works include, History of the English Reformation; History of the United States, a very popular work; Sermons; Discourses; The East: Sketches of Travel in Egypt and the Holy Land; Greek Praxis; Five Last Things; Studies in Eschatology; Papalism _vs._ Catholic Truth; Memorabilia of Sixty-Five Years, 1820-86. _Wh._

=Spencer, Mrs. Sara [Andrews].= _N. Y._, 1837- ----. A prominent woman-suffragist of Washington, proprietor of the Spencerian Business College. Problems on the Woman Question; Lessons in the English Language.

=Spencer, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1793-1857. A physician who was medical professor at Hobart College, 1835-57. Lectures on Vital Chemistry; Practical Observations on Epidemic Diarrhœa known as Cholera. _See Memoir of, by S. Willard, 1858._

=Spencer, Mrs. William Loring [Nuñez].= _Fl._, 18-- - ----. A writer who is the second wife of General George E. Spencer, formerly of the United States army. Salt Lake Fruit; The Story of Mary, republished as Dennis Day; A Plucky One; Calamity Jane. _Cas._

=Spitzka, Edward Charles.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A physician of New York city eminent as a neurologist. Insanity, its Classification, Diagnosis, and Treatment.

=Spofford, Ainsworth Rand.= _N. H._, 1825- ----. The librarian of Congress, and editor of The American Almanac and Treasury of Facts. Library of Choice Literature; Library of Historical Characters.

=Spofford, Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth [Prescott].= _Me._, 1835- ----. A novelist and poet of Newburyport whose best work in both prose and verse is markedly original, and characterized by striking luxuriance of description. Azarian; Sir Rohan’s Ghost; The Amber Gods, and Other Stories; New England Legends; The Thief in the Night; The Marquis of Carabas, a romance; A Lost Jewel; Hester Stanley at St. Mark’s, a story for girls; The Scarlet Poppy, and Other Stories; Art Decoration Applied to Furniture; Home and Hearth; Essays on the Domestic Relations; Three Heroines of New England (with Alice Brown, _supra_, and L. Guiney, _supra_); The Servant Girl Question; A Master Spirit; Ballads About Authors; Poems; In Titian’s Garden, and Other Poems. _See Atlantic Monthly, April, 1882._ _Cop. Do. Har. Hou. Le. Rob. Scr._

=Spooner, Lysander.= _Ms._, 1808-1887. A lawyer of Boston prominent as an abolitionist. Our Finances; The Deist’s Reply to the Alleged Supernatural Evidences of Christianity; A Defence for Fugitive Slaves; Unconstitutionality of Slavery; The Law of Prices; Poverty: Causes and Cure.

=Spooner, Shearjashub.= _Vt._, 1809-1859. A dentist of New York city. Guide to Sound Teeth; Surgical and Mechanical Dentistry; Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors, and Architects; Anecdotes of Painters.

=Sprague, Alfred White.= _Sh._, 1821- ----. A Boston chemist who published Chemical Experiments; Elements of Natural Philosophy.

=Sprague, Charles.= _Ms._, 1791-1875. A cashier of the Globe Bank, Boston, 1825-65, well known in his lifetime as a verse-writer, and still pleasantly remembered for the genuine sentiment in such poems as The Family Meeting and The Winged Worshippers, though an Ode to Shakespeare was once much praised. His poems first appeared in 1841, the latest edition being that of 1876. _See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America._

=Sprague, Charles Ezra.= _N. Y._, 1842- ----. The secretary of the Dime Savings Institution in New York city from 1878. Logical Symbolism; Handbook of Volapük.

=Sprague, John Titcomb.= _Ms._, 1810-1888. An officer of the United States army who was military governor of Florida in 1865. Origin, etc., of the Florida War (1848).

=Sprague, Mary Aplin.= _O._, 1849- ----. A novelist of Newark, Ohio. An Earnest Trifler. _Hou._

=Sprague, Peleg.= _Ms._, 1793-1880. A once noted jurist of Boston. Speeches and Addresses; Decisions in Admiralty and Maritime Cases.

=Sprague, William Buell.= _Ct._, 1795-1875. A Presbyterian clergyman of Albany whose Annals of the American Pulpit in ten volumes is the work by which he is best known. Other works of his include, Letters to a Daughter; The Daughter’s Own Book; Letters from Europe; Letters on Revivals; True Christianity, and Other Systems; Life of Edward Dorr Griffin, _supra_; Letters to Young Men; Women of the Bible; Visits to European Celebrities; Life of Jedidiah Morse, _supra_; Aids to Early Religion.

=Sprecher, Samuel.= _Md._, 1810- ----. A Lutheran clergyman, president of Wurtemburg Seminary at Springfield, Ohio, 1849-74, and author of The Groundwork of a System of Lutheran Theology.

=Spring, Gardiner.= _Ms._, 1785-1873. A Presbyterian clergyman, long prominent in New York city as pastor of the Brick Church, 1810-73. Power of the Pulpit; The Church in the Wilderness; Sermons; Distinguishing Traits of Christian Character; Pulpit Ministrations; Attractions of the Cross; The Bible Not of Man; The Mercy Seat, comprise his chief works. _See Personal Reminiscences of._ _C. P. S._

=Spring, Leverett Wilson.= _Vt._, 1840- ----. A Congregational clergyman and educator, professor of English literature at the University of Kansas, 1881-86, and professor of rhetoric at Williams College from 1886. History of Kansas; Mark Hopkins: Teacher. _Hou._

=Springer, Mrs. Rebecca [Ruter].= _Ind._, 1832- ----. The wife of an Illinois senator, and author of Songs of the Sea, and two novels, Beechwood; Self.

=Sproull= [sprowl], =Thomas.= _Pa._, 1803-1892. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman of Pittsburg, who published Prelections on Theology.

=Squier= [skwīr], =Ephraim George.= _N. Y._, 1821-1888. An archæologist and diplomatist, consul to Peru, 1863-1865, and consul-general of Honduras at New York in 1868. Nicaragua; Mexican Hieroglyphics; Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (with E. H. Davis, _supra_); Antiquities of the State of New York; Waikna, or Adventures on the Mosquito Coast; The States of Central America; Serpent Symbols; Peru. _Ho._

=Squier, Miles Powell.= _Vt._, 1792-1866. A Presbyterian clergyman of Geneva, New York. The Problem Solved, or Sin Not of God; Reason and the Bible; Miscellaneous Writings; Autobiography.

=Staley, Cady.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A civil engineer, president of the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, and author of The Separate System of Sewerage (with G. S. Pierson).

=Stall, Sylvanus.= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1880-87, and since then editor of Stall’s Lutheran Year Book. Methods of Church Work; Pastor’s Record; Talks to the King’s Children; Five-Minute Object Sermons to Children. _Fu._

=Stallo, John Bernhard.= _G._, 1823-1900. A Cincinnati lawyer, minister to Italy in 1885. Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics; General Principles of the Philosophy of Nature. _Ap._

=Stanley, Anthony Dumond.= _Ct._, 1810-1853. An educator who was a professor of mathematics at Yale University, 1836-53. Elementary Treatise of Spherical Geometry and Trigonometry; Tables of Logarithms.

=Stanley, Sir Henry Morton=, originally John Rowlands. _W._, 1841-1904. A noted African explorer. In 1855 he was adopted by a New Orleans merchant whose name he took. He was sent by the New York Herald in search of Livingstone in 1870, and was again sent to Africa by the Herald in 1874. In 1879 he accompanied an African expedition sent by the King of the Belgians, which resulted in the establishment of the Congo Free State. How I Found Livingstone; My Kalulu, Prince, King, and Slave, a Study of Central Africa; Coomassie and Magdala; Through the Dark Continent; The Congo and the Founding of its Free State; In Darkest Africa; My Dark Companions; My Early Travels in America and Asia; Slavery and the Slave Trade in India. _See Stanley and Africa, 1890; Headley’s Adventures of Stanley; Lives by Montefiore, 1889, Little, 1890, Reddall, 1890; Packard’s Stanley and the Congo; Stanley and his Heroic Relief of Emin Pasha, by E. P. Scott; Wauters’s Stanley’s Emin Pasha Expedition; With Stanley’s Rear Column._ _Har._

=Stansbury, Howard.= _N. Y._, 1806-1863. An explorer who was a topographical engineer in the United States army, and published An Expedition to Great Salt Lake (1852). _Lip._

=Stanton, Mrs. Elizabeth [Cady].= _N. Y._, 1815-1902. Wife of H. B. Stanton, _infra_. A celebrated woman-suffragist and reformer who devoted the larger part of her life to suffrage and other reforms, and (with S. Anthony and F. Gage) published a History of the Woman Suffrage Movement.

=Stanton, Frank Lebby.= _Ga._, 1858- ----. A journalist and popular verse-writer of Atlanta. Songs of the Soil. _Ap._

=Stanton, Henry Brewster.= _Ct._, 1805-1887. A journalist and reformer of New York city. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers in Great Britain and Ireland; Random Recollections. _Har._

=Stanton, Henry Thompson.= _Va._, 1834-1898. Son of R. H. Stanton, _infra_. An officer in the United States army and an Indian commissioner who wrote much humorous verse. The Moneyless Man, and Other Poems; Jacob Brown, and Other Poems. _Clke._

=Stanton, Richard Henry.= _Va._, 1812-1891. A jurist of Kentucky. Code of Civil and Criminal Practice in Kentucky; Practical Treatise for Justices of the Peace; Manual for Kentucky Executors.

=Stanton, Robert Livingstone.= _Ct._, 1810-1885. Brother of H. B. Stanton, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman who published The Church and the Rebellion.

=Stanton, Theodore.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. Son of H. B. and E. Stanton, _supra_. A journalist living in Paris. The Woman Question in Europe. _Put._

=Stanwood, Edward.= _Me._, 1841- ----. A Boston journalist, managing editor of The Youth’s Companion. A History of Presidential Elections; History of Cotton Manufacture in New England. _Hou._

=Starr, Eliza Allen.= _Ms._, 1824-1901. An art lecturer in Chicago. Patron Saints; Pilgrims and Shrines; Songs of a Lifetime.

=Starr, Frederic Ratchford.= _N. S._, 1821-1889. A noted dairy farmer of Litchfield, Connecticut. Didley Dumps, the Newsboy; May I Not?; What Can I Do?; Farm Echoes; From Shore to Shore.

=Starr, Moses Allen.= _N. Y._, 1854- ----. A physician of New York city, prominent as a neurologist. Familiar Forms of Nervous Diseases; Lectures on Insanity; Brain Surgery.

=Stauffer, Francis Henry.= _Pa._, 1832- ----. A sensational novelist of Philadelphia, long a contributor to the Saturday Night. Among his serials published in that paper, none of them of much literary merit, are Ruth Brandon; Lucy Darrel; Devona the Dauntless.

=Staunton, William.= _E._, 1803-1889. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city who published an Ecclesiastical Dictionary, and wrote much on musical topics.

=Stearns, Asahel.= _Ms._, 1774-1839. A Massachusetts lawyer and Congressman, professor of law at Harvard University, 1817-29. Summary of the Law and Practice of Real Actions; General Laws, 1780-1822 (with L. Shaw).

=Stearns, Charles.= _Ms._, 1753-1826. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at Lincoln, Massachusetts, from 1785 till his death. The Ladies’ Philosophy of Love, a Poem; Principles of Morality and Religion.

=Stearns, Charles Woodward.= _Ms._, 1818-1887. A physician and surgeon of note as a Shakespearean scholar. Shakespeare’s Medical Knowledge; Shakespeare Treasury of Wisdom and Knowledge; Concordance of the Constitution of the United States; The Black Men and the South and the Rebels.

=Stearns, Edward Josiah.= _Ms._, 1810-1890. An Episcopal clergyman and educator in Maryland. A Platform for All Parties; Notes on Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Practical Guide to English Pronunciation; The Faith of Our Forefathers, an Examination of Archbishop Gibbons’s “Faith of Our Fathers;” The Archbishop’s Champion Brought to Book. _Wh._

=Stearns, Frank Preston.= _Ms._, 1846- ----. Great-nephew of L. M. Child, _supra_. A Boston writer upon art, literature, and history. The Real and Ideal in Literature; Life of Tintoretto; The Midsummer of Italian Art; Sketches from Concord and Appledore; Modern English Prose; Summer Travel in Europe. _Put._

=Stearns, John Glazier.= _N. H._, 1795-1874. A Baptist clergyman once prominent in central New York. The Primitive Church; Letters on Freemasonry; The Sovereignty of God and Free Agency; The Influence of the Spirit and the Word in Regeneration.

=Stearns, John William.= _Ms._, 1829- ----. A professor in the University of Wisconsin from 1884. The History of Education in Wisconsin.

=Stearns, Lewis French.= _Ms._, 1847-1892. A Presbyterian clergyman, afterwards professor of systematic theology in Bangor Theological Seminary, 1880-92. The Evidence of Christian Experience; Present Day Theology, with Biographical Sketch by G. L. Prentiss, _supra_; Life of Henry Boynton Smith, _supra_. _Hou. Scr._

=Stearns, Oakman Sprague.= _Me._, 1817-1893. A Baptist clergyman of Massachusetts, professor of biblical interpretation at Newton Theological Seminary from 1868. A Syllabus of Messianic Passages in the Old Testament; Introduction to the Books of the Old Testament.

=Stearns, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1747-1819. A physician and astronomer of Worcester, New York city, and lastly of Brattleboro, Vermont. Tour to London and Paris; Mystery of Animal Magnetism; American Oracle; The American Herbal or Materia Medica.

=Stearns, William Augustus.= _Ms._, 1805-1876. A Congregational clergyman, president of Amherst College, 1854-76. Infant Church Membership; A Plea for the Nation.

=Stearns, Winfrid Alden.= 185- - ----. Son of W. A. Stearns, _supra_. Labrador: a Sketch of its Peoples, etc.; Wrecked on Labrador; New England Bird Life (with E. Coues, _supra_).

=Stebbins, Giles Badger.= 1817-1900. After Dogmatic Theology, What?; The American Protectionist’s Manual; Chapters from the Bible of the Ages; Facts and Opinions Touching the American Colonization Society; Progress from Poverty.

=Stebbins, Emma.= _N. Y._, 1815-1882. A sculptress who lived many years in Rome, where she formed a friendship with Charlotte Cushman. Charlotte Cushman: Her Letters and Memories of her Life. _Hou._

=Stebbins, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [Moore] [Hewitt].= _Ms._, 1818- ----. Memorial of F. S. Osgood, _supra_; Songs of Our Lord; Heroines of History; Poems: Sacred, Passionate, and Legendary.

=Stebbins, Rufus Phineas.= _Ms._, 1810-1885. A Unitarian clergyman of Ithaca, New York, and subsequently of Newton Centre, Massachusetts. A Study of the Pentateuch; A Common Sense View of the Books of the Old Testament.

=Stedman, Edmund Clarence.= _Ct._, 1833- ----. A poet and literary critic of New York city, for many years a member of the Stock Exchange there. His volumes of verse include, Poems: Lyric and Idyllic; The Prince’s Ball; The Battle of Bull Run; Alice of Monmouth; Idyl of the Great War, and Other Poems; The Blameless Prince; Hawthorne, and Other Poems; Lyrics and Idyls; Poems, Household Edition; The Star Bearer. His other works comprise, Octavius Brooks Frothingham and the New Faith; Victorian Poets; Poets of America; The Nature and Elements of Poetry. His most important labours as editor have been, A Library of American Literature (with E. M. Hutchinson, _supra_); The Works of Poe (with G. E. Woodberry, _infra_); A Victorian Anthology. _See Vedder’s American Writers; Foley’s American Authors, 1897._ _Hou._

=Steele, Daniel.= _N. Y._, 1824- ----. A Methodist clergyman and educator of note. Commentary on Joshua; Love Enthroned; Milestone Papers; Antinomianism Revived; Commentary on Leviticus and Numbers; Bible Readings; Sermons and Essays. _Meth._

=Steele, David.= _I._, 1827- ----. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia from 1861. The Times in Which we Live, and the Ministry they Require; The Apologetics of History.

=Steele, Mrs. Esther [Baker].= _N. Y._, 1835- ----. Wife of J. D. Steele, _infra_, and co-author with him of a General History and school histories of the United States; France; Ancient Peoples; Mediæval and Modern Peoples; Greece; Rome.

=Steele, George McKendree.= _N. Y._, 1823-1902. A Methodist clergyman and educator, principal of Wilbraham Academy, Massachusetts. Outline Study of Political Economy. _Meth._

=Steele, Joel Dorman.= _N. Y._, 1836-1886. A prominent educator of Elmira, New York, who published Barnes’s History of the United States and a series of text-books on the sciences, each intended for a course of study of fourteen weeks, including Natural Philosophy; Geology; Human Physiology; Zoölogy; Chemistry.

=Steele, Mrs. Margaret.= _See Conkling, Mrs._

=Steele, Thomas Sedgwick.= _Ct._, 1845- ----. Canoe and Camera: a Tour Through the Maine Forests; Paddle and Portage from Moosehead Lake to the Aroostook River; A Voyage to Vikingland. _Est._

=Steendam, Jacob.= _H._, 1616-16--?. The earliest verse-writer of New York. He was in the employ of the Dutch West India Company, and lived in New Amsterdam, now New York, from 1650 to 1663, about which time he returned to Holland. The place and date of his death are unknown. His four small volumes of verse include, Der Distelvink (The Thistle Finch); Klacht van Nieuw Amsterdam (The Complaint of New Amsterdam); Tlof van Nieuw Nederland (The Praise of New Netherland); Prichel Vaarsen (Spurring Verses). The literary merit of his work is small.

=Steenstra, Peter Henry.= _H._, 1833- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, Massachusetts, professor of Old Testament criticism and interpretation in the Episcopal Theological School from 1867. The Being of God as Unity and Trinity. _Hou._

=Steiger, Ernst.= _Sxy._, 1832- ----. A bibliographer and publisher of New York city. Der Nachdruck in Nordamerika; Das Copyright Law in den Vereinigten Staaten; Periodical Literature, a bibliography.

=Stella.= _See Lewis, Mrs._

=Stellhorn, Frederick William.= _G._, 1841- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of Ohio, professor of theology in Capitol University, who has published a Lexicon of New Testament Greek; Annotations on the Acts of the Apostles; Annotations on the Gospels.

=Stephen, Mrs. Elizabeth [Willison].= _Al._, 1856- ----. The wife of a Presbyterian clergyman in Rockport, Illinois. The Confessions of Two, a novel.

=Stephens, Alexander Hamilton.= _Ga._, 1812-1883. A distinguished Georgia statesman who was a representative in Congress from his State, 1843-59, vice-president of the Confederacy, subsequently a member of Congress, and in 1882 governor of Georgia. School History of the United States; History of the War between the States; Compendium of United States History. _See Carroll’s Twelve Americans; Life by F. H. Norton; Life by Johnston and Browne; Harper’s Magazine, February, 1870; Appletons’ American Biography; Trent’s Southern Statesmen._ _Lip._

=Stephens, Mrs. Ann Sophia [Winterbotham].= _Ct._, 1813-1886. A novelist and littérateur of New York city whose books were at one time much read. Among them are, Fashion and Famine, her best work; A Story of Western Life; The Old Homestead; Myra, the Child of Adoption; The Heiress; Wives and Widows; The Curse of Gold; A Popular History of the United States. She wrote not a little verse, her best known poem being the familiar Polish Boy.

=Stephens, Charles Asbury.= _Me._, 1847- ----. A writer of Norway, Maine. Camping Out; Off the Geysers; Left on Labrador; Fox Hunting; On the Amazon; The Young Moose-Hunters; The Knockabout Club in the Woods and in the Tropics. _Co. Est._

=Stephens, Harriet Marion.= 1823-1850. Home Scenes and Home Sounds; Hagar the Martyr, a novel.

=Stephens, John Lloyd.= _N. J._, 1805-1852. A traveller of note. Incidents of Travel in Central America; Yucatan; Egypt, Arabia, and the Holy Land; Greece, Turkey, and Russia. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._ _Har._

=Stephens, William.= _E._, 1671-1753. A colonial governor of Georgia, 1743-1750, who published a Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia. _See Biography by his son, entitled The Castle Builder, or the History of William Stephens of the Isle of Wight._

=Stern, Simon Adler.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. Florentine Nights; Excerpts; Jottings of Travel in China and Japan.

=Sternberg, George Miller.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A surgeon in the United States army. Photo-Micrographs; Malaria and Malarial Diseases; Bacteria, from the French of Maguin; Immunity: Protective Inoculations in Infectious Diseases; Manual of Bacteriology. _Hou._

=Sterne, Simon.= _Pa._, 1839-1901. A prominent politician of New York city. Popular Government and Personal Representation; Constitutional History and Development of the United States; Suffrage in Cities; Hindrances to Prosperity. _Lip. Put._

=Sterne, Stuart.= _See Bloede._

=Sterrett, John Robert Sitlington.= _Va._, 1851- ----. A professor of Greek at Amherst College from 1892. Qua in re Hymni Homerici quinque majores inter se differunt; Inscriptions of Assos; Epigraphical Journey in Asia Minor; The Wolfe Expedition to Asia Minor.

=Stevens, Abel.= _Pa._, 1815-1897. A Methodist clergyman of New York city of prominence as a writer, and long connected with the Methodist Book Concern. History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States; History of Methodism; Life of Madame de Staël; Life of Nathan Bangs, _supra_; Character Sketches; Women of Methodism; Christian Work and Consolation; Church Polity; Tales from the Parsonage, are among his many publications. _Har. Meth._

=Stevens, Alexander Hodgdon.= _N. Y._, 1789-1869. A surgeon of New York city, whose chief works are, Inflammation of the Eye; Lectures on Lithotomy; First Lines of Surgery.

=Stevens, Benjamin Franklin.= _Vt._, 1833-1902. Brother of H. Stevens, _infra_. A bibliographer who edited Campaign in Virginia in 1781; Facsimiles of MSS. in European Archives Relating to America, 1773-83.

=Stevens, Charles Ellis.= _Ms._, 1853- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia. The Sources of the Constitution of the United States in Relation to Colonial and English History. _Mac._

=Stevens, George Barker.= _N. Y._, 1854- ----. A Congregational clergyman and educator of New Haven, professor in Yale Divinity School from 1886. Commentary on Galatians; The Pauline Theology; The Johannine Theology; Doctrine and Life. _Scr._

=Stevens, Henry.= _Vt._, 1819-1886. A bibliographer of prominence, who lived in London after 1845. Historical Nuggets; Historical Collections; Recollections of James Lenox; The Tehuantepec Railway; Historical and Geographical Notes; The Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition; Catalogue of the American Books in the British Museum; and indexes to state papers in London relating to Virginia, Maryland, Rhode Island, and New Jersey.

=Stevens, John Austin.= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. An author of New York city, and later of Newport, Rhode Island, who founded the Magazine of American History; The Valley of the Rio Grande; The Expedition of Lafayette against Arnold; Life of Albert Gallatin, _supra_. _Hou._

=Stevens, John Leavitt.= _Me._, 1820-1895. A diplomatist who was minister to Uruguay and Paraguay, 1870-73, to Sweden, 1877-83, to Hawaii, 1889-93. History of Gustavus Adolphus.

=Stevens, Thomas.= _E._, 1855- ----. A noted cyclist who has published, Scouting for Stanley in East Africa; Around the World on a Bicycle: From San Francisco to Teheran, From Teheran to Yokohama; Through Russia on a Mustang. _Cas. Scr._

=Stevens, William Bacon.= _Me._, 1815-1887. The fourth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania, consecrated in 1862. History of Georgia; The Bow in the Cloud; Sermons; Sabbaths of Our Lord; Parables of the New Testament Unfolded; History of Silk Culture in Georgia; The Sunday at Home. _Co._

=Stevenson, E[dward] Irenæus.= _N. J._, 1858- ----. A littérateur of New York city, since 1881 the editor of The New York Independent, and for many years an editor of Harper’s Weekly. He has been the musical editor of several journals for a number of years. White Cockades, an Incident of the “Forty-five;” Janus, reissued as A Matter of Temperament, a musical novel; Left to Themselves, reissued as Philip and Gerald; Mrs. Dee’s Encore; A Square of Sevens. _Har. Meth. Scr._

=Stevenson, Sarah Hackett.= _Il._, 1843- ----. A physician of Chicago. Boys and Girls in Biology; The Physiology of Woman.

=Steward, Theophilus Gould.= _N. J._, 1843- ----. A clergyman of African descent. Death, Hades, and the Resurrection; The End of the World; Genesis Re-read.

=Stewart, Austin.= _Va._, _c._ 1793-186-. An author and educator of African descent who published, Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman.

=Stewart, Charles Samuel.= _N. J._, 1795-1870. A Presbyterian clergyman, chaplain in the navy. Residence at the Sandwich Islands in 1822-23; Visit to the South Seas in the Ship Vincennes; Sketches of Society in Great Britain and Ireland in 1832; Brazil and La Plata in 1850-63; Personal Record of a Cruise.

=Stewart, Mrs. Electra Maria [Sheldon].= _N. Y._, 1817- ----. A writer of Detroit. Early History of Michigan; The Clevelands, a religious juvenile tale.

=Stewart, Ferdinand Campbell.= _Va._, 1815- ----. A physician of New York city who removed to England in 1855. Hospitals and Surgeons of Paris.

=Stewart, James.= _N. Y._, 1799-1864. A physician of New York city. Diseases of Children; The Lungs.

=Stewart, Thomas McCants.= _S. C._, 1854- ----. A New York city lawyer of African descent. Liberia: the Americo-African Republic; Perils of a Great City.

=Stickney, Albert.= _Ms._, 1839- ----. A lawyer of New York city. The Lawyer and his Clients; A True Republic; Democratic Government: a Study of Politics; The Political Problem. _Har._

=Stickney, Mrs. Julia Granby [Noyes].= _Ms._, 1830- ----. A verse-writer of Groveland, Massachusetts. Poems on Lake Winnepesaukee.

=Stiles, Ezra.= _Ct._, 1727-1795. A Congregational clergyman, famous in colonial days, who was president of Yale College, 1778-95. Account of the Settlement of Bristol, Rhode Island; History of Three of the Judges of Charles the First, Whalley, Goffe, and Dixwell. _See Life, by Abiel Holmes, supra; Life by Kingsley in Sparks’s American Biography; The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles._

=Stiles, Henry Reed.= _N. Y._, 1832- ----. Kinsman of E. Stiles, _supra_. A prominent physician of Brooklyn. History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut; History of Brooklyn, Long Island; The Wallabout Prison Ship.

=Stiles, Joseph Clay.= _Ga._, 1795-1875. A Presbyterian clergyman, after 1860 an evangelist in the South. Modern Reform Examined, or the Union of North and South on Slavery; The National Controversy.

=Stiles, William Henry.= _Ga._, 1808-1865. Brother of J. C. Stiles, _supra_. A Savannah lawyer who was an officer in the Confederate army. History of Austria.

=Still, William.= _N. J._, 1821-1902. A noted Philadelphia philanthropist of African descent. The Underground Railroad; Voting and Laboring; Struggle for the Rights of Colored People in Philadelphia.

=Stillé= [stĭl´le], =Alfred.= _Pa._, 1813-1900. A physician of Philadelphia. Elements of General Pathology; The Unity of Medicine; Humboldt’s Life and Character; War as an Element of Civilization; Othello and Desdemona: their Characters; The National Dispensatory (with Maisch); Therapeutics and Materia Medica; Epidemic Meningitis; Epidemic or Malignant Cholera. _Lip._

=Stillé, Charles Janeway.= _Pa._, 1819-1899. Brother of A. Stillé, _supra_. A Philadelphia educator, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, 1868-80. Historical Development of American Civilization; Studies in Mediæval Civilization; Beaumarchais and the Lost Million, a chapter of the Secret History of the American Revolution; History of the United States Sanitary Commission; How a Free People Conduct a Long War; Northern Interest and Southern Independence; Life and Times of John Dickinson; General Anthony Wayne and the Pennsylvania Line. _Lip._

=Stillé, Moreton.= _Pa._, 1822-1855. Brother of A. Stillé, _supra_. A Philadelphia physician, co-author with F. Wharton of a Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence.

=Stillman, Samuel.= _Pa._, 1738-1807. A Baptist clergyman, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Boston from 1765 till his death, and a man of prominence in his day. His Select Sermons were published in 1808. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Stillman, William James.= _N. Y._, 1828-1901. A littérateur and artist who was consul at Rome, 1861-65, and in Crete, 1865-69. He lived at Rome from 1886 to 1898 as correspondent of the London Times for Italy and Greece. History of the Cretan Insurrection; Poetic Localities of Cambridge; Herzegovina and the Late Uprising; Turkish Rule and Warfare; On the Track of Ulysses; Manual of Photography; Autobiography. _Hou._

=Stimpson, William.= _Ms._, 1830-1872. A naturalist of eminence. Descriptiones Animalium Evertebratorum; Notes on North American Crustacea; Crustacea Dredged in the Gulf Stream.

=Stimson, Alexander Lovett.= _Ms._, 1816- ----. A lawyer and journalist. History of the Express Companies; New England Boys; Waifwood, a novel.

=Stimson, Frederick Jesup.= “J. S. of Dale.” _Ms._, 1855- ----. A lawyer and popular novelist of Boston. Labor in its Relations to Law; Handbook of the Labor Law of the United States; American Statute Law; Glossary of Technical Terms of the Common Law; Uniform State Legislation. In fiction he has published, Guerndale; The Crime of Henry Vane; The King’s Men; The Residuary Legatee; The Sentimental Calendar; In the Three Zones; First Harvests; Pirate Gold; King Noanett; Rollo’s Journey to Cambridge (with J. T. Wheelwright, _infra_). _Hou. Lam. Lit. Scr._

=Stimson, John Ward.= _N. J._, 1850- ----. An artist of New York city, four years superintendent of the Metropolitan Museum art schools. The Law of Three Primaries.

=Stimson, Lewis Atterbury.= _N. J._, 1844- ----. A physician of New York city, professor of surgery in the University of the City of New York. Manual of Operative Surgery; Practical Treatise on Fractures; Treatise on Dislocations.