Chapter X: =Xariffa.= See Townsend, Mrs (1)

Y

=Yale, Mrs. Catharine [Brooks].= _Vt._, 1818-1900. A writer of Deerfield, Massachusetts, wife of the inventor of the Yale lock. Story of the Old Willard House of Deerfield, Mass.; Nim and Cum, and the Wonderhead Stories. _Hou. Wy._

=Yarrow, Henry Crécy.= _Pa._, 1840- ----. A physician in Washington, curator of the reptile department in the National Museum. Introduction to the Study of Mortuary Customs Among North American Indians.

=Yates, John Van Ness.= _N. Y._, 1779-1839. A lawyer of Albany. Collection of Pleadings and Practical Precedents, with Notes; History of the State of New York (with J. Moulton); Principles and Practice, etc., in Cases of Writs of Error (with T. Tillinghast).

=Yeaman, George Helm.= _Ky._, 1829- ----. A lawyer of New York city, minister to Denmark, 1865-70. The Study of Government.

=Yoakum, Henderson K----.= _Tn._, 1810-1856. A lawyer of Huntsville, Texas. History of Texas from its First Settlement to its Annexation to the United States.

=Youmans= [yoo´manz], =Edward Livingston.= _N. Y._, 1821-1887. An eminent scientist who, though partially blind for many years, wrote and lectured extensively, beside editing The Popular Science Monthly, 1872-87. Handbook of Household Science; The Culture Demanded by Modern Life; Alcohol and the Constitution of Man; Chemical Atlas; Correlation and Conservation of Forces (edited). _See Life of, by J. Fiske, supra._ _Ap._

=Youmans, Eliza Ann.= _N. Y._, 1826- ----. Sister of E. L. Youmans, _supra_, and his assistant in his studies and researches. First and Second Books of Botany; Descriptive Botany; Lessons in Cookery. _Ap._

=Youmans, William Jay.= _N. Y._, 1838-1901. Brother of E. L. Youmans, _supra_. A physician and scientist of New York city, and editor of The Popular Science Monthly, 1887-1900. Pioneers of Science in America (edited); co-author with Huxley of Elements of Physiology and Hygiene.

=Young, Alexander.= _Ms._, 1800-1854. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of the New South Church. Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers; Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1623-36. He edited The Library of Old English Prose Writers.

=Young, Alexander.= _Ms._, 1836-1891. Son of A. Young, _supra_. A Boston journalist on the editorial staff of The Post. History of the Netherlands; Young Folks’ History of the Netherlands. _Est._

=Young, Andrew White.= _N. Y._, 1802-1877. A journalist of Warsaw, New York. First Lessons in Civil Government; Citizens’ Manual of Government and Law; The American Statesman; National Economy: a History of the Protective System; History of Warsaw; History of Wayne County, Indiana. _Clke._

=Young, Augustus.= _Vt._, 1785-1857. A jurist of St. Albans, Vermont. On the Quadrature of the Circle; Unity of Purpose.

=Young, Charles Augustus.= _N. H._, 1834- ----. An astronomer of note, professor of astronomy at Princeton College from 1877. The Sun; A General Astronomy; Elements of Astronomy; Lessons in Astronomy; Uranography. _Ap. Gi._

=Young, Jesse Bowman.= _Pa._, 1844- ----. A Methodist clergyman, editor of The Central Christian Advocate from 1892. What a Boy Saw in the Army; Days and Nights on the Sea. _Meth._

=Young, John Russell.= _Pa._, 1841-1899. A journalist of note who was minister to China, 1882-85, and librarian of Congress from 1897. Around the World with General Grant. He edited The Memorial History of Philadelphia.

=Young, Mrs. Julia Evelyn [Ditto].= _N. Y._, 1857- ----. A novelist and verse-writer of Buffalo. Adrift, a Story of Niagara; Glynne’s Wife, a Story in Verse; Thistle Down. _Lip._

=Young, Loyal.= _Ms._, 1806- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. From Dawn to Dusk; Ecce Diluvium; Interviews with Inspired Men; Commentary on Ecclesiastes.

=Young, William.= _Il._, 1847- ----. A dramatist of note whose plays include, Pendragon; The Rajah; Jonquil; The Rogue’s March; Ganelon; Joan of Arc; If I Were You; Young America; The House of Mauprat (with J. G. Wilson). He has also written Wishmakers’ Town, a volume of verse.

Z

=Zabriskie, Francis Nicoll.= _N. Y._, 1832-1891. A Dutch Reformed clergyman. Golden Fruit from Bible Trees; The Story of a Soul; Behold a Ladder; Life of Horace Greeley. _Fu. Ran._

=Zachos= [zăk´os], =John Celivergos.= _Ty._, 1820-1898. A Unitarian clergyman and educator. New American Speaker; Analytical Educator; Phonic Primer.

=Zahm, John Augustine.= _O._, 1851- ----. A Roman Catholic clergyman, procurator-general of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, now (1897) living at Rome. Evolution and Dogma; Bible, Science and Faith; Sound and Music; Catholic Science and Scientists. _Mg._

=Zeisberger, David.= _Ma._, 1721-1808. A noted missionary of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Delaware and English Spelling-Book; Sermons for Children; Dictionary in German and Delaware; Essay Toward an Onondaga Grammar. In 1888 his Diary from 1781 to 1798, including the narrative of his eventful life among the Indians of Ohio, was translated from the original manuscript in German by Eugene Bliss, and for the first time published. _See Life of, by E. de Schweinitz, supra, 1870; Bibliography of Ohio._

=Zenos, Andrew Constantinides.= _Ty._, 1855- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of biblical theology in McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, from 1891. The Elements of the Higher Criticism; Compendium of Church History. _Fu._

=Ziegler, Henry.= _Pa._, 1816-1898. A Lutheran clergyman in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Natural Theology; Apologetic Theology; Catechetics; The Pastor; The Preacher; Dogmatic Theology; The Value to the Lutheran Church of Her Confessions.

=Zogbaum, Rufus Fairchild.= _S. C._, 1849- ----. An artist of New York city. Horse, Foot, and Dragoons, or Sketches of Army Life; All Hands. _Har._

A DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN AUTHORS

SUPPLEMENT

A

=Aaron, Samuel.= _Pa._, 1800-1865. A Baptist clergyman and educator of Mount Holly, New Jersey, prominent as an anti-slavery advocate. He published a number of popular text-books. Faithful Translation.

=Abbatt, William.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. An insurance clerk of New York city, who has contributed a number of historical papers to the press, and was at one time editor of The Interstate, an insurance periodical. The Crisis of the Revolution: the Story of Arnold and André; The Battle of Pell’s Point (or Pelham).

=Abbott, Alexander Creever.= _Md._, 1860- ----. A physician, professor of hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania. The Principles of Bacteriology; Hygiene of Transmissible Diseases.

=Abbott, Ernest Hamlin.= _N. Y._, 1870- ----. Son of Lyman Abbott (page 2). Religious Life in America: a Record of Personal Observation.

=Abbott, Frank Frost.= _Ct._, 1860- ----. A professor of Latin in the University of Chicago. A History and Description of Roman Political Institutions. _Gi._

=Abbott, Mrs. Mary Perkins [Ives].= _Ms._, 1851-1904. A journalist of Chicago. Alexia, a romance; The Beverleys, a story. _Mg._

=Abbott, Russell Bigelow.= _Ind._, 1823- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of Albert Lea College, Minnesota. Bible History; History of Winona Presbytery.

=Adams, Amos.= _Ms._, 1728-1775. A Congregational clergyman of Roxbury, Massachusetts, who published A Concise Historical View of the Difficulties, Hardships, and Perils which Attended the Planting of New England, a work conceived in the true historical spirit.

=Adams, Andy.= _Ind._, 18-- - ----. A Colorado prospector whose early life was spent as a cowboy in Texas. The Log of a Cowboy; A Texas Matchmaker. _Hou._

=Adams, Charles Josiah.= _O._, 1850- ----. An Episcopal clergyman at Rossville, New York city. Where is My Dog? or, is Man Alone Immortal?; The Matterhorn Head, and Other Poems; Does Man Alone Reason?; How Baldy Won the County Seat, a novel.

=Adams, Cyrus Cornelius.= _Il._, 1849- ----. An editor on the staff of the New York Sun. A Handbook of Commercial Geography; Elementary Commercial Geography.

=Adams, Francis Alexandre.= _N. Y._, 1874- ----. A journalist of New York city. Who Rules America? Truths about Trusts; The Philippine Question; The Transgressors, a political novel.

=Adams, Frederick Upham.= _Ms._, 1859- ----. An author and inventor. Atmospheric Resistance and its Relation to the Speed of Railway Trains; The Kidnapped Millionaires; John Burt. _Lo._

=Adams, Frederick W.= _Vt._, 1786-1858. A physician and violin-maker of Montpelier, Vermont. Theological Criticism, or Hints of the Philosophy of Man and Nature (1843).

=Adams, James Barton.= _O._, 1843- ----. A Denver journalist. Breezy Western Verse.

=Adams, Mrs. Mary [Mathews].= _I._, 1840-1902. Wife of C. K. Adams (page 3). An educator and verse-writer of Madison, Wisconsin. The Choir Visible, a volume of verse; Sonnets and Songs; The Song at Midnight. _Mg. Put._

=Adams, Washington Irving Lincoln.= _N. Y._, 1865- ----. A manufacturer of photographic supplies. Amateur Photography; In Nature’s Image; Sunshine and Shadow, a book for photographers; Woodland and Meadow; Personalia. _Ba._

=Addams, Jane.= _Il._, 1860- ----. A Chicago writer and lecturer upon social reforms. Democracy and Social Ethics; The Function of the Social Settlement; Philanthropy and Social Progress (co-author). _Mac._

=Addison, Daniel Dulany.= _W. Va._, 1863- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Brookline, Massachusetts. Life of Lucy Larcom, _supra_; Life of Edward Bass, First Bishop of Massachusetts; The Clergy in American Life and Letters; The Episcopalians. _Hou. Mac._

=Addums, Mozis.= _See Bagby, G. W._

=Adler, Cyrus.= _Ark._, 1863- ----. A Washington archæologist. Told in the Coffee House: Turkish Tales (with A. Ramsay).

=Adler, Samuel.= _G._, 1801-1891. A rabbi of New York city. Jewish Conference Papers; Benedictions; Kobez al Tad (Collections).

=Albee, Mrs. Helen [Ricker].= _O._, 1864- ----. Wife of J. Albee (page 5). Mountain Playmates. _Hou._

=Alden, Carlos Coolidge.= _Il._, 1866- ----. A lawyer of New York city. Abbott’s Forms of Pleading; Handbook of Code of Civil Procedure.

=Alden, Raymond Macdonald.= _N. Y._, 1873- ----. Son of Mrs. Isabella Alden (page 6). A professor of English literature in Leland Stanford University. American Literature Papers; Greek Literature Papers; Roman Literature Papers; The Rise of Formal Satire in England; The Art of Debate; On Seeing an Elizabethan Play; English Verse.

=Alderman, Edwin Anderson.= _N. C._, 1861- ----. An educator, president of the University of North Carolina, 1896-1900, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1900-04, and of the University of Virginia from 1904. Life of William Hooper, signer of the Declaration; School History of North Carolina.

=Alemany, Joseph Sadoc.= _Sp._, 1814-1888. A Roman Catholic missionary of Spanish birth, who came to the United States in 1841, and was made Archbishop of San Francisco in 1853. He resigned his office in 1883 and returned to Spain. Life of Saint Dominic.

=Alexander, Archibald.= 18-- - ----. A professor of philosophy at Columbia University. Some Problems of Philosophy; Theories of the Will in the History of Philosophy; A Theory of Conduct. _Scr._

=Alexander, De Alva Stanwood.= _Me._, 1845- ----. A lawyer and genealogist of Buffalo. The Alexanders of Maine.

=Alexander, Esther Frances.= “=Francesca Alexander.=” _Ms._, 184- - ----. An artist of Florence, Italy. The Story of Ida, edited by Ruskin; Christ’s Folk in the Apennine; The Hidden Servants. Mr. Ruskin at one time brought out a collection of Roadside Songs of Tuscany, collected, translated, and illustrated by Miss Alexander, and in 1897 a much more complete collection, with illustrations, was published under the title of Tuscan Songs. _Hou. Lit._

=Alexander, Gross.= _Ky._, 1852- ----. A Methodist clergyman of Louisville, Kentucky. History of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; The Beginnings of Methodism in the South; The Son of Man.

=Alexander, James Waddel.= _N. J._, 1839- ----. Son of J. W. Alexander (page 7). A lawyer of New York city. Princeton, Old and New, a volume of recollections of undergraduate life. _Scr._

=Alexander, William DeWitt.= _H. I._, 1833- ----. Surveyor-general of the Hawaiian Islands, from 1872. A Brief History of the Hawaiian People; History of the Later Years of the Hawaiian Monarchy; Brief Hawaiian Grammar.

=Alger, Russell Alexander.= _O._, 1836- ----. Secretary of war, 1897-99. The Spanish American War. _Har._

=Allen, Alfred.= _N. Y._, 1866- ----. A novelist and playwright of New York city. His novels include The Heart of Don Vega; Judge Lynch; The Cup of Victory (with R. Hovey, page 197); Chivalry; The Triumph of Todd (with T. B. Sayre). Plays: Jack the Giant-Killer; A Burglar Honeymoon; Playmates; The Head of the House.

=Allen, Charles.= _Ms._, 1827- ----. A jurist of Boston. Notes on the Bacon-Shakespeare Question. _Hou._

=Allen, Charles Dexter.= _Ct._, 1865- ----. A journalist and banker of Hartford. American Book Plates; Ex Libris: Essays of a Collector.

=Allen, Charles Warrenne.= _N. J._, 1854- ----. A New York physician. Practitioner’s Manual; Handy Book of Medical Progress.

=Allen, David Oliver.= _Ms._, 1800-1883. A Congregational missionary in Bombay for many years. India, Ancient and Modern.

=Allen, Ethan.= _Ct._, 1737-1789. A famous soldier, major-general in the colonial army during the American Revolution. Narrative of the Capture of Ticonderoga; Reason the Only Oracle of Man; A Vindication of the Inhabitants of Vermont. _See Life by De Puy_ (1859).

=Allen, George.= _Vt._, 1808-1876. A Roman Catholic educator, but prior to 1847 an Episcopal clergyman. Novena of Saint Anthony of Padua; Life of Philidor.

=Allen, Horace Newton.= _O._, 1858- ----. A diplomatist, United States minister to Korea from 1897. Korean Tales; A Chronological Index of Chief Events in the Foreign Intercourse of Korea.

=Allen, James Lane.= _Ky._, 1848- ----. A lawyer and littérateur of Chicago. Handbook of the Nebraska Code.

=Allen, Jonathan Adams.= _Vt._, 1825-1890. A prominent physician and surgeon of Chicago. Essays on Mechanism of Nervous Action; Medical Examination for Life Insurance.

=Allen, Walter.= _Ms._, 1840- ----. A Boston journalist. Governor Chamberlain’s Administration in South Carolina; Life of General Grant. _Hou. Pa._

=Allin, Arthur.= _Ont._, 1869-1903. A professor of psychology and pedagogy at Ohio University from 1896. The Psychology of Belief; The Psychology of Attention.

=Allston, Margaret.= _See Bergengren, Mrs._

=Alsop, George.= _E._, 1638-16--? An Englishman who emigrated to Maryland in 1658, and in 16-- published A Character of the Province of Maryland, a jocular, good-humoured description of that province. _See Tyler’s American Literature._

=Altgeld, John Peter.= _G._, 1847-1902. An Illinois politician, formerly governor of his State. Penal Machinery and its Victims; Live Questions; The Cost of Something for Nothing.

=Altsheler, Joseph Alexander.= _Ky._, 1862- ----. A novelist and journalist of New York city. The Rainbow of Gold; The Hidden Mine; The Son of Saratoga; A Soldier of Manhattan; A Knight of Philadelphia; A Herald of the West; The Last Rebel; In Circling Camps; In Hostile Red; The Wilderness Road; My Captive; Before the Dawn. _Ap. Dou. Lip._

=Ambauen, Andrew Joseph.= _Sd._, 1847- ----. A Roman Catholic clergyman of Dodgeville, Iowa. The Friend of Youth; Roses of Heaven; Guide to our Celestial Home; Devout Companion; Our Christian Duties; Floral Apostles.

=Ames, Azel.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. A sanitary engineer. The Mayflower and her Log; Sex in Industry; Elementary Hygiene for the Tropics. _Hou._

=Ames, Joseph Sweetman.= _Vt._, 1864- ----. A professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University. The Theory of Physics; Elements of Physics; The Induction of Electric Currents.

=Anders, James M----.= 185- - ----. A physician of Philadelphia. Text Book of the Practice of Medicine; House Plants as Sanitary Agents.

=Anderson, Edward L[owell].= _O._, 1842- ----. A lawyer of Cincinnati. Six Weeks in Norway; Soldier and Pioneer; How to Ride and School a Horse; A System of School Training for Horses; On Horseback in the School and on the Road; The Gallop; Modern Horsemanship; Vice in the Horse; Curb, Snaffle, and Spur. _Clke. Lit._

=Anderson, Edward Pretot.= _N. Y._, 1855- ----. A littérateur who has published The Ashmeads, or Scenes in Northern Europe; Christian Giving and Living.

=Anderson, Martin Brewer.= _Me._, 1815-1890. An educator who was president of Rochester University, 1853-88. Papers and Addresses (1895).

=Andrews, Charles McLean.= _Ct._, 1863- ----. A professor at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, from 1889. The Historical Development of Modern Europe from the Congress of Vienna to the Present Time; River Towns of Connecticut; The Old English Manor. _J. H. U. Put._

=Andrews, Launcelot Winchester.= _Ont._, 1856- ----. A professor of chemistry in the University of Iowa from 1885. An Introduction to the Study of Qualitative Analysis.

=Andrews, William Page.= _Ms._, 1848- ----. A littérateur of Salem, Massachusetts, who has edited the poems of Jones Very and published a number of translations from the German.

=Anthony, Alfred Williams.= _R. I._, 1860- ----. A professor at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. The Method of Jesus; Introduction to the Life of Jesus; The Sunday School: its progress in Method and Scope; The Higher Criticism in the New Testament. _Sil._

=Antin, Mary.= _See Graubau, Mrs. Mary Antin._

=Antrobus, Suzanne.= _See Robinson, Mrs. Suzanne._

=Apgar, Austin C[raig].= _N. J._, 1838- ----. A scientist of Trenton, New Jersey, since 1866 an instructor in natural science at the State Normal School. Geographical Charts; Geographical Hand Book; Geographical Drawing Book; Geography of New Jersey; Plant Analysis; Mollusks of the Atlantic Coast; Pocket Key of Trees; Trees of the Northern United States; Pocket Key of Birds; Birds of the United States. _Am._

=Appel, Theodore.= _Pa._, 1823- ----. A German Reformed clergyman and educator in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. College Recollections; Beginnings of the Theological Seminary; Letters to Boys and Girls about the First Christmas at Bethlehem; Life of John Williamson Nevin, _supra_.

=Arbeely, Abraham Joseph.= _Sa._, 1852- ----. A physician of New York city. A Complete Self-Teaching Manual of the Arabic and English Languages.

=Archer, Frederic.= _E._, 1838-1901. An organist, of Pittsburg. The Organ and the College Organist.

=Archibald, Andrew Webster.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. A Congregational clergyman at Brockton, Massachusetts, from 1897. The Bible Verified; The Trend of the Centuries.

=Armstrong, Leroy.= _Ind._, 1854- ----. A journalist of Lafayette, Indiana. An Indiana Man; The Outlaws; Washington Brown, Farmer.

=Arnold, Augusta Foote.= _N. Y._, 1844- ----. A New York author. The Century Cook Book; The Sea Beach at Ebb Tide. _Cent._

=Arnold, Birch.= _See Bartlett, Alice._

=Arnold, Howard Payson.= _Ms._, 1831- ----. A Boston writer. Gleanings from Pontresina and the Upper Engadine; Historic Sidelights. _Har. Hou._

=Arnold, Sarah Louise.= _Ms._, 1859- ----. A Boston educator; dean of Simmons College. Waymarks for Teachers; Stepping Stones to Literature; Reading: how to Teach It; The Mother Tongue. _Gi. Sil._

=Ashley, Barnas Freeman.= _N. S._, 1833- ----. A Baptist clergyman who has written a number of books for boys, among which are Tan Pile Jim; Dick and Jack’s Adventures on Sable Island; Air Castle Don. _Lai._

=Ashley, Roscoe Lewis.= _N. Y._, 1872- ----. An educator in Los Angeles, California. The American Federal State; The American Government.

=Ashley, William James.= _E._, 1860- ----. A writer on economics; professor of economic history at Harvard University, 1892-1903. James and Philip Van Artevelde; An Introduction to English Economic History and Theory: Book I.; From the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century; What is Political Science?; Surveys, Historic and Economic. _Lgs. Mac._

=Ashmore, Ruth.= _See Mallon, Mrs._

=Ashton, Laurence.= _Va._, 1847- ----. A physician of Dallas, Texas. Puerperal Septicæmia.

=Aspinwall, Mrs. Alicia [Towne].= 18-- - ----. A popular writer of juvenile tales, living in Brookline, Massachusetts. Short Stories for Short People; The Echo Maid, and Other Stories. _Dut._

=Astor, John Jacob.= _N. Y._, 1864- ----. Cousin of W. W. Astor (page 12). A Journey in Other Worlds, a scientific romance. _Ap._

=Atherton, Mrs. Gertrude Franklin [Horn].= _Cal._, 1859- ----. A sensational novelist, for several years resident in London. The Doomswoman; American Wives and English Husbands; The Californians; Patience Sparhawk and her Time; Valiant Runaways; What Dreams may come; Hermia Suydam; Los Cerritos; His Fortunate Grace; Before the Gringo Came; A Whirl Asunder; A Daughter of the Vine; Senator North; The Aristocrats; The Conqueror; The Splendid Idle Forties. Rulers of Kings. _Ap. Do. Har. Ll. Sto._

=Atkinson, George Francis.= _Mch._, 1854- ----. A professor of botany at Cornell University. Biology of Ferns; Elementary Botany; Lessons in Botany; Studies of American Fungi. _Ho. Mac._

=Atkinson, George Wesley.= _W. Va._, 1845- ----. The governor of West Virginia, 1897-1901. History of Kanawha; West Virginia Pulpit; A. B. C. of the Tariff; Don’t, or Negative Chips from Blocks of Living Truths; Revenue Digest; Prominent Men of West Virginia; After the Moonshiners; Psychology Simplified.

=Atkinson, William Biddle.= _Pa._, 1832- ----. A prominent Philadelphia physician. Hints in the Obstetric Procedure; Therapeutics of Gynecology and Obstetrics; Physicians and Surgeons of the United States.

=Atlee, Washington Lemuel.= _Pa._, 1808-1878. A noted surgeon of Philadelphia. Ovarian Tumors and Ovariotomy.

=Atterbury, Anson Phelps.= _N. Y._, 1854- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Islam in Africa. _Put._

=Audsley, George Ashdown.= _S._, 1838- ----. A Scottish architect and art writer of note, now (1904) living in New York city. With his brother, William James Audsley, he has published Colour in Dress: a Manual for Ladies; Floral Decoration of Churches; Cottage, Lodge, and Village Architecture; Outlines of Ornament in the Leading Styles; Popular Dictionary of Architecture and the Allied Arts, in ten volumes; Polychromatic Decoration as applied to Buildings in the Mediæval Styles; and (with James Lord Bowes) The Keramic Art of Japan. His separate works include Guide to the Art of Illuminating and Missal Painting; Handbook of Christian Symbolism; The Art of Chromo-Lithography; Notes on Japanese Art; The Ornamental Arts of Japan; The Art of Organ-Building. _Do._

=Austin, John Mather.= _N. Y._, 1805- ----. A clergyman who published Arguments in Support of the Doctrine of Universal Salvation; Voice to Youth; Voice to the Married; Life of John Quincy Adams.

=Austin, John Osborne.= _R. I._, 1849- ----. A wool merchant and genealogist of Providence. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island; Ancestry of Thirty-three Rhode Island Families; The Ancestral Dictionary; One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families.

=Austin, Mrs. Mary [Hunter].= _Il._, 1868- ----. An essayist and story-writer of California. The Land of Little Rain; The Basket Woman. _Hou._

=Austin, Oscar Phelps.= _Il._, 184- - ----. A journalist of Washington city, chief of the bureau of statistics from 1898. Uncle Sam’s Soldiers; Uncle Sam’s Secrets; Colonial Systems of the World; Colonial Administration; Great Canals of the World; Steps in the Expansion of Our Territory; etc. _Ap._

=Avery, Elroy McKendree.= _Mch._, 1844- ----. A prominent educator in Cleveland. Among his many school text-books are The Complete Chemist; School Physics; Modern Principles of Natural Philosophy; Modern Electricity and Magnetism; First Lessons in Physical Science; School Chemistry.

=Avery, Isaac Wheeler.= _Fl._, 1837-1897. A lawyer and journalist of Atlanta. Digest of the Georgia Supreme Court Reports; History of Georgia.

=Ayer, Mrs. Harriet [Hubbard].= _Il._, 1854-1903. A New York journalist. Treatise on the Laws of Health and Beauty.

=Ayer, Joseph Cullen.= _Ms._, 1866- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Sandwich, Massachusetts. Die Ethik Joseph Butlers: The Rise and Development of Christian Architecture.

=Ayers, Howard.= _Wash._, 1859- ----. An educator, president of the University of Cincinnati from 1899. The Vertebrate Ear.

=Aylesworth, Barton Orville.= _Il._, 1860- ----. A clergyman of the Christian (Disciples) denomination, president of the Colorado State College from 1900. Song and Fable; Thirteen and Twelve Others.

=Ayres, Samuel Gardiner.= _N. Y._, 1865- ----. A librarian of Drew Theological Seminary at Madison, New Jersey, from 1888. Drew Seminary Record; Fifty Literary Evenings; History of the English Bible (with C. F. Sitterly, _infra_).

B

=Babbitt, Edwin Dwight.= _N. Y._, 1828- ----. A hygienic writer at Los Angeles. Principles of Light and Colour; Human Culture and Power; Health and Power.

=Babcock, Mrs. Bernie [Smade].= _O._, 1868- ----. A novelist of Little Rock, Arkansas. The Daughter of a Republican; The Martyr; Justice to the Woman; At the Mercy of the State; An Uncrowned Queen. _Mg. Rev._

=Babcock, Maltbie Davenport.= _N. Y._, 1858-1901. A Presbyterian clergyman of Baltimore. Thoughts for Everyday Living; Letters from Egypt and Palestine. _Scr._

=Babcock, Rufus.= _Ct._, 1798-1875. A Baptist clergyman of Paterson, New Jersey, among whose works are Making Light of Christ; Tales of Truth for the Young; Emigrants’ Mother; and several religious biographies.

=Babcock, William Henry.= _Mo._, 1849- ----. A patent lawyer of Washington city. Lord Stirling’s Stand and other Poems; Lays from Over Sea; Cypress Beach; The Brides of the Tiger; An Invention of the Enemy; The Tower of Wye; Cian of the Chariots; Two Lost Centuries of Britain. _Lip. Lo._

=Babson, John James.= _Ms._, 1809-1886. A local historian. History of Gloucester, Cape Ann, including the Town of Rockport (1860); Notes and Additions; The Fisheries of Gloucester from the First Catch by the English in 1623, to 1876.

=Backus, Truman Jay.= _N. Y._, 1842- ----. An educator, president of Packer Institute, Brooklyn. Great English Writers; Outlines of English Literature.

=Bacon, Alice Mabel.= _Ct._, 1858- ----. A teacher in the Hampton Institute, Virginia. Japanese Girls and Women; A Japanese Interior. _Hou._

=Bacon, Benjamin Wisner.= _Ct._, 1860- ----. A professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School; The Genesis of Genesis; Triple Tradition of the Exodus; The Story of St. Paul. _Hou._

=Bacon, Edgar Mayhew.= _Bahamas_, 1855- ----. A writer of Tarrytown, New York. The New Jamaica; The Pocket Piece; Chronicles of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow; The Hudson, from Ocean to Source. _Put._

=Bacon, Mrs. Josephine Dodge Daskam.= _Ct._, 1876- ----. A writer of Stamford, Connecticut. Smith College Stories; Sister’s Vacation and Other Girls’ Stories; Fables for the Fair; The Imp and the Angel; The Madness of Philip, and Other Stories; Whom the Gods Destroyed; Middle-Aged Love Stories; The Memoirs of a Baby. _Scr._

=Bacon, Mrs. Louise Lee [Andrews].= _Md._, 1861- ----. Wife of H. Bacon (page 14). Our House Boat on the Nile.

=Badcock, Mrs. Winnifred [Eaton].= “Onoto Watanna,” _Japan_, 1879- ----. A New York writer. The Old Jinriksha; Miss Nume of Japan; A Japanese Nightingale; The Wooing of Wistaria; The Heart of Hyacinth; Daughters of Nijo. _Har., Mac._

=Bagby, Albert Morris.= _Il._, 1859- ----. A writer of New York city. Miss Träumerei: a Weimar Idyl, a popular musical novel.

=Bagby, George William.= “Mozis Addums.” _Va._, 1828-1883. A Virginia journalist and lecturer, of some note as a humourist. John M. Daniel’s Latin Key; What I Did with My Fifty Millions; Meekins’s Twinses. _See Hart’s American Literature._

=Bailey, Edgar Henry Summerfield.= _Ct._, 1848- ----. A professor of chemistry in the University of Kansas. Qualitative Chemical Analysis.

=Bailey, Mrs. Florence Augusta [Merriam].= _N. Y._, 1863- ----. Wife of V. Bailey, _infra_. An ornithologist who published several books under her maiden name (see page 253). Birds of Village and Field; Handbook of Birds of the Western United States. _Hou._

=Bailey, Pearce.= _N. Y._, 1865- ----. A physician of New York city. Accident and Injury: their relation to Disease. _Ap._

=Bailey, Mrs. Urania Locke [Stoughton].= “Una Locke.” _Ms._, 1820-1882. A Providence writer. The School at Elm Oak and the School of Life; The Crooked Tree; Dr. Plassid’s Patients; Star Flowers; Holiday Tales (with F. L. Pratt). She wrote the popular religious poem, “The Master has come over Jordan.”

=Bailey, Vernon.= _Mch._, 1863- ----. A naturalist in government service. Spermophiles of the Mississippi Valley; Pocket Gophers of the Mississippi Valley; Revision of Voles of the Genus Evotomys; Mammals of the District of Columbia.

=Bailey, William Henry.= _N. C._, 1831- ----. A prominent North Carolina lawyer whose later life has been passed in Houston, Texas. The Conflict of Judicial Decisions; Onus Probandi; Self-taught Law; The Detective Faculty; The Fifth North Carolina Digest (edited). _Clke._

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

=Baker, A---- George.= _Pa._, 184-- - ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, since 1887 in medical practice. History of the Germans in America; History of Knights of St. John of Malta; German-American Christianity and the Protestant Episcopal Church; Flora of Arabia and the Arabian Prophet; The Phonendoscope and its Practical Application.

=Baker, Charles Richard.= _Ms._, 1842-1898. An Episcopal clergyman, rector of the Church of the Messiah, Brooklyn, 1873-98. The Apostles’ Creed Tested by Experience; Prayers for the Christian Year. _Wh._

=Baker, Charles Whiting.= _Vt._, 1865- ----. The managing editor of the Engineering News, New York city. Monopolies and the People. _Put._

=Baker, James Hutchins.= _Me._, 1848- ----. An educator, president of the University of Colorado from 1891. Elementary Psychology; Education and Life. _Lgs._

=Baker, Moses Nelson.= _Vt._, 1864- ----. Brother of C. W. Baker, _supra_, and associate editor of the Engineering News. Sewage Purification in America; Sewage Disposal in the United States; Sewerage and its Purification.

=Baker, Osman Cleander.= _N. H._, 1812-1871. A Methodist bishop. Guide in the Administration of Discipline in the Methodist Episcopal Church; Last Witness. _Meth._

=Baker, Ray Stannard.= _Mch._, 1870- ----. A littérateur of New York city. Boys’ Book of Inventions; Our New Prosperity; Seen in Germany; Boys’ Second Book of Inventions.

=Baker, Mrs. Sarah Schoonmaker [Tuthill].= “Aunt Friendly.” _Ct._, 1824- ----. Daughter of Mrs. Tuthill (page 342). A popular writer of Sunday-school tales, among which are Poor Little Joe; The Orange Seed; The Fisherman’s Boy; Cheerily, Cheerily; Timid Lucy; The Boy Patriot; The Boy Friend; The Children on the Plains; The Swedish Twins; Nono or the Golden House; Fireside Sketches from Swedish Life. She has lived in Sweden from 1876.

=Baker, William Spohn.= _Pa._, 1824-1897. A Philadelphian noted for his collections of Washingtoniana. Engraved Portraits of Washington; Medallic Portraits of Washington; Character Portraits of Washington; Washington’s Itinerary; Washington after the Revolution; Washington in Philadelphia; American Engravers and their Works; William Sharp, Engraver, and his Works; Origin and Antiquity of Engraving.

=Balch, Elizabeth.= _N. Y._, 1845-1890. A writer whose life was spent mainly in Europe. Mustard Leaves, or a Glimpse of London Society; Zorah, a Love Tale of Modern Egypt; An Author’s Love, the answers to Prosper Mérimée’s “Letters to an Inconnue.” _Mac._

=Baldwin, Foy Spencer.= _Mch._, 1870- ----. A professor of economics in Boston University from 1895. History of Mining Legislation in England.

=Baldwin, George Colfax.= _N. J._, 1817-1899. A Baptist clergyman of Troy, New York. Representative Men of the New Testament; Representative Women from Eve to Mary; Model Prayer; Notes of a Forty-one Years’ Pastorate. _Bap._

=Baldwin, Joseph.= 1827-1899. An educator in Missouri and Alabama. School Management; Elementary Psychology; Psychology Applied to Teaching; School Management and its Methods.

=Baldwin, Simeon Eben.= _Ct._, 1840- ----. A Connecticut jurist, professor of constitutional law at Yale University from 1872. Baldwin’s Digest of the Connecticut Law Reports; Modern Political Institutions; Illustrative Cases on Railroad Law. _Lit. Mac. West._

=Baldwin, Thomas.= _Ct._, 1753-1825. A Baptist clergyman of Boston. Letters in which the Distinguishing Sentiments of the Baptists are Explained; Open Communion Examined.

=Ball, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1819- ----. A sculptor of note. My Three Score Years and Ten, an Autobiography.

=Ballantine, William Gay.= _D. C._, 1848- ----. A Congregational clergyman and educator, president of Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 1891-96. Inductive Logic; Lectures on Job, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. _Gi._

=Ballard, Addison.= _Ms._, 1822- ----. A Congregational clergyman, professor of logic in the University of New York. Arrows: or Teaching a Fine Art.

=Ballard, Harlan Hogue.= _O._, 1853- ----. Son of A. Ballard, _supra_. A librarian of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Three Kingdoms; Handbook of Blunders in Writing and Speaking; The World of Matter; The American Plant Book (with S. P. Thayer); Re-open Sesame; A Translation of the First Six Books of Virgil’s Æneid. _Hou._

=Ballard, Mrs. Julia Perkins [Pratt].= _O._, 1828-1894. Wife of A. Ballard, _supra_. A writer of children’s books of notable excellence. Gathered Lilies; Lift a Little; Little Gold Keys; The Hole in the Bag and Other Stories; Insect Lives, revised and republished as Among the Moths and Butterflies. _Put._

=Bancroft, Frederic.= _Il._, 1860- ----. An historical writer of Washington. Life of William Henry Seward; The Negro in Politics; A History of the Confederates. _Har._

=Bancroft, Wilder Dwight.= _R. I._, 1867- ----. A professor of chemistry at Cornell University from 1895. The Phase Rule.

=Bangs, Lemuel Bolton.= _N. Y._, 1842- ----. A physician and surgeon of New York city. An American Text Book of Genito-Urinary Diseases.

=Banks, Charles Eugene.= _Ia._, 1852- ----. A journalist and verse-writer of Rockford, Illinois. A Child of the Sun; Sword and Cross, and Other Poems; Quiet Music; Where Brooks run Softly; Hampton Roads. _Ra. S._

=Banta, David Demaree.= _Ind._, 1833-1898. Local historian. Historical Sketch of Johnson County, Indiana, an unusually skilful performance of its kind.

=Barbee, William J----.= _Ky._, 1816-1892. An educator and physician prominent at one time in Kentucky, and a clergyman in the Campbellite denomination. The Scriptural Doctrine of Confirmation; Physical and Moral Aspects of Geology; The Cotton Question; First Principles of Geology; Life of the Apostle Peter.

=Barber, Edwin Atlee.= _Md._, 1851- ----. An archæologist of Philadelphia. Pottery and Porcelain of the United States; Anglo-American Pottery; Atlee and Barber genealogies.

=Barber, Gershom Morse.= _N. Y._, 1823- ----. A jurist of Cleveland. The Book of the Law; Notaries’ Guide.

=Barbour, Mrs. A---- [Maynard].= _N. Y._, 18-- - ----. A novelist of Helena, Montana. That Mainwaring Affair; Told in the Rockies; The Award of Justice; At the Time Appointed. _Lip. Ra._

=Barbour, Ralph Henry.= _Ms._, 1870- ----. Phyllis in Bohemia; The Half-back; For the Honor of the School; Captain of the Crew; The Land of Joy; School and College Sports. _Ap._

=Bardeen, Charles Williams.= _Ms._, 1847- ----. A school-book publisher of Syracuse. Roderick Hume; The Story of a New York Teacher; Verbal Pit-falls; A System of Rhetoric; Continuous Contracts for Teachers; Little Old Man; Teaching as a Business; Manual of Common School Law; Dictionary of Educational Biography.

=Barker, Mrs. Ellen [Blackmer] [Maxwell].= _Pa._, 185- - ----. A writer of Washington city; The Bishop’s Conversion; Three Old Maids in Hawaii; The Way of Fire.

=Barker, Jacob.= _Me._, 1779-1871. A lawyer and financier. The Rebellion: its Consequences and the Congressional Committee.

=Barker, Lewellys Franklin.= _Ont._, 1867- ----. An anatomist. The Nervous System and its Constitutional Neurones.

=Barnes, Charles Reid.= _Ind._, 1858- ----. A professor of plant physiology in the University of Chicago from 1898. Handbook of Plant Dissection (with Arthur and Coulter); Keys to the Genera and Species of North American Mosses; Outlines of Plant Life; Plant Life. _Ho._

=Barnum, Samuel Weed.= _N. Y._, 1820-1891. A Congregational clergyman. Comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible; Romanism as It Is; A Vocabulary of English Rhymes.

=Barr, Granville Walter.= _O._, 1866- ----. A physician and novelist of Keokuk, Iowa. Shacklett, a story of American politics; Idiosyncrasy and Drugs; Short Stories; Larry McNoogan’s Cow; In the Last Ditch.

=Barr, John Henry.= _Ind._, 1861- ----. A mechanical engineer, professor of machine design at Sibley College, Cornell University from 1898. Kinematics of Machinery; Notes on Machine Design. _Wil._

=Barrett, John.= _Vt._, 1866- ----. A journalist, minister to Siam, 1894-98. Admiral George Dewey: a Sketch of the Man; The Far East and Japan.

=Barrows, Elijah Porter.= _Ct._, 1805-1888. A clergyman, professor of Hebrew at Oberlin College from 1872. Memoir of Evertson Judson; Companion to the Bible; Sacred Geography and Antiquities.

=Barry, Ethelred Breeze.= _N. H._, 1870- ----. An author and illustrator of Arlington, Massachusetts. Little Tong’s Mission; The Countess of the Tenements; Miss De Peyster’s Boy; Little Dick’s Christmas.

=Bartlett, Mrs. Alice Elinor [Bowen].= “Birch Arnold.” _Wis._, 1848- ----. A Detroit journalist. Until the Day Break; A New Aristocracy.

=Bartlett, Frederick Orin.= _Ms._, 1876- ----. A novelist of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Joan of the Alley. _Hou._

=Bartley, Elias Hudson.= _N. J._, 1849- ----. A physician of Brooklyn. Textbook of Medical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Manual of Clinical Chemistry.

=Barton, William Eleazar.= _Il._, 1861- ----. A Congregational clergyman, pastor in Boston from 1893 to 1899, and subsequently in Chicago. An associate editor of the Bibliotheca Sacra, and a writer of history, theology, and fiction. The Wind-Up of the Big Meetin’ on No Bus’ness; Life in the Hills of Kentucky; Early Ecclesiastical History of the Western Reserve; Sim Galloway’s Daughter-in-Law; The Truth about the Trouble at Roundstone; A Hero in Homespun: a Tale of the Loyal South; The Story of the Psalms; The Story of a Pumpkin Pie; How Boston Braved the King; Pine Knot; The Prairie Schooner; The Man with a Country; The Old World in the New Century; The Gospel of the Autumn Leaf; The Home of a Madonna; The Swaddling Clothes and the Star; Why I Believe the Bible. _Ap. Pa. We._

=Bashford, Herbert.= _Ia._, 1871- ----. The state librarian of Washington. Nature Studies of the Northwest; Songs from Puget Sea.

=Bashford, James Whitford.= _Wis._, 1849- ----. A Methodist clergyman, president of Ohio Wesleyan University from 1889. The Science of Religion.

=Bashore, Harvey Brown.= _Pa._, 1864- ----. A physician of West Fairview, Pennsylvania. Outlines of Rural Hygiene.

=Baskett, James Newton.= _Ky._, 1849- ----. A writer on natural history, but earlier a civil engineer, whose home is at Mexico, Missouri. The Story of the Birds; The Story of the Fishes; The Story of the Mammals; The Story of the Amphibians and the Reptiles; At You-All’s House, a Missouri Nature Story; As the Light Led, a novel; Sweetbrier and Thistledown. _Ap. Mac._

=Bassett, Mrs. Adelaide Florence [Samuels].= _See Samuels, A. F._

=Bassett, John Spencer.= _N. C._, 1867- ----. A professor at Trinity College at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina; Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina; The War of the Regulation; Anti-Slavery Leaders of North Carolina. _J. H. U._

=Bastin, Edson Sewell.= _Wis._, 1843-1897. A botanist, professor of botany at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Elements of Botany; Vegetable Histology; College Botany; Questions on College Botany; Laboratory Exercises in Botany.

=Bates, Daniel M----.= _Del._, _c._ 1849-1899. An Episcopal clergyman. The Apostolic Church; Translation into Wen-Li; Christ in Modern Thought.

=Bates, David.= _Pa._, _c._ 1810-1870. A Philadelphia verse-writer, best known by his lyric, Speak Gently; The Æolian; Poetical Works (1870).

=Bates, Frank Green.= 18-- - ----. Rhode Island and the Formation of the Union. _Mac._

=Bates, Herbert.= _Ms._, 1868- ----. A verse-writer who has published Songs of Exile. _Sm._

=Bates, Mrs. Josephine W----.= 18-- - ----. A Chicago novelist. A Blind Lead; Bunch Grass Stories. _Lip._

=Bates, Mrs. Lindon.= _See Bates, Mrs. Josephine._

=Bates, Morgan.= _N. Y._, 1848-1902. A journalist and playwright. Martin Brook, a novel. _Har._

=Bates, William Wallace.= _Me._, 1827- ----. A United States Commissioner of Navigation from 1889 to 1892. American Marine; American Navigation. _Hou._

=Battenhall, Jesse Park.= _N. Y._, 1851-1891. Adulteration of Food and Drink; Legal Chemistry, from the French of Naquet.

=Battershall, Fletcher Williams.= _N. J._, 1866- ----. Son of W. W. Battershall, _infra_. A novelist of Albany. A Daughter of the World; Mists.

=Battershall, Walton Wesley.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Albany, rector of St. Peter’s Church from 1874. Interpretations of Life and Religion. _Bar._

=Battle, Kemp Plummer.= _N. C._, 1831- ----. A professor of history in the University of North Carolina from 1891. History of the Supreme Court of North Carolina; History of Raleigh, North Carolina; History of the University of North Carolina; Trials and Judicial Proceedings of the New Testament; Life of General Jethro Sumner.

=Baum, Henry Mason.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, editor of The Church Review from 1881. Rights and Duties of Rectors, Church Wardens, and Vestrymen; The Law of the Church in the United States.

=Baum, L[yman] Frank.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. A Chicago playwright and writer of juvenile literature. Mother Goose in Prose; By the Candelabra’s Glare, a collection of verse; Father Goose: his Book; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; A New Wonderland; The Songs of Father Goose; American Fairy Tales; The Art of Decorating; The Army Alphabet; The Navy Alphabet; Dot and Tot of Merryland; The Master Key, an Electrical Fairy Tale; Life and Adventures of Santa Claus; The High Ki of Twi; The Magical Monarch of Mo. Among his plays are, The Maid of Arran; Matches; Kilmorne: The Wizard of Oz.

=Bausman= [bŏwss´man], =Benjamin.= _Pa._, 1824- ----. A German Reformed clergyman, pastor at Reading, Pennsylvania from 1863. Sinai and Zion; Wayside Gleanings in Europe.

=Bayles, George James.= _N. Y._, 1869- ----. An educator who has published Woman and the Law; Civil Church Law Cases. _Cent._

=Bayliss, Mrs. Clara [Kern].= _Mch._, 1848- ----. A writer of Springfield, Illinois. In Brook and Bayou; Lolami, the Little Cliff Dweller; Lolami in Tusayan.

=Beach, Charles Fisk.= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, since 1897 a lawyer of Indianapolis. The Law of Trusts; Law of Monopolies in England and the United States; The American Probate Reports. _Bo._

=Beach, Charles Fisk.= _Ky._, 1854- ----. Son of the preceding. A lawyer, since 1896 resident in London, England, who has published treatises on The Law of Receivers; Wills; Railways; Private Corporations; Modern Equity Jurisprudence; Public Corporations; Insurance; Contributory Negligence; Inventions; Contracts.

=Beach, Harlan Page.= _N. J._, 1864- ----. A missionary, formerly stationed in China. The Cross in the Land of the Trident; Knights of Labarum; Dawn on the Hills of T’ang. _Rev._

=Beal, James Hartley.= _O._, 1861- ----. A professor of pharmacy in Scio College, Ohio. Notes on Equation Writing and Chemical Arithmetic; Pharmaceutical Interpretations.

=Beale, Charles Willing.= _D. C._, 1845- ----. A romance-writer of Arden, North Carolina. (His wife, Mrs. M. Beale, is mentioned on page 22.) The Ghost of Guir House; The Secret of the Earth. _Ne._

=Beale, Joseph Henry.= _Ms._, 1861- ----. A lawyer, professor of law at Harvard from 1892, and at the University of Chicago from 1902. Cases on Criminal Law; Cases on Carriers; Cases on Damages; Criminal Pleadings and Practice; Cases on the Conflict of Laws; Cases on Public Service Corporations.

=Bean, Tarleton Hoffman.= _Pa._, 1846- ----. A naturalist, director of the New York Aquarium from 1895. The Fishes of Pennsylvania; The Salmon and Salmon Fisheries; Oceanic Ichthyology (with G. B. Goode, page 150); The Fishes of Long Island.

=Beard, Daniel Carter.= _O._, 1850-1900. An artist and illustrator of New York city. What to Do and How to Do It; The American Boys’ Handy Book; Six Feet of Romance; Moonlight; The American Boys’ Book of Sport; The Jack of All Trades. _Scr._

=Beard, Oliver Thomas.= _N. Y._, 1832- ----. A lawyer of New York city. Bristling with Thorns.

=Beard, Richard.= _Tn._, 1799-1880. A Cumberland Presbyterian clergyman. Lectures on Theology; Why I am a Cumberland Presbyterian.

=Beard, William Holbrook.= _O._, 1825-1900. An artist of New York city. Humour in Animals, a collection of sketches; Action in Art, a text-book.

=Beaton, David.= _S._, 1848- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Chicago. Cyrus the Magician; Selfhood and Service. _Rev._

=Beattie, Francis Robert.= _Ont._, 1848- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Louisville, Kentucky. Utilitarian Theory of Morals; Methods of Theism; Radical Criticism; Presbyterian Standards; Apologetics; Calvinism and Modern Thought; Christianity and Modern Evolution.

=Beauchamp, William Martin.= _N. Y._, 1830- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Syracuse. Iroquois Trail; Indian Names of New York; Aboriginal Occupation of New York.

=Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant.= _La._, 1818-1893. A noted brigadier-general in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Principles and Maxims of the History of War; Report of the Defence of Charleston; A Commentary on the Campaign and Battle of Manassas (1891).

=Beck, Carl.= _G._, 1856- ----. A Chicago surgeon. Manual of Surgical Asepsis; Text-Book on Fractures.

=Bedford, Gunning S----.= _Md._, 1806-1870. A physician of note in New York city. Diseases of Women and Children; Principles of the Practice of Obstetrics.

=Bedlow, Henry.= _R. I._, 1821- ----. A former mayor of Newport, Rhode Island. The White Tsar, and Other Poems (1895).

=Beecher, Charles Emerson.= _N. Y._, 1865-1904. A professor of historical geology at Yale University. Studies in Evolution; Brachiospongidæ. _Scr._

=Behrends, Adolphus Julius Frederick.= _H._, 1839-1900. A Congregational clergyman, pastor of the Central Church in Brooklyn from 1883. Socialism and Christianity; the Philosophy of Preaching; The World for Christ; The Old Testament under Fire. _Fu. Scr._

=Belasco, David.= _Cal._, 1858- ----. A playwright of New York city, among whose many plays are May Blossom; La Belle Russe; Hearts of Oak; The Heart of Maryland.

=Belden, Mrs. Jessie [Van Zile].= _N. Y._, 1857- ----. A novelist of Syracuse. Antonia; At the Sign of the Painters’ Arms; Fate at the Door; The King’s Ward. _Pa._

=Belknap, George Washington.= _N. H._, 1832-1903. A retired rear-admiral in the United States navy. Deep Sea Soundings.

=Bell, Agrippa Nelson.= _Va._, 1820- ----. A prominent physician of New York city, author of Knowledge of Living Things; Climatology and Mineral Waters of the United States; beside many professional papers.

=Bell, Alexander Melville.= _S._, 1819- ----. An educator of note, resident in the United States from 1881. Principles of Speech and Elocution.

=Bell, David Charles.= _S._, 1817-1902. An educator who published A Reader’s Shakespeare; Theory of Elocution; Modern Reader and Speaker; The Standard Elocutionist. He was long a professor of literature at the University of Dublin, but from 1883 was a resident of Washington city.

=Bellows, Albert Jones.= _Ms._, 1804-1869. A Boston physician. How not to be Sick; The Philosophy of Eating. _Hou._

=Beman, Nathan Sidney Smith.= _N. Y._, 1785-1871. A Presbyterian clergyman long settled in Troy, New York. The Old Ministry; The Influence of Freedom on Popular and National Education; Letters to John Hughes; Episcopacy Exclusive; Four Sermons on the Atonement.

=Beman, Wooster Woodruff.= _Ct._, 1850- ----. A professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan from 1887. Plane and Solid Geometry (with D. E. Smith); Higher Arithmetic; Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry, from the German of Klein; Elements of Algebra. _Gi._

=Bendire, Charles Emil.= _G._, 1836-1897. An ornithologist of note, honorary curator of the department of oölogy in the United States National Museum, a captain and brevet-major in the United States army. Life Histories of North American Birds. _See Science, February 12, 1897._

=Benedict, George Grenville.= _Vt._, 1826- ----. A military historian of Burlington, Vermont. Vermont at Gettysburg; Vermont in the Civil War; Army Life in Virginia.

=Benjamin, Charles Henry.= _Me._, 1856- ----. A professor of mechanical engineering at the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland. Notes on Heat and Steam; Notes on Machine Design; Mechanical Laboratory Practice.

=Benjamin, Mrs. Elizabeth Dundas [Bedell].= _Pa._, 18-- -1890. Sister of Bishop G. T. Bedell, 1817-1892 (page 23). A religious writer of Stratford, Connecticut. Eleven Months in Horeb; The Church in the Wilderness; Brightside; Questions on the National and Religious Education of the Israelites; Hilda and I, republished in London as The Two Victors and again in New York as Our Roman Palace; The Brightside Children; Jim the Parson; Mrs. Gregory; The Garden of God.

=Benjamin, Reuben Moore.= _N. Y._, 1833- ----. An Illinois jurist, dean of the Bloomington Law School. Principles of Contract; Principles of Sales. _Bo._

=Bennett, Alfred Allen.= _N. H._, 1850- ----. A professor of chemistry at Iowa State College from 1885. Inorganic Chemistry.

=Bennett, Charles Edwin.= _R. I._, 1858- ----. A classical philologist. A Latin Grammar and Appendix; Latin Composition; Foundations of Latin.

=Bennett, Frank Marion.= _Mch._, 1857- ----. A lieutenant in the United States navy. The Monitor and the Navy under Steam; The Steam Navy of the United States. _Hou._

=Bennett, John.= _O._, 1865- ----. An author, of Charleston, South Carolina. Master Skylark; The Story of Barnaby Lee.

=Bennett, Mary E----.= “Elizabeth Glover.” _Ct._, 1841- ----. An author of New Haven, Connecticut. Cyril Rivers; Six Boys; Asaph’s Ten Thousand; Talks About a Fine Art; Family Manners; The Children’s Wing; Jefferson Wildrider; The Gentle Art of Pleasing. _Ba._

=Bennett, William Zebina.= _Vt._, 1856- ----. A professor of chemistry at the University of Wooster, Ohio, from 1883. A Plant Analysis.

=Benton, Angelo Ames.= _Crete_, 1837- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Pekin, Illinois. The Church Cyclopedia; The Tome of Saint Leo.

=Benton, Frank.= _Mch._, 1852- ----. An entomologist in the service of the United States Department of Agriculture. The Honey Bee; Bee Keeping.

=Benton, James Gilchrist.= _N. H._, 1820-1881. A soldier and inventor. A Course of Instruction in Ordnance and Gunnery.

=Berenson, Bernhard.= _Lithuania_, 1865- ----. An art writer now (1898) living in Florence, Italy. The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance; Lorenzo Lotto: an Essay in Art Criticism; The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance; The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance; The Drawings of the Florentine Painters; The Study and Criticism of Italian Art. _Mac. Put._

=Bergen, Mrs. Fannie [Dickerson].= _O._, 1848- ----. Wife of J. Y. Bergen, _infra_. The Development Theory (with J. Y. Bergen); Glimpses at the Plant World; Animal and Plant Lore (compiled). _Hou._

=Bergen, Joseph Young.= _Me._, 1851- ----. An educator, of Boston. The Development Theory (with F. D. Bergen); The Study of Evolution Simplified; Elements of Botany; and a series of text-books on physics (with E. H. Hall). _Gi._

=Bergengren, Mrs. Anna [Farquhar].= “Margaret Allston.” _Ind._, 1865- ----. Wife of R. Bergengren, _infra_. A Boston novelist. A Singer’s Heart; The Professor’s Daughter; Her Boston Experiences; The Devil’s Plough; Her Washington Experiences; An Evans of Suffolk. _Pa._

=Bergengren, Ralph Wilhelm Alexis.= _Ms._, 1871- ----. A journalist of Boston. In Case of Need.

=Bernadou, John Baptiste.= _Pa._, 1858- ----. A United States naval officer in the employ of the naval department at Washington from 1888. A Trip through Northern Corea in 1883-84; Smokeless Powder, Nitrocellulose and Theory of the Cellulose Molecule. _Wil._

=Bernstein, Herman.= _G._, 1876- ----. A New York writer. In the Gates of Israel, a collection of stories of the ghetto.

=Betts, Samuel Rossiter.= _Ct._, 1787-1868. A jurist of note. Admiralty Practice.

=Beutenmuller, William.= _N. J._, 1864- ----. A scientist of New York city, curator of the American Museum of Natural History. Butterflies; Moths.

=Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah.= _Ind._, 1862- ----. An Indiana orator and politician. The Russian Advance. _Har._

=Bicknell, Anna Louisa.= _F._, 183- - ----. The Story of Marie Antoinette; Life in the Tuileries under the Second Empire. _Cent._

=Bicknell, Frank Martin.= _Ms._, 1854- ----. A littérateur of Malden, Massachusetts. The City of Stories; The Apprentice Boy; Antælus; The Bicycle Highwayman; The Double Prince. _Est._

=Bicknell, Thomas Williams.= _R. I._, 1834- ----. A prominent educator of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Memoir of William Lord Noyes; A History of Barrington, Rhode Island; John Myles and Religious Toleration in Massachusetts.

=Biddle, Arthur.= _Pa._, 1852-1897. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Treatise on The Law of Stock Brokers (with G. Biddle); On the Law of Warranties in the Sale of Chattels; The Law of Insurance.

=Biddle, Horace.= _O._, 1811-1900. A lawyer of Logansport, Indiana. The Musical Scale; Elements of Knowledge; Prose Miscellany; A Few Poems; Biddle’s Poems; American Boyhood (verse); Glances at the World (verse); Last Poems.

=Bierce, Ambrose.= _O_, 1842- ----. A California littérateur. In the Midst of Life, first issued as Tales of Soldiers and Civilians; Can Such Things Be? Black Beetles in Amber; Fantastic Fables; The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter (with A. Danziger). _Cas. Put._

=Bigelow, Andrew.= _Ms._, 1795-1877. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston. Leaves from a Journal; Travels in Malta and Sicily.

=Bigelow, Frank Hagar.= _Ms._, 1851- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Washington city, and a meteorologist of note. Solar Corona; Barometry of the United States.

=Bigelow, Lafayette Jotham.= _N. Y._, 1835-1870. A lawyer and journalist of Watertown, New York. Bench and Bar: a Digest of the Wit, Humor, and Asperities of the Law.

=Bigelow, Marshall Train.= _Ms._, 1822-1902. A noted printer and proofreader, of Cambridge. Punctuation and Other Typographical Matters; Mistakes in Writing English and How to Avoid Them.

=Bill, Ledyard.= _Ct._, 1836- ----. A former publisher of New York city, but from 1874 resident in Paxton, Massachusetts. Ten Pictures of the War: Lyrics; History of the Bill Family; A Winter in Florida; Minnesota: its Character and Climate; History of Paxton.

=Billings, Frank.= _Wis._, 1854- ----. A physician, dean of Rush Medical College, Chicago, from 1898. Your Book of Medicine.

=Bingham, Caleb.= _Ct._, 1757-1818. An educator and bookseller of Boston. Among his once noted compilations are: Young Lady’s Accidence; Child’s Companion; American Preceptor; Columbian Orator.

=Bingham, J[oel] Foote.= _Ct._, 1827- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Hartford, Connecticut, prior to 1871 in the Congregational ministry. The Christian Marriage Ceremony; The Twin Sisters of Martigny, a Story of Italian Life; Francesca da Rimini, from the Italian of Silvio Pellico. _Le. Ran._

=Bingham, William.= _Pa._, 1751-1804. A Philadelphian of much note in his day and a member of the United States Senate, 1795-1801. Letter from an American on the Subject of the Restraining Proclamation (1784); A Description of Certain Tracts of Land in Maine.

=Bingham, William.= _N. C._, 1835- ----. An educator of North Carolina. A Grammar of the Latin Language; A Grammar of the English Language.

=Birkmire, William Harvey.= _Pa._, 1860- ----. An architect and engineer of New York. Construction of High Office Buildings; Skeleton Construction in Buildings; Architectural Iron and Steel; The Planning and Construction of American Theatres; Compound Riveted Girders. _Wil._

=Birney, William.= _Al._, 1819- ----. Son of J. G. Birney (page 28). A lawyer of Washington city. Life and Times of Joseph G. Birney; Plea for Civil and Religious Liberty.

=Bishop, Joseph Bucklin.= _Ms._, 1847- ----. A journalist of New York city. Money in City Elections; Cheap Money Experiments.

=Bishop, Louis Faugeres.= _N. J._, 1864- ----. A physician of New York city. Theory and Treatment of Rheumatism; Diagnosis and Treatment of Gout; Important Points in the Treatment of Pneumonia.

=Bishop, Seth Scott.= _Wis._, 1852- ----. A Chicago physician. Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat.

=Bispham, George Tucker.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. A lawyer of Philadelphia. The Principles of Equity.

=Bittinger, Mrs. Lucy (Forney).= _O._, 1859- ----. An historical writer of Sewickley, Pennsylvania. Memorials of Rev. J. B. Bittinger; History of the Forney Family of Hanover, Pennsylvania; The Germans in Colonial Times. _Lip._

=Bjerrgaard, Carl Henry Andrew.= _Dk._, 1845- ----. A librarian at the Astor Library, New York city, from 1879. Mysticism and Nature Worship; Being and the Philosophical History of the Subject.

=Black, Ebenezer Charlton.= _S._, 1861- ----. A professor of English at Boston University from 1900 and resident in the United States from 1890. Minor Characters in Shakespeare; Recent Literary Developments.

=Black, Henry Campbell.= _N. Y._, 1860- ----. A noted legal writer of Washington city. Constitutional Prohibitions against Legislation Impairing the Obligation of Contracts; Treatise on the Law of Tax Titles; A Dictionary of Law; A Treatise on the Law of Judgments; Treatise on the Laws Regulating the Manufacture and Sale of Intoxicating Liquors; Handbook of American Constitutional Law; Handbook on the Construction and Interpretation of Laws; Handbook of Bankruptcy Law. He has also edited revised editions of “Pomeroy on Water Rights,” and “Dillon on Removal of Causes.”

=Black, John Janvier.= 18-- - ----. A physician who published Forty Years in the Medical Profession. _Lip._

=Black, Mrs. Margaret Horton (Potter).= _Ill._, 1881- ----. A novelist of Chicago. A Social Lion; Uncanonized; The House of the Mailly; Istar of Babylon; The Flame Gatherers. _Har. Mac._

=Black, William Murray.= _Pa._, 1855- ----. An officer in the United States engineering corps. Improvement of Harbours; South Atlantic Coast; Public Works of the United States. _Wil._

=Blackman, William Fremont.= _N. Y._, 1855- ----. A professor of sociology at Yale University from 1893. The Making of Hawaii: a Sociological Study. _Mac._

=Blackmar, Frank Wilson.= _Pa._, 1854- ----. A professor of history in the University of Kansas from 1889. History of Federal and State Aid to Higher Education in the South West; The Study of History and Sociology; Spanish Institutions in the South West; Economics; The Story of Human Progress; Life of Charles Robinson, first Governor of Kansas. _J. H. U._