Chapter I

=Ide, Mrs. Frances Otis [Ogden].= “Ruth Ogden.” _L. I._, 1853- ----. A popular Brooklyn writer of juvenile tales. A Little Queen of Hearts; His Little Royal Highness; A Loyal Little Red-Coat; Courage; Little Homespun; Loyal Hearts and True; Tattine; A Christmas Message. _Sto._

=Iglehart, Mrs. Fannie [Chambers] [Gooch].= _Mi._, 1851- ----. Face to Face with the Mexicans; Christmas in Old Mexico; The Boy Captive of the Wier Expedition.

=Ingersoll, Mrs. Julia Harriet [Pratt].= _N. Y._, 182- -1898. A religious writer of New Haven. The Coming of the Angels; Easter Even through Whitsuntide; Gathered Waifs, a book of verse.

=Ingham, Ellery P----.= _Pa._, 1856- ----. A lawyer of Philadelphia. At the Point of the Sword.

=Ingle, Edward.= =Md.=, 1861- ----. An historical writer. Local Institutions of Maryland; Local Institutions of Virginia; Southern Sidelights. _Cr. J. H. U._

=Inglis, Charles.= _I._, 1734-1816. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Nova Scotia, but previously rector of Trinity Church, New York city, and conspicuous as a Loyalist. Letters of Papinian, a noted contribution to political controversy; The True Interest of America; Infant Baptism. _See Tyler’s Literary History of the American Revolution._

=Ingraham, John Phillips Thurston.= _Me._, 1817- ----. Brother of J. H. Ingraham (page 204). An Episcopal clergyman of St. Louis. Mother’s Talks with her Little Folk; Why we Believe the Bible; The Christian Faith traced from the Garden of Eden.

=Ingraham, Prentiss.= _Mi._, 1843-1904. Son of J. H. Ingraham (page 204). A voluminous writer of sensational fiction who served in the Confederate army during the Civil War and as a soldier of fortune in various countries since. Among his over seven hundred productions may be named: Afloat and Ashore; The Cuban; The Shades and Shadows of Gotham; Montezuma; A Knight of the Plains; In Golden Fetters; Cadet Carey; Red Rovers on Blue Waters; In Satan’s Coil; An American Monte Cristo; Trailing with Buffalo Bill; Land of Legendary Lore.

=Inman, Henry.= _N. Y._, 1837-1899. A United States army officer. The Old Santa Fé Trail: the Story of a Great Highway; The Great Salt Lake Trail; The Ranch on the Oxhide; Tales of the Trail; Pioneer from Kentucky; The Delahoyles. _Mac._

=Irby, Richard.= _Va._, 1825-1902. A Virginia author. History of the Nottaway Grays; History of Randolph-Macon College; Bird Notes and Other Sketches.

=Ireland, Alleyne.= _E._, 1871- ----. A lecturer who has published Demerariana; Tropical Colonization; The Anglo-Boer Conflict; China and the Powers. _Mac._

=Ireland, John.= _I._, 1838- ----. The Roman Catholic archbishop of St. Paul, well known as a writer and speaker upon educational themes. The Church and Modern Society.

=Ireland, Mrs. Mary E---- [Haines].= _Md._, 1834- ----. A Washington writer for young people, among whose many books are: What I Told Dorcas; An Obstinate Maid; Doris and Her Mountain Home; The First School Year.

=Ironquill.= _See Ware, E. F._

=Irwin, John Arthur.= _I._, 1853- ----. A New York physician. Hydrotherapy at Saratoga; Pathology of Sea Sickness.

=Irwin, Wallace.= _N. Y._, 1875- ----. A San Francisco journalist. The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum; The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Jr.

=Isaacs, Abram Samuel.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A Hebrew rabbi of Paterson, New Jersey. Stories from the Rabbis; Moses Chaim Luzatto, a Modern Hebrew Poet.

=Isham, Asa Brainerd.= _O._, 1844- ----. A Cincinnati physician. Prisoners of War and Military Prisons.

=Isham, Frederic Stewart.= _Mch._, 1866- ----. The Strollers; Under the Rose; The Toy Shop; Black Friday.

=Isham, Norman Morrison.= _Ct._, 1864- ----. An architect of Providence. Early Rhode Island Houses (with A. F. Brown); The Homeric Palace; Early Connecticut Houses (with A. F. Brown). _Pr._

=Ives, Charles Linnæus.= _Ct._, 1831-1879. A medical professor at Yale University, 1868-73. Prophylaxis of Phthisis Pulmonalis; The Therapeutic Value of Mercury and its Preparations; Bible Doctrine of the Soul.

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=Jackman, Wilbur Samuel.= _O._, 1855- ----. A professor of teaching of natural science in the University of Chicago from 1901. Nature Study for the Common Schools; Field Work in Nature Study, and other similar works.

=Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams.= _N. Y._, 1862- ----. A professor of Indo-Iranian languages at Columbia University from 1895. Zoroaster, the Prophet of Ancient Iran; An Avestan Reader; An Avestan Grammar.

=Jackson, Dugald Caleb.= _Pa._, 1865- ----. A civil engineer of prominence. Electro-Magnetism and Construction of Dynamos; Electricity and Magnetism; Alternating Currents and Alternating Current Machinery.

=Jackson, Gabrielle Emilie.= _N. Y._, 1861- ----. A writer of juvenile books. Denise and Ned Toodles; Pretty Polly Perkins; Caps and Capers; A Blue Grass Beauty; Little Miss Sunshine; Colburn Prize; Doughnuts and Diplomas; Grace, Dis-Grace, and Scape-Grace.

=Jackson, Jonathan.= _Ms._, 1743-1810. An eminent Massachusetts citizen who was the author of Thoughts upon the Political Situation of the United States. (1788).

=Jackson, Lewis Evans.= _S. I._, 1822- ----. A Presbyterian layman, long prominent in city missionary work in New York city. Gospel Work; Christian Work in New York.

=Jackson, Mrs. Margaret [Doyle].= _Ba._, 1868- ----. A novelist of New York city. A Daughter of the Pit; The Horse-Leech’s Daughters. _Hou._

=Jackson, Samuel.= _Pa._, 1787-1872. A Philadelphia physician. Principles of Medicine (1832); Medical Essays.

=Jackson, Samuel Macauley.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of church history in the University of the City of New York. Beside editing many volumes of religious biography, he has written a Life of Zwingli, in a series of Heroes of the Reformation. _Put._

=Jacobs, Joseph.= _W._, 1854- ----. A New York author who has resided in the United States from 1900. Among his many published works are English Fairy Tales; Studies in Jewish Statistics; Indian Fairy Tales; Tennyson and In Memoriam; An Inquiry into the Sources of the History of the Jews in Spain; Jewish Ideals and Other Essays; Literary Studies; The Story of Geographical Study; Studies in Biblical Archæology.

=Jacobus, Melanchthon Williams.= _Pa._, 1855- ----. Son of M. W. Jacobus (page 206). A Presbyterian clergyman, professor at Hartford Theological Seminary from 1891. Stone Lectures for 1897-98.

=Jacoby, Harold.= _N. Y._, 1865- ----. A professor of astronomy at Columbia University from 1894. Practical Talks by an Astronomer. _Scr._

=Jacoby, Henry Sylvester.= _Pa._, 1857- ----. A professor of engineering at Cornell University from 1890. Notes and Problems in Descriptive Geometry; Outlines of Descriptive Geometry; Textbook on Plain Lettering; Textbook on Roofs and Bridges (with Merriman).

=Jaeger, Abraham.= _A._, 1839- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Lynchburg, Virginia, but prior to 1872 a Jewish rabbi. Mind and Heart in Religion; Infant Baptism versus Converted Membership.

=Jaggar, Thomas Augustus.= _N. Y._, 1839- ----. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Southern Ohio. He resigned in 1904. The Man of the Ages, and Other Recent Sermons; The Personality of Truth. _Wh._

=Jaggar, Thomas Augustus.= _Pa._, 1871- ----. Son of T. A. Jaggar, _supra_. A geologist in Government service. The Lacoliths of the Black Hills.

=Jaggard, Edwin Ames.= _Pa._, 1859- ----. A lawyer of Saint Paul. Jaggard on Torts; Jaggard on Taxation in Minnesota and North and South Dakota; Jaggard on Taxation in Iowa.

=Jak.= _See Williams, Mrs. Anna_ (page 425).

=James, Mrs. Alice Archer [Sewall].= _O._, 1870- ----. Daughter of F. Sewall (page 337). Ode to Girlhood, and Other Poems; The Ballad of the Prince.

=James, Bushrod Washington.= _Pa._, 1836-1903. A Philadelphia oculist. Alaskana, or Alaska in Descriptive and Legendary Poems; American Resorts; Echoes of Battle; Alaska: its Neglected Past and its Brilliant Future; The Dawn of a New Era in America.

=James, Charles Fenton.= _Va._, 1844- ----. A Virginia educator. Documentary History of the Struggle for Religious Freedom in Virginia (1900).

=James, George Francis.= _Il._, 1867- ----. An educator in Los Angeles. Handbook of University Extension; Memorial of John A. Logan.

=James, George Wharton.= _E._, 1858- ----. An explorer and ethnologist. Tourists’ Guide to Southern California; Nature Sermons; Picturesque Southern California; The Missions and Mission Indians of California; From Alpine Snow to Semi-Tropical Sea; In and Around the Grand Canyon; Indian Basketry; The Indians of the Painted Desert Region.

=James, Hartwell.= 18-- - ----. A writer for young people. Heroes of the United States Navy; Military Heroes of the United States; Sea Kings and Naval Heroes.

=James, James Alton.= _Wis._, 1864- ----. A professor of history in Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, from 1897. English Institutions and the American Indian; Constitution and Admission of Iowa into the Union; Government in State and Nation (with A. H. Sanford). _J. H. U. Scr._

=James, Richard Sexton.= _Pa._, 1824- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Arkansas. The Walk with Christ through the Valley of Death; Forest Monarchs, and Other Poems.

=James, Samuel Humphreys.= _La._, 1857- ----. A Louisiana novelist. A Woman of New Orleans; A Prince of Good Fellows.

=James, Thomas Chalkley.= _Pa._, 1766-1835. A once noted Philadelphia physician. The Principles of Midwifery, a standard textbook.

=James, Thomas Potts.= _Pa._, 1803-1882, A botanist and druggist of Philadelphia, co-author with Lesquereux (page 228) of The Manual of American Mosses.

=Jameson, Ephraim Orcutt.= _N. H._, 1842-1902. A Congregational clergyman. Biography of Rev. Wm. Cogswell; The Cogswells in America; History of Medway, Massachusetts; Medway Biographies and Genealogies; Military History of Medway; The Choates in America; The Jamesons in America.

=Jaques, Jabez Robert.= _E._, 1828-1892. A Methodist clergyman and educator in Illinois. Study of Classical Languages; Peter Cartwright, the Pioneer Preacher.

=Jaques, William Henry.= _Pa._, 1848- ----. A naval architect. The Establishment of Steel Gun Factories in the United States; Horatio Nelson and the Naval Supremacy of England (with W. Clark Russell); and various monographs on ordnance and allied themes.

=Jardine, Robert.= _Ont._, 1840- ----. A Chicago clergyman, but formerly prominent in the Presbyterian ministry of Canada. The Elements of the Psychology of Cognition; What to Believe.

=Jarrold, Ernest.= _E._, 1850- ----. A New York journalist. Mickey Finn Idylls; Odds and Ends (with J. E. McCann); Tales of the Bowery.

=Jarvis, Thomas Stinson.= _Ont._, 1854-1892. A novelist and dramatic critic of New York city. Letters from East Longitudes; Geoffrey Hampstead; Doctor Perdue; She Lived in New York; The Ascent of Life, a theosophical work.

=Jastrow, Joseph.= _Po._, 1863- ----. A professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin from 1888. Fact and Fable in Psychology. _Hou._

=Jastrow, Morris.= _Po._, 1861- ----. A brother of J. Jastrow, _supra_. A professor of Semitic languages in the University of Pennsylvania. The Religions of Babylonia and Assyria. _Gi._

=Jay, John Clarkson.= _N. Y._, 1808-1891. A conchologist and physician of New York city. A catalogue of Recent Shells (1836); Description of New and Rare Shells.

=Jayne, Anselm Helm.= _Mi._, 1856- ----. A lawyer of Jackson, Mississippi. A History of Mississippi; A School History of Mississippi.

=Jayne, Horace [Fort].= _Pa._, 1859- ----. A Philadelphia physician, professor of vertebrate morphology in the University of Pennsylvania from 1884. Revision of Dermolidæ of North America; Notes on Biological Subjects; Mammalian Anatomy. _Lip._

=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= _O._, 1860- ----. A Congregational clergyman of New York city, pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle from 1898, but from 1887 to 1898 pastor in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Quiet Talks with Earnest People in My Study; Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers; Doctrine and Deed. _Cr._

=Jenkins, Howard Malcom.= _Pa._, 1842-1902. A Philadelphia publisher and author. History of Philadelphia; Historical Collections relating to Gynnedd, Pennsylvania; The Family of William Penn.

=Jenks, Tudor.= _N. Y._, 1857- ----. An editor on the staff of the St. Nicholas magazine. The Century World’s Fair Imaginations; Truthless Tales; Boys’ Book of Explorations; Galopoff, the Talking Pony; Gypsy, the Talking Dog; The Defence of the Castle; Captain John Smith. _Cent._

=Jennings N[apoleon] A[ugustus].= _Pa._, 1856- ----. A journalist of New York city. A Texas Ranger, an account of frontier life partly autobiographic in character. _Scr._

=Jewell, Frederick Swartz.= _Ms._, 1821- ----. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Fond du Lac, but prior to 1874 in the Presbyterian ministry. School Government; Grammatical Diagrams; Christian Science.

=Jewett, Charles.= _Me._, 1842- ----. A physician of New York city. Children Nursing; Outlines of Obstetrics; Essentials of Obstetrics; Practice of Obstetrics (edited); Syllabus of Gynæcology.

=Jewett, Edward Hurtt.= _E._, 1830- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, professor in the General Theological Seminary, New York city. Communion Wine; Diabology: the Person and Kingdom of Satan.

=Jewett, John Howard.= _Ms._, 1843- ----. A journalist of Worcester, Massachusetts. The Bunny Stories; More Bunny Stories. _Sto._

=Jewett, Sophie.= _N. Y._, 1861- - ----. A professor of literature at Wellesley College. The Pilgrim, and Other Poems. _Mac._

=Jillson, Clark.= _Vt._, 1825-1894. A lawyer of Worcester, Massachusetts. Green Leaves from Whittingham, Vermont, a town history.

=Johnes, Edward Rodolph.= _N. Y._, 1852-1903. A lawyer of New York city. Briefs by a Barrister, a collection of verse; History of Southampton, Long Island; Circumstantial Evidence of a Future State.

=Johnson, Benjamin Peirce.= _N. Y._, 1793-1869. A New York agriculturist. The Dairy (1857).

=Johnson, Bradley Tyler.= _Md._, 1829- - ----. A Virginia lawyer who served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. The Foundation of Maryland; Memoir of Joseph E. Johnston; Life of General Washington; Confederate History of Maryland.

=Johnson, Charles Nelson.= _Ont._, 1860- - ----. A Chicago dentist. The Hermit of the Nonquon, a novel; Poems of the Farm, and Other Poems; Success in Practice; Filling Teeth.

=Johnson, Elias Hersey.= _N. Y._, 1841- - ----. A Baptist clergyman, professor of systematic theology in Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pennsylvania, from 1882. Outline of Systematic Theology; Uses and Abuses of Ordinances; The Religious Use of Imagination; The Highest Life. _Bap. Sil._

=Johnson, Emory Richard.= _Wis._, 1864- - ----. An economist of note. Inland Waterways: their Relation to Transportation; American Railway Transportation.

=Johnson, John.= _S. C._, 1829- - ----. Son of Joseph Johnson, _infra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Charleston, rector of St. Philip’s Church from 1872, but previously in the engineer corps of the Confederate army. Defence of Charleston Harbor, including Fort Sumter and the Adjacent Islands (1890).

=Johnson, Joseph.= _S. C._, 1776-1862. A physician and author of Charleston. Traditions and Reminiscences of the Revolution in the South (1851).

=Johnson, Joseph French.= _Ms._, 1853- - ----. A financier who has published Principles of Money Applied to Current Problems; Proposed Reforms of the Monetary System; Money and Credit; A Discussion of the Interrogatories of the Monetary Commission.

=Johnson, Lewis Jerome.= _Ms._, 1867- - ----. A professor of civil engineering at Harvard University since 1896. Statics by Algebraic and Graphic Methods. _Wil._

=Johnson, Margaret.= _Ms._, 1860- - ----. A New York writer. What Did the Black Cat Do?; The Procession of the Zodiac.

=Johnson, Owen.= _N. Y._, 1878- - ----. Son of R. U. Johnson (page 211). A novelist. Arrows of the Almighty. _Mac._

=Johnson, Philander Chase.= _W. Va._, 1866- - ----. A Washington Journalist. Sayings of Uncle Eben; Nowaday Poems.

=Johnson, William Henry.= _S. C._, 1845- - ----. A novelist of Cambridge. In early life he served as an officer in the Confederate army, and subsequently entered the Unitarian ministry. The King’s Henchmen; King or Knave?; The World’s Discoverers; Pioneer Spaniards in North America.

=Johnson, William Woolsey.= _N. Y._, 1841- - ----. A professor of mathematics at the United States Naval Academy from 1881. Elementary Treatise on Differential Calculus; Elementary Treatise on Integral Calculus; Curve Tracing in Cartesian Coördinates; Treatise on Differential Equations; Theory of Errors and Method of Least Squares; Treatise on Mechanics.

=Johnston, Mrs. Annie [Fellows].= _Ind._, 1863- - ----. A writer of Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Two Little Knights of Kentucky; The Little Colonel’s Home Party; The Story of Dago; The Little Colonel’s Holidays; Joel: a Boy of Galilee; In League with Israel; Old Mammy’s Torment; Songs Ysame (with A. F. Bacon); The Little Colonel; The Gate of the Giant Scissors; Asa Holmes; Big Brother; The Quilt that Jack Built; The Little Colonel’s Hero. _Lit. Pa._

=Johnston, Charles.= _I._, 1867- - ----. A writer of Flushing, Long Island, who, besides various translations from the Sanskrit and Russian, is the author of The Memory of Past Births; Kela Bai; Ireland, Historic and Picturesque.

=Johnston, Harold Whetstone.= _Il._, 1859- - ----. An Indiana educator. Latin Manuscripts.

=Johnston, Hugh.= _Ont._, 1840- - ----. A Methodist clergyman of Washington city. Toward the Sunrise, a volume of travel; Death Abolished; Shall We or Shall We Not?; William Morley Punshon, a biography; A Merchant Prince, a life of John Macdonald.

=Johnston, Josiah Stoddard.= _La._, 1833- - ----. A Louisville writer who served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Memorial History of Louisville; First Explorations of Kentucky; Confederate History of Kentucky.

=Johnston, Mary.= _Va._, 1870- - ----. A popular novelist of Birmingham, Alabama. Prisoners of Hope: a Tale of Colonial Virginia; To Have and to Hold; Audrey; Sir Mortimer. _Hou._

=Johnston, Nathan Robinson.= _O._, 1820- - ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, once prominent in the anti-slavery movement, and since 1875 a missionary to the Chinese in Oakland, California. Looking Back from the Sunset Land.

=Jones, Augustine.= _Me._, 1835- - ----. An educator, principal of the Friends’ School at Providence. Life of Thomas Dudley, Second Governor of Massachusetts. _Hou._

=Jones, Charles Henry.= _Pa._, 1837- - ----. A lawyer of Philadelphia, where he has filled a number of important local offices. A Pedestrian Tour through Switzerland; Recollections of Venice; A Trip to the Neusiedlersee; Memoir of William Rodman; Digest of Park Laws and Ordinances; Davenet’s Mills, a novel; History of the Campaign for the Conquest of Canada in 1776; Rodman Genealogy (1886).

=Jones, George.= _E._, 1810-1879. An eccentric actor and lecturer who took the title of Count Joannes. A History of Ancient America; Tecumseh, a tragedy; Life of General Harrison.

=Jones, George James.= _W._, 1856- - ----. A Presbyterian clergyman. The Province of Philosophy; The American Church; Bethlehem.

=Jones, John Mather.= _W._, 1826-1874. A journalist of Welsh birth who came to America in 1849, founded the towns of New Cambria, Missouri, in 1865, and Avonia, Kansas, in 1869. History of the Rebellion (in Welsh) (1866).

=Jones, Marcus Eugene.= _O._, 1852- - ----. A botanist and mining expert. Excursion Botanique; Ferns of the West; Geology of Utah.

=Jones, Nelson Edwards.= _O._, 1821-1901. A physician of Circleville, Ohio. The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio. _Clke._

=Jones, Richard.= _Wis._, 1855- - ----. A professor of literature in Vanderbilt University from 1899. The Growth of the Idylls of the King; The Arthurian Legends; A History of English Literature. _Lip._

=Jones, Thomas.= _L. I._, 1731-1792. A colonial jurist who espoused the side of the King at the time of the American Revolution, and removed to England in 1781, where he passed the rest of his life. History of New York during the Revolutionary Period.

=Jones, Mrs. Virginia [Smith].= _Ct._, 1827- - ----. An ornithologist of Cleveland. The illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Ohio.

=Jordan, Elizabeth Garver.= _Wis._, 1867- - ----. A New York journalist, editor of Harper’s Bazar from 1900. Tales of the City Room; Tales of the Cloister; Tales of Destiny; May Iverson: Her Book. _Har._

=Jordan, William George.= _N. Y._, 1864- - ----. A journalist of New York city. The Kingship of Self-Control; The Majesty of Calmness; The Power of Truth. _Rev._

=Josephare, Lionel.= _Ms._, 1876- - ----. A verse-writer of San Francisco. The Lion at the Well; Turquoise and Iron.

=Josselyn, Charles.= _Ms._, 1847- - ----. A San Francisco writer. The True Napoleon.

=Joy, James Richard.= _Ms._, 1863- - ----. A New York journalist. The Greek Drama; Outline History of England; Grecian History; Rome and the Making of Modern Europe; Twenty Centuries of English History; Thomas Joy and his Descendants. _Meth._

=Joynes, Edward Southey.= _Va._, 1834- - ----. A Virginia educator. Joynes-Meissner German Grammar; Minimum French Grammar.

=Judd, David Wright.= _N. Y._, 1838-1888. A New York journalist. Two Years’ Campaigning in Virginia and Maryland; The Educational Cyclopædia; Life and Writings of Frank Forrester.

=Judson, Edward.= _E. I._, 1844- - ----. A Baptist clergyman, pastor of the Judson Memorial church in New York city from 1881. Life of Adoniram Judson; The Institutional Church.

=Julian, Isaac Hoover.= _Ind._, 1823- - ----. Brother of G. W. Julian (page 214). A journalist of San Marcos, Texas. Sketches of the Early History of the Whitewater Valley.

=Jusserand= (zhu’s-rän´), =Jean Adrien Antoine Jules.= _F._, 1855- - ----. French ambassador to the United States from 1902. Les Anglais au Moyen Age; The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare; A French Ambassador at the Court of Charles II.; Piers Plowman; English Essays from a French Pen; A Literary History of the French People; Shakespeare in France Under the Ancient Régime.

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=Kahn, Mrs. Ruth [Ward].= _Mch._, 1872- - ----. A verse-writer of Leadville, Colorado. Gertrude, an epic; The First Quarter, a collection of verse.

=Kasson, John Adam.= A diplomat, minister to Austria, 1877-81, and to Germany, 1884-85. History of the Formation of the United States Constitution. _Lip._

=Kaufman, Reginald Wright.= _Pa._, 1877- - ----. A Philadelphia journalist. Jarvis of Harvard, a novel; The Things that are Cæsar’s. _Ap._

=Kaye, John William.= _E._, 1846- - ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia. Luray Cave; Flight, Capture and Imprisonment of Jefferson Davis; Night Ascent of Vesuvius; The Royal Tomb at Charlottenburg.

=Kearney, Stephen Watts.= _N. J._, 1794-1848. A United States army officer. Manual of the Exercise and Manœuvering of United States Dragoons; Laws for the Government of the Territory of New Mexico.

=Keasbey, Lindley Miller.= _N. J._, 1867- - ----. A professor of history and economics at the University of Colorado, 1892-94, and at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, from 1894. The Nicaragua Canal and the Monroe Doctrine; The Institution of Society. _Put._

=Keely, Robert Neff.= _Pa._, 1860- - ----. A Philadelphia physician. In Arctic Seas.

=Keener, John Christian.= _Md._, 1819- - ----. A Methodist bishop. The Post Oak Circuit; Studies of Bible Truths.

=Keener, William Albert.= _Ga._, 1856- - ----. A lawyer, formerly professor of law at Columbia University. Treatise on Quasi-Contracts; Selected Cases on Equity Jurisdiction; Selections on the Elements of Jurisprudence; Selection of Cases on the Law of Private Corporations. _West._

=Keese, William Linn.= _N. Y._, 1835-1904. A New York author. John Keese, Wit and Littérateur; William E. Burton, Actor, Author, Manager; A Group of Comedians; The Siamese Twins and Other Poems. _Ap. Put._

=Keifer, Joseph Warren.= _O._, 1830- - ----. A soldier and politician, Speaker of the national House of Representatives, 1881-85. Slavery and Four Years of War. _Put._

=Keimer, Samuel.= _E._, _c._ 1695-1739. A printer of Philadelphia. A Brand Plucked from the Burning, Exemplified in the Unparalleled Case of Samuel Keimer; Caribbeana, a Collection of Essays. _See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 30._

=Keith, Charles Penrose.= _Pa._, 1854- - ----. A lawyer of Philadelphia. The Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania between 1733 and 1776, and those Earlier Councillors who were sometime Chief Magistrates of the Province, and their Descendants.

=Keith, Sir William.= _E._, 1680-1749. A royal surveyor-general of customs in America and subsequently lieutenant-governor of Pennsylvania and Delaware. The History of the British Plantations in America, Part I.: The History of Virginia, 1738; Public Spirit; Papers and Tracts; On the Subject of Taxing the Colonies.

=Keller, Albert Galloway.= _O._, 1864- ----. An assistant professor of the science of society at Yale University from 1902. Homeric Society; Essays in Colonization. _Lgs._

=Kellerman, William Ashbrook.= _O._, 1850- ----. A professor of botany at the Ohio State University from 1893. The Flora of Kansas; Elementary Botany; Phytotheca; Spring Flora of Ohio; Plant Analysis.

=Kelley, David Campbell.= _Tn._, 1833- ----. A clergyman of the Methodist Church, South. Short Method with Modern Doubt.

=Kelley, Jay George.= _Ms._, 1838-1899. A mining engineer of Denver. The Boy Mineral Collectors. _Lip._

=Kellogg, Amos Markham.= _N. Y._, 1832- ----. An editor of educational journals. School Management; How to Teach Botany; How to Teach Fractions to Young Children.

=Kellogg, Mrs. Eva Mary [Crosby].= _Il._, 1860- ----. A Boston writer for young people. Australia and the Islands of the Sea; Grandma’s Darlings. _Sil._

=Kellogg, John Harvey.= _Mch._, 1852-1904. A physician of Battle Creek, Michigan, for many years editor of Good Health. Ladies’ Guide in Health and Disease; Home Handbook of Hygiene and Rational Medicine; Man the Masterpiece; Plain Facts for Old and Young; The Art of Massage.

=Kellogg, Olin Clay.= _N. Y._, 1870- ----. An educator. English Literature from its Origin to the Close of the Elizabethan Age; English and American Novelists; American Literature.

=Kellogg, Vernon Lyman.= _Kansas_, 1867- ----. A professor of entomology at Leland Stanford Junior University from 1894. Common Injurious Insects of Kansas; Elements of Insect Anatomy (with Comstock); Lessons in Nature Study (with Jenkins); Animal Life (with D. S. Jordan); Elementary Zoölogy; North American Mallophaga.

=Kelly, Edmond.= 1851- ----. A lecturer on municipal politics at Columbia University from 1896. The French Law of Marriage; Evolution and Effort; Government, or Human Evolution. _Ap. Lgs._

=Kelly, Mrs. Florence [Finch].= _Il._, 1848- ----. A journalist who has published With Hoops of Steel. _Bo._

=Kelly, Myra.= _I._, 1876- ----. Little Citizens, a collection of humorous stories of school life.

=Kelsey, Charles Boyd.= _Ct._, 1850- ----. A surgeon of New York City. Diseases of the Rectum and Anus; Surgery of Rectum and Pelvis.

=Kemp, James Furman.= _N. Y._, 1859- ----. A geologist. Ore Deposits of the United States and Canada; Handbook of Rocks. _Vn._

=Kendrick, Clark.= _N. H._, 1775-1824. A Baptist clergyman of Poultney, Vermont, and one of the founders of what is now Colgate University. Plain Dealing with Pedo-Baptists.

=Kenealy, Ahmed John.= _E._, 1854- ----. A journalist of New York city. Yacht Races for the America’s Cup; Boat-Sailing in Fair Weather and Foul; Yachting Wrinkles.

=Kennard, Joseph Spencer.= _N. Y._, 1859- ----. A Philadelphia lawyer and artist. Among his works are The Fallen God and Other Essays in Literature and Art; Some Early Printers and their Colophons; Entro Un Cerchio di Ferro; Contemporary Italian Romance.

=Kennedy, Mrs. Sara Beaumont [Cannon].= _Tn._, 18-- - ----. Wife of W. Kennedy, _infra_. A novelist of Memphis. Jocelyn Cheshire; The Wooing of Judith.

=Kennedy, Walker.= _Ky._, 1857- ----. A journalist and novelist of Memphis, Tennessee. In the Dwellings of Silence; Javan Cen Seir; The Secret of the Wet Woods.

=Kent, Charles Foster.= _N. Y._, 1867- ----. A professor of Biblical literature and history at Brown University from 1895. A History of the Hebrew People; Outline Study of Hebrew History; Wise Men of Ancient Israel; Students’ Chronological Chart of Biblical History; History of the Jewish People. _Bap. Scr. Sil._

=Kent, William.= _Pa._, 1851- ----. A civil engineer of note. Strength of Materials; Strength of Wrought Iron and Chain Cables; The Mechanical Engineer’s Pocket Book; Steam Boiler Economy. _Wil._

=Kephart, Cyrus Jeffries.= _Pa._, 1852- ----. A clergyman of the United Brethren faith, president of Avalon College, Trenton, Missouri, 1897-99. Public Life of Christ; Jesus the Nazarene; Life of Jesus for Children.

=Kephart, Ezekiel Boring.= _Pa._, 1834- ----. Brother of C. J. Kephart, _supra_. A bishop of the United Brethren faith from 1881. Manual of Church Discipline; Authenticity and Interpretation of the Holy Scriptures; Apologetics; The Atonement.

=Kern, John Adam.= _Va._, 1846- ----. A Methodist clergyman, president of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, from 1897. Ministry to the Congregation, a work on homiletics; The Way of the Professor.

=Kernan, Will[iam] Hubbard.= _O._, 1845- ----. A Louisiana journalist. The Flaming Meteor, a book of verse.

=Kester, Vaughan.= _N. J._, 1869- ----. A littérateur of New York city. The Manager of the B. and A. _Har._

=Ketchum, John Buckhout.= _N. Y._, 1837- ----. A journalist who published Rustic Rhymes and other volumes.

=Kettell, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1800-1855. A Massachusetts antiquarian writer. Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notes (1829); Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus; The Settlers of Columbus; Records of Spanish Inquisition; Yankee Notions; Quozziana.

=Keyes, Winfield Scott.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A California mining engineer. Resources of California; Resources of Montana.

=Keyser, Leander Sylvester.= _O._, 1856- ----. A Lutheran clergyman and religious journalist. The Only Way Out; Bird-dom; In Bird Land; Birds of the Rockies; News from the Birds. _Mg._

=Kidder, Frank Eugene.= _Me._, 1859- ----. An architect of Denver. Architects’ and Builders’ Pocket Book; Churches and Chapels; Building Construction. _Wil._

=Kieffer, Aldine Silliman.= _Mo._, 1840- ----. A journalist and verse-writer of Dayton, Ohio. Vigil and Vision; Hours of Fancy.

=Kimball, Emma Adeline.= _N. H._, 1847- ----. A writer of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Wayside Flowers, a book of verse; The Peaslees and Others, an Historical Sketch.

=Kimball, Hannah Parker.= _Ms._, 1861- ----. A Boston poet, whose work includes Soul and Sense, and Other Verses; The Cup of Life, and Other Poems; Victory, and Other Verses. _Sm._

=Kimball, John Calvin.= _Ms._, 1832- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of Sharon, Massachusetts. The Evolution of a New England Town; Zoölogy and Evolution; Moral Questions in Politics; Natural Factors in American Civilization; Immortal Youth; From Natural to Christian Selection. _Lit._

=Kimball, Sumner Increase.= _Me._, 1834- ----. A United States Treasury official. Organization and Methods of the United States Life-Saving Service (1889).

=Kinealy, John Henry.= _Mo._, 1864- ----. A mechanical engineer of Boston. Steam Engines and Boilers; Slide Valve Simply Explained; Formulas and Tables for Heating.

=King, Franklin Hiram.= _Wis._, 1848- ----. A professor of agricultural physics in the University of Wisconsin from 1888. Economic Relations of Wisconsin Birds; The Soil; Elementary Lessons in the Physics of Agriculture; Irrigation and Drainage. _Mac._

=King, Hamilton.= _Newfoundland_, 1852- ----. A diplomatist, United States minister to Siam from 1898. A Greek Reader; Outlines of United States History.

=King, Henry Churchill.= _Mch._, 1858- ----. A professor of theology at Oberlin Seminary from 1897. Reconstruction in Theology; Outline of Erdmann’s History of Philosophy; Outline of the Microcosmus of Herman Lotze; The Appeal of the Child; Theology and the Social Consciousness. _Mac._

=King, Mrs. Mary [Perry].= _N. Y._, 1865- ----. A writer of New York city. Comfort and Exercise; The Basis of Beauty.

=King, Stanton Henry.= _Barbados_, 1868- ----. The superintendent of the Sailors’ Haven, Charlestown, Massachusetts, from 1898. Dog-Watches at Sea. _Hou._

=Kingsbury, Charles People.= _N. Y._, 1818-1879. A United States army officer who published an Elementary Treatise on Artillery and Infantry (1849).

=Kingsley, Mrs. Florence [Morse].= _O._, 1859- ----. A writer of West New Brighton, Staten Island. Paul, a Herald of the Cross; Titus, a Comrade of the Cross; Stephen, a Soldier of the Cross; Prisoners of the Sea; The Transfiguration of Miss Philura; The Cross Triumphant; The Needle’s Eye; Wings and Fetters; The Singular Miss Smith. _Fu. My._

=Kingsley, John Sterling.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A professor of zoölogy at Tufts College, Medford, Massachusetts. Elements of Comparative Zoölogy; Text Book of Vertebrate Zoölogy. _Ho._

=Kinley, David.= _S._, 1861- ----. An educator in Illinois, professor of economics and dean of the college of literature and arts at the University of Illinois. The Independent Treasury System of the United States; Money. _Cr. Mac._

=Kinney, Abbot.= _N. Y._, 1850- ----. A California writer on forestry. Eucalyptus; Tasks by Twilight; Conquest of Death; Forest and Water.

=Kinsolving, George Herbert.= _Va._, 1849- ----. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Texas. The Church’s Burden.

=Kipling, Rudyard.= _E. I._, 1865- ----. A distinguished English writer, born in Bombay. He was educated in England, but was for some years in the Indian civil service, leaving India, however, in 1889. Later he married the sister of C. W. Balestier, _supra_, and made his home in Brattleboro, Vermont, for several years. The greater part of his work in prose and verse has an East Indian _locale_, but some of his later stories have an American local colouring. As a writer of fiction his rank is deservedly high, and in The Seven Seas, as well as in The Recessional, published after the Queen’s Jubilee of 1897, he has abundantly vindicated his claim to the title of poet. His prose comprises Plain Tales from the Hills; Wee Willie Winkie, and Other Stories; The Light that Failed; Soldiers Three; The Naulahka (with C. W. Balestier, _supra_); The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book; Captains Courageous; The Walking Delegate; Life’s Handicap; The Day’s Work; From Sea to Sea, letters of travel; In Ambush; Stalky and Co.; A Fleet in Being; The Brushwood Boy; Kim; Just So Stories. His verse includes Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses; Departmental Ditties, and Other Verses; The Seven Seas. _See The Critic, January 21, 1893; The Fortnightly Review, November, 1893; The Forum, June, 1895, and December, 1896; Atlantic Monthly, January, 1897; Review of Reviews, February, 1897; McClure’s Magazine, July, 1899; The Cosmopolitan, September, 1901; W. L. Clemens, A Ken of Kipling; Le Gallienne, Rudyard Kipling: a criticism; Monkshood, Rudyard Kipling; Knowles, A Kipling Primer; F. Adams, Essays in Modernity._

=Kirby, Mrs. Georgiana [Bruce].= _E._, 1818- ----. She came to the United States in 1838, was for some years assistant matron at Sing Sing prison, and lived in California from 1850. Transmission, or the Variation of Character Through the Mother; Years of Experience, an Autobiographical Narrative.

=Kirkus, William.= _E._, 1830- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Brooklyn. Christianity, Theoretical and Practical; Miscellaneous Essays; Orthodoxy, Scripture, and Reason; Religion a Revelation and a Rule of Life. _Wh._

=Kiser, Samuel Ellsworth.= _Pa._, 1862- ----. A Chicago journalist. Budd Williams at the Show, and Other Poems; Georgie; Love Sonnets of an Office Boy. _Sm._

=Kittredge, Walter.= _N. H._, 1834- ----. A popular song-writer of Reed’s Ferry, New Hampshire, best known as the author of the words and music of “Tenting on the Old Camp Ground.” Walter Kittredge’s Union Song-Book (1862). _See New England Magazine, August, 1899._

=Klemm, Louis Richard.= _G._, 1845- ----. A government specialist in education, among whose works are History of German Literature; Poetry in Home and School; German by Practice; European Schools; Chips from a Teacher’s Workshop; Higher Education of Women. _Ap. Hou. Le. Put._

=Knapp, Adeline.= _N. Y._, 1860- ----. A New York writer, editor of The Household Magazine from 1902. One Thousand Dollars a Day; Upland Pastures; The Boy and the Baron; How to Live; The Story of the Philippines. _Cent. Sil._

=Knight, Frederick.= _N. H._, 1791-1849. A verse-writer of Rowley, Massachusetts. Thorn Cottage, or the Poet’s Home.

=Knight, George Wells.= _Mch._, 1858- ----. A professor of American history in Ohio State University from 1885. Land Grants in the Northwest Territory; The Government of the People of Ohio; History of Education in Ohio (with J. R. Commons).

=Knight, Henry Cogswell.= _N. H._, 1788-1835. Brother of F. Knight, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Massachusetts. Letters from the South and West (1824); Lectures and Sermons, and several books of verse, including The Cypriad; The Trophies of Love; The Broken Harp; Poems.

=Knowles, Frederic Lawrence.= _Ms._, 1869- ----. A littérateur of Boston. He has published Practical Hints for Young Readers, Writers, and Book-Buyers; On Life’s Stairway, a book of verse; Love Triumphant; and edited Cap and Gown, a collection of college verse; The Golden Treasury of American Songs; and other verse compilations. _Pa._

=Knowles, James Davis.= _R. I._, 1798-1838. A Baptist minister of Boston. Memoir of Mrs. Ann Judson; Memoir of Roger Williams.

=Knowlton, Frank Hall.= _Vt._, 1860- ----. An assistant palæontologist in Government service. Fossil Flora of Alaska; Cretaceous and Tertiary Plants of North America.

=Knowlton, Helen Mary.= _Ms._, 1832- ----. An artist of Boston. Hints to Pupils in Drawing and Painting; The Art Life of William Morris Hunt; The Eternal Years. _Hou. Lit._

=Knowlton, Miles Justin.= _Vt._, 1825-1874. A Presbyterian missionary in China. The Foreign Missionary: his Field and his Work.

=Knox, Martin Van Buren.= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. A Methodist clergyman, president of Red River Valley University, North Dakota, from 1892. A Winter in India and Malaysia.

=Koerner, Gustave.= _G._, 1809-1896. An Illinois jurist of prominence, lieutenant-governor of Illinois, 1853-57. From Spain; Das deutsche Element in den Vereinigten Staaten, 1818-1848.

=Kohlmann, Anthony.= _P._, 1771-1838. A Roman Catholic priest and educator who came to the United States in 1806 and became Superior of the Jesuit order in America in 1817. A True Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholic Church; Centurial Jubilee; The Blessed Reformation; Martin Luther Portrayed by Himself; Unitarianism, Philosophically and Theologically Examined.

=Kolle, Frederick Strange.= _G._, 1871- ----. A physician and inventor of New York city. The Recent Roentgen Discovery; The X-Rays; Pen Lyrics.

=Kollock, Henry.= _N. J._, 1778-1819. Brother of S. K. Kollock, _infra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of Savannah, once of note as a pulpit orator. Sermons on Various Subjects appeared in 1811, and in 1822 his collected sermons appeared in four volumes.

=Kollock, Sheppard (or Shephard) Kosciuszko.= _N. J._, 1795-1865. Brother of H. Kollock, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman, pastor at Norfolk and elsewhere. Biography of Henry Kollock (_supra_); Ministerial Character; Best Method of Delivering Sermons; The Perseverance of the Saints; Pastoral Reminiscences comprise all his works of importance.

=Koren, John.= _Ia._, 1861- ----. A statistician. Economic Aspects of the Liquor Problem; The Liquor Problem in its Legislative Aspects. _Hou._

=Kost, John.= _Pa._, 1819-1904. A physician of Adrian, Michigan, and a minister in the Methodist Protestant body. Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; Text Book on Medical Jurisprudence. _See Representative Men of Michigan._

=Kramer, John Wesley.= _Md._, 1832-1898. An Episcopal clergyman of Brooklyn. Mindful of Him; Manual for Visiting the Poor; Commentary on the Church Catechism; The Right Road; Comfortable Thoughts.

=Krause, Lyda Farrington.= “Barbara Yechton.” _W. I._, 1864- ----. A New York writer on the staff of The Churchman. We Ten; A Lovable Crank; Derick; A Little Turning Aside; Ingleside; A Young Savage; A Cycle of Stories; Scaramouche; Fortune’s Boats; Young Mrs. Teddy. _Do. Hou. Wh._

=Krauskopf, Joseph.= _P._, 1858- ----. A Jewish rabbi of Philadelphia. Evolution and Judaism; A Rabbi’s Impressions of the Oberammergau Passion Play; The Service Ritual; Our Pulpit; Old Truths in New Books.

=Kriehn, George.= _Mo._, 1868- ----. An educator. The English Rising in 1450; English Popular Upheavals in the Middle Ages; The English Social Revolt in 1381.

=Kroeh, Charles Frederick.= _G._, 1846- ----. A professor of languages at the Stevens Institute at Hoboken from 1871, and author of a series of text-books, in German, Spanish, and French. _Mac._

=Krout, Caroline Virginia.= _Ind._, 18-- - ----. A novelist of Crawfordsville, Indiana. Knights in Fustian.

=Krout, Mary Hannah.= _Ind._, 1857- ----. Sister of C. V. Krout, _supra_. A journalist of Denver. Hawaii and a Revolution; A Looker-on in London; Alice in Hawaii; The China of To-day; Two Girls in China. _Am. Do._

=Kuhns, Levi Oscar.= _Pa._, 1856- ----. A professor of romance languages at Wesleyan University. Alfred de Musset; Treatment of Nature in Dante’s Divine Comedy; German and Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania: A Study of the So-Called Pennsylvania Dutch; Studies in Pennsylvania German Family Names; The Great Poets of Italy. _Ho. Hou._