Chapter V

=Vail, Charles Henry.= _N. Y._, 1866- ----. A Universalist clergyman of Jersey City. Modern Socialism; Scientific Socialism; The Trust Question; Socialism and the Negro Problem.

=Vaile, Mrs. Charlotte Marion [White].= _Ms._, 1854-1902. A Denver, Colorado, writer of stories for young people. The Orcutt Girls; Sue Orcutt; The M. M. C.; Wheat and Huckleberries; Two and One. _We._

=Valentine, Edward Abram Uffington.= _Pa._, 1870- ----. A journalist of Baltimore. The Ship of Silence, and other Poems. _Bo._

=Van Alstyne, Mrs. Frances Jane [Crosby].= “Fanny J. Crosby.” _N. Y._, 1820- ----. A well-known blind hymn and song writer of New York city. Her hymns and songs number over five thousand. A Blind Girl, and Other Poems; Monterey, and Other Poems; A Wreath of Columbia’s Flowers; Bells at Evening.

=Van Buren, Mrs. Alicia [Keisker].= _Ky._, 1860- ----. A Louisville writer. As Thought is Led: Lyrics and Sonnets.

=Vance, Arthur Turner.= _Pa._, 1872- ----. A journalist of New York city. The Real David Harum. _Ba._

=Vance, James Isaac.= _Tn._, 1862- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman who has published Young Man Four-Square; Church Portals; College of Apostles; Royal Manhood; The Rise of a Soul; American Problems. _Rev._

=Van Deman, Henry Elias.= _O._, 1845- ----. A pomologist of Washington city. Tropical and Semi-Tropical Fruits in America.

=Van Dyke, Paul.= _L. I._, 1859- ----. Son of H. J. Van Dyke, 1st (page 395). A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of modern European history at Princeton University from 1898. The Age of the Renascence.

=Van Marter, Martha.= _N. Y._, 1839- ----. An editor of Methodist Sunday School periodicals. Jessie in Switzerland; The Primary Teacher.

=Van Noppen, Charles Leonard.= _H._, 1868- ----. A writer of Greensboro, North Carolina, who has made the only English translation of The Lucifer, by the famous Dutch author, Joost Van Vondel.

=Van Pelt, John Vredenburgh.= _La._, 1874- ----. A professor in charge of the College of Architecture at Cornell University. A Discussion of Composition, Especially as Applied to Architecture. _Mac._

=Van Praag, Charles Francis Wells.= 18-- - ----. A novelist. Clayton Halowell, an historical romance.

=Van Rensselaer, Mrs. John King.= _See Van Rensselaer, Mrs. May._

=Van Rensselaer, Mrs. May [King].= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. An historical writer of New York city. Crochet Lace; The Devil’s Picture Books: a History of Playing-Cards; The Goede Vrouw of Mana-ha-ta; New Yorkers of the Nineteenth Century; A Girl’s Life Eighty Years Ago (edited). _Scr._

=Van Sickle, John Waddell.= _O._, 1835-1895. An educator and physician of Springfield, Ohio. Practical System of Bookkeeping; History of the Van Sickle Family in the United States.

=Van Tyne, Claude Halstead.= _Mch._, 1869- ----. A professor of history in the University of Michigan from 1903. The Loyalists in the American Revolution; Brief History of the United States of America. _Mac._

=Van Zandt, Charles Collins.= _R. I._, 1830-1890. A governor of Rhode Island, 1877-1880. Newport Ballads.

=Vaughan, Benjamin.= _W. I._, 1751-1835. A once prominent scientist and political economist who lived at Hallowell, Maine, from 1795. His writings nearly all appeared anonymously. The Calm Observer; Ten Hints to Wise Men; The Rural Socrates, a translation from the German of Hirzel, include a portion of his writings.

=Vaughan, George Tully.= _Va._, 1859- ----. A surgeon of Washington, professor of surgery at Georgetown University from 1897. The Principles and Practice of Surgery.

=Vaughan, Victor Clarence.= _O._, 1851- ----. The dean of the medical department of the University of Michigan from 1890. Osteology and Mycology of the Domestic Fowl; Textbook of Physiological Chemistry; Ptomaines and Leucomaines (with Novy).

=Veblen, Thorstein B----.= 18-- - ----. An assistant professor of political economy in the University of Chicago from 1900. The Theory of the Leisure Class; The Theory of Business Enterprises. _Mac. Scr._

=Veeder, Nicholas.= _N. Y._, 1819-1892. A writer of Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Cometallism: a Plan for Continuing Gold and Silver Coinage (1885).

=Verner, Samuel P----.= _S. C._, 18-- - ----. An American missionary in Africa. Pioneering in Central Africa (1903).

=Vickers, George Morley.= _Pa._, 1841- ----. A Philadelphia publisher. Ballads of the Occident.

=Viele, Herman Knickerbocker.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. Son of E. L. Viele (page 398). A civil engineer and novelist. The Inn of the Silver Moon; The Last of the Knickerbockers; Myra of the Pines. _Mac. S._

=Vincent, Boyd.= _Pa._, 1845- ----. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Southern Ohio. Can God Hear Prayer?; The Episcopal Church Put to the Test.

=Vincent, George Edgar.= _Il._, 1864- ----. Son of J. H. Vincent (page 399). A professor of sociology in the University of Chicago from 1896. Social Mind and Education. _Mac._

=Vincent, John Martin.= _O._, 1857- ----. An associate professor of history in Johns Hopkins University from 1895. State and Federal Government in Switzerland; Government in Switzerland. _J. H. U. Mac._

=Vincent, Leon Henry.= _Il._, 1859- ----. A Philadelphia lecturer on English literature. A Few Words on Browning; The Bibliotaph and Other People; Hôtel de Rambouillet and the Précieuses; The French Academy; Corneille; Molière. _Hou._

=Vischer, William Lightfoot.= _Ky._, 1842- ----. A Chicago journalist whose writings include the novels Carlisle of Colorado; Way Out Yonder; Peter Vansant; A Head of Bronze; and the following volumes of verse: Chicago: an Epic; Harp of the South; Black Mammy; Blue Grass Ballads.

=Vivian, Thomas J[ondre].= _E._, 1855- ----. A journalist and novelist of San Francisco and subsequently of New York city. Seven Smiles and a Few Fibs, a volume of short stories; five novels, including A Life Wasted; Judge Day’s Case; Old Dudley’s Monument; Sweet Polly Poljew; Luther Strong. With Dewey at Manila and The Fall of Santiago are historical narratives, and The Fairy Spinning Wheel is a translation from Les Contes du Rouet of Catulle Mendes. _Fen._

=Vizetelly, Francis Horace.= _E._, 1864- ----. A New York author, formerly of London. Romance of the Finger Ring; The Fan in Romance and History; Sunshades and Umbrellas; The History of the Glove.

=Von Gottschalck, Oscar Hunt.= _R. I._, 1865- ----. A littérateur of New York city. Yankee Doodle Gander; Gnome Man’s Land; Lives of the Haunted; Historical Sense and Nonsense.

=Voorhees, Daniel Wolsey.= _O._, 1827-1897. A prominent United States senator from Indiana. Forty Years of Oratory, a collection of speeches and addresses posthumously published. _Bo._

=Voorsanger, Jacob.= _H._, 1852- ----. A San Francisco rabbi. Life and Works of Moses Mendelssohn; The Chronicles of Emmanuel.

=Vorse, Albert White.= _Ms._, 1866- ----. A New York journalist. The Laughter of the Sphinx, a collection of short stories.

=Votaw, Clyde Weber.= _Il._, 1864- ----. A professor of biblical Greek in the University of Chicago from 1900. Inductive Studies in the Founding of the Christian Church; The Primitive Era of Christianity.

W

=Waddell, Alfred Moore.= _N. C._, 1834- ----. A lawyer of Wilmington, North Carolina. A Colonial Officer and his Times.

=Waddell, John Alexander Low.= _Ont._, 1854- ----. A distinguished civil engineer of Kansas City. The Designing of Ordinary Iron Highway Bridges; A System of Iron Railway Bridges for Japan; General Specifications for Iron or Steel Highway Bridges; Disputed Points in Railway Bridge Designing; Elevated Railways; De Pontibus. _Wil._

=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton Blanchard.= _Ms._, 1860- ----. A writer of Malden, Massachusetts, among whose books for juvenile reading are Little Japanese Cousin; Little Russian Cousin; Little Porto Rican Cousin. _Pa._

=Wagnalls, Mabel.= _Mo._, 1871- ----. A writer and musician of New York city. Miserere: a Musical Story; Stars of the Opera; Selma, the Soprano. _Fu._

=Wagner, Frank Caspar.= _Mch._, 1864- ----. A professor of engineering in the Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute. Notes on Applied Electricity.

=Wait, John Cassan.= _N. Y._, 1860- ----. A lawyer and civil engineer of New York city. Engineering and Architectural Jurisprudence; Car Builders’ Dictionary; Law of Contracts; Poems of Industry and Labour; Calendar of Invention and Discovery; Law of Operations Preliminary to Construction in Engineering and Architecture. _Wil._

=Wake, Charles Staniland.= _E._, 1835- ----. An anthropologist connected with the Field Columbian Museum at Chicago. Chapters on Man; The Evolution of Morality; Development of Marriage and Kinship; Serpent Worship and Other Essays; The Geometry of Science.

=Wakeman, Antoinette van Hoesen.= _N. Y._, 1854- ----. A journalist of Hastings, Nebraska. Scientific Sewing and Garment Cutting; Questions of Conscience, a novel.

=Wakeman, Thaddeus Burr.= _Ct._, 1834- ----. A lawyer of New York city. An Epitome of Positive Philosophy and Religion; The Religion of Humanity; Liberty and Purity; The Age of Revision; Evolution or Creation.

=Waldo, Clarence Abiathar.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. Head professor of mathematics in Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, from 1895. Manual of Descriptive Geometry. _He._

=Waldstein, Louis.= _N. Y._, 1853- ----. A physician, resident in London from 1898. Brother of C. Waldstein (page 401). The Subconscious Self. _Scr._

=Walke, Willoughby.= _Va._, 1859- ----. An army officer. Lectures on Explosives; Gunpowder and High Explosives. _Wil._

=Walker, Albert Henry.= _Vt._, 1844- ----. A lawyer of New York city. Walker on Patents, a standard authority; Christ’s Christianity.

=Walker, James Bryant.= _O._, 1841-1874. Son of T. Walker (page 402). A lawyer of Cincinnati. Law of Municipal Corporations in the State of Ohio; The Ohio Digest (with C. Bates).

=Wall, Mrs. Annie [Carpenter].= _Wis._, 1859- ----. A verse-writer of Pueblo, Colorado. Some Scattered Leaves.

=Wallace, David Duncan.= _S. C._, 1874- ----. A professor of history in Wofford College, South Carolina. Constitutional History of South Carolina, 1725 to 1775.

=Wallace, Edwin Sherman.= _Pa._, 1864- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Jerusalem the Holy. _Rev._

=Wallace, Joseph.= _Ky._, 1834- ----. A lawyer of Springfield, Illinois. Biography of Colonel Edward D. Baker; History of Illinois and Louisiana under French Rule. _Clke._

=Wallihan, Allen Grant.= _Wis._, 1859- ----. A Colorado photographer. Hoofs, Claws and Antlers of the Rocky Mountains; Camera Shots at Big Game. _Dou._

=Walsh, Henry Collins.= _Iy._, 1863- ----. A journalist of New York city. By the Potomac and Other Poems; The Last Cruise of the Miranda, a Record of Arctic Adventure.

=Walter, Robert.= _Ont._, 1841- ----. A physician of Walters Park, Pennsylvania. Vital Science; The Exact Science of Human Health.

=Waltz, Mrs. Elizabeth [Cherry].= _O._, 1866-1903. A journalist and short-story writer. Pa Gladden. _Cent._

=Wambaugh, Eugene.= _O._, 1856- ----. A professor of law in Harvard University from 1892. The Study of Cases; Cases for Analysis; Cases on Agency; Littleton’s Tenures; Cases on Insurance. _Lit._

=Ward, Cyrenus Osborne.= _N. Y._, 1832- ----. Brother of L. F. Ward (page 405). A translator in the United States Bureau of Labour from 1885. A Labour Catechism of Political Economy; Our Tragedy, a dramatic poem; The Equilibration of Human Aptitudes; The Ancient Lowly, a history of the ancient working class, the two volumes of which were published under the separate titles of Irascibility and Concupiscence, and Origins of Socialism.

=Ward, Mrs. Lydia [Avery] [Coonley].= _Va._, 1845- ----. A Chicago writer of pleasing verse. Under the Pines, and Other Verses; Singing Verses for Children; Love Songs; Christmas in Other Lands. _Mac._

=Ward, Robert DeCourcy.= _Ms._, 1867- ----. A meteorologist, professor of climatology at Harvard University from 1900. Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology. _Gi._

=Ward, Susan Hayes.= _Ms._, 1838- ----. Sister of W. H. Ward (page 405). Sabrina Hackett; Christus ad Portam; George Hepworth, Preacher, Journalist, Friend of the People. _Dut. Lov._

=Ward, William Godman.= _O._, 1848- ----. A Boston lecturer upon English literature. Tennyson’s Debt to Environment; The Poetry of Robert Browning; Art for Schools. _Lit._

=Warder, George Woodward.= _Mo._, 1848- ----. A lawyer and writer of Kansas City, among whose numerous works are Poetic Fragments; The New Cosmogony; The Cities of the Sun; The Stairway to the Stars. _Dil._

=Ware, Eugene Fitch.= “Ironquill.” _Ct._, 1841- ----. United States Pension Commissioner 1902-1904. Rhymes of Ironquill.

=Ware, Lewis S----.= _Pa._, 1851- ----. A Philadelphia writer, editor of The Sugar Beet Magazine. The Sugar Beet; Study of the Various Sources of Sugar, and similar works. _Bai. Ju._

=Warne, Frank Julian.= _W. Va._, 1874- ----. The editor of the Railway World. The Slav Invasion and the Mine Workers.

=Warren, Arthur.= _Ms._, 1860- ----. The London correspondent of the Boston Herald 1888-1896. The Charles Whittinghams; A Title of Nobility, are among his writings.

=Warren, Charles.= _Ms._, 1868- ----. A Boston lawyer. The Girl and the Governor, and Other Stories. _Scr._

=Warren, Frederick Morris.= _Me._, 1859- ----. A professor of modern languages at Yale University from 1901. A Primer of French Literature; History of the Novel Previous to the Seventeenth Century. _He. Ho._

=Warring, Charles Bartlett.= _N. Y._, 1825- ----. An educator and scientist of Poughkeepsie. “Strike, but Hear Me:” the Mosaic Account of the Creation; The Miracle of To-day; Genesis I. and Modern Science; The Three Climates of Geology; Groscepic Bodies.

=Warvelle, George William.= _Wis._, 1852- ----. A jurist of Chicago. Abstracts and Examinations of Title; Origin and Operation of the Homestead Laws; Law of Vendor and Purchaser; Principles of the Law of Real Property; Introduction to the Principles of Jurisprudence and Legal Procedure; Compendium of Freemasonry in Illinois.

=Washburn, Dexter Carlton.= _Me._, 1861- ----. A New York journalist. Songs from the Seasons, and Other Verses.

=Washburn, Henry Stevenson.= _R. I._, 1813-1903. An author of Newton, Massachusetts, well known by his lyric, We shall Meet but we shall Miss Him. The Vacant Chair, and Other Poems. _Sil._

=Watanna, Onoto.= _See Badcock, Mrs. Winnifred (Eaton)._

=Waterloo, Stanley.= _Mch._, 1846- ----. A Chicago novelist and journalist. A Man and a Woman; An Odd Situation; The Seekers; The Story of a Strange Career; The Story of Ab; Armageddon; Honest Money, a work on the currency question (1895); The Wolf’s Long Howl; The Launching of a Man. _Ra. S._

=Waterman, Lucius.= _R. I._, 1851- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Charlestown, New Hampshire. The Post-Apostolic Age; Early Journals of Convention of the Episcopal Church in New Hampshire (edited). _Scr._

=Waterman, Nixon.= _Il._, 1859- ----. A Boston journalist. Some Home-Made Verses; A Book of Verses; In Merry Mood; Cap and Bells.

=Watson, Mrs. Augusta [Campbell].= _N. Y._, 1862- ----. A novelist of Groton, Connecticut. The Old Harbor Town; Dorothy the Puritan; Off Lynnport Light; Beyond the City Gates. _Dut._

=Watson, Edward Willard.= _R. I._, 1843- ----. A physician and verse-writer of Philadelphia. Songs of Flying Hours; To-day and Yesterday. _Co._

=Watson, Thomas Edward.= _Ga._, 1856- ----. A Georgia lawyer and Congressman. The Story of France from the Earliest Times to the Consulate of Napoleon; Thomas Jefferson; Napoleon: a Sketch of his Life, Character, Struggles and Achievements; Bethany: a Study and a Story of the Old South. _Ap. Mac. Sm._

=Watson, William Franklin.= _Ont._, 1862- ----. A professor of chemistry in Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina. The Children of the Sun, and Miscellaneous Poems; Text-Book on Chemistry.

=Watt, David Alexander.= _E._, 1865- ----. A civil engineer in government service. The Improvement of Rivers (with B. F. Thomas), 1903. _Wil._

=Wayne, Henry Constantine.= _Ga._, 1815-1883. A brigadier-general in the Confederate service during the Civil War. A Manual of Sword Exercise.

=Webb, William Seward.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. Son of J. W. Webb (page 411). A New York physician, president of the Wagner Palace Car Company. California and Alaska over the Canadian Pacific Railway. _Put._

=Webber, Samuel Gilbert.= _Ms._, 1838- ----. A Boston physician. Cerebro-spinal Meningitis; Treatise on Nervous Diseases.

=Weber, Adna Ferrin.= _N. Y._, 1870- ----. The chief statistician of the New York State Department of Labour from 1901. The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century. _Mac._

=Weber, Henry Adam.= _O._, 1845- ----. State chemist of Ohio 1884-1897. Select Course in Qualitative Analysis.

=Weber, John Langdon.= _S. C._, 1862- ----. A Methodist clergyman, president of Kentucky Wesleyan College from 1901. History of South Carolina; History of Epworth League.

=Webster, Arthur Gordon.= _Ms._, 1863- ----. A professor of physics at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. The Theory of Electricity and Magnetism.

=Webster, Helen Livermore.= _Ms._, 1853- ----. A professor of comparative philology in Wellesley College from 1890. A Special Treatise on the Gutteral Question in Gothic.

=Webster, Henry Kitchell.= _Il._, 1875- ----. A story writer of Evanston, Illinois. The Short Line War (with S. Merwin); Calumet K. (with S. Merwin); The Banker and the Bear; The Story of a Corner in Land; Rogers Drake; The Duke of Cameron Avenue; Traitor and Loyalist. _Mac._

=Webster, John Clarence.= _N. B._, 1863- ----. An obstetrician of Chicago, among whose professional monographs are Text Book of Diseases of Women; Human Placentation. _Mac._

=Webster, William Clarence.= _Mch._, 1866- ----. A writer of New York city. General History of Commerce.

=Webster, William Franklin.= _Min._, 1862- ----. An educator, principal of the East High School of Minneapolis from 1893. English: Composition and Literature. _Hou._

=Weeden, (Miss) Howard.= _Al._, 18-- - ----. An artist and verse-writer of Huntsville, Alabama. Bandanna Ballads; Songs of the Old South; Old Voices. _Dou._

=Weeks, Robert Dodd.= _N. Y._, 1819-1898. An educator, but after 1860 an insurance clerk in Newark, New Jersey. Jehovah-Jesus, the Oneness of God; Genealogy of the Family of George Weekes (1885); The New Dispensation.

=Wegmann, Edward.= _B._, 1850- ----. A civil engineer of note. Design and Construction of Mason Dams; Water-Works of the City of New York; Design and Construction of Dams. _Wil._

=Weir, James.= _Ky._, 1856- ----. A physician of Owensboro, Kentucky, who besides contributing frequently to scientific periodicals has published Religion and Lust, or The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire; The Dawn of Reason, or Mental Traits in the Lower Animals. _Mac._

=Weitzel, Mrs. Sophie Winthrop [Shepherd].= 1840-1892. A writer of verse and fiction who published Miss Robert’s Fortune; The Harrington Girls; Sister and Saint; Renée of France; From Time to Time, a collection of verse. _Ran._

=Wellman, Francis Lewis.= _Ms._, 1854- ----. A lawyer of New York. The Art of Cross-Examination. _Mac._

=Wells, Amos Russell.= _N. Y._, 1862- ----. The managing editor of the Christian Endeavor World, among whose numerous publications are Golden Rule Meditations; Sermons in Stones; The Business Man’s Religion. _Rev._

=Wells, Benjamin W[illis].= _N. H._, 1856- ----. A professor of modern languages at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. Modern German Literature; Modern French Literature; A Century of French Fiction. He has also published a number of school texts in French and German, and philological and literary papers. _Do. Gi. Lit._

=Wells, Carolyn.= _N. J._, 186- - ----. A librarian, of Rahway, New Jersey, whose writing is largely of a humorous nature. Trotty’s Trip; Folly in the Forest; Abeniki Caldwell; Children of Our Town; A Phenomenal Fauna (with O. Herford, _supra_); Nonsense Anthology (edited); The Merry-Go-Round; Mother Goose’s Menagerie; Patty Fairfield; The Pete and Polly Stories; Eight Girls and a Dog; Patty at Home; The Staying Guest; Folly for the Wise; In the Reign of Queen Dick; A Parody Anthology. _Ap. Bo. Dou. Scr._

=Wells, David Dwight.= _Ct._, 1868-1900. Son of D. A. Wells (page 414). A littérateur of Norwich, Connecticut. Her Ladyship’s Elephant; His Lordship’s Leopard; Parlous Times.

=Wells, Horace Lemuel.= _Ct._, 1855- ----. A professor of chemistry at Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. Laboratory Guide in Qualitative Analysis; Fresenius’s Qualitative Analysis (translated).

=Wells, Webster.= _Ms._, 1851- ----. A Boston mathematician who has published a series of mathematical text-books. _He._

=Welsh, Charles.= _E._, 1850- ----. A publisher and writer. Publishing a Book; A Bookseller of the Last Century. _He. Dut._

=Wemyss= [weems], =Francis Courtney.= _E._, 1797-1859. A theatrical manager in New York city. Chronology of the American Stage, 1752-1852.

=Wenley, Robert Mark.= _S._, 1861- ----. A Scottish thinker and a leading exponent of the spiritual reaction in philosophy, professor of philosophy in the University of Michigan from 1896. Socrates and Christ; Aspects of Pessimism; Contemporary Theology and Theism; Introduction to Kant; Preparation for Christianity in the Ancient World. _Ho. Rev. Scr._

=Wentworth, George Albert.= _N. H._, 1835- ----. A Boston mathematician. Elements of Geometry; Elements of Algebra; Elements of Analytical Geometry. _Gi._

=Wentworth, John.= 1815-1888. A Chicago journalist of note. Early Chicago; Congressional Reminiscences; History of the Wentworth Family.

=Wesselhoeft, Lily F.= _See Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth (page 415)._

=West, Anson.= _N. C._, 1832- ----. A Methodist clergyman of Alabama. The State of the Dead; The Old and the New Man; History of Methodism in Alabama. _Lip._

=West, James Harcourt.= _Ms._, 1850- ----. A Boston publisher who has held several Unitarian pastorates. Holiday Idlers and Other Poems; Uplifts of Heart and Will; In Love With Love.

=West, Max.= _Min._, 1870- ----. A journalist of New York city. The Inheritance Tax. _Mac._

=West, Willis Mason.= _Min._, 1857- ----. Brother of M. West, _supra_. A professor of history in the University of Minnesota from 1892. Ancient History to Charlemagne; Modern History: Europe from Charlemagne to the Present Time. _Ap._

=Westcott, Edward Noyes.= _N. Y._, 1847-1898. A banker of Syracuse, whose David Harum, a Story of American Life, was published after his death and achieved a widespread popularity; The Teller is his only other book. _Ap._

=Weston, James Augustus.= _N. C._, 1838- ----. An Episcopal clergyman at Edenton, North Carolina. Historic Doubts as to the Execution of Marshall Ney. _Wh._

=Weston, Stephen Francis.= _Me._, 1855- ----. An educator; dean of Antioch College, Ohio, from 1902. Principles of Justice in Taxation.

=Wetmore, Claude Hazeltine.= _O._, 1862- ----. A novelist whose youth was passed in Peru. Fighting under the Southern Cross; Sweepers of the Sea; Incaland; In a Brazilian Jungle; The Battle against Bisbay. _Bo. We._

=Weyl, Walter Edward.= _Pa._, 1873- ----. An economist of Philadelphia. The Passenger Traffic of Railways (1901). _Gi._

=Wharton, Mrs. Edith Newbold [Jones].= _N. Y._, 1862- ----. A novelist of New York city. The Greater Inclination; Crucial Instances; The Valley of Decision; Sanctuary; The Touchstone; Italian Villas and their Gardens; The Descent of Man; The House of Mirth. _Scr._

=Wharton, Henry Redwood.= _Pa._, 1853- ----. A physician of Philadelphia. Text-Book on Minor Surgery and Bandaging; Practice of Surgery (with B. F. Curtis).

=Wheeler, Candace [Thurber].= _N. Y._, 18-- - ----. An artist of New York city. Double Darling and Other Fairy Tales; Household Art; Content in a Garden; Decorators and Decorating; Domestic Weavings. _Har. Hou._

=Wheeler, Charles Gilbert.= _Ont._, 1836- ----. A chemist of Chicago. Outlines of Modern Chemistry; Elementary Guide to Determinative Mineralogy; Outlines of Determinative Mineralogy; Medical Chemistry; Chemistry of Building Materials.

=Wheeler, Edward Jewitt.= _O._, 1859- ----. A New York prohibition editor. Stories in Rhyme for Holiday Time; Prohibition: the Principle, the Policy, the Party.

=Wheeler, Everett Pepperell.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A lawyer of New York city. The Modern Law of Carriers; Real Bimetallism. _Put. Rev._

=Wheeler, Henry.= _E._, 1835- ----. A Methodist clergyman of Ocean Grove, New Jersey. The Memory of the Just; Methodism and the Temperance Reformation; Rays of Light in the Valley of Sorrow; Deaconesses, Ancient and Modern. _Meth._

=Wheeler, Joseph.= _Ga._, 1836- ----. A noted cavalry officer, who served with distinction in the Confederate service during the Civil War, and in the army of the United States in the war with Spain. The Santiago Campaign; A Revised System of Military Tactics; Alabama, in Confederate military history.

=Wheeler, Post.= _N. Y._, 1869- ----. The Reflections of a Bachelor; The Writer; Love-in-a-Mist, a collection of verse.

=Whigham, Henry James.= _S._, 1869- ----. A journalist of New York city. How to Play Golf; the Persian Problem; Manchuria and Korea. _Scr. S._

=Whinery, Samuel.= _O._, 1845- ----. A civil engineer of New York city. Municipal Works. _Mac._

=Whipple, George Chandler.= _N. H._, 1866- ----. A chemist and sanitary expert of Brooklyn. Microscopy of Drinking Water. _Wil._

=Whipple, Henry Benjamin.= _N. Y._, 1823-1901. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, consecrated in 1859. The Indian Question; Lights and Shadows of a Long Episcopate. _Mac._

=Whitaker, Walter Claiborne.= _N. C._, 1867- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Jackson, Mississippi. Dives and Lazarus: Six Studies; History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Alabama.

=Whitaker, William Force.= _L. I._, 1853- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Albany. Swiss Travel; Southold’s Centuries.

=Whitcomb, Merrick.= _N. Y._, 1859- ----. An educator of Cincinnati. Source Book of the Renaissance; History of Modern Europe. _Ap. Lgs._

=White, Charles Joyce.= _Ms._, 1839- ----. A mathematician of Cambridge. Elements of Theoretical and Descriptive Astronomy. _Wil._

=White, Edwin Augustine.= _Ct._, 1854- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, now (1904) rector of Christ Church, Bloomfield, New Jersey, but in earlier life a lawyer. American Church Law.

=White, Eugene Richard.= _N. Y._, 1872- ----. Songs of Good Fighting.

=White, Frances Hodges.= _Me._, 1866- ----. Sea Tales; Helena’s Wonder World; Aunt Nabby’s Children.

=White, Henry Alexander.= _W. Va._, 1861- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of history in Washington and Lee University. The Origin of the Pentateuch in the Light of the Ancient Monuments; Robert E. Lee and the Southern Confederacy; History of the United States. _Put._

=White, Hervey.= _Ia._, 1866- ----. A novelist of Chicago. Differences; Quicksand; When Eve was Not Created and Other Stories; Noll and the Fairies.

=White, John Stuart.= _Ms._, 1847- ----. The head master of the Berkeley School in New York city. Boys’ and Girls’ Plutarch; Boys’ and Girls’ Herodotus; Boys’ and Girls’ Pliny; The Viking Ship. _Put. Scr._

=White, Richard Edward.= _I._, 1843- ----. A verse-writer of San Francisco. The Cross of Monterey, and Other Poems.

=White, Stewart Edward.= _Mch._, 1873- ----. A novelist. The Claim Jumpers; The Westerners; The Blazed Trail; The Magic Forest; The Great Silent Places; The Mountains; Blazed Trail Stories. _Ap. Scr._

=White, Trumbull.= _Ia._, 1868- ----. A Chicago journalist. Wizard of Wall Street; The War in the East (1895); Free Silver in Mexico (with W. E. Curtis); Our War with Spain; Our New Possessions; Martinique and the World’s Great Disasters.

=White, Wilbert Webster.= _O._, 1863- ----. A United Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Thirty Studies in the Gospel by John; Thirty Studies in the Revelation; Inductive Studies in the Minor Prophets; Thirty Studies in Jeremiah; Studies in Old Testament Characters; Thirty Studies in the Gospel by Matthew.

=Whitehouse, Mrs. Florence Brooks.= _Me._, 18- ----. A novelist of Portland, Maine. The God of Things, a novel; The House Party, a play. _Lit._

=Whitelock, Mrs. Louise [Clarkson].= “L. Clarkson.” _Md._, 1865- ----. The wife of a prominent lawyer of Baltimore. The Shadow of John Wallace, a novel; A Mad Madonna, short stories of art life; How Hindsight met Provincialatis, contrasted stories of North and South; besides books of verse with colour illustration, such as Indian Summer; The Rag Fair; Heartease, and others. _Pa._

=Whitham, Jay Manuel.= _Il._, 1853- ----. A consulting engineer in Philadelphia. Steam Engine Design; Constructive Steam Engineering. _Wil._

=Whitlock, Brand.= _O._, 1869- ----. A lawyer of Toledo, Ohio. The Thirteenth District; Her Infinite Variety; The Happy Average. _Bo._

=Whitman, William Edward Seaver.= _Me._, 1832- ----. A journalist of Augusta, Maine. The Ship Carpenter’s Family, a Story; The Wealth and Industry of Maine; Maine in the War for the Union.

=Whitmarsh, H[ubert] Phelps.= _Q._, 1863- ----. A Boston writer of stories, mainly for young people. The Young Pearl Divers; The Mysterious Voyage of the Daphne; The World’s Rough Hand; The Golden Talisman. _Pa. We._

=Whitney, Mrs. Belle Armstrong.= _Ms._, 1861- ----. A writer of New York city. The Art of Dress.

=Whitney, Mrs. Helen [Hay].= _N. Y._, 18- ----. Daughter of John Hay (page 177). The Rose of Dawn; Some Verses; Little Boy Blue; Beasts and Birds.

=Whitney, Henry Clay.= _Ms._, 1831- ----. A lawyer of Boston. Life on the Circuit with Lincoln; Marriage and Divorce.

=Whitson, John Harvey.= _Ind._, 1854- ----. A novelist of Somerville, Massachusetts. The Young Ditch Rider and Other Stories; Barbara, a Woman of the West; With Frémont, the Pathfinder; The Rainbow Chasers, a Story of the Plains. _Lit._

=Whitten, Robert Harvey.= _Ind._, 1873- ----. A librarian at Albany. Public Administration in Massachusetts; Taxation of Corporations in New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.

=Wiechmann, Ferdinand Gerhard.= _L. I._, 1858- ----. A lecturer in chemistry in Columbia University from 1883. Sugar Analysis; Lecture Notes on Theoretical Chemistry; Chemistry: Its Evolution and Achievements; The Maid of Montauk. _Wil._

=Wiener, Leo.= _R._, 1862- ----. A professor of Slavic languages at Harvard University. History of Yiddish Literature; Songs from the Ghetto; Anthology of Russian Literature. _Put._

=Wigmore, John Henry.= _Cal._, 1863- ----. A jurist and dean of the law school of Northwestern University from 1901. Digest of the Decisions of the Massachusetts Railway Commission; The Australian Ballot System; Land Tenure and Local Institutions in Old Japan; Materials for the Study of Private Law in Old Japan.

=Wilbor, William Chambers.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A Methodist clergyman of Buffalo. Beauty for Ashes; Our Guests. _Meth._

=Wilcox, Delos F[ranklin].= _Mch._, 1873- ----. A writer of Elk Rapids, Michigan. The Study of City Government; Municipal Government in Michigan and Ohio; The American Newspaper; Ethical Marriage; The American City. _Mac._

=Wilcox, Earley Vernon.= _N. Y._, 1869- ----. An agricultural expert in government service. The Farmer’s Cyclopedia of Agriculture; Handbook of Meat Inspection. _Ju._

=Wilcox, Walter Dwight.= _Il._, 1869- ----. An author of Washington city. Campaigning in the Rockies, reissued as The Rockies of Canada. _Put._

=Wilder, Marshall Pinckney.= _N. Y._, 1859- ----. A popular entertainer. People I’ve Smiled With.

=Wildman, Edwin.= _N. Y._, 1867- - ----. A former vice-consul in the Philippines. Brother of R. Wildman, _infra_. Aguinaldo, a Narrative of Filipino Ambitions. _Lo._

=Wildman, Rounseville.= _N. Y._, 1864-1901. An American consul-general at Hong Kong. Tales of the Malayan Coast; Talked in the Sanctum; China’s Open Door. _Lo._

=Wiley, Hiram Ozias.= _Vt._, 1831-1873. A lawyer and verse-writer of Peabody, Massachusetts. Eternity, and Other Poems.

=Wiley, William Halstead.= _N. Y._, 1842- ----. A publisher of New York city. Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone.

=Wilkinson, Florence.= _N. Y._, 18-- - ----. Daughter of W. C. Wilkinson (page 424). A Chicago novelist. The Lady of the Flag Flowers; The Strength of the Hills, and several plays. _Har._

=Will, Arthur Percival.= _Ont._, 1868- ----. A lawyer of Chicago. A treatise on the Law of Circumstantial Evidence.

=Willard, Josiah Flynt.= “=Josiah Flint.=” _Il._, 1869- ----. Nephew of F. E. Willard (page 425). Tramping with Tramps; Powers that Prey (with F. Walton); Notes of an Itinerant Policeman; The World of Graft; The Little Brother; The Rise of Ruderick Clowd. _Cent. Pa._

=Willard, Julius Terass.= _Kan._, 1862- ----. A professor of chemistry in the Kansas State Agricultural College. Organic Compounds of Everyday Life.

=Willcox, Mary Alice.= _Me._, 1856- ----. A professor of zoölogy at Wellesley College from 1883. Pocket Guide to Common Land Birds of New England. _Le._

=Willet, Herbert Lockwood.= _Mch._, 1854- ----. A professor of Semitic languages in the University of Chicago from 1896. Life and Teaching of Jesus; The Teaching of the Books; Prophets of Israel; The Ruling Quality. _Rev._

=Williams, Alvin Dighton.= _Pa._, 1824-1894. A Free Baptist clergyman in Nebraska. History of the Free Communion Baptists; Four Years’ Co-operation in Nebraska; The Church and its Institutions.

=Williams, Dwight.= _N. Y._, 1824-1898. A Methodist clergyman in Cazenovia, New York. The Beautiful City in Song, and Other Poems; A Book of Rondeaux.

=Williams, Edward Higginson.= _Vt._, 1849- ----. A mining engineer, lecturer at Lehigh University from 1902. Manual of Lithology. _Wil._

=Williams, Egerton Ryerson.= 18-- - ----. A lawyer of Rochester, New York. The Hill Towns of Italy. _Hou._

=Williams, Espy William Henry.= _La._, 1852- ----. A New Orleans playwright. He has published A Dream of Art (verse); and among his plays are Parrhasius; The Duke’s Jester.

=Williams, Eustace Leroy.= _Va._, 1874- ----. A Louisville journalist. The Substitute Quarterback; The Mutineers; That Kentucky Campaign. _Clke. Est. Lo._

=Williams, Francis Churchill.= _Pa._, 1869- ----. Son of F. H. Williams (page 426). J. Devlin: Boss; Smith of “Pennsylvania”; The Captain. _Lo._

=Williams, Frederick Benton.= _See Hamblen, Herbert._

=Williams, Frederick Wells.= _Ch._, 1857- ----. Son of Samuel W. Williams (page 427). A professor of modern oriental history at Yale University from 1900. The Middle Kingdom (with S. W. Williams); Life and Letters of Samuel Wells Williams.

=Williams, George Forrester.= _Sp._, 1841- ----. A journalist of New York city. Bullet and Shell; Lucy’s Rebel; The Memorial War Book; Unfair in Love and War; Across the Lines. _Fo._

=Williams, Gorham Deane.= _Ms._, 1842- ----. A lawyer of Boston. The Penal Statutes of Massachusetts; The Massachusetts Peace Officer; Massachusetts Insolvent Law. _Hou._

=Williams, Harold.= _Ms._, 1853- ----. A physician and novelist, dean of Tufts Medical College, Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Morton; Silken Threads; Climatic Treatment of Phthisis.

=Williams, Henry Smith.= _Il._, 1863- ----. A physician of New York city. The Story of Nineteenth Century Science; History of the Art of Writing. _Har._

=Williams, John.= _S. C._, 1809-1886. A Presbyterian missionary in Africa. Western Africa: its History, Condition and Prospects (1857).

=Williams, John Whitridge.= _Md._, 1866- ----. A professor of obstetrics in Johns Hopkins University from 1889. Text Book of Obstetrics. _Ap._

=Williams, Mrs. Mary Bushnell.= _La._, 1826- ----. Tales and Legends of Louisiana.

=Williams, Ralph Olmsted.= 1838- ----. A lawyer and philologist of New York city. Our Dictionaries and Other English Language Topics; Some Questions of Good English Examined.

=Williams, Rufus Phillips.= _Ms._, 1851- ----. A teacher of chemistry in the English High School, Boston, from 1885, who has published a valuable series of chemical text-books. _Gi._

=Williamson, Mrs. Mary Lynn [Harrison].= _Va._, 1850- ----. A Virginia educator who has published a Life of Gen. T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson.

=Willing, John Thomson.= _Ont._, 1860- ----. An artist of New York city. Some Old Time Beauties; Dames of High Degree.

=Willis, Richard Storrs.= _Ms._, 1819-1900. Brother of N. P. Willis (page 427). A journalist and musician. Church Chorals and Choir Studies; A Waif of Song.

=Willoughby, Hugh L[aussat].= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. A writer of travels. Across the Everglades. _Lip._

=Willoughby, Westel Woodbury.= _Va._, 1867- ----. An associate professor of political science in Johns Hopkins University. The Rights and Duties of American Citizenship; The Nature of the State; The Supreme Court of the United States; Government and Administration of the United States; Social Justice; The Political Theories of the Ancient World; The American Constitutional System. _Am. J. H. U. Lgs. Mac. Cent._

=Willoughby, William Franklin.= _Va._, 1867- ----. Twin brother of W. W. Willoughby, _supra_. A professional expert in the United States Department of Labour in Washington city. Workingmen’s Insurance. _Cr._

=Willson, Frederick Newton.= _L. I._, 1855- ----. A professor of geometry at Princeton University from 1883. Theoretical and Practical Graphics; Note-Taking, Dimensioning and Lettering; Practical Engineering; Perspective of Reflections. _Mac._

=Wilson, Bird.= _Pa._, 1777-1859. An Episcopal clergyman from 1829, but previously a noted lawyer of Philadelphia. Abridgment of the Law by Matthew Bacon; Memoir of Bishop White. _See Memorial of, by Bronson, 1864._

=Wilson, Mrs. Calista.= 18-- - ----. Pedagogues and Parents. _Ho._

=Wilson, Calvin Dill.= _Md._, 1857- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman in Ohio. Bible Boys and Girls (with J. K. Reeve); The Child’s Don Quixote; The Story of the Cid for Young People; The Flight of the Hebrews. _Cr. Le._

=Wilson, Daniel Munro.= _S._, 1848- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of Brooklyn, New York. Where American Independence Began, an historical description of Quincy, Massachusetts. _Hou._

=Wilson, Edmund Beecher.= _Il._, 1856- ----. A professor of zoölogy at Columbia University. General Biology (with W. T. Sedgwick); The Cell in Development; Atlas of Karykonesis and Fertilization. _Ho. Mac._

=Wilson, Edward Livingstone.= _N. J._, 1838-1903. The editor of Wilson’s Photographic Magazine from 1864. In Scripture Lands; Wilson’s Photographics; The American Carbon Manual; Cyclopædic Photography; Quarter Century in Photography; Lantern Journeys. _Scr._

=Wilson, Epiphanius.= _E._, 1845- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. Nugæ: Greek and Latin Verses; Dante Interpreted; Cathedrals of France; and translations of the dramas of Balzac, the poems of Maupassant, the Moorish Ballads of Spain, and of Pugstall’s German version of The Rose and the Nightingale.

=Wilson, Floyd Baker.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. A lawyer of New York city. Uphill, a novel; Paths to Power. _Fu._

=Wilson, Francis.= _Pa._, 1854- ----. An actor of note. The Eugene Field I Knew; Recollections of a Player; Going on the Stage. _Scr._

=Wilson, George Grafton.= _Ct._, 1863- ----. A professor of social and political science in Brown University from 1891. Besides various professional monographs he is joint author with G. F. Tucker of a treatise on International Law. _Sil._

=Wilson, Harry Leon.= _Il._, 1867- ----. A New York journalist, editor of Puck from 1896. The Spenders, a novel; Zig Zag Tales; The Lions of the Lord; The Seeker. _Dou. Lo._

=Wilson, Herbert Michael.= _S._, 1860- ----. A geographical engineer in government service. Manual of Irrigation Engineering; Geographic and Topographic Surveying. _Wil._

=Wilson, Lucy Langdon Williams.= _Vt._, 1865- ----. A professor of biology at the Philadelphia Normal School from 1892. Domestic Science; Nature Study in Elementary Schools. _Mac._

=Wilson, Rufus Rockwell.= _Pa._, 1865- ----. A New York author. Rambles in Colonial Byways; New York Old and New; Washington: the Capital City; Lincoln in Caricature; Historic Long Island; New England in Letters. _Lip._

=Wilson, Victor Tyson.= _Pa._, 1864- ----. A teacher in Sibley College, Cornell University from 1893. Freehand Perspective; Free-hand Lettering. _Wil._

=Wilson, William Huntington.= _D. C._, 1870- ----. Rafnaland, a novel. _Har._

=Wilson, William Robert Anthony.= _Il._, 1870- ----. A physician and novelist. A Rose of Normandy.

=Winchester, Caleb Thomas.= _Ct._, 1847- ----. A professor of English literature at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, from 1874. Some Principles of Literary Criticism. _Mac._

=Winchester, Charles Wesley.= _Vt._, 1843- ----. A Methodist clergyman. The Gospel Kodak Abroad; Wells of Salvation.

=Winfield, Charles Hardenburg.= _N. Y._, 1829-1898. A lawyer of Jersey City. History of Land Titles; History of Hudson County, New Jersey; Adjudged Words and Phrases; The Founding of Jersey City.

=Winship, George Parker.= _Ms._, 1873- ----. Son of A. E. Winship (page 430). A librarian of Providence. The Coronado Expedition; The Cabots; Early Mexican Printers.

=Winter, Mrs. Elizabeth [Campbell].= _S._, 1841- ----. Wife of W. Winter (page 431). A novelist of New Brighton, Staten Island. The Spanish Treasure; The Curse of Dangerfield; Hawthorn Lodge; The Mistress of the Grange.

=Winterburn, Mrs. Florence [Hull] [Brown].= _Il._, 1858- ----. A writer of New York city. Nursery Ethics; From the Child’s Standpoint; Southern Hearts; The Children’s Health. _Ba._

=Wise, Barton Haxall.= _Va._, 1865-1899. Grandson of Henry Alexander Wise (page 432). A lawyer of Richmond, Virginia. Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia. _Mac._

=Witmer, Lightner.= _Pa._, 1867- ----. A psychologist, director of the laboratory of Psychology in the University of Pennsylvania from 1892. Experimental Studies in Psychology. _Gi._

=Witthaus, Rudolph August.= _N. Y._, 1846- ----. A toxicologist of New York city. Essentials of Chemistry; General Medical Chemistry; Laboratory Guide in Urinalysis and Toxicology.

=Wolf, Emma.= _Cal._, 1865- ----. A San Francisco writer. Other Things Being Equal; The Joy of Life; A Prodigal in Love; Heirs of Yesterday. _Mg._

=Wolf, Simon.= _Bv._, 1836- ----. A lawyer of Washington city. The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier, and Citizen.

=Wolfenstein, Martha.= 18-- - ----. A writer of Columbus, Ohio. Idyls of the Gass, a Collection of Short Stories. _Mac._

=Woll, Fritz Wilhelm.= _N._, 1865- ----. A professor of agricultural chemistry in the University of Wisconsin from 1893. Agricultural Calendar; Dairy Calendar; A Book on Silage; Handbook for Farmers and Dairymen. _Ra. Wil._

=Wood, Mrs. Edith [Elmer].= _N. H._, 1871- ----. A novelist of Washington. Her Provincial Cousin; Shoulder Straps and Sun Bonnets. _Cas. Ho._

=Wood, William Converse.= _Ms._, 1839- ----. A Congregational clergyman. Five Problems of State and Religion; Heaven Once a Week.

=Wood-Allen, Mrs. Mary.= _O._, 1841- ----. A physician of Ann Arbor, among whose publications are Teaching Truth; Almost a Man; What a Young Girl Ought to Know; Marriage. _Rev._

=Woodburn, James Albert.= _Ind._, 1856- ----. A professor of American history and politics in Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. The American Republic and its Government; The Causes of the American Revolution. _J. H. U. Put._

=Woodbury, Charles Jeptha Hill.= _Ms._, 1851- ----. A civil engineer of Boston. Fire Protection of Mills. _Wil._

=Woodhull, John Francis.= _N. Y._, 1857- ----. A professor of physical science in the Teacher’s College, Columbia University. First Course in Science; Chemical Experiments; are among his works.

=Woodman, Alpheus Grant.= _Ms._, 1873- ----. A Boston chemist. Air, Water, and Food from a Sanitary Standpoint. _Wil._

=Woodman, Clarence Eugene.= _Me._, 1852- ----. A Roman Catholic priest of New York, prominent as an orator. The Bridal Wreath; Manual of Prayer; Poets and Poetry of Ireland.

=Woodruff, Edwin Hamilton.= _N. Y._, 1862- ----. A professor of law at Cornell University from 1896. Cases on Domestic Relations; Introduction to the Study of Law; Cases on Insurance.

=Woods, Robert Archey.= _Pa._, 1865- ----. A University settlement worker of Boston. English Social Movements; The City Wilderness (edited). _Hou._

=Wood-Seys, Roland Alexander.= _E._, 1854- ----. An olive-grower of Southern California. A Woman with a Secret; Blacksmith of Voe; Cut with his Own Diamond; The Shepherdess of Treva.

=Woolf, Philip.= _N. Y._, 1848-1903. A journalist and novelist of New York city. Who is Guilty?; The Trail of the Serpent; Satan’s Mirror; Three Women and a Dead Man; Goldenrod and Aster.

=Woollen, William Wesley.= _Ind._, 1828- ----. Biographical and Historical Sketches of Indiana.

=Woolley, John Granville.= _O._, 1850- ----. A Chicago lecturer. Seed; The Sower; Civilization by Faith; The Christian Citizen; A Lion Hunter.

=Woolsey, Theodore Salisbury.= _Ct._, 1852- ----. Son of T. D. Woolsey (page 436). A professor of international law at Yale University from 1879. America’s Foreign Policy. _Cent._

=Worcester, Dean Conant.= _Vt._, 1866- ----. An assistant professor of zoölogy in the University of Michigan. The Philippine Islands and their People, a record of observation and experience. _Mac._

=Worcester, John.= _Ms._, 1834- ----. A Swedenborgian clergyman. A Year’s Lessons from the Psalms; Correspondences of the Bible; A Journey in Palestine; Matthew’s Gospel.

=Wright, Albert Allen.= _O._, 1846- ----. A professor of zoölogy at Oberlin College from 1874. Geology of Holmes County, Ohio; Limits of the Glacial Area in New Jersey.

=Wright, Carrie Douglas.= _Il._, 1862- ----. A music teacher in Chicago. Lincoln’s First Love. _Mg._

=Wright, Charles Herbert.= _Ms._, 1857- ----. A civil engineer of Cleveland. Bridge Drafting; Plate Girder Draw Spans; The Designing of Draw Spans. _Wil._

=Wright, Mrs. Marie [Robinson].= _Ga._, 1860- ----. A writer of New York city. Picturesque Mexico; The New Brazil. _Lip._

=Wright, Theodore Francis.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. A Swedenborgian clergyman, professor in the New Church School at Cambridge from 1884. Life Eternal; The Realities of Heaven.

=Wulling, Frederick John.= _L. I._, 1866- ----. A pharmacologist, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry in the University of Minnesota from 1892. Medical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Evolution of Botany. _Am. Wil._

=Wyatt, Edith Franklin.= _Wis._, 1873- ----. A Chicago novelist. Every One His Own Way; True Love.

=Wyckoff, Walter A[ugustus].= _E. I._, 1865- ----. A lecturer on sociology at Princeton University, born of American parentage at Mainpuri, in the northwest provinces of Hindustan. In order to ascertain the actual conditions surrounding the American workingman, he spent two years in toil as an unskilled labourer, an experience described in The Workers: an Experiment in Reality--The East--The West; A Day with a Tramp, and Other Days. _Scr._

=Wylie, Samuel Brown.= _I._, 1773-1852. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman, pastor of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, 1801-1852, and professor of ancient languages in the University of Pennsylvania, 1824-1845. (His sons, T. W. J. Wylie and T. A. Wylie, are mentioned on page 438.) The Faithful Witness for Magistracy and Ministracy upon a Scriptural Basis; Covenanting; Life of Alexander McLeod (page 243); A Greek Grammar. _See Memoirs by J. D. McLeod 1852; McMaster, 1852._

=Wynkoop, Richard.= _N. Y._, 1829- ----. A writer of New York city. Wynkoop Genealogy; Schureman Genealogy; Clearance and Entrance of Vessels in the United States of America; Supplement to the preceding; Vessels and Voyages as Regulated by Federal Statutes.

=Wynne, Mrs. Emma [Moffett].= _Al._, 1844- ----. A Georgia writer. Craigfont, a novel.

Y

=Yale, Cyrus.= _Ms._, 1786-1854. A Congregational clergyman of New Hartford, Connecticut. The Godly Pastor: a Life of Rev. Jeremiah Hallock; Miniature of the Life of the Rev. Alvan Hyde; Biographical Sketches of the Ministers of Litchfield County after the year 1800.

=Yale, Leroy Milton.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. A New York physician. The Century Book for Mothers. _Cent._

=Yarnall, Ellis.= _Pa._, 1817- ----. A Philadelphia writer who published Wordsworth and The Coleridges. _Mac._

=Yates, Lorenzo Gordin.= _E._, 1837- ----. A naturalist of Santa Barbara, California. California Digest of Masonic Law; The Ferns of Ceylon; The Channel Islands; All Known Ferns.

=Yechton, Barbara.= _See Krause, Lydia._

=Young, Abram Van Eps.= _Wis._, 18-- - ----. A professor of chemistry in Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, from 1885. The Elementary Principles of Chemistry. _Ap._

=Young, Alfred.= _E._, 1831-1900. A Roman Catholic clergyman of the order of Paulists. Catholic and Protestant Countries Compared; Catholic Hymns and Canticles; Carols for a Merry Christmas and a Joyous Easter.

=Young, Claiborne Addison.= _Ind._, 18-- - ----. A Unitarian clergyman in Canton, Massachusetts. Way Songs and Wanderings. _Est._

=Young, Edward.= _E._, 1818- ----. A watchmaker of Lexington, Georgia. Ladye Lilian and Other Poems.

=Young, Mrs. Ella [Flagg]=. _N. Y._, 1845- ----. A professor of education in the University of Chicago. Isolation in the School; Ethics in the School; Some Types of Educational Theory.

=Young, Franklin Knowles.= _Ms._, 1857- ----. A military inventor of Boston. The Minor Tactics of Chess; The Major Tactics of Chess; The Grand Tactics of Chess; Chess Strategics; Napoleon’s Campaigns. _Lit._

=Young, George Curson.= _E._, 1840- ----. A physician of Washington, New Jersey, resident in the United States from 1870. Ancient and Modern History of the Knights of Malta; Therapeutics in Nature; Physiology for the People.

=Young, Jacob William Albert.= _Pa._, 1865- ----. A mathematical professor in the University of Chicago. Differential and Integral Calculus (joint author); The Teaching of Mathematics in Prussia. _Lgs._

=Young, James Kelly.= _N. J._, 1862- ----. A Philadelphia lawyer. Orthopædic Surgery; Synopsis of Human Anatomy.

=Young, John Philip.= _Pa._, 1849- ----. The managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle from 1876. Protection and Progress.

=Young, Lucien.= _Ky._, 1852- ----. A lieutenant in the United States navy. The Real Hawaii. _Dou._

=Young, Robert Anderson.= _Tn._, 1824-1902. A prominent Methodist clergyman of Tennessee. Personages; Twenty Thousand Miles, a record of travel; Sketchy Pages of Foreign Travel; Celebrities and Less.

=Young, Rose E----.= _Mo._, 18-- - ----. A journalist and novelist of New York city. Henderson; Sally of Missouri. _Hou._

Z

=Zeigler, Wilbur Gleason.= 18-- - ----. It was Marlowe (a novel in which the attempt is made to prove Marlowe’s authorship of the plays commonly attributed to Shakespeare); The Heart of the Alleghanies (with B. S. Grosscup).

=Zender, Joachim Denis Laurent.= _F._, 1805- ----. A French physician and missionary who came to the United States in 1828, and in 1844 became a Congregational clergyman. Anthropometry; Abécédaire Français-Anglais Illustré; Guide des Etats-Unis. From 1848 to 1868 he edited the yearly Almanach et Directoire des Français aux Etats-Unis.

=Zilliox, James.= _N. J._, 1849-1890. A Roman Catholic clergyman of the Order of Saint Benedict. Album Benedictinum.

=Zimmermann, Leander M.=[8] _Md._, 1863- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of Baltimore. How to be Happy When Married; Paths that Cross; Sunshine; Daily Bread for Daily Hunger; The Little Grave; The Family; The Wedding Token; Expository Thoughts on Pilgrim’s Progress; Yvonne, a novel.

=Zinkeisen, Frank Edward.= _Wis._, 1867-1895. An historical scholar of Chicago, who published Die Anfänge der Lehnsgerichtbarkeit.

=Zollars, Ely Vaughan.= _O._, 1847- ----. A clergyman of the Christian (Disciples) denomination, president of Hiram College, Ohio, from 1888. Bible Geography; Holy Book and Sacred Day; The Great Salvation.

=Zollinger, Gulielma.= _See Gladwin, William Zachary._

=Zubly, John Joachim.= _Sd._, 1725-1781. A Presbyterian clergyman of Savannah, prominent during the period of the American Revolution as an opponent of the Declaration of Independence. The Real Christian’s Hope in Death; Sermon on the Repeal of the Stamp Act; An Humble Inquiry into the Nature of the Dependency of the American Colonies upon the Parliament of Great Britain; The Law of Liberty: a Sermon on American Affairs.

=Zueblin, Charles.= _Ind._, 1868- ----. A professor of sociology at Chicago University. American Municipal Reform. _Mac._

=Zundel, John.= _G._, 1815-1882. A musician, organist of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, 1850-1878. Modern Organ School; The Amateur Organist; Treatise on Harmony and Modulation.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Since the above was in type the firm name has become L. C. Page & Co.

[2] See Addenda, p. 441.

[3] A distinguishing initial only.

[4] A distinguishing initial only.

[5] A distinguishing initial only.

[6] A distinguishing initial only.

[7] A distinguishing initial only.

[8] A distinguishing initial only.

Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation have been standardised, except where those variations exist in book titles. All other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.

The following corrections were made to the text:

Page 142: =Fairfield, Genevieve Genevra=

Daughter of S. L.
field, _infra_. Genevra, or the History
Fair of a Portrait;

-> Daughter of S. L. Fairfield, _infra_. Genevra, or the
History of a Portrait;

Page 174: =Hartt, Charles Frederick= and =Hartzell, J[onas] Hazard= were placed into correct alphabetical order.

Page 242: =McIlvaine, Charles Petitt=, 1709-1873. -> 1799-1873.

Page 335: =Sears, Barnas=: president of Brown University, 1855-47. ->
1855-67.

Page 367: =Stroud, George McDowell=, 1895-1875. -> 1795-1875.

Italics are represented thus _italic_, bold is represented thus =bold=.