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=Cabell, James Lawrence.= _Va._, 1813-1889. An eminent Virginia physician. The Testimony of Modern Science to the Unity of Mankind.

=Cabell, Mrs. Julia [Mayo].= _Va._, 18-- -185-. An Odd Volume of Facts and Fiction in Prose and Verse; Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg.

=Cable, George Washington.= _La._, 1844- ----. A writer of fiction who has reproduced with much success the life and dialect among the creoles of Louisiana. He served in the Confederate army during the Civil War, and is now a resident of Northampton, Massachusetts. Old Creole Days; The Grandissimes; Madame Delphine; Dr. Sevier; John March, Southerner; Bonaventure; Strange True Stories of Louisiana; The Creoles of Louisiana; The Silent South; The Busy Man’s Bible; The Negro Question. _See Vedder’s American Writers._ _Fl. Scr._

=Cabot, James Elliot.= _Ms._, 1821-1903. A Boston writer whose principal work is A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson. _Hou._

=Cahan, Abraham.= _R._, 1860- ----. A New York city journalist, editor of Zukunft. Yekl, a Tale of the New York Ghetto; Raphael Narizokh (in Yiddish). _Ap._

=Cain, William.= _N. C._, 1847- ----. A professor of civil engineering in the University of North Carolina. Theory of Voussoir; Solid and Braced Arches; Maximum Stress in Framed Bridges; Solid and Braced Elastic Bridges; Symbolic Algebra; Practical Designing of Retaining Walls.

=Caines, George.= 1771-1825. A reporter of the New York Supreme Court. Lex Mercatoria Americana; Cases in the Court of Errors; Forms of New York Supreme Court; Summary of Practice in New York Supreme Court; Cases in the Court for Trial of Impeachments; New York Supreme Court Reports.

=Caldwell, Charles.= _N. C._, 1772-1853. A Kentucky physician, who beside publishing some 200 technical monographs and pamphlets, wrote The Life and Campaigns of General Greene, and translated Blumenbach’s Elements of Physiology. _See Autobiography, 1855; Life, by Caruthers, infra; Sketches of Contemporaries, by S. D. Gross, infra._

=Caldwell, George Chapman.= _Ms._, 1834- ----. A professor of agricultural chemistry at Cornell University. Agricultural Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis; Manual of Introductory Chemical Practice (with A. Breneman); Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis (with S. M. Babcock).

=Caldwell, Joseph.= _N. J._, 1773-1835. A once noted educator who was president of the University of North Carolina. A Compendious System of Elementary Geometry; Letters of Carleton.

=Caldwell, Linus Boues.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A Methodist clergyman and educator, of Tennessee. Wines of Palestine, or The Bible Defended; Beyond the Grave.

=Caldwell, Merritt.= _Me._, 1806-1848. A professor of metaphysics at Dickinson College. The Doctrine of the English Verb; Manual of Elocution; Philosophy of Christian Perfection; Christianity Tested by Eminent Men. _See Memoir by S. M. Vail._ _Meth._

=Caldwell, Samuel Lunt.= _Ms._, 1820-1889. A Baptist clergyman whose later life was passed in Providence. Cities of Our Faith and Other Addresses and Discourses. _Hou._

=Caldwell, William Warner.= _Ms._, 1823- ----. A resident of Newburyport who has published Poems, Original and Translated, and has translated many lyrics from the German.

=Calef, Robert.= _Ms._, _c._ 1648-1719. A Boston merchant who published in 1700 More Wonders of the Invisible World, a satirical reply to Cotton Mather’s Wonders of the Invisible World. Its line of argument was in direct opposition to the witchcraft persecutions, and the book was publicly burnt by Increase Mather in the grounds of Harvard College. _See Tyler’s American Literature._

=Calhoun= [kăl-hoon´], =John Caldwell.= _S. C._, 1782-1850. A South Carolina statesman who was secretary of state under Monroe, and again under Tyler, vice-president under John Quincy Adams, and United States senator from 1845 till his death. He was one of the ablest of political leaders, a great orator, and a political thinker of the first rank. His literary style is both vigourous and concise, and displays at times a remarkable intensity of expression. A Disquisition on Government; The Constitution and Government of the United States. _See Works in 6 volumes; Parton’s Famous Americans; Lives by Jenkins; Von Holst._ _Ap._

=Calkins, Norman Allison.= _N. Y._, 1822-1895. The first assistant superintendent of primary schools in New York city for thirty-three years. Primary Object Lessons; How to Teach; Manual of Object Teaching; Aids for Object Teaching; Trades and Occupations; Natural History Series for Children.

=Callender, James Thomas.= _E._, 17-- -1803. A writer who was exiled from England on account of his pamphlet, The Political Progress of Great Britain. He was at first the friend and soon the violent political opponent of Thomas Jefferson. Sketches of the History of America; The Prospect before Us.

=Callender, John.= _Ms._, 1706-1748. A Baptist clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island, whose Historical Discourse, 1739, is a careful monograph of Rhode Island history for the first century of the colony’s existence. _See edition of 1838, with notes and memoir._

=Calthrop, Samuel Robert.= _E._, 1829- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of Syracuse. Essay on Religion and Science; The Rights of the Body.

=Calvert, George Henry.= _Md._, 1803-1889. A littérateur of Newport, Rhode Island, who published a great number of volumes of verse that never was mistaken for poetry by any reader, and almost as many prose works. Among his writings are Goethe: his Life and Works; Dante and his Latest Translators; St. Beuve, the Critic; Count Julian, a tragedy; Three Score, and Other Poems; a translation of Schiller’s Don Carlos.

=Cameron, Henry Clay.= _W. Va._, 1827- ----. A professor at Princeton College since 1877. Princeton Roll of Honour; History of American Whig Society.

=Camp, Walter.= _Ct._, 1859- ----. A writer of prominence on athletic matters. Book of College Sports; American Football; Football Facts and Figures; Football (with L. F. Deland). _Har. Hou._

=Campbell, Alexander.= _I._, 1788-1866. A Baptist clergyman of West Virginia, who was the founder of the sect of Campbellites, or Disciples of Christ. He established Bethany College in 1841, and was its first president. His writings, mainly controversial, are nearly sixty in number, among them being Christian Baptism; Infidelity Refuted by Infidels; Essay on Life and Death; Popular Lectures and Addresses; Christianity as it Was; Familiar Lectures on the Pentateuch; Six Letters to a Sceptic. _See Hart’s American Literature; Memoir by Richardson, 1868._

=Campbell, Alexander Augustus.= _Va._, 1789-1846. A Presbyterian clergyman and physician, once prominent in Tennessee, whose only book was a work on Scripture Baptism.

=Campbell, Alexander James.= 18-- - ----. Son of A. Campbell, _supra_. The Power of Christ to Save to the Uttermost; American Practical Cyclopædia; A True Friend, reflections on Life, Character, and Conduct.

=Campbell, Bartley.= _Pa._, 1843-1888. A journalist of Pittsburg, who turned his attention to the stage and became a popular playwright. My Partner; The Galley Slave; Matrimony; Siberia; The Big Bonanza; The White Slave; and Peril, comprising his most successful plays.

=Campbell, Charles.= _Va._, 1807-1876. An educator of Petersburg, Virginia, whose father, John Wilson Campbell, a bookseller there for many years, wrote a History of Virginia to 1781. The writings of Charles Campbell include History of the Colony of Virginia; Genealogy of the Spotswood Family; The Bland Papers; Memoir of John Daly Burk, _supra_. _Lip._

=Campbell, Douglas.= _N. Y._, 1840-1893. Son of W. W. Campbell, _infra_. A lawyer of New York city, whose notable historical work, The Puritan in Holland, England, and America, has attracted much attention. _Har._

=Campbell, Douglas Houghton.= _Mch._, 1859- ----. A professor of botany in Stanford University. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany; Structure and Development of the Mosses and Ferns. _Mac._

=Campbell, Mrs. Helen [Stuart].= 1839- ----. A writer who is deeply concerned in philanthropic and social reforms, and whose work covers a wide range of topics. In Foreign Kitchens; The Easiest Way in Housekeeping, are books for the housekeeper. Prisoners of Poverty; Prisoners of Poverty Abroad; Some Passages in the Life of Dr. Martha Scarborough; Women Wage-Earners; Problem of the Poor; Darkness and Daylight in New York, relate to the social problems of the time. Six Sinners; His Grandmothers; Roger Berkeley’s Probation; Miss Melinda’s Opportunity; Mrs. Herndon’s Income; The What-to-Do-Club; Under Green Apple-Boughs; Unto the Third and Fourth Generation; Patty Pearson’s Boy, are fictions. Other works are Girls’ Handbook of Work and Play; A Sylvan City, a description of Philadelphia; The Ainslee Stories, for juvenile readers; Anne Bradstreet and her Time, _supra_. _Fo. Hou. Lo. Rob._

=Campbell, James Valentine.= _N. Y._, 1823-1890. A Michigan jurist. Outlines of the Political History of Michigan.

=Campbell, John Lyle.= _Va._, 1818-1886. A professor of chemistry at Washington and Lee College, 1851-86. Manual of Scientific and Practical Agriculture; Idaho, Six Months in the New Gold Diggings; Guide to the Agricultural and Mineral West; Geology and Mineral Resources of the James River Valley, Virginia.

=Campbell, John Poage.= _Va._, 1767-1814. A once popular clergyman on the Ohio border. The Passenger; Strictures on Stone’s Letters on the Atonement; Vindex; Letters to the Rev. Mr. Craighead; The Pelagian Defeated; An Answer to Jones.

=Campbell, William Henry.= _Md._, 1808-1890. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, president of Rutgers College, 1863-82. Subjects and Modes of Baptism; Influence of Christianity in Civil and Religious Liberty; System of Catechetical Instruction.

=Campbell, William W.= _N. Y._, 1806-1881. A jurist of New York city. Annals of Tryon County, reissued as Border Warfare; Memoirs of Mrs. Grant, Missionary to Persia; Life and Writings of De Witt Clinton; Sketches of Robin Hood and Captain Kidd.

=Canfield, Henry Judson.= _Ct._, 1789-1856. An agriculturist who published a serviceable Treatise on the Breed, Management, Structure, and Diseases of Sheep.

=Cannon, Charles James.= _N. Y._, 1810-1860. A New York littérateur who besides compiling a series of readers published, among other works, Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous; Pencillings from the Web of Life, and a number of dramas now forgotten.

=Cannon, James Spencer.= _W. I._, 1776-1852. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of New Jersey, professor of metaphysics at Rutgers College, 1826-56. Lectures on Chronology; Lectures on Pastoral Theology.

=Capen, Nahum.= _Ms._, 1804-1886. A Boston publisher who was postmaster 1857-61, and introduced the custom of street letter-box collections. The Republic of the United States; Reminiscences of Spurzheim and Combe; History of Democracy, or Political Progress Historically Illustrated.

=Capers, William.= _S. C._, 1790-1855. A Methodist bishop once prominent in the South. Cathechisms for Negro Missions; Short Sermons and True Tales for Children. _See Life, by Wightman, 1859._

=Carey, Henry Charles.= _Pa._, 1793-1879. Son of M. Carey, _infra_. One of the foremost of American political economists, who advocated protection as a preliminary step toward ultimate free trade. He opposed such theorists as Malthus and Ricardo, holding that human progress depends upon success in subjugating nature; that land values depend upon labour; and that the social well-being is directly dependent upon existing conditions. Principles of Political Economy; The Credit System; The Principles of Social Science; Lectures on the Currency; Letters on Political Economy; Letters on International Copyright; Financial Crises; The Unity of Law, comprise his chief works. _See Allibone’s Dictionary; Memoir by Elder; Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._ _Bai. Lip._

=Carey, Matthew.= _I._, 1760-1839. An Irishman who came to America in 1785, entered into politics, and established himself in Philadelphia as a bookseller. His writings include The Olive Branch, or Faults on Both Sides, Federal and Democratic (1814), which soon entered a tenth edition; Vindiciæ Hibernicæ; Thoughts on Penitentiaries and Prison Discipline; Essays on Political Economy; The Yellow Fever of 1793.

=Carleton, Henry Guy.= _N. M._, 1856- ----. A journalist of New York city who is best known as a writer of plays, among which are Memnon; The Pembertons; Victor Durand.

=Carleton, Osgood.= 1742-1816. A Massachusetts mathematician. American Navigator; South American Pilot; Practice of Arithmetic.

=Carleton, William.= _Mch._, 1845- ----. A writer of homely verse which appeals with great force to imperfectly educated tastes, and has been very popular, but which is without literary merit. Farm Ballads; Farm Festivals; Farm Legends; City Legends; City Ballads; City Festivals; Rhymes of our Planet; Young Folks’ Centennial Rhymes; The Old Infant, and Similar Stories. _Har._

=Carman [William], Bliss.= _N. B._, 1861- ----. A poet of Canadian birth, whose literary work has been done mainly in New York and Boston. Low Tide on Grand Pré; A Seamark; Behind the Arras; Songs from Vagabondia (with R. Hovey, _infra_); More Songs from Vagabondia (with R. Hovey); Ballads of Lost Haven, a Book of the Sea. _Cop. Lam._

=Carnegie, Andrew.= _S._, 1835- ----. A noted steel-manufacturer of Pittsburg who came to America in 1845. He has made many important gifts to his native Scotland and to Pittsburg, and as a writer is distinguished for the rather exuberant Americanism of his work. An American Four-in-Hand in Europe; Round the World; Triumphant Democracy, or Fifty Years’ March of the Republic. _Scr._

=Carnochan, John Murray.= _Ga._, 1817-1887. A New York surgeon of distinction. Treatise on Congenital Dislocations; Contributions to Operative Surgery. _Har._

=Carpenter, Edmund Janes.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. A journalist of Boston. A Woman of Shawmut, a Romance of Colonial Times; History of Roger Williams. _Lit._

=Carpenter, Esther Bernon.= _R. I._, 1848-1893. A writer of southern Rhode Island, whose South Country Neighbours is a series of sympathetic studies in fiction of Rhode Island types of character. _Rob._

=Carpenter, Francis Bicknell.= _N. Y._, 1830-1900. A portrait painter of New York city, who painted The Emancipation Proclamation in the Capitol at Washington. Six Months in the White House with Abraham Lincoln.

=Carpenter, Henry Bernard.= _I._, 1840-1890. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, brother of W. Boyd Carpenter, the Anglican bishop of Ripon. He wrote principally in verse, his only published books including The Oatmeal Crusaders; Liber Amoris, a Metrical Romaunt of the Middle Ages; A Poet’s Last Songs. The last-named volume was issued after his death, with memorial sketch by J. J. Roche, _infra_. _Hou._

=Carpenter, Stephen Cullen.= _E._, _c._ 17-- -1820. An English journalist who came to America in 1803 and settled in Charleston. Memoir of Thomas Jefferson, containing a Concise History of the United States (1809); An Overland Journey to India, published under the pseudonym “Donald Campbell.”

=Carpenter, Stephen Haskins.= _N. J._, 1831-1878. A Wisconsin educator, professor of literature at the University of Wisconsin. Evidences of Christianity; English of the 14th Century; Introduction to the Study of Anglo-Saxon; Elements of English Analysis. _Gi._

=Carr, Lucien.= _Mo._, 1829- ----. An archæologist of Cambridge, assistant curator of the Peabody Museum, 1876-1894. The Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Historically Considered; Missouri, a brief history of the State; Prehistoric Remains of Kentucky (with N. S. Shaler, _infra_). _Clke. Hou._

=Carrier, Augustus Stiles.= _N. Y._, 1857. A Presbyterian clergyman of Chicago, professor of Hebrew in McCormick Theological Seminary from 1892. The Hebrew Verb, a Series of Tabular Studies.

=Carrington, Henry Beebe.= _Ct._, 1824- ----. A general in the United States army living in Boston. His principal writings include Crisis Thoughts; Battles of the American Revolution; Apsaraka, or Indian Operations on the Plains; Hints to Soldiers Taking the Field; The Washington Obelisk and its Voices. _See One of a Thousand._ _Bar. Le. Lip._

=Carrol, John.= _Md._, 1735-1817. The first Roman Catholic archbishop of Baltimore. His writings are mainly of a controversial cast. Concise View of the Principal Points of Controversy between the Protestant and Catholic Churches; Discourse on General Washington.

=Carroll, Anna Ella.= _Md._, 1815-1894. A political writer who was the real author of the Federal campaign of 1862 in Tennessee. The Great American Battle, or The Contest between Christianity and Political Romanism; The Star of the West, or National Men and National Measures; The Union of the States; The War Powers of the General Government; The Relation of the National Government to the Revolted Citizens Defined. See _S. E. Blackwell’s A Military Genius._

=Carroll, Henry King.= _N. J._, 1847- ----. A Methodist clergyman and religious statistician. The World of Missions; The Catholic Dogma of Church Authority; The Religious Forces of the United States.

=Carryl, Charles Edward.= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. A broker of New York city, the author of the popular juvenile tales, Davy and the Goblin; The Admiral’s Caravan. _Cent. Hou._

=Carson, Joseph.= 1808-1876. A medical professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1850. Illustrations of Medical Botany; Lectures on Materia Medica and Pharmacy.

=Carter, Franklin.= _Ct._, 1837- ----. President of Williams College. Life of Mark Hopkins, _infra_, and a scholarly translation of Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris. _Hou._

=Carter, James Gordon.= _Ms._, 1795-1849. A once prominent educator of Massachusetts. Essays on Popular Education; Geography of New Hampshire; Geography of Massachusetts; Letters to William Prescott on the Free Schools of New England.

=Carter, Nathaniel Franklin.= _N. H._, 1830- ----. A Congregational clergyman in New Hampshire. The Ride for Life, and Other Poems; History of Pembroke, New Hampshire.

=Carter, Nathaniel Hazeltine.= _N. H._, 1787-1830. A New York journalist who published Letters from Europe (1827), and wrote many poems of reflection.

=Carter, Peter.= _S._, 1825- ----. A prominent New York publisher. Crumbs from the Land of Cakes, a volume of travels in Scotland; Scotia’s Bards; and three juvenile tales, including Bertie Lee; Donald Fraser; Effie’s Home.

=Carter, Robert.= _N. Y._, 1819-1879. A New York writer who was one of the editors of Appleton’s American Cyclopædia, to which he contributed many articles. A Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England was his only book of importance.

=Carter, Russel Kelso.= _Md._, 1849- ----. A mathematician of Chester, Pennsylvania, prominent in the “Holiness” movement in the Methodist church and as a Faith healer. The Atonement for Sin and Sickness; Miracles of Healing.

=Cartwright, Peter.= _Va._, 1785-1872. A once famous Methodist preacher of Illinois. Controversy with the Devil; Autobiography of a Backwoods Preacher; Fifty Years a Presiding Elder.

=Caruthers, William Alexander.= _Va._, 1800-1850. A physician of Savannah who wrote a number of romances now quite forgotten. The Kentuckian in New York; The Cavaliers of Virginia; Knights of the Horse Shoe; Life of Charles Caldwell, _supra_.

=Cary, Alice.= _O._, 1820-1871. An Ohio writer who came with her sister Phœbe to New York city in 1852, and as poet and novelist became prominent in literary circles there. The weekly receptions of the sisters were attended by artists and writers for many years. Her books of verse include Lyra, and Other Poems; A Lover’s Diary; Ballads, Lyrics, and Hymns; Early and Late Poems (with Phœbe Cary, _infra_). Her other works are Clovernook, a book of the type of Miss Mitford’s Our Village; Pictures of Country Life; the novels, Hagar; The Bishop’s Son; Married, not Mated. Snowberries, a juvenile; From Year to Year, a Token of Remembrance (with P. Cary). _See Memorials of Alice and Phœbe Cary, by Mrs. [Clemmer] Hudson._ _Hou. Lip._

=Cary, Edward.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A journalist of New York city on the editorial staff of The Times. Life of George William Curtis, _infra_. _Hou._

=Cary, George Lovell.= _Ms._, 1830- ----. A professor of New Testament literature at Meadville Theological School since 1862. Introduction to the Greek of the New Testament.

=Cary, Phœbe.= _O._, 1824-1871. Sister of A. Cary, _supra_. Poems and Parodies; Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love. She will be longest remembered by the well-known hymn, Nearer Home. _Hou. Lip._

=Casey, Silas.= _R. I._, 1807-1882. A general in the United States army who published Infantry Tactics; Infantry Tactics for Colored Troops.

=Cass, Lewis.= _N. H._, 1782-1866. A statesman of Michigan who was the Democratic candidate for president in 1845. Inquiries Concerning the History, Traditions, and Languages of the Indians in the United States; France, its King, Court, and Government, 1840. _See Lives by Schoolcraft, 1848; W. L. G. Smith, 1856; McLaughlin, 1891._

=Cassin, John.= _Pa._, 1813-1869. A naturalist of Philadelphia whose American Ornithology is a continuation of Audubon’s work on that subject. Other works of his are Ornithology of the Japan Expedition; Mammalogy and Ornithology of the Wilkes Exploring Expedition; Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, etc.; A General Synopsis of North American Ornithology. _Lip._

=Castlemon, Harry.= _See Fosdick._

=Caswall, Henry.= _E._, 1810-1870. An Episcopal clergyman of English birth, but ordained in the United States, where the most of his life was spent. He lived for a time in England, however, and was a prebend of Salisbury. An Epitome of the History of the American Episcopal Church (1836); Didascalus, or The Teacher; Mormonism and its Author; The Jerusalem Chamber, or Convocation and its Possibilities; The Californian Crusoe, a Tale of Mormonism; Scotland and the Scottish Church; The Western World Revisited; The Martyr of the Pongas; The American Church and the American Union, include the majority of his writings.

=Caswell, Alexis.= _Ms._, 1799-1877. A Baptist clergyman and educator; for 35 years a professor at Brown University, and its president, 1868-72. Lectures on Astronomy; Meteorological Observations.

=Cathcart, William.= _I._, 1826- ----. A Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia. The Baptists and the American Revolution; The Papal System; The Baptism of the Ages and the Nations; The Baptist Encyclopædia.

=Catherwood, Mrs. Mary [Hartwell].= _O._, 1847-1902. A writer of Hoopeston, Illinois, whose historical romances dealing with the early days of Canada and the Northwest are as notable for their careful attention to historical details as for their graphic and picturesque style. A Woman in Armour; The Lady of Fort St. John; The Romance of Dollard; Story of Tonty; Old Kaskaskia; The Chase of St. Castin, and Other Tales; The Spirit of an Illinois Town; The White Islander, a story of Mackinac; Craque o’ Doom. Her books for young people include Old Caravan Days; The Dogberry Bunch; Rocky Fork; The Secrets of Roseladies. _Cent. Hou. Lip. Lo. Mg._

=Catlin, George.= _Pa._, 1796-1872. An artist who spent many years among the Indians. Notes of Eight Years in Europe; Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians; Notes for the Emigrant to America; Life among the Indians, a Book for Youth; The Breath of Life, or Mal-Respiration and its Effects; O-Kee-Pa, a Religious Ceremony, and other Customs of the Mandans; Last Rambles Among the Indians of the Rocky Mountains; The Lifted and Subsided Rocks of America. _See Tuckerman’s Book of the Artists._

=Catlin, George Lynde.= _S. I._, 1840-1896. A journalist and diplomat, consul at Limoges, Stuttgart, and Zurich. Bilbigheim, a story; The Presidential Campaign of 1896, written in 1888; Titbits for Travellers; The Postilion of Nagold and Other Poems. _Fu._

=Caton, John Dean.= _N. Y._, 1812-1895. A jurist of Chicago. A Summer in Norway; The Last of the Illinois and a Sketch of the Pottawatomies; The Antelope and the Deer of America; Miscellanies, Speeches, and Essays.

=Caulkins, Frances Mainwaring.= _Ct._, 1796-1869. A local historian of Connecticut. A History of Norwich; A History of New London.

=Cawein, Madison Julius.= _Ky._, 1865- ----. A poet of Louisville, Kentucky, whose verse is very musical, and shows much individuality. Days and Dreams; Moods and Memories; Intimations of the Beautiful; Blooms of the Berry; The Triumph of Music; Accolon of Gaul; Lyrics and Idyls; Poems of Nature and Love; Red Leaves and Roses; The Garden of Dreams; Undertones. _Cop. Mor. Put._

=Cesnola= [ches-no´la], =Luigi Palma di.= _It._, 1832-1904. An archæologist who served in the Union army during the War and became a colonel, but for a number of years filled the position of director of the Metropolitan Museum of New York city. Cyprus, its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples; The Metropolitan Museum of Art. _Ap. Har._

=Chadbourne, Paul Ansel.= _Me._, 1823-1883. A Congregational clergyman who was president of Williams College, 1872-81. Relations of Natural History to Intellect, Taste, Wealth, and Religion; Natural Theology; Instinct in Animals and Men; Strength of Men and Stability of Nations; The Hope of the Righteous; The Public Services of the State of New York [with W. B. Moore]. _Bar. Put._

=Chadwick, Henry.= _N. H._, 1824- ----. An authority on games and sports. Base Ball Players’ Book of Reference; Base Ball, How to Learn, Play, and Teach It; Base Ball Manual; Sports and Pastimes of American Boys.

=Chadwick, John White.= _Ms._, 1840- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of Brooklyn, prominent among the more radical thinkers of his denomination. The Man Jesus; The Faith of Reason; The Bible of To-Day; Old and New Unitarian Belief; The Power of an Endless Life; The Revelation of God, and Other Sermons; Thomas Paine: the Method and Value of his Religious Teachings; George William Curtis: an Address; A Book of Poems; In Nazareth Town, and Other Poems. _Har. Put. Rob._

=Chaffin, William Ladd.= _Me._, 1837- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of Easton, Massachusetts, whose History of Easton is of notable excellence.

=Chaillé, Stanford Emerson.= _Mi._, 1830- ----. A prominent physician of New Orleans. Yellow Fever in Havana and Cuba; Laws of Population and Voters; Living, Dying, Registering, and Voting Population of Louisiana; Intimidation of Voters in Louisiana; Origin and Progress of Medical Jurisprudence, 1776-1876.

=Chalkley, Thomas.= _E._, 1675-1741. A Quaker itinerant preacher born in London, who spent his life preaching throughout New England and the Southern colonies. His writings, consisting of religious tracts and a Journal of his experiences, published as Life, Labours, and Travels, are noted for their quaint simplicity. His Journal has been very popular among the Friends, and has been several times reprinted. _See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 9._

=Chalmers, Lionel.= _S._, _c._ 1715-1777. A once noted physician of Charleston. Treatise on the Weather and Diseases of South Carolina; Essay on Fevers.

=Chamberlain, Jacob.= _Ct._, 1835- ----. A Reformed Dutch missionary to India. The Bible Tested is his most important work.

=Chamberlain, Nathan Henry.= _Ms._, 1830-1901. An Episcopal clergyman of Massachusetts, whose principal writings include The Autobiography of a New England Farm House; Samuel Sewell and the World he Lived In; The Sphinx in Aubrey Parish.

=Chamberlayne, Israel.= _N. Y._, 1795-1875. A Methodist clergyman. The Past and the Future; The Australian Captive; Saving Faith: its Rationale; The Great Specific against Despair of Pardon. _Meth._

=Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar.= _Vt._, 1851- ----. A Boston journalist on the staffs of The Transcript and the Youth’s Companion. The Listener in the Town; The Listener in the Country. _Cop._

=Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder.= _Il._, 1843- ----. A prominent geologist of Wisconsin. Outline of a Course of Oral Instruction; Geology of Wisconsin.

=Chambers, Charles Julius.= _O._, 1850- ----. A journalist long connected with the New York Herald. A Mad World and its Inhabitants, a description of lunatic asylums founded on the author’s personal experience in one in disguise; On a Margin, a Story of These Times; Lovers Four and Maidens Five, a Story. _Ap. Fu._

=Chambers, Robert William.= _L. I._, 1865- ----. A novelist and artist of New York city. In the Quarter; The King in Yellow; The Red Republic; The Maker of Moons; The Mystery of Choice; A King and a Few Dukes; With the Band, a book of ballads. _Ne. Put. St._

=Chambers, Talbot Wilson.= _Pa._, 1819-1896. A noted Reformed Dutch clergyman of New York city. The Noon Prayer Meeting in Fulton Street; Memoir of Theodore Frelinghuysen; The Psalter a Witness to the Divine Origin of the Bible; Companion to the Revised Version of the Old Testament. _Fu._

=Champlin, James Tifft.= _Ct._, 1811-1882. A Baptist clergyman of Portland, Maine, president of Colby University, 1857-73. First Principles of Ethics; Lessons on Political Economy; Text-Book of Intellectual Philosophy; Scripture Reading Lessons; The Constitution of the United States, with Brief Comments; and a series of classical text-books. _See Bibliography of Maine._

=Champlin, John Denison.= _Ct._, 1834- ----. A littérateur of New York city. Young Folks’ Cyclopædia of Common Things; Young Folks’ Cyclopædia of Persons and Places; Young Folks’ History of the War for the Union; Young Folks’ Catechism of Common Things; Young Folks’ Cyclopædia of Games and Sports; Young Folks’ Astronomy; Chronicle of the Coach: Charing Cross to Ilfracombe. With W. F. Apthorp, _supra_, he has edited a Cyclopædia of Music and Musicians, and with C. C. Perkins, _infra_, a Cyclopædia of Painters and Paintings. _Ho. Scr._

=Champney, Mrs. Elizabeth [Williams].= _O._, 1850- ----. A popular New York writer for young people, and wife of the artist, J. Wells Champney, who has illustrated many of her books. The Three Vassar Girls Series; The Witch Winnie Books; The Bubbling Teapot; Howling Wolf and his Trick-Pony; All Around a Palette; Children’s Art Sketches; In the Sky Garden; Fables in Astronomy, and other juveniles; and the novels, Bourbon Lilies; Sebia’s Tangled Web; Rosemary and Rue. _Do. Est. Lo. Ran._

=Chancellor, Charles Williams.= _Va._, 1833- ----. An eminent physician of Baltimore. Prisons, Reformatories, and Charitable Institutions of Maryland; Mineral Waters and Seaside Resorts; Contagious and Infectious Diseases; Drainage of the Marsh Lands of Maryland; Heredity; The Sewerage of Cities.

=Chandler, Bessie.= _See Parker, Mrs._

=Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret.= _Del._, 1807-1835. A verse-writer whose themes were mainly those relating to the subject of anti-slavery, in which she was greatly interested. _See Poetical Works and Essays, with Memoir by Benjamin Lundy._

=Chandler, Peleg Whitman.= _Me._, 1816-1889. A prominent lawyer of Boston. The Bankrupt Law of the United States; American Criminal Trials; Memoir of Governor Andrew; Observations on the Authenticity of the Gospels. _Rob._

=Chaney, George Leonard.= _Ms._, 1836- ----. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor of the Hollis Street Church in Boston, 1862-79, and subsequently pastor in Atlanta, Georgia, where he edited the Southern Unitarian, 1893-96. F. Grant & Co., a story for boys; Tom, a Home Story; Aloha, travels in the Sandwich Islands; Every Day Life and Every Day Morals; Belief. _Rob._

=Chaney, Lucien West.= _N. Y._, 1857- ----. A naturalist, professor of biology in Carleton College, Minnesota, since 1882, and author of Guides for the Laboratory.

=Chanler, Mrs. Amélie Rives.= _See Troubetzkoy._

=Channing, Edward.= _Ms._, 1856- ----. Son of W. E. Channing, 2d. A professor of history at Harvard University since 1883. Guide to the Study of American History (with A. B. Hart, infra); Town and County Government of the English Colonies of North America; Narragansett Planters; The United States of America, 1765-1865. _Gi. Mac._

=Channing, Edward Tyrrel.= _R. I._, 1790-1856. Brother of W. E. Channing, _infra_. A professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard University. Life of William Ellery; Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory (with Memoir by R. H. Dana, Jr.).

=Channing, Walter.= _R. I._, 1786-1876. Brother of W. E. Channing, _infra_. A physician of prominence in Boston for many years, and medical professor in Harvard University. The Prevention of Pauperism; Etherization in Childbirth; Professional Reminiscences of Foreign Travel; New and Old; Miscellaneous Poems; A Physician’s Vacation, or A Summer in Europe; Reformation of Medical Science.

=Channing, William Ellery.= _R. I._, 1780-1842. A Unitarian theologian of eminence, who became pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston in 1803. He was the foremost theologian in America in his time, and his influence is still great. He wrote upon philanthropic and social as well as religious and ethical questions, and was a noted opponent of slavery. His writings have been translated into French, Italian, German, Icelandic, Russian, and Hungarian. Evidences of Revealed Religion; Self-Culture; Essay on Milton; The Duty of the Free States, are among his most notable works. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Lives by W. H. Channing, infra; C. T. Brooks, supra; Reminiscences by Miss Peabody; Correspondence of Channing and Lucy Aikin; New England Magazine, December, 1896._ _A. U. A._

=Channing, William Ellery.= _Ms._, 1818-1901. Son of W. Channing, _supra_. A poet and essayist of Concord, Massachusetts, who married a sister of Margaret Fuller, _infra_. His verse is thoroughly original in tone and more or less willful in form. His work in verse includes The Youth of the Painter, a series of psychological essays; Poems 1843-47; The Woodman; The Wanderer; Near Home; Eliot; John Brown; Thoreau, the Poet Naturalist; Conversations in Rome between an Artist, a Catholic, and a Critic, are prose volumes.

=Channing, William Francis.= _Ms._, 1820-1901. Son of W. E. Channing, 1st. A physician, scientist, and inventor. Davis’s Manual of Magnetism; Medical Application of Electricity; The American Fire Alarm Telegraph.

=Channing, William Henry.= _Ms._, 1810-1884. Nephew of W. E. Channing. A Unitarian clergyman who settled in England, and succeeded James Martineau as pastor of the Unitarian Chapel in Hope Street, Liverpool. The Christian Church and Social Reform; Memoirs of Wm. E. Channing; Memoirs of James H. Perkins; Memoirs of Margaret Fuller (with R. W. Emerson and J. F. Clarke). _A. U. A._

=Chapin, Aaron Lucius.= _Ct._, 1817-1892. A Congregational clergyman of Wisconsin, who was president of Beloit College, 1849-86. First Principles of Political Economy.

=Chapin, Alonzo Bowen.= _Ct._, 1808-1858. An Episcopal clergyman of Hartford. Classical Spelling-Book; Organization and Order of the Primitive Church; Views of Gospel Truth; Glastenbury for 200 Years (1853); Puritanism not Protestantism.

=Chapin, Edwin Hubbell.= _N. Y._, 1814-1881. A Universalist clergyman of New York city, long the foremost preacher in his denomination. The Crown of Thorns; Humanity in the City; Christianity the Perfection of True Manliness; Moral Aspects of City Life; Discourses on the Lord’s Prayer; Hours of Communion; Token for the Sorrowing; Characters in the Gospels. _See Life, by Sumner Ellis._

=Chapin, James Henry.= _Ind._, 1832-1892. A Universalist clergyman and educator, professor of geology in St. Lawrence University, 1871-92. Sketches of the Huguenots; The Creation and Early Development of Mankind; From Japan to Granada, a Tour Around the World. _See Life of, by G. S. Weaver._ _Put._

=Chaplin, Mrs. Ada C.= _Ms._, 1842-1883. A Massachusetts writer of religious juveniles, some of which are Christ’s Cadets; Charity Hurlburt; Our Gold Mine, the Story of American Baptist Missions in India.

=Chaplin, Heman White.= _R. I._, 1847- ----. Son of J. Chaplin, 2d. A lawyer of Boston, whose Five Hundred Dollars, and Other Stories of New England Life, are exceptionally faithful and delicate studies of character, and rank among the foremost of American short stories. _Lit._

=Chaplin, Mrs. Jane [Dunbar].= _S._, 1819-1884. Wife of J. Chaplin, 2d, _infra_, and daughter of Duncan Dunbar. Among her various writings, mainly religious juveniles, are The Transplanted Shamrock; Black and White; The Convent and the Manse.

=Chaplin, Jeremiah.= _Ms._, 1776-1841. A Baptist clergyman and educator, the first president of Colby University, 1822-33. The Evening of Life.

=Chaplin, Jeremiah.= _Ms._, 1813-1886. Son of J. Chaplin, _supra_. A Baptist clergyman of Newton, Massachusetts, who after leaving the ministry devoted himself to literary pursuits in Boston. The Memorial Hour; The Hand of Jesus; Riches of Bunyan; Life of Henry Dunster, First President of Harvard College; Chips from the White House; Life of Benjamin Franklin; Life of Galen; Life of Duncan Dunbar; Life of Charles Sumner (with Jane Chaplin). _Lo._

=Chapman, Alvan Wentworth.= _Ms._, 1809-1899. A botanist for whom the genus Chapmannia was named. Flora of the Southern United States.

=Chapman, George Thomas.= _E._, 1786-1872. An Episcopal clergyman. Sketches of Alumni of Dartmouth College from 1771-1868.

=Chapman, Henry Cadwalader.= _Pa._, 1845- ----. Grandson of N. Chapman, _infra_. A physician of Philadelphia. Evolution of Life; History of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood.

=Chapman, Nathaniel.= _Va._, 1780-1853. A Philadelphia physician and professor of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, 1814-50. Materia Medica and Therapeutics, long a valued text-book; Select Speeches (edited); Lectures on Eruptive Fevers, Hemorrhages and Dropsies; Lectures on Thoracic Viscera. _See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._

=Charles, Mrs. Emily [Thornton].= _Ind._, 1845-189-. A Washington journalist who published two volumes of verse. Hawthorn Blossoms; Lyrical Poems. _Lip._

=Chase, George.= _Me._, 1849- ----. A professor of criminal law at Columbia College. The American Students’ Blackstone.

=Chase, George Wingate.= _Ms._, 1826-1867. A native and resident of Haverhill, Massachusetts. History of Haverhill, 1640-1860; The Freemason’s Monitor; Masonic Dictionary and Manual of Masonic Law; Tactics for Knights Templars and Appendant Authors.

=Chase, Irah.= _Vt._, 1793-1864. A Baptist clergyman of prominence who founded the theological seminary at Newton Centre, Massachusetts, and was professor there, 1825-45. Life of Bunyan; Design of Baptism; The Jewish Tabernacle; Infant Baptism an Invention of Men; The Constitutions of the Holy Apostles, are his principal works.

=Chase, Lucien B.= _Vt._, 1817-1864. A member of Congress from Tennessee, who wrote the History of Polk’s Administration.

=Chase, Philander.= _N. H._, 1775-1852. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio, and, later, of Illinois. He founded Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio. A Plea for the West; Defence of Kenyon College; Reminiscences.

=Chase, Pliny Earle.= _Ms._, 1820-1886. An educator and scientist of Philadelphia. Numerical Relations of Gravity and Magnetism; Elements of Meteorology; Elements of Arithmetic; Common School Arithmetic.

=Chase, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1827-1892. Brother of P. E. Chase, _supra_. An educator of Pennsylvania, and president of Haverford College. He was co-editor with George Stuart of a series of classical text-books, and also published Hellas, her Monuments and Scenery, descriptive of his travels in Greece.

=Chatard, Francis Silas Marean.= _Md._, 1834- ----. The Roman Catholic bishop of Vincennes. Christian Truths.

=Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart Chatfield.= _Il._, 1865- ----. A novelist of Chicago. With Edge Tools; An American Peeress; Two Women and a Fool; The Land of the Castanet.

=Chauncy= [chän´sĭ or chaun´sĭ], =Charles.= _E._, 1592-1672. A Puritan clergyman, vicar of Ware, 1627-35. He came to America in 1638, and was 13 years minister at Scituate. He was the second president of Harvard College, succeeding Henry Dunster in 1654. His most important work is a series of Twenty-Six Sermons on Justification. Antisynodalia Scripta America, a controversial pamphlet, appeared in 1662. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 10._

=Chauncy, Charles.= _Ms._, 1705-1787. Great-grandson of C. Chauncy, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman of Boston. A vigourous, logical thinker, who exercised a great influence upon colonial thought. Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New England; Discourse on Enthusiasm, directed against Whitefield, of whose teachings he was a strong opponent; Letters to Whitefield; Complete View of Episcopacy; The Mystery hid from the Ages; Benevolence of the Deity; Five Dissertations on the Fall and its Consequences; Validity of Presbyterian Ordination, comprise his principal works. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Chauncy Memorials._

=Chauvenet= [shō-ve-nay´], =William.= _Pa._, 1820-1870. A mathematician who was chancellor of Washington University, St. Louis, 1862-69. Binomial Theorem and Logarithms; Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy; Elementary Geometry. _See Memoir, 1877._ _Lip._

=Checkley, John.= _Ms._, 1680-1753. An Episcopal clergyman of Rhode Island, noted in his day for his witty, reckless attacks on his theological opponents. Choice Dialogues about Predestination.

=Cheetham, James.= _E._, 1772-1810. An English journalist who came to America in 1798, and became editor of The American Citizen. Nine Letters on Burr’s Defection; Reply to Aristides; Life of Thomas Paine, a work written from a hostile point of view.

=Cheever, Ezekiel.= _E._, 1615-1708. A colonial educator of Boston, who was master of the Latin School for many years. Scripture Prophecies Explained, an essay on the millennium; Latin Accidence, for a century a standard introductory Latin text-book in New England.

=Cheever, George Barrell.= _Me._, 1807-1890. A noted Congregational clergyman of New York city. Deacon Giles’s Distillery; Studies in Poetry; Wanderings of a Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc; Lectures on Pilgrim’s Progress; Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth; God Against Slavery; Incidents and Memories of the Christian Life; The Guilt of Slavery; The Republic or the Oligarchy, Which?; Faith, Doubt, and Evidence; God’s Timepiece for Man’s Eternity; Lectures on Cowper; Windings of the River of the Water of Life, include his principal writings. _Ran. Wi._

=Cheever, Henry Theodore.= _Me._, 1814-1897. Brother of G. B. Cheever, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman. Way Marks in the Moral War with Slavery; Correspondences of Faith and Views of Madame Guyon; The Island World of the Pacific; Life in the Sandwich Islands; The Whale and his Captors; The Pulpit and the Pew; Life of Nathaniel Cheever; Life of Walter Colton, _infra_; Captain Caugar. _Har._

=Chellis, Mary Dwinell.= _See Lund, Mrs._

=Cheney, Mrs. Ednah Dow [Littlehale].= _Ms._, 1824-1904. A Boston writer, associated in early life with the prominent New England transcendentalists, who was long active in the woman-suffrage movement, and whose writing had more or less to do with philosophical themes. Her principal works comprise Hand-book of American History for Coloured People; Faithful to the Light, and Other Tales; Stories of the Olden Time; Gleanings in the Fields of Art; Life of Louisa Alcott, _supra_; Life of Christian Daniel Rauch, Sculptor; Memoir of John Cheney, Engraver; Memoir of Dr. Susan Dimock; Nora’s Return, a sequel to Ibsen’s Doll’s House; Sally Williams, the Mountain Girl.

=Cheney, Mrs. Harriet Vaughan [Foster].= _Ms._, _c._ 1815- ----. Daughter of Hannah Foster, _infra_. Confessions of an Early Martyr; A Peep at the Pilgrims in 1636; The Rivals of Acadia; Sketches from the Life of Christ; The Sunday School, or Village Sketches (with her sister, Mrs. Cushing).

=Cheney, John Vance.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. Son of S. P. Cheney, _infra_. A poet and essayist, for some years at the head of the public library in San Francisco, and now (1897) librarian of the Newberry Library in Chicago. His work in verse includes Thistle Drift; Wood Blooms; Queen Helen, and Other Poems. In prose, The Old Doctor, a Romance of Queer Village; The Golden Guess, a series of critical essays; That Dome in Air, a similar collection of critical studies. _Ap. Cop. Le. Mg. Sto. Wy._

=Cheney, Simeon Pease.= _N. H._, 1818-1890. A once noted musical educator of Vermont. The American Singing Book; Wood Notes Wild, notations of Bird Music. _Le._

=Cheney, Theseus Apoleon.= _N. Y._, 1830-1878. A writer who devoted his attention to the history of the western portion of his native State. Report on the Ancient Monuments of Western New York; Historical Sketch of the Chemung Valley; Historical Sketch of 18 Counties of Central and Southern New York; Laron; Relations of Government to Science; Antiquarian Researches.

=Chenoweth, Mrs. Caroline [Van Dusen].= _Ind._, 1846- ----. A teacher of literature in Boston and New York. Stories of the Saints. _Hou._

=Chesebro= [cheez´brō], =Caroline.= _N. Y._, 1825-1873. A writer of stories and sketches who was during the latter part of her life a teacher in the Packer Institute of Brooklyn. Her writing displays much individuality, and the novel, The Foe in the Household, her finest work, is a careful study of some unfamiliar phases of Pennsylvania life. Her other works include The Beautiful Gate and Other Sketches; Peter Carradine; The Children of Light; Susan the Fisherman’s Daughter; The Little Cross Bearers; Dream-Land by Daylight; Philly and Kit; Victoria; Amy Carr; The Glen Cabin.

=Chester, Albert Huntington.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. A professor of chemistry and metallurgy at Rutgers College. Dictionary of the Names of Minerals; Catalogue of Minerals with their Chemical Composition and Synonyms. _Wil._

=Chester, Frederick Dixon Walthall.= _W. I._, 1861- ----. A geologist of Delaware who has written many monographs upon local state geology.

=Chester, Joseph Lemuel.= _Ct._, 1821-1882. A Philadelphia journalist who went to England in 1858, living in London, and devoting himself to antiquarian research till he became one of the most famous genealogists of his day. His own writings include Greenwood Cemetery and Other Poems; Treatise on the Laws of Repulsion; Educational Laws of Virginia: the personal narrative of Margaret Douglass, imprisoned for the crime of teaching free coloured children to read; John Rogers, the Compiler of the English Bible; Preliminary Investigation of the Alleged Ancestry of George Washington. His most important antiquarian work is an edition of the Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of Westminster Abbey, with notes, on which he spent 17 years’ labour. He edited also the parish registers of six London city churches. _See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. x._

=Chickering, Jesse.= _N. H._, 1797-1855. A Boston physician who was a Unitarian minister in his earlier career, and later became a noted writer on political economy. Statistical View of the Population of Massachusetts, 1765-1840; Emigration into the United States; Reports on the Census of Boston; Letter to the President on Slavery in Relation to Constitutional Government in Great Britain and the United States.

=Chickering, John White.= _Ms._, 1808-1888. A Congregational clergyman of Portland, Maine, 1835-65. What it is to Believe in Christ, a very widely circulated tract; The Hillside Church.

=Child, Francis James.= _Ms._, 1825-1896. A professor at Harvard University, 1851-96, and the foremost authority upon all matters pertaining to ballad literature. He edited the American edition of The British Poets, in 130 volumes; English and Scottish Popular Ballads; The Debate between the Body and the Soul, and other specimens of mediæval literature. As a Chaucerian scholar he had few equals. Observations on the Language of Chaucer; Observations on the Language of Gower’s Confessio Amantis. _See Atlantic Monthly, December, 1896._ _Hou._

=Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria [Francis].= _Ms._, 1802-1880. A once famous writer whose literary career began with the publication of Hobomok, a Tale of Early Times, in 1821, and closed with Aspirations of the World, in 1878. In 1833 she sacrificed much of her popularity by her Appeal for that Class of Americans Called Africans, and was ever after prominent as an abolitionist, assisting her husband in editing the National Anti-Slavery Standard. Among her other works are included The Rebels, a novel in which occur a speech by James Otis and a sermon by Whitefield, long supposed to be real and not imaginary; The First Settlers of New England; The Mother’s Book; The Girl’s Book; Philothea, a Greek romance; The Power of Kindness; Isaac T. Hopper, a True Life, a popular biography of a noted Quaker abolitionist; The Progress of Religious Ideas; Autumnal Leaves; Looking Toward Sunset; The Freedman’s Book; Miria, a Romance of the Republic. _See Letters of; Lowell’s Fable for Critics._ _Hou. Rob._

=Childs, George William.= _Md._, 1829-1894. A noted journalist of Philadelphia who established the Public Ledger in 1864. Recollections of General Grant; Personal Recollections. _Lip._

=Chiles, Mrs. Mary Eliza [Hicks] [Hemdin].= _Ky._, 1820- ----. Among her writings are Louisa Elton, a reply to “Uncle Tom;” Bandits of Italy; Oswyn Dudley; Select Poems.

=Chipman, Nathaniel.= _Ct._, 1752-1843. A Vermont jurist who was professor of law at Middlebury College, 1816-43. Sketches of the Principles of Law; Reports and Dissertations. _See Life, by D. Chipman, 1846._

=Chittenden, Lucius Eugene.= _Vt._, 1824-1900. A lawyer of New York city. Personal Reminiscences, 1840-1890; Recollections of Lincoln and his Administration; An Unknown Heroine, an historical episode of the War between the States; The Capture of Ticonderoga. _Do. Har._

=Chittenden, Russell Henry.= _Ct._, 1856- ----. A professor of chemistry in the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University. Studies from the Laboratory of Physiology and Chemistry in Sheffield Scientific School; On Digestive Proteolysis.

=Chivers, Thomas Holley.= 1807-1858. A Georgia physician and versifier. Virginalia, or Songs of my Summer Nights; Atlanta, a Paul Epic in Three Lustra; Eonchs of Ruby.

=Choate, Isaac Bassett.= _Me._, 1833- ----. An educator of Boston. Elements of English Speech; Wells of English. _Ap. Rob._

=Choate, Rufus.= _Ms._, 1799-1859. A lawyer of Boston and member of Congress, 1841-45, famous for his gifts as an orator, a distinguishing feature of his style being an extravagant use of long sentences. Addresses and Orations. _See Memoir, by S. G. Brown, supra, 1862; Some Recollections of, by E. P. Whipple; Memoirs, by Neilson, 1884._ _Lit._

=Chopin, Mrs. Kate [O’Flaherty].= _Mo._, 1851-1904. A writer of St. Louis. Bayou Folk; At Fault, a novel. _Hou._

=Choules= [chōlz], =John Overton.= _E._, 1801-1856. A Baptist clergyman of Newport. History of Missions; Christian Offering; Young Americans Abroad; Cruise of Steam Yacht North Star.

=Church, Albert Ensign.= _Ct._, 1807-1878. A mathematical professor at West Point, 1833-78. Elements of Differential Calculus; Elements of the Calculus of Variations; Elements of Analytical Geometry; Elements of Descriptive Geometry; Elements of Analytical Trigonometry.

=Church, Benjamin.= _Ms._, 1639-1718. A famous colonial soldier, the conqueror of King Philip, and the founder of Little Compton, Rhode Island. Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip’s War is a personal narrative of his adventures. _See edition by Dexter, 1867; History of the Eastern Expeditions against the Indians and French._

=Church, Benjamin.= _R. I._, 1734-1776. A Boston physician of considerable note as a political satirist and versifier. The Times, a political satire; Elegy on Dr. Mayhew; Address to a Provincial Bashaw; Elegy on the Death of Whitefield, comprise his chief poems.

=Church, Mrs. Ella Rodman [MacIlvane].= _N. Y._, 1831- ----. A popular and prolific writer of miscellaneous works, among which are Flights of Fancy; Grandmother’s Recollections; The Catanese; Christmas Wreath; Golden Days; Flyers and Crawlers, or Talks about Insects; Talks by the Seashore; Among the Trees at Elmridge; Flower Talks at Elmridge; Home Animals; Some Useful Animals; How to Furnish a Home; Money-Making for Ladies. _Ap. Har._

=Church, Irving Porter.= _Ct._, 1851- ----. A professor of engineering at Cornell University. Statics and Dynamics for Engineering Students; Mechanics of Materials; Hydraulics and Pneumatics, three works which were afterwards published as Mechanics of Engineering; Notes and Examples in Mechanics. _Wil._

=Church, John Adams.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. Son of P. Church, _infra_. A mining engineer of note. The Mining Schools of the United States; Notes on a Metallurgical Journey in Europe; The Comstock Lode; Report on the Striking of Artesian Water, Arizona.

=Church, Pharcellus.= _N. Y._, 1801-1886. A Baptist clergyman of prominence. Philosophy of Benevolence; Religious Dissensions, their Cause and Cure; Antioch, or Increase of Moral Power in the Church; Mapleton, or More Work for the Maine Law; Seed-Truths; Theodosia.

=Church, Samuel Harden.= _Pa._, 1858- ----. A Pittsburg writer, the author of Oliver Cromwell, a careful historical study. _Put._

=Chute, Horatio Nelson.= _Ont._, 1847- ----. A mathematical educator of Michigan. Complete School Register; Arithmetical Cabinet; Manual of Practical Physics.

=Cist, Henry Martyn.= _O._, 1839-1902. A Cincinnati lawyer who served in the Federal army during the Civil War and became brigadier-general. The Army of the Cumberland.

=Cist, Lewis Jacob.= _O._, 1818-1885. Brother of H. M. Cist, _supra_. A banker of St. Louis and Cincinnati who published Trifles in Verse.

=Claflin, Mrs. Mary Bucklin [Davenport].= _Ms._, 1825-1896. A Boston writer, the wife of ex-Governor Claflin, of Massachusetts. Brampton Sketches; Personal Recollections of Whittier; Real Happenings; Under the Elms. _Cr._

=Claiborne= [klā´burn], =John Francis Hamtramck.= _Mi._, 1809-1884. A journalist of New Orleans. Mississippi as a Province, Territory, and State; Life of General Dale, the Mississippi Partisan; Life of General Quitman. _Har._

=Claiborne, John Herbert.= _Va._, 1828- ----. A physician of Virginia. Diphtheria; Dysmenorrhea; Clinical Reports from Private Practice.

=Claiborne, Nathaniel Herbert.= _Va._, 1777-1859. Uncle of J. F. H. Claiborne, _supra_. A Virginia congressman. Notes on the War in the South (1819).

=Clap, Nathaniel.= _Ms._, 1669-1745. A clergyman of Newport, of some distinction in his day. Advice to Children; The Lord’s Voice Crying to the People in some Extraordinary Dispensations.

=Clap, Roger.= _E._, 1609-1691. A colonist of Dorchester, whose Memoirs, written for his children, have been several times reprinted, and possess considerable historical value. They were first edited and published by Thomas Prince, _infra_, 1731.

=Clap, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1703-1767. A Congregational clergyman of distinction, president of Yale College, 1740-66. The Nature and Foundation of Moral Virtue and Obligation; History of Yale College; Vindication of the Doctrines of New England Churches; Nature and Motion of Meteors; The Religious Constitutions of Colleges, especially Yale, comprise his chief works. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Clapp, Theodore.= _Ms._, 1792-1866. A Unitarian minister of New Orleans for many years. Autobiographical Sketches of 35 Years’ Residence in New Orleans; Theological Views; Slavery, a Sermon.

=Clark, Alexander.= _O._, 1834-1879. A Methodist Protestant clergyman of Pittsburg. The Old Log Schoolhouse; Workaday Christianity; The Red Sea Freedman; School Day Dialogues; The Gospel in the Trees; Rambles in Europe; Starting Out, a Story of the Ohio Hills; Ripples on the River, a collection of verses.

=Clark, Alonzo Howard.= _Ms._, 1850- ----. A naturalist in the United States National Museum at Washington, who has published Statistics of Fisheries of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut; Statistics of Fisheries of Massachusetts; History of the Mackerel Fishery.

=Clark, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.= _Vt._, 1822-1899. A physician, at one time collector of customs at Oswego. The Commonwealth Reconstructed is his only book.

=Clark, Charles Heber.= “Max Adeler.” _Md._, 1841- ----. A Philadelphia journalist, author of several works of a humourous character which have been popular, though their literary merit is slight. Out of the Hurly Burly; Elbow Room, a Novel without a Plot; Random Shots; Fortunate Island and Other Stories.

=Clark, Davis Wasgatt.= _Me._, 1812-1871. A Methodist bishop of some note as a preacher. Mental Discipline; Death-Bed Scenes; Man all Immortal; Life of Bishop Hedding; Sermons; Elements of Algebra. _Meth._

=Clark, Edson Lyman.= _Ms._, 1827- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts. The Arabs and the Turks; The Races of European Turkey; Turkey; Fundamental Questions chiefly relating to Genesis and the Hebrew Scriptures. _Do._

=Clark, Francis Edward.= _Q._, 1851- ----. A Congregational minister who during his pastorate in Portland, Maine, in 1881, established the Christian Endeavour Society. Danger Signals, the Enemies of Youth; Looking out on Life, a book for girls; Our Vacations, where to Go, etc.; Young People’s Prayer Meeting in Theory and Practice; The Children and the Church; Mossback Correspondence; Our Business Boys; Ways and Means, a history of the Christian Endeavour movement. _Fu. Lo._

=Clark, George Hunt.= _Ms._, 1809-1881. An iron merchant of Hartford, of local fame as a verse-writer. Now and Then; The News; Undertow of a Trade Wind Surf.

=Clark, George Whitfield.= _N. J._, 1831- ----. A Baptist clergyman of New Jersey. Harmony of the Four Gospels in English; Notes on Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; Harmonic Arrangement of the Acts of the Apostles; Brief Notes on the New Testament; History of the First Baptist Church in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

=Clark, Henry James.= _Ms._, 1826-1873. A naturalist of Cambridge. Mind in Nature; A Claim for Scientific Property.

=Clark, James Gowdy.= _N. Y._, 1830-1897. A verse-writer and composer of San Francisco. Poetry and Song.

=Clark, James Henry.= _N. Y._, 1814-1869. A physician of Newark, New Jersey. History of the Cholera in Newark in 1847; Sight and Hearing, how Preserved, how Lost; Medical Topography of Newark; The Medical Men of New Jersey in Essex District, 1666-1866.

=Clark, John Alonzo.= _Ms._, 1801-1843. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia. The Young Disciple; The Pastor’s Testimony; A Walk about Zion; Gathered Fragments; Awake, Thou Sleeper; Glimpses of the Old World.

=Clark, John Bates.= _R. I._, 1847- ----. A political economist, professor of political economy in Columbia College. Capital and its Earnings; The Philosophy of Wealth. _Gi._

=Clark, Mrs. Kate [Upson].= _Al._, 1851- ----. A journalist of Brooklyn, who has written mainly for young people. That Mary Ann. _Lo._

=Clark, Lewis Gaylord.= _N. Y._, 1810-1873. A once prominent magazinist of New York city, and editor of the Knickerbocker Magazine. Knick-Knacks is a collection of brief sketches contributed to that periodical.

=Clark, Mrs. Mary [Latham].= _Me._, 1831- ----. A New England writer of religious juveniles, among which are The Mayflower Series; Daisy’s Mission.

=Clark, Nathaniel George.= _Vt._, 1825-1896. The foreign secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions from 1866. In earlier life he was of some note as an educator, and published Elements of the English Language. _Scr._