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=Clark, Rufus Wheelwright.= _Ms._, 1813-1886. Brother of Thomas M. Clark, _infra_. A Reformed Dutch clergyman of Albany. Among his more than a hundred publications are Lectures to Young Men; Heaven and its Scriptural Emblems; Life Scenes of the Messiah; Romanism in America; The African Slave Trade; Heroes of Albany.

=Clark, Simeon Taylor.= _Ms._, 1836-1891. A physician of Lockport, and professor of medical jurisprudence in Niagara University. My Garden.

=Clark, Mrs. Susanna Rebecca Graham.= _N. S._, 1848- ----. A writer of Portland, Maine, who has written much juvenile literature. Yensie Walton; Our Street; The Triple E.; Achor; Herbert Gardenell’s Children; Tom’s Street; Go’s Goings. _Lo._

=Clark, Theodore Minot.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. An architect in Boston, formerly instructor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Architect, Owner and Builder before the Law; Building Superintendence; Rural School Architecture. _Mac._

=Clark, Thomas.= _Pa._, 1787-1866. An educator of Philadelphia. Naval History of the United States from the Commencement of the Revolutionary War, 1814; Sketches of United States Naval History.

=Clark, Thomas March.= _Ms._, 1812-1903. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Rhode Island, and prominent among theologians of the Broad Church school. Primary Truths; The Dew of Youth and Other Lectures to Young Men and Women; Early Discipline and Culture; The Efficient Sunday School Teacher; Reminiscences. _Ap. Wh._

=Clark, Willis Gaylord.= _N. Y._, 1810-1841. Twin brother of L. G. Clark, supra. A now forgotten verse-writer. _See Literary Remains, with Memoir by L. G. Clark; Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America._

=Clarke, Dorus.= _Ms._, 1799-1884. A Congregational clergyman of Boston. Letters to Horace Mann; Oneness of the Christian Church; Orthodox Congregationalism and the Sects; Saying the Catechism 75 Years Ago and the Historical Results; Review of the Oberlin Council; Letters to Young People in Manufacturing Villages; Revision of the English Version of the Bible; Essay on the Tri-Unity of God.

=Clarke, Edward Hammond.= _Ms._, 1820-1877. A prominent physician and medical writer of Boston. Sex in Education; The Building of a Brain; Visions: a Study of False Sight; Nature and Treatment of Polypus of the Ear. _Hou._

=Clarke, Frank Wigglesworth.= _Ms._, 1847- ----. Chief chemist of the United States Geological Survey at Washington. Weights, Measures, and Money of All Nations; Elements of Chemistry. _Ap._

=Clarke, Isaac Edwards.= _Ms._, 1830- ----. A lawyer in the United States Civil Service since 1871. Tribute to Bayard Taylor; Industrial and High Art Education in the United States.

=Clarke, James Freeman.= _N. H._, 1810-1888. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, who founded there the Church of the Disciples, and was its pastor from 1841 till his death. He was especially prominent among Unitarian writers of the latter half of the century, the tone of his thought being that of the liberal conservative. His first important work was Orthodoxy: its Truths and Errors (1866). Other works of his include Ten Great Religions, Part I, an Essay in Comparative Theology; Ten Great Religions, Part II, a Comparison of all Religions; Christian Doctrine of Prayer; Thomas Didymus; Common Sense in Religion; Steps of Belief; Events and Epochs in Religious History; Self-Culture; Every Day Religion; The Ideas of the Apostle Paul; Memorial and Biographical Sketches; Vexed Questions in Theology; Anti-Slavery Days. _See Autobiography, Diary and Correspondence, edited by E. E. Hale; Memoir by A. P. Peabody, 1889._ _A. U. A. Hou. Le._

=Clarke, MacDonald.= _Ct._, 1798-1842. An eccentric, unbalanced verse-writer of New York city, who was commonly styled “the Mad Poet.” Poems; Sketches in Verse; Death in Disguise, a Temperance poem; The Gossip; Afara, or the Belles of Broadway; A Cross and a Coronet; Elixir of Moonshine; Review of the Eve of Eternity.

=Clarke, Mrs. Mary Bayard [Devereux].= _N. C._, 1822-1886. A writer of Raleigh, North Carolina, who has published Reminiscences of Cuba; Mosses from a Rolling Stone; Clytie and Zenobia, a poem; Wood Notes, a compilation of North Carolina verse.

=Clarke, Rebecca Sophia.= “Sophie May.” _Me._, 1833- ----. A popular writer of stories for children and young people, who was born and has always lived at Norridgewock, Maine. Of the former class are the Little Prudy Books; Dotty Dimple Series; Flaxie Frizzle Stories. Of the latter class are Her Friend’s Lover; Janet; The Asbury Twins; In Old Quinnebasset; Quinnebasset Girls; The Doctor’s Daughter. _Le._

=Clarke, Richard Henry.= _D. C._, 1827- ----. A noted Roman Catholic lawyer of Washington, and, later, of New York, who has written many controversial papers, and published Illustrated History of the Catholic Church in the United States; Lives of Deceased Roman Catholic Bishops of the United States.

=Clay, Cassius Marcellus.= _Ky._, 1810-1903. A Kentucky congressman noted as a strong opponent of slavery, who was minister to Russia 1861-69. _See Life and Memoirs, compiled by Himself._

=Clay, Henry.= _Va._, 1777-1852. A Kentucky statesman and orator, who was in public life for half a century, and was several times an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency. He is known in literature by his Speeches, several collections of which were published in his lifetime. _See Parton’s Famous Americans; Lives by G. D. Prentice, 1831; Swaim, 1843; Mallory, 1844; Sargent and Greeley, 1852; Colton, 1857; Carl Schurz, 1887._

=Cleaveland, John.= _Ct._, 1722-1799. A Congregational minister of Massachusetts. The Work of God at Chebacco (now Essex) in 1763; Essay to Defend Christ’s Sacrifice and Atonement against Aspersions cast on the Same by Dr. Mayhew; Reply to Dr. Mayhew’s Letter of Reproof; Treatise on Infant Baptism.

=Cleaveland, Nehemiah.= _Ms._, 1796-1877. Grandson of J. Cleaveland, _supra_. An educator of Massachusetts, who published a History of Bowdoin College, with Biographical Sketches of its Graduates, 1806-79, edited and completed by A. S. Packard, _infra_.

=Cleaveland, Parker.= _Ms_., 1780-1858. Grandson of J. Cleaveland, _supra_. A professor in Bowdoin College, 1805-58, whose Mineralogy and Geology, 1816, gained for him the title of “the father of American mineralogy.”

=Cleland, Thomas.= _Va._, 1778-1858. A Presbyterian clergyman of Kentucky, much inclined to controversy, who published Letters on Campbellism; The Socini-Arian Detected; Unitarianism Unmasked.

=Clemens, Jeremiah.= _Al._, 1814-1865. An Alabama statesman who won some notice as a novelist. Bernard Lyle; Mustang Gray; The Rivals, a Tale of the Times of Burr and Hamilton; Tobias Wilson, a Tale of the Great Rebellion.

=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne.= “Mark Twain.” _Mo._, 1835- ----. A celebrated humourist, who, after an eventful experience as a journalist, rose to fame by the publication of The Innocents Abroad, a volume of extravagantly humourous travels, which still remains his most popular book. Only a very small portion of his writing has any place as literature, but as an author he is one of the most popular and successful of his time. Other works of his are, A Tramp Abroad; Roughing It; Tom Sawyer; The Gilded Age (with C. D. Warner, _infra_); The Jumping Frog; Life on the Mississippi; Huckleberry Finn; Merry Tales; A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court; Tom Sawyer Abroad; Pudd’nhead Wilson; The American Claimant. The Prince and the Pauper; Joan of Arc, are works in a serious vein, the first being his most finished production. _See Haweis’s American Humourists; Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors, 1890; Vedder’s American Writers._

=Clemens, Will Montgomery.= _O._, 1860- ----. A Ken of Kipling; Life of Roosevelt; Famous Funny Fellows; Sixty and Six; Mistakes of Authors.

=Clement, Mrs. Clara Erskine.= _See Waters, Mrs._

=Clemmer, Mrs. Mary.= _See Hudson, Mrs._

=Cleveland, Aaron.= _Ct._, 1744-1815. A verse-writer who late in life became a Congregational minister. He was the great-grandfather of President Cleveland. The Philosopher and Boy; Slavery Considered, both productions in verse.

=Cleveland, Charles Dexter.= _Ms._, 1802-1869. Grandson of A. Cleveland, _supra_. An educator of Philadelphia, who published Compendiums of English, American, and Classical Literature; English Literature of the 19th Century; critical edition of Milton, with notes and life. _Bar._

=Cleveland, Cynthia Eloise.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. A Washington writer employed in the civil service. See Saw, or Civil Service in the Departments, a political novel; Is it Fate?

=Cleveland, Henry Russell.= _Ms._, 1808-1843. Son of R. J. Cleveland, _infra_. The Classical Education of Boys; Life of Henry Hudson.

=Cleveland, Horace William Shaler.= _Ms._, 1814-1900. Son of R. J. Cleveland, _infra_. A noted landscape gardener of Minneapolis. Hints to Riflemen; Landscape Architecture; Voyages of a Merchant Navigator. _Har._

=Cleveland, Richard Jeffry.= _Ms._, 1773-1860. Cousin of A. Cleveland, _supra_. Voyages and Commercial Enterprises; Voyages of a Merchant Navigator of the Days that are Past.

=Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth.= _N. Y._, 1846- ----. Great-granddaughter of A. Cleveland, _supra_, and the only sister of President Cleveland. During the first year of her brother’s first administration she was the mistress of the White House. George Eliot’s Poetry and Other Studies; The Long Run, a novel. _Fu._

=Clevenger, Shobal Vail.= _Iy._, 1843- ----. A physician of Chicago, and son of the noted sculptor of the same name. Treatise on Government Surveying; Comparative Physiology and Psychology; Lectures on Artistic Anatomy and Sciences Useful to the Artist.

=Clifford, Nathan.= _N. H._, 1803-1881. A noted jurist of Maine, who was attorney-general during Polk’s administration, and published United States Circuit Court Reports.

=Clingman, Thomas Lanier.= _N. C._, 1812-1897. A North Carolina congressman who served during the Civil War as brigadier-general in the Confederate army. The two Carolina mountains, Clingman’s Peak and Clingman’s Dome, were named in his honour, he having been the first to measure their height. Speeches; Follies of the Positivist Philosophers.

=Clinton, De Witt.= _N. Y._, 1769-1828. A famous statesman and politician of New York state. Memoir of Antiquities of Western New York; Natural History and Internal Revenues of New York; Speeches to the Legislature. _See Lives, by Hosack, 1829; Renwick, 1840; Campbell, 1849._

=Clymer, Mrs. Ella Maria [Dietz].= _Ms._, 1856- ----. A New York writer, once an actress; for some time president of the woman’s club of New York, Sorosis. She has written three volumes of verse: The Triumph of Love; The Triumph of Time; The Triumph of Life.

=Clymer, Meredith.= _Pa._, 1817-1902. A distinguished physician and medical writer of New York city. Diseases of the Respiratory Organs (with Williams); Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Fevers; Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System; Palsies and Kindred Disorders; Ecstasy and Other Dramatic Disorders of the Nervous System; Hereditary Genius; Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis; Legitimate Influence of Epilepsy on Criminal Responsibility.

=Coan, Titus.= _Ct._, 1801-1882. A missionary of note in the Sandwich Islands who wrote Life in Hawaii; Adventures in Patagonia. _Do. Ran._

=Coan, Titus Munson.= _H. I._, 1836- ----. Son of T. Coan, _supra_. A New York littérateur. Ounces of Prevention; Topics of the Times (edited).

=Cobb, Cyrus.= _Ms._, 1834-1903. Son of S. Cobb, 1st, _infra_. An artist and sculptor of Boston who, besides writing much occasional verse, published Veterans of the Grand Army, a novel.

=Cobb, Howell.= _Ga._, 1795-18--. A Georgia lawyer. Penal Code of Georgia.

=Cobb, Jonathan Holmes.= _Ms._, 1799-1882. A manufacturer of Dedham, who founded the silk industry in the United States, and whose Manual of the Mulberry Tree and the Culture of Silk was once well known.

=Cobb, Joseph Beckham.= _Ga._, 1819-1858. A Southern author whose writings include The Creole, or the Siege of New Orleans, a novel; Mississippi Scenes; Leisure Labours.

=Cobb, Lyman.= _Ms._, _c._ 1800-1864. A once prominent educator who, besides many text-books on spelling and mathematics, published The Evil Tendency of Corporal Punishment; Just Standard for Pronouncing the English Language. _Har._

=Cobb, Sylvanus.= _Me._, 1799-1866. A Universalist clergyman of Massachusetts, editor for many years of The Christian Freeman. The New Testament, with Explanatory Notes; Compend of Divinity; Discussions. _See Autobiography, and Memoir by his son, S. Cobb, 1867._

=Cobb, Sylvanus.= _Me._, 1823-1887. Son of S. Cobb, _supra_. A prolific writer of sensational tales quite without literary value. Among them are The King’s Talisman; The Patriot Cruiser; Ben Hamed.

=Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes.= _Ga._, 1823-1862. A Georgia lawyer who served as brigadier-general in the Confederate army during the Civil War, and was killed in the battle of Fredericksburg. Digest of the Laws of Georgia; Historical Sketch of Slavery from the Earliest Periods; Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States.

=Cobbett, Thomas.= _E._, 1608-1685. A nonconformist English clergyman who came to America in 1637, and was minister at Ipswich from 1656 till his death. Infant Baptism; Civil Magistrate’s Power in Matters of Religion; Practical Discourse of Prayer; The Honour due from Children to their Parents.

=Cocke= [cōke], =James Richard.= _Tn._, 1863-1900. A physician of Boston. Hypnotism; Blind Leaders of the Blind, a novel. _Ar. Le._

=Cocke, Zitella.= _Al._, _c._ 1847- ----. A verse-writer whose contributions to periodicals have been collected in a volume of verse entitled A Doric Reed. _Cop._

=Cocker, William Johnson.= _E._, 1846- ----. An educator of Michigan. Handbook of Punctuation; The Government of the United States. _Har._

=Coddington, William.= _E._, 1601-1678. The first governor of Rhode Island. Demonstrations of True Love unto the Rulers of Massachusetts.

=Codman, John.= _Ms._, 1782-1847. A Congregational clergyman of Dorchester. Sermons; Visit to England. _See Memoir, by W. A. Allen, 1853._

=Codman, John.= _Ms._, 1814-1900. Son of J. Codman, _supra_. A noted captain in the merchant marine. Sailors’ Life and Sailors’ Yarns; Ten Months in Brazil; The Mormon Country; The Round Trip by Way of Panama; A Solution of the Mormon Problem; Winter Sketches from the Saddle.

=Coffin, Charles Carleton.= _N. H._, 1823-1896. A Boston journalist who became famous as the war correspondent of the Boston Journal during the Civil War, over the signature “Carleton.” His writings, mainly though not exclusively for young people, include My Days and Nights on the Battlefield, a narrative of personal experience; Following the Flag; Winning his Way; Building the Nation; Old Times in the Colonies; The Boys of ’76; The Story of Liberty; The Drumbeat of the Nation; Marching to Victory; Redeeming the Republic; Freedom Triumphant; Abraham Lincoln; Our New Way Round the World; Daughters of the Revolution. _See Life of, by Griffis._ _Est. Har. Hou._

=Coffin, Isaac Foster.= _Me._, 1787-1861. An educator of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Journal of a Residence in Chili during the revolutionary scenes of 1817-19.

=Coffin, James Henry.= _Ms._, 1806-1873. A meteorologist who was professor of astronomy at Lafayette College. Solar and Lunar Eclipses Illustrated and Explained; Winds of the Northern Hemisphere; Psychometrical Table; Orbit and Phenomena of a Meteoric Fire Ball; Elements of Conic Sections and Analytical Geometry; Winds of the Globe. See Life, _by J. C. Clyde, 1882._

=Coffin, John Huntington Crane.= _Me._, 1815-1890. A mathematician of distinction. Observations with the Mural Circle at the United States Naval Observatory; The Compass; Navigation and Nautical Astronomy.

=Coffin, Joshua.= _Ms._, 1792-1864. A Massachusetts antiquary prominent among the abolitionists, and one of the poet Whittier’s early instructors. He published a History of Ancient Newbury; The Toppans of Toppan’s Lane, a genealogy.

=Coffin, Robert Allen.= _Ms._, 1801-1878. Brother of J. H. Coffin, _supra_. An instructor in western Massachusetts. Compendium of Natural Philosophy; Town Organization; History of Conway, Massachusetts.

=Coffin, Robert Barry.= “Barry Gray.” _N. Y._, 1826-1886. A New York journalist and littérateur, whose books, popular at one time, are now nearly forgotten. Their humour is somewhat forced, and the style has no very marked merits. Matrimonial Infelicities; Who is the Heir?; Out of Town, a Rural Episode; Cakes and Ale at Woodbine; Castles in the Air; Left in the Lurch; The Home of Cooper.

=Coffin, Robert Stevenson.= _Me._, 1797-1827. A verse-writer of Boston who published The Oriental Harp; Poems of the Boston Bard. _See Autobiography, 1825._

=Coffin, Roland Folger.= _N. Y._, 1826-1888. A marine reporter in New York city. An Old Sailor’s Yarns; The America’s Cup; History of American Yachting. _Fu. Scr._

=Coffin, Selden Jennings.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. Son of J. H. Coffin, _supra_. He succeeded his father as professor of astronomy at Lafayette College in 1873, and completed the latter’s Winds of the Globe. He has also published Record of the Men at Lafayette.

=Coggeshall, George.= _Ct._, 1784-_c._ 1850. A sea captain of some prominence as a writer. Voyages to Various Parts of the World, 1799-1844; History of American Privateers and Letters of Marque during our War with England, 1812-14; Historical Sketch of Commerce and Navigation from the Christian Era to 1860; Religious and Miscellaneous Poetry.

=Coggeshall, William Turner.= _Pa._, 1824-1867. A journalist of Cincinnati, whose principal writings include Signs of the Times, a work on spirit rappings; Home Hits and Hints; Stories of Frontier Adventure.

=Cogswell, Jonathan.= _Ms._, 1782-1864. A noted Congregational clergyman of New England and New Jersey. The Necessity of Capital Punishment; Discourses; Hebrew Theocracy; Calvary and Sinai; Godliness a Great Mystery; The Appropriate Work of the Holy Spirit. _See E. O. Jameson’s Cogswells of America._

=Cogswell, William.= _N. H._, 1787-1850. A Congregational clergyman of New Hampshire, among whose works are, Manual of Theology and Devotion; Assistant to Family Religion; Christian Philanthropist; Theological Class Book; Harbinger of the Millennium; Letters to Young Men Preparing for the Ministry.

=Cohen, Jacob Da Silva Solis.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A Philadelphia physician and medical lecturer of prominence. Treatise on Inhalations; Diseases of the Throat; Croup in its Relations to Tracheotomy; The Throat and the Voice.

=Coit, James Milnor.= _Pa._, 1845- ----. An instructor in chemistry at St. Paul’s School, Concord. Elements of Chemical Arithmetic; Short Manual of Qualitative Analysis.

=Coit, Thomas Winthrop.= _Ct._, 1803-1885. An Episcopal clergyman, professor in Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown from 1872 to 1885. Necessity of Preaching Doctrine; Theological Commonplace Book; Puritanism in New England and the Episcopal Church; Lectures on the Early History of Christianity in England.

=Colburn, Warren.= _Ms._, 1793-1833. A noted mathematician of Massachusetts, whose First Lessons in Intellectual Arithmetic was translated into many languages. _Hou._

=Colburn, Zerah.= _N. Y._, 1832-1870. A nephew of the famous calculator of the same name. He was a well-known mechanical engineer who published The Locomotive Engine; Steam Boiler Explosions; Nature of Heat and its Mode of Action in the Phenomena of Combustion, etc.; Treatise on the Principles of the Locomotive Engine. _Bai. Vn._

=Colby, Frederick Myron.= _N. H._, 1848- ----. A journalist of New Hampshire. The Daughter of Pharaoh, a Tale of the Exodus; Brave Lads and Bonnie Lassies, a juvenile.

=Colden, Cadwallader.= _S._, 1688-1776. A colonial physician, lieutenant-governor of the province of New York, 1761-76, and a prominent loyalist of his day. The History of the Five Indian Nations is his chief work. Among his many lesser writings is Principles of Actions on Matter. =See Tyler’s American Literature.=

=Colden, Cadwallader David.= _L. I._, 1769-1834. Nephew of C. Colden, _supra._ A commercial lawyer of prominence in New York who published Life of Robert Fulton; Vindication of the Steamboat Right granted by the State of New York.

=Coleman, Leighton.= _Pa._, 1837- ----. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Delaware. The Church in America, a history of the American Episcopal Church.

=Coleman, Lyman.= _Ms._, 1796-1882. A Congregational clergyman who was a classical professor at Lafayette College, 1861-82. Ancient Christianity Exemplified; Prelacy and Ritualism; The Apostolical and Primitive Church; Historical Geography of the Bible; Text-Book and Atlas of Bible Geography; Genealogy of the Lyman Family.

=Coles, Abraham.= _N. J._, 1813-1891. A New Jersey physician who published a volume containing thirteen original translations of the Dies Irae. His other works include Stabat Mater Dolorosa; Stabat Mater Speciosa; Old Gems in New Settings; The Microcosm, a psychological poem; The Evangel in Verse; The Light of the World; The Psalms in Verse, with notes. _See Biographical Sketch, edited by J. A. Coles, 1892._ _Ap._

=Coles, George.= _E._, 1792-1858. A Methodist clergyman who published The Antidote, or Revelation Defended; Concordance of the Scriptures; Heroines of Methodism.

=Colesworthy, Daniel Clement.= _Me._, 1810-1893. A once noted bookseller of Boston, who was also a writer. Some of his poems for children, like “Don’t Kill the Birds” and “Little Words of Kindness,” have been extremely popular. Sunday School Hymns; Advice to an Apprentice; Opening Buds; Chronicles of Casco Bay; A Group of Children, and Other Poems; School is Out; The Year; A Day in the Woods, in verse, comprise the most of his writings.

=Collens, Thomas Wharton.= _La._, 1812-1879. A well-known jurist of New Orleans, who wrote The Martyr Patriots, a tragedy; Humanics; Views of the Labour Movement; The Eden of Labour.

=Collier, Mrs. Ada [Langworthy].= _Ia._, 1843- ----. A writer of Dubuque, whose Lilith, the Legend of the First Woman, is a poem of not a little merit.

=Collier, Joseph Avery.= _Ms._, 1828-1864. A Reformed Dutch clergyman of Kingston, New York. The Right Way, or the Gospel Applied to the Intercourse of Individuals and Nations; The Christian Home; The Young Men of the Bible; Pleasant Paths for Little Feet; Little Crowns; Dawn of Heaven.

=Collier, Peter.= _N. Y._, 1835-1896. A chemist of distinction for several years attached to the Department of Agriculture at Washington. Sorghum, its Culture and Manufacture Economically Considered; Investigations of Sorghum as a Sugar Producing Plant. _Clke_.

=Collier, Robert Laird.= _Md._, 1837-1890. A Unitarian clergyman who in his later years was a London correspondent of the New York Herald. Every-Day Subjects in Sunday Sermons; Meditations on the Essence of Christianity; Henry Irving: a Sketch and a Criticism; English Home Life. _A. U. A. Hou. Rob._

=Collier, Thomas Stephens.= _N. Y._, 1842-1893. A physician and poet whose home was at New London, Connecticut. Song Spray, a collection of poems, 1889.

=Collins, Charles.= _Me._, 1813-1875. A Methodist preacher and educator of Tennessee, who published Methodism and Calvinism Compared.

=Collyer, Robert.= _E._, 1823- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of New York, and one of the leading men among the clergy of his faith. He was born in Yorkshire, and learned the blacksmith’s trade, which he still followed after coming to America in 1849. He was then a Wesleyan local preacher, but his views changing he became a Unitarian, and in 1860 founded Unity Church in Chicago, over which he remained pastor till he went to New York in 1879. His influence, both within and without the Unitarian body, has been very great. The Life That Now Is; Nature and Life; A Man in Earnest; The Simple Truth, a Home Book; Lectures to Young Men and Women; History of Ilkley, in Yorkshire. _Dut. Le._

=Colman, Benjamin.= _Ms._, 1673-1747. A famous Congregational minister of Boston, whose theological views were much more liberal than those of his contemporaries, and whose literary style was far more polished and flexible. Evangelical Sermons Collected; Twenty Sacramental Sermons. _See Life by E. Turell, 1749; Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Colman, Henry.= _Ms._, 1785-1849. An agricultural writer of Massachusetts, who was a Congregational minister at Hingham, 1807-20, and afterwards a Unitarian minister at Salem. Report on Silk Culture; European Agriculture and Rural Economy; Agriculture and Rural Economy of France, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland; European Life and Manners.

=Colton, Calvin.= _Ms._, 1789-1857. An Episcopal clergyman of some note in his day as a political writer. Manual for Emigrants to America; History of American Revivals; Protestant Jesuitism; Public Economy for the United States, a plea for protection; Life of Henry Clay; Junius Tracts.

=Colton, George Hooker.= _N. Y._, 1818-1847. A verse-writer whose Tecumseh is a poem as ambitious in conception as it is mediocre in execution.

=Colton, Walter.= _Vt._, 1797-1851. Brother of C. Colton, _supra_. A journalist and educator who established the first newspaper in California, and built the first schoolhouse there. As chaplain in the United States navy he visited many parts of the world. Visit to Athens and Constantinople; Land and Lee in the Bosphorus and Ægean; Ship and Shore; Deck and Port; The Sea and the Sailor.

=Colwell, Stephen.= _Va._, 1800-1871. An iron merchant of Philadelphia, who wrote much on current topics, especially matters relating to political economy. Ways and Means of Commercial Payment; Money on Account; Removal of the Deposits from the Bank of the United States; Domestic Production and Internal Trade; Hints to Laymen; Charity and the Clergy; Politics for American Christians; New Themes for Protestant Clergy, include the more important of his writings.

=Coman, Katherine.= _O._, 1857- ----. A professor of history at Wellesley College. Outlines in Constitutional History of England; Outlines in Industrial History; The Growth of the English Nation.

=Comegys, Benjamin Bartis.= _Del._, 1819-1901. A banker of Philadelphia. Tour Round My Library, and Other Papers; Advice to Young Men and Boys; A Primer of Ethics; Talks with Boys and Girls; How to Get On, a Book for Boys; Turn Over a New Leaf; An Order of Worship; Old Stories with New Lessons. _Hou. Rev._

=Comfort, Mrs. Anna [Manning].= _N. J._, 1845- ----. Wife of G. F. Comfort, _infra_. A physician of Syracuse, who has written Woman’s Education and Woman’s Health, a reply to Dr. Clarke’s once famous Sex in Education.

=Comfort, George Fisk.= _N. Y._, 1833- ----. A professor at Syracuse University since 1872. He has published a series of German text-books and The Land Troubles in Ireland. _Har._

=Comly, John.= _Pa._, 1774-1850. A Pennsylvania educator among the Friends, who prepared a speller that was phenomenally popular, and also a grammar and other text-books. _See Journal of John Comly of Ryberry, 1853._

=Comstock= [kŭm´stŏk], =Cyrus Ballou.= _Ms._, 1831- ----. A colonel of the Engineer Corps in the United States army, and brevet major-general of U. S. Volunteers, who has made a number of important government surveys. Notes on European Surveys; Surveys of the Northwestern Lakes; Primary Triangulation of United States Lake Survey.

=Comstock, John Henry.= _Wis._, 1849- ----. A professor of entomology and general invertebrate zoölogy at Cornell University. Notes on Entomology; Report on Cotton Insects; Introduction to Entomology.

=Comstock, John Lee.= _Ct._, 1789-1858. An educational compiler of Hartford, among whose many scientific text-books are The Elements of Chemistry; Introduction to Mineralogy; System of Natural Philosophy; History of the Precious Minerals; Natural History of Quadrupeds. He wrote also A History of the Greek Revolution.

=Comstock, Theodore Bryant.= _O._, 1849- ----. A geologist of distinction, professor in Illinois University. Outlines of General Geology; Classification of Rocks.

=Conant, Alban Jasper.= _Vt._, 1821- ----. A naturalist who was for some time curator in the University of Wisconsin. Footprints of Vanished Races in the Valley of the Mississippi.

=Conant, Mrs. Hannah O’Brien [Chaplin].= _Ms._, 1809-1865. Wife of T. J. Conant, _infra_, and daughter of J. Chaplin, _supra_. An Oriental scholar who assisted her husband in his literary work, made important translations from the German of Strauss, Neander, and Uhden, and was the author of History of the English Bible; Popular History of English Bible Translation; The Earnest Man, a sketch of Judson the missionary.

=Conant, Mrs. Helen Peters [Stevens].= _Ms._, 1839-1899. Wife of S. S. Conant, _infra_. A magazinist of New York city. The Butterfly Hunters; Primers of German and Spanish Literature. _Har._

=Conant, Samuel Stillman.= _Me._, 1831-1885. Son of T. J. Conant, _infra_. A journalist of New York, managing editor of Harper’s Weekly, 1869-85, and translator of Lermontoff’s Circassian Boy.

=Conant, Thomas Jefferson.= _Vt._, 1802-1891. A Baptist clergyman who was one of the foremost Hebrew scholars of his time. Baptism, its Meaning and its Use Philologically and Historically Considered. His editions of The Book of Job; The Book of Proverbs; Genesis; Psalms; Prophecies of Isaiah; Historical Books of the Old Testament from Joshua to Second Kings; The Gospel by Matthew, constitute a scholar’s version of the Scriptures, amply illustrated with critical and philological notes. _Fu._

=Condie, Daniel Francis.= _Pa._, 1796-1875. A physician and medical writer of Philadelphia. Course of Examination for Medical Students; Catechism of Health; Epidemic Cholera; Diseases of Children.

=Cone, Helen Gray.= _N. Y._, 1859- ----. An instructor in the Normal College of New York city, whose writing has been mainly in verse. Oberon and Puck, verses Grave and Gay; The Ride to the Lady and Other Poems. _Hou._

=Congdon, Charles Taber.= _Ms._, 1821-1891. A journalist of New York city for some years on the staff of the Tribune. Tribune Essays; Reminiscences of a Journalist; Recollections of a Reader; Autobiographical Papers.

=Conkling, Alfred.= _N. Y._, 1789-1874. A jurist of New York whose son was the noted statesman, Roscoe Conkling. Treatise on Organization and Jurisdiction of Superior, Circuit, and District Courts; Admiralty Jurisdiction; Powers of the Executive Department of the United States; Young Citizen’s Manual.

=Conkling, Alfred Ronald.= _N. Y._, 1850- ----. Grandson of A. Conkling, _supra_. A lawyer of New York city. Appleton’s Guide to Mexico; City Government in the United States; Handbook for Voters in New York city; Life of Roscoe Conkling. _Ap._

=Conn, Herbert William.= _Ms._, 1859- ----. A biologist whose specialty is the bacteriology of milk; instructor and professor of biology at Wesleyan University from 1884. Evolution of To-Day; The Living World: Whence it Came and Whither it is Drifting. _Put._

=Connelly, Mrs. Celia [Logan] [Kellogg].= _Pa._, 1837-1904. A journalist and playwright of Washington. An American Marriage is one of her plays.

=Connelly, Emma M.= _Ky._, 18-- - ----. A writer of New York city. Under the Surface; Tilting at Wind Mills, a Story of the Blue Grass Country; The Story of Kentucky. _Lo._

=Conrad, Frederick William.= _Pa._, 1816-1898. A Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, editor of The Lutheran Observer from 1867. The Lutheran Doctrine of Baptism; Analysis of Luther’s Small Catechism: The Evangelical Lutheran Church; The Call to the Ministry; The Liturgical Question.

=Conrad, Robert Taylor.= _Pa._, 1810-1858. A lawyer of Philadelphia and mayor of that city in 1854, who was once noted as a dramatic poet. Aylmere, or the Bondman of Kent, is a tragedy in which Jack Cade is the chief figure, a rôle in which Edwin Forrest was very successful. Conrad of Naples, another tragedy, had also a measure of popularity.

=Conrad, Timothy Abbott.= _N. J._, 1803-1877. A conchologist who published Fossil Shells of the Tertiary Formations of North America; New Fresh-Water Shells of the United States; Miocene Shells of the United States; Palæontology of State of New York.

=Converse, Mrs. Harriet [Maxwell].= _N. Y._, 184- -1903. A writer of verse and prose in New York city. Sheaves, a collection of verses; The Religious Festivals of the Iroquois Indians; Mythology and Folk-Lore of the North American Indian.

=Conway, Katherine Eleanor.= _N. Y._, 1853- ----. A journalist of Boston, on the editorial staff of The Pilot. Songs of the Sunrise Slope; A Dream of Lilies, a volume of poems; A Lady and Her Letters; Making Friends and Keeping Them.

=Conway, Moncure Daniel.= _Va._, 1832- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of extremely radical views, who was for many years settled in charge of a congregation in London. He has been a prolific writer in several fields, and among his many published books are The Rejected Stone; Idols and Ideals; Demonology and Devil Lore; The Wandering Jew; Sketch of Carlyle; The Earthward Pilgrimage; Sacred Anthology, a compilation; Emerson at Home and Abroad; George Washington and Mount Vernon; Omitted Chapters in Life and Letters of Edmund Randolph; Life of Thomas Paine; Tracts for To-Day; Natural History of the Devil; The Golden Hour; Testimonies Concerning Slavery; Human Sacrifices in England; Lessons for the Day; Travels in South Kensington; A Necklace of Stories; Pine and Palm, a novel; Prisons of Air, a novel; Autobiography. _Har. Ho._

=Conwell, Russell Herrman.= _Ms._, 1842- ----. A Baptist minister of Philadelphia. Why the Chinese Emigrate; Woman and the Law; Life of President Hayes; Life of Bayard Taylor; Life of President Garfield; Joshua Giavencola, the Captain of the Vineyards of Lucerna. _Lo. Mer._

=Conyngham, David Power.= _I._, 1840-1883. A New York journalist, editor of The Tablet. Sherman’s March Through the South; Lives of the Irish Saints and Martyrs; The Irish Brigade and its Campaigns. In fiction: Sarsfield, or the Last Great Struggle for Ireland; The O’Donnells of Glen Cottage; O’Mahoney, Chief of the Commeraghs; Rose Parnell, the Flower of Avondale.

=Cook, Albert John.= _Mch._, 1842- ----. A professor of zoölogy at Michigan Agricultural College. Injurious Insects of Michigan; Manual of the Apiary.

=Cook, Albert Stanborough.= _N. J._, 1853- ----. A professor of English at Yale University, who has edited Siever’s Old English Grammar; Judith, an Old English Epic Fragment; Sidney’s Defence of Poesy. _Gi._

=Cook, Clarence Chatham.= _Ms._, 1828-1900. An art critic of New York city, and editor of The Studio. He edited Lübke’s History of Art, and published also The House Beautiful; Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks; The Central Park. _Scr._

=Cook, George Hammell.= _N. J._, 1818-1889. A professor of geology at Rutgers College and State geologist, whose only published work is The Geology of New Jersey.

=Cook, Joel.= _Pa._, 1842- ----. A Philadelphia journalist, financial editor of the Public Ledger. Brief Summer Rambles near Philadelphia; An Eastern Tour at Home; A Holiday Tour in Europe; England, Picturesque and Descriptive; The Siege of Richmond. _My._

=Cook, Joseph.= _N. Y._, 1838-1901. A Boston lecturer whose Monday morning lectures at Tremont Temple were at one time very popular, but whose shallow, pretentious thought provoked much criticism from scholarly, accurate minds. Boston Monday Lectures, in ten volumes; Current Religious Perils, with Other Addresses on Leading Reforms. _Hou._

=Cook, Marc.= _R. I._, 1854-1882. A journalist of New York. The Wilderness Cure; Vandyke Brown Poems.

=Cook, Richard Briscoe.= _Md._, 1838- ----. A Baptist clergyman of Wilmington, Delaware. The Story of the Baptists in all Ages and Countries.

=Cook, Theodore Pease.= _Ms._, 1844- ----. Brother of M. Cook, _supra_. A journalist of Utica, who published a Life of Samuel J. Tilden. _Ap._

=Cooke, George Willis.= _Mch._, 1848- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of Lexington, Massachusetts, who has done much excellent work in criticism. George Eliot: a Critical Study; Ralph Waldo Emerson: his Life, Writings, and Philosophy; Poets and Problems, Studies of Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning; Guide Book to Browning; The Clapboard Trees Parish, Dedham, a History. _Hou._

=Cooke, John Esten.= _Va._, 1830-1886. A noted Virginia author who served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. He wrote much historical fiction, The Virginia Comedians being the most famous of his romances. Leather Stocking and Silk; The Youth of Jefferson; Surry of Eagle’s Nest; Wearing the Gray; My Lady Pokahontas; Henry St. John, reissued as Bonnybel Vane; Mohun, or the Last Days of Lee and his Paladins; Her Majesty the Queen; Pretty Mrs. Gaston; Stories of the Old Dominion; The Maurice Mystery; Mr. Grantley’s Idea; Professor Pressensee; Virginia Bohemians; Hammer and Rapier; Hilt to Hilt, include the greater part of his work in fiction. He wrote also Life of General Lee; Stonewall Jackson, a Biography; Virginia, a History of the People. _Ap. Har. Hou. Lip._

=Cooke, Josiah Parsons.= _Ms._, 1827-1894. A chemist of distinction who was professor of chemistry at Harvard University from 1850, and lectured in many places on scientific topics. Religion and Chemistry; Scientific Culture; Elements of Chemical Physics; Chemical Problems and Reactions; Principles of Chemical Philosophy; The New Chemistry; The Credentials of Science the Warrant of Faith; Laboratory Practice. _Ap. Scr._

=Cooke, Nicholas Francis.= _R. I._, 1829-1885. A once prominent physician of Chicago. Satan in Society; Antiseptic Medication.

=Cooke, Parsons.= _Ms._, 1800-1864. A Congregational clergyman of Lynn, strongly Calvinistic in doctrine and controversially inclined. History of German Anabaptism; A Century of Puritanism and a Century of its Opposites.

=Cooke, Philip Pendleton.= _Va._, 1816-1850. Brother of J. E. Cooke, _supra_. A Virginia lawyer whose verse was once very much admired, and whose Florence Vane still lingers in the anthologies. The Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems. _See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America; Hart’s American Literature._

=Cooke, Philip St. George.= _Va._, 1809-1895. Uncle of J. E. Cooke, _supra_. A brigadier-general in the United States army who retired in 1873. Scenes and Adventures in the Army; Handy Book for United States Cavalry; Cavalry Tactics; Conquest of New Mexico and California.

=Cooke, Mrs. Rose [Terry].= _Ct._, 1827-1892. A New England writer well known both as a poet and a writer of short stories of notable excellence. Poems by Rose Terry; Happy Dodd; Somebody’s Neighbors; The Sphinx’s Children and Other People’s; Steadfast; Huckleberries. In 1888 a complete collection of her poems was made, including the contents of her early volume and her later work in verse. The Two Villages is her best known poem, as it is one of her best. _Hou._

=Cookman, Alfred.= 1828-1871. A Methodist clergyman who published Stayed on God. _See Life by H. B. Ridgaway, 1871._

=Coolbrith, Ina Donna.= _Il._, 18-- - ----. A California poet, formerly librarian of the Oakland Public Library. Her work, though uneven in quality, is nearly always musical. The Perfect Day and Other Poems; Songs from the Golden Gate. _Hou._

=Cooley, Le Roy Clark.= _N. Y._, 1833- ----. A professor of physics at Vassar College. Text-Book of Physics; Text-Book of Chemistry; Easy Experiments in Physical Science; Natural Philosophy; Elements of Chemistry; Students’ Guide Book; Beginners’ Guide to Chemistry; Laboratory Studies in Elementary Chemistry.

=Cooley, Thomas McIntyre.= _N. Y._, 1824-1898. A jurist of prominence in Michigan, professor of history in the University of Michigan. Law of Taxation; Law of Torts; General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States; Treatise on Constitutional Limitations of the Legislative Power in the Several States; annotated editions of Blackstone’s Story’s Commentaries; Michigan, a History of Governments. _Hou. Lit._

=Coolidge, Susan.= _See Woolsey, Sarah._

=Coombs, Mrs. Annie [Sheldon].= _N. Y._, 1858-1890. A novelist of New York city. As Common Mortals; A Game of Chance; The Garden of Armida. _Ap._

=Cooper, Ellwood.= _Pa._, 1829- ----. A horticulturist of southern California, president of the State board of horticulture. Statistics of Trade with Hayti; Forest Culture and Eucalyptus Trees; Treatise on Olive Culture.

=Cooper, James Fenimore.= _N. J._, 1789-1851. The first American writer to gain general European recognition, and the first native novelist who won a national reputation. Although much that he wrote is nearly forgotten, the best of his work survives and is still popular. His first novel, Precaution, a conventional, mediocre piece of writing, appeared in 1820, and was followed, in 1821, by The Spy, the most famous of all his books, having been translated into all the principal languages of Europe. Almost as famous is The Last of the Mohicans, a much greater work. Among his tales of the sea, The Pilot and The Red Rover are the best, as the five Leather Stocking tales--The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, The Prairie,--are the best of his stories of Indian life. His other fictions include The Bravo; Lionel Lincoln, or The Leaguer of Boston; The Water-Witch; The Two Admirals; The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish; The Heidenmauer; The Headsman; Homeward Bound; Home as Found; The Monikins, the weakest of all his works; Mercedes of Castile; Wing-and-Wing; Wyandotté; Afloat and Ashore; Satanstoe; The Chainbearer; The Red Skins; Jack Tier; The Crater; The Oak Openings; The Sea Lions; The Ways of the Hour; Miles Wallingford. He wrote, also, History of the United States Navy; Sketches of Switzerland; Gleanings in Europe; Notions of the Americans. _See Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Bryant’s Memorial Discourse, 1852; Coffin’s Home of Cooper, 1872; Life, by Lounsbury, 1882; Bryant and his Friends, 1886; Richardson’s American Literature; The Bookman, March, 1897._ _Ap. Hou. Put._

=Cooper, Myles.= _E._, 1735-1785. An Episcopal clergyman who came to America in 1762, and was president of King’s (now Columbia) College, 1763-1775. Being an ardent loyalist, he was obliged to leave the colony, and returned to England. Friendly Advice to all Reasonable Americans on our Political Confusions; Poems on Several Occasions; Address to the Episcopalians of Virginia; The American Querist.

=Cooper, Peter.= _N. Y._, 1791-1883. A famous philanthropist of New York city who founded the Cooper Institute. Ideas for a System of Good Government; Financial Opinions, with Autobiography.

=Cooper, Susan Fenimore.= _N. Y._, 1813-1894. Daughter of J. F. Cooper, _supra_. A writer of rural sketches, whose life was passed at Cooperstown, New York. Rural Hours; Country Rambles; Rhyme and Reason; Country Life; The Shield, a Narrative; Mount Vernon and the Children of America. _Hou._

=Cooper, Thomas.= _E._, 1759-1840. A noted scientist who came to America in 1795 with Dr. Priestley, _infra_, and was president of the College of South Carolina, 1820-34. Letters on the Slave Trade; Tracts Ethical, Theological, and Political; Information concerning America; The Bankrupt Law of America compared with that of England; Tracts on Medical Jurisprudence; Elements of Political Economy; An English Version of the Institutes of Justinian.

=Cooper, William.= _Ms._, 1694-1743. A once famous Congregational minister of Boston. Tract Defending Inoculation for the Small Pox, 1720; The Doctrine of Predestination unto Life.

=Cope, Edward Drinker.= _Pa._, 1840-1897. A noted Philadelphia naturalist. Origin of Genera; Extinct Batrachia and Reptilia of North America; Primary Groups of Batrachia Anura; Systematic Relations of the Fishes; Vertebrate Palæontology of New Mexico; Tertiary Vertebrata of the West; The Origin of the Fittest, include the more important of his writings. _Ap._

=Cope, Gilbert.= _Pa._, 1840- ----. A genealogist of Pennsylvania. Record of the Cope Family; The Browns of Nottingham; Genealogy of the Dutton Family; Genealogy of the Sharpless Family; History of Chester County, Pennsylvania.

=Coppée, Henry.= _Ga._, 1821-1895. A prominent educator, president of Lehigh University, 1866-75, and professor there until his death. During the Mexican War he served as an officer in the American army. His most important work is a History of the Conquest of Spain by the Arab Moors, which takes up the narrative at the period reached at the close of Irving’s “Mahomet and his Successors.” His other works comprise Elements of Logic; Elements of Rhetoric; Grant and his Campaigns; Manual of Battalion Drill; Evolutions of the Line; Manual of Court Martial. _Lit._

=Copway, George=, or =Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh=. _Mch._, 1818-_c._ 1869. An Indian of the Ojibway tribe who was a journalist in New York City, and was well known as a lecturer. Recollections of a Forest Life; Copway’s “American Indian;” The Traditional History of the Ojibway Nation; The Ojibway Conquest, a poem; Running Sketches of Men and Places in Europe, include the most of his writings.

=Corbin, Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth [Fairfield].= _Ct._, 1835- ----. A Chicago writer of fiction and other works. Rebecca; His Marriage Vow; Belle and the Boys; A Woman’s Philosophy of Love, a psychological treatise. _Le._

=Corbin, John.= _Il._, 1870- ----. Son of Mrs. Corbin, _supra_. The Elizabethan Hamlet. _Scr._

=Cornelius, Elias.= _N. Y._, 1794-1852. A missionary to the Cherokee Indians who wrote The Little Osage Captive, an Authentic Narrative.

=Cornell, Alonzo Barton.= _N. Y._, 1832- ----. A governor of New York, 1880-83, and a son of the founder of Cornell University. His only publication is True and Firm, a Biography of Ezra Cornell: a Filial Tribute. _Bar._

=Cornell, John Henry.= _N. Y._, 1828-1894. A musician and organist of New York City. Primer of Modern Musical Tonality; Practice of Sight Singing; Easy Method of Modulation; Theory and Practice of Musical Form; A Manual of Roman Chant; Congregational Tune Book.

=Cornell, William Mason.= _Ms._, 1802-1895. A physician of Boston and elsewhere. Robert Raikes, the Founder of Sunday Schools; Life of Horace Greeley; Grammar of the English Language; Consumption Prevented; Treatise on Epilepsy; History of Pennsylvania, include the most of his writings. _Fu. Lo._

=Cornwall, Henry Bedinger.= _Ct._, 1844- ----. A professor of mineralogy at Princeton College since 1873, who has published A Manual of Blow-Pipe Analysis.

=Cornwallis, Kinahan.= _E._, 1835- ----. A New York journalist who came to America about 1860. His more important works are Yarra Yarra, or the Wandering Aborigine, a Poetical Narrative; The New Eldorado of British Columbia; Wreck and Ruin, or Modern Society; My Life and Adventures, an Autobiography; Adrift with a Vengeance; Pilgrims of Fashion; The Gold Room and the New York Stock Exchange. _Har._

=Cornwell, Henry Sylvester.= _N. H._, 1831-1886. A physician of New London, Connecticut, who wrote much thoughtful verse. The Land of Dreams and Other Poems (1879), is the only collection that has been made of his poems.

=Corson, Hiram.= _Pa._, 1828- ----. A Chaucerian and Early English scholar, professor at Cornell University since 1870. The Voice and Spiritual Education; Elocutionary Manual; Jottings on the Text of Hamlet; Introduction to the Study of Browning; Lectures on English Language and Literature; The Aims of Literary Study; Vocal Culture in Relation to Literary Study; Thesaurus of Early English; Handbook of Anglo-Saxon and Early English. He has also edited Chaucer’s Legende of Goode Women. _Gi. Ho. Mac._

=Corson, Juliet.= _Ms._, 1842-1897. A cooking instructor of New York, founder of the School of Cooking there in 1876. Cooking Manual; Cooking School Text-Book; Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six; Meals for the Million; Practical American Cookery; Family Living on Five Hundred Dollars a Year; Diet for Invalids and Children. _Do. Har._

=Corthell, Elmer Lawrence.= _Ms._, 1840- ----. A civil engineer of distinction. History of the Jetties at the Mouth of the Mississippi.

=Corwin, Edward Tanjore.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A Reformed Dutch clergyman of New Jersey, among whose works are Manual of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America; Manual of the Reformed Church in America; Corwin Genealogy.

=Cossett, Franceway Ranna.= _N. H._, 1790-1863. A Cumberland Presbyterian clergyman of Tennessee. He published The Life and Times of Ewing, which gives a history of the beginnings of the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination.

=Cotheal, Alexander Isaac.= _N. Y._, 1804-1894. An Oriental scholar of New York City who published Sketch of the Language of the Mosquito Indians; Atoff the Generous, a translation from the Arabic.

=Cotting, John Ruggles.= _Ms._, 1783-1867. A once noted Georgia scientist. Introduction to Chemistry; Lectures on Geology; Soils and Manures.

=Cotton, John.= _E._, 1585-1652. The foremost clergyman of his century in New England. He came to the Massachusetts colony in 1633, having been for 20 years vicar of St. Botolph’s church in Boston, Lincolnshire. He was at once made teacher of the church in the new settlement of Boston, and until his death exercised an influence in church and state unequalled by any one since in New England. He was a prolific writer, but his writings have no charm of style, and the power which he wielded was a force that lay in the man himself, not in his books. His principal works comprise The Bloody Tenet Washed and made White in the Blood of the Lamb, a reply to Roger Williams’s famous “Bloody Tenet of Persecution”; A Brief Exposition upon Ecclesiastes; The Covenant of Grace; The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven; The Way of the Congregational Churches Cleared; The Way of Life; Treatise concerning Predestination; The New Covenant; Meat for Strong Men, Spiritual Milk for Babes. _See Cotton Mather’s Magnalia; Lives by Norton, 1653; McClure, 1843; Tyler’s American Literature._

=Coues= [kŏwz], =Elliott.= _N. H._, 1842-1899. An eminent naturalist connected with the Smithsonian Institution. Key to North American Birds; Field Ornithology; Birds of the Northwest; Fur-Bearing Animals; Check List of North American Birds; Birds of the Colorado Valley; New England Bird Life (with W. A. Stearns); Biogen, a Speculation on the Origin of Life; The Dæmon of Darwin; Our Native Birds. _Est. Le. Wn._

=Coulter, John Merle.= _Ch._, 1851- ----. A botanist who was president of the Indiana State University, 1891-93. Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado (with T. C. Porter); Manual of Rocky Mountain Botany; Manual of Texan Botany; Text-Book of Western Botany (with Asa Gray, _infra_).

=Councilman, William Thomas.= _Md._, 1854- ----. A physician and instructor at the Harvard Medical School. Contribution to the Study of Inflammation; On Arterio Sclerosis; Syphilis of the Lungs; On the Ætiology of Malaria, and other works.

=Courtenay= [kŭrt´ni], =Edward Henry.= _Md._, 1803-1853. A civil engineer who was professor of mathematics in the University of Virginia, 1842-53, and published a Treatise on Differential Calculus and the Calculus of Variations.

=Covell, James.= _Ms._, 1796-1845. A Methodist clergyman of New York and Vermont who published a Dictionary of the Bible. _Meth._

=Cowan, Frank.= _Pa._, 1844- ----. A Pennsylvania lawyer and journalist, who has travelled extensively and who entered Corea before that country had made any treaties with foreign nations. Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Zomara, a Romance of Spain; Southwestern Pennsylvania in Song and Story; The City of the Royal Palm, and Other Poems; A Visit in Verse to Honolulu; Fact and Fancy in New Zealand.

=Cowdin, Jasper Barnett.= 18-- - ----. Esther’s Wedding and Other Poems.

=Cowell, Benjamin.= _Ms._, 1781-1860. A jurist of Providence who published an historical work, The Spirit of ’76.

=Cowen, Patrick H.= -----18--. Digest of Criminal Decisions of the Court of New York; Reports of Criminal Cases; The Poor Laws of the State of New York.

=Cowles= [kōlz], =Henry.= _Ct._, 1803-1881. A Congregational clergyman who was professor of theology at Oberlin College, 1835-48. Gospel Manna for Christian Pilgrims; Hebrew History; Critical Notes on the Old and New Testament, in 16 volumes. _Ap._

=Cowley, Charles.= _E._, 1832- ----. A lawyer of Lowell. Memories of the Indians and Pioneers of Lowell; Illustrated History of Lowell; Famous Divorces of all Ages; Our Divorce Courts.

=Cox, Edward Travers.= _Va._, 1821- ----. A geologist of New York City who made a number of important surveys, and published Annual Reports of the Geological Survey of Indiana.

=Cox, Jacob Dolson.= _O._, 1828-1900. An Ohio lawyer who served in the Union army during the Civil War as major-general, was governor of Ohio, 1860-67, Secretary of the Interior, 1869-1870, and president of Cincinnati University, 1885. Atlanta: The March to the Sea; The Second Battle of Bull Run as connected with the Fitz-John Porter Case. _Scr._

=Cox, Palmer.= _Q._, 1840- ----. An artist of New York City widely known by the various volumes of the Brownie Books, a series of juveniles consisting of very original humourous pictures and somewhat indifferent verses. Other works of his include Squibs, or Every-Day Life Illustrated; Hans Von Petter’s Trip to Gotham; How Columbus Found America; That Stanley; Queer People, such as Goblins, etc.; Queer People with Claws and Wings; Queer People with Wings and Stings. _Cent._

=Cox, Samuel Hanson.= _N. J._, 1793-1880. A Presbyterian clergyman of the New School party noted for his eccentricities and fondness for controversy. Quakerism not Christianity; Theopneuston, or Select Scriptures Considered; Interviews Memorable and Useful, are his most important writings.

=Cox, Samuel Sullivan.= _O._, 1824-1889. A noted Democratic Congressman from Ohio, and later from New York, who was a popular lecturer, humourist, and writer of travels. He was minister to Turkey, 1885-86. Eight Years in Congress; Why We Laugh; Three Decades of Federal Legislation; Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey; A Buckeye Abroad; Search for Winter Sunbeams in the Riviera, Corsica, Algiers, and Spain; Arctic Sunbeams; Orient Sunbeams; Free Land and Free Trade. _Har._

=Coxe, Arthur Cleveland.= _N. J._, 1818-1896. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Western New York. A son of S. H. Cox, _supra_, having adopted an older spelling of his surname. A writer of much force and originality, holding opinions with great tenacity and much given to controversy. Christian Ballads; Halloween; Athanasius and Other Poems; Advent, a Mystery; Saul, a Mystery; Athwold, a Romaunt; St. Jonathan, the Lay of a Scald, include his writings in verse. His other works comprise Impressions of England; Thoughts on the Services; Apollos, or the Way of God; The Criterion, a Means of Distinguishing Truth from Error; Institutes of Christian History; Signs of the Times; L’Episcopat de l’Occident, a defence of Anglican theology; The Penitential. _Ap. Dut. Lip._

=Coxe, Eckley Brinton.= _Pa._, 1839-1895. A Pennsylvania mining engineer who was the author of Theoretical Mechanics.

=Coxe, John Redman.= _N. J._, 1773-1864. A noted physician who was the first to introduce the practice of vaccination in Philadelphia. Inflammation; Importance of Medicine; Vaccination; Combustion; American Dispensatory; Recognition of Friends in Another World; Agaricus Atramentarius; The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen Epitomized; Refutation of Harvey’s Claim to the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood; Appeal to the Public.

=Coxe, Margaret.= _N. J._, 1800-18--. Claims of the Country on American Females; Wonders of the Deep; Ladies’ Companion.

=Coxe, Tench.= _Pa._, 1755-1824. A once noted Philadelphia writer on commerce and political economy. Inquiry into the Principles of a Commercial System for the United States; View of the United States; On the Navigation Act; Thoughts on Naval Power; Address on American Manufactures.

=Coyle, John Patterson.= _Pa._, 1852-1895. A Congregational clergyman formerly of North Adams, Massachusetts, but settled in Denver at the time of his death. The Imperial Christ, with a Biographical Introduction by George A. Gates; The Spirit in Literature and Life. _Hou._

=Cozzens, Frederick Swartwout.= _N. Y._, 1818-1869. A wine merchant of New York City, once noted as a humourist, but now neglected. The Sparrowgrass Papers; Acadia, or a Sojourn among the Blue Noses; Sayings of Dr. Bushwhacker and Other Learned Men; Stone House on the Susquehanna; Prismatics; Fitz-Greene Halleck, a Memorial.

=Cozzens, Issachar.= _R. I._, 1781-18--. Uncle of F. S. Cozzens, _supra_. A mineralogist who published History of New York Island.

=Cozzens, Samuel Woodworth.= _Ms._, 1834-1878. A lawyer of Arizona. Nobody’s Husband; The Marvellous Country, or Three Years in Arizona; The Young Trail Hunters; The Young Silver Seekers; Crossing the Quicksands. _Le._

=Craddock, Charles Egbert.= _See Murfree, Mary Noailles._

=Crafts, Wilbur Fisk.= _Me._, 1850- ----. A Congregational clergyman of New York City and elsewhere. Through the Eye to the Heart; Childhood; The Ideal Sunday-School; The Rescue of Child Soul; Must the Old Testament Go?; The Sabbath for Man; Talks to Boys and Girls about Jesus; Successful Men of To-Day; Practical Christian Sociology, include the larger number of his writings. _Fu. Le._

=Crafts, William.= _S. C._, 1787-1826. A once noted lawyer and journalist of Charleston. _See Poems, Essays, and Orations, with Memoir, by S. Gilman, infra, 1828._

=Crafts, William Augustus.= 1819- ----. A Boston writer. Life of General Grant; History of the United States; Pioneers in the Settlement of America.

=Cram, Ralph Adams.= _N. H._, 1863- ----. An architect of Boston. The Decadent, being the Gospel of Inaction; Black Spirits and White, a book of ghost stories; In the Island of Avalon, a book of verse. _Cop. St._

=Cranch, Christopher Pearse.= _Va._, 1813-1892. Son of W. Cranch, _infra_. He was ordained as a Unitarian minister, but after a few years in the ministry gave up his profession and devoted himself to art. For many years he lived in Italy and Paris, but his later years were spent in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His early sympathies were with the New England Transcendentalists, and his best known poem, Thought, was written for The Dial. His work as a poet is uneven, but at its best is excellent. It never strongly appealed to popular tastes, but was always appreciated by thoughtful minds. Poems, 1844; The Bird and the Bell, and Other Poems; Ariel and Caliban, and Other Poems; Satan: a Libretto; The Æneid in English Blank Verse. The Last of the Huggermuggers; Kobboltzo, are juvenile prose tales. _Hou. Le._

=Cranch, Richard.= _E._, 1726-1811. A lawyer of Braintree, Massachusetts, who published Views of the Prophets concerning Anti-Christ.