Part 13

=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._