Part 2

=Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.= _Ms._, 1835- ----. Son of C. F. Adams, _supra_. An officer in the Union army during the Civil War, and subsequently an expert in railway science and president of the Union Pacific Railway. Since resigning that office he has devoted his attention to historical writing, his estimates of men and motives often differing materially from those of other writers in the same field. Notes on Railway Accidents; Chapters of Erie; Railroads; A College Fetich; Massachusetts, its Historians and its History; Three Episodes of Massachusetts History; Richard Henry Dana [_infra_], a Biography; Life of Charles Francis Adams. _Hou. Le. Put._

=Adams, Charles Kendall.= _Vt._, 1835-1902. The president of Wisconsin University and formerly of Cornell University. Manual of Historical Literature; Democracy and Monarchy in France; Christopher Columbus. _Har._

=Adams, Francis Colburn.= _Circa_ 1850. A writer of Charleston, South Carolina, who wrote under various pseudonyms. Manuel Pereira, or the Sovereign Rule of South Carolina; Uncle Tom at Home; Our World, or the Democrats’ Rule; Justice in the Byways; Life and Adventures of Major Potter; An Outcast, a novel; The Story of a Trooper; Siege of Washington, for Little People; The Von Toodleburgs, or the Memoirs of a Very Distinguished Family.

=Adams, George Burton.= _Vt._, 1851- ----. An historical writer, professor of history at Yale University. Civilization during the Middle Ages; The Growth of the French Nation. _Fl. Scr._

=Adams, Hannah.= _Ms._, 1755-1832. An industrious and painstaking writer on religious and historical subjects, whose chief claim to distinction at present is that she was the first woman in America who made literature a profession. A View of Religious Opinions; History of New England; History of the Jews; Evidences of Christianity. _See Memoir by herself, with additions by another hand, 1832._

=Adams, Henry.= _Ms._, 1838- ----. Son of Charles Francis Adams, _supra_. An historian and political biographer, living in Washington. Life of John Randolph; Life of Albert Gallatin; History of the United States, 1801-17; Historical Essays; Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law. _Hou. Lip. Scr._

=Adams, Henry Carter.= _Ia._, 1852- ----. A political economist of note. Public Debts: an Essay in the Science of Finance; Taxation in the United States, 1789-1816. _Ap._

=Adams, Herbert Baxter.= _Ms._, 1850-1901. A professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, and the secretary of the American Historical Association from its beginning. The Germanic Origin of New England Towns; Saxon Tithingmen in America; Norman Constables in America; Village Communities of Cape Ann and Salem; Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia; Methods of Historical Study; History of the United States Constitution. He edited the Life and Writings of Jared Sparks, _infra_. _Hou._

=Adams, Jasper.= _Ms._, 1793-1841. An Episcopal clergyman, once noted as an educator at West Point, Charleston, and elsewhere, who published The Elements of Moral Philosophy.

=Adams, John.= _N. S._, 1704-1740. A clergyman of Newport and Philadelphia, much esteemed in his day as a poet. Poems on Several Occasions, a volume of his verses posthumously collected and printed, shows, however, no very especial marks of poetic talent.

=Adams, John.= _Ms._, 1735-1826. The second President of the United States, and a political writer of great ability and force. A Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law, a work relating to the constitutional rights of New England; Thoughts on Government; Novanglus: a History of the Dispute with America from 1754 to 1774; Defence of the American Constitution; Discourses on Davila: a Series of Papers on Political History. _See complete Works in 10 volumes, 1850-56. See, also, Lives by J. Q. and C. F. Adams, 1871; John Adams, by Morse, 1885; Histories of the United States, by Bancroft, McMaster, Henry Adams, and Schouler; Parker’s Historic Americans; Appleton’s American Biography._

=Adams, John Coleman.= _Ms._, 1849- ----. Son of J. G. Adams, _infra_. A Universalist clergyman and editor of New York city. Christian Types of Heroism; The Fatherhood of God; The Leisure of God and Other Studies in Spiritual Evolution.

=Adams, John Greenleaf.= _N. H._, 1810-1887. A Universalist clergyman, among whose writings the chief are The Universalist Church, its Faith and its Works; Universalism of the Lord’s Prayer; Talks About the Bible to Young Folks; Fifty Notable Years, or Views of the Ministry of Universalism.

=Adams, John Quincy.= _Ms._, 1767-1848. Son of President John Adams, _supra_. The sixth President of the United States, and a statesman whose writings, though mainly political in their character, include several purely literary works. Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory; The Bible and its Teachings; Poems of Religion and Society; Letters on Freemasonry; Lives of Celebrated Statesmen, and many State Papers. _See Complete Works, edited by C. F. Adams, with Life; also Diary of; Lives by Seward, Quincy, Morse; Histories of the United States by Bancroft, McMaster, Schouler._ _Lip._

=Adams, John Turvill.= _B. G._, 1805-1882. A lawyer of Norwich, Connecticut. The Knight of the Golden Melice, an historical tale; The Lost Hunter.

=Adams, Julius Walker.= _Ms._, 1812-1899. An engineer of distinction, who was employed in many important engineering works. Sewers and Drains for Populous Districts.

=Adams, Myron.= _N. Y._, 1841-1895. A Congregational clergyman of Rochester, New York, from 1876 until his death. The Creation of the Bible; The Continuous Creation, an Application of the Evolutionary Philosophy to the Christian Religion. _Hou._

=Adams, Nehemiah.= _Ms._, 1806-1878. A once noted Congregational clergyman of Boston, whose most famous work, A South Side View of Slavery, provoked much hostile criticism. Among other works by him are Walks to Emmaus; Scriptural Argument for Endless Punishment; Remarks on Unitarian Belief; Life of John Eliot; Agnes and the Little Key; Evenings with the Doctrines.

=Adams, Robert Chamblet.= _Ms._, 1839- ----. Son of Nehemiah Adams, _supra_. History of England in Rhyme; History of the United States in Rhyme; On Board the Rocket; Aids to Endeavour, Evolution, a Summary of Evidence; Travels in Faith from Tradition to Reason; Pioneer Pith. _Lo._

=Adams, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1722-1803. Cousin of President John Adams, _supra_. A statesman and orator who fills a large place in the annals of the American Revolution. _See Lives by Wells, Hosmer, 1885; Harper’s Magazine, vol. 53._

=Adams, William.= _Ct._, 1807-1880. A Presbyterian clergyman of prominence in New York city, 1835-80. The Three Gardens: Eden, Gethsemane, Paradise; Conversations of Jesus Christ with Representative Men; In the World, not of the World; Thanksgiving, Memories of the Day and Helps to the Habit.

=Adams, William.= _I._, 1813-1897. An Episcopal clergyman who was one of the founders of Nashotah Theological Seminary, Wisconsin, and professor of systematic divinity there from 1841. Mercy to Babes; Elements of Christian Science; New Treatise of Baptismal Regeneration.

=Adams, William Taylor=, “Oliver Optic.” _Ms._, 1822-1897. A prolific and popular writer of books for boys, who was for many years a teacher in the Boston public schools. Among his writings are Army and Navy Series; Young America Abroad Series; Lake Shore Series; Starry Flag Series. _Le._

=Ade, George.= _Il._, 1866- ----. A Chicago journalist. Artie: a Story of the Streets and Town. _S._

=Adeler, Max.= _See Clark, C. H._

=Adler, Felix.= _G._, 1851- ----. An ethical reformer of New York city. Creed and Deed; The Moral Instruction of Children. _Ap. Put._

=Adler, Georg.= _G._, 1821-1868. A philologist of New York city who was the author of a valuable German and English Dictionary and other educational works. _Ap._

=Agassiz= [ag´a-see or ä-gäs-se´], =Alexander.= _Sd._, 1835- ----. Son of L. Agassiz, _infra_. Marine zoölogist. Born in Neuchatel, he came to America with his father, and has distinguished himself in lines of special scientific research. Exploration of Lake Titicaca; List of the Echinoderms; Three Cruises of the Blake: a Contribution to American Thalassography. _Hou._

=Agassiz, Mrs. Elizabeth [Cary].= _Ms._, 1822- ----. Wife of L. Agassiz, _infra_. Life of Louis Agassiz; Seaside Studies in Natural History (with A. Agassiz, _supra_).

=Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe.= _Sd._, 1807-1873. A naturalist of eminence. Founder of the Museum of Natural History at Cambridge. Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles; Lake Superior, Natural History of Fresh-Water Fishes of Central Europe; Etudes sur les Glaciers; Système Glacière; Methods of Study in Natural History; Geological Sketches; Structure of Animal Life; Journey in Brazil. _See Whipple’s Character and Characteristic Men; Louis Agassiz and Evolution, Popular Science Monthly, vol. 32; Lives by Mrs. E. Agassiz, Holder, 1892, Jules Marcou, 1896; Lowell’s ode, Agassiz._

=Agnew, David Hayes.= _Pa._, 1810-1892. A physician who was for a long time professor of surgery in the University of Pennsylvania. His writings were the outcome of wide experience. Handbook of Practical Anatomy; Principles and Practice of Surgery: a treatise on Surgical Diseases and Injuries. _See Life of, by J. H. Adams, 1892._ _Lip._

=Aikman, William.= _N. Y._, 1824- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman. The Moral Power of the Sea; Life at Home, or the Family and its Members; The Altar in the Home; A Bachelor’s Talks about Married Life.

=Aimwell, Walter.= _See Simonds._

=Ainslie, Hew.= _S._, 1792-1878. A Scottish poet who emigrated to America in 1822 and lived mainly in Kentucky. Pilgrimage to the Land of Burns, a prose work with lyrics interspersed; Scottish Songs, Ballads, and Poems.

=Akers, Elizabeth.= _See Allen, Mrs._

=Albee, John.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. Formerly a clergyman; now living at Chocorua, New Hampshire. Literary Art; St. Aspenquid: an Indian Idyl; Prose Idyls. _Hou. Put._

=Alcott= [awl´kot], =Amos Bronson.= _Ct._, 1799-1888. A philosopher of a singularly unpractical type, whose personality was of greater interest than his writings. Conversations with Children on the Gospels; Table Talk, Emerson; Essays; Tablets, Concord Days, Sonnets, and Canzonets; New Connecticut: a poem. _See Miss E. P. Peabody’s Records of a School; Life, by F. B. Sanborn and W. T. Harris, 1893._ _Rob._

=Alcott, Louisa May.= _Pa._, 1832-1888. Daughter of A. B. Alcott, _supra_. A writer whose books for young people have been widely popular. They cannot, however, claim consideration as examples of literary art. Among them are Little Women; Little Men; An Old-Fashioned Girl; Eight Cousins; Under the Lilacs. Moods; Hospital Sketches; A Modern Mephistopheles, are works for older readers. The thoughtful poem, Thoreau’s Flute, is her finest effort. _See Life, Letters, and Journals, edited by Mrs. Cheney; Recollections of, by Mrs. M. S. Porter, 1893._ _Rob._

=Alcott, William Andrus.= _Ct._, 1798-1859. Cousin of A. B. Alcott, _supra_. An energetic, earnest writer upon diet reform. The House I Live in; Vegetable Diet; Library of Health.

=Alden= [awl´den], =Henry Mills.= _Vt._, 1836- ----. A thoughtful and suggestive writer on religious themes who has been editor of Harper’s Magazine from 1869. God in his World; A Study of Death. _Har._

=Alden, Mrs. Isabella [Macdonald].= “Pansy.” _N. Y._, 1841- ----. A very prolific writer of religious tales for young people, the literary worth of which is inconsiderable. Four Girls at Chautauqua; Chautauqua Girls at Home, are among the earlier ones. _Lo._

=Alden, Joseph.= _N. Y._, 1807-1885. An industrious contributor to educational and Sunday-school literature. He was for many years president of the Normal School at Albany. Example of Washington; Citizen’s Manual; Christian Ethics; The Science of Government; Studies in Bryant; Elements of Intellectual Philosophy. _Ap. Le. Meth._

=Alden, William Livingston.= _Ms._, 1837- ----. Son of J. Alden, _supra_. A humourous writer who has for some time resided in London. A New Robinson Crusoe; Domestic Explosions; Shooting Stars; Moral Pirates; Cruise of the Canoe Club; Life of Christopher Columbus. _Har. Ho. Put._

=Aldrich= [awl´dritch], =Annie Reeve.= _N. Y._, 1866-1892. A New York city writer of notably erotic verse and fiction. The Rose of Flame and Other Poems of Love; Songs about Life, Love, and Death; The Feet of Love: a novel. _Put._

=Aldrich, James.= _N. Y._, 1810-1866. A littérateur of New York, who established The Literary Gazette in 1840, in which a number of his verses appeared. His Poems were privately printed by his daughter in 1884.

=Aldrich, Thomas Bailey.= _N. H._, 1837- ----. A poet and novelist whose work in both verse and prose is distinguished for grace of expression and delicacy of execution. Verse: The Bells; Ballad of Baby Bell; Pampinea; Flower and Thorn; Cloth of Gold; Friar Jerome’s Beautiful Book; XXXVI Lyrics and XII Sonnets; The Sisters’ Tragedy; Wyndham Towers; Unguarded Gates; Mercedes and Later Lyrics; Judith and Holofernes. Prose: Prudence Palfrey; The Queen of Sheba; The Stillwater Tragedy; Marjorie Daw and Other Stories; Two Bites at a Cherry, with Other Tales; The Story of a Bad Boy; An Old Town by the Sea: a description of Portsmouth, the author’s birthplace; From Ponkapog to Pesth: Travel Sketches; Ponkapog Papers. _See Stedman’s Poets of America; Vedder’s American Writers._ _Hou._

=Alexander, Archibald.= _Va._, 1772-1851. A Presbyterian clergyman who was professor at Princeton Theological Seminary 1812-51. Evidences of Christianity; The Canon of Scripture; Moral Science; Bible Dictionary, are some of his many works. _See Life, by J. W. Alexander; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._ _Scr._

=Alexander, Caleb.= _N. Y._, 1775-1828. A clergyman, much of whose life was spent in teaching at Onondaga, New York. He published Latin and English grammars; Essay on the Deity of Christ; The Columbian Dictionary; Grammar Elements: a literal prose version of Virgil.

=Alexander, James Waddel.= _Va._, 1804-1859. Son of A. Alexander, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Plain Words to a Young Communicant; Sacramental Discourses; Thoughts on Preaching; Life of Archibald Alexander; Consolation; The American Mechanic and Workingman, are among his writings. _Ran. Scr._

=Alexander, John Henry.= _Md._, 1812-1867. A once noted Maryland scientist. History of the Metallurgy of Iron; Universal Dictionary of Weights and Measures, Ancient and Modern; International Tonnage; Treatise of Mathematical Instruments; Introits; Catena Dominica: a collection of religious poems.

=Alexander, Joseph Addison.= _Pa._, 1809-1860. Son of A. Alexander, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor at Princeton College, and Theological Seminary, 1820-60. He was the author of Commentaries on the Psalms, Isaiah, Acts, Matthew, and Mark; and many theological reviews, often as sarcastic as they were forcible. _See Life, by H. C. Alexander; Hart’s American Literature._ _Scr._

=Alexander, Samuel Davies.= _N. J._, 1819-1894. Son of A. Alexander, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city from 1855. Princeton College in the 18th Century. _Scr._

=Alexander, Stephen.= _N. Y._, 1806-1883. An astronomer who was a professor at Princeton College, 1834-78. Physical Phenomena of Solar Eclipses; Certain Harmonies of the Solar System.

=Alger= [ă´jẽr], =Horatio, Jr.= _Ms._, 1832-1899. The author of a long series of popular juvenile tales, among which the Ragged Dick stories are best known. _Co._

=Alger, William Rounseville=. _Ms._, 1822- ----. A Unitarian clergyman and lecturer of Boston. Symbolic History of the Cross; The School of Life; History of the Doctrine of a Future Life; The Solitudes of Nature and Man; The Friendships of Women; Poetry of the Orient; Life of Edwin Forrest. _A. U. A. Lip. Rob._

=Alice, Aunt.= _See Graves, Mrs._

=Alice, Cousin.= _See Haven, Mrs._

=Allan, William.= _Va._, 1837-1889. A lieutenant-colonel in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Battlefields of Virginia; Jackson’s Valley Campaign; Army of Northern Virginia. _Hou. Lip._

=Allen, Alexander Viets Griswold.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, prominent among leaders of modern religious thought, and a professor in the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge. The Continuity of Christian Thought: a Study of Modern Theology in the Light of its History; Life of Jonathan Edwards; The Greek Theology and the Renaissance of the 19th Century; Religious Progress. _Hou._

=Allen, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann [Chase] [Akers]=, “Florence Percy.” _Me._ 1832- ----. A writer of verse, whose song, “Rock Me to Sleep, Mother,” is her most famous though not her best poem. The Triangular Society; Queen Catharine’s Rose; Forest Buds; Poems by Florence Percy; The Silver Bridge; The High Top Sweeting. _Hou. Scr._

=Allen, Frederick De Forest.= _O._, 1844-1897. A professor of classical philology at Harvard University from 1880. Remnants of Early Latin; Greek Versification in Inscriptions.

=Allen, Fred Hovey. N. H.=, 1845- ----. A clergyman, author of the text of a number of popular art works, such as Great Cathedrals of the World; Modern German Masters; Recent German Art; Famous Paintings; Grand Modern Paintings; Glimpses of Parisian Art; History of the Reformation.

=Allen, Harrison.= _Pa._, 1841-1897. A surgeon of Philadelphia, professor in the University of Pennsylvania from 1865. Outlines of Comparative Anatomy; System of Human Anatomy. _Lip._

=Allen, Ira.= _Ct._, 1751-1814. An officer in the American army during the Revolutionary War, who was afterwards instrumental in settling the disputes between Vermont and its neighbours. Natural and Political History of Vermont.

=Allen, James Lane.= _Ky._, 1849- ----. At one time a teacher, now devoted to literature. A writer of short stories, notable for literary excellence. Flute and Violin; The Blue Grass Region and Other Sketches of Kentucky; John Gray: a Novel; The Kentucky Cardinal; Aftermath; A Summer in Arcady; The Choir Invisible; The Reign of Law; Two Gentlemen of Kentucky. _Har. Lip. Mac._

=Allen, Jerome.= _Vt._, 1830-1894. An educator of New York, dean of the School of Pedagogy. Handbook of Experimental Chemistry; Methods for Teachers in Grammar; Mind Studies for Young Teachers; Temperament in Education.

=Allen, Joel Asaph.= _Ms._, 1838- ----. A naturalist who since 1885 has been curator of ornithology and mammalogy in the American Museum of Natural History in New York city. History of North American Pinnipeds; Monographs of North American Rodentia (with E. Coues, _infra_).

=Allen, Joseph Henry.= _Ms._, 1820-1898. A Unitarian clergyman of Cambridge, who is also noted as the author of a number of valuable and popular classical text-books. Ten Discourses on Orthodoxy; Hebrew Men and Times; Christian History in Three Great Periods; Fragments of Christian History; Historical Sketch of the Unitarian Movement since the Reformation; Our Liberal Movement in Theology; Outline of Christian History, A. D. 50-1880; are some of his religious works. _El. Gi. Rob._

=Allen’s Wife, Josiah.= _See Holley._

=Allen, Lewis Falley.= _Ms._, 1800-1890. A once prominent cattle broker. Rural Architecture; The American Herd Book; American Cattle.

=Allen, Nathan.= _Ms._, 1813-1889. A physician of Lowell. The Law of Human Increase; The Opium Trade; Physical Development.

=Allen, Paul.= _R. I._, 1775-1826. A journalist of Philadelphia. Poems: Noah, a poem in five cantos; Life of Alexander I.; Lewis and Clark’s Novels. The Life of Washington, which bears his name, was written by John Neal, _infra_, and others.

=Allen, Richard Lamb.= _Ms._, 1803-1869. Brother of L. F. Allen, _supra_, with whom, in 1842, he founded the American Agriculturalist. Domestic Animals; Diseases of Domestic Animals; New American Farm Book (with _L. F. Allen_). _See Last Letters of, with Memoir._

=Allen, Stephen Merrill.= _N. H._, 1819-1894. A banker and merchant of Boston. Fibrilia and Fibrous Manufactures, Ancient and Modern; Theories of Light; Religion and Science.

=Allen, Timothy Field.= _Vt._, 1837-1902. A physician of New York city, dean of the Homœopathic Medical College from 1882. Characeæ Americanæ; General Symptom-Register of Homœopathic Materia Medica. He has edited Encyclopædia of Pure Materia Medica.

=Allen, William.= _Ms._, 1784-1868. The author of an American Biographical and Historical Dictionary, the first edition of which appeared in 1809, the earliest work of the kind in the United States. From 1820 to 1829 he was president of Bowdoin College. Lectures to Young Men; Junius Unmasked; Wunissoo: a poem, with notes.

=Allen, William Francis.= _Ms._, 1830-1889. Brother of J. H. Allen, _supra_. A professor in the University of Wisconsin. He published Outline Studies in the History of Ireland; Monographs and Essays; and edited a collection of Slave Songs.

=Allen, Willis Boyd.= _Me._, 1855- ----. A Boston littérateur whose writings are popular with juvenile readers. Among them are The Red Mountain of Alaska; Pine Cones; Silver Rags; Kelp; The Mammoth Hunters. He has published In the Morning, a collection of verse. _Est. Lo. Ran._

=Allen, Zachariah.= _R. I._, 1795-1882. A noted inventor and manufacturer of Providence. Practical Tourist; Practical Mechanics; Philosophy of the Mechanics of Nature; Solar Light and Heat. _See Memorial by A. Perry, 1883._ _Ap._

=Allerton, Mrs. Ellen [Palmer].= _N. Y._, 1835-1893. A Kansas writer living at Padonia in that State. Poems of the Prairies.

=Allibone, Samuel Austin.= _Pa._, 1816-1889. A Philadelphia author widely known by his Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, a work of immense labour and research. It is of great value as a work of reference, but is not an infallible guide, and is more or less marred by trivial comment and moralizing. _See Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. 15, 1891._ _Lip._

=Allmond, Marcus Blakey.= _Va._, 1851- ----. An educator of Louisville who has published Estelle, an Idyl of Old Virginia, a volume of verse; Agricola, an Eastern Idyl; Outlines of Latin Syntax.

=Allston= [awl´ston], =Robert Francis Withers.= _S. C._, 1801-1864. A South Carolina statesman well known at one time as an agricultural reformer. Memoir on Rice; Essay on Sea Coast Crops; Report on Public Schools.

=Allston, Washington.= _S. C._, 1779-1843. A once famous artist of Cambridge who was also known as a poet and romancer. Sylphs of the Seasons and Other Poems; The Romance of Monaldi; Lectures on Art. _See Tuckerman’s Book of the Artists; Life and Letters, edited by J. Flagg, 1892._

=Alsop= [awl´sop], =Richard.= _Ct._, 1761-1815. A once noted political satirist, chief of the “Hartford Wits,” who wrote The Echo, a series of metrical parodies upon current publications, orations, state papers, and the like. Other works by Alsop are The Charms of Fancy; A Monody on the Death of Washington; The Enchanted Lake of the Fairy Morgana.

=Alvord= [awl´vord], =Benjamin.= _Vt._, 1813-1884. A United States officer who served in the Mexican and Civil wars. Tangencies of Circles and Spheres; Interpretation of Imaginary Roots in Questions of Maxima and Minima.

=Ames, Charles Gordon.= _Ms._, 1828- ----. A Unitarian clergyman who became pastor of the Church of the Disciples in Boston on the death of J. F. Clarke, _infra_. George Eliot’s Two Marriages; As Natural as Life: Studies of the Inner Kingdom.

=Ames, Mrs. Eleanor Maria [Easterbrook]=, “Eleanor Kirk.” 1830- ----. A littérateur of Brooklyn. Up Broadway and Its Sequel; Information for Authors; Perpetual Youth.

=Ames, Fisher.= _Ms._, 1758-1808. Son of N. Ames, _infra_. A statesman whose speeches are marked examples of condensed effective statement as well as of felicitous expression. Laocoon and Other Essays. _See Works of, with Memoir, 1854; Magoon’s Orators of the American Revolution._