Part 3

=Ames, Lucia True.= _N. H._, 1856- ----. A Boston writer who has published Great Thoughts for Little Thinkers; Memoirs of a Millionaire, a novel. _Hou. Put._

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

=Ames, Nathaniel.= _Ms._, 1708-1764. A physician of Dedham, Massachusetts, who published, 1725-64, an Astronomical Diary and Almanac which contained much shrewd humour and original philosophy and was widely popular. _See Tyler’s American Literatures; Essays, Humour and Poems of Nathaniel Ames, father and son, edited by S. Briggs, 1891._

=Ammen, Daniel.= _O._, 1820-1898. A rear-admiral of the United States navy, the designer of the Ammen life raft. The Atlantic Coast; Country Homes and their Improvement; The Old Navy and the New. _Lip. Scr._

=Amory, Thomas Coffin.= _Ms._, 1812-1889. A lawyer of Boston. Life of James Sullivan, Governor of Massachusetts; Military Services of Major-General John Sullivan; Life of Sir Isaac Coffin.

=Anagnos, Mrs. Julia Romana [Howe].= 1844-1886. Daughter of Dr. S. G. and Julia Ward Howe, _infra_, and wife of M. Anagnos, the Superintendent of the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston. Stray Chords, a volume of verse; Philosophiæ Questor.

=Anderson, Alexander.= _N. Y._, 1775-1870. The first wood-engraver in the United States. He was the author of an illustrated General History of Quadrupeds.

=Anderson, John Jacob.= _N. Y._, 1821- ----. An educator of New York city who prepared a number of historical text books, among which are A History of France; Common School History of the United States. _My._

=Anderson, Mary.= _See Navarro._

=Anderson, Rasmus Björn.= _Wis._, 1846- ----. A Norse scholar of Norwegian descent who has translated Björnson’s novels and written much in relation to Norse mythology. America not Discovered by Columbus; Norse Mythology; Viking Tales of the North; The Younger Edda; The Elder Edda. _Sc._

=Anderson, Rufus.= _Me._, 1796-1880. A clergyman, who was secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions, 1824-74. Foreign Missions, their Relations and Claims; History of the American Board’s Missions in the Sandwich Islands, Turkey and India, Peloponnesus and Greek Islands. _C. P. S._

=Andrew, James Osgood.= _Ga._, 1794-1871. A bishop of the Methodist Church South. Family Government; Miscellanies.

=Andrews, Christopher Columbus.= _N. H._, 1829- ----. A brevet major-general in the United States army, who was minister to Sweden 1869-77, and consul-general to Brazil 1882-85. Minnesota and Dakota (1857); Practical Treatise on the Revenue Laws of the United States; Hints to Company Officers on their Military Duties; History of the Campaign of Mobile; Digests of the Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the United States; Brazil, its Condition and Prospects (1887), third enlarged edition (1895). _Ap._

=Andrews, Elisha Benjamin.= _N. H._, 1844- ----. A prominent educator, president of Brown University. Institutes of General History; Institutes of Economics; Brief Institutes of our Economical History; An Honest Dollar; Eternal Words and Other Sermons; History of the United States; Wealth and Moral Law; History of the Last Quarter Century in the United States, 1870-95. _Gi. Scr. Sil._

=Andrews, Eliza Frances.= _Ga._, 1840- ----. An educator of Macon, Georgia, whose writing is mainly in the line of fiction. A Mere Adventurer; A Family Secret; How he was Tempted; Prince Hal.

=Andrews, Ethan Allen.= _Ct._, 1787-1858. An educator who was at one time professor of ancient languages in the University of North Carolina. Beside a Latin-English Dictionary, he published a valuable series of classical text-books. _Hou._

=Andrews, Israel Ward.= _Ct._, 1815-1888. President of Marietta College. His only published work of importance is a Manual of the Constitution of the United States. _Va._

=Andrews, Jane.= _Ms._, 1833-1887. A writer of Newburyport whose books for children have long been deservedly popular. Seven Little Sisters who Live on the Round Ball that Floats in the Air; The Seven Little Sisters Prove their Sisterhood; The Stories Mother Nature Told; Ten Boys who Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now; Only a Year and what it Brought. _Gi._

=Andrews, Samuel James.= _Ct._, 1817- ----. Brother of I. W. Andrews, _supra_. An Irvingite clergyman of Hartford, Connecticut. The Life of Our Lord upon Earth; God’s Revelations of Himself to Men. _Scr._

=Andrews, Sidney.= 1837-1880. A Boston journalist. The Art of Flying; The South since the War.

=Andrews, Stephen Pearl.= _Ms._, 1812-1886. An eccentric writer of New York city, the originator of phonographic reporting and at one period prominent as an abolitionist. Among his many and varied works are Basic Outline of Universalogy, in which he advocated the adoption of a universal language called Alwato; Discourses in Chinese; Comparison of Common Law with Roman, French, or Spanish Law on Entails and Other Limited Property; Love, Marriage and Divorce.

=Angell, Henry Clay.= _R. I._, 1829- ----. A professor of ophthalmology in Boston University. Diseases of the Eye; How to Take Care of our Eyes; Records of W. M. Hunt. _Rob._

=Angell, James Burrill.= _R. I._, 1829- ----. President of Michigan University since 1871. Manual of French Literature; Progress in International Law.

=Angell, Joseph Kinnicut.= _R. I._, 1794-1857. A legal writer of Rhode Island, among whose works are Treatise on the Common Law of Watercourses; The Law of Tide Waters; The Limitation of Actions. _Lit._

=Anspach, Frederick Rinehart.= _Pa._, 1815-1867. A Lutheran clergyman of Hagerstown, Maryland. Sons of the Sires; Sepulchres of Our Departed; The Two Pilgrims.

=Anthon, Charles.= _N. Y._, 1797-1867. A noted classical scholar, for many years professor of ancient languages at Columbia College. He was the author of some fifty classical text-books, including a Classical Dictionary. _Har._

=Anthon, John.= _Mch._, 1784-1863. Brother of Charles Anthon, _supra_. A jurist of New York city. Essay on the Study of Law; Analysis of Blackstone; Nisi Prius Cases; American Precedents.

=Appleton, Jesse.= _N. H._, 1772-1819. A Congregational clergyman, president of Bowdoin College, 1807-19. Addresses; Lectures. His works, with Memoir by A. S. Packard, _infra_, appeared in 1837.

=Appleton, John.= 1804-1891. A former chief justice of Maine eminent as a legal reformer. The Rules of Evidence Stated and Discussed.

=Appleton, John Howard.= _Me._, 1844- ----. A professor of chemistry at Brown University since 1868. The Young Chemist; Qualitative Analysis; Quantitative Analysis; Chemistry of Non Metals. _Sil._

=Appleton, Thomas Gold.= _Ms._, 1812-1884. An artist and littérateur of Boston. A Sheaf of Papers; A Nile Journal; Windfalls; Syrian Sunshine; Chequer-Work; Faded Leaves, a volume of verse. _See Life and Letters, edited by Susan Hale, 1885._ _Rob._

=Apthorp, William Foster.= _Ms._, 1848- ----. A musical newspaper critic of Boston. Musicians and Music Lovers and Other Essays. He has translated Zola’s Jacques Damour. =Cop. Scr.=

=Archibald, Andrew Webster.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. A Congregational clergyman of prominence in Iowa. The Bible Verified.

=Archibald, Mrs. George.= _See Palmer, Mrs. Anna._

=Arey, Mrs. Harriet Ellen [Grannis].= _Vt._, 1819- ----. An educator whose home is in Cleveland. Household Songs and Other Poems; Home and School Training. _Lip._

=Arkwright, Peleg.= _See Proudfit, D._

=Armitage, Thomas.= _E._, 1819-1896. A prominent Baptist clergyman of New York city. Jesus, his Self Introspection; Lectures on Preaching; History of the Baptists.

=Armstrong, George Dodd.= _N. J._, 1813-1899. A Presbyterian clergyman of Norfolk, Virginia. The Summer of the Pestilence; The Doctrine of Baptisms; The Christian Doctrine of Slavery; Theology of Christian Experience; The Sacraments of the New Testament; The Books of Nature and Revelation, a criticism of the theory of evolution. _Fu._

=Armstrong, John.= _Pa._, 1758-1843. An officer of note in the American army at the time of the Revolution. He was the author of the first of the famous Newburg Letters, and in later life published Notes on the War of 1812; Treatise on Gardening; Treatise on Agriculture; Memoirs of Generals Montgomery and Wayne.

=Arnold, Albert Nicholas.= _R. I._, 1814-1883. A Baptist clergyman who held professorships in several Baptist seminaries successively. Pre-requisites to Communion; Evils of Infant Baptism; One Woman’s Mission.

=Arnold, George.= _N. Y._, 1834-1865. A journalist and poet of New York city, whose verse is musical without being especially strong. Drift and Other Poems; Poems Grave and Gay. _See Biographical Sketch by W. Winter, infra._ _Hou._

=Arnold, Isaac Newton.= _N. Y._, 1815-1884. A prominent Chicago lawyer and politician, member of Congress, 1861-65. Life of Abraham Lincoln; Life of Benedict Arnold; Recollections of the Early Chicago and Illinois Bar. _Mg._

=Arnold, Lauren Briggs.= _N. Y._, 1814-1888. An agriculturist of western New York who lectured frequently upon dairy husbandry and was the author of American Dairying.

=Arnold, Samuel Greene.= _R. I._, 1821-1880. A lawyer who was several times lieutenant-governor of Rhode Island. History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; Life of Patrick Henry. _Pr._

=Arp, Bill.= _See Smith, C. H._

=Arr, E. H.= _See Rollins, Mrs. Ellen._

=Arria.= _See Pugh, Mrs._

=Arrington, Alfred W.= _N. C._, 1810-1867. A prominent lawyer in the Southwest, and, later, in Chicago. The Rangers and Regulators of the Tanaha; Sketches of the Southwest; Poems (with Memoir), 1869.

=Arthur, Timothy Shay.= _N. Y._, 1809-1885. A prolific writer of moral tales, with much more excellence of intention than literary merit to recommend them, but which have enjoyed a very extensive popularity. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room; Six Nights with the Washingtonians; Tales of Married Life, are some of the best known. His life was nearly all spent in Philadelphia. _Co. Lip. Pet._

=Ashhurst, John.= _Pa._, 1839-1900. A distinguished surgeon of Philadelphia. Injuries of the Spine; Principles and Practice of Surgery. He edited the International Encyclopædia of Surgery. _Lip._

=Astor, William Waldorf.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. A noted millionaire of New York city, minister to Italy, 1882-85, and more recently the proprietor of the Pall Mall Gazette and Pall Mall Magazine in London. Valentino, an Historical Romance of the 16th Century in Italy; Sforza, a Story of Milan. _Scr._

=Atkinson, Edward.= _Ms._, 1827- ----. A Boston reformer active in matters of diet and political economy. The Distribution of Products; Labor and Capital; Industrial Progress of the Nation; The Science of Nutrition; Margin of Profits; Taxation and Work. _Put._

=Atkinson, John.= _N. J._, 1835-1897. A clergyman of prominence in the Methodist church. The Living Way; Memorials of Methodism in New Jersey; The Garden of Sorrows; The Class Leader; Centennial History of American Methodism. _Meth._

=Atkinson, William Parsons.= _Ms._, 1820-1890. Brother of E. Atkinson, _supra_. A professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Right Use of Books; History and the Study of History; Classical and Scientific Studies. _Rob._

=Atwater, Horace Cowles.= _N. Y._, 1819-1879. A clergyman of the Methodist Church South, who published Incidents of a Southern Tour (1857).

=Atwater, Lyman Hotchkiss.= _Ct._, 1813-1883. A professor of philosophy at Princeton College and long a noted contributor to the Princeton Review. He published a Manual of Elementary Logic. _Lip._

=Atwater, Wilbur Olin.= _N. Y._, 1844- ----. A professor of chemistry at Wesleyan University since 1873. He has written extensively upon agricultural chemistry, and published Co-operative Experimenting as a Means of Studying the Effect of Fertilizers; Results of Field Experiments with Various Fertilizers.

=Atwood, Anthony.= _N. J._, 1801-1888. A Methodist clergyman, whose only published work is The Abiding Comforter.

=Atwood, Isaac Morgan.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A Universalist clergyman, president of the Theological Seminary at St. Lawrence University. Have we Outgrown Christianity; Glance at the Religious Progress of the United States; Latest Word of Universalism; Walks about Zion; Manual of Revelation.

=Audubon, John James.= _La._, 1780-1851. An ornithologist of eminence, whose entire life was devoted to the pursuit of his favorite study. Birds of America; Quadrupeds of North America; Ornithological Biography. _See Audubon, the Naturalist, by Mrs. St. John; Journal of Life and Labours of Audubon._

=Auringer, Obadiah Cyrus.= _N. Y._, 1849- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York state, whose writings in verse include Scythe and Sword; The Heart of the Golden Roan; The Episode of Jane McCrea; The Book of the Hills. _Lo._

=Austen, Peter Townsend.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A professor of chemistry at Rutgers College since 1877, who has contributed much to scientific journals, and published Chemical Lecture Notes; Organic Chemistry, from the German of Pinner. _Wil._

=Austin, Arthur Williams.= _Ms._, 1807-1884. A lawyer of Boston. The Woman and the Queen, and Other Specimens of Verse, (1875).

=Austin, Benjamin.= _Ms._, 1752-1820. A Boston merchant, active as a political writer and an especially violent champion of democracy. Constitutional Republicanism is a collection of some of his contributions to the newspapers of his day.

=Austin, Coe Finch.= _N. Y._, 1831-1880. A botanist of Closter, New York, who published Musci Appalachani, a description of American mosses.

=Austin, George Lowell.= _Ms._, 1849-1893. A Boston physician whose miscellaneous writings include Perils of American Women, a Doctor’s Talk with Maiden, Wife, and Mother; Water-Analysis, a Handbook for Water-Drinkers; Under the Tide; Life of Franz Schubert; Popular History of Massachusetts; Life and Deeds of General Grant; Longfellow; Life of Wendell Phillips. _Le._

=Austin, Henry.= _Ms._, 1858- ----. A lawyer of Boston, who has written The Law Concerning Farms; American Farm and Game Laws; American Fish and Game Laws; Liquor Law in New England.

=Austin, Henry Willard.= _Ms._, 1858- ----. A journalist and littérateur of Boston. Vagabond Verses.

=Austin, James Trecothick.= _Ms._, 1784-1870. A once prominent lawyer of Boston, who published a Life of Elbridge Gerry.

=Austin, Mrs. Jane [Goodwin].= _Ms._, 1831-1894. A talented writer of historical fiction, much of whose life was spent in Boston. She was a careful student of colonial history, and will be long remembered for her series of romances relating to the Plymouth Pilgrims and their descendants. These include A Nameless Nobleman; Standish of Standish; Betty Alden: the First-Born Daughter of the Pilgrims; Dr. Le Baron and his Daughters; David Alden’s Daughter and Other Stories of Colonial Times. Other novels by her are Cipher; The Shadow of Moloch Mountain; Mrs. Beauchamp Brown; The Desmond Hundred; Dora Darling; Outpost. Nantucket Scraps is a volume of travel sketches; Moonfolk, a fairy tale. _Hou. Le. Put. Rob._

=Austin, Samuel.= _Ct._, 1760-1830. A Congregational clergyman of Worcester, Massachusetts, 1790-1815, and afterwards president of the University of Vermont. Views of the Church; Theological Essays; Letters on Baptism.

=Austin, William.= _Ms._, 1778-1841. A Boston lawyer whose best claim to remembrance is that he was author of the famous sketch Peter Rugg: the Missing Man, which appeared in the New England Galaxy in 1824. It is a very remarkable imaginative study that in some respects anticipates the later work of Hawthorne. Other works of his are Letters from London (1804); The Human Character of Jesus Christ. _See Literary Papers of, with Biographical Sketch, 1890._ _Lit._

=Avery, Benjamin Parke.= _N. Y._, 1829-1875. A Californian journalist who was appointed minister to China in 1874. Californian Pictures in Prose and Verse.

=Ayres, Alfred.= _See Osmun._

=Ayres, Anne.= _E._, 1816-1896. The first member of an American sisterhood in the Protestant Episcopal Church, becoming a sister of the Holy Communion in 1845. Evangelical Sisterhoods; Life of W. H. Muhlenberg, _infra_.

=Azarias, Brother.= _See Mullany._

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=Bache= [baych], =Alexander Dallas.= _Pa._, 1806-1867. A scientist who was superintendent of the United States Court Survey, 1843-67. His annual reports to Congress are works of great value. _See Commemorative Address by B. A. Gould, infra, 1868._

=Bache, Franklin.= _Pa._, 1792-1864. Cousin of A. D. Bache, _supra_, and like him a great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, _infra_. A Philadelphia physician, professor of chemistry in Jefferson Medical College, 1841-64. A System of Chemistry for Students in Medicine; The Dispensatory of the United States (with _G. B. Wood_). _See Memoir, by G. B. Wood, infra._

=Bacheller, Irving.= _N. Y._, 1859- ----. A journalist and littérateur of New York city. The Master of Silence, a romance; The Still House of O’Darrow; Eben Holden. _Cas. Lo._

=Bachman= [bäk´man], =John.= _N. Y._, 1790-1874. A naturalist of Charleston, where he was pastor of a Lutheran church, 1815-74. He assisted Audubon, preparing the greater part of the text of The Quadrupeds of North America, and wrote several religious and scientific works. Two Letters on Heredity; Defence of Luther and the Reformation. _See American Lutheran Biographies._

=Backus, Isaac.= _Ct._, 1724-1806. A Baptist clergyman of Rhode Island. A History of New England, with Particular Reference to the Baptists. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Bacon, Delia Salter.= _O._, 1811-1859. The earliest exponent of the Baconian theory of the authorship of Shakespeare. Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded; Tales of the Puritans; The Bride of Fort Edward: a Drama. _See Hawthorne’s Recollections of a Gifted Woman; Mrs. Farrar’s Recollections of Seventy Years; Life, by Theodore Bacon; Saturday Review, vol. 67._

=Bacon, Edwin Munroe.= _R. I._, 1844- ----. A journalist of Boston. Dictionary of Boston; Boston of To-Day. _Hou._

=Bacon, Henry.= _Ms._, 1839- ----. An artist who has lived principally in Paris. A Parisian Year; Parisian Art and Artists. _Hou. Rob._

=Bacon, Leonard.= _Mch._, 1802-1881. Brother of D. S. Bacon, _supra_. The pastor of a Congregational church in New Haven, Connecticut, 1825-81, and a prominent figure in the denomination to which he belonged. Historical Discourses; Slavery Discussed in Occasional Essays; Genesis of the New England Churches; Christian Self-Culture. _See Century Magazine, vol. 3._ _Har._

=Bacon, Leonard Woolsey.= _Ct._, 1830- ----. Son of L. Bacon, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman. A Life Worth Living; Church Papers; Sermons; The Simplicity that is in Christ. _Fu._

=Bacon, Thomas Scott.= _N. Y._, 1825- ----. An Episcopal controversialist of Maryland. Both Sides of the Controversy between the Roman and Reformed Churches; The Reign of God and the Reign of Law; The Beginnings of Religion; Primitive Man in Christian Thought; It is Written; The Primitive and Catholic Doctrine as to Holy Scripture.

=Badeau, Adam.= _N. Y._, 1831-1895. A general in the United States army. The Vagabond; Military History of General Grant; Conspiracy: a Cuban Romance; Aristocracy in England; Grant in Peace: a Personal Memoir. _Ap. Har._

=Bagg, Lyman Hotchkiss.= “Karl Kron.” _Ms._, 1846- ----. Four Years at Yale; Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle.

=Bailey, James Montgomery.= _N. Y._, 1841-1894. Widely known at one time as “The Danbury News Man.” A journalist of Danbury, Connecticut, who was among the earliest to exploit a kind of native humour chiefly concerned with local allusion and application. He has had many imitators whose methods have been much less legitimate than his. Life in Danbury; England from a Back Window; The Danbury Boom; Mr. Phillis’ Goneness; They All Do It. _Le._

=Bailey, Liberty Hyde.= _Mich._, 1858- ----. A prominent horticulturist. American Grape Training; Crossbreeding and Hybridization; Field Notes on Apple Culture; Annals of Horticulture; The Horticulturist Rule-Book; The Nursery-Book: a Complete Guide to the Multiplication and Pollination of Plants; Talks Afield about Plants; Plant Breeding. _Hou. Mac._

=Bailey, Loring Woart.= _N. Y._, 1839- ----. A professor of natural history in the University of New Brunswick. Mines and Minerals of New Brunswick; Geology of Southern New Brunswick; Elementary Natural History.

=Bailey, William Whitman.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. Brother of L. W. Bailey, _supra_. A professor of botany at Brown University. New England Wild Flowers and Their Seasons; Among Rhode Island Wild Flowers; Botanical Collector’s Hand-Book. _Pr._

=Baird, Charles Washington.= _N. J._, 1828-1887. Son of R. Baird, _supra_. A Presbyterian minister of Rye, New York. Eutaxia, or the Presbyterian Liturgies; Book of Public Prayer; History of Rye; History of the Huguenot Emigration to America. _Do._

=Baird, Henry Carey.= _Pa._, 1825- ----. Nephew of Henry Carey, _infra_, and a political economist holding similar views. Rights of American Producers and Wrongs of British Free Trade Revenue Reformers; Protection of Home Labour and Home Production necessary to the Protection of the American Farmer; Miscellaneous Papers on Economic Questions. _Bai._

=Baird, Henry Martyn.= _Pa._, 1832- ----. Son of R. Baird, _infra_. Professor of Greek at the University of New York from 1859. An historian who is conscientious but not absolutely impartial. Life of Robert Baird; Modern Greece; Narrative of a Residence and Travels; History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France; The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre; The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. _Har. Ran. Scr._

=Baird, Robert.= _Pa._, 1798-1863. A Presbyterian clergyman, active in the cause of temperance and in promoting the extension of Protestantism in Europe. History of the Temperance Societies; View of Religion in America; History of the Waldenses, Albigenses, and Vaudois; Protestantism in Italy. _See Life, by H. M. Baird._ _Har._

=Baird, Samuel John.= _O._, 1817-1893. A Presbyterian clergyman whose writings are chiefly concerned with the polity and history of the Presbyterian church. The Church of Christ: its Constitution and Order; History of the Early Polity of the Presbyterian Church in the Training of Ministers; The Socinian Apostasy of the English Presbyterian Church; History of the New School.

=Baird, Spencer Fullerton.= _Pa._, 1823-1887. A naturalist of prominence, who was from 1878 the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The translator and editor of the Iconographic Encyclopedia, co-author with J. Cassin of Birds of North America and Mammals of North America; editor Annual Record of Science and Industry from 1872-78. A History of North American Birds, written in collaboration with T. M. Brewer and R. Ridgway, is one of his most valuable works. _See Popular Science Monthly, vol. 33._ _Har. Lip. Lit._

=Baker, Abijah Richardson.= _Ms._, 1805-1876. A Congregational clergyman of Lynn, Massachusetts. School History of the United States; The Catechism Tested by the Bible; Topics in Christ’s Sermon on the Mount.

=Baker, George Augustus.= _N. Y._, 1849- ----. A lawyer of New York. Point Lace and Diamonds, a collection of sparkling society verse; The Bad Habits of Good Society; Mrs. Hephaestus and Other Short Stories; West Point: a Comedy. _Sto._

=Baker, George Melville.= _Me._, 1832-1890. The author and compiler of Amateur Dramas, the Social Stage, and works of like character. _Le._

=Baker, George Pierce.= _R. I._, 1866- ----. An instructor at Harvard University. Plot Book of Elizabethan Plays; Principles of Argumentation. _Gi. Ho._

=Baker, Mrs. Harriette Newell [Woods].= “Madeline Leslie.” _Ms._, 1815-1893. Wife of A. R. Baker, _supra_, and daughter of Leonard Woods, _infra_. Beside two novels,--Cora and the Doctor, The Courtesies of Wedded Life,--her writings include nearly two hundred moral and religious tales, among which Tim the Scissors Grinder is the best known.