A dictionary of American authors

Part 37

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=King, Edward.= _Ms._, 1848-1896. A journalist who lived in Paris as correspondent for American journals. The Gentle Savage; The Golden Spike; French Leaders; My Paris, or French Character Sketches; Kentucky’s Love; The Great South; Echoes from the Orient, a volume of poems; Europe in Storm and Calm; A Venetian Lover, a Poem; Joseph Zalmonah; Under the Red Flag. _Co. Hou. Le._

=King, Grace Elizabeth.= _La._, 1859- ----. A popular writer of New Orleans. Monsieur Motte; Tales of a Time and Place; Earthlings; New Orleans, the Place and the People; Jean Baptiste Lemoine, Founder of New Orleans; Balcony Stories. _Cent. Do. Har. Mac._

=King, Henry Melville.= _Mo._, 1838- ----. A Baptist clergyman. Early Baptists Defended; Mary’s Alabaster Box, a collection of homilies; Our Gospels. _Bap._

=King, Horatio.= _Me._, 1811-1897. An attorney in Washington who was postmaster-general in 1861. Sketches of Travel, or Twelve Months in Europe; Turning on the Light, a Survey of the Administration of Buchanan. _Lip._

=King, Horatio Collins.= _Me._, 1837- ----. Son of H. King, _supra_. A journalist of New York city. Guide for Regimental Courts Martial; The Brooklyn Congregational Council; The Plymouth Silver Wedding.

=King, James Wilson.= _Md._, 1818- ----. A naval engineer, chief of the bureau of steam engineering, 1869-73. European Ships of War; The War Ships and Navies of the World.

=King, Jonas.= _Ms._, 1792-1869. A Congregational missionary in Greece who lived at Athens from 1831. He was a profound Oriental scholar, and his various works were written in Modern Greek, Classical Greek, French, and Arabic. The Defence of Jonas King; Exposition of an Apostolic Church; Hermeneutics of the Sacred Scriptures; Sermons; Synoptical View of Palestine; Miscellaneous Works. _See Life, 1879._

=King, Rufus.= _O._, 1817-1891. A prominent lawyer of Cincinnati. History of Ohio. _Hou._

=King, Mrs. Sue [Petigru].= _See Bowen, Mrs._

=King, Thomas Starr.= _N. Y._, 1824-1864. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, 1845-56, and of San Francisco for the remainder of his life. He was largely instrumental in securing the wavering allegiance of California to the general government at the opening of the Civil War, and as a religious writer his influence was widely felt. Substance and Show; Christianity and Humanity, with a Memoir by E. P. Whipple; The White Hills, a volume of travel in the White Mountains; Patriotism, and Other Papers. _Hou._

=King, William Basil.= _P. E. I._, 1859- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of New York. The Daily Song: Thoughts on the Offices for Morning and Evening Prayer; Griselda, a novel. _S._

=King, William Rufus.= _N. Y._, 1839- ----. An engineering officer in the United States army. Torpedoes, their Invention and Use; Materials for Defensive Armor.

=Kingsley, Calvin.= _N. Y._, 1812-1870. A Methodist bishop. The Resurrection of the Dead; Round the World.

=Kinney, Coates.= _N. Y._, 1826- ----. An Ohio lawyer and journalist. Keuka, and Other Poems; Lyrics of the Real and Ideal. The Rain upon the Roof is his most familiar poem. _Clke._

=Kinney, Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine [Dodge] [Stedman].= _N. Y._, 1810-1889. Mother of E. C. Stedman, _infra_. A verse-writer of Newark, New Jersey, but resident in Italy, 1850-65. Felicitá; Poems; Bianca Capello: a Tragedy. _See Griswold’s Female Poets of America._

=Kinzie, Mrs. Juliette Augusta [Magill].= _Ct._, 1806-1870. A novelist of Chicago. Wau-bun, or the Early Day in the Northwest; Walter Ogilby; Mark Logan. _Lip._

=Kip, Leonard.= _N. Y._, 1826-1901. Brother of W. I. Kip, _infra_. A lawyer of Albany. California Sketches; The Volcano Diggings; Ænone, a Roman Tale; The Dead Marquise; Hannibal’s Man, and Other Tales; Under the Bells, a romance; Nestlenook, a novel; At Cobweb and Crusty’s; Thalöe; The Puntacooset Colony; Three Pines; A Tale of the Incredible.

=Kip, William Ingraham.= _N. Y._, 1811-1893. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of California, 1853-93. A popular religious writer whose works have gone into many editions. Double Witness of the Church; Lenten Fasts; Early Conflicts of Christianity; Christmas Holidays in Rome; Catacombs of Rome; Early Jesuit Missions in North America; Recantation, an Italian tale; The Unnoticed Things of Scripture; The Church of the Apostles; The Olden Time in New York. _Ap. Dut. Ran. Wh._

=Kirk, Edward Norris.= _N. Y._, 1802-1874. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Mount Vernon church, 1842-74. Sermons; The Parables of our Lord; Lectures on Revivals; Canon of the Holy Scripture; The Waiting Saviour; Christian Sympathy Awakened.

=Kirk, Eleanor.= _See Ames, Mrs. E._

=Kirk, Mrs. Ellen Warner [Olney].= “Henry Hayes.” _Ct._, 1842- ----. Wife of J. F. Kirk, _infra_. A popular novelist of Germantown, Philadelphia. Through Winding Ways; A Midsummer Madness; Walford; The Story of Margaret Kent; Sons and Daughters; Love in Idleness; A Lesson in Love; Fairy Gold; Queen Money; Better Times, short stories; A Daughter of Eve; Narden’s Choosing; Ciphers; The Story of Lawrence Garthe. _Hou._

=Kirk, John Foster.= _N. B._, 1824-1904. The secretary to the historian Prescott for eleven years, and from 1885 lecturer on European history at the University of Pennsylvania. History of Charles the Bold; Supplement, to Allibone’s Dictionary. _Lip._

=Kirkbride, Thomas Story.= _Pa._, 1809-1883. A physician of Philadelphia, widely known for skillful treatment of the insane, who was superintendent of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, 1840-83. Appeal for the Insane; Essays on Insanity; Construction of Hospitals for the Insane.

=Kirke, Edmund.= _See Gilmore._

=Kirkland, Mrs. Caroline Matilda [Stansbury].= _N. Y._, 1801-1864. A once popular writer of New York city. A New Home, Who’ll Follow?; Western Clearings; Fireside Talks on Morals and Manners; Holidays Abroad; A Book for the Home Circle; Forest Life, include her principal writings. _See Hart’s American Literature._ _Cr. Scr._

=Kirkland, Elizabeth Stansbury.= _N. Y._, 1828-1896. Daughter of Mrs. Kirkland, _supra_. An educator of Chicago. Six Little Cooks; Dora’s Housekeeping; Speech and Manners for Home and School; Short Histories of English Literature, France, England, Italy, for Young People. _Mg._

=Kirkland, John Thornton.= _N. Y._, 1770-1840. A Unitarian clergyman who was president of Harvard University, 1810-27. Life of Fisher Ames; Eulogy of General Washington.

=Kirkland, Joseph.= _N. Y._, 1830-1894. Son of Mrs. Kirkland, _supra_. A lawyer of Chicago who was a major in the Federal army during the Civil War. His two novels of pioneer life in Illinois, Zury, and The McVeys, are notably faithful, graphic studies. His other writings include, The Captain of Company K; The Story of Chicago; Story of the Chicago Massacre of 1812. _Hou._

=Kirkman, Marshall Monroe.= _Il._, 1842- ----. The vice-president of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. Railway Disbursements; Railway Revenue; Railway Service; Baggage Car Traffic; Railway Expenditures; Handling of Railway Supplies; Railway Rates and Government Control; How to Collect Railway Revenues without Loss.

=Kirkwood, Daniel.= _Md._, 1814-1895. An astronomer of distinction, professor in Indiana University from 1850. Meteoric Astronomy; Comets and Meteors; Asteroids and Minor Planets between Mars and Jupiter.

=Kirkwood, Robert.= _S._, 1793-1866. A Presbyterian clergyman of Yonkers. Lectures on the Millennium; Universalism Explained; A Plea for the Bible; Illustration of the Offices of Christ.

=Kirwan.= _See Murray, Nicholas._

=Klingle, George.= _See Holmes, Mrs. Georgiana._

=Knapp, Arthur May.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at Fall River, Massachusetts, from 1891. Feudal and Modern Japan. _Kt._

=Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo.= _Ms._, 1783-1838. A lawyer of New York city, among whose many works are, The Genius of Freemasonry; Travels in North America by Ali Bey; American Biography; Lives of Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster; Female Biography.

=Kneeland, Abner.= _Ms._, 1774-1844. A Universalist clergyman who became a free-thinker, and established The Investigator in Boston in 1832. The Deist; Universal Benevolence; Universal Salvation; Review of Evidences of Christianity.

=Kneeland, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1821-1888. A naturalist and surgeon of Boston. Science and Mechanism; An American in Iceland; The Wonders of the Yo Semite; Volcanoes and Earthquakes. _Lo._

=Knight, Edward Henry.= _E._, 1824-1883. An English writer who settled in the United States in 1845, and was long connected with the patent office in Washington. American Mechanical Dictionary; New Mechanical Dictionary. _Hou._

=Knight, James.= _Md._, 1810-1887. A physician of New York city. Improvement of Health by Natural Means; Orthopædia; Static Electricity as a Therapeutic Agent.

=Knight, Sarah Kemble.= _Ms._, 1666-1727. A teacher of Boston among whose pupils was Benjamin Franklin. Her Narrative of a Journey from Boston to New York in 1704 is a valuable historical record of contemporary manners and customs written in a graphic, entertaining style.

=Knortz, Karl.= _P._, 1841- ----. A German writer who came to the United States in 1863, and settled in New York city. Märchen und Sagen der nordamerikanische Indianer; Amerikanische Skizzen; An American Shakespeare Bibliography; Humorische Gedichte; Longfellow: eine literarhistorische Studie; Aus der Wigwam; Kapital und Arbeit in Amerika; Aus der transatlantischen Gesellschaft; Staat und Kirche in Amerika; Shakespeare in Amerika; Amerikanische Lebensbilder; Brook Farm and Margaret Fuller, include his principal writings. _Ho._

=Knox, Mrs. Adeline [Trafton].= _Me._, 1845- ----. A novelist of St. Louis. Katharine Earle; His Inheritance; An American Girl Abroad; Dorothy’s Experience. _Le._

=Knox, Charles Eugene.= _N. Y._, 1833-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of the theological seminary at Bloomfield, New Jersey, from 1863. A Year with Saint Paul; Love to the End; David the King; Graduated Sunday-school Text-Books. _Meth. Ran._

=Knox, George William.= _N. Y._, 1853- ----. A Presbyterian missionary in Japan, professor of ethics in the University of Japan from 1886. His writings in Japanese include: A Brief System of Theology; Outlines of Homiletics; Christ the Son of God; The Basis of Ethics. In English he has published The Japanese Systems of Ethics.

=Knox, John Jay.= _N. Y._, 1828-1892. A financier of distinction, comptroller of the currency, 1867-84. He published United States Notes, a History of the Various Issues of Paper Money by the United States Government. _Scr._

=Knox, Thomas Wallace.= _N. H._, 1835-1896. A journalist and traveller whose home was in New York city. His books of travel for young people have been widely popular. Overland Through Asia; Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field; Backsheesh; Underground Life; John; The Boy Travellers Series, in sixteen volumes; How to Travel; Pocket Guide Around the World; The Voyage of the Vivian; Hunting Adventures on Land and Sea; Marco Polo for Boys and Girls; Decisive Battles since Waterloo; Life of Robert Fulton; Hunters Three; In Wild Africa; The Siberian Exiles; The Lost Army, include the greater number of his books. _Ap. Cas. Har. Mer. Put. We._

=Kobbe, Gustav.= _N. Y._, 1857----. A littérateur of New York city. Jersey Coast and Pines; Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelung;” New York City and its Environs. _Har._

=Koehler, Sylvester Rosa.= _G._, 1837-1900. An art critic of Boston, editor of the American Art Review. His more important publications are, American Art; Etching: an Outline of its Technical Processes and History. _Cas. Le._

=Koopman= [kope´man], =Harry Lyman.= _Me._, 1860----. A verse-writer, librarian of Brown University. The Great Admiral; Orestes, and Other Poems; Woman’s Will, with Other Poems; What to Read.

=Kouns= [koonz], =Nathan Chapman.= _Mo._, 1833-1890. A Missouri lawyer, State librarian at Jefferson City from 1886, who published two historical romances, Arius the Libyan; Dorcas the Daughter of Faustina. _Ap. Fo._

=Kraitsir, Charles.= _Hy._, 1804-1860. An educator and philologist of New York city. The Poles in the United States; Significance of the Alphabet; Glossology.

=Krauth, Charles Porterfield.= _Va._, 1823-1883. A prominent Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, professor of moral science in the University of Pennsylvania, 1868-83. The Conservative Reformation and its Theology is his greatest work; and among others are, The Evangelical Mass and the Romish Mass; Sketch of the Thirty Years’ War; Christian Liberty; Infant Baptism and Salvation in the Calvinistic System; Chronicle of the Augsburg Confession. _See American Lutheran Biographies._ _Lip._

=Krebs, John Michael.= _Md._, 1804-1867. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Righteousness and National Prosperity; The American Citizen; Private, Domestic, and Social Life of Jesus; The Presbyterian Psalmist.

=Krehbiel, Henry Edward.= _Mch._, 1854----. A musical critic on the staff of the New York Tribune. Notes on the Cultivation of Choral Music; Review of the New York Musical Seasons, 1885-90; Studies in the Wagnerian Drama; How to Listen to Music. _Har. Scr._

=Kroeger, Adolph Ernst.= _Sg._, 1837-1882. A writer of St. Louis. The Minnesingers of Germany; Our Forms of Government and the Problems of the Future; translations of Fichte’s Science of Knowledge and Science of Rights.

=Kron, Karl.= _See Bagg._

=Krotel, Gottlob Frederick.= _Wg._, 1826- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of New York city. Who are the Blessed?; Explanation of Luther’s Small Catechism; several translations from the German.

=Kunz= [koonz], =George Frederick.= N. Y., 1856- ----. A mineralogist of note, the foremost American specialist in precious stones. He has published Gems and Precious Stones of North America.

=Kunze= [koont-se], =John Christopher.= _Sxy._, 1744-1807. A once famous Lutheran clergyman of New York city, professor of ancient languages in Columbia College. History of the Christian Religion and of the Lutheran Church; Catechism and Liberty.

=Kunze, Richard Ernest.= _G._, 1838- ----. A physician of New York city who has done much to promote a knowledge of medical botany. Cactus; Cardinal Points in the Study of Medical Botany; Germination and Vitality of Seeds.

=Kurtz, Benjamin.= _Pa._, 1795-1865. A Lutheran clergyman, for nearly thirty years the editor of The Lutheran Observer. Lutheran Prayer-Book; Year-Book of the Reformation; Why are You a Lutheran?; Faith, Hope, and Charity; Theological Sketch-Book, are his most important works.

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=Labagh, Isaac Peter.= _N. Y._, 1804-1879. An Episcopal clergyman of Iowa, but formerly a clergyman of the Dutch Reformed faith. Great Events of Unfulfilled Prophecy; The Great Events that are Coming; The Two Witnesses, Moses and Elijah; Theoklesia.

=La Borde, Maximilian.= _S. C._, 1804-1873. An educator who was professor in the University of South Carolina, 1842-73. Introduction to Physiology; Story of Lethea and Verona; History of South Carolina College.

=Ladd, George Trumbull.= _O._, 1842- ----. A Congregational clergyman of prominence, professor of philosophy at Yale University from 1881. Principles of Church Polity; The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture; Philosophy of Mind; A Primer of Psychology; Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory; Outlines of Psychological Psychology; Elements of Psychological Psychology; Introduction to Philosophy; What is the Bible? He has translated Lotze’s Philosophical Outlines, from the German. _Gi. Scr._

=Ladd, Horatio Oliver.= _Me._, 1839- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, but formerly of the Congregational faith, at one period president of the University of New Mexico. History of the War with Mexico; The Story of New Mexico. _Do. Lo._

=La Farge, John.= _N. Y._, 1835- ----. A noted figure and landscape artist of New York city. Lectures on Art. _Mac._

=Laighton, Albert.= _N. H._, 1829-1887. A banker of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, cousin of Mrs. Thaxter, _infra_. Poems, a collection of quiet, thoughtful verse, was published in 1878.

=Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte.= _Ga._, 1798-1859. The second of the four presidents of the Republic of Texas, 1838, and United States minister to Central America, 1857-58. Verse Memorials. _See Bibliography of Texas._

=Lamb=, =Mrs. Martha Joan Reade= [=Nash=]. _Ms._, 1829-1893. An historical writer of New York city, editor of the Magazine of American History, 1883-93. The History of the City of New York, her chief work, is the result of a vast amount of patient labour and research. Her other works include, Spicy, a novel; Play-School Stories; The Christmas Owl; Snow and Sunshine, a Story for Girls; Wall Street in History. _Bar. Do._

=Lambert, Mrs. Mary Eliza [Perine] [Tucker].= _Al._, 1838- ----. A writer of Philadelphia. Poems; Loew’s Bridge, a Broadway Idyl; Life of Mark Pomeroy.

=Lamon, Ward Hill.= _Va._, 1828-1893. An Illinois lawyer, law partner of Abraham Lincoln. Recollections of Abraham Lincoln; Life of Abraham Lincoln. _Mg._

=Lamson, Alvan.= _Ms._, 1792-1864. A Unitarian clergyman of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1818-60. History of the First Church in Dedham; Sermons; The Church of the First Three Centuries.

=Lamson, Daniel Lowell.= _N. H._, 1834-18--. A physician of Fryeburg, Maine. Lectures; Differential Diagnosis of Diseases.

=Lamson, Mrs. Mary [Swift].= _Ms._, 1822- ----. For five years a teacher of Laura Bridgman, the noted blind deaf-mute, and for three years in entire charge of her education. Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman. _Hou._

=Lance, William.= 1791-1840. A lawyer and political writer of Charleston, who published a Life of Washington in Latin.

=Lander, Meta.= _See Lawrence, Mrs._

=Lander, Sarah West.= _Ms._, 1810-1872. A writer of Salem, Massachusetts, whose Spectacles for Young Eyes, a series of volumes of travel, was very popular.

=Landon, Judson Stuart.= _Ct._, 1832- ----. A lawyer of Schenectady, justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York and lecturer in the Albany Law School. The Constitutional History and Government of the United States. _Hou._

=Landon, Melville De Lancey.= “Eli Perkins.” _N. Y._, 1839- ----. A popular humourous lecturer. The Franco-Prussian War in a Nutshell; Saratoga in 1901; Eli Perkins at Large; Eli Perkins’s Wit, Humor, and Pathos; Fun and Fact, Thirty Years of Wit; Money: Silver, Gold, or Bimetallism, include the most of his writing. _Cas. Ke._

=Langdell, Christopher Columbus.= _N. H._, 1826- ----. A legal writer of distinction, dean of the Harvard Law School. Cases on the Law of Contracts; Summary of Equity Pleading; Cases in Equity Pleading; Elementary Treatise on the Law of Contracts.

=Langdon, William Chauncey.= _Vt._, 1831-1895. An Episcopal clergyman of Bedford, Pennsylvania. The Defects of our Practical Catholicity; Plain Papers for Parish Priests and Peoples; The Catholic Reform Movement in the Italian Church; Conflict of Practice and Principle in the American Church.

=Langley, Samuel Pierpont.= _Ms._, 1834- ----. An astronomer of eminence, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1887. Researches on Solar Heat; The New Astronomy. _Hou._

=Langston, John Mercer.= _Va._, 1829-1897. A distinguished educator of African birth, minister to Hayti, 1877-85, and president of the Virginia Normal Institute at Petersburg from the latter date. He published Freedom and Citizenship.

=Lanier= [la-neer´], =Clifford Anderson.= _Ga._, 1844- ----. A Georgia writer of fiction. Two Hundred Bales; Thorn-Fruit.

=Lanier, Sidney.= _Ga._, 1842-1881. Brother of C. A. Lanier, _supra_. A distinguished Southern writer over whose rank as a poet much controversy has arisen. His verse can hardly be said to appeal to many readers, and its formlessness at times repels rather than attracts. A Centennial Ode, written for the opening of the Exposition of 1876, first brought him into general notice. Subsequently he lectured upon English literature in Baltimore. Poems; Tiger Lilies, a novel; The Science of English Verse; The English Novel and its Development; Florida: its Scenery, History, and Climate. He edited The Boys’ Percy; The Boys’ Mabinogion; The Boys’ King Arthur; The Boys’ Froissart. _See Century Magazine, April, 1884; Gosse’s Questions at Issue._ _Lip. Scr._

=Lanigan, George Thomas.= _Q._, 1845-1886. A journalist of Montreal, and subsequently of New York city. Canadian Ballads; Fables Out of the World.

=Lanman, Charles.= _Mch._, 1819-1895. An artist and author of Washington, at one time the private secretary of Daniel Webster. Essays for Summer Hours; Summer in the Wilderness; Private Life of Daniel Webster; Dictionary of Congress; The Red Book of Michigan; Leading Men of Japan; Letters from a Landscape Painter; Tour to the River Saguenay; Farthest North; Haphazard Personalities, include the most of his works. _Ap. Le. Lo._

=Lanman, Charles Rockwell.= _Ct._, 1850- ----. A professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University from 1880. Noun Inflection in the Vedas; A Sanskrit Reader, with Notes. _Gi._

=Lansing, John Gulian.= _La._, 1851- ----. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, professor of Old Testament Languages in the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Jersey. American Revised Version of the Book of Psalms; An Arabic Manual. _Scr._

=Lanza, Marchioness Clara [Hammond].= _Ks._, 1858- ----. Daughter of W. A. Hammond, _supra_. A novelist of New York city. Tit for Tat; Mr. Perkins’s Daughter; A Righteous Apostate; Tales of Eccentric Life; A Modern Marriage; David Morton’s Transgression; A Golden Pilgrimage.

=Lapham= [lăp´a̯m], =Increase Allen.= _N. Y._, 1811-1875. A prominent scientist of Milwaukee. Antiquities of Wisconsin; Wisconsin: its Geography, Topography, History, Geology, and Mineralogy. _See Popular Science Monthly, April, 1883._

=Lapham, William Berry.= _Me._, 1828-1894. An agricultural editor of Maine, who published several histories of Maine localities, including Woodstock, Paris, Norway, Bar Harbor, and Mount Desert Island. _See Bibliography of Maine._

=Larcom, Lucy.= _Ms._, 1824-1893. A popular verse and prose writer of Beverly, Massachusetts, who in early life worked in the Lowell factories, and was a contributor to the noted Lowell Offering. Her writings in verse include, At the Beautiful Gate; Childhood Songs; Wild Roses of Cape Ann; An Idyl of Work; Easter Gleams; Complete Poems. Skipper Ben and Hannah Binding Shoes are her best known lyrics. Her original work in prose comprises, Ships in the Mist, and Other Stories; The Sunbeam; Similitudes; Leila among the Mountains; The Unseen Friend; As It is in Heaven; A New England Girlhood, an autobiographic work. _See Life by D. D. Addison._ _Hou._

=Larned, Augusta.= _Vt._, 1835- ----. A journalist of New York city. Home Story Scenes; Talks with Girls; Old Tales from Grecian Mythology; Tales from the Norse Grandmother; Village Photographs, a work of the nature of Miss Mitford’s “Our Village,” and with much of the same charm; In Woods and Fields, a book of verse. _Ho. Meth. Put._

=Larned, Josephus Nelson.= _Ont._, 1836- ----. The superintendent of the public library at Buffalo, 1877-1897. History for Ready Reference; Talks About Labor. _Ap._

=Larned, Walter Cranston.= _Il._, 1850- ----. A lawyer and littérateur of Lake Forest, Illinois. Churches and Castles of Mediæval France. _Scr._

=La Roche, René.= _Pa._, 1794-1872. A Philadelphia physician. Pneumonia: its Supposed Connection with Autumnal Fevers; Treatise on Yellow Fever.

=Larrabee, William Clark.= _Me._, 1802-1859. A once prominent Methodist clergyman and educator of Indiana, professor in De Pauw University for a number of years. Scientific Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion; Wesley and his Co-Laborers; Asbury and his Co-Laborers; Rosebower, a volume of essays. _Meth._

=Latham, Charles Sterrett.= _Cal._, 1861-1890. A Translation of Dante’s Eleven Letters, with Explanatory Notes and Historical Comments. _Hou._