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=Shindler, Mrs. Mary Stanley Bunce [Palmer] [Dana].= _S. C._, 1810-1883. A once popular South Carolina verse-writer whose home was at Nacogdoches, Texas, after 1869. In 1844 she became a Unitarian, and published the next year Letters on the Trinity. In 1848 she married her second husband, an Episcopal clergyman, and was received into his church. The Northern Harp; The Southern Harp; The Parted Family, and Other Poems; The Temperance Lyre; and several prose works, including Charles Martin, or the Young Patriot; The Young Sailor; Forecastle Tom; A Southerner Among the Spirits. _See Bibliography of Texas._

=Shinn, Asa.= _N. J._, 1781-1853. A Methodist Protestant minister in Ohio. Essay on the Plan of Salvation; Benevolence and Rectitude of the Supreme Being.

=Shinn, Charles Howard.= _Ts._, 1852- ----. A California writer who has published Mining Camps, a Study in American Frontier Government; The Story of the Mine. _Ap. Scr._

=Shinn, Earl.= “Edward Strahan.” _Pa._, 1837-1886. A New York journalist, at one period art critic of The Nation. The New Hyperion: from Paris to Marly by Way of the Rhine; Studies in Modern French Art. _Lip._

=Shinn, George Wolfe.= _Pa._, 1839- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, rector of Grace Church, Newton, Massachusetts, from 1875. Friendly Talks About Marriage; Manual of the Prayer Book; Manual of Church History; Questions about Our Church; Questions that Trouble Beginners in Religion; Stories for Christmas Time; Some Modern Substitutes for Christianity. _Kt. Wh._

=Shipp, Albert Micajah.= _N. C._, 1819-1887. A Methodist clergyman and educator, professor of theology in Vanderbilt University from 1874, and author of The History of Methodism in South Carolina.

=Shipp, Barnard.= _Mi._, 1813- ----. A verse-writer of Natchez, and subsequently of Louisville. Fame, and Other Poems; Progress of Freedom, and Other Poems.

=Shippen, Edward.= _N. J._, 1827- ----. An eminent naval surgeon of Philadelphia who published Thirty Years at Sea.

=Shirley, John Milton.= _N. H._, 1831-1887. A lawyer of Andover, New Hampshire. The Early Jurisprudence of New Hampshire; Complete History of the Dartmouth College Case; Reports of Cases in Supreme Judicial Court.

=Shirley, William.= _E._, 1693-1771. A noted colonial soldier who planned the conquest of Cape Breton, and was governor of Massachusetts, 1741-45. Electra, a tragedy; The Birth of Hercules, a masque; Letter to the Duke of Newcastle, with Journal of the Siege of Louisburg; The Conduct of General Shirley Briefly Stated.

=Shock, William Henry.= _Md._, 1821- ----. A United States naval officer whose Steam Boilers: their Design, Construction, and Management, is a standard authority.

=Shoemaker, Michael Myers.= _Ky._, 1853- ----. A writer of travels. Eastward to the Land of Morning; The Kingdom of the White Woman, a volume of Mexican travel; Trans-Caspia: the Sealed Provinces of the Czar. _Clke._

=Shoup, Francis Asbury.= _Ind._, 1834-1896. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Sewanee, Tennessee, professor of metaphysics in the University of the South, and a Confederate officer in the Civil War. Infantry Tactics; Artillery Division Drill; Elements of Algebra.

=Shreve, Samuel Henry.= _N. J._, 1829-1884. A civil engineer of New York city. The Strength of Bridges and Roofs.

=Shreve, Thomas H----.= _D. C._, 1808-1853. Cousin of S. H. Shreve, _supra_. A journalist of Louisville. Drayton, an American tale; Poems.

=Shuck= [shook], =Mrs. Henrietta [Hall].= _Va._, 1817-1844. The wife of a missionary in China. Scenes in China (1852). _See Life by Jeter, 1848._

=Shurtleff, Ernest Warburton.= _Ms._, 1862- ----. A Congregational clergyman and verse-writer of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Poems; Easter Gleams; Song of Hope; When I was a Child; New Year’s Peace.

=Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet.= _Ms._, 1810-1874. An antiquarian of Boston. Elements of Phrenology; A Perpetual Calendar of Old and New Style; Topographical Description of Boston; Passengers of the Mayflower in 1620, comprise his principal writings. With D. Pulsifer he edited The Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in twelve volumes.

=Sibler, Wilhelm.= _P._, 1801-1885. A Lutheran clergyman of Missouri. Sermons on the Epistles and Gospels of the Christian Year. _See Biography (Lebeslauf), 1880._

=Sibley, John Langdon.= _Me._, 1804-1885. The librarian of Harvard University, 1841-77. History of the Town of Union, Maine; Biographical Sketches of Harvard University Graduates.

=Sidney, Margaret.= _See Lothrop, Mrs._

=Sigourney= [sĭg´or-nĭ], =Mrs. Lydia Howard [Huntly].= _Ct._, 1791-1865. One of the most popular of the earlier American writers, but now quite neglected. Her fifty-three volumes of prose and verse were adapted to an uncritical audience that demanded only gentle feeling and excellence of intention, and they served their purpose well in their day. Her verse is not without sweetness, but it never strays far beyond the realm of the commonplace. She was nearly all her life a resident of Hartford. Among her prose writings are, Myrtis; Post Meridian; Letters to My Pupils; Letters to Young Ladies; Traits of the Aborigines in America; Letters of Life (1866). Other works are, Pocahontas; Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse; Poetry for Children; Zinzendorf, and Other Poems. _See Griswold’s Female Poets of America; Allibone’s Dictionary; Stone’s First Editions of American Authors._ _Har._

=Sikes, Mrs. Olive [Logan].= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. Wife of W. W. Sikes, _infra_. An actress and author, popular at one period as a lecturer. Photographs of Paris Life; Chateau Frissac, or Home Scenes in France; John Morris’s Money; Somebody’s Stockings; Apropos of Women and Theatres; Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes; The Mimic World; Get Thee Behind Me, Satan; They Met by Chance, a novel.

=Sikes, William Wirt.= _N. Y._, 1836-1883. A journalist of New York city who was consul at Cardiff, Wales, 1876-1883. British Goblins: Welsh Folk-Lore; One Poor Girl; Rambles and Studies in Old South Wales; Studies of Assassination.

=Sill, Edward Rowland.= _Ct._, 1841-1887. A poet and educator of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, professor in the University of California, 1874-82. His verse is small in quantity, but of rare quality. The Hermitage, and Other Poems; The Hermitage, and Later Poems; Poems (containing The Venus of Milo, and other poems). _See Mrs. E. Ward’s Chapters from a Life._ _Ho. Hou._

=Sill, John Mahelon Berry.= _N. Y._, 1831-1901. A Michigan educator of prominence, principal of the State Normal School. Synthesis of the English Sentence; Practical Lessons in English.

=Silliman, Augustus Ely.= _R. I._, 1807-1884. Cousin of B. Silliman, 2d, _infra_. A banker of New York city who published A Gallop Among American Scenery.

=Silliman, Benjamin.= _Ct._, 1779-1864. A chemist of distinction, professor of chemistry at Yale University, 1802-55, and the founder in 1818 of Silliman’s Journal of Science and Art. Journal of Travels in England (1810); Narrative of a Visit to Europe (1853); Elements of Chemistry; Consistency of Modern Geology with Sacred History. _See Life by G. P. Fisher; American Journal of Science, May, 1865; Popular Science Monthly, June, 1883._

=Silliman, Benjamin.= _Ct._, 1816-1885. Son of B. Silliman, _supra_. A professor of chemistry at Yale University from 1846 until his death, and editor of Silliman’s Journal. First Principles of Chemistry; American Contributions to Chemistry; Principles of Physics.

=Silloway, Thomas William.= _Ms._, 1828- ----. A Boston architect who became a Universalist minister in 1862. Theogonis; Text-Book of Modern Carpentry; Warming and Ventilation; Cathedral Towns of England (with L. Powers).

=Silsbee, Mrs. Marianne Cabot [Devereux].= 1812-1889. A Boston writer who published A Half Century in Salem, and several compilations of poems. _Hou._

=Silver, Thomas.= _N. J._, 1813-1888. A civil engineer well known as an inventor. A Trip to the North Pole, or Theory of the Origin of Icebergs.

=Simmons, William Johnson.= _S. C._, 1849- ----. A Baptist minister of African birth who has published Men of Mark.

=Simms, Jeptha Root.= _Ct._, 1807-1883. A once popular writer of Fort Plain, New York. History of Schoharie County; The American Spy: Nathan Hale; The Frontiersman; Trappers of New York.

=Simms, Joseph.= _N. Y._, 1833- ----. Nephew of J. R. Simms, _supra_. A writer on physiognomy. Nature’s Revelations of Character; Book of Scientific Lectures; Health and Character; Practical and Scientific Physiognomy; Human Faces: What They Mean.

=Simms, William Gilmore.= _S. C._, 1806-1870. A voluminous romancer and verse-writer of Charleston, long popular but now little read. Among his thirty romances, The Partisan; The Yemassee; Guy Rivers; Martin Faber; Border Beagles; Beauchampe, are as well known as any; and of some twelve volumes of verse, Atalantis; Lays of the Palmetto; Areytos, or Songs and Ballads of the South, are the most characteristic. Other works of his include, A History of South Carolina; Lives of Marion, General Greene, Captain John Smith, Chevalier Bayard. _See Allibone’s Dictionary; Life by Trent. Stone’s First Editions of American Authors._ _Lov._

=Simonds, William.= “Walter Aimwell.” _Ms._, 1822-1859. A Boston journalist who was a very popular writer for young people. The Aimwell Stories; The Boys’ Own Guide; Boys’ Book of Morals and Manners.

=Simpson, Edward.= _N. Y._, 1824-1888. A naval officer of prominence, rear-admiral from 1884. Ordnance and Naval Gunnery; The Naval Mission to Europe; Report of the Gun Foundry Board.

=Simpson, Henry.= _Pa._, 1790-1868. A Philadelphia author who published Lives of Eminent Philadelphians.

=Simpson, James Hervey.= _N. J._, 1813-1883. A colonel of engineers and brevet brigadier-general in the United States army. A Military Reconnoissance from Santa Fé to the Navajo Country in 1849. The Shortest Route to California; Coronado’s March in Search of the Seven Cities of Cibola. _Lip._

=Simpson, Matthew.= _O._, 1811-1884. A Methodist bishop famous as a pulpit orator. Lectures on Preaching; A Hundred Years of Methodism; Sermons; Cyclopædia of Methodism. _See Life of, by G. R. Crooks, supra._ _Har. Meth._

=Sims, Clifford Stanley.= _Pa._, 1839-1896. A lawyer of Arkansas, and latterly of New Jersey, whose principal work is The Origin and Signification of Scottish Surnames.

=Sims, James Marion.= _S. C._, 1813-1883. A celebrated surgeon of New York city to whose influence is due the establishment of gynæcology as a department of medicine. Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery; Ovariotomy; The Story of My Life. _See Life of, by T. A. Emmet, supra._ _Ap._

=Sinclair, Carrie Bell.= _Ga._, 1837- ----. A verse-writer of Philadelphia. Poems; Heart Whispers, or Echoes of Song.

=Skene, Alexander Johnston Chalmers.= _S._, 1837-1900. A Brooklyn physician, professor of gynæcology in Long Island College Hospital from 1884. Diseases of the Bladder in Women; Diseases of Women from the Standpoint of the Physician. _Ap._

=Skinner, Charles Montgomery.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A journalist and littérateur of Brooklyn, associate editor of The Eagle. Villon the Vagabond, and other plays; Myths and Legends of Our Own Land; Nature in a City Yard. _Cent. Lip._

=Skinner, Otis Ainsworth.= _Ms._, 1807-1861. A Universalist minister of Boston and elsewhere. Family Prayer Book; Sermons on Doctrinal Subjects; Universalism Defended; Letters on Revivals; Moral Duties of Parents, are his principal works. _See Life of, by T. B. Thayer, infra._

=Skinner, Thomas Harvey.= _N. C._, 1791-1871. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor of sacred rhetoric in Union Seminary, 1848-71. Religion of the Bible; Aids to Preaching and Hearing; Discussions in Theology; Thoughts on Evangelizing the World. _Ran._

=Slade, Daniel Denison.= _Ms._, 1823-1896. A physician and scientist, professor of zoölogy at Harvard University from 1871. Diphtheria: its Nature and Treatment; Twelve Days in the Saddle, a Journey in New England in 1883. Evolution of Horticulture in New England. _Put._

=Slaughter, Philip.= _Va._, 1808-1890. Cousin of W. B. Slaughter, _infra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Virginia, historiographer of the diocese. The Colonial Church in Virginia; Man and Woman, are his most important writings.

=Slaughter, William Bank.= _Va._, 1798-1879. A Wisconsin lawyer of note who published Reminiscences of Distinguished People I Have Met.

=Sleeper, John Sherburne.= _Ms._, 1794-1878. A shipmaster and subsequently a journalist of Boston, editor of The Journal, 1834-54. Tales of the Ocean; Salt-Water Bubbles; Jack in the Forecastle; Mark Rowland, a Tale of the Sea.

=Slenker, Mrs. Elmina [Drake].= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. A writer living at Snowville, Virginia. Studying the Bible; John’s Way; The Darwins; Mary Jones; Little Lessons for Little Folks.

=Slicer, Henry.= _Md._, 1801-1874. A Methodist clergyman, eight times chaplain of the United States Senate. Appeal on Christian Baptism; Discourse on Duelling, which materially helped forward the passage of the anti-duelling law in Congress.

=Sloan, Samuel.= _N. C._, 1815-1884. An architect of Philadelphia. City and Suburban Architecture; Constructive Architecture; The Model Architect; Homestead Architecture. _Bai. Lip._

=Sloane, Thomas O’Conor.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. A chemist of New York city, on the editorial staff of The Scientific American. Home Experiments in Science; Standard Electrical Dictionary.

=Sloane, William Milligan.= _O._, 1850- ----. A professor of history at Columbia College. The French War and the Revolution; Life of James M’Cosh, _supra_; Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. _Cent. Scr._

=Slosson, Mrs. Annie [Trumbull].= _Ct._, 184- - ----. An author of New York city noted for the excellence of her short stories, and also known as an entomologist whose specialty is the study of moths. Aunt Liefy; Fishin’ Jimmy; Seven Dreamers; The Heresy of Mehetabel Clark; Anna Malann; The China Hunter’s Club. _Har. Ran._

=Sluter, George Ludewig.= _G._, 1837- ----. A Lutheran clergyman, pastor at Arlington, New Jersey, from 1881. History of Our Beloved Church; Life of Tiberius; The Religion of Politics, are his principal writings.

=Smalley, Eugene Virgil.= _O._, 1841-1899. A journalist of St. Paul. History of the Northern Pacific Railroad; History of the Republican Party.

=Smalley, George Washburn.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. A noted journalist who was the London correspondent of The New York Tribune, 1867-95, and from 1895 American correspondent of The London Times. London Letters, and Some Others; Studies of Men. _Har._

=Smalley, John.= _Ct._, 1734-1820. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at New Britain from 1758 till his death. National and Moral Inability; Universal Salvation.

=Smart, Mrs. Helen Hamilton [Gardener].= _Va._, 1853- ----. A Boston novelist whose writings are mainly concerned with the furtherance of social reforms. An Unofficial Patriot; Is This Your Son, My Lord?; Facts and Fictions of Life; Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?; Pushed by Unseen Hands; A Thoughtless Yes; The Fortunes of Margaret Weld. _Ar._

=Smedes, Mrs. Susan [Dabney].= _Mi._, 1840- ----. A Mississippi writer now living in Washington, whose Memorials of a Southern Planter is much valued as an accurate picture of Southern life.

=Smith, Arthur Donaldson.= _Pa._, 1864- ----. An African explorer. Through Unknown African Countries.

=Smith, Ashbel.= _Ct._, 1805-1886. A Texas politician and physician. Account of the Geography of Texas; Permanent Identity of the Human Race.

=Smith, Augustus William.= _N. Y._, 1802-1866. An educator who was professor of mathematics at Wesleyan University, 1831-51, and president of that institution from 1851. Elementary Treatise on Mechanics.

=Smith, Buckingham.= _Ga._, 1810-1871. A Spanish-American scholar and antiquary of note, twice secretary of the United States legation at Mexico, and after 1859 a lawyer in Florida. Among his many publications are, Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language; Grammar of the Pima, or Nevome; Coleccion de Varios Documentos para la Historia de la Florida; Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the Conquest of Florida.

=Smith, Charles.= _Pa._, 1765-1836. Son of William Smith, 1st, _infra_. A Philadelphia lawyer who published a Treatise on the Land Laws of Philadelphia.

=Smith, Charles Adam.= _N. Y._, 1809-1879. A Lutheran clergyman, pastor at Rhinebeck, New York, and elsewhere. The Catechumen’s Guide; Men of the Olden Time; Before the Flood and After; Among the Lilies; Inlets and Outlets; Stoneridge, pastoral sketches; Popular Exposition of the Gospels (with J. Morris). _Lip._

=Smith, Charles Henry.= “Bill Arp.” _Ga._, 1826-1903. A lawyer and journalist of Rome, Georgia, well known as a humorous contributor to The Atlanta Constitution. Bill Arp’s Letters; Bill Arp’s Scrap Book: The Farm and the Fireside: A Side Show of the Southern Side of the War; Georgia as a Colony and State, 1733-1893. _Gi._

=Smith, Daniel.= _Ct._, 1806-1852. A Methodist clergyman of New York State very active in the temperance cause. Wisdom in Miniature; Gems of Female Biography; Anecdotes for the Young; Teachers’ Assistant; Lectures to Young Men; Book of Manners; Anecdotes of the Christian Ministry. _Meth._

=Smith, Edward Delafield.= _N. Y._, 1826-1878. A lawyer of New York city. Avidæ, a poem; Destiny, a poem; Oratory, a poem; Reports of Cases in the New York Court of Common Pleas; Addresses to Juries in Slave Trade Trials.

=Smith, Eli.= _Ct._, 1801-1857. A Congregational missionary at Beirut. Missionary Researches in Armenia (1853); and an Arabic translation of the Bible.

=Smith, Elias.= _Ct._, 1769-1846. A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts. The Clergyman’s Looking-Glass; History of Anti-Christ; Sermons on the Prophecies, are among his writings.

=Smith, Elihu Hubbard.= _Ct._, 1771-1798. A physician and verse-writer of New York city. Edwin and Angelina, an opera; American Poems, Original and Selected.

=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes [Prince].= _Me._, 1806-1893. Wife of Seba Smith, _infra_. A once prominent writer of prose and verse, who was the first woman lecturer in America. Her later years were passed in Hollywood, South Carolina. Among her many works are, The Sinless Child, and Other Poems; The Newsboy, which first directed public attention to a hitherto neglected class; Riches Without Wings; Old New York, or Jacob Leisler, a tragedy; Woman and Her Needs; Bertha and Lily; The Western Captive.

=Smith, Erasmus Peshine.= _N. Y._, 1814-1882. A jurist and political economist. Manual of Political Economy.

=Smith, Mrs. Erminnie Adelle [Platt].= _N. Y._, 1837-1886. An ethnologist who published an Iroquois-English dictionary. _See Memorial, 1890._

=Smith, Ethan.= _Ms._, 1762-1849. A Congregational clergyman, city missionary of Boston, 1832-49. A View of the Trinity; A View of the Hebrews, in which the origin of the American Indians was traced to the ten tribes of Israel. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Smith, Mrs. Eugenia M. [Bryce].= _Vt._, 1852- ----. A fiction-writer of Dubuque. Winsome but Wicked; The Parson’s Sin; Our Money-Makers, a poultry book.

=Smith, Florence.= _N. Y._, 1845-1871. A verse-writer of New York city who published Piero’s Painting, and Other Poems.

=Smith, Mrs. Frances Irene [Burge].= _See Griswold, Mrs. Frances._

=Smith, Francis Henney.= _Va._, 1812-1890. A Confederate officer who was professor of mathematics at Hampden Sidney College, Virginia, 1837-39, and superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, 1839-61 and 1865-90. Best Methods of Conducting Common Schools; College Reform; and a series of algebras.

=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= _Md._, 1838- ----. An artist, civil engineer, and popular littérateur of New York city. Well-Worn Roads of Spain, Holland, and Italy; Old Lines in New Black and White; A White Umbrella in Mexico; Colonel Carter of Cartersville, a novel; A Day at Laguerre’s, and Other Days; American Illustrators; A Gentleman Vagabond, and Some Others; Tom Grogan; Gondola Days; Caleb West. _Hou. Scr._

=Smith, Gerrit.= _N. Y._, 1797-1874. A famous philanthropist of Peterboro, New York, who was an ardent opponent of slavery. Speeches in Congress; Sermons and Speeches; The Religion of Reason; The Theologies; Nature the Basis of a Free Theology. _See Life of, by O. B. Frothingham, supra._

=Smith, Gertrude.= _Cal._, 1860- ----. Sister of M. C. Smith, _infra_. A Boston writer, whose early life was spent in the West. The Rousing of Mrs. Potter, and Other Stories; The Arabella and Araminta Stories; Dedora Heywood. _Cop. Do. Hou._

=Smith, Gustavus Woodson.= _Ky._, 1822-1896. A Confederate general who lived in New York city from 1876. Notes on Life Insurance; Confederate War Papers.

=Smith, Hamilton Lanphere.= _Ct._, 1819-1903. An educator who was professor of natural philosophy at Hobart College from 1868. Natural Philosophy; First Lessons in Astronomy and Geology.

=Smith, Henry Boynton.= _Me._, 1815-1877. A Presbyterian clergyman of eminence as a theologian, and professor of systematic theology in Union Seminary, New York city, 1854-74. Faith and Philosophy; Apologetics; Chronological History of the Church of Christ; Introduction to Christian Theology; System of Christian Theology. _See Life and Work of, 1881; Life by Stearns, 1892._ _Scr._

=Smith, Henry Hollingsworth.= _Pa._, 1815-1890. A surgeon of Philadelphia. Minor Surgery; System of Operative Surgery; Practice of Surgery; Professional Visit to London and Paris.

=Smith, Herbert Huntington.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. A scientist who has been engaged upon geological surveys in Ohio, New York, and Brazil. Brazil, the Amazons, and the Coast. _Scr._

=Smith, Horace Wemyss.= _Pa._, 1825-1891. Son of R. P. Smith, _infra_. A Philadelphia journalist whose principal works include, Nuts for Future Historians to Crack; Yorktown Orderly Book; Life of Reverend William Smith, _infra_.

=Smith, James.= _I._, _c._ 1720-1806. A lawyer of York, Pennsylvania, who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He wrote The Constitutional Power of Great Britain over the Colonies in America, which materially aided the cause of the patriots.

=Smith, James.= _Pa._, 1737-1812. A once noted Kentucky pioneer. Shakerism Developed; Shakerism Detected; Remarkable Adventures in the Life of Colonel James Smith; Mode and Manner of Indian War. _See Bibliography of Ohio._

=Smith, Jerome Van Crowninshield.= _N. H._, 1800-1879. A physician of Boston, where he was mayor in 1854, and subsequently of New York city. Class Book of Anatomy; Life of Andrew Jackson; Natural History of the Fishes of Massachusetts; Pilgrimage to Palestine; Turkey and the Turks; The Ways of Women.

=Smith, Job Lewis.= _N. Y._, 1827-1897. A physician of New York city who wrote a Treatise on Diseases of Children.

=Smith, John.= _E._, 1579-1631. A celebrated sea captain and adventurer who was one of the founders of Virginia, and of the company who settled at Jamestown in 1607. He was a forcible, vigourous writer, much given to magnifying his own exploits, and not always to be trusted in the absence of other testimony. A True Relation of Virginia; The Generall Historie of Virginia, which is partly original and partly compiled; A Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Country; A Description of New England (1616); An Accidence, or Pathway to Experience; A Sea Grammar; The True Travels of Captain John Smith, a work in which his imagination is under very little restraint as regards facts. _See Lives by Hillard in Sparks’s American Biography, Mrs. Robinson, 1845, Simms, 1846, Deane, 1859, Warner, 1881, True, 1882; Tyler’s American Literature; North American Review, January, 1867; Appletons’ American Biography._