Part 66

=Vaux= [vauks], =Calvert.= _E._, 1824-1895. An English architect and landscape gardener who settled in the United States in 1851. With F. L. Olmsted, _supra_, he designed Central Park in New York city, and he was associated with him in many similar works throughout the country. He published Villas and Cottages in the earlier part of his career. _See Annual Cyclopædia, 1895._

=Vaux, Richard.= _Pa._, 1816-1895. Son of R. Vaux, _infra_. A distinguished penologist of Philadelphia. His writings include every annual report of the Eastern Penitentiary for more than fifty years; Recorders’ Decisions; and many volumes on the subject of penology.

=Vaux, Roberts.= _Pa._, 1786-1836. A jurist and penologist of Philadelphia, prominent in all local philanthropic enterprises throughout his life. Memoirs of Benjamin Lay, Ralph Sandiford, and Anthony Benezet; Efforts to Improve the Discipline of the Prison at Philadelphia.

=Vedder, Henry Clay.= _N. Y._, 1853- ----. A journalist for many years, and subsequently professor of church history at Crozer Theological Seminary, Upland, Pennsylvania. American Writers of To-day; A Short History of the Baptists. _Bap. Sil._

=Veeder, Mrs. Emily Elizabeth [Ferris].= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. A novelist and verse-writer of St. Louis. Her Brother Donnard; Entranced; The Unexpected; In the Garden, and Other Poems. _Lip._

=Venable, Charles Scott.= _Va._, 1827-1900. A Confederate army officer, professor of mathematics in the University of Virginia from 1865, and author of a series of popular mathematical text-books.

=Venable, Francis Preston.= _Va._, 1856- ----. Son of C. S. Venable, _supra_. A professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina from 1880. A Short Course in Qualitative Analysis; The Development of the Periodic Law.

=Venable, William Henry.= _O._, 1836- ----. An educator and littérateur of Cincinnati. School History of the United States; Footprints of the Pioneers in the Ohio Valley; The Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley; Let Him First be a Man, a collection of essays on education. His writings in verse include, June on the Miami, and Other Poems; The Melodies of the Heart. _Clke. Le._

=Verdi, Tullio Suzzara.= _Iy._, 1829- ---- A homœopathic physician practicing in Washington from 1857. Maternity; Mothers and Daughters; The Infant Philosopher; Special Diagnosis for Popular Use.

=Verplanck= [vĕr-plănk´], =Gulian Crommelin.= _N. Y._, 1786-1870. A Shakespearean scholar of New York city whose carefully edited Shakespeare appeared in 1846. He was the author of Essays on Revealed Religion; Discourses on American History, Art, and Literature; Discourses and Addresses; Essay on the Doctrine of Contrasts; The Bucktail Bards. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Very, Jones.= _Ms._, 1813-1880. A Unitarian clergyman living at Salem, Massachusetts, who must be accounted as one of the most purely spiritual of American poets. His Essays and Poems appeared in 1839, the poems including fifty sonnets on the Shakespearean model remarkable for their extreme delicacy and purity of conception. A fuller edition of the Poems alone appeared in 1883, and a complete and revised edition of Poems and Essays in 1886. _See Memoir, by W. P. Andrews, in Poems, 1883; Biographical Notice, by J. F. Clarke, supra, in Poems and Essays, 1886; Atlantic Monthly, July, 1883._ _Hou._

=Very, Lydia Louisa Anna.= _Ms._, 1823-1901. Sister of J. Very, _supra_. For many years a teacher in Salem. Poems and Prose Writings.

=Vethake, Henry.= _B. G._, 1792-1866. A Philadelphia educator who was professor in the University of Pennsylvania from 1836, and provost in 1854. Principles of Political Economy.

=Vetromile, Eugene.= _Iy._, 1819-1881. A noted Italian Jesuit missionary long resident among the Penobscot Indians. Travels in Europe, etc.; The Abenaki and Their History; and several works in the Abenaki language. _See Bibliography of Maine._

=Veysey, Arthur Henry.= _E._, 1869- ----. A littérateur of New York city. A Cheque for Three Thousand, a novel. _Dil._

=Victor, Mrs. Frances Auretta [Fuller] [Barrett].= _O._, 1826-1902. Sister of Mrs. M. Victor, _infra_, with whom she published Poems of Sentiment and Imagination (1851). After her second marriage to a brother of O. Victor, _infra_, she removed to California. The River of the West; All Over Oregon; The New Penelope, and Other Stories; Atlantis Arisen. _Ap. Lip._

=Victor, Mrs. Metta Victoria [Fuller].= “Seeley Register.” _Pa._, 1831-1885. A novelist and verse-writer of New York city. Fresh Leaves from Western Woods; Last Days of Tul, a Yucatan romance; The Senator’s Son, a plea for the Maine Law; Two Mormon Wives; The Gold Hunters; Miss Slimmens’ Window, and Other Papers; Uncle Ezekiel; Too True; Alice Wilde; The Backwoods Bride; Maum Guinea; Jo Daviess’s Client; The Dead Letter; Figure Eight; Passing the Portal; Blunders of a Bashful Man; The Bad Boy’s Diary; The Naughty Girl’s Diary; The Rasher Family, comprise the greater portion of her works. Her poem Compound Interest is still quoted.

=Victor, Orville James.= _O._, 1827- ----. An author and editor of New York city. History of the Southern Rebellion; Incidents and Anecdotes of the War; History of American Conspiracies.

=Viele, Egbert Ludovickus.= _N. Y._, 1825-1902. A military engineer who served in the Civil War, and became Park Commissioner of New York City in 1883. Handbook for Active Service; Topographical Atlas of New York City.

=Vincent, Francis.= _Del._, 1822-1884. A journalist of Wilmington, Delaware, who published A History of Delaware.

=Vincent, Frank.= _L. I._, 1848- ----. A traveler of note. The Land of the White Elephant; Norsk, Lapp, and Finn; Through and Through the Tropics; The Republics of South America; Around and About South America; In and Out of Central America; Actual Africa; Lady of Cawnpore, a novel (with A. Lancaster). _Ap. Fu. Har. Put._

=Vincent, John Heyl.= _Al._, 1832- ----. A Methodist bishop now living at Topeka, of much prominence as the founder of the celebrated Chautauqua Movement in 1878. Studies in Young Life; The Modern Sunday School; Little Footprints in Bible Lands; Earthly Footsteps of the Man of Galilee; Better Not; The Chautauqua Movement; To Old Bethlehem; Our Own Church; Outline History of Greece; Outline History of Rome, include his more important works. _See The Outlook, October, 1896._ _Fu. Fl. Meth._

=Vincent, Marvin Richardson.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor in Union Seminary from 1888. Faith and Character; Student’s Handbook of the Topics and Literature of New Testament Introduction; Word Studies in the New Testament; Stranger and Guest; Gates into the Psalm Country; Amusement a Force in Christian Training; The Two Prodigals; The Minister’s Handbook; What Is It To Believe?; God and Bread; The Covenant of Peace; The Law of Sowing and Reaping; Bible Inspiration and Christ; That Monster, the Higher Critic; Christ as a Teacher; In the Shadow of the Pyrenees, from Basque Land to Carcassonne; The Age of Hildebrand. _Do. Ran. Scr._

=Vincent, Thomas McCurdy.= _O._, 1832- ----. An army officer who has published The Military Power of the United States during the War of the Rebellion.

=Vinght, Francisco Javier.= _C._, 1823- ----. A Cuban educator, after 1848 a resident of New York, and professor of Spanish in the University of the City of New York. Spanish Grammar; Spanish and English Phrase Book; El Maestro de Francés; El Maestro de Inglés; Le Maître d’Espagnol; Lector y Traductor Inglés.

=Vinton, Alexander Hamilton.= _R. I._, 1807-1881. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston, prominent as a Low Churchman. Bohlen Lectures for 1877; Sermons. _Wh._

=Vinton, Arthur Dudley.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. Son of F. Vinton, _infra_. A lawyer and novelist of New York city. The Pomfret Mystery; The Unpardonable Sin.

=Vinton, Francis.= _R. I._, 1809-1872. Brother of A. H. Vinton, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of Trinity Church, 1855-72. Arthur Tremaine, or Annals of Cadet Life; Evidences of Christianity; Manual Commentary on the General Canon Law of the Episcopal Church.

=Vinton, Francis Laurens.= _Me._, 1835-1879. Nephew of A. H. Vinton, _supra_. An officer in the Federal army during the Civil War, who rose to the rank of brigadier-general. The Guardian, a poem; Lectures on Machines; Theory of the Strength of Materials.

=Vinton, John Adams.= _Ms._, 1801-1877. A Congregational clergyman and genealogist. The Vinton Memorial; The Symmes Memorial; The Giles Memorial; The Sampson Family in America.

=Virgin, William Wirt.= _Me._, 1823-1893. A jurist who was justice of the supreme court of Maine. The Maine Civil Officer; Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine; Law and Equity Reports.

=Vogdes, William.= _Pa._, 1802-1886. A lawyer and educator of Philadelphia. United States Arithmetic; Elementary Treatise on Mensuration.

=Von Holst.= _See Holst, H. E. von._

=Vos, Geerhardus.= _H._, 1862- ----. A Dutch clergyman, professor of biblical theology at Princeton Seminary from 1894. The Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuchal Codes; Die Kämpfe und Streitigkeiten zwischen den Banu Umajja und den Banu Haschim; The Doctrine of the Covenants in Reformed Theology; Biblical Theology as a Science and as a Discipline.

=Vose, George Leonard.= _Me._, 1831- ----. A civil engineer, professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1881-86. Orographic Geology; Manual for Railway Engineers; Bridge Disasters in America; A Graphic Method for Solving Algebraic Problems; Elementary Course of Geometric Drawing; Life of G. W. Whistler, Civil Engineer. _Le._

=Vose, John.= _N. H._, 1766-1840. An educator of Atkinson, New Hampshire, prominent in his day, and author of System of Astronomy; Compendium of Astronomy.

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=Wackerhagen, Augustus.= _G._, 1774-1865. A Lutheran clergyman of Columbia County, New York. Inbegriff des Glaubens und Sittenlehre.

=Wade, William P----.= 18- ----. Treatise on the Law of Notice; On the Operation and Construction of Retroactive Laws; Manual of American Mining Laws in the Western States; The Laws of Notice as Affecting Civil Rights and Remedies; The Law of Attachment and Garnishment.

=Wadsworth, Marshman Edward.= _Me._, 1847- ----. The State geologist of Michigan from 1888. Geology of the Iron and Copper Districts of Lake Superior; The Azoid System (with J. D. Whitney, _infra_); Lithological Studies, are among his writings.

=Wagner, Arthur Lockwood.= _Il._, 1853- ----. An officer in the United States army. Catechism of Outpost Duty; Organization and Tactics; The Service of Security and Information; The Campaign of Königgrätz.

=Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew.= _E._, 1792-1854. A provisional Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York, 1852-54. The Land of Bondage; Short Family Prayers; The Pathway and Abiding Places of Our Lord; Lessons on the Church Religious Education; Selected Sermons. _See Lives by Doane, 1856, Norton, 1858._ _Ap. Dut._

=Wait, William.= _N. Y._, 1821-1880. An eminent lawyer of Fulton County, New York. Law and Practice in Civil Actions; New York Annotated Code of Procedure; Actions and Defences at Law and in Equity; Treatise on General Principles of the Law.

=Waite, Charles Burlingame.= _N. Y._, 1824- ----. A Chicago jurist, author of The Christian Religion to A. D. 200.

=Waite, Mrs. Catherine [Van Valkenburg].= _Ont._, 1829- ----. Wife of C. B. Waite, _supra_. A Chicago lawyer, founder of The Chicago Law Times, and an active advocate of woman-suffrage. The Mormon Prophet and his Harem.

=Waite, Henry Randall.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman who has published The Motive of St. Paul’s Life; Illiteracy and the Mormon Problem; A Boy’s Workshop. _Lo._

=Wakefield, Mrs. Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest.= _N. H._, 1836-1870. A verse-writer remembered for her poem, Over the River. _See Poems of, with Memoir, 1871._

=Wakeley, Joseph Beaumont.= _Ct._, 1804-1876. A Methodist clergyman of New York city among whose writings are, The Heroes of Methodism; Lost Chapters Recovered from Early American Methodism; Reminiscences; The American Temperance Cyclopedia. _Meth._

=Walcott, Charles Doolittle.= _N. Y._, 1850- ----. A geologist of note, director of the United States Geological Survey from 1894. The Trilobite; Paleontology of the Eureka District; The Cambrian Faunas of North America; The Fauna of the Lower Cambrian or Olinus Zone; Correlation Papers.

=Walcott, Charles Melton.= _E._, 1815-1868. An actor and playwright of Philadelphia among whose plays are, The Course of True Love; Hoboken; Washington, or Valley Forge; A Good Fellow.

=Walden, Treadwell.= _N. Y._, 1830- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Washington. Sunday-School Prayer Book; Our English Bible and its Ancestors; The Great Meaning of Metanoia. _Co. Wh._

=Waldo, Frank.= _O._, 1857- ----. A meteorologist of Princeton, New Jersey, formerly a junior professor in the United States signal service. Beside a number of scientific monographs, he has published Modern Meteorology; Elementary Meteorology. _Am._

=Waldo, Samuel Putnam.= _Ct._, 1780-1826. A writer of Hartford, Connecticut. Tour of President Monroe in 1818; Memoirs of General Andrew Jackson; Life of Stephen Decatur; Biographical Sketches.

=Waldstein, Charles.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. An eminent archæologist, the director of the American School of Archæology at Athens from 1888. Excavations at the Heraion of Argos; The Balance of Emotion and Intellect; Essays on the Art of Pheidias; The Work of John Buskin; Study of Art in Universities. _Gi. Har._

=Wales, Philip Skinner.= _Md._; 1837- ----. A United States naval officer who has published a Treatise on Mechanical Therapeutics.

=Walke, Henry.= _Va._, 1808-1896. A naval officer appointed rear-admiral in 1870, and the author of Naval Scenes and Reminiscences of the Civil War.

=Walker, Alexander Joseph.= _Va._, 1819-1893. A lawyer and journalist of New Orleans. Jackson and New Orleans; History of the Battle of Shiloh; Butler at New Orleans; Duelling in Louisiana; Life of General Andrew Jackson.

=Walker, Amasa.= _Ct._, 1799-1875. A political economist of Boston. The Science of Wealth; The Nature and Uses of Money. _Lip._

=Walker, Charles Manning.= _O._, 1834- ----. A journalist of Indianapolis. History of Athens County, Ohio; First Settlement of Ohio at Marietta; Lives of Oliver Martin and Alvin Hovey. _Clke._

=Walker, Cornelius.= _Va._, 1819- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, professor in the Virginia Theological Seminary from 1866. Sorrowing Not Without Hope; Outlines of Christian Theology; Lectures on Christian Ethics. _Wh._

=Walker, Edward Dwight.= _L. I._, 1859-1890. A journalist and littérateur of New York city. Reincarnation, a Study of Forgotten Truth.

=Walker, Francis Amasa.= _Ms._, 1840-1897. Son of A. Walker, _supra_. The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1881, and during the Civil War a Federal officer, rising to the rank of colonel, and brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. A distinguished authority on financial topics; an advocate of bimetallism. Wages; Money; Money in its Relations to Trade and Industry; Political Economy; The Indian Question; Land and its Rent; History of the Second Army Corps; Life of General Hancock; The Making of the Nation; Double Taxation in the United States; International Bimetallism. _See Review of Reviews, February, 1897._ _Ap. Ho. Lit. Mac. Scr._

=Walker, George Leon.= _Vt._, 1830-1900. A Congregational clergyman, pastor of a church in Hartford, Connecticut, from 1879. History of the First Church in Hartford, 1633-1883; Thomas Hooker: Preacher, Founder, Democrat; Some Aspects of the Religious Life of New England. _Do. Sil._

=Walker, James.= _Ms._, 1794-1874. A Unitarian clergyman, minister at Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1818-38, president of Harvard University, 1853-60. Lectures on Natural Religion; Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion; Sermons Preached in the College Chapel; Discourses. _A. U. A._

=Walker, James Barr.= _Pa._, 1805-1887. A popular Presbyterian clergyman in Ohio and Illinois. Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation; Poetry of Reason and Conscience; Pioneer Life in the West; God Revealed in Nature and in Christ; Philosophy of Skepticism and Ultraism; The Divine Operation in the Redemption of Man; Living Questions of the Age; Doctrine of the Holy Spirit; Poems. _Meth._

=Walker, James Bradford Richmond.= _Ms._, 1821-1885. A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts. Comprehensive Concordance to the Holy Scriptures. _C. P. S._

=Walker, James Murdock.= _S. C._, 1813-1854. A South Carolina lawyer. The Theory of Common Law; Tract on Government; The State _versus_ Bank of South Carolina; Roman Jurisprudence in the Law of Real Estate.

=Walker, James Perkins.= _N. H._, 1829-1868. A Boston publisher. Faith and Patience, a story for boys; Book of Raphael’s Madonnas; Sunny-Eyed Tim. _See Memoir of, 1869._

=Walker, Joseph Burbeen.= _N. H._, 1822- ----. An agriculturist of New Hampshire. Land Drainage; Forests of New Hampshire; Prospective Agriculture in New Hampshire; Oats; Rogers the Ranger; Birth of the Federal Constitution.

=Walker, Joseph Henry.= _Ms._, 1829- ----. A Republican Congressman from Massachusetts whose home is in Worcester. A Few Facts and Suggestions on Money, Trade, and Banking. _Hou._

=Walker, Mrs. Katherine Kent [Child].= _Vt._, 1840- ----. A writer who is best known by a famous paper in The Atlantic Monthly on The Total Depravity of Inanimate Things. Bible Stories for the Young; Life of Christ; From the Crib to the Cross. _Ran._

=Walker, Mrs. Mary Spring.= 18-- - ----. A Boston writer. Wife of J. B. R. Walker, _supra_. The Family Doctor, or Mrs. Barry and her Bourbon; Rev. Dr. Willoughby and his Wine; Both Sides of the Street; Down in a Saloon; White Robes.

=Walker, Robert James.= _Pa._, 1801-1869. The secretary of the United States Treasury, 1845-49, and author of Letters on the Finances and Resources of the United States.

=Walker, Sears Cook.= _Ms._, 1805-1853. Brother of T. Walker, _infra_. An astronomer who published a number of professional monographs.

=Walker, Timothy.= _Ms._, 1806-1856. A jurist of Cincinnati. Elements of Geometry; Introduction to American Law. _Lit._

=Walker, William.= _Tn._, 1824-1860. A famous adventurer who led a filibustering expedition into Nicaragua in 1855, and was afterwards court-martialled and shot by the authorities of Honduras. The War in Nicaragua. _See Walker’s Expedition to Nicaragua, by W. V. Wells, 1856; Reminiscences of the Filibuster War by Doubleday, 1886; Joaquin Miller’s Walker in Nicaragua._

=Walker, William McCreary.= _Md._, 1813-1866. A United States naval officer who published a work on Screw Propulsion.

=Walker, Williston.= _Me._, 1860- ----. Son of G. L. Walker, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman, professor of Germanic and Western Church History in Hartford Theological Seminary from 1889. The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism; On the Increase of Royal Power under Philip Augustus; A History of the Congregational Church in the United States. _Scr._

=Wallace, Horace Binney.= _Pa._, 1817-1852. Son of J. B. Wallace, _infra_. A lawyer and littérateur of Philadelphia. Literary Criticisms; Art and Scenery in Europe. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Wallace, John Bradford.= _N. J._, 1778-1837. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Remarks on the Law of Bailment; Reports of Cases of the Third Circuit Court. _See Memoir by his wife, 1848._

=Wallace, John William.= _Pa._, 1815-1884. Son of J. B. Wallace, _supra_. A master in chancery of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The Reporters, Chronologically Arranged; Cases in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Third Circuit; Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, 1863-1874; An Old Philadelphian: Colonel William Bradford, the Patriot Printer of 1776. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Wallace, Lew[is].= _Ind._, 1827- ----. A Federal major-general during the Civil War, subsequently a lawyer of Crawfordsville, Indiana, and minister to Turkey, 1881-85. Ben Hur, a Tale of the Christ, has been extremely popular, but neither this nor his other romances have met the entire approval of literary critics. His other works include, The Fair God, an Aztec Story; The Prince of India; The Boyhood of Christ; Life of General Benjamin Harrison. _Har._

=Wallace, Mrs. Susan Arnold [Elston].= _Ind._, 1830- ----. Wife of L. Wallace, _supra_. The Storied Sea; Ginevra, a Christmas Story; The Land of the Pueblos; The Repose in Egypt. _Har._

=Wallace, William Ross.= _Ky._, 1819-1881. A lawyer and verse-writer of New York city. Perdita; Alban; Meditations in America, and Other Poems. The Liberty Bell is his best-known poem. _See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America._

=Wallack, Lester= (real name John Johnstone Wallack). _N. Y._, 1820-1888. A noted comedian and dramatist of New York city. The Veteran; Rosedale. _See Galaxy Magazine, October, 1868; Autobiography of, 1889._ _Scr._

=Wallis, Severn Teackle.= _Md._, 1816-1894. A lawyer of Baltimore. Glimpses of Spain; Spain: her Institutions, Politics, and Public Men. A memorial edition of his writings in four volumes was published in 1896. _Har._

=Waln, Robert.= _Pa._, 1765-1836. A Philadelphia merchant. Answer to the Anti-Protection Report of Henry Lee; Seven Letters to Elias Hicks, widely read at the time of their appearance.

=Waln, Robert.= _Pa._, 1794-1825. Son of R. Wain, _supra_. A Philadelphia littérateur. The Hermit in America; American Bards, a satire; Sisyphi Opus, with Other Poems; Life of Lafayette.

=Walsh, Michael.= _I._, 1763-1840. A once popular educator of Massachusetts who published a Mercantile Arithmetic, and a New System of Bookkeeping.

=Walsh, Robert.= _Md._, 1784-1859. A prominent Philadelphian who was United States consul at Paris, 1845-51. In 1811 he established the American Review of History and Politics, the first quarterly in the United States. An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain; Letter on the Genius and Disposition of the French Government; Correspondence Respecting Russia; Didactics; The Museum of Foreign Literature and Science. _See Edinburgh Review, May, 1820; North American Review, April, 1820._

=Walsh, William Shepard.= “William Shepard.” _F._, 1854-189-. Grandson of R. Walsh, _supra_. A Philadelphia littérateur, editor of Lippincott’s Magazine, 1886-90. Authors and Authorship; Pen Pictures of Earlier Victorian Authors; Faust: the Legend and the Poem; Paradoxes of a Philistine; Pen Pictures of Modern Authors; Our Young Folks’ History of the Roman Empire.

=Walter, Nehemiah.= _I._, 1663-1750. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1688 until his death. The Sense of Indwelling Sin in the Unregenerate; Sermons; Practical Discourses on the Holiness of Heaven.

=Walter, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1696-1725. Son of N. Walter, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman, the colleague of his father. Grounds and Rules of Music Explained; Infallibility May Sometimes Mistake.

=Walter, William Bicker.= _Ms._, 1796-1822. Great-grandnephew of T. Walter, _supra_. A verse-writer who published Poems; Sukey, suggested by Halleck’s “Fanny.”

=Walters, William Thompson.= _Pa._, 1820-1891. A merchant of Baltimore, long prominent as an art patron. Antoine Louis Barye, from the French of Various Critics; The Percheron Horse, from the French of Du Hays; Notes upon Certain Masters of the Nineteenth Century.

=Walther, Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm.= _Sxy._, 1811-1887. A Lutheran clergyman who came to America in 1839, and was president of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at St. Louis, 1849-1887. Dr. Luther’s kleiner Katechismus ausgelegt von Dr. J. C. Dietrich, mit Zusätzen; Amerikanisch-Lutherische Evangelien-Postille; Amerikanisch-Lutherische Epistel-Postille; Amerikanisch-Lutherische Pastoral-theologie. He was the leader of what are known as Missouri Lutherans. _See Biography of, by Günther (Lebensbild), 1890; Brömel’s Homiletische Characterbilder, 1874._