A dictionary of American authors

Part 85

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=Lakes, Arthur.= _E._, 1844- ----. A Denver geologist. Geology of Colorado; Prospecting for Gold and Silver in North America.

=Lamar, James Sanford.= _Ga._, 1829- ----. A clergyman of the sect known as Disciples of Christ. The Organon of Scripture; First Principles and Perfection.

=Lambert, Louis Aloisius.= _Pa._, 1836- ----. A Roman Catholic clergyman, editor of the Freeman’s Journal from 1894. Thesaurus Biblicus; Notes on Ingersoll; Tactics of Infidels; The Christian Father; Instructions on the Gospels of the Sundays of the Year.

=Lambert, Thomas Scott.= _Ms._, 1819-1897. A physician who lectured extensively on medical and educational themes. Human Biology; Practical Anatomy and Physiology; Hygienic Physiology.

=Lamberton, John Porter.= _Pa._, 1839- ----. A Philadelphia educator. Daughters of Genius; Literature of the Nineteenth Century.

=Lamborn, Robert Henry.= _Pa._, 1835- ----. A scientist of note. The Metallurgy of Copper; The Metallurgy of Silver and Lead; Mexican Painting and Painters; The Spanish School in New Spain.

=Lamson-Scribner, Frank.= _Ms._, 1851- ----. A botanist of note. Weeds of Maine; Ornamental and Useful Plants of Maine; Fungus Diseases of Plants; The Fungus Diseases of the Grape Vine; The Fungus Diseases of the Grape and Other Plants and Their Treatment; Grasses of Tennessee.

=Lancaster, Joseph.= _E._, 1778-1838. A once prominent educational reformer, who, after establishing schools after his system in England and Canada, came to the United States in 1818, and was for many years a resident of New York city. Improvements in Education; The British System of Education (1812); An Epitome of the Chief Events and Transactions of My Own Life. _See Corston, Life of Joseph Lancaster, 1840; Leiber’s Practical Educationists, 1848; Dictionary of National Biography, volume 32._

=Lane, Mrs. Anna [Eichberg] [King].= _See King, Mrs. Anna_ (page 218).

=Lane, George Martin.= _Ms._, 1823-1897. A noted classical scholar, professor of Latin at Harvard University 1851-94, professor emeritus from the latter date. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, prepared by him and edited by M. H. Morgan (page 261), appeared in 1898. _Har._

=Lane, James Crandall.= _N. Y._, 1823-1888. A civil engineer who was an officer of prominence in the Federal army during the Civil War. Man and his Surroundings.

=Langdon, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1723-1797. A Congregational clergyman, president of Harvard College 1773-80. Summary of Christian Faith and Practice; Observations on the Revolution; Remarks on the Leading Sentiments of Dr. Hopkins’s System of Doctrine.

=Langford, Mrs. Laura [Carter] [Holloway].= _See Holloway, Mrs._ (page 191).

=Lanman, James Henry.= _Ct._, 1812-1887. Uncle of C. Lanman (page 223). A lawyer and littérateur of New York city. History of Michigan (1842).

=Lanza, Gaetano.= _Ms._, 1848- ----. A professor of mechanics in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Applied Mechanics. _Wil._

=Larrabee, William.= _Ct._, 1832- ----. A farmer and banker of Clermont, Iowa. The Railroad Question.

=Larremore, Wilbur.= _N. Y._, 1855- ----. A New York lawyer, editor of the New York Law Journal from 1890. Mother Carey’s Chickens, a book of verse. _Put._

=Larrowe, Marcus Dwight.= “Alphonso Loisette.” _N. Y._, 1832- ----. A noted lecturer on the science of memory. Assimilative Memory, or How to Attend and Never Forget.

=Latch, Edward Biddle.= _Pa._, 1833- ----. A retired naval officer. Review of the Holy Bible; Indications of the Book of Job; Indications of the Book of Genesis; Indications of the Book of Exodus; The Mosaic System of the Great Pyramid of Egypt; The Mosaic System of Stonehenge; The Mosaic System and the Codex Argenteus; The Mosaic System and The Gettysburg Stone.

=Latchaw, John Roland Harris.= _Pa._, 1851- ----. A Baptist clergyman, president of Palmer University, Muncie, Indiana, from 1902. Outline Lectures in Theology; Theory and Art of Teaching; Citizenship in Northwest Territory; Outlines of Psychology: its Method and Matter.

=Lathe, Herbert William.= _Mo._, 1850- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Manitou, Colorado. Spiritual Life in its Fullness; Chosen of God. _Rev._

=Lathrop, Joseph.= _Ct._, 1731-1820. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at West Springfield, Massachusetts, 1756-1818. A Miscellaneous Collection of Original Pieces, Political, Moral, and Entertaining; Sermons, seven volumes (1796-1820).

=Latimer, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [Wormeley].= _E._, 1822-1904. (_See_ page 225.) Under her maiden name of Wormeley she published three novels, Forest Hill; Annabel, or the Victory of Love; Our Cousin Veronica.

=Laughlin, Clara Elizabeth.= _N. Y._, 1873- ----. A Chicago writer. The Evolution of a Girl’s Ideal; Stories of Authors’ Loves; Miladi. _Lip. Rev._

=Laurie, Thomas.= _S._, 1821-1897. A congregational clergyman of Providence. Dr. Grant and the Mountain Nestorians; Woman and Her Saviour in Persia, reprinted as Morning on the Mountains; Glimpses of Christ; The Ely Volume, or the Contributions of Foreign Missions to Science; Assyrian Echoes of the Word. _Lo._

=Laut, Agnes C----.= _Ont._, 1872- ----. A novelist who has published Heralds of Empire; Lords of the North; The Story of the Trapper; Pathfinders of the West. _Ap. Lit._

=Lavely, Henry Alexander.= _Pa._, 1831- ----. A verse-writer of Pittsburgh. The Heart’s Choice, and Other Poems.

=Law, James.= _S._, 1838- ----. A professor of veterinary medicine at Cornell University, 1868-96. General and Descriptive Anatomy of Domestic Animals; Farmers’ Veterinary Adviser; Text-Book of Veterinary Medicine.

=Lawler, Thomas Bonaventure.= _Ms._, 1864- ----. A New York author. Essentials of American History. _Gi._

=Lawrence, Egbert Charles.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman in New York. Historical Recreations.

=Lawrence, Mrs. Ida Ethel (Eckert).= _O._, 1864- ----. A verse-writer of Toledo, Ohio. Day Dreams. _Clke._

=Lawrence, Isaac.= _E._, 1828- ----. Son of W. B. Lawrence (page 225), whose Life he has written.

=Lawrence, Robert Means.= _Ms._, 1847- ----. A physician of Boston. The Magic of the Horse-Shoe, with Other Folk-Lore Notes; Historical Sketches of the Lawrence Family. _Hou._

=Laws, Samuel Spahr.= _Va._, 1824- ----. An educator, chancellor of the University of Missouri, 1876-89. Metaphysics.

=Lawson, John Davison.= _Ont._, 1852- ----. A legal writer, professor of common law in the University of Missouri from 1891. Contract of Common Carriers; Law of Usages and Customs; Concordance of Legal Words and Phrases; Law of Presumptive Evidence; Leading Cases Simplified; Expert and Opinion Evidence; Adjudged Cases on Defences to Crime; Rights, Remedies, and Practice in the Civil Law; Principles of American Law of Contracts; Select Cases in the Law of Personal Property; The American Law of Bailments.

=Lawson, Leonidas Moreau.= _Ky._, 1812-1864. A physician, professor of medicine in Ohio and Kentucky medical schools. Practical Treatise on Phthisis Pulmonalis.

=Lawson, Thomas William.= _Ms._, 1857- ----. A Boston broker and banker. The Krank; History of the Republican Party; Secrets of Success; History of the America’s Cup.

=Leahy, William Augustine.= _Ms._, 1867- ----. A Boston writer. The Siege of Syracuse; The Incendiary; History of the Catholic Church in New England.

=Leakin, George Armistead.= _Md._, 1818- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Baltimore. Legion, or Feigned Excuses; Periodic Law.

=Learned, William Law.= _Ct._, 1821- ----. A jurist of Albany who edited The Journal of Madam Knight (page 220), and published The Learned Family, a genealogy.

=Lease, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [Clyens].= _Pa._, 1853- ----. A prominent Kansas lecturer. The Problem of Civilization Solved. _Lai._

=Lee, Albert.= _La._, 1868- ----. A New York littérateur. Tommy Toodles; Track Athletics in Detail; The Knave of Hearts; Four for a Fortune; He, She, and They. _Har._

=Lee, Alfred Emory.= _O._, 1838- ----. A California orange-grower. European Days and Ways; Battle of Gettysburg; History of Columbus. _Lip._

=Lee, Elmer.= _O._, 1856- ----. A physician of New York city. Treatise on Asiatic Cholera; Medical Treatment of Appendicitis.

=Lee, Gerald Stanley.= _Ms._, 1862- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts. About an Old New England Church; The Shadow Christ; The Lost Art of Reading; The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. _Put._

=Lee, Guy Carleton.= 187- - ----. A Baltimore educator. Source Book of English History; Historical Jurisprudence; Principles of Public Speaking; A History of England; Hincmar: an Introduction to the Study of the Church in the Ninth Century; The True History of the Civil War. _Ho. Mac. Put. Lip._

=Lee, James Wideman.= _Ga._, 1849- ----. A Methodist clergyman in St. Louis. The Making of a Man; Henry W. Grady, Orator and Man; The Romance of Palestine; The Earthly Footsteps of the Man of Galilee.

=Lee, Mrs. Jeanette Barbour [Perry.]= _Ct._, 1860- ----, wife of G. S. Lee, _supra_. A novelist of Northampton, Massachusetts. Kate Wetherell; A Pillar of Salt; The Son of a Fiddler. _Cent. Hou._

=Lee, John Stebbins.= _Vt._, 1820-1902. A Universalist clergyman, professor of church history at Canton Theological Seminary, New York. Nature and Art in the Old World; Sacred Cities.

=Lee, Leroy Madison.= _Va._, 1808-1882. Nephew of Jesse Lee (page 227). A Methodist clergyman long prominent in Virginia. The Great Supper not Calvinistic; Advice to a Young Convert; Life and Times of Rev. Jesse Lee.

=Lee, Margaret.= _N. Y._, 184- - ----. A New York novelist, among whose works are Dr. Wilmer’s Love; Lorimer and Wife; Marriage; Divorce; A Brighton Night; One Touch of Nature; Separation. _Ap._

=Lefevre, Edwin.= _Colombia_, 1871- ----. A New York journalist. Wall Street Stories.

=Leffingwell, Albert.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. A physician who has published Rambles in Japan without a Guide; Illegitimacy; Influence of Seasons upon Conduct; Vivisection in America; The Leffingwell Record. _Ba. Mac. Scr._

=Le Gallienne, Richard.= _E._, 1866- ----. An English poet and prose-writer, now (1904) living in New York city. My Ladies’ Sonnets; Volumes in Folio; George Meredith; The Bookbills of Narcissus; English Poems; The Religion of a Literary Man; Prose Fancies; Robert Louis Stevenson, and Other Poems; Retrospective Reviews; Prose Fancies, Second Series; The Quest of the Golden Girl; If I Were God; The Romance of Zion Chapel; Young Lives; Worshipper of the Image; Travels in England; The Beautiful Lie of Rome; The Life Romantic; Sleeping Beauty; Mr. Sun and Mrs. Moon; Perseus and Andromeda; An Old Country House; Odes from the Divan of Hafiz; How to Get the Best out of Books; Old Love Stories Retold.

=Leighton, Joseph Alexander.= _Ont._, 1870- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, professor of philosophy in Hobart College, Geneva, New York. Typical Modern Conceptions of God; What is Personality? _Lgs._

=Leiser, Joseph.= _N. Y._, 1873- ----. A Jewish rabbi of Springfield, Illinois. Before the Dawn, a collection of verse.

=Lemcke, Gesine.= _G._, 1841- ----. A teacher of domestic science in New York. Desserts and Salads; American Cuisine; How to Live on Twenty-five Cents a Day; Chafing Dish Recipes; Preserving and Pickling. _Ap._

=Lemly, Henry Rowan.= _N. C._, 1851- ----. A United States army officer, among whose writings are A West Point Romance; Who was Eldorado?; Among the Arapahoes; A Queen’s Thoughts.

=Lemmon, Mrs. Sara Allen [Plummer].= _Me._, 1836- ----. Wife of J. G. Lemmon (page 228). Marine Algæ of the West; Western Ferns.

=Lenski, Richard Charles Henry.= _P._, 1864- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of Springfield, Ohio. Biblische Frauenbilder; His Footsteps; Studies for Edification from the Life of Christ.

=Lent, William Bement.= _N. Y._, 1842-1902. A travel-writer of New York city. Gypsying beyond the Sea; Across the Country of the Little King; Halcyon Days in Norway, France, and the Dolomites; Holy Land from Landau, Saddle, and Palanquin. _Bon._

=Leonard, Daniel.= _Ms._, 1740-1829. A noted lawyer and politician of Taunton, Massachusetts, who espoused the cause of the Loyalists prior to the opening of the American Revolution, and was the author of Massachusettensis, a brilliant series of seventeen political letters on the side of the English government. He was banished from his State, and in later life became chief justice of Bermuda. _See Tyler’s Literary History of the American Revolution._

=Leonard, John William.= _E._, 1849- ----. A lawyer and journalist. Gold Fields of the Klondike. Editor of Who’s Who in America.

=Le Rossignol, James Edward.= _Q._, 1866- ----. A professor of economics in the University of Denver. Monopolies Past and Present. _Cr._

=Le Row, Caroline Bigelow.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. A Brooklyn educator. Duxberry Doings; A Fortunate Failure; How to Teach Reading; English as She is Taught; The Young Idea. _Cent._

=Lesley, Mrs. Susan Inches [Lyman].= _Ms._, 1823-1904. Wife of J. P. Lesley (page 228). Recollections of My Mother. _Hou._

=Leup, Francis Ellington.= _N. Y._, 1849- ----. A New York journalist. Bagly vs. Bagly; How to Prepare for a Civil Service Examination; The Man Roosevelt: a Character Sketch. _Ap._

=Leverett, Frank.= _Ia._, 1859- ----. A geologist in government service. Glacial Formation and Drainage Features of the Erie and Ohio Basins; The Illinois Glacial Lobe; The Water Resources of Illinois.

=Levermore, Charles Herbert.= _Ct._, 1856- ----. An educator, president of Adelphi College, Brooklyn, from 1896. The Republic of New Haven; Syllabus of Lectures upon Political History Since 1815. _J. H. U._

=Lewin, Raphael De Cordova.= _W. I._, 1844-1886. A Hebrew clergyman in Brooklyn and elsewhere, author of What is Judaism? (1870).

=Lewis, Alfred Henry.= “Dan Quin.” _O._, 1842- ----. A journalist of New York city. Wolfville, episodes of cowboy life; Sandburrs; Wolfville Days; Wolfville Nights; Peggy O’Neal; The Black Lion Inn; The President. _Sto. Bar._

=Lewis, Charlton Miner.= _N. Y._, 1866- ----. A professor of English literature at Yale University. Gawayne and the Green Knight, a poem; The Beginnings of English Literature. _Gi. Hou._

=Lewis, Edwin Herbert.= _R. I._, 1866- ----. Son of A. H. Lewis (page 229). A professor of rhetoric in the University of Chicago. A First Book in Writing English; Introduction to the Study of Literature; A First Manual of Composition; Second Manual of Composition; A Text Book of Applied English Grammar. _Mac._

=Lewis, Francis Albert.= _Pa._, 1857- ----. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Law of Stocks, Bonds, and Other Securities of the United States.

=Lewis, Graceanna.= _Pa._, 1821- ----. A naturalist of Media, Pennsylvania. Position of Birds in the Animal Kingdom; Chart of the Animal Kingdom; Chart of the Vegetable Kingdom; Chart of Geology; Microscopic Studies of Frost Crystals; Lower Forms of Animal and Vegetable Life; Studies in Forestry, are among her works.

=Lewis, Isaac Newton.= _Ms._, 1848- ----. A lawyer and littérateur of Boston. In Memoriam; Pleasant Hours in Sunny Lands. (1888).

=Lewis, William Draper.= _Pa._, 1867- ----. The dean of the law department of the University of Pennsylvania from 1896. Beside editing many legal works, he is the author of Federal Power over Commerce; Our Sheep and the Tariff; Digest of Decisions and Encyclopædia of Pennsylvania Law, 1754-1897 (with G. W. Pepper, _infra_).

=Libbey, Laura Jean.= _N. Y._, 1862- ----. A sensational novelist of New York city, among whose many romances are Lovers Once but Strangers Now; When his Love Grew Cold.

=Liddell, Mark Harvey.= _Pa._, 1866- ----. A professor in the University of Texas from 1897. Middle English; An Introduction to the Scientific Study of English Poetry. _Dou._

=Lieber, Guido Norman.= _S. C._, 1837- ----. Son of F. Lieber (page 229). A judge advocate general of the United States army from 1895. Remarks on the Army Regulations; The Use of the Army in Aid of the Civil Power.

=Liggins, John.= _E._, 1829- ----. An Episcopal clergyman who was the first Protestant missionary to Japan. One Thousand Familiar Phrases in English and Japanese; England’s Opium Policy; Missionary Picture Gallery; Value and Success of Foreign Missions.

=Lighton, William Rheem.= _Pa._, 1866- ----. Sons of Strength: a Romance of the Kansas Border Wars; Lewis and Clark; Uncle Mac’s Nebrasky. _Dou. Ho. Hou._

=Liliuokalani, Lydia Kamekeha.= _H. I._, 1838- ----. The former queen of the Hawaiian Islands, dethroned in 1892. Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen. _Le._

=Liljencrantz, Ottilie Adaline.= _Il._, 1876- ----. A Chicago writer. The Scrape that Jack Built; The Thrall of Leif the Lucky; A Ward of King Canute; The Vinland Champions. _Mg._

=Lincoln, Joseph Crosby.= _Ms._, 1870- ----. A New York author. Cape Cod Ballads; Cap’n Eri. _Bar._

=Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown.= _D. C._, 1864- ----. What is Worth While?; The Victory of Our Faith; Culture and Reform; Giving What we Have; What Good Does Wishing Do?; The Warriors.

=Linn, William Alexander.= _N. J._, 1843- ----. A journalist. The Story of the Mormons; Rob and his Gun; Horace Greeley. _Ap. Mac._

=Linthicum, Richard.= _Md._, 1859- ----. A Chicago journalist. Rocky Mountain Tales; Boer and Britisher in South Africa; Encyclopædia of Common Things (edited).

=Lintner, Joseph Albert.= _N. Y._, 1822-1898. An entomologist of note, and State entomologist of New York, 1880-98. Beside professional papers he published Injurious and Other Insects of the State of New York; Report of the State Entomologist.

=Litsey, Edwin Carlisle.= _Ky._, 1871- ----. The Love Story of Abner Stone. _Bar._

=Little, Arthur Wilde.= _L. I._, 1856- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Evanston, Illinois. Reasons for Being a Churchman; The Intellectual Life of the Priest: its Duties and its Dangers.

=Little, Charles Eugene.= _Vt._, 1838- ----. A Methodist clergyman. Biblical Lights and Side Lights; Historical Lights; Cyclopedia of Classified Dates.

=Littlehales, George Washington.= _Pa._, 1860- ----. A hydrographic engineer in the United States naval department, among whose publications are The Azimuths of Celestial Bodies; Submarine Cables; Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism.

=Littlejohn, John Martin.= _S._, 1867- ----. A Western educator. Political Theory of the Schoolmen; Physiology Notes; Text Book on Physiology; Lectures on Psycho-Physiology and Pathology.

=Lloyd, Alfred Henry.= _N. J._, 1864- ----. A professor of philosophy in the University of Michigan from 1899. Citizenship and Salvation: or Greek and Jew; Dynamic Idealism. _Mg._

=Lloyd, John Uri.= _N. Y._, 1849- ----. A botanist and pharmacist of Cincinnati. The Chemistry of Medicine; Elixirs: their History, Formulæ, and Method of Preparation; Etidorhpa, or the End of Earth, the title of which is Aphrodite reversed; The Right Side of the Car; The American Dispensatory (with John King); Drugs and Medicines of North America (with C. G. Lloyd); Stringtown on the Pike, a popular novel; Warwick of the Knobs; Red Head; Scroggins. _Clke. Do._

=Lloyd, Nelson McAllister.= _Pa._, 1873- ----. A New York journalist. The Chronic Loafer, a story; A Drone and a Dreamer.

=Locke [James De Witt], Clinton.= _N. Y._, 1829-1904. An Episcopal clergyman of Chicago. The Age of the Great Western Schism; Five-Minute Talks.

=Lockhart, Clinton.= _Il._, 1858- ----. A clergyman of the Christian denomination, president of a college of that faith at Canton, Missouri. Laws of Interpretation; Critical Commentary on Nahum; Messianic Prophecy.

=Lockwood, Henry Clay.= _N. Y._, 1839-1902. Brother of I. Lockwood (page 232). A writer of New York city who published The Abolition of the Presidency; Constitutional History of France. _Ra._

=Lockwood, Luke Vincent.= _L. I._, 1872- ----. A New York lawyer. Colonial Furniture in America. _Scr._

=Lockwood, Mrs. Mary Smith.= _N. Y._, 1831- ----. Wife of H. C. Lockwood, _supra_. Historic Homes of Washington; Handbook of Ceramic Art.

=Lockwood, Thomas Dixon.= _E._, 1848. An electrical engineer of Boston. Information for Telephonists; Electrical Measurements; Electricity, Magnetism, and the Electric Telegraph. _Vn._

=Lodge, George Cabot.= _Ms._, 1873- ----. Son of H. C. Lodge (page 233). A verse-writer of Nahant, Massachusetts. The Song of the Wave, and Other Poems; Poems: 1899-1902; Cain: a Drama. _Scr. Hou._

=Lodge, Lee Davis.= _Md._, 1865- ----. An educator, professor of literature in Columbian University, Washington city, from 1887. A Study in Corneille.

=Loeb, Jacques.= _G._, 1859- ----. A professor of physiology in the University of California from 1902. Studies in General Physiology; Comparative Physiology of the Brain and Comparative Psychology.

=Lofft, Capel.= _E._, 1806-1873. An English barrister, whose later years were spent in the United States. Self-Formation; Ernest, a Poem.

=Logan, John Alexander.= _Il._, 1865-1899. A United States army officer. In Joyful Russia. _Ap._

=Logan, Milburn Hill.= _Il._, 1855- ----. A San Francisco physician. System of Urinology; Organic Chemistry.

=Loisette, Alphonso.= _See Larrowe._

=London, Jack.= _Cal._, 1876- ----. A writer of Oakland, California. The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North; The God of his Fathers; Children of the Frost; The Cruise of the Dazzler; A Daughter of the Snows; The Call of the Wild; The People of the Abyss; The Sea Wolf; The Faith of Men. _Cent. Hou. Lip. Mac._

=Long, Edwin McKean.= _Pa._, 1827-1894. A Lutheran clergyman, pastor in Philadelphia and elsewhere in Pennsylvania. Union Tabernacle, or Movable Tent Church; Precious Hymns of Jesus; Talks to Children; Lives of the Apostles; Sermons for Children; Gospel in Nature; Life of Christ; Emblems and Temperance; Illustrated History of Hymns and their Authors, comprise his most important writings.

=Long, John Luther.= _Pa._, 1861- ----. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Madame Butterfly, a collection of Japanese tales; The Prince of Illusion; Naughty Nan; The Fur Woman; Little Miss Joy-Sing. _Lip._

=Long, William Joseph.= _Ms._, 1867- ----. A Congregational clergyman in Stamford, Connecticut. The Making of Zimri Bunker; Beasts of the Field; Fowls of the Air; Ways of Wood Folk; Wilderness Ways; Secrets of the Wood; School of the Woods; Following the Deer; A Little Brother to the Bear. _Gi. Pa._

=Loomis, Charles Battell.= _L. I._, 1861- ----. A littérateur of Scotch Plains, New Jersey. Just Rhymes; The Four-masted Catboat, a collection of prose sketches; Some Americans Abroad; Yankee Enchantments; A Partnership in Magic; Cheerful Americans; More Cheerful Americans. _Cent. Ho._

=Lord, Augustus Mendon.= _Cal._, 1861- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of Providence. A Book of Verses; The Touch of Nature: Little Stories of Great People. _A. U. A._

=Lorimer, George Horace.= _Ky._, 1868- ----. Son of G. C. Lorimer (page 235). A Philadelphia journalist, literary editor of the Saturday Evening Post. Behind the Veil of Isis; Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son; Old Gorgon Graham.

=Loring, Augustus Peabody.= _Ms._, 1857- ----. A lawyer of Boston. A Handbook for Trustees. _Lit._

=Lose, George William.= _Pa._, 1852- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of Massillon, Ohio, among whose numerous works are Esther and Other Poems; Lives of the Twelve Apostles; From Darkness to Light; The Mission of a Book; Inasmuch.

=Loud, Mrs. Marguerite St. Leon [Barstow].= _Pa._, _c._ 1800-18--. A verse-writer of Philadelphia. Wayside Flowers.

=Lounsberry, Alice.= _N. Y._, 18-- - ----. A New York botanist. A Guide to the Wild Flowers; A Guide to the Trees; Southern Trees, Flowers, and Shrubs. _Sto._

=Loveman, Robert.= _O._, 1864- ----. A writer of Dalton, Georgia, whose verse displays much quiet beauty of thought and expression. Poems; A Book of Verses; The Gates of Silence, with Interludes of Song; Book of Songs.

=Low, A---- Maurice.= _E._, 1860- ----. A Washington journalist. The Supreme Surrender. _Har._