A dictionary of American authors

Part 86

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=Lowber, James William.= _Ky._, 1847- ----. A clergyman in Austin, Texas, of the Christian (Disciples) denomination. Culture; Struggles and Triumphs of the Truth; The Devil in Modern Society; Macrocosmus.

=Lowrie, Walter.= _Pa._, 1868- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia. The Doctrine of Saint John; Monuments of the Early Church. _Lgs. Mac._

=Loy, Matthias.= _Pa._, 1828- ----. A Lutheran clergyman in Columbus, Ohio. The Doctrine of Justification; Life of Luther (translated); The Ministerial Office; Sermons on the Gospels; Christian Prayer; The Christian Church.

=Luby, Thomas Clarke.= _I._, 1822-1901. An Irish writer active in Fenian movements and after five years’ imprisonment exiled for the rest of his twenty years’ sentence. He came to America in 1870, and his later years were passed in Jersey City. Lives of Illustrious and Representative Irishmen; The Life of Daniel O’Connell.

=Lucas, Frederic Augustus.= _Ms._, 1852- ----. A Washington naturalist, curator of the department of comparative anatomy in the National Museum from 1893. Animals of the Past; Animals before Man in North America. _Ap._

=Luccock, Naphtali.= _O._, 1853- ----. A Methodist clergyman of Saint Louis. Christian Citizenship; Living Words from the Pulpit.

=Luckey, George Washington Andrew.= _Ind._, 1855- ----. A professor of education in the University of Nebraska. The Professional Training of Secondary School Teachers in the United States. _Mac._

=Lummus, Henry Tilton.= _Ms._, 1876- ----. A lawyer of Lynn, Massachusetts. Law of Mechanics’ Liens upon Real Estate in Massachusetts.

=Lush, Charles Keeler.= _Wis._, 1861- ----. A Milwaukee journalist. The Federal Judge, a political novel; The Autocrats. _Hou._

=Lust, Mrs. Adelina [Cohnfeldt].= _G._, 1860- ----. A Chicago novelist. A Tent of Grace. _Hou._

=Luther, Mark Lee.= 18-- - ----. The Henchman, a novel; The Mastery. _Mac._

=Lynde, Francis.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. A Chattanooga littérateur. The Helpers, a novel of Colorado life; A Case in Equity; A Romance in Transit; A Question of Courage; A Private Chivalry; The Master of Appleby. _Hou._

=Lyon, Frank Emory.= _Il._, 1864- ----. A Chicago clergyman. The Art of Living; Social Evangelism.

=Lyon, William Henry.= _Ms._, 1846- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of Brookline, Massachusetts. A Study of the Sects. _A. U. A._

=Lyons, Timothy Augustine.= A naval commander. Meteorological Charts of the North Pacific Ocean; The Magnetism of Iron and Steel Ships; Electro-Magnetic Phenomena and its Deviations aboard Ship.

=Lyte, Eliphalet Oram.= _Pa._, 1842- ----. A Pennsylvania educator. Practical Book-Keeping; Grammar and Composition; Elementary English; and other educational works.

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=McAdam, David.= _N. Y._, 1838-1901. A New York justice of the Supreme Court, 1896-1901. Marine Court Practice; Landlord and Tenant.

=McAfee, Cleland Boyd.= _Mo._, 1866- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Chicago. Where He Is; Wherefore didst Thou Doubt; Faith, Fellowship, and Fealty. _Cr. Rev._

=Macbride, Thomas Huston.= _Tn._, 1848- ----. A professor of botany in the University of Iowa from 1884. Textbook on Botany.

=McCall, Samuel Walker.= _Pa._, 1851- ----. A lawyer of Boston, representative in Congress from Massachusetts from 1892. Thaddeus Stevens, a biography; Daniel Webster. _Hou._

=McCartney, Washington.= _Pa._, 1812-1856. A jurist and educator of Pennsylvania who founded the Union Law School at Easton. Differential Calculus; History of the Origin and Progress of the United States (1847).

=MacCauley, Clay.= _Pa._, 1843- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston. Christianity in History; Japanese Literature; A Day in the Very Noble City, Manila.

=McChesney, Dora Greenwell.= _Il._, 1871- ----. Daughter of E. S. McChesney, _infra_. A novelist. Kathleen Clare, her Book, 1637-1641; Miriam Cromwell, Royalist; Beatrix Infelix; Rupert, by the Grace of God; A Summer Tragedy in Rome; The Story of an Unrecorded Plot. _Mac. S._

=McChesney, Mrs. Elizabeth [Studdiford].= _Mch._, 1841- ----. Under Shadow of the Mission.

=McCleary, James Thompson.= _O._, 1853- ----. A prominent Minnesota educator and congressman. Studies in Civics; A Manual of Civics.

=McClellan, George Brinton.= _Sxy._, 1865- ----. Son of G. B. McClellan (page 240). He became mayor of New York city in 1904. The Oligarchy of Venice. _Hou._

=McClelland, Thomas Calvin.= _N. Y._, 1869- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Newport. Verba Crucis; The Cross Builders. _Cr._

=McClure, James Gore King.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of Lake Forest University, Illinois, from 1897. Possibilities; The Man who Wanted to Help; Environment; The Great Appeal; For Hearts that Hope; A Mighty Means of Usefulness. _Rev._

=McConaughy, Mrs. Julia E---- [Loomis].= _O._, 1834- ----. A writer of juvenile religious fiction. Among her books are The Widow’s Sewing Machine; How to be Beautiful; The Hard Master; The Prize Battle; Clarence.

=McCorvey, Thomas Chalmers.= _Al._, 1852- ----. A professor of history in the University of Alabama from 1888. The Government of the People of the State of Indiana.

=McCracken, Elizabeth.= 18-- - ----. A journalist of New York city. The Women of America. _Mac._

=McCrady, Edward.= _S. C._, 1802-1892. A once eminent lawyer and theologian of Charleston, whose political monograph, Our Mission: Is it to be Accomplished by the Perpetuation of our Present Union? attracted much attention at the time of its publication in 1851.

=McCrady, Edward.= _S. C._, 1833-1903. Son of E. McCrady, _supra_. A prominent lawyer of Charleston, and during the Civil War a colonel in the Confederate service. Beside many important professional papers, he published a valuable History of South Carolina under the Proprietary Government, 1670-1719; South Carolina under the Royal Government, 1719-1775; South Carolina in the Revolution, 1775-1780; History of South Carolina in the Revolution, 1780-1783. _Mac._

=McCrady, John.= _S. C._, 1831-1881. Son of E. McCrady, 1st, _supra_. A professor of zoölogy at Harvard University, and subsequently at the University of the South. His scientific writings are published in the transactions of the Elliot Society of Natural History of Charleston.

=McCulloch, Hugh.= 18-- -1902. The Quest of Herakles, a volume of verse; Written in Florence. _Lit._

=McCulloch, Hunter.= _S._, 1847- ----. A verse-writer of Philadelphia. From Dawn to Dusk, and Other Poems; Robert Burns, a centenary ode. _Lip._

=McCutcheon, George Barr.= _Ind._, 1866- ----. A novelist of Lafayette, Indiana. Graustark; Castle Craneycrow; The Sherrods; The Day of the Dog; Beverly of Graustark.

=MacDill, David.= _O._, 1826-1903. A United Presbyterian clergyman, professor of apologetics in the Theological Seminary at Xenia, Ohio, from 1885. The Bible a Miracle; Mosaic Authorship of the Bible; Pre-Millennialism Discussed.

=MacDonald, Arthur.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. A government specialist in education. Abnormal Man; Criminology; Abnormal Woman; Experimental Study of Children; Emile Zola.

=Macdonald, Ronald.= _E._, 1860- ----. A son of George Macdonald, the noted Scottish novelist. For some seven years a teacher in North Carolina. God Save the King; The Sword of the King. _Cent._

=MacDougal, Daniel Trembly.= _Ind._, 1865- ----. A botanist, director of the laboratories of the Botanical Garden in New York city from 1899. Experimental Plant Physiology; Living Plants and their Properties (with J. C. Arthur). The Nature and Work of Plants. _Ba. Mac._

=McElroy, Mrs. Lucy Cleaver.= _Ky._, 18-- - ----. A novelist who has written Juletty; The Silent Pioneer. _Cr._

=McElroy, William H----.= _N. Y._, 184- - ----. A New York journalist. Matthew Middlemas’s Experiment; An Overture to William Tell.

=McEnroe, William Hale.= _Va._, 1854-1899. A physician, professor of materia medica at New York University for some years. Materia Medica and Therapeutics.

=McGill, Alexander Taggart.= _Pa._, 1807-1889. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1854-83. Church Government.

=McGovern, John.= _N. Y._, 1850- ----. A Chicago author and compiler, among whose works are Famous Women of the World; American Statesmen; The Dream City; Empire of Information.

=MacGowan, Alice.= _O._, 1858- ----. A Chattanooga writer. The Last Word; Return. _Lo. Pa._

=McGrath, Harold.= _N. Y._, 1872- ----. A Syracuse journalist. Arms and the Woman; The Puppet Crown; The Grey Cloak; The Man on the Box. _Bo._

=McHenry, James.= _I._, 1785-1845. A physician of Philadelphia whose poems and sensational novels once attracted attention. His fictions include O’Halloran, or The Insurgent; The Wilderness; A Spectre of the Forest; The Hearts of Steel; The Betrothed of Wyoming; Meredith. His other works are The Pleasures of Friendship; Waltham; The Antediluvians, a Narrative Poem in Ten Books; The Usurper, a tragedy.

=McIlvaine, Charles.= _Pa._, 1849- ----. A Philadelphia mycologist. Fungi, Mushrooms, Toadstools (with McAdam); A Legend of Polecat Hollow. _Bo._

=McIntosh, Burr.= _Pa._, 186- - ----. A New York author and publisher. The Little I Saw of Cuba; Boy of the Twentieth; Football and Love. _Ne._

=McIntyre, John T----.= _Pa._, 1871- ----. The Ragged Edge, a novel of ward politics.

=Mackenzie, Arthur Stanley.= _N. S._, 1865- ----. A professor of physics at Bryn Mawr College from 1891. The Laws of Gravitation. _Am._

=Mackenzie, William Douglas.= _South Africa_, 1859- ----. A Congregational clergyman, president of Hartford Theological Seminary from 1903. The Ethics of Gambling; The Revelation of the Christ; Christianity and the Progress of Man; South Africa: its Heroes and Wars; John Mackenzie, South African Missionary and Statesman. _Rev._

=Mackie, Pauline Bradford.= _See Hopkins, Mrs. P. B._

=McKnight, Charles.= _Pa._, 1826- ----. Old Fort Duquesne; Our Western Border One Hundred Years Ago.

=McKnight, George.= _N. Y._, 1840-1897. A physician at Sterling, New York. Firm Ground, a volume of religious sonnets, reprinted as Thoughts in Life and Faith.

=Mackubin, Ellen.= _Il._, 18-- - ----. A novelist of New York. The King of the Town, a novel. _Hou._

=MacLandburgh, Florence.= _O._, 1850- ----. The Automaton Ear, and Other Sketches.

=Maclane, Mary.= _Manitoba_, 1881- ----. The Story of Mary Maclane. _S._

=McLaughlin, Mary Louise.= _O._, 18-- - ----. A Cincinnati ceramic artist. China Painting; Pottery Decoration; Suggestions to China Painters; Painting in Oil; The Second Madame. _Clke. Put._

=McLaws, [Emily] Lafayette.= _Ga._, 18-- - ----. A novelist of Augusta, Georgia. When the Land was Young; Jezebel. _Lo._

=Maclay, Edgar Stanton.= _Ch._, 1863- ----. An historical writer at Setauket, Long Island. The History of the United States Navy; Reminiscences of the Old Navy; History of American Privateers. _Ap. Put._

=Maclean, John Patterson.= _O._, 1848- ----. An archæologist of Cleveland. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man; Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man; The Mound Builders; History of the Clan Maclean; Introduction to the Study of the Gospel of Saint John; Critical Examination of Evidence of Norse Discovery of America; Historical Examination of Fingal’s Cave. _Clke._

=McLeod, Mrs. Georgiana A---- [Hulse].= _Fl._, 18- ----1890. An educator of Baltimore. Sunbeams and Shadows; Ivy Leaves from the Old Homestead; Theirs and Mine; Sea Drifts; Bright Memories.

=Macloskie, George.= _I._, 1834- ----. A professor of biology at Princeton University from 1874. Elementary Botany. _Ho._

=McManus, Blanche.= _See Mansfield, Mrs. Blanche._

=McMurrich, James Playfair.= _Ont._, 1859- ----. A professor of anatomy at the University of Michigan from 1895. Invertebrate Morphology; The Development of the Human Body. _Ho._

=McNeill, George Edwin.= _Ms._, 1837- ----. A trades-union organizer of Boston. The Labour Movement the Problem of a Day; History of Coöperation in Massachusetts; History of the Development of the Shoe Industry; History of Shoemakers’ Unions; Eight Hour Primer; The Slave of Fortune, a novel; The Silver Dollar; Accidents and Accident Insurance; Unfrequented Paths.

=MacNutt, William Fletcher.= _N. S._, 1839- ----. A San Francisco physician. Diseases of the Kidney and Bladder.

=McPherson, Logan Grant.= _O._, 1863- ----. A Pittsburgh journalist. The Monetary and Banking Problem. _Ap._

=MacVane, Silas Marcus.= _P. E. I._, 1842- ----. A professor of history at Harvard University from 1886. The Wages Question; Austrian Theory of Value; Working Principles of Political Economy; The South African Question; Translation of Seignobos’s History of Europe since 1814. _Ho._

=Madison, Mrs. Lucy [Foster].= _Mo._, 1865- ----. A littérateur of New York city. A Maid of the First Century; A Maid at King Alfred’s Court; A Colonial Maid.

=Main, Hubert Platt.= _Ct._, 1839- ----. A writer of Newark, New Jersey. A Dictionary of American Musicians and Hymn Writers.

=Main, Thomas.= _S._, 1828-1896. A mechanical engineer, professor of shipbuilding in the Webb Academy of Shipbuilding, New York city. History of the Steam Engine.

=Major, Charles.= “Edwin Caskoden.” _Ind._, 1856- ----. A lawyer and novelist of Shelbyville, Indiana. When Knighthood was in Flower, a popular romance; The Bears of Blue River; Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall; A Forest Hearth. _Bo. Mac._

_Mallon, Mrs. Isabel Allardice [Sloan]._ “Ruth Ashmore.” _Md._, 1862-1898. A popular writer on deportment. Side Talks with Girls; The Business Girl. _Scr._

=Maltbie, Milo Roy.= _Il._, 1871- ----. A writer on economics. Municipal Functions, a Study of Municipal Socialism; English Local Government of Today. _Mac._

=Mangasarian, Mangasar M----.= _Ty._, 1859- ----. A Chicago lecturer. The Religion of the Future; Omar Khayyám; A New Catechism; Christian Science, a Comedy in Four Acts; The Abysmal Monster.

=Mann, Cameron.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of North Dakota. Future Punishment; Comments of the Bystanders at the Cross.

=Mann, Charles Holbrook.= _N. Y._, 1839- ----. A Swedenborgian clergyman of Orange, New Jersey. Interior Spiritual Living; Sermons on Marriage; What God hath Cleansed; The Christ of God; Psychiasis; God and Man in the Bible. _Put._

=Mann, Henry.= _S._, 1848- ----. A journalist of New York city. Ancient and Mediæval Republics; Features of Society in Old and New England; English Free Trade; Handbook for American Citizens; The Land we Live In; Turning Points in Natural History.

=Mansfield, Mrs. Blanche [McManus].= _La._, 18-- - ----. An author and illustrator of New York city. The True Mother Goose; Childhood’s Songs of Long Ago; Bachelor Ballads; How the Dutch came to Manhattan; Voyage of the Mayflower.

=Marble, Mrs. Annie [Russell].= _Ms._, 1864- ----. A writer of Worcester, Massachusetts. Books that Nourish Us; Thoreau: his Home, Friends, and Books. _Cr. Mac._

=March, Alden.= _Pa._, 1869- ----. An editor on the staff of the Philadelphia Press from 1891. The Conquest of the Philippines and Our Other Island Possessions.

=Marcou, Jules.= _F._, 1824-1898. A geologist in government service for many years. Recherches Géologiques sur la Jura Salinois; Origin of the Name America; First Discoveries of California; Life of Louis Agassiz. _Mac._

=Maretzek, Max.= _A._, 1821-1897. A noted opera manager and composer. Crotchets and Quavers, an autobiography.

=Marks, Arthur Handly.= _Ga._, 1864-1892. A writer of Winchester, Tennessee; from 1886 to 1889 in the consular service at London and Berlin. Igerne, and Other Writings.

=Marks, William Dennis.= _Mo._, 1849- ----. A mechanical engineer who has published The Relative Proportions of the Steam Engine; The Finances of Gas and Electricity Manufacturing Enterprises. _Lip._

=Marshall, Mrs. Caroline Louise [Kingsbury].= _Wis._, 1849- ----. A writer of Eldora, Iowa. The Girl Ranchers; Two Wyoming Girls.

=Marshall [Caroline], Nina Lovering.= _N. Y._, 1861- ----. An educator of New York city. The Mushroom Book. _Dou._

=Marshall, Edward.= _N. Y._, 1868- ----. A New York journalist, a correspondent of the Journal during the Spanish war. Lizette, a novel; The Story of the Rough Riders, First United States Volunteer Cavalry; The Middle Wall. _Dil._

=Marshall, Henry Rutgers.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. An architect of New York city. Pain, Pleasure, and Æsthetics; Æsthetic Principles; Instinct and Reason. _Mac._

=Martin, Benjamin Ellis.= _N. Y._, 18-- - ----. A littérateur of New York city. About England with Dickens; Old Chelsea; In the Footprints of Charles Lamb; The Stones of Paris in History and Letters (with C. M. Martin). _Scr._

=Martin, Chalmers.= _Ky._, 1859- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Pittsburgh. Apostolic and Modern Missions. _Rev._

=Martin, George Madden.= _Ky._, 1866- ----. Emmy Lou: her Book and Heart; The House of Fulfilment. _Mac._

=Martin, Mrs. Jane [Percy].= _E._, 1847- ----. A story-writer of Pendleton, Oregon. Lost and Saved.

=Martin, Samuel Albert.= _Pa._, 1853- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of Wilson College, at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, from 1895. The Man of Uz.

=Martin, Mrs. Victoria [Claflin] [Woodhull].= _O._, 1838- ----. A once prominent reform agitator, now (1904) resident in England. Origin, Tendencies, and Principles of Government; Social Freedom; Garden of Eden Stirpiculture; Rapid Multiplication of the Unfit; The Human Body the Temple of God.

=Marvin, Winthrop Lippitt.= _N. H._, 1863- ----. A Boston journalist. The American Merchant Marine: its History and Romance. _Scr._

=Mason, Mrs. Agnes Louisa [Carter].= _N. Y._, 18- ----. A verse-writer of Montclair, New Jersey. The White Nun. _Put._

=Mason, Mrs. Amelia [Gere].= _Ms._, 184- - ----. A Chicago writer. The Women of the French Salons; Woman in the Golden Ages. _Cent._

=Mason, Mrs. Caroline [Atwater].= _R. I._, 1853- ----. A writer of Batavia, New York. A Titled Maiden; A Minister of the World; The Minister of Carthage; The Quiet King; A Wind Flower; A Woman of Yesterday; A Lily of France; Lux Christi: an Outline Study of India; The Little Green God; Holt of Heathfield. _Dou. Mac. Rev._

=Mason, Lowell.= _Ms._, 1792-1872. A famous Boston musician, who, beside publishing various collections of sacred and secular music which included many pieces of his own composition, was the author of Musical Letters from Abroad, and several musical text-books.

=Mason, Mary Augusta.= _N. Y._, 18-- - ----. An adopted daughter of C. M. Dickinson (page 98). With the Seasons, a collection of verse of more than average merit. _Ran._

=Mason, Rufus Osgood.= _N. H._, 1830-1903. A physician of New York city. Sketches and Impressions; Telepathy and the Subliminal Self; Hypnotism and Suggestion.

=Mason, William.= _Ms._, 1829- ----. Son of L. Mason, _supra_. A musician of New York city. Easy System for Beginners (with Hoadley); Pianoforte Technics (with Matthews); Touch and Technic; Memories of a Musical Life. _Cent._

=Mason, William Pitt.= _N. Y._, 1853- ----. A professor of chemistry at the Troy Polytechnic Institute. Water Supply; Water Analysis; Notes on Qualitative Analysis. _Wil._

=Massey, George Betton.= _Md._, 1856- ----. A Philadelphia physician. Electricity in the Diseases of Women; Conservative Gynæcology and Electro-therapeutics.

=Mather, Mrs. Margaret Morgan [Herbert].= 184- -1900. Daughter of W. H. Herbert (page 182). History of Polo; Hunting Then and Now; Biography of Fox, a celebrated polo pony.

=Mathews, Alfred.= _O._, 1852- ----. A Philadelphia writer. Ohio and the Western Reserve. _Ap._

=Mathews, F[erdinand] Schuyler.= _S. I._, 1854- ----. An artist and illustrator of Boston. The Golden Flower; The Beautiful Flower Garden; Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden; Familiar Trees and their Leaves; Familiar Features of the Roadside; Familiar Life in Field and Forest; The Writing Table of the Twentieth Century; The Field Book of American Wild Flowers; Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music; The Field Book of American Wild Birds. _Ap._

=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= _N. Y._, 18-- - ----. A novelist of New York city. The New Yorkers, and Other People; A Married Man; One Man in a Thousand; To-night at Eight; His Way and Her Will; My Lady Reggy Goes to Town, and several plays.

=Mathews, Shailor.= _Me._, 1863- ----. A professor in the University of Chicago. Select Mediæval Documents; The Social Teaching of Jesus; History of New Testament Times in Palestine; The French Revolution. _Mac._

=Mathews, Stanley.= _O._, 1824-1889. An Ohio jurist, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1881-89. A Summary of the Law of Partnership.

=Matson, Henry.= _O._, 1829-1901. A clergyman in Oberlin, Ohio. References for Literary Workers; Knowledge and Culture. _Mg._

=Matthewman, Lisle de Vaux.= _E._, 1867- ----. A journalist of New York city. Crankisms; Brevities; Rips and Raps. _Co. Sto._

=Matthews, William Baynham.= _Va._, 1850- ----. A lawyer of Washington city. Forms of Pleading; Guide for Executors and Administrators; Digest of Land Decisions.

=Maurice, Arthur Bartlett.= _N. J._, 1873- ----. New York in Fiction; The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature (with Taber). _Do._

=Maxwell, Perriton.= _N. Y._, 1866- ----. A journalist of New York city. Masterpieces of Art and Nature; American Art and Artists.

=Maxwell, Samuel.= _N. Y._, 1826-1901. A Nebraska lawyer and congressman. Maxwell’s Nebraska Digest (1877); Practice in Justice Courts; Pleading and Practice; Criminal Procedure; Code Pleading.

=Mayer, Henry.= _G._, 1868- ----. A caricaturist of note. Autobiography of a Monkey; In Laughland; A Trip to Toyland; Adventures of a Japanese Doll; Alphabet of Little People. _Dut. Sto._

=Mayo, Earl Williams.= _N. Y._, 1873- ----. A New York littérateur. A Border Rivalry.

=Mead, Edward Campbell.= _Ms._, 1837- ----. A farmer of Keswick, Virginia. Genealogical History of the Lee Family of Virginia and Maryland; Australia in 1859; Sketches of the War; Historic Homes of the South-West Mountains, Virginia.

=Mead, Mrs. Lucia True [Ames].= _N. H._, 1856- ----. Wife of E. D. Mead (page 252). _See Ames, Lucia._

=Mead, Theodore Hoe.= _N. Y._, 1837- ----. A manufacturer of New York city. Our Mother Tongue; Health without Medicine; Horsemanship for Women. _Do._

=Mead, [William] Leon.= _N. Y._, 1861- ----. A New York littérateur. The Rockets, a volume of verse; In Thraldom: a physiological romance; Wild Cat Ledge; The Bow-Legged Ghost, and Other Stories; On Nature’s Reeds, a collection of verse; and several plays.

=Means, David MacGregor.= _Ms._, 1847- ----. A lawyer of New York city. The Boss: an Essay on the Government of American Cities; Industrial Freedom. _Ap._

=Mears, David Otis.= _Ms._, 1842- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Albany. Life of Edward Norris Kirk, _supra_; The Deathless Book; Oberlin Lectures; Inspired Through Suffering. _Lo. Rev._

=Mechem, Floyd Russell.= _N. Y._, 1858- ----. Tappan professor of law in the University of Michigan from 1892. Agency; Public Officers; Cases on Agency; Elements of Partnership; The Law of Sales of Personal Property; Outlines of the Law of Agency.

=Meeker, Nathan Cook.= _O._, 1817-1879. An author and journalist of Colorado. The Adventures of Captain Armstrong; Life in the West (1868); Rosa Robbins, or Life with John A. Logan and his Men.

=Meekins, Lynn Roby.= _Md._, 1862- ----. A Baltimore journalist. The Robb’s Island Wreck; Some of Our People; Adam Rush. _S. Lip._

=Mees, Theophilus Martin Konrad.= _O._, 1848- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of Columbus, Ohio. Doctrinal History of Predestination from 1517 to 1580; School Government and Methods.

=Meigs, William Montgomery.= _Pa._, 1852- ----. Son of J. F. Meigs, _supra_, grandson of C. J. Ingersoll, _supra_. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Life of Josiah Meigs; Life of Charles Jared Ingersoll; The Growth of the Constitution in the Federal Convention of 1787. _Lip._