A dictionary of American authors

Part 87

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=Mell, Patrick Hues.= _Ga._, 1850- ----. Son of P. H. Mell (page 252). A scientist of Auburn, Alabama. Wild Grasses of Alabama; Life of Patrick Hues Mell, Senior; Climatology of Alabama; Microscopic Study of the Cotton Plant, are among his works.

=Memminger, Allard.= _S. C._, 1854- ----. A physician of Charleston. Diagnosis by the Urine.

=Mercer, Henry Chapman.= _Pa._, 1856- ----. An archæologist of Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Hill Caves of Yucatan; Lenape Stone; Antiquity of Man in the Delaware Valley and the Eastern United States. _Gi._

=Meredith, William Tuckey.= _Pa._, 1839- ----. A banker of New York city. Not of her Father’s Race, a novel.

=Merington, Marguerite.= _E._, 18-- - ----. A playwriter of New York city. Captain Letterblair; Daphne, or the Pipes of Arcadia; Love Finds the Way. _Cent._

=Merriam, Charles Edward.= _Ia._, 1874- ----. An instructor in political science in the University of Chicago from 1903. The History of the Theory of Sovereignty since Rousseau; Economics and Public Law; A History of American Political Theories. _Mac._

=Merrick, Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth [Thomas].= _La._, 1825- ----. A New Orleans writer. Old Times in Dixie Land: a Southern Matron’s Memories.

=Merrill, Catherine.= _Ind._, 1824-1900. A once prominent educator at Indianapolis. The Soldier of Indiana, a Record of the State’s Relation to the Civil War.

=Merrill, George Edmands.= _Ms._, 1846- ----. A Baptist clergyman, president of Colgate University from 1899. The Story of the Manuscripts; Crusaders and Captives; The Reasonable Christ; Parchments of the Faith.

=Merrill, Joseph.= _Ms._, 1814-1898. A local historian who published a History of Amesbury, Massachusetts, in 1881.

=Merriman, Charles Eustace.= 18-- - ----. A littérateur who has published Letters from a Son to his Self-Made Father.

=Merriman, Mrs. Effie [Woodward].= _Min._, 1856- ----. A Minneapolis writer for children. Among her books are Pards; A Queer Family; The Little Millers; How Women may Earn Money.

=Merriman, Mrs. Helen [Bigelow].= _Ms._, 1844- ----. A writer of Worcester, Massachusetts. What Shall Make us Whole? Religio Pictoris. _Hou._

=Merriman, Roger Bigelow.= _Ms._, 187- - ----. Son of Mrs. H. Merriman, _supra_. Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell.

=Merriman, Titus Mooney.= _Q._, 1822- ----. A Baptist clergyman in Cambridge. Trail of History; William, Prince of Orange; Pilgrims, Puritans, and Roger Williams Vindicated.

=Merwin, Samuel.= _Il._, 1874- ----. A story-writer of Plainfield, New Jersey. His Little World; The Road to Frontenac; The Upper Hand; The Story of Hunch Badeau; The Merry Anne. With H. K. Webster, _infra_, he wrote Calumet K; The Short Line War. _Bar. Mac._

=Messmer, Sebastian Gebhard.= _Sd._, 1847- ----. A Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Green Bay from 1892. Praxis Synodalis; Canonical Procedure; Spirago’s Method. _Ben._

=Meyer, Mrs. Annie Nathan.= _N. Y._, 1867- ----. A New York writer. Helen Brent, M. D.; My Park Book; Robert Annys: Poor Priest.

=Mielziner, Moses.= _G._, 1828-1903. A Hebrew rabbi, Talmud professor in Union College, Cincinnati, from 1879. Slavery Among the Ancient Hebrews; Jewish Law of Marriage and Divorce; Introduction to the Talmud; Legal Maxims of the Talmud.

=Mifflin, John Houston.= _Pa._, 1807-1883. An artist and author of Columbia, Pennsylvania. He was a portrait and miniature painter of much delicacy. Rhymes of an Artist.

=Mifflin, Lloyd.= _Pa._, 1846- ----. Son of J. H. Mifflin, _supra_. A poet and artist of Columbia, Pennsylvania. At the Gates of Song, a volume of one hundred and fifty sonnets; On the Slopes of Helicon, and Other Poems; Memorial Day Ode; The Hills: a Poem; Conversation as a Fine Art; Echoes of Greek Idyls; Lyrics; The Fields of Dawn, and Later Sonnets; Castalian Days. _Est. Hou._

=Mifflin, Samuel Wright.= _Pa._, 1805-1885. Cousin of J. H. Mifflin, _supra_. A civil engineer of Pennsylvania. Location of Railway Engineers.

=Miller, Adolph Caspar.= _Cal._, 1866- ----. A professor of economics in the University of California from 1902. The Monetary Problem in the University of California.

=Miller, Alfred Stanley.= _Pa._, 1856- ----. A metallurgist, professor of mining metallurgy and geology in the University of Idaho from 1897. Manual of Assaying; The Cyanide Process. _Wil._

=Miller, Mrs. Alice [Duer].= _N. Y._, 18-- - ----. Sister of C. Duer, _supra_. Poems (with C. Duer); Calderon’s Prisoner. _Scr._

=Miller, Andrew James.= _Ga._, 1855- ----. An Alabama journalist. Old School Days; The Making of a Pirate; The Toastmaster.

=Miller, Charles Armond.= _W. Va._, 1864- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of New York city. Ad Astra and Other Verses on Sacred Themes; The Way of the Cross. _Rev._

=Miller, Frank Justus.= _Tn._, 1858- ----. A professor of Latin in the University of Chicago from 1892. Dido, an Epic Tragedy; Studies in Roman Poetry. _Sil._

=Miller, Freeman Edwin.= _Ind._, 1864- ----. An educator of Oklahoma, professor in the Oklahoma Agricultural College 1894-98. Oklahoma, and Other Poems; Songs from the Southwest Country.

=Miller, John Bleecker.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. A lawyer of New York city. Trade Organizations in Politics; Trade Organizations in Religion.

=Miller, Marion Mills.= _O._, 1864- ----. A classical scholar of New York city. The Sicilian Idyls of Theocritus.

=Miller, Mrs. Mary [Rogers].= _Ia._, 1868- ----. An educator of New York city. The Brook Book. _Dou._

=Miller, Samuel Almond.= _O._, 1836-1897. A lawyer and geologist of Cincinnati. American Palæozoic Fossils; North American Geology and Palæontology; Mesozoic Fossils; Cenozoic Fossils.

=Mills, Benjamin Fay.= _N. J._, 1857- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of Oakland, California, formerly prominent as an orthodox evangelist. Power from on High; Victory through Surrender; God’s Word; Twentieth Century Religion.

=Mills, Herbert Elmer.= _N. H._, 1861- ----. A professor of economics at Vassar College from 1890. The French Revolution in San Domingo; Practical Economic Problems; The Labour Problem.

=Mills, Weymer Jay.= _N. J._, 1880- ----. Historic Houses of New Jersey; Through the Gates of Old Romance. _Lip._

=Millspaugh, Charles Frederic.= _N. Y._, 1854- ----. A Chicago botanist. American Medical Plants; Weeds of West Virginia; Flora of West Virginia.

=Minot, Charles Sedgwick.= _Ms._, 1852- ----. A professor of histology in the medical school of Harvard University from 1892. Human Embryology.

=Minton, Henry Collin.= _Pa._, 1855- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of systematic theology in the San Francisco Theological Seminary from 1892. Christianity Supernatural; The Cosmos and the Logos.

=Mitchell, Clifford.= _Ms._, 1854- ----. A homœopathic physician of Chicago. Manual of Urinary Analysis; Renal Therapeutics; Dental Chemistry; The Physician’s Chemistry; The Chronicles of the Omelette Club; Diseases of the Urinary Organs.

=Moffat, William David.= _N. J._, 1865- ----. Son of J. C. Moffat (page 258). A New York writer of stories for boys, business manager of The Book-Buyer and Scribner’s Magazine. The County Pennant; The Crimson Banner; Brad Mattoon; Not Without Honor, a novel.

=Moffett, Cleveland.= _N. Y._, 1803- ----. A journalist who has published Real Detective Stories; Careers of Danger and Daring. _Cent._

=Moffett, Samuel Erasmus.= _Mo._, 1860- ----. A New York journalist. The Tariff; Chapters on Silver; Suggestions on Government.

=Moise, Penina.= _S. C._, 1797-1880. A verse-writer of Charleston. Fancy’s Sketch Book.

=Moldehnke, Charles Edward.= _P._, 1860- ----. An Egyptologist. The Trees of Ancient Egypt; The New York Obelisk; Egyptian Origin of Our Alphabet; Egyptian Classics.

=Monroe, Mrs. Harriet [Earhart].= _Pa._, 1842- ----. An author and lecturer of Washington city. The Art of Conversation; Heroine of the Mining Camp; Historical Lutheranism; Washington: its Sights and Insights. _Bar. Fu._

=Monroe, Will Seymour.= _Pa._, 1863- ----. A professor of psychology in the Westfield, Massachusetts, Normal School. Educational Labours of Henry Barnard; Comenius’s School of Infancy; Bibliography of Education; Child Study Outlines; Comenius and the Beginnings of Educational Reform. _Ap. He. Scr._

=Moody, Mrs. Helen [Watterson].= _O._, 1860- ----. A journalist of New York city. The Unquiet Sex, a volume of essays. _Scr._

=Moody, William Godwin.= 18-- - ----. Land and Labor in the United States; Our Labor Difficulties. _Scr._

=Moody, William Vaughn.= _Ind._, 1869- ----. A poet whose work displays qualities which place it above the level of much recent American poetry. Poems; The Masque of Judgment, a dramatic poem; The Fire-Bringer; The History of English Literature (with R. M. Lovett). _Hou. Scr. Sm._

=Mooney, James.= _Ind._, 1861- ----. An ethnologist of note. Medical Mythology of Ireland; Funeral Customs of Ireland; Holiday Customs of Ireland; Myths of the Cherokees; Sionian Tribes of the East; The Messiah Religion and the Ghost Dance.

=Moore, Albert Weston.= _Ms._, 1842- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Lynn, Massachusetts. The Rational Basis of Orthodoxy. _Hou._

=Moore, Mrs. Alice Rogers.= 18-- - ----. In the Fireflies’ Glow, a collection of juvenile tales.

=Moore, Charles.= _Mch._, 1855- ----. A writer of Washington city. Charities of the District of Columbia; The Northwest under Three Flags. _Har._

=Moore, James W----.= _Pa._, 1844- ----. A professor of mechanics at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. The Elements of Natural Philosophy.

=Moore, John Bassett.= _Del._, 1860- ----. A professor of international law at Columbia University. A Treatise on Extradition and Interstate Rendition; History and Digest of International Arbitrations to which the United States has been a Party.

=Moore, John Trotwood.= _Al._, 1858- ----. A Summer Hymnal; Ole Mistis; Songs and Stories from Old Tennessee. _Co._

=Moore, Thomas Joseph.= _Pa._, 1864- ----. A verse-writer of New York city. Elecampane, and Other Poems. _Clke._

=Moore, William Thomas.= _Ky._, 1832- ----. A clergyman of the Christian (Disciples) sect. Views of Life; Living Pulpit of the Christian (Disciples) Church (edited); Life of Timothy Coup.

=Moran, Mrs. Jane Wormley [Blackburn].= _Va._, 1842- ----. A novelist of Charlottesville, Virginia. Miss Washington of Virginia; What a Man can Do with a Woman’s Life.

=Morgan, Anne Eugenia Felicia.= _O._, 1845- ----. A professor of philosophy at Wellesley College from 1878. Scripture Studies on the Origin and Destiny of Man; The White Lady.

=Morgan, Mrs. Caroline [Starr].= 184- - ----. Wife of T. J. Morgan, _infra_. Ways that Win; Esther Lawrence; Charlotte’s Revenge; Marmaduke Multiply Stories.

=Morgan, George Campbell.= _E._, 1863- ----. A Congregational clergyman, widely known as a lecturer. Among his works are Discipleship; Hidden Years at Nazareth; God’s Methods with Man; Wherein?; Life Problems; True Estimate of Life; The Ten Commandments; All Things New; The Crises of the Christ. _Rev._

=Morgan, Thomas Hunt.= _Ky._, 1866- ----. A professor of biology in Bryn Mawr College. The Development of the Frog’s Egg; Regeneration; Evolution and Adaptation (1903).

=Morgan, Thomas Jefferson.= _Ind._, 1839-1902. A Baptist clergyman in Yonkers, New York. Patriotic Citizenship; Studies in Pedagogy; The Negro in America. _Bap._

=Morison, George Shattuck.= _Ms._, 1842-1903. Son of J. H. Morison, _infra_. A civil engineer of distinction. The New Epoch as developed by the Manufacture of Power. _Hou._

=Morison, John Hopkins.= _N. H._, 1808-1896. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at Milton, Massachusetts, 1846-1885. Life of Honorable Jeremiah Smith; Disquisitions and Notes on the Gospel of Saint Matthew; The Great Poets as Religious Teachers. _See John Hopkins Morison, Memoir, 1897._

=Morley, Margaret Warner.= _Ia._, 1858- ----. A Boston writer on elementary botany and zoölogy. A Song of Life; Life and Love; A Few Familiar Flowers; Seed-Babies; Flowers and their Friends; The Bee People; The Honey Makers; Down North and Up Along, a volume of travels in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. _Gi. Mg._

=Morris, Mrs. Alice A---- Parmelee.= _Ct._, 186- - ----. A writer of New York city. Dragons and Cherry Blossoms. _Do._

=Morris, Clara.= _O._, 1848- ----. An actress of note. Life on the Stage; A Pasteboard Crown; Stage Confidences. _Lo. Scr._

=Morris, Gouverneur.= _N. Y._, 1876- ----. A New York littérateur, great-grandson of Gouverneur Morris, _supra_. A Bunch of Grapes; Tom Beauling; Aladdin O’Brien; The Pagan’s Progress; Ellen and Mr. Man. _Bar. Cent._

=Morris, Henry Crittenden.= _Il._, 1868- ----. A lawyer of Chicago. The History of Colonization from the Earliest Times.

=Morris, Martin Ferdinand.= _D. C._, 1834- ----. A professor of law in Georgetown University from 1876. Lectures on the Development of Constitutional and Civil Liberty.

=Morris, Mrs. Robert C.= _See Morris, Mrs. Alice._

=Morris, Robert Tuttle.= _Ct._, 1857- ----. A surgeon of New York city. How We treat Wounds To-day; Lectures on Appendicitis; Hopkins’s Pond, and Other Sketches. _Put._

=Morrison, Harry Steele.= _Il._, 1880- ----. A littérateur of New York city. A Yankee Boy’s Success; The Adventures of a Boy Reporter. _Pa. Sto._

=Morrison, Joseph.= _Ont._, 1848- ----. A surgeon and astronomer in Washington city. Treatise on Trigonometry.

=Morrison, Mrs. Mary Jane [Whitney].= _Me._, 1832-1904. A writer of Waltham, Massachusetts. Stories True and Fancies New.

=Morrison, Sara Elizabeth.= _Ind._, 18-- - ----. A Philadelphia writer for young people. Chilhowee Boys; Chilhowee Boys in War Times; Chilhowee Boys at College; Chilhowee Boys in Harness. _Cr._

=Morrow, Prince Albert.= _Ky._, 1849- ----. A physician of New York city, among whose professional publications are System of Genito-Urinary Diseases; Atlas of Skin and Venereal Diseases; Venereal Diseases and Marriage. _Wo._

=Mortimer, Alfred [Garnett].= _E._, 1848- ----. An Episcopal clergyman resident in the United States from 1877 and long rector of Saint Mark’s Church, Philadelphia. Helps to Meditation; Sermons in Miniature; Laws of Penitence; Stories from Genesis; Notes on the Penitential Psalms; Laws of Happiness; Catholic Faith and Practice; Lenten Preaching; The Creeds; The Seven Last Words; Jesus and the Renunciation; Learn of Jesus Christ to Die. _Dut. Lgs._

=Morton, Frederick William.= _Ont._, 1859- ----. A Chicago journalist. Woman in Epigram; Men in Epigram; The Revolt of the Covenanters; Love in Epigram.

=Moses, Alfred Joseph.= _L. I._, 1859- ----. A professor of mineralogy at Columbia University from 1897. Mineralogy, Crystallography and Blowpipe Analysis; Characters of Crystals. _Vn._

=Moses, Bernard.= _Ct._, 1846- ----. A professor of history in the University of California from 1876. Politics (with W. W. Crane); Federal Government in Switzerland; Democracy and Social Growth in America; Establishment of Spanish Rule in America. _Put._

=Moss, Frank.= _N. Y._, 1860- ----. A New York lawyer of prominence. The American Metropolis.

=Moss, Lemuel.= _Ky._, 1829-1904. A Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia. What Baptists Stand for; A Day with Paul.

=Moxom, Philip Stafford.= _Ont._, 1848- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Springfield, Massachusetts, but formerly in the Baptist ministry. From Jerusalem to Nicæa; The Aim of Life; The Religion of Hope. _Lit._

=Muhleman, Maurice Louis.= _Il._, 1852- ----. A deputy assistant treasurer of the United States at New York city from 1888. The Money of the United States; Monetary Systems of the World.

=Mullany, John Francis.= _N. Y._, 1853- ----. A Roman Catholic clergyman of Syracuse, among whose writings are Old and New Spain; Dante and His Times; Bible Studies; The Old World Seen through American Eyes. _Ben._

=Mumford, John Kimberly.= _N. Y._, 1863- ----. A New York journalist. Oriental Rugs.

=Munn, Charles Clark.= _Ct._, 1848- ----. Uncle Terry; Pocket Island; Rockhaven; The Hermit. _Le._

=Munro, Dana Carleton.= _R. I._, 1866- ----. A professor of European history in the University of Wisconsin from 1902. Syllabus of Mediæval History; Mediæval History; Essays on the Crusades (joint author). _Ap._

=Munroe, James Phinney.= _N. Y._, 1862- ----. A Boston writer. The Educational Ideal; Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars. _He. Lit._

=Münsterberg, Hugo.= _G._, 1863- ----. An eminent psychologist, professor at Harvard University from 1897. Psychology and Life; American Traits; Grundzüge der Psychologie; The Americans. _Hou._

=Murfree, William Law.= _N. C._, 1817-1892. A lawyer of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and, in later life, of St. Louis. His daughters, F. N. D. and M. N. Murfree, are mentioned on page 266. A Treatise on the Law of Sheriffs; Official Bonds; Practice before Justices of the Peace.

=Murphy, Edgar Gardner.= _Ark._, 1869- ----. An educator, of Montgomery, Alabama, but prior to 1903 in the Episcopal ministry. Words for the Church; The Larger Life. _Lgs. Wh._

=Muzzarelli, Antoine [Jules César Venceslas Ermanigilde].= _F._, 1847- ----. An educator, resident in the United States from 1877. Histoire de la Guerre Pacifique; Etude sur la Situation Politique de l’Amérique du Sud; La Question du Canal de Panama; Les Autonymes de la Langue Française; The Academic French Course; Le Pays de France. _Am._

=Muzzey, David Saville.= _Ms._, 1870- ----. A writer of Lexington, Massachusetts. Rise of the New Testament; Spiritual Heroes. _Dou. Mac._

=Myer, Edmund John.= _Pa._, 1840- ----. A vocal teacher of New York city, among whose professional works are The Voice from a Practical Standpoint; Position and Action in Singing; The Renaissance of the Vocal Art.

=Myer, Isaac.= _Pa._, 1836-1902. A lawyer of Philadelphia. The Quabbalah; On Dreams; Scarabs; The Oldest Books in the World; Taken from Papyri and Monuments.

=Myers, Cortland.= _N. Y._, 1864- ----. A Baptist clergyman of Brooklyn, among whose books are Midnight in a Great City; Why Men do not Go to Church; The Lost Wedding Ring; The Best Place on Earth. _Fu._

=Myers, Mrs. Minnie [Walter].= _Mi._, 1852- ----. A writer of Memphis. Romance and Realism of the Southern Gulf Coast. _Clke._

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=Nagle, James C----.= _Va._, 1865- ----. A civil engineer. A Field Manual for Railroad Engineers. _Wil._

=Nancrede, Charles Beylard.= _Pa._, 1847- ----. A professor of surgery in the University of Michigan from 1887. Essentials of Anatomy; Lectures upon the Principles of Surgery.

=Nash, Charles Ellwood.= _N. J._, 1855- ----. A Universalist clergyman, president of Lombard University, Galesburg, Illinois, from 1895. The Saviour of the World.

=Nash, Henry Sylvester.= _O._, 1854- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, Massachusetts, professor of New Testament interpretation in the Episcopal Theological School from 1884. The Genesis of the Social Conscience: the Relation between the Establishment of Christianity in Europe and the Social Question; Ethics and Revelation; History of the Higher Criticism of the New Testament. _Mac._

=Nason, Frank Lewis.= _Wis._, 1856- ----. A mining engineer. To the End of the Trail, a novel; Iron Ores of Missouri; The Blue Goose. _Hou. Mac._

=Naylor, James Ball.= _O._, 1860- ----. A novelist. Ralph Marlowe; The Sign of the Prophet; In the Days of Saint Clair; The Cabin in the Woods.

=Needham, James George.= _Il._, 1868- ----. An entomologist, professor of biology in Lake Forest University, Illinois, from 1898. Elementary Lessons in Zoölogy; Outdoor Studies. _Am._

=Nehrling, Henry.= _Wis._, 1853- ----. An ornithologist who has published Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt; Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty.

=Neidhard, Charles.= _G._, 1809- ----. A homœopathic physician of Philadelphia. Homœopathy in England, France, and Germany; Answer to the Delusions of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes; On Crotalus Horridus in Yellow Fever; Diphtheria in the United States.

=Nelson, Aven.= _Ia._, 1859- ----. A professor of botany in the University of Wyoming from 1887. Report on the Flora of Wyoming; The Trees of Wyoming and How to Know Them; Key to the Rocky Mountain Flora. _Ap._

=Nelson, William.= _N. J._, 1847- ----. A lawyer and local historian of Paterson, New Jersey. The Indians of New Jersey; The Doremus Family in America; History of Paterson.

=Nelson, Wolfred.= _Q._, 1846- ----. A physician of New York City. Aperçu de Quelques Difficultés à vaincre dans la Construction du Canal de Panama; Five Years in Panama.

=Nevin, Robert Peebles.= _Pa._, 1820- ----. A Pittsburgh writer. Black Robes, or Missions and Ministers; Les Trois Rois, sketches of the history of Pittsburgh.

=Nevins, Winfield Scott.= _Me._, 1850- ----. A writer of Salem, Massachusetts. Old Naumkeag; Guide to the North Shore of Massachusetts; Witchcraft in Salem Village.

=New, Clarence Herbert.= _N. Y._, 1862- ----. A New York writer. Franc Elliott; Under the Pacific; Chronicles of Murphy’s Gulch. _Lip._

=Newcomb, Charles Benjamin.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. A mental healer, of Boston. All’s Right with the World; Discovery of a Lost Trail. _Lo._

=Newell, Frederick Haynes.= _Pa._, 1862- ----. A hydrographer attached to the United States Geological Survey from 1888, Agriculture by Irrigation; Hydrography of the United States; The Public Lands of the United States. _Cr._

=Newel, Peter Sheaf Hersey.= _Il._, 1862- ----. A humorous artist and illustrator of books. Pictures and Rhymes. _Har._

=Newman, Albert Henry.= _S. C._, 1852- ----. A Baptist clergyman, professor of church history in McMaster University, Toronto, but prior to 1881 the holder of similar posts in the United States. The Baptist Churches in the United States; History of Anti-Pædobaptism; Manual of Church History; A Century of Baptist Achievement. _Bap._

=Niblack, Albert Parker.= _Ind._, 1859- ----. A United States naval lieutenant. The Coast Indians of Alaska and Northern British America.

=Niccols, Samuel Jack.= 1838- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman in St. Louis. The Eastern Question in Prophecy (1877).

=Nichols, Charles Wilbur de Lyon.= _Ct._, 1854- ----. A New York philanthropist. The Decadents; The Greek Madonna.

=Nichols, Francis Henry.= _L. I._, 1868- ----. A newspaper correspondent and traveller. Through Hidden Shensi. _Scr._

=Nicholson, Meredith.= _Ind._, 1866- ----. An Indianapolis writer. Short Flights (verse); The Hoosiers; The Main Chance. _Bo._

=Nicklin, Philip Houlbrouke.= “Peregrine Prolix.” _Pa._, 1786-1842. A once prominent bookseller in Philadelphia. Letters Descriptive of Virginia Springs; A Pleasant Peregrination through the Prettiest Parts of Pennsylvania; Remarks on Literary Property; Papers on Free Trade.

=Nicolls, William Jasper.= _Pa._, 1854- ----. A civil and mining engineer of Philadelphia. Graystone, a novel; Nicolls’s Railway Builder; The Story of American Coal; Coal Catechism. _Lip._

=Nixon, Oliver Woodson.= _N. C._, 1825- ----. A Chicago editor. How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon for the Union; Memories of a Forty-Niner.

=Noble, Frederick Alphonso.= _Me._, 1832- ----. A Congregational clergyman, pastor of Union Park Church, Chicago. Our Redemption; Divine Life in Man; Discourses on the Epistle to the Philippians. _Rev._

=Norris, Frank.= _Il._, 1870-1902. A novelist of New York city, war correspondent of McClure’s Magazine during the Spanish-American War. Yvernette, a mediæval poem; Moran of the Lady Letty; McTegue; Blix; A Man’s Woman; The Octopus; The Pit. _Dou. Lip._

=Norris, Homer Albert.= _Me._, 1860- ----. A Boston musician. Practical Harmony on a French Basis; The Art of Counterpoint.

=Norris, Mary Harriott.= _N. J._, 1848- ----. A novelist of New York city and dean of Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois. Editor of editions of George Eliot’s Silas Marner; Longfellow’s Evangeline; Scott’s Marmion, Kenilworth, and Quentin Durward, and author of Dorothy Delafield; Afterward; John Applegate, Surgeon; Lakewood; The Gray House of the Quarries; The Grapes of Wrath. _Pa. Sto._

=Norris, Richard Cooper.= _Md._, 1863- ----. A Philadelphia physician. American Text Book of Obstetrics; Syllabus of Obstetrical Lectures.