A dictionary of American authors

Part 93

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=Tappan, Eva March.= _Ms._, 1854- ----. A teacher in the English High School, Worcester, Massachusetts. Charles Lamb: the Man and the Author; In the Days of Alfred the Great; Old Ballads in Prose; England’s Story; In the Days of William the Conqueror; Our Country’s Story; In the Days of Queen Elizabeth; The Christ Story; In the Days of Queen Victoria; Robin Hood: his Book; Canada’s Story. _Hou. Le._

=Tapper, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1864- ----. A Boston musician, among whose publications are Chats with Music Students; The Music Life; Pictures from the Lives of Great Composers; First Studies in Music Biography; The Child’s Music World; The Natural Course in Music.

=Tarkington, [Newton] Booth.= _Ind._, 1869- ----. A novelist of Indianapolis. The Gentleman from Indiana; Monsieur Beaucaire; The Two Vanrevels; Cherry. _Dou._

=Taylor, Albert Reynolds.= _Il._, 1846- ----. An educator of Illinois. The Church at Work in the Sunday School; Civil Government in Kansas; Apple-Blossoms; Among Ourselves; The Government of the State and Nation. _He._

=Taylor, Arthur Nelson.= _Wis._, 1867- ----. A lawyer of New York city. The Law in its Relations to Physicians. _Ap._

=Taylor, Barnard Cook.= _N. J._, 1850- ----. A professor of Old Testament interpretation at Crozer Seminary, Chester, Pennsylvania, from 1883. Outline Analysis of the Books of the Bible; Historical Books of the Old Testament. _Bap._

=Taylor, Charles Elisha.= _Va._, 1842- ----. A Baptist clergyman, president of Wake Forest College, North Carolina, from 1884. The Story of Yates; Gilbert Stone, the Millionaire; How Far may a State Educate?

=Taylor, Charles Maus.= _Pa._, 1849- ----. A retired merchant of Philadelphia and a member of several geographical societies. Vacation Days in Hawaii and Japan; The British Isles Through an Opera Glass; Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera; Why My Photographs are Bad.

=Taylor, Joseph Russell.= 18-- - ----. A professor of English literature at Ohio State University. The Overture: Poems. _Hou._

=Taylor, M[ary] Imlay.= 18-- - ----. A novelist of Washington city. On the Red Staircase; An Imperial Lover; A Yankee Volunteer; The House of the Wizard; The Cobbler of Nîmes; The Cardinal’s Musketeer; Anne Scarlett; Little Mistress Goodhope, and Other Fairy Tales; The Rebellion of the Princess. _Mg._

=Taylor, William Alexander.= _O._, 1837- ----. A journalist of Columbus, Ohio. Eighteen Presidents; Peril of the Republic; Roses and Rue; Ohio Statesmen; Ohio in Congress; Intermere. (Joint author) The Book of Ohio; Twilight or Dawn; The Next Morning Philosopher.

=Temple, Edward Lowe.= _Wis._, 1844- ----. A banker of Rutland, Vermont. The Church in the Prayer Book; Shakespeare: the Man and his Art; The Testimony of the Scriptures; Old World Memories. _Pa._

=Temple, Oliver Perry.= _Tn._, 1820- ----. A prominent lawyer of Knoxville, Tennessee. The Covenanter; The Cavalier and the Puritan; East Tennessee and its Union Leaders in the War. _Clke._

=Terry, Benjamin.= _Min._, 1857- ----. A professor of mediæval history in the University of Chicago from 1892. A History of England from Earliest Times to the Death of Victoria. _Sc._

=Terry, Henry Taylor.= _Ct._, 1847- ----. A lawyer in Yokohama, professor of law in the University of Tokio. First Principles of Law; Principles of Anglo-American Law; The Common Law.

=Thickstun, Frederick.= _See Clark, F. T._

=Thomas, Allen Clapp.= _Md._, 1846- ----. A professor of history in Haverford College, Pa., from 1878. Elementary History of the United States; History of the Society of Friends in America.

=Thomas, Augustus.= _Mo._, 1859- ----. A popular playwright of New York city. Alabama: In Mizzourah; After Thoughts; A Man of the World; The Burglar; Reckless Temple; New Blood; The Hoosier Doctor; In Illinoy; and other plays.

=Thomas, Calvin.= _Mch._, 1854- ----. A professor of the Germanic languages and literatures at Columbia University from 1896. A Practical German Grammar. _Ho._

=Thomas, Henry Wilton.= _N. Y._, 1867- ----. A New York journalist. The Last Lady of Mulberry Street, a novel; The Kiss of Nero, and Other Tales of Mulberry. _Ap._

=Thomas, Hiram Washington.= _Va._, 1832- ----. A popular Methodist clergyman of Chicago. Origin and Destiny of Man; The People’s Pulpit, a volume of sermons.

=Thomas, James.= _Ky._, 1843- ----. A physician of Cincinnati. Lectures on Physiology; Theory and Practice of Medicine; Heart Disease; Exiled for Lèse Majesté.

=Thomas, Martha Carey.= _Md._, 1857- ----. An educator of note, president of Bryn Mawr College from 1894. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight.

=Thomas, William Hannibal.= 18-- - ----. The American Negro: What he Was, What he Is, and What he may Become. _Mac._

=Thomas, William Widgery.= _Me._, 1839- ----. A diplomatist, minister plenipotentiary to Sweden and Norway, 1883-1885, 1889-1894, and from 1897. Sweden and the Swedes.

=Thompson, David Decamp.= _O._, 1852- ----. A Chicago journalist. Abraham Lincoln, the First American; John Wesley as Social Reformer. _Lgs. Meth._

=Thompson, Mrs. Ella Mason [Williams].= _Ms._, 183- -1875. A writer of Newton, Massachusetts. Beaten Paths, or a Woman’s Vacation. _Le._

=Thompson, Ernest [Evan Seton].= _E._, 1860- ----. An artist and naturalist of New York city, at one time official naturalist of Manitoba. Birds of Manitoba; Mammals of Manitoba; Art Anatomy of Animals; Wild Animals I have Known; The Trail of the Sandhill Stag; The Lives of the Hunted; Biography of a Grizzly; Lobo, Rag and Vixen; Wild Animal Play for Children; Monarch. _Cent. Mac. Scr._

=Thompson, Frederick Diodati, Count.= _N. Y._, 1850- ----. A lawyer of New York city. In the Track of the Sun. _Ap._

=Thompson, Mrs. Grace [Gallatin].= _Cal._, 1872- ----. Wife of E. E. S. Thompson, _supra_. A Woman Tenderfoot. _Dou._

=Thompson, Slason.= _N. B._, 1849- ----. A Chicago journalist. Eugene Field: a Study in Heredity and Contradictions. _Scr._

=Thompson, Vance.= 1862- ----. A journalist and playwright of New York city. Songs and Symbols (verse); Berwyn Kennedy; The City of Torches; A Flash of Honour; Writers of Young France; Spinners of Life; and several dramas. _Lip._

=Thompson, William Gilman.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. A New York physician. Practical Dietetics; Text Book of Practical Medicine. _Ap._

=Thorndike, Edward Lee.= _Ms._, 1874- ----. An adjunct professor of genetic psychology in the Teachers’ College, Columbia University, from 1901. The Human Nature Club. _Lgs._

=Thornton, Gustavus Brown.= _Va._, 1835- ----. A prominent physician of Memphis, Tennessee. Yellow Fever, Pathology and Treatment; Six Years’ Sanitation in Memphis.

=Thornton, Thomas C----.= _Va._, 1794-1860. A Methodist clergyman in Mississippi. Inquiry into the History of Slavery in the United States; Theological Colloquies.

=Thrasher, Max Bennett.= _N. H._, 1860-1903. A New Hampshire writer. Tuskegee, its Story and its Work. _Sm._

=Thruston= (throo’ston), =Gates Phillips.= _O._, 1835- ----. A lawyer of Nashville, brevetted brigadier-general for service in the Federal army during the Civil War. Antiquities of Tennessee and Adjacent States. _Clke._

=Thruston, Lucy Meacham.= _Va._, 1862- ----. A Baltimore novelist. Mistress Brent, a story of Lord Baltimore’s Colony; A Girl of Virginia; Jack and his Island; Where the Tide Comes In. _Lit._

=Thurston, Ernest Lawton.= _Ms._, 1873- ----. An educator in Washington city. Mental Commercial Arithmetic; Practical Tests in Commercial and Higher Arithmetic.

=Tiffany, Francis Buchanan.= _Ms._, 1865- ----. Son of F. Tiffany (page 373). A lawyer of St. Paul. Handbook of the Law of Sales; Death by Wrongful Act. _West._

=Tiffany, Mrs. Nina [Moore].= _O._, 18-- - ----. Wife of F. B. Tiffany, _supra_. A writer of St. Paul, Minnesota. Samuel Edmund Sewall: a Memoir; Pilgrims and Puritans; From Colony to Commonwealth. _Gi. Hou._

=Tiffany, Walter Checkley.= _Ms._, 1857- ----. Son of F. Tiffany (page 383). A lawyer of Minneapolis. The Law of Persons and Domestic Relations. _West._

=Tighe, Ambrose.= _L. I._, 1859- ----. A lawyer of St. Paul. The Development of the Roman Constitution. _Am._

=Tilley, Lucy Evangeline.= _O._, 1859-1890. A verse-writer of Medina, Ohio. Little Rhymes in Brown; Verses.

=Tillotson, Mrs. Mary Ella [Tillotson].= _N. Y._, 1816-190-. A writer and lecturer on hygiene, long resident in Vineland, New Jersey. History of the Dress Movement; Love and Transition (verse); Miscellaneous Poems.

=Tillson, George Williams.= _Me._, 1852- ----. A civil engineer of Brooklyn. Street Pavements and Paving Materials. _Wil._

=Tilton, Howard Winslow.= _Me._, 1848-1902. A journalist of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Editor of The Nonpareil Lay Sermons.

=Timby, Theodore Ruggles.= _N. Y._, 1822- ----. The inventor of the floating dry dock, the revolving turret, the turbine water wheel, and other important inventions. Stellar Worlds; Lighted Lore for Gentle Folk.

=Timlow, Elizabeth Westyn.= _N. Y._, 1861- ----. An educator and writer of juvenile tales. Cricket, a story; Cricket at the Sea Shore; Eunice and Cricket; A Nest of Girls; Dorothy Dot; What Came to Winifred. _Dut. Est._

=Titherington, Richard Handfield.= _E._, 1861- - ----. A New York littérateur, editor of Munsey’s Magazine. History of the Spanish-American war of 1898. _Ap._

=Titterington, Mrs. Sophie [Bronson].= _E. I._, 1846- ----. An author of Rochester, Illinois. A Summer Brother; Mabel Livingstone; Hill-Top Farm; Little Pilgrim Series; A New Endeavour; Folded Hands (verse); Joe Nelson’s Problem; Soldier Jack. _Bap._

=Todd, Mrs. Mary [Ives].= _Ia._, 1848- ----. A writer of Los Angeles. The New Adam and Eve; Little Ruth.

=Tolman, William Howe.= _R. I._, 1861- ----. A social economist. History of Higher Education in Rhode Island; Municipal Reform Movements in the United States.

=Tompkins, Arnold.= _Il._, 1849- ----. A Chicago educator. Science of Discourse; Philosophy of Teaching; Philosophy of School Management; Literary Interpretations. _Gi._

=Tompkins, Elizabeth Knight.= _Cal._, 1867- ----. A novelist of Berkeley, California. Her Majesty; An Unlessoned Girl; The Things that Count; Talks with Barbara.

=Tooker, Lewis Frank.= _N. Y._, 1855- ----. A New York writer, on the editorial staff of the Century Magazine from 1885. The Call of the Sea (verse). _Cent._

=Torrence, Frederic Ridgeley.= _O._, 1875- ----. A librarian of New York city. The House of a Hundred Lights, a volume of verse in the Persian manner; El Dorado, a Tragedy in Blank Verse. _Sm._

=Torrey, Henry Augustus Pierson.= _Ms._, 1837-1902. A clergyman, professor in the University of Vermont. The Philosophy of Descartes.

=Torrey, Mrs. Mary [Ide].= _Ms._, 1817-1869. Wife of C. T. Torrey (page 385). Christian Rule in Dress; City and Country Life.

=Tower, Charlemagne.= _Pa._, 1848- ----. A lawyer and diplomatist, minister to Austria in 1898; ambassador to Russia from 1899. The Marquis de la Fayette in the American Revolution. _Lip._

=Townsend, William Kneeland.= _Ct._, 1849- ----. A jurist of New Haven. New Connecticut Civil Officer.

=Trask, Mrs. Katrina [Nichols].= _L. I._, 1853- ----. Wife of S. Trask, _infra_. A magazinist of Saratoga. Under King Constantine (verse); Sonnets and Lyrics; White Satin and Homespun; John Leighton, Jr.; Lessons in Love; Free, not Bound. _Har. Put. Ran._

=Trask, Spencer.= _N. Y._, 1844- ----. A banker of Saratoga. Bowling Green, an historical monograph. _Put._

=Triggs, Oscar Lovell.= _Il._, 1865- ----. An instructor in the University of Chicago. Browning and Whitman: a Study in Democracy; Chapters in the History of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

=Trimble, Henry.= _Pa._, 1853-1898. A Philadelphia botanist and chemist. The Taunins; Handbook of Analytical Chemistry. _Lip._

=Trine, Ralph Waldo.= _Il._, 1866- ----. A Boston lecturer and writer upon social science. What All the World’s a-Seeking; In Tune with the Infinite; The Greatest Thing ever Known. _Cr. El._

=Troeger, John Winthrop.= _Il._, 1849- ----. A Chicago educator. Troeger’s Science Book; Hand Book of Geography; Harold’s Discoveries; Harold’s Rambles; Harold’s Quests; Harold’s Explorations; Harold’s Discussions. _Ap. Sc._

=Trowbridge, William Rutherford Hayes.= _W. I._, 1866- ----. A writer educated in the United States, but since 1895 a resident of London. Gossip of the Caribbees; Children of Men; For the Vagabond Hour; The Letters of Her Mother to Elizabeth; The Grandmother’s Advice to Elizabeth; O! Duchess; A Girl of the Multitude, published in America as Eglee.

=True, Hiram L----.= _O._, 1845- ----. A physician of McConnelsville, Ohio. The Cause of the Glacial Period. _Clke._

=Trueblood, Benjamin Franklin.= _Ind._, 1847- ----. The secretary of the American Peace Society from 1892. The Federation of the World. _Hou._

=Trumbull, Annie Eliot.= _Ct._, 1857- ----. Daughter of J. H. Trumbull (page 389), and niece of Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson (page 345). A popular story-writer of Hartford. A Christmas Accident; A Cape Cod Week; Rod’s Sensation; A Wheel of Progress; An Hour’s Promise; Mistress Content Cradock; White Birches; Mind Cure, a farce; Life’s Common Way; Shields of Brass. _Bar._

=Tucker, Gilbert Milligan.= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. An Albany journalist, editor of The Country Gentleman. Our Common Speech. _Do._

=Tufts, Henry.= _N. H._, 1748-1831. A notable vagabond, whose autobiography furnishes a valuable picture of certain phases of New England life a century ago. It was published in 1807, with the title, A Narrative of the Life, Adventures, Travels, and Sufferings of Henry Tufts. _See T. W. Higginson’s Travellers and Outlaws._

=Tufts, William Whittemore.= _Ms._, 1832-1901. A physician and littérateur of Arlington, Massachusetts. A Market for an Impulse.

=Tupper, Kerr Boyce.= _Ga._, 1854- ----. A Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia. Gladstone, and Other Addresses; Seven Great Lights; Robertson’s Living Thoughts; Popular Treatise on Christian Baptism. _Bap._

=Turnbull, Mrs. Francese Hubbard [Litchfield].= _N. Y._, 184- - ----. Wife of L. Turnbull (page 391). A novelist of Baltimore. The Catholic Man; Val-Maria; The Golden Book of Venice.

=Turner, William Wilberforce.= _Ga._, 1830- ----. A writer of Eatonton, Georgia. Jack Hopeton, a novel.

=Tuttle, Mrs. Mary McArthur [Thompson].= _O._, 1849- ----. An artist who has published The Historical Chart of the Schools of Painting; Manifest Destiny, a novel.

=Twells, Julia Helen.= 18-- - ----. A novelist. A Triumph of Destiny; By the Higher Law. _Co._

=Twombly, Alexander Stevenson.= _Ms._, 1832- ----. A retired Congregational clergyman in Newton, Massachusetts, for nineteen years pastor of the Winthrop Church, Boston. Summer in the Country; The Choir Boy of York Cathedral; Life of John Lord, _supra_; Masterpieces of Michelangelo and Milton; Hawaii and its People (1899); Kelea, the Surf Rider. _Dut. Fo. Sil._

=Tyler, Benjamin Bushrod.= _Il._, 1844- ----. A clergyman of the Christian (Disciples) sect. The Way of Salvation; History of the Disciples of Christ; The Peculiarities of the Disciples.

=Tyler, Charles Mellen.= _Me._, 1832- ----. Kinsman of M. C. Tyler (page 392). A professor of the history and philosophy of religion at Cornell University from 1891. Bases of Religious Belief, Historic and Ideal. _Put._

=Tyler, Odette.= _See Shepherd, Mrs. Elizabeth._

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=Udden, Johan August.= _Sn._, 1859- ----. A professor of geology in Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, from 1888. The Mechanical Composition of Wind Deposits; The Geology of Muscatine County, Iowa; An Old Indian Village; Geology of Louisa County, Iowa, and of Jefferson County.

=Ulmann, Albert.= _N. Y._, 1861- ----. A stockbroker of New York city. A Landmark History of New York; Frederick Struther’s Romance; Chaperoned; New York’s Historic Sites. _Ap._

=Underhill, John Garrett.= _L. I._, 1876- ----. An assistant instructor in comparative literature in Columbia University. Spanish Literature in the England of the Tudors. _Mac._

=Underwood, Mrs. Sara A---- [Francis].= _E._, 1838- ----. Wife of B. F. Underwood, _supra_, and associated with him in editing free-thought journals, 1881-1887 and 1893-1894. Heroines of Free Thought; Automatic Writing.

=Underwood, Wilbur.= _D. C._, 1876- ----. The Burden of the Desert.

=Unger, Frederic William.= _Pa._, 1875- ----. A Philadelphia journalist. With “Bobs” and Kruger.

=Updike, Wilkins.= _R. I._, 1784-1864. A Rhode Island lawyer. Memoirs of the Rhode Island Bar (1842).

=Upham, Warren.= _N. H._, 1850- ----. A geologist of St. Paul. The Glacial Lake Agassiz; Greenland Icefields and Life in the North Atlantic (with G. F. Wright, _supra_).

=Urbino, Mrs. Lavinia Buoncuore.= 18-- - ----. The wife of a former bookseller in Boston. An American Woman in Europe (1869); Biographical Sketches of Eminent Musical Composers. The Princes of Art, a translation.

=Urdahl, Thomas Klingenberg.= _Wis._, 1869- ----. A professor of economics in the University of Wisconsin. The Fee System in the United States.

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=Vail, Charles Henry.= _N. Y._, 1866- ----. A Universalist clergyman of Jersey City. Modern Socialism; Scientific Socialism; The Trust Question; Socialism and the Negro Problem.

=Vaile, Mrs. Charlotte Marion [White].= _Ms._, 1854-1902. A Denver, Colorado, writer of stories for young people. The Orcutt Girls; Sue Orcutt; The M. M. C.; Wheat and Huckleberries; Two and One. _We._

=Valentine, Edward Abram Uffington.= _Pa._, 1870- ----. A journalist of Baltimore. The Ship of Silence, and other Poems. _Bo._

=Van Alstyne, Mrs. Frances Jane [Crosby].= “Fanny J. Crosby.” _N. Y._, 1820- ----. A well-known blind hymn and song writer of New York city. Her hymns and songs number over five thousand. A Blind Girl, and Other Poems; Monterey, and Other Poems; A Wreath of Columbia’s Flowers; Bells at Evening.

=Van Buren, Mrs. Alicia [Keisker].= _Ky._, 1860- ----. A Louisville writer. As Thought is Led: Lyrics and Sonnets.

=Vance, Arthur Turner.= _Pa._, 1872- ----. A journalist of New York city. The Real David Harum. _Ba._

=Vance, James Isaac.= _Tn._, 1862- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman who has published Young Man Four-Square; Church Portals; College of Apostles; Royal Manhood; The Rise of a Soul; American Problems. _Rev._

=Van Deman, Henry Elias.= _O._, 1845- ----. A pomologist of Washington city. Tropical and Semi-Tropical Fruits in America.

=Van Dyke, Paul.= _L. I._, 1859- ----. Son of H. J. Van Dyke, 1st (page 395). A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of modern European history at Princeton University from 1898. The Age of the Renascence.

=Van Marter, Martha.= _N. Y._, 1839- ----. An editor of Methodist Sunday School periodicals. Jessie in Switzerland; The Primary Teacher.

=Van Noppen, Charles Leonard.= _H._, 1868- ----. A writer of Greensboro, North Carolina, who has made the only English translation of The Lucifer, by the famous Dutch author, Joost Van Vondel.

=Van Pelt, John Vredenburgh.= _La._, 1874- ----. A professor in charge of the College of Architecture at Cornell University. A Discussion of Composition, Especially as Applied to Architecture. _Mac._

=Van Praag, Charles Francis Wells.= 18-- - ----. A novelist. Clayton Halowell, an historical romance.

=Van Rensselaer, Mrs. John King.= _See Van Rensselaer, Mrs. May._

=Van Rensselaer, Mrs. May [King].= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. An historical writer of New York city. Crochet Lace; The Devil’s Picture Books: a History of Playing-Cards; The Goede Vrouw of Mana-ha-ta; New Yorkers of the Nineteenth Century; A Girl’s Life Eighty Years Ago (edited). _Scr._

=Van Sickle, John Waddell.= _O._, 1835-1895. An educator and physician of Springfield, Ohio. Practical System of Bookkeeping; History of the Van Sickle Family in the United States.

=Van Tyne, Claude Halstead.= _Mch._, 1869- ----. A professor of history in the University of Michigan from 1903. The Loyalists in the American Revolution; Brief History of the United States of America. _Mac._

=Van Zandt, Charles Collins.= _R. I._, 1830-1890. A governor of Rhode Island, 1877-1880. Newport Ballads.

=Vaughan, Benjamin.= _W. I._, 1751-1835. A once prominent scientist and political economist who lived at Hallowell, Maine, from 1795. His writings nearly all appeared anonymously. The Calm Observer; Ten Hints to Wise Men; The Rural Socrates, a translation from the German of Hirzel, include a portion of his writings.

=Vaughan, George Tully.= _Va._, 1859- ----. A surgeon of Washington, professor of surgery at Georgetown University from 1897. The Principles and Practice of Surgery.

=Vaughan, Victor Clarence.= _O._, 1851- ----. The dean of the medical department of the University of Michigan from 1890. Osteology and Mycology of the Domestic Fowl; Textbook of Physiological Chemistry; Ptomaines and Leucomaines (with Novy).

=Veblen, Thorstein B----.= 18-- - ----. An assistant professor of political economy in the University of Chicago from 1900. The Theory of the Leisure Class; The Theory of Business Enterprises. _Mac. Scr._

=Veeder, Nicholas.= _N. Y._, 1819-1892. A writer of Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Cometallism: a Plan for Continuing Gold and Silver Coinage (1885).

=Verner, Samuel P----.= _S. C._, 18-- - ----. An American missionary in Africa. Pioneering in Central Africa (1903).

=Vickers, George Morley.= _Pa._, 1841- ----. A Philadelphia publisher. Ballads of the Occident.

=Viele, Herman Knickerbocker.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. Son of E. L. Viele (page 398). A civil engineer and novelist. The Inn of the Silver Moon; The Last of the Knickerbockers; Myra of the Pines. _Mac. S._

=Vincent, Boyd.= _Pa._, 1845- ----. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Southern Ohio. Can God Hear Prayer?; The Episcopal Church Put to the Test.

=Vincent, George Edgar.= _Il._, 1864- ----. Son of J. H. Vincent (page 399). A professor of sociology in the University of Chicago from 1896. Social Mind and Education. _Mac._

=Vincent, John Martin.= _O._, 1857- ----. An associate professor of history in Johns Hopkins University from 1895. State and Federal Government in Switzerland; Government in Switzerland. _J. H. U. Mac._

=Vincent, Leon Henry.= _Il._, 1859- ----. A Philadelphia lecturer on English literature. A Few Words on Browning; The Bibliotaph and Other People; Hôtel de Rambouillet and the Précieuses; The French Academy; Corneille; Molière. _Hou._

=Vischer, William Lightfoot.= _Ky._, 1842- ----. A Chicago journalist whose writings include the novels Carlisle of Colorado; Way Out Yonder; Peter Vansant; A Head of Bronze; and the following volumes of verse: Chicago: an Epic; Harp of the South; Black Mammy; Blue Grass Ballads.

=Vivian, Thomas J[ondre].= _E._, 1855- ----. A journalist and novelist of San Francisco and subsequently of New York city. Seven Smiles and a Few Fibs, a volume of short stories; five novels, including A Life Wasted; Judge Day’s Case; Old Dudley’s Monument; Sweet Polly Poljew; Luther Strong. With Dewey at Manila and The Fall of Santiago are historical narratives, and The Fairy Spinning Wheel is a translation from Les Contes du Rouet of Catulle Mendes. _Fen._

=Vizetelly, Francis Horace.= _E._, 1864- ----. A New York author, formerly of London. Romance of the Finger Ring; The Fan in Romance and History; Sunshades and Umbrellas; The History of the Glove.

=Von Gottschalck, Oscar Hunt.= _R. I._, 1865- ----. A littérateur of New York city. Yankee Doodle Gander; Gnome Man’s Land; Lives of the Haunted; Historical Sense and Nonsense.

=Voorhees, Daniel Wolsey.= _O._, 1827-1897. A prominent United States senator from Indiana. Forty Years of Oratory, a collection of speeches and addresses posthumously published. _Bo._

=Voorsanger, Jacob.= _H._, 1852- ----. A San Francisco rabbi. Life and Works of Moses Mendelssohn; The Chronicles of Emmanuel.

=Vorse, Albert White.= _Ms._, 1866- ----. A New York journalist. The Laughter of the Sphinx, a collection of short stories.