A dictionary of American authors
Part 94
=Votaw, Clyde Weber.= _Il._, 1864- ----. A professor of biblical Greek in the University of Chicago from 1900. Inductive Studies in the Founding of the Christian Church; The Primitive Era of Christianity.
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=Waddell, Alfred Moore.= _N. C._, 1834- ----. A lawyer of Wilmington, North Carolina. A Colonial Officer and his Times.
=Waddell, John Alexander Low.= _Ont._, 1854- ----. A distinguished civil engineer of Kansas City. The Designing of Ordinary Iron Highway Bridges; A System of Iron Railway Bridges for Japan; General Specifications for Iron or Steel Highway Bridges; Disputed Points in Railway Bridge Designing; Elevated Railways; De Pontibus. _Wil._
=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton Blanchard.= _Ms._, 1860- ----. A writer of Malden, Massachusetts, among whose books for juvenile reading are Little Japanese Cousin; Little Russian Cousin; Little Porto Rican Cousin. _Pa._
=Wagnalls, Mabel.= _Mo._, 1871- ----. A writer and musician of New York city. Miserere: a Musical Story; Stars of the Opera; Selma, the Soprano. _Fu._
=Wagner, Frank Caspar.= _Mch._, 1864- ----. A professor of engineering in the Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute. Notes on Applied Electricity.
=Wait, John Cassan.= _N. Y._, 1860- ----. A lawyer and civil engineer of New York city. Engineering and Architectural Jurisprudence; Car Builders’ Dictionary; Law of Contracts; Poems of Industry and Labour; Calendar of Invention and Discovery; Law of Operations Preliminary to Construction in Engineering and Architecture. _Wil._
=Wake, Charles Staniland.= _E._, 1835- ----. An anthropologist connected with the Field Columbian Museum at Chicago. Chapters on Man; The Evolution of Morality; Development of Marriage and Kinship; Serpent Worship and Other Essays; The Geometry of Science.
=Wakeman, Antoinette van Hoesen.= _N. Y._, 1854- ----. A journalist of Hastings, Nebraska. Scientific Sewing and Garment Cutting; Questions of Conscience, a novel.
=Wakeman, Thaddeus Burr.= _Ct._, 1834- ----. A lawyer of New York city. An Epitome of Positive Philosophy and Religion; The Religion of Humanity; Liberty and Purity; The Age of Revision; Evolution or Creation.
=Waldo, Clarence Abiathar.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. Head professor of mathematics in Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, from 1895. Manual of Descriptive Geometry. _He._
=Waldstein, Louis.= _N. Y._, 1853- ----. A physician, resident in London from 1898. Brother of C. Waldstein (page 401). The Subconscious Self. _Scr._
=Walke, Willoughby.= _Va._, 1859- ----. An army officer. Lectures on Explosives; Gunpowder and High Explosives. _Wil._
=Walker, Albert Henry.= _Vt._, 1844- ----. A lawyer of New York city. Walker on Patents, a standard authority; Christ’s Christianity.
=Walker, James Bryant.= _O._, 1841-1874. Son of T. Walker (page 402). A lawyer of Cincinnati. Law of Municipal Corporations in the State of Ohio; The Ohio Digest (with C. Bates).
=Wall, Mrs. Annie [Carpenter].= _Wis._, 1859- ----. A verse-writer of Pueblo, Colorado. Some Scattered Leaves.
=Wallace, David Duncan.= _S. C._, 1874- ----. A professor of history in Wofford College, South Carolina. Constitutional History of South Carolina, 1725 to 1775.
=Wallace, Edwin Sherman.= _Pa._, 1864- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Jerusalem the Holy. _Rev._
=Wallace, Joseph.= _Ky._, 1834- ----. A lawyer of Springfield, Illinois. Biography of Colonel Edward D. Baker; History of Illinois and Louisiana under French Rule. _Clke._
=Wallihan, Allen Grant.= _Wis._, 1859- ----. A Colorado photographer. Hoofs, Claws and Antlers of the Rocky Mountains; Camera Shots at Big Game. _Dou._
=Walsh, Henry Collins.= _Iy._, 1863- ----. A journalist of New York city. By the Potomac and Other Poems; The Last Cruise of the Miranda, a Record of Arctic Adventure.
=Walter, Robert.= _Ont._, 1841- ----. A physician of Walters Park, Pennsylvania. Vital Science; The Exact Science of Human Health.
=Waltz, Mrs. Elizabeth [Cherry].= _O._, 1866-1903. A journalist and short-story writer. Pa Gladden. _Cent._
=Wambaugh, Eugene.= _O._, 1856- ----. A professor of law in Harvard University from 1892. The Study of Cases; Cases for Analysis; Cases on Agency; Littleton’s Tenures; Cases on Insurance. _Lit._
=Ward, Cyrenus Osborne.= _N. Y._, 1832- ----. Brother of L. F. Ward (page 405). A translator in the United States Bureau of Labour from 1885. A Labour Catechism of Political Economy; Our Tragedy, a dramatic poem; The Equilibration of Human Aptitudes; The Ancient Lowly, a history of the ancient working class, the two volumes of which were published under the separate titles of Irascibility and Concupiscence, and Origins of Socialism.
=Ward, Mrs. Lydia [Avery] [Coonley].= _Va._, 1845- ----. A Chicago writer of pleasing verse. Under the Pines, and Other Verses; Singing Verses for Children; Love Songs; Christmas in Other Lands. _Mac._
=Ward, Robert DeCourcy.= _Ms._, 1867- ----. A meteorologist, professor of climatology at Harvard University from 1900. Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology. _Gi._
=Ward, Susan Hayes.= _Ms._, 1838- ----. Sister of W. H. Ward (page 405). Sabrina Hackett; Christus ad Portam; George Hepworth, Preacher, Journalist, Friend of the People. _Dut. Lov._
=Ward, William Godman.= _O._, 1848- ----. A Boston lecturer upon English literature. Tennyson’s Debt to Environment; The Poetry of Robert Browning; Art for Schools. _Lit._
=Warder, George Woodward.= _Mo._, 1848- ----. A lawyer and writer of Kansas City, among whose numerous works are Poetic Fragments; The New Cosmogony; The Cities of the Sun; The Stairway to the Stars. _Dil._
=Ware, Eugene Fitch.= “Ironquill.” _Ct._, 1841- ----. United States Pension Commissioner 1902-1904. Rhymes of Ironquill.
=Ware, Lewis S----.= _Pa._, 1851- ----. A Philadelphia writer, editor of The Sugar Beet Magazine. The Sugar Beet; Study of the Various Sources of Sugar, and similar works. _Bai. Ju._
=Warne, Frank Julian.= _W. Va._, 1874- ----. The editor of the Railway World. The Slav Invasion and the Mine Workers.
=Warren, Arthur.= _Ms._, 1860- ----. The London correspondent of the Boston Herald 1888-1896. The Charles Whittinghams; A Title of Nobility, are among his writings.
=Warren, Charles.= _Ms._, 1868- ----. A Boston lawyer. The Girl and the Governor, and Other Stories. _Scr._
=Warren, Frederick Morris.= _Me._, 1859- ----. A professor of modern languages at Yale University from 1901. A Primer of French Literature; History of the Novel Previous to the Seventeenth Century. _He. Ho._
=Warring, Charles Bartlett.= _N. Y._, 1825- ----. An educator and scientist of Poughkeepsie. “Strike, but Hear Me:” the Mosaic Account of the Creation; The Miracle of To-day; Genesis I. and Modern Science; The Three Climates of Geology; Groscepic Bodies.
=Warvelle, George William.= _Wis._, 1852- ----. A jurist of Chicago. Abstracts and Examinations of Title; Origin and Operation of the Homestead Laws; Law of Vendor and Purchaser; Principles of the Law of Real Property; Introduction to the Principles of Jurisprudence and Legal Procedure; Compendium of Freemasonry in Illinois.
=Washburn, Dexter Carlton.= _Me._, 1861- ----. A New York journalist. Songs from the Seasons, and Other Verses.
=Washburn, Henry Stevenson.= _R. I._, 1813-1903. An author of Newton, Massachusetts, well known by his lyric, We shall Meet but we shall Miss Him. The Vacant Chair, and Other Poems. _Sil._
=Watanna, Onoto.= _See Badcock, Mrs. Winnifred (Eaton)._
=Waterloo, Stanley.= _Mch._, 1846- ----. A Chicago novelist and journalist. A Man and a Woman; An Odd Situation; The Seekers; The Story of a Strange Career; The Story of Ab; Armageddon; Honest Money, a work on the currency question (1895); The Wolf’s Long Howl; The Launching of a Man. _Ra. S._
=Waterman, Lucius.= _R. I._, 1851- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Charlestown, New Hampshire. The Post-Apostolic Age; Early Journals of Convention of the Episcopal Church in New Hampshire (edited). _Scr._
=Waterman, Nixon.= _Il._, 1859- ----. A Boston journalist. Some Home-Made Verses; A Book of Verses; In Merry Mood; Cap and Bells.
=Watson, Mrs. Augusta [Campbell].= _N. Y._, 1862- ----. A novelist of Groton, Connecticut. The Old Harbor Town; Dorothy the Puritan; Off Lynnport Light; Beyond the City Gates. _Dut._
=Watson, Edward Willard.= _R. I._, 1843- ----. A physician and verse-writer of Philadelphia. Songs of Flying Hours; To-day and Yesterday. _Co._
=Watson, Thomas Edward.= _Ga._, 1856- ----. A Georgia lawyer and Congressman. The Story of France from the Earliest Times to the Consulate of Napoleon; Thomas Jefferson; Napoleon: a Sketch of his Life, Character, Struggles and Achievements; Bethany: a Study and a Story of the Old South. _Ap. Mac. Sm._
=Watson, William Franklin.= _Ont._, 1862- ----. A professor of chemistry in Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina. The Children of the Sun, and Miscellaneous Poems; Text-Book on Chemistry.
=Watt, David Alexander.= _E._, 1865- ----. A civil engineer in government service. The Improvement of Rivers (with B. F. Thomas), 1903. _Wil._
=Wayne, Henry Constantine.= _Ga._, 1815-1883. A brigadier-general in the Confederate service during the Civil War. A Manual of Sword Exercise.
=Webb, William Seward.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. Son of J. W. Webb (page 411). A New York physician, president of the Wagner Palace Car Company. California and Alaska over the Canadian Pacific Railway. _Put._
=Webber, Samuel Gilbert.= _Ms._, 1838- ----. A Boston physician. Cerebro-spinal Meningitis; Treatise on Nervous Diseases.
=Weber, Adna Ferrin.= _N. Y._, 1870- ----. The chief statistician of the New York State Department of Labour from 1901. The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century. _Mac._
=Weber, Henry Adam.= _O._, 1845- ----. State chemist of Ohio 1884-1897. Select Course in Qualitative Analysis.
=Weber, John Langdon.= _S. C._, 1862- ----. A Methodist clergyman, president of Kentucky Wesleyan College from 1901. History of South Carolina; History of Epworth League.
=Webster, Arthur Gordon.= _Ms._, 1863- ----. A professor of physics at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. The Theory of Electricity and Magnetism.
=Webster, Helen Livermore.= _Ms._, 1853- ----. A professor of comparative philology in Wellesley College from 1890. A Special Treatise on the Gutteral Question in Gothic.
=Webster, Henry Kitchell.= _Il._, 1875- ----. A story writer of Evanston, Illinois. The Short Line War (with S. Merwin); Calumet K. (with S. Merwin); The Banker and the Bear; The Story of a Corner in Land; Rogers Drake; The Duke of Cameron Avenue; Traitor and Loyalist. _Mac._
=Webster, John Clarence.= _N. B._, 1863- ----. An obstetrician of Chicago, among whose professional monographs are Text Book of Diseases of Women; Human Placentation. _Mac._
=Webster, William Clarence.= _Mch._, 1866- ----. A writer of New York city. General History of Commerce.
=Webster, William Franklin.= _Min._, 1862- ----. An educator, principal of the East High School of Minneapolis from 1893. English: Composition and Literature. _Hou._
=Weeden, (Miss) Howard.= _Al._, 18-- - ----. An artist and verse-writer of Huntsville, Alabama. Bandanna Ballads; Songs of the Old South; Old Voices. _Dou._
=Weeks, Robert Dodd.= _N. Y._, 1819-1898. An educator, but after 1860 an insurance clerk in Newark, New Jersey. Jehovah-Jesus, the Oneness of God; Genealogy of the Family of George Weekes (1885); The New Dispensation.
=Wegmann, Edward.= _B._, 1850- ----. A civil engineer of note. Design and Construction of Mason Dams; Water-Works of the City of New York; Design and Construction of Dams. _Wil._
=Weir, James.= _Ky._, 1856- ----. A physician of Owensboro, Kentucky, who besides contributing frequently to scientific periodicals has published Religion and Lust, or The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire; The Dawn of Reason, or Mental Traits in the Lower Animals. _Mac._
=Weitzel, Mrs. Sophie Winthrop [Shepherd].= 1840-1892. A writer of verse and fiction who published Miss Robert’s Fortune; The Harrington Girls; Sister and Saint; Renée of France; From Time to Time, a collection of verse. _Ran._
=Wellman, Francis Lewis.= _Ms._, 1854- ----. A lawyer of New York. The Art of Cross-Examination. _Mac._
=Wells, Amos Russell.= _N. Y._, 1862- ----. The managing editor of the Christian Endeavor World, among whose numerous publications are Golden Rule Meditations; Sermons in Stones; The Business Man’s Religion. _Rev._
=Wells, Benjamin W[illis].= _N. H._, 1856- ----. A professor of modern languages at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. Modern German Literature; Modern French Literature; A Century of French Fiction. He has also published a number of school texts in French and German, and philological and literary papers. _Do. Gi. Lit._
=Wells, Carolyn.= _N. J._, 186- - ----. A librarian, of Rahway, New Jersey, whose writing is largely of a humorous nature. Trotty’s Trip; Folly in the Forest; Abeniki Caldwell; Children of Our Town; A Phenomenal Fauna (with O. Herford, _supra_); Nonsense Anthology (edited); The Merry-Go-Round; Mother Goose’s Menagerie; Patty Fairfield; The Pete and Polly Stories; Eight Girls and a Dog; Patty at Home; The Staying Guest; Folly for the Wise; In the Reign of Queen Dick; A Parody Anthology. _Ap. Bo. Dou. Scr._
=Wells, David Dwight.= _Ct._, 1868-1900. Son of D. A. Wells (page 414). A littérateur of Norwich, Connecticut. Her Ladyship’s Elephant; His Lordship’s Leopard; Parlous Times.
=Wells, Horace Lemuel.= _Ct._, 1855- ----. A professor of chemistry at Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. Laboratory Guide in Qualitative Analysis; Fresenius’s Qualitative Analysis (translated).
=Wells, Webster.= _Ms._, 1851- ----. A Boston mathematician who has published a series of mathematical text-books. _He._
=Welsh, Charles.= _E._, 1850- ----. A publisher and writer. Publishing a Book; A Bookseller of the Last Century. _He. Dut._
=Wemyss= [weems], =Francis Courtney.= _E._, 1797-1859. A theatrical manager in New York city. Chronology of the American Stage, 1752-1852.
=Wenley, Robert Mark.= _S._, 1861- ----. A Scottish thinker and a leading exponent of the spiritual reaction in philosophy, professor of philosophy in the University of Michigan from 1896. Socrates and Christ; Aspects of Pessimism; Contemporary Theology and Theism; Introduction to Kant; Preparation for Christianity in the Ancient World. _Ho. Rev. Scr._
=Wentworth, George Albert.= _N. H._, 1835- ----. A Boston mathematician. Elements of Geometry; Elements of Algebra; Elements of Analytical Geometry. _Gi._
=Wentworth, John.= 1815-1888. A Chicago journalist of note. Early Chicago; Congressional Reminiscences; History of the Wentworth Family.
=Wesselhoeft, Lily F.= _See Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth (page 415)._
=West, Anson.= _N. C._, 1832- ----. A Methodist clergyman of Alabama. The State of the Dead; The Old and the New Man; History of Methodism in Alabama. _Lip._
=West, James Harcourt.= _Ms._, 1850- ----. A Boston publisher who has held several Unitarian pastorates. Holiday Idlers and Other Poems; Uplifts of Heart and Will; In Love With Love.
=West, Max.= _Min._, 1870- ----. A journalist of New York city. The Inheritance Tax. _Mac._
=West, Willis Mason.= _Min._, 1857- ----. Brother of M. West, _supra_. A professor of history in the University of Minnesota from 1892. Ancient History to Charlemagne; Modern History: Europe from Charlemagne to the Present Time. _Ap._
=Westcott, Edward Noyes.= _N. Y._, 1847-1898. A banker of Syracuse, whose David Harum, a Story of American Life, was published after his death and achieved a widespread popularity; The Teller is his only other book. _Ap._
=Weston, James Augustus.= _N. C._, 1838- ----. An Episcopal clergyman at Edenton, North Carolina. Historic Doubts as to the Execution of Marshall Ney. _Wh._
=Weston, Stephen Francis.= _Me._, 1855- ----. An educator; dean of Antioch College, Ohio, from 1902. Principles of Justice in Taxation.
=Wetmore, Claude Hazeltine.= _O._, 1862- ----. A novelist whose youth was passed in Peru. Fighting under the Southern Cross; Sweepers of the Sea; Incaland; In a Brazilian Jungle; The Battle against Bisbay. _Bo. We._
=Weyl, Walter Edward.= _Pa._, 1873- ----. An economist of Philadelphia. The Passenger Traffic of Railways (1901). _Gi._
=Wharton, Mrs. Edith Newbold [Jones].= _N. Y._, 1862- ----. A novelist of New York city. The Greater Inclination; Crucial Instances; The Valley of Decision; Sanctuary; The Touchstone; Italian Villas and their Gardens; The Descent of Man; The House of Mirth. _Scr._
=Wharton, Henry Redwood.= _Pa._, 1853- ----. A physician of Philadelphia. Text-Book on Minor Surgery and Bandaging; Practice of Surgery (with B. F. Curtis).
=Wheeler, Candace [Thurber].= _N. Y._, 18-- - ----. An artist of New York city. Double Darling and Other Fairy Tales; Household Art; Content in a Garden; Decorators and Decorating; Domestic Weavings. _Har. Hou._
=Wheeler, Charles Gilbert.= _Ont._, 1836- ----. A chemist of Chicago. Outlines of Modern Chemistry; Elementary Guide to Determinative Mineralogy; Outlines of Determinative Mineralogy; Medical Chemistry; Chemistry of Building Materials.
=Wheeler, Edward Jewitt.= _O._, 1859- ----. A New York prohibition editor. Stories in Rhyme for Holiday Time; Prohibition: the Principle, the Policy, the Party.
=Wheeler, Everett Pepperell.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A lawyer of New York city. The Modern Law of Carriers; Real Bimetallism. _Put. Rev._
=Wheeler, Henry.= _E._, 1835- ----. A Methodist clergyman of Ocean Grove, New Jersey. The Memory of the Just; Methodism and the Temperance Reformation; Rays of Light in the Valley of Sorrow; Deaconesses, Ancient and Modern. _Meth._
=Wheeler, Joseph.= _Ga._, 1836- ----. A noted cavalry officer, who served with distinction in the Confederate service during the Civil War, and in the army of the United States in the war with Spain. The Santiago Campaign; A Revised System of Military Tactics; Alabama, in Confederate military history.
=Wheeler, Post.= _N. Y._, 1869- ----. The Reflections of a Bachelor; The Writer; Love-in-a-Mist, a collection of verse.
=Whigham, Henry James.= _S._, 1869- ----. A journalist of New York city. How to Play Golf; the Persian Problem; Manchuria and Korea. _Scr. S._
=Whinery, Samuel.= _O._, 1845- ----. A civil engineer of New York city. Municipal Works. _Mac._
=Whipple, George Chandler.= _N. H._, 1866- ----. A chemist and sanitary expert of Brooklyn. Microscopy of Drinking Water. _Wil._
=Whipple, Henry Benjamin.= _N. Y._, 1823-1901. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, consecrated in 1859. The Indian Question; Lights and Shadows of a Long Episcopate. _Mac._
=Whitaker, Walter Claiborne.= _N. C._, 1867- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Jackson, Mississippi. Dives and Lazarus: Six Studies; History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Alabama.
=Whitaker, William Force.= _L. I._, 1853- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Albany. Swiss Travel; Southold’s Centuries.
=Whitcomb, Merrick.= _N. Y._, 1859- ----. An educator of Cincinnati. Source Book of the Renaissance; History of Modern Europe. _Ap. Lgs._
=White, Charles Joyce.= _Ms._, 1839- ----. A mathematician of Cambridge. Elements of Theoretical and Descriptive Astronomy. _Wil._
=White, Edwin Augustine.= _Ct._, 1854- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, now (1904) rector of Christ Church, Bloomfield, New Jersey, but in earlier life a lawyer. American Church Law.
=White, Eugene Richard.= _N. Y._, 1872- ----. Songs of Good Fighting.
=White, Frances Hodges.= _Me._, 1866- ----. Sea Tales; Helena’s Wonder World; Aunt Nabby’s Children.
=White, Henry Alexander.= _W. Va._, 1861- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of history in Washington and Lee University. The Origin of the Pentateuch in the Light of the Ancient Monuments; Robert E. Lee and the Southern Confederacy; History of the United States. _Put._
=White, Hervey.= _Ia._, 1866- ----. A novelist of Chicago. Differences; Quicksand; When Eve was Not Created and Other Stories; Noll and the Fairies.
=White, John Stuart.= _Ms._, 1847- ----. The head master of the Berkeley School in New York city. Boys’ and Girls’ Plutarch; Boys’ and Girls’ Herodotus; Boys’ and Girls’ Pliny; The Viking Ship. _Put. Scr._
=White, Richard Edward.= _I._, 1843- ----. A verse-writer of San Francisco. The Cross of Monterey, and Other Poems.
=White, Stewart Edward.= _Mch._, 1873- ----. A novelist. The Claim Jumpers; The Westerners; The Blazed Trail; The Magic Forest; The Great Silent Places; The Mountains; Blazed Trail Stories. _Ap. Scr._
=White, Trumbull.= _Ia._, 1868- ----. A Chicago journalist. Wizard of Wall Street; The War in the East (1895); Free Silver in Mexico (with W. E. Curtis); Our War with Spain; Our New Possessions; Martinique and the World’s Great Disasters.
=White, Wilbert Webster.= _O._, 1863- ----. A United Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Thirty Studies in the Gospel by John; Thirty Studies in the Revelation; Inductive Studies in the Minor Prophets; Thirty Studies in Jeremiah; Studies in Old Testament Characters; Thirty Studies in the Gospel by Matthew.
=Whitehouse, Mrs. Florence Brooks.= _Me._, 18- ----. A novelist of Portland, Maine. The God of Things, a novel; The House Party, a play. _Lit._
=Whitelock, Mrs. Louise [Clarkson].= “L. Clarkson.” _Md._, 1865- ----. The wife of a prominent lawyer of Baltimore. The Shadow of John Wallace, a novel; A Mad Madonna, short stories of art life; How Hindsight met Provincialatis, contrasted stories of North and South; besides books of verse with colour illustration, such as Indian Summer; The Rag Fair; Heartease, and others. _Pa._
=Whitham, Jay Manuel.= _Il._, 1853- ----. A consulting engineer in Philadelphia. Steam Engine Design; Constructive Steam Engineering. _Wil._
=Whitlock, Brand.= _O._, 1869- ----. A lawyer of Toledo, Ohio. The Thirteenth District; Her Infinite Variety; The Happy Average. _Bo._
=Whitman, William Edward Seaver.= _Me._, 1832- ----. A journalist of Augusta, Maine. The Ship Carpenter’s Family, a Story; The Wealth and Industry of Maine; Maine in the War for the Union.
=Whitmarsh, H[ubert] Phelps.= _Q._, 1863- ----. A Boston writer of stories, mainly for young people. The Young Pearl Divers; The Mysterious Voyage of the Daphne; The World’s Rough Hand; The Golden Talisman. _Pa. We._
=Whitney, Mrs. Belle Armstrong.= _Ms._, 1861- ----. A writer of New York city. The Art of Dress.
=Whitney, Mrs. Helen [Hay].= _N. Y._, 18- ----. Daughter of John Hay (page 177). The Rose of Dawn; Some Verses; Little Boy Blue; Beasts and Birds.
=Whitney, Henry Clay.= _Ms._, 1831- ----. A lawyer of Boston. Life on the Circuit with Lincoln; Marriage and Divorce.
=Whitson, John Harvey.= _Ind._, 1854- ----. A novelist of Somerville, Massachusetts. The Young Ditch Rider and Other Stories; Barbara, a Woman of the West; With Frémont, the Pathfinder; The Rainbow Chasers, a Story of the Plains. _Lit._
=Whitten, Robert Harvey.= _Ind._, 1873- ----. A librarian at Albany. Public Administration in Massachusetts; Taxation of Corporations in New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
=Wiechmann, Ferdinand Gerhard.= _L. I._, 1858- ----. A lecturer in chemistry in Columbia University from 1883. Sugar Analysis; Lecture Notes on Theoretical Chemistry; Chemistry: Its Evolution and Achievements; The Maid of Montauk. _Wil._
=Wiener, Leo.= _R._, 1862- ----. A professor of Slavic languages at Harvard University. History of Yiddish Literature; Songs from the Ghetto; Anthology of Russian Literature. _Put._
=Wigmore, John Henry.= _Cal._, 1863- ----. A jurist and dean of the law school of Northwestern University from 1901. Digest of the Decisions of the Massachusetts Railway Commission; The Australian Ballot System; Land Tenure and Local Institutions in Old Japan; Materials for the Study of Private Law in Old Japan.