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Chaffin, William Ladd. Me., 1837- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Easton, Massachusetts, whose History of Easton is of notable excellence.

Chaillé, Stanford Emerson. Mi., 1830- ——. A prominent physician of New Orleans. Yellow Fever in Havana and Cuba; Laws of Population and Voters; Living, Dying, Registering, and Voting Population of Louisiana; Intimidation of Voters in Louisiana; Origin and Progress of Medical Jurisprudence, 1776-1876.

Chalkley, Thomas. E., 1675-1741. A Quaker itinerant preacher born in London, who spent his life preaching throughout New England and the Southern colonies. His writings, consisting of religious tracts and a Journal of his experiences, published as Life, Labours, and Travels, are noted for their quaint simplicity. His Journal has been very popular among the Friends, and has been several times reprinted. See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 9.

Chalmers, Lionel. S., c. 1715-1777. A once noted physician of Charleston. Treatise on the Weather and Diseases of South Carolina; Essay on Fevers.

Chamberlain, Jacob. Ct., 1835- ——. A Reformed Dutch missionary to India. The Bible Tested is his most important work.

Chamberlain, Nathan Henry. Ms., 1830-1901. An Episcopal clergyman of Massachusetts, whose principal writings include The Autobiography of a New England Farm House; Samuel Sewell and the World he Lived In; The Sphinx in Aubrey Parish.

Chamberlayne, Israel. N. Y., 1795-1875. A Methodist clergyman. The Past and the Future; The Australian Captive; Saving Faith: its Rationale; The Great Specific against Despair of Pardon. Meth.

Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar. Vt., 1851- ——. A Boston journalist on the staffs of The Transcript and the Youth’s Companion. The Listener in the Town; The Listener in the Country. Cop.

Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder. Il., 1843- ——. A prominent geologist of Wisconsin. Outline of a Course of Oral Instruction; Geology of Wisconsin.

Chambers, Charles Julius. O., 1850- ——. A journalist long connected with the New York Herald. A Mad World and its Inhabitants, a description of lunatic asylums founded on the author’s personal experience in one in disguise; On a Margin, a Story of These Times; Lovers Four and Maidens Five, a Story. Ap. Fu.

Chambers, Robert William. L. I., 1865- ——. A novelist and artist of New York city. In the Quarter; The King in Yellow; The Red Republic; The Maker of Moons; The Mystery of Choice; A King and a Few Dukes; With the Band, a book of ballads. Ne. Put. St.

Chambers, Talbot Wilson. Pa., 1819-1896. A noted Reformed Dutch clergyman of New York city. The Noon Prayer Meeting in Fulton Street; Memoir of Theodore Frelinghuysen; The Psalter a Witness to the Divine Origin of the Bible; Companion to the Revised Version of the Old Testament. Fu.

Champlin, James Tifft. Ct., 1811-1882. A Baptist clergyman of Portland, Maine, president of Colby University, 1857-73. First Principles of Ethics; Lessons on Political Economy; Text-Book of Intellectual Philosophy; Scripture Reading Lessons; The Constitution of the United States, with Brief Comments; and a series of classical text-books. See Bibliography of Maine.

Champlin, John Denison. Ct., 1834- ——. A littérateur of New York city. Young Folks’ Cyclopædia of Common Things; Young Folks’ Cyclopædia of Persons and Places; Young Folks’ History of the War for the Union; Young Folks’ Catechism of Common Things; Young Folks’ Cyclopædia of Games and Sports; Young Folks’ Astronomy; Chronicle of the Coach: Charing Cross to Ilfracombe. With W. F. Apthorp, supra, he has edited a Cyclopædia of Music and Musicians, and with C. C. Perkins, infra, a Cyclopædia of Painters and Paintings. Ho. Scr.

Champney, Mrs. Elizabeth [Williams]. O., 1850- ——. A popular New York writer for young people, and wife of the artist, J. Wells Champney, who has illustrated many of her books. The Three Vassar Girls Series; The Witch Winnie Books; The Bubbling Teapot; Howling Wolf and his Trick-Pony; All Around a Palette; Children’s Art Sketches; In the Sky Garden; Fables in Astronomy, and other juveniles; and the novels, Bourbon Lilies; Sebia’s Tangled Web; Rosemary and Rue. Do. Est. Lo. Ran.

Chancellor, Charles Williams. Va., 1833- ——. An eminent physician of Baltimore. Prisons, Reformatories, and Charitable Institutions of Maryland; Mineral Waters and Seaside Resorts; Contagious and Infectious Diseases; Drainage of the Marsh Lands of Maryland; Heredity; The Sewerage of Cities.

Chandler, Bessie. See Parker, Mrs.

Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Del., 1807-1835. A verse-writer whose themes were mainly those relating to the subject of anti-slavery, in which she was greatly interested. See Poetical Works and Essays, with Memoir by Benjamin Lundy.

Chandler, Peleg Whitman. Me., 1816-1889. A prominent lawyer of Boston. The Bankrupt Law of the United States; American Criminal Trials; Memoir of Governor Andrew; Observations on the Authenticity of the Gospels. Rob.

Chaney, George Leonard. Ms., 1836- ——. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor of the Hollis Street Church in Boston, 1862-79, and subsequently pastor in Atlanta, Georgia, where he edited the Southern Unitarian, 1893-96. F. Grant & Co., a story for boys; Tom, a Home Story; Aloha, travels in the Sandwich Islands; Every Day Life and Every Day Morals; Belief. Rob.

Chaney, Lucien West. N. Y., 1857- ——. A naturalist, professor of biology in Carleton College, Minnesota, since 1882, and author of Guides for the Laboratory.

Chanler, Mrs. Amélie Rives. See Troubetzkoy.

Channing, Edward. Ms., 1856- ——. Son of W. E. Channing, 2d. A professor of history at Harvard University since 1883. Guide to the Study of American History (with A. B. Hart, infra); Town and County Government of the English Colonies of North America; Narragansett Planters; The United States of America, 1765-1865. Gi. Mac.

Channing, Edward Tyrrel. R. I., 1790-1856. Brother of W. E. Channing, infra. A professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard University. Life of William Ellery; Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory (with Memoir by R. H. Dana, Jr.).

Channing, Walter. R. I., 1786-1876. Brother of W. E. Channing, infra. A physician of prominence in Boston for many years, and medical professor in Harvard University. The Prevention of Pauperism; Etherization in Childbirth; Professional Reminiscences of Foreign Travel; New and Old; Miscellaneous Poems; A Physician’s Vacation, or A Summer in Europe; Reformation of Medical Science.

Channing, William Ellery. R. I., 1780-1842. A Unitarian theologian of eminence, who became pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston in 1803. He was the foremost theologian in America in his time, and his influence is still great. He wrote upon philanthropic and social as well as religious and ethical questions, and was a noted opponent of slavery. His writings have been translated into French, Italian, German, Icelandic, Russian, and Hungarian. Evidences of Revealed Religion; Self-Culture; Essay on Milton; The Duty of the Free States, are among his most notable works. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Lives by W. H. Channing, infra; C. T. Brooks, supra; Reminiscences by Miss Peabody; Correspondence of Channing and Lucy Aikin; New England Magazine, December, 1896. A. U. A.

Channing, William Ellery. Ms., 1818-1901. Son of W. Channing, supra. A poet and essayist of Concord, Massachusetts, who married a sister of Margaret Fuller, infra. His verse is thoroughly original in tone and more or less willful in form. His work in verse includes The Youth of the Painter, a series of psychological essays; Poems 1843-47; The Woodman; The Wanderer; Near Home; Eliot; John Brown; Thoreau, the Poet Naturalist; Conversations in Rome between an Artist, a Catholic, and a Critic, are prose volumes.

Channing, William Francis. Ms., 1820-1901. Son of W. E. Channing, 1st. A physician, scientist, and inventor. Davis’s Manual of Magnetism; Medical Application of Electricity; The American Fire Alarm Telegraph.

Channing, William Henry. Ms., 1810-1884. Nephew of W. E. Channing. A Unitarian clergyman who settled in England, and succeeded James Martineau as pastor of the Unitarian Chapel in Hope Street, Liverpool. The Christian Church and Social Reform; Memoirs of Wm. E. Channing; Memoirs of James H. Perkins; Memoirs of Margaret Fuller (with R. W. Emerson and J. F. Clarke). A. U. A.

Chapin, Aaron Lucius. Ct., 1817-1892. A Congregational clergyman of Wisconsin, who was president of Beloit College, 1849-86. First Principles of Political Economy.

Chapin, Alonzo Bowen. Ct., 1808-1858. An Episcopal clergyman of Hartford. Classical Spelling-Book; Organization and Order of the Primitive Church; Views of Gospel Truth; Glastenbury for 200 Years (1853); Puritanism not Protestantism.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbell. N. Y., 1814-1881. A Universalist clergyman of New York city, long the foremost preacher in his denomination. The Crown of Thorns; Humanity in the City; Christianity the Perfection of True Manliness; Moral Aspects of City Life; Discourses on the Lord’s Prayer; Hours of Communion; Token for the Sorrowing; Characters in the Gospels. See Life, by Sumner Ellis.

Chapin, James Henry. Ind., 1832-1892. A Universalist clergyman and educator, professor of geology in St. Lawrence University, 1871-92. Sketches of the Huguenots; The Creation and Early Development of Mankind; From Japan to Granada, a Tour Around the World. See Life of, by G. S. Weaver. Put.

Chaplin, Mrs. Ada C. Ms., 1842-1883. A Massachusetts writer of religious juveniles, some of which are Christ’s Cadets; Charity Hurlburt; Our Gold Mine, the Story of American Baptist Missions in India.

Chaplin, Heman White. R. I., 1847- ——. Son of J. Chaplin, 2d. A lawyer of Boston, whose Five Hundred Dollars, and Other Stories of New England Life, are exceptionally faithful and delicate studies of character, and rank among the foremost of American short stories. Lit.

Chaplin, Mrs. Jane [Dunbar]. S., 1819-1884. Wife of J. Chaplin, 2d, infra, and daughter of Duncan Dunbar. Among her various writings, mainly religious juveniles, are The Transplanted Shamrock; Black and White; The Convent and the Manse.

Chaplin, Jeremiah. Ms., 1776-1841. A Baptist clergyman and educator, the first president of Colby University, 1822-33. The Evening of Life.

Chaplin, Jeremiah. Ms., 1813-1886. Son of J. Chaplin, supra. A Baptist clergyman of Newton, Massachusetts, who after leaving the ministry devoted himself to literary pursuits in Boston. The Memorial Hour; The Hand of Jesus; Riches of Bunyan; Life of Henry Dunster, First President of Harvard College; Chips from the White House; Life of Benjamin Franklin; Life of Galen; Life of Duncan Dunbar; Life of Charles Sumner (with Jane Chaplin). Lo.

Chapman, Alvan Wentworth. Ms., 1809-1899. A botanist for whom the genus Chapmannia was named. Flora of the Southern United States.

Chapman, George Thomas. E., 1786-1872. An Episcopal clergyman. Sketches of Alumni of Dartmouth College from 1771-1868.

Chapman, Henry Cadwalader. Pa., 1845- ——. Grandson of N. Chapman, infra. A physician of Philadelphia. Evolution of Life; History of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood.

Chapman, Nathaniel. Va., 1780-1853. A Philadelphia physician and professor of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, 1814-50. Materia Medica and Therapeutics, long a valued text-book; Select Speeches (edited); Lectures on Eruptive Fevers, Hemorrhages and Dropsies; Lectures on Thoracic Viscera. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.

Charles, Mrs. Emily [Thornton]. Ind., 1845-189-. A Washington journalist who published two volumes of verse. Hawthorn Blossoms; Lyrical Poems. Lip.

Chase, George. Me., 1849- ——. A professor of criminal law at Columbia College. The American Students’ Blackstone.

Chase, George Wingate. Ms., 1826-1867. A native and resident of Haverhill, Massachusetts. History of Haverhill, 1640-1860; The Freemason’s Monitor; Masonic Dictionary and Manual of Masonic Law; Tactics for Knights Templars and Appendant Authors.

Chase, Irah. Vt., 1793-1864. A Baptist clergyman of prominence who founded the theological seminary at Newton Centre, Massachusetts, and was professor there, 1825-45. Life of Bunyan; Design of Baptism; The Jewish Tabernacle; Infant Baptism an Invention of Men; The Constitutions of the Holy Apostles, are his principal works.

Chase, Lucien B. Vt., 1817-1864. A member of Congress from Tennessee, who wrote the History of Polk’s Administration.

Chase, Philander. N. H., 1775-1852. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio, and, later, of Illinois. He founded Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio. A Plea for the West; Defence of Kenyon College; Reminiscences.

Chase, Pliny Earle. Ms., 1820-1886. An educator and scientist of Philadelphia. Numerical Relations of Gravity and Magnetism; Elements of Meteorology; Elements of Arithmetic; Common School Arithmetic.

Chase, Thomas. Ms., 1827-1892. Brother of P. E. Chase, supra. An educator of Pennsylvania, and president of Haverford College. He was co-editor with George Stuart of a series of classical text-books, and also published Hellas, her Monuments and Scenery, descriptive of his travels in Greece.

Chatard, Francis Silas Marean. Md., 1834- ——. The Roman Catholic bishop of Vincennes. Christian Truths.

Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart Chatfield. Il., 1865- ——. A novelist of Chicago. With Edge Tools; An American Peeress; Two Women and a Fool; The Land of the Castanet.

Chauncy [chän´sĭ or chaun´sĭ], Charles. E., 1592-1672. A Puritan clergyman, vicar of Ware, 1627-35. He came to America in 1638, and was 13 years minister at Scituate. He was the second president of Harvard College, succeeding Henry Dunster in 1654. His most important work is a series of Twenty-Six Sermons on Justification. Antisynodalia Scripta America, a controversial pamphlet, appeared in 1662. See Tyler’s American Literature; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 10.

Chauncy, Charles. Ms., 1705-1787. Great-grandson of C. Chauncy, supra. A Congregational clergyman of Boston. A vigourous, logical thinker, who exercised a great influence upon colonial thought. Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New England; Discourse on Enthusiasm, directed against Whitefield, of whose teachings he was a strong opponent; Letters to Whitefield; Complete View of Episcopacy; The Mystery hid from the Ages; Benevolence of the Deity; Five Dissertations on the Fall and its Consequences; Validity of Presbyterian Ordination, comprise his principal works. See Tyler’s American Literature; Chauncy Memorials.

Chauvenet [shō-ve-nay´], William. Pa., 1820-1870. A mathematician who was chancellor of Washington University, St. Louis, 1862-69. Binomial Theorem and Logarithms; Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy; Elementary Geometry. See Memoir, 1877. Lip.

Checkley, John. Ms., 1680-1753. An Episcopal clergyman of Rhode Island, noted in his day for his witty, reckless attacks on his theological opponents. Choice Dialogues about Predestination.

Cheetham, James. E., 1772-1810. An English journalist who came to America in 1798, and became editor of The American Citizen. Nine Letters on Burr’s Defection; Reply to Aristides; Life of Thomas Paine, a work written from a hostile point of view.

Cheever, Ezekiel. E., 1615-1708. A colonial educator of Boston, who was master of the Latin School for many years. Scripture Prophecies Explained, an essay on the millennium; Latin Accidence, for a century a standard introductory Latin text-book in New England.

Cheever, George Barrell. Me., 1807-1890. A noted Congregational clergyman of New York city. Deacon Giles’s Distillery; Studies in Poetry; Wanderings of a Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc; Lectures on Pilgrim’s Progress; Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth; God Against Slavery; Incidents and Memories of the Christian Life; The Guilt of Slavery; The Republic or the Oligarchy, Which?; Faith, Doubt, and Evidence; God’s Timepiece for Man’s Eternity; Lectures on Cowper; Windings of the River of the Water of Life, include his principal writings. Ran. Wi.

Cheever, Henry Theodore. Me., 1814-1897. Brother of G. B. Cheever, supra. A Congregational clergyman. Way Marks in the Moral War with Slavery; Correspondences of Faith and Views of Madame Guyon; The Island World of the Pacific; Life in the Sandwich Islands; The Whale and his Captors; The Pulpit and the Pew; Life of Nathaniel Cheever; Life of Walter Colton, infra; Captain Caugar. Har.

Chellis, Mary Dwinell. See Lund, Mrs.

Cheney, Mrs. Ednah Dow [Littlehale]. Ms., 1824-1904. A Boston writer, associated in early life with the prominent New England transcendentalists, who was long active in the woman-suffrage movement, and whose writing had more or less to do with philosophical themes. Her principal works comprise Hand-book of American History for Coloured People; Faithful to the Light, and Other Tales; Stories of the Olden Time; Gleanings in the Fields of Art; Life of Louisa Alcott, supra; Life of Christian Daniel Rauch, Sculptor; Memoir of John Cheney, Engraver; Memoir of Dr. Susan Dimock; Nora’s Return, a sequel to Ibsen’s Doll’s House; Sally Williams, the Mountain Girl.

Cheney, Mrs. Harriet Vaughan [Foster]. Ms., c. 1815- ——. Daughter of Hannah Foster, infra. Confessions of an Early Martyr; A Peep at the Pilgrims in 1636; The Rivals of Acadia; Sketches from the Life of Christ; The Sunday School, or Village Sketches (with her sister, Mrs. Cushing).

Cheney, John Vance. N. Y., 1848- ——. Son of S. P. Cheney, infra. A poet and essayist, for some years at the head of the public library in San Francisco, and now (1897) librarian of the Newberry Library in Chicago. His work in verse includes Thistle Drift; Wood Blooms; Queen Helen, and Other Poems. In prose, The Old Doctor, a Romance of Queer Village; The Golden Guess, a series of critical essays; That Dome in Air, a similar collection of critical studies. Ap. Cop. Le. Mg. Sto. Wy.

Cheney, Simeon Pease. N. H., 1818-1890. A once noted musical educator of Vermont. The American Singing Book; Wood Notes Wild, notations of Bird Music. Le.

Cheney, Theseus Apoleon. N. Y., 1830-1878. A writer who devoted his attention to the history of the western portion of his native State. Report on the Ancient Monuments of Western New York; Historical Sketch of the Chemung Valley; Historical Sketch of 18 Counties of Central and Southern New York; Laron; Relations of Government to Science; Antiquarian Researches.

Chenoweth, Mrs. Caroline [Van Dusen]. Ind., 1846- ——. A teacher of literature in Boston and New York. Stories of the Saints. Hou.

Chesebro [cheez´brō], Caroline. N. Y., 1825-1873. A writer of stories and sketches who was during the latter part of her life a teacher in the Packer Institute of Brooklyn. Her writing displays much individuality, and the novel, The Foe in the Household, her finest work, is a careful study of some unfamiliar phases of Pennsylvania life. Her other works include The Beautiful Gate and Other Sketches; Peter Carradine; The Children of Light; Susan the Fisherman’s Daughter; The Little Cross Bearers; Dream-Land by Daylight; Philly and Kit; Victoria; Amy Carr; The Glen Cabin.

Chester, Albert Huntington. N. Y., 1843- ——. A professor of chemistry and metallurgy at Rutgers College. Dictionary of the Names of Minerals; Catalogue of Minerals with their Chemical Composition and Synonyms. Wil.

Chester, Frederick Dixon Walthall. W. I., 1861- ——. A geologist of Delaware who has written many monographs upon local state geology.

Chester, Joseph Lemuel. Ct., 1821-1882. A Philadelphia journalist who went to England in 1858, living in London, and devoting himself to antiquarian research till he became one of the most famous genealogists of his day. His own writings include Greenwood Cemetery and Other Poems; Treatise on the Laws of Repulsion; Educational Laws of Virginia: the personal narrative of Margaret Douglass, imprisoned for the crime of teaching free coloured children to read; John Rogers, the Compiler of the English Bible; Preliminary Investigation of the Alleged Ancestry of George Washington. His most important antiquarian work is an edition of the Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of Westminster Abbey, with notes, on which he spent 17 years’ labour. He edited also the parish registers of six London city churches. See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. x.

Chickering, Jesse. N. H., 1797-1855. A Boston physician who was a Unitarian minister in his earlier career, and later became a noted writer on political economy. Statistical View of the Population of Massachusetts, 1765-1840; Emigration into the United States; Reports on the Census of Boston; Letter to the President on Slavery in Relation to Constitutional Government in Great Britain and the United States.

Chickering, John White. Ms., 1808-1888. A Congregational clergyman of Portland, Maine, 1835-65. What it is to Believe in Christ, a very widely circulated tract; The Hillside Church.

Child, Francis James. Ms., 1825-1896. A professor at Harvard University, 1851-96, and the foremost authority upon all matters pertaining to ballad literature. He edited the American edition of The British Poets, in 130 volumes; English and Scottish Popular Ballads; The Debate between the Body and the Soul, and other specimens of mediæval literature. As a Chaucerian scholar he had few equals. Observations on the Language of Chaucer; Observations on the Language of Gower’s Confessio Amantis. See Atlantic Monthly, December, 1896. Hou.

Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria [Francis]. Ms., 1802-1880. A once famous writer whose literary career began with the publication of Hobomok, a Tale of Early Times, in 1821, and closed with Aspirations of the World, in 1878. In 1833 she sacrificed much of her popularity by her Appeal for that Class of Americans Called Africans, and was ever after prominent as an abolitionist, assisting her husband in editing the National Anti-Slavery Standard. Among her other works are included The Rebels, a novel in which occur a speech by James Otis and a sermon by Whitefield, long supposed to be real and not imaginary; The First Settlers of New England; The Mother’s Book; The Girl’s Book; Philothea, a Greek romance; The Power of Kindness; Isaac T. Hopper, a True Life, a popular biography of a noted Quaker abolitionist; The Progress of Religious Ideas; Autumnal Leaves; Looking Toward Sunset; The Freedman’s Book; Miria, a Romance of the Republic. See Letters of; Lowell’s Fable for Critics. Hou. Rob.

Childs, George William. Md., 1829-1894. A noted journalist of Philadelphia who established the Public Ledger in 1864. Recollections of General Grant; Personal Recollections. Lip.

Chiles, Mrs. Mary Eliza [Hicks] [Hemdin]. Ky., 1820- ——. Among her writings are Louisa Elton, a reply to “Uncle Tom;” Bandits of Italy; Oswyn Dudley; Select Poems.

Chipman, Nathaniel. Ct., 1752-1843. A Vermont jurist who was professor of law at Middlebury College, 1816-43. Sketches of the Principles of Law; Reports and Dissertations. See Life, by D. Chipman, 1846.

Chittenden, Lucius Eugene. Vt., 1824-1900. A lawyer of New York city. Personal Reminiscences, 1840-1890; Recollections of Lincoln and his Administration; An Unknown Heroine, an historical episode of the War between the States; The Capture of Ticonderoga. Do. Har.

Chittenden, Russell Henry. Ct., 1856- ——. A professor of chemistry in the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University. Studies from the Laboratory of Physiology and Chemistry in Sheffield Scientific School; On Digestive Proteolysis.

Chivers, Thomas Holley. 1807-1858. A Georgia physician and versifier. Virginalia, or Songs of my Summer Nights; Atlanta, a Paul Epic in Three Lustra; Eonchs of Ruby.

Choate, Isaac Bassett. Me., 1833- ——. An educator of Boston. Elements of English Speech; Wells of English. Ap. Rob.

Choate, Rufus. Ms., 1799-1859. A lawyer of Boston and member of Congress, 1841-45, famous for his gifts as an orator, a distinguishing feature of his style being an extravagant use of long sentences. Addresses and Orations. See Memoir, by S. G. Brown, supra, 1862; Some Recollections of, by E. P. Whipple; Memoirs, by Neilson, 1884. Lit.

Chopin, Mrs. Kate [O’Flaherty]. Mo., 1851-1904. A writer of St. Louis. Bayou Folk; At Fault, a novel. Hou.

Choules [chōlz], John Overton. E., 1801-1856. A Baptist clergyman of Newport. History of Missions; Christian Offering; Young Americans Abroad; Cruise of Steam Yacht North Star.

Church, Albert Ensign. Ct., 1807-1878. A mathematical professor at West Point, 1833-78. Elements of Differential Calculus; Elements of the Calculus of Variations; Elements of Analytical Geometry; Elements of Descriptive Geometry; Elements of Analytical Trigonometry.

Church, Benjamin. Ms., 1639-1718. A famous colonial soldier, the conqueror of King Philip, and the founder of Little Compton, Rhode Island. Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip’s War is a personal narrative of his adventures. See edition by Dexter, 1867; History of the Eastern Expeditions against the Indians and French.

Church, Benjamin. R. I., 1734-1776. A Boston physician of considerable note as a political satirist and versifier. The Times, a political satire; Elegy on Dr. Mayhew; Address to a Provincial Bashaw; Elegy on the Death of Whitefield, comprise his chief poems.

Church, Mrs. Ella Rodman [MacIlvane]. N. Y., 1831- ——. A popular and prolific writer of miscellaneous works, among which are Flights of Fancy; Grandmother’s Recollections; The Catanese; Christmas Wreath; Golden Days; Flyers and Crawlers, or Talks about Insects; Talks by the Seashore; Among the Trees at Elmridge; Flower Talks at Elmridge; Home Animals; Some Useful Animals; How to Furnish a Home; Money-Making for Ladies. Ap. Har.

Church, Irving Porter. Ct., 1851- ——. A professor of engineering at Cornell University. Statics and Dynamics for Engineering Students; Mechanics of Materials; Hydraulics and Pneumatics, three works which were afterwards published as Mechanics of Engineering; Notes and Examples in Mechanics. Wil.

Church, John Adams. N. Y., 1843- ——. Son of P. Church, infra. A mining engineer of note. The Mining Schools of the United States; Notes on a Metallurgical Journey in Europe; The Comstock Lode; Report on the Striking of Artesian Water, Arizona.

Church, Pharcellus. N. Y., 1801-1886. A Baptist clergyman of prominence. Philosophy of Benevolence; Religious Dissensions, their Cause and Cure; Antioch, or Increase of Moral Power in the Church; Mapleton, or More Work for the Maine Law; Seed-Truths; Theodosia.

Church, Samuel Harden. Pa., 1858- ——. A Pittsburg writer, the author of Oliver Cromwell, a careful historical study. Put.

Chute, Horatio Nelson. Ont., 1847- ——. A mathematical educator of Michigan. Complete School Register; Arithmetical Cabinet; Manual of Practical Physics.

Cist, Henry Martyn. O., 1839-1902. A Cincinnati lawyer who served in the Federal army during the Civil War and became brigadier-general. The Army of the Cumberland.

Cist, Lewis Jacob. O., 1818-1885. Brother of H. M. Cist, supra. A banker of St. Louis and Cincinnati who published Trifles in Verse.

Claflin, Mrs. Mary Bucklin [Davenport]. Ms., 1825-1896. A Boston writer, the wife of ex-Governor Claflin, of Massachusetts. Brampton Sketches; Personal Recollections of Whittier; Real Happenings; Under the Elms. Cr.

Claiborne [klā´burn], John Francis Hamtramck. Mi., 1809-1884. A journalist of New Orleans. Mississippi as a Province, Territory, and State; Life of General Dale, the Mississippi Partisan; Life of General Quitman. Har.

Claiborne, John Herbert. Va., 1828- ——. A physician of Virginia. Diphtheria; Dysmenorrhea; Clinical Reports from Private Practice.

Claiborne, Nathaniel Herbert. Va., 1777-1859. Uncle of J. F. H. Claiborne, supra. A Virginia congressman. Notes on the War in the South (1819).

Clap, Nathaniel. Ms., 1669-1745. A clergyman of Newport, of some distinction in his day. Advice to Children; The Lord’s Voice Crying to the People in some Extraordinary Dispensations.

Clap, Roger. E., 1609-1691. A colonist of Dorchester, whose Memoirs, written for his children, have been several times reprinted, and possess considerable historical value. They were first edited and published by Thomas Prince, infra, 1731.

Clap, Thomas. Ms., 1703-1767. A Congregational clergyman of distinction, president of Yale College, 1740-66. The Nature and Foundation of Moral Virtue and Obligation; History of Yale College; Vindication of the Doctrines of New England Churches; Nature and Motion of Meteors; The Religious Constitutions of Colleges, especially Yale, comprise his chief works. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.

Clapp, Theodore. Ms., 1792-1866. A Unitarian minister of New Orleans for many years. Autobiographical Sketches of 35 Years’ Residence in New Orleans; Theological Views; Slavery, a Sermon.

Clark, Alexander. O., 1834-1879. A Methodist Protestant clergyman of Pittsburg. The Old Log Schoolhouse; Workaday Christianity; The Red Sea Freedman; School Day Dialogues; The Gospel in the Trees; Rambles in Europe; Starting Out, a Story of the Ohio Hills; Ripples on the River, a collection of verses.

Clark, Alonzo Howard. Ms., 1850- ——. A naturalist in the United States National Museum at Washington, who has published Statistics of Fisheries of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut; Statistics of Fisheries of Massachusetts; History of the Mackerel Fishery.

Clark, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Vt., 1822-1899. A physician, at one time collector of customs at Oswego. The Commonwealth Reconstructed is his only book.

Clark, Charles Heber. “Max Adeler.” Md., 1841- ——. A Philadelphia journalist, author of several works of a humourous character which have been popular, though their literary merit is slight. Out of the Hurly Burly; Elbow Room, a Novel without a Plot; Random Shots; Fortunate Island and Other Stories.

Clark, Davis Wasgatt. Me., 1812-1871. A Methodist bishop of some note as a preacher. Mental Discipline; Death-Bed Scenes; Man all Immortal; Life of Bishop Hedding; Sermons; Elements of Algebra. Meth.

Clark, Edson Lyman. Ms., 1827- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts. The Arabs and the Turks; The Races of European Turkey; Turkey; Fundamental Questions chiefly relating to Genesis and the Hebrew Scriptures. Do.

Clark, Francis Edward. Q., 1851- ——. A Congregational minister who during his pastorate in Portland, Maine, in 1881, established the Christian Endeavour Society. Danger Signals, the Enemies of Youth; Looking out on Life, a book for girls; Our Vacations, where to Go, etc.; Young People’s Prayer Meeting in Theory and Practice; The Children and the Church; Mossback Correspondence; Our Business Boys; Ways and Means, a history of the Christian Endeavour movement. Fu. Lo.

Clark, George Hunt. Ms., 1809-1881. An iron merchant of Hartford, of local fame as a verse-writer. Now and Then; The News; Undertow of a Trade Wind Surf.

Clark, George Whitfield. N. J., 1831- ——. A Baptist clergyman of New Jersey. Harmony of the Four Gospels in English; Notes on Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; Harmonic Arrangement of the Acts of the Apostles; Brief Notes on the New Testament; History of the First Baptist Church in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Clark, Henry James. Ms., 1826-1873. A naturalist of Cambridge. Mind in Nature; A Claim for Scientific Property.

Clark, James Gowdy. N. Y., 1830-1897. A verse-writer and composer of San Francisco. Poetry and Song.

Clark, James Henry. N. Y., 1814-1869. A physician of Newark, New Jersey. History of the Cholera in Newark in 1847; Sight and Hearing, how Preserved, how Lost; Medical Topography of Newark; The Medical Men of New Jersey in Essex District, 1666-1866.

Clark, John Alonzo. Ms., 1801-1843. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia. The Young Disciple; The Pastor’s Testimony; A Walk about Zion; Gathered Fragments; Awake, Thou Sleeper; Glimpses of the Old World.

Clark, John Bates. R. I., 1847- ——. A political economist, professor of political economy in Columbia College. Capital and its Earnings; The Philosophy of Wealth. Gi.

Clark, Mrs. Kate [Upson]. Al., 1851- ——. A journalist of Brooklyn, who has written mainly for young people. That Mary Ann. Lo.

Clark, Lewis Gaylord. N. Y., 1810-1873. A once prominent magazinist of New York city, and editor of the Knickerbocker Magazine. Knick-Knacks is a collection of brief sketches contributed to that periodical.

Clark, Mrs. Mary [Latham]. Me., 1831- ——. A New England writer of religious juveniles, among which are The Mayflower Series; Daisy’s Mission.

Clark, Nathaniel George. Vt., 1825-1896. The foreign secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions from 1866. In earlier life he was of some note as an educator, and published Elements of the English Language. Scr.

Clark, Rufus Wheelwright. Ms., 1813-1886. Brother of Thomas M. Clark, infra. A Reformed Dutch clergyman of Albany. Among his more than a hundred publications are Lectures to Young Men; Heaven and its Scriptural Emblems; Life Scenes of the Messiah; Romanism in America; The African Slave Trade; Heroes of Albany.

Clark, Simeon Taylor. Ms., 1836-1891. A physician of Lockport, and professor of medical jurisprudence in Niagara University. My Garden.

Clark, Mrs. Susanna Rebecca Graham. N. S., 1848- ——. A writer of Portland, Maine, who has written much juvenile literature. Yensie Walton; Our Street; The Triple E.; Achor; Herbert Gardenell’s Children; Tom’s Street; Go’s Goings. Lo.

Clark, Theodore Minot. Ms., 1845- ——. An architect in Boston, formerly instructor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Architect, Owner and Builder before the Law; Building Superintendence; Rural School Architecture. Mac.

Clark, Thomas. Pa., 1787-1866. An educator of Philadelphia. Naval History of the United States from the Commencement of the Revolutionary War, 1814; Sketches of United States Naval History.

Clark, Thomas March. Ms., 1812-1903. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Rhode Island, and prominent among theologians of the Broad Church school. Primary Truths; The Dew of Youth and Other Lectures to Young Men and Women; Early Discipline and Culture; The Efficient Sunday School Teacher; Reminiscences. Ap. Wh.

Clark, Willis Gaylord. N. Y., 1810-1841. Twin brother of L. G. Clark, supra. A now forgotten verse-writer. See Literary Remains, with Memoir by L. G. Clark; Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.

Clarke, Dorus. Ms., 1799-1884. A Congregational clergyman of Boston. Letters to Horace Mann; Oneness of the Christian Church; Orthodox Congregationalism and the Sects; Saying the Catechism 75 Years Ago and the Historical Results; Review of the Oberlin Council; Letters to Young People in Manufacturing Villages; Revision of the English Version of the Bible; Essay on the Tri-Unity of God.

Clarke, Edward Hammond. Ms., 1820-1877. A prominent physician and medical writer of Boston. Sex in Education; The Building of a Brain; Visions: a Study of False Sight; Nature and Treatment of Polypus of the Ear. Hou.

Clarke, Frank Wigglesworth. Ms., 1847- ——. Chief chemist of the United States Geological Survey at Washington. Weights, Measures, and Money of All Nations; Elements of Chemistry. Ap.

Clarke, Isaac Edwards. Ms., 1830- ——. A lawyer in the United States Civil Service since 1871. Tribute to Bayard Taylor; Industrial and High Art Education in the United States.

Clarke, James Freeman. N. H., 1810-1888. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, who founded there the Church of the Disciples, and was its pastor from 1841 till his death. He was especially prominent among Unitarian writers of the latter half of the century, the tone of his thought being that of the liberal conservative. His first important work was Orthodoxy: its Truths and Errors (1866). Other works of his include Ten Great Religions, Part I, an Essay in Comparative Theology; Ten Great Religions, Part II, a Comparison of all Religions; Christian Doctrine of Prayer; Thomas Didymus; Common Sense in Religion; Steps of Belief; Events and Epochs in Religious History; Self-Culture; Every Day Religion; The Ideas of the Apostle Paul; Memorial and Biographical Sketches; Vexed Questions in Theology; Anti-Slavery Days. See Autobiography, Diary and Correspondence, edited by E. E. Hale; Memoir by A. P. Peabody, 1889. A. U. A. Hou. Le.

Clarke, MacDonald. Ct., 1798-1842. An eccentric, unbalanced verse-writer of New York city, who was commonly styled “the Mad Poet.” Poems; Sketches in Verse; Death in Disguise, a Temperance poem; The Gossip; Afara, or the Belles of Broadway; A Cross and a Coronet; Elixir of Moonshine; Review of the Eve of Eternity.

Clarke, Mrs. Mary Bayard [Devereux]. N. C., 1822-1886. A writer of Raleigh, North Carolina, who has published Reminiscences of Cuba; Mosses from a Rolling Stone; Clytie and Zenobia, a poem; Wood Notes, a compilation of North Carolina verse.

Clarke, Rebecca Sophia. “Sophie May.” Me., 1833- ——. A popular writer of stories for children and young people, who was born and has always lived at Norridgewock, Maine. Of the former class are the Little Prudy Books; Dotty Dimple Series; Flaxie Frizzle Stories. Of the latter class are Her Friend’s Lover; Janet; The Asbury Twins; In Old Quinnebasset; Quinnebasset Girls; The Doctor’s Daughter. Le.

Clarke, Richard Henry. D. C., 1827- ——. A noted Roman Catholic lawyer of Washington, and, later, of New York, who has written many controversial papers, and published Illustrated History of the Catholic Church in the United States; Lives of Deceased Roman Catholic Bishops of the United States.

Clay, Cassius Marcellus. Ky., 1810-1903. A Kentucky congressman noted as a strong opponent of slavery, who was minister to Russia 1861-69. See Life and Memoirs, compiled by Himself.

Clay, Henry. Va., 1777-1852. A Kentucky statesman and orator, who was in public life for half a century, and was several times an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency. He is known in literature by his Speeches, several collections of which were published in his lifetime. See Parton’s Famous Americans; Lives by G. D. Prentice, 1831; Swaim, 1843; Mallory, 1844; Sargent and Greeley, 1852; Colton, 1857; Carl Schurz, 1887.

Cleaveland, John. Ct., 1722-1799. A Congregational minister of Massachusetts. The Work of God at Chebacco (now Essex) in 1763; Essay to Defend Christ’s Sacrifice and Atonement against Aspersions cast on the Same by Dr. Mayhew; Reply to Dr. Mayhew’s Letter of Reproof; Treatise on Infant Baptism.

Cleaveland, Nehemiah. Ms., 1796-1877. Grandson of J. Cleaveland, supra. An educator of Massachusetts, who published a History of Bowdoin College, with Biographical Sketches of its Graduates, 1806-79, edited and completed by A. S. Packard, infra.

Cleaveland, Parker. Ms., 1780-1858. Grandson of J. Cleaveland, supra. A professor in Bowdoin College, 1805-58, whose Mineralogy and Geology, 1816, gained for him the title of “the father of American mineralogy.”

Cleland, Thomas. Va., 1778-1858. A Presbyterian clergyman of Kentucky, much inclined to controversy, who published Letters on Campbellism; The Socini-Arian Detected; Unitarianism Unmasked.

Clemens, Jeremiah. Al., 1814-1865. An Alabama statesman who won some notice as a novelist. Bernard Lyle; Mustang Gray; The Rivals, a Tale of the Times of Burr and Hamilton; Tobias Wilson, a Tale of the Great Rebellion.

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. “Mark Twain.” Mo., 1835- ——. A celebrated humourist, who, after an eventful experience as a journalist, rose to fame by the publication of The Innocents Abroad, a volume of extravagantly humourous travels, which still remains his most popular book. Only a very small portion of his writing has any place as literature, but as an author he is one of the most popular and successful of his time. Other works of his are, A Tramp Abroad; Roughing It; Tom Sawyer; The Gilded Age (with C. D. Warner, infra); The Jumping Frog; Life on the Mississippi; Huckleberry Finn; Merry Tales; A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court; Tom Sawyer Abroad; Pudd’nhead Wilson; The American Claimant. The Prince and the Pauper; Joan of Arc, are works in a serious vein, the first being his most finished production. See Haweis’s American Humourists; Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors, 1890; Vedder’s American Writers.

Clemens, Will Montgomery. O., 1860- ——. A Ken of Kipling; Life of Roosevelt; Famous Funny Fellows; Sixty and Six; Mistakes of Authors.

Clement, Mrs. Clara Erskine. See Waters, Mrs.

Clemmer, Mrs. Mary. See Hudson, Mrs.

Cleveland, Aaron. Ct., 1744-1815. A verse-writer who late in life became a Congregational minister. He was the great-grandfather of President Cleveland. The Philosopher and Boy; Slavery Considered, both productions in verse.

Cleveland, Charles Dexter. Ms., 1802-1869. Grandson of A. Cleveland, supra. An educator of Philadelphia, who published Compendiums of English, American, and Classical Literature; English Literature of the 19th Century; critical edition of Milton, with notes and life. Bar.

Cleveland, Cynthia Eloise. N. Y., 1845- ——. A Washington writer employed in the civil service. See Saw, or Civil Service in the Departments, a political novel; Is it Fate?

Cleveland, Henry Russell. Ms., 1808-1843. Son of R. J. Cleveland, infra. The Classical Education of Boys; Life of Henry Hudson.

Cleveland, Horace William Shaler. Ms., 1814-1900. Son of R. J. Cleveland, infra. A noted landscape gardener of Minneapolis. Hints to Riflemen; Landscape Architecture; Voyages of a Merchant Navigator. Har.

Cleveland, Richard Jeffry. Ms., 1773-1860. Cousin of A. Cleveland, supra. Voyages and Commercial Enterprises; Voyages of a Merchant Navigator of the Days that are Past.

Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth. N. Y., 1846- ——. Great-granddaughter of A. Cleveland, supra, and the only sister of President Cleveland. During the first year of her brother’s first administration she was the mistress of the White House. George Eliot’s Poetry and Other Studies; The Long Run, a novel. Fu.

Clevenger, Shobal Vail. Iy., 1843- ——. A physician of Chicago, and son of the noted sculptor of the same name. Treatise on Government Surveying; Comparative Physiology and Psychology; Lectures on Artistic Anatomy and Sciences Useful to the Artist.

Clifford, Nathan. N. H., 1803-1881. A noted jurist of Maine, who was attorney-general during Polk’s administration, and published United States Circuit Court Reports.

Clingman, Thomas Lanier. N. C., 1812-1897. A North Carolina congressman who served during the Civil War as brigadier-general in the Confederate army. The two Carolina mountains, Clingman’s Peak and Clingman’s Dome, were named in his honour, he having been the first to measure their height. Speeches; Follies of the Positivist Philosophers.

Clinton, De Witt. N. Y., 1769-1828. A famous statesman and politician of New York state. Memoir of Antiquities of Western New York; Natural History and Internal Revenues of New York; Speeches to the Legislature. See Lives, by Hosack, 1829; Renwick, 1840; Campbell, 1849.

Clymer, Mrs. Ella Maria [Dietz]. Ms., 1856- ——. A New York writer, once an actress; for some time president of the woman’s club of New York, Sorosis. She has written three volumes of verse: The Triumph of Love; The Triumph of Time; The Triumph of Life.

Clymer, Meredith. Pa., 1817-1902. A distinguished physician and medical writer of New York city. Diseases of the Respiratory Organs (with Williams); Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Fevers; Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System; Palsies and Kindred Disorders; Ecstasy and Other Dramatic Disorders of the Nervous System; Hereditary Genius; Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis; Legitimate Influence of Epilepsy on Criminal Responsibility.

Coan, Titus. Ct., 1801-1882. A missionary of note in the Sandwich Islands who wrote Life in Hawaii; Adventures in Patagonia. Do. Ran.

Coan, Titus Munson. H. I., 1836- ——. Son of T. Coan, supra. A New York littérateur. Ounces of Prevention; Topics of the Times (edited).

Cobb, Cyrus. Ms., 1834-1903. Son of S. Cobb, 1st, infra. An artist and sculptor of Boston who, besides writing much occasional verse, published Veterans of the Grand Army, a novel.

Cobb, Howell. Ga., 1795-18—. A Georgia lawyer. Penal Code of Georgia.

Cobb, Jonathan Holmes. Ms., 1799-1882. A manufacturer of Dedham, who founded the silk industry in the United States, and whose Manual of the Mulberry Tree and the Culture of Silk was once well known.

Cobb, Joseph Beckham. Ga., 1819-1858. A Southern author whose writings include The Creole, or the Siege of New Orleans, a novel; Mississippi Scenes; Leisure Labours.

Cobb, Lyman. Ms., c. 1800-1864. A once prominent educator who, besides many text-books on spelling and mathematics, published The Evil Tendency of Corporal Punishment; Just Standard for Pronouncing the English Language. Har.

Cobb, Sylvanus. Me., 1799-1866. A Universalist clergyman of Massachusetts, editor for many years of The Christian Freeman. The New Testament, with Explanatory Notes; Compend of Divinity; Discussions. See Autobiography, and Memoir by his son, S. Cobb, 1867.

Cobb, Sylvanus. Me., 1823-1887. Son of S. Cobb, supra. A prolific writer of sensational tales quite without literary value. Among them are The King’s Talisman; The Patriot Cruiser; Ben Hamed.

Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes. Ga., 1823-1862. A Georgia lawyer who served as brigadier-general in the Confederate army during the Civil War, and was killed in the battle of Fredericksburg. Digest of the Laws of Georgia; Historical Sketch of Slavery from the Earliest Periods; Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States.

Cobbett, Thomas. E., 1608-1685. A nonconformist English clergyman who came to America in 1637, and was minister at Ipswich from 1656 till his death. Infant Baptism; Civil Magistrate’s Power in Matters of Religion; Practical Discourse of Prayer; The Honour due from Children to their Parents.

Cocke [cōke], James Richard. Tn., 1863-1900. A physician of Boston. Hypnotism; Blind Leaders of the Blind, a novel. Ar. Le.

Cocke, Zitella. Al., c. 1847- ——. A verse-writer whose contributions to periodicals have been collected in a volume of verse entitled A Doric Reed. Cop.

Cocker, William Johnson. E., 1846- ——. An educator of Michigan. Handbook of Punctuation; The Government of the United States. Har.

Coddington, William. E., 1601-1678. The first governor of Rhode Island. Demonstrations of True Love unto the Rulers of Massachusetts.

Codman, John. Ms., 1782-1847. A Congregational clergyman of Dorchester. Sermons; Visit to England. See Memoir, by W. A. Allen, 1853.

Codman, John. Ms., 1814-1900. Son of J. Codman, supra. A noted captain in the merchant marine. Sailors’ Life and Sailors’ Yarns; Ten Months in Brazil; The Mormon Country; The Round Trip by Way of Panama; A Solution of the Mormon Problem; Winter Sketches from the Saddle.

Coffin, Charles Carleton. N. H., 1823-1896. A Boston journalist who became famous as the war correspondent of the Boston Journal during the Civil War, over the signature “Carleton.” His writings, mainly though not exclusively for young people, include My Days and Nights on the Battlefield, a narrative of personal experience; Following the Flag; Winning his Way; Building the Nation; Old Times in the Colonies; The Boys of ’76; The Story of Liberty; The Drumbeat of the Nation; Marching to Victory; Redeeming the Republic; Freedom Triumphant; Abraham Lincoln; Our New Way Round the World; Daughters of the Revolution. See Life of, by Griffis. Est. Har. Hou.

Coffin, Isaac Foster. Me., 1787-1861. An educator of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Journal of a Residence in Chili during the revolutionary scenes of 1817-19.

Coffin, James Henry. Ms., 1806-1873. A meteorologist who was professor of astronomy at Lafayette College. Solar and Lunar Eclipses Illustrated and Explained; Winds of the Northern Hemisphere; Psychometrical Table; Orbit and Phenomena of a Meteoric Fire Ball; Elements of Conic Sections and Analytical Geometry; Winds of the Globe. See Life, by J. C. Clyde, 1882.

Coffin, John Huntington Crane. Me., 1815-1890. A mathematician of distinction. Observations with the Mural Circle at the United States Naval Observatory; The Compass; Navigation and Nautical Astronomy.

Coffin, Joshua. Ms., 1792-1864. A Massachusetts antiquary prominent among the abolitionists, and one of the poet Whittier’s early instructors. He published a History of Ancient Newbury; The Toppans of Toppan’s Lane, a genealogy.

Coffin, Robert Allen. Ms., 1801-1878. Brother of J. H. Coffin, supra. An instructor in western Massachusetts. Compendium of Natural Philosophy; Town Organization; History of Conway, Massachusetts.

Coffin, Robert Barry. “Barry Gray.” N. Y., 1826-1886. A New York journalist and littérateur, whose books, popular at one time, are now nearly forgotten. Their humour is somewhat forced, and the style has no very marked merits. Matrimonial Infelicities; Who is the Heir?; Out of Town, a Rural Episode; Cakes and Ale at Woodbine; Castles in the Air; Left in the Lurch; The Home of Cooper.

Coffin, Robert Stevenson. Me., 1797-1827. A verse-writer of Boston who published The Oriental Harp; Poems of the Boston Bard. See Autobiography, 1825.

Coffin, Roland Folger. N. Y., 1826-1888. A marine reporter in New York city. An Old Sailor’s Yarns; The America’s Cup; History of American Yachting. Fu. Scr.

Coffin, Selden Jennings. N. Y., 1838- ——. Son of J. H. Coffin, supra. He succeeded his father as professor of astronomy at Lafayette College in 1873, and completed the latter’s Winds of the Globe. He has also published Record of the Men at Lafayette.

Coggeshall, George. Ct., 1784-c. 1850. A sea captain of some prominence as a writer. Voyages to Various Parts of the World, 1799-1844; History of American Privateers and Letters of Marque during our War with England, 1812-14; Historical Sketch of Commerce and Navigation from the Christian Era to 1860; Religious and Miscellaneous Poetry.

Coggeshall, William Turner. Pa., 1824-1867. A journalist of Cincinnati, whose principal writings include Signs of the Times, a work on spirit rappings; Home Hits and Hints; Stories of Frontier Adventure.

Cogswell, Jonathan. Ms., 1782-1864. A noted Congregational clergyman of New England and New Jersey. The Necessity of Capital Punishment; Discourses; Hebrew Theocracy; Calvary and Sinai; Godliness a Great Mystery; The Appropriate Work of the Holy Spirit. See E. O. Jameson’s Cogswells of America.

Cogswell, William. N. H., 1787-1850. A Congregational clergyman of New Hampshire, among whose works are, Manual of Theology and Devotion; Assistant to Family Religion; Christian Philanthropist; Theological Class Book; Harbinger of the Millennium; Letters to Young Men Preparing for the Ministry.

Cohen, Jacob Da Silva Solis. N. Y., 1838- ——. A Philadelphia physician and medical lecturer of prominence. Treatise on Inhalations; Diseases of the Throat; Croup in its Relations to Tracheotomy; The Throat and the Voice.

Coit, James Milnor. Pa., 1845- ——. An instructor in chemistry at St. Paul’s School, Concord. Elements of Chemical Arithmetic; Short Manual of Qualitative Analysis.

Coit, Thomas Winthrop. Ct., 1803-1885. An Episcopal clergyman, professor in Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown from 1872 to 1885. Necessity of Preaching Doctrine; Theological Commonplace Book; Puritanism in New England and the Episcopal Church; Lectures on the Early History of Christianity in England.

Colburn, Warren. Ms., 1793-1833. A noted mathematician of Massachusetts, whose First Lessons in Intellectual Arithmetic was translated into many languages. Hou.

Colburn, Zerah. N. Y., 1832-1870. A nephew of the famous calculator of the same name. He was a well-known mechanical engineer who published The Locomotive Engine; Steam Boiler Explosions; Nature of Heat and its Mode of Action in the Phenomena of Combustion, etc.; Treatise on the Principles of the Locomotive Engine. Bai. Vn.

Colby, Frederick Myron. N. H., 1848- ——. A journalist of New Hampshire. The Daughter of Pharaoh, a Tale of the Exodus; Brave Lads and Bonnie Lassies, a juvenile.

Colden, Cadwallader. S., 1688-1776. A colonial physician, lieutenant-governor of the province of New York, 1761-76, and a prominent loyalist of his day. The History of the Five Indian Nations is his chief work. Among his many lesser writings is Principles of Actions on Matter. See Tyler’s American Literature.

Colden, Cadwallader David. L. I., 1769-1834. Nephew of C. Colden, supra. A commercial lawyer of prominence in New York who published Life of Robert Fulton; Vindication of the Steamboat Right granted by the State of New York.

Coleman, Leighton. Pa., 1837- ——. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Delaware. The Church in America, a history of the American Episcopal Church.

Coleman, Lyman. Ms., 1796-1882. A Congregational clergyman who was a classical professor at Lafayette College, 1861-82. Ancient Christianity Exemplified; Prelacy and Ritualism; The Apostolical and Primitive Church; Historical Geography of the Bible; Text-Book and Atlas of Bible Geography; Genealogy of the Lyman Family.

Coles, Abraham. N. J., 1813-1891. A New Jersey physician who published a volume containing thirteen original translations of the Dies Irae. His other works include Stabat Mater Dolorosa; Stabat Mater Speciosa; Old Gems in New Settings; The Microcosm, a psychological poem; The Evangel in Verse; The Light of the World; The Psalms in Verse, with notes. See Biographical Sketch, edited by J. A. Coles, 1892. Ap.

Coles, George. E., 1792-1858. A Methodist clergyman who published The Antidote, or Revelation Defended; Concordance of the Scriptures; Heroines of Methodism.

Colesworthy, Daniel Clement. Me., 1810-1893. A once noted bookseller of Boston, who was also a writer. Some of his poems for children, like “Don’t Kill the Birds” and “Little Words of Kindness,” have been extremely popular. Sunday School Hymns; Advice to an Apprentice; Opening Buds; Chronicles of Casco Bay; A Group of Children, and Other Poems; School is Out; The Year; A Day in the Woods, in verse, comprise the most of his writings.

Collens, Thomas Wharton. La., 1812-1879. A well-known jurist of New Orleans, who wrote The Martyr Patriots, a tragedy; Humanics; Views of the Labour Movement; The Eden of Labour.

Collier, Mrs. Ada [Langworthy]. Ia., 1843- ——. A writer of Dubuque, whose Lilith, the Legend of the First Woman, is a poem of not a little merit.

Collier, Joseph Avery. Ms., 1828-1864. A Reformed Dutch clergyman of Kingston, New York. The Right Way, or the Gospel Applied to the Intercourse of Individuals and Nations; The Christian Home; The Young Men of the Bible; Pleasant Paths for Little Feet; Little Crowns; Dawn of Heaven.

Collier, Peter. N. Y., 1835-1896. A chemist of distinction for several years attached to the Department of Agriculture at Washington. Sorghum, its Culture and Manufacture Economically Considered; Investigations of Sorghum as a Sugar Producing Plant. Clke.

Collier, Robert Laird. Md., 1837-1890. A Unitarian clergyman who in his later years was a London correspondent of the New York Herald. Every-Day Subjects in Sunday Sermons; Meditations on the Essence of Christianity; Henry Irving: a Sketch and a Criticism; English Home Life. A. U. A. Hou. Rob.

Collier, Thomas Stephens. N. Y., 1842-1893. A physician and poet whose home was at New London, Connecticut. Song Spray, a collection of poems, 1889.

Collins, Charles. Me., 1813-1875. A Methodist preacher and educator of Tennessee, who published Methodism and Calvinism Compared.

Collyer, Robert. E., 1823- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of New York, and one of the leading men among the clergy of his faith. He was born in Yorkshire, and learned the blacksmith’s trade, which he still followed after coming to America in 1849. He was then a Wesleyan local preacher, but his views changing he became a Unitarian, and in 1860 founded Unity Church in Chicago, over which he remained pastor till he went to New York in 1879. His influence, both within and without the Unitarian body, has been very great. The Life That Now Is; Nature and Life; A Man in Earnest; The Simple Truth, a Home Book; Lectures to Young Men and Women; History of Ilkley, in Yorkshire. Dut. Le.

Colman, Benjamin. Ms., 1673-1747. A famous Congregational minister of Boston, whose theological views were much more liberal than those of his contemporaries, and whose literary style was far more polished and flexible. Evangelical Sermons Collected; Twenty Sacramental Sermons. See Life by E. Turell, 1749; Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.

Colman, Henry. Ms., 1785-1849. An agricultural writer of Massachusetts, who was a Congregational minister at Hingham, 1807-20, and afterwards a Unitarian minister at Salem. Report on Silk Culture; European Agriculture and Rural Economy; Agriculture and Rural Economy of France, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland; European Life and Manners.

Colton, Calvin. Ms., 1789-1857. An Episcopal clergyman of some note in his day as a political writer. Manual for Emigrants to America; History of American Revivals; Protestant Jesuitism; Public Economy for the United States, a plea for protection; Life of Henry Clay; Junius Tracts.

Colton, George Hooker. N. Y., 1818-1847. A verse-writer whose Tecumseh is a poem as ambitious in conception as it is mediocre in execution.

Colton, Walter. Vt., 1797-1851. Brother of C. Colton, supra. A journalist and educator who established the first newspaper in California, and built the first schoolhouse there. As chaplain in the United States navy he visited many parts of the world. Visit to Athens and Constantinople; Land and Lee in the Bosphorus and Ægean; Ship and Shore; Deck and Port; The Sea and the Sailor.

Colwell, Stephen. Va., 1800-1871. An iron merchant of Philadelphia, who wrote much on current topics, especially matters relating to political economy. Ways and Means of Commercial Payment; Money on Account; Removal of the Deposits from the Bank of the United States; Domestic Production and Internal Trade; Hints to Laymen; Charity and the Clergy; Politics for American Christians; New Themes for Protestant Clergy, include the more important of his writings.

Coman, Katherine. O., 1857- ——. A professor of history at Wellesley College. Outlines in Constitutional History of England; Outlines in Industrial History; The Growth of the English Nation.

Comegys, Benjamin Bartis. Del., 1819-1901. A banker of Philadelphia. Tour Round My Library, and Other Papers; Advice to Young Men and Boys; A Primer of Ethics; Talks with Boys and Girls; How to Get On, a Book for Boys; Turn Over a New Leaf; An Order of Worship; Old Stories with New Lessons. Hou. Rev.

Comfort, Mrs. Anna [Manning]. N. J., 1845- ——. Wife of G. F. Comfort, infra. A physician of Syracuse, who has written Woman’s Education and Woman’s Health, a reply to Dr. Clarke’s once famous Sex in Education.

Comfort, George Fisk. N. Y., 1833- ——. A professor at Syracuse University since 1872. He has published a series of German text-books and The Land Troubles in Ireland. Har.

Comly, John. Pa., 1774-1850. A Pennsylvania educator among the Friends, who prepared a speller that was phenomenally popular, and also a grammar and other text-books. See Journal of John Comly of Ryberry, 1853.

Comstock [kŭm´stŏk], Cyrus Ballou. Ms., 1831- ——. A colonel of the Engineer Corps in the United States army, and brevet major-general of U. S. Volunteers, who has made a number of important government surveys. Notes on European Surveys; Surveys of the Northwestern Lakes; Primary Triangulation of United States Lake Survey.

Comstock, John Henry. Wis., 1849- ——. A professor of entomology and general invertebrate zoölogy at Cornell University. Notes on Entomology; Report on Cotton Insects; Introduction to Entomology.

Comstock, John Lee. Ct., 1789-1858. An educational compiler of Hartford, among whose many scientific text-books are The Elements of Chemistry; Introduction to Mineralogy; System of Natural Philosophy; History of the Precious Minerals; Natural History of Quadrupeds. He wrote also A History of the Greek Revolution.

Comstock, Theodore Bryant. O., 1849- ——. A geologist of distinction, professor in Illinois University. Outlines of General Geology; Classification of Rocks.

Conant, Alban Jasper. Vt., 1821- ——. A naturalist who was for some time curator in the University of Wisconsin. Footprints of Vanished Races in the Valley of the Mississippi.

Conant, Mrs. Hannah O’Brien [Chaplin]. Ms., 1809-1865. Wife of T. J. Conant, infra, and daughter of J. Chaplin, supra. An Oriental scholar who assisted her husband in his literary work, made important translations from the German of Strauss, Neander, and Uhden, and was the author of History of the English Bible; Popular History of English Bible Translation; The Earnest Man, a sketch of Judson the missionary.

Conant, Mrs. Helen Peters [Stevens]. Ms., 1839-1899. Wife of S. S. Conant, infra. A magazinist of New York city. The Butterfly Hunters; Primers of German and Spanish Literature. Har.

Conant, Samuel Stillman. Me., 1831-1885. Son of T. J. Conant, infra. A journalist of New York, managing editor of Harper’s Weekly, 1869-85, and translator of Lermontoff’s Circassian Boy.

Conant, Thomas Jefferson. Vt., 1802-1891. A Baptist clergyman who was one of the foremost Hebrew scholars of his time. Baptism, its Meaning and its Use Philologically and Historically Considered. His editions of The Book of Job; The Book of Proverbs; Genesis; Psalms; Prophecies of Isaiah; Historical Books of the Old Testament from Joshua to Second Kings; The Gospel by Matthew, constitute a scholar’s version of the Scriptures, amply illustrated with critical and philological notes. Fu.

Condie, Daniel Francis. Pa., 1796-1875. A physician and medical writer of Philadelphia. Course of Examination for Medical Students; Catechism of Health; Epidemic Cholera; Diseases of Children.

Cone, Helen Gray. N. Y., 1859- ——. An instructor in the Normal College of New York city, whose writing has been mainly in verse. Oberon and Puck, verses Grave and Gay; The Ride to the Lady and Other Poems. Hou.

Congdon, Charles Taber. Ms., 1821-1891. A journalist of New York city for some years on the staff of the Tribune. Tribune Essays; Reminiscences of a Journalist; Recollections of a Reader; Autobiographical Papers.

Conkling, Alfred. N. Y., 1789-1874. A jurist of New York whose son was the noted statesman, Roscoe Conkling. Treatise on Organization and Jurisdiction of Superior, Circuit, and District Courts; Admiralty Jurisdiction; Powers of the Executive Department of the United States; Young Citizen’s Manual.

Conkling, Alfred Ronald. N. Y., 1850- ——. Grandson of A. Conkling, supra. A lawyer of New York city. Appleton’s Guide to Mexico; City Government in the United States; Handbook for Voters in New York city; Life of Roscoe Conkling. Ap.

Conn, Herbert William. Ms., 1859- ——. A biologist whose specialty is the bacteriology of milk; instructor and professor of biology at Wesleyan University from 1884. Evolution of To-Day; The Living World: Whence it Came and Whither it is Drifting. Put.

Connelly, Mrs. Celia [Logan] [Kellogg]. Pa., 1837-1904. A journalist and playwright of Washington. An American Marriage is one of her plays.

Connelly, Emma M. Ky., 18— - ——. A writer of New York city. Under the Surface; Tilting at Wind Mills, a Story of the Blue Grass Country; The Story of Kentucky. Lo.

Conrad, Frederick William. Pa., 1816-1898. A Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, editor of The Lutheran Observer from 1867. The Lutheran Doctrine of Baptism; Analysis of Luther’s Small Catechism: The Evangelical Lutheran Church; The Call to the Ministry; The Liturgical Question.

Conrad, Robert Taylor. Pa., 1810-1858. A lawyer of Philadelphia and mayor of that city in 1854, who was once noted as a dramatic poet. Aylmere, or the Bondman of Kent, is a tragedy in which Jack Cade is the chief figure, a rôle in which Edwin Forrest was very successful. Conrad of Naples, another tragedy, had also a measure of popularity.

Conrad, Timothy Abbott. N. J., 1803-1877. A conchologist who published Fossil Shells of the Tertiary Formations of North America; New Fresh-Water Shells of the United States; Miocene Shells of the United States; Palæontology of State of New York.

Converse, Mrs. Harriet [Maxwell]. N. Y., 184- -1903. A writer of verse and prose in New York city. Sheaves, a collection of verses; The Religious Festivals of the Iroquois Indians; Mythology and Folk-Lore of the North American Indian.

Conway, Katherine Eleanor. N. Y., 1853- ——. A journalist of Boston, on the editorial staff of The Pilot. Songs of the Sunrise Slope; A Dream of Lilies, a volume of poems; A Lady and Her Letters; Making Friends and Keeping Them.

Conway, Moncure Daniel. Va., 1832- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of extremely radical views, who was for many years settled in charge of a congregation in London. He has been a prolific writer in several fields, and among his many published books are The Rejected Stone; Idols and Ideals; Demonology and Devil Lore; The Wandering Jew; Sketch of Carlyle; The Earthward Pilgrimage; Sacred Anthology, a compilation; Emerson at Home and Abroad; George Washington and Mount Vernon; Omitted Chapters in Life and Letters of Edmund Randolph; Life of Thomas Paine; Tracts for To-Day; Natural History of the Devil; The Golden Hour; Testimonies Concerning Slavery; Human Sacrifices in England; Lessons for the Day; Travels in South Kensington; A Necklace of Stories; Pine and Palm, a novel; Prisons of Air, a novel; Autobiography. Har. Ho.

Conwell, Russell Herrman. Ms., 1842- ——. A Baptist minister of Philadelphia. Why the Chinese Emigrate; Woman and the Law; Life of President Hayes; Life of Bayard Taylor; Life of President Garfield; Joshua Giavencola, the Captain of the Vineyards of Lucerna. Lo. Mer.

Conyngham, David Power. I., 1840-1883. A New York journalist, editor of The Tablet. Sherman’s March Through the South; Lives of the Irish Saints and Martyrs; The Irish Brigade and its Campaigns. In fiction: Sarsfield, or the Last Great Struggle for Ireland; The O’Donnells of Glen Cottage; O’Mahoney, Chief of the Commeraghs; Rose Parnell, the Flower of Avondale.

Cook, Albert John. Mch., 1842- ——. A professor of zoölogy at Michigan Agricultural College. Injurious Insects of Michigan; Manual of the Apiary.

Cook, Albert Stanborough. N. J., 1853- ——. A professor of English at Yale University, who has edited Siever’s Old English Grammar; Judith, an Old English Epic Fragment; Sidney’s Defence of Poesy. Gi.

Cook, Clarence Chatham. Ms., 1828-1900. An art critic of New York city, and editor of The Studio. He edited Lübke’s History of Art, and published also The House Beautiful; Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks; The Central Park. Scr.

Cook, George Hammell. N. J., 1818-1889. A professor of geology at Rutgers College and State geologist, whose only published work is The Geology of New Jersey.

Cook, Joel. Pa., 1842- ——. A Philadelphia journalist, financial editor of the Public Ledger. Brief Summer Rambles near Philadelphia; An Eastern Tour at Home; A Holiday Tour in Europe; England, Picturesque and Descriptive; The Siege of Richmond. My.

Cook, Joseph. N. Y., 1838-1901. A Boston lecturer whose Monday morning lectures at Tremont Temple were at one time very popular, but whose shallow, pretentious thought provoked much criticism from scholarly, accurate minds. Boston Monday Lectures, in ten volumes; Current Religious Perils, with Other Addresses on Leading Reforms. Hou.

Cook, Marc. R. I., 1854-1882. A journalist of New York. The Wilderness Cure; Vandyke Brown Poems.

Cook, Richard Briscoe. Md., 1838- ——. A Baptist clergyman of Wilmington, Delaware. The Story of the Baptists in all Ages and Countries.

Cook, Theodore Pease. Ms., 1844- ——. Brother of M. Cook, supra. A journalist of Utica, who published a Life of Samuel J. Tilden. Ap.

Cooke, George Willis. Mch., 1848- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Lexington, Massachusetts, who has done much excellent work in criticism. George Eliot: a Critical Study; Ralph Waldo Emerson: his Life, Writings, and Philosophy; Poets and Problems, Studies of Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning; Guide Book to Browning; The Clapboard Trees Parish, Dedham, a History. Hou.

Cooke, John Esten. Va., 1830-1886. A noted Virginia author who served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. He wrote much historical fiction, The Virginia Comedians being the most famous of his romances. Leather Stocking and Silk; The Youth of Jefferson; Surry of Eagle’s Nest; Wearing the Gray; My Lady Pokahontas; Henry St. John, reissued as Bonnybel Vane; Mohun, or the Last Days of Lee and his Paladins; Her Majesty the Queen; Pretty Mrs. Gaston; Stories of the Old Dominion; The Maurice Mystery; Mr. Grantley’s Idea; Professor Pressensee; Virginia Bohemians; Hammer and Rapier; Hilt to Hilt, include the greater part of his work in fiction. He wrote also Life of General Lee; Stonewall Jackson, a Biography; Virginia, a History of the People. Ap. Har. Hou. Lip.

Cooke, Josiah Parsons. Ms., 1827-1894. A chemist of distinction who was professor of chemistry at Harvard University from 1850, and lectured in many places on scientific topics. Religion and Chemistry; Scientific Culture; Elements of Chemical Physics; Chemical Problems and Reactions; Principles of Chemical Philosophy; The New Chemistry; The Credentials of Science the Warrant of Faith; Laboratory Practice. Ap. Scr.

Cooke, Nicholas Francis. R. I., 1829-1885. A once prominent physician of Chicago. Satan in Society; Antiseptic Medication.

Cooke, Parsons. Ms., 1800-1864. A Congregational clergyman of Lynn, strongly Calvinistic in doctrine and controversially inclined. History of German Anabaptism; A Century of Puritanism and a Century of its Opposites.

Cooke, Philip Pendleton. Va., 1816-1850. Brother of J. E. Cooke, supra. A Virginia lawyer whose verse was once very much admired, and whose Florence Vane still lingers in the anthologies. The Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America; Hart’s American Literature.

Cooke, Philip St. George. Va., 1809-1895. Uncle of J. E. Cooke, supra. A brigadier-general in the United States army who retired in 1873. Scenes and Adventures in the Army; Handy Book for United States Cavalry; Cavalry Tactics; Conquest of New Mexico and California.

Cooke, Mrs. Rose [Terry]. Ct., 1827-1892. A New England writer well known both as a poet and a writer of short stories of notable excellence. Poems by Rose Terry; Happy Dodd; Somebody’s Neighbors; The Sphinx’s Children and Other People’s; Steadfast; Huckleberries. In 1888 a complete collection of her poems was made, including the contents of her early volume and her later work in verse. The Two Villages is her best known poem, as it is one of her best. Hou.

Cookman, Alfred. 1828-1871. A Methodist clergyman who published Stayed on God. See Life by H. B. Ridgaway, 1871.

Coolbrith, Ina Donna. Il., 18— - ——. A California poet, formerly librarian of the Oakland Public Library. Her work, though uneven in quality, is nearly always musical. The Perfect Day and Other Poems; Songs from the Golden Gate. Hou.

Cooley, Le Roy Clark. N. Y., 1833- ——. A professor of physics at Vassar College. Text-Book of Physics; Text-Book of Chemistry; Easy Experiments in Physical Science; Natural Philosophy; Elements of Chemistry; Students’ Guide Book; Beginners’ Guide to Chemistry; Laboratory Studies in Elementary Chemistry.

Cooley, Thomas McIntyre. N. Y., 1824-1898. A jurist of prominence in Michigan, professor of history in the University of Michigan. Law of Taxation; Law of Torts; General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States; Treatise on Constitutional Limitations of the Legislative Power in the Several States; annotated editions of Blackstone’s Story’s Commentaries; Michigan, a History of Governments. Hou. Lit.

Coolidge, Susan. See Woolsey, Sarah.

Coombs, Mrs. Annie [Sheldon]. N. Y., 1858-1890. A novelist of New York city. As Common Mortals; A Game of Chance; The Garden of Armida. Ap.

Cooper, Ellwood. Pa., 1829- ——. A horticulturist of southern California, president of the State board of horticulture. Statistics of Trade with Hayti; Forest Culture and Eucalyptus Trees; Treatise on Olive Culture.

Cooper, James Fenimore. N. J., 1789-1851. The first American writer to gain general European recognition, and the first native novelist who won a national reputation. Although much that he wrote is nearly forgotten, the best of his work survives and is still popular. His first novel, Precaution, a conventional, mediocre piece of writing, appeared in 1820, and was followed, in 1821, by The Spy, the most famous of all his books, having been translated into all the principal languages of Europe. Almost as famous is The Last of the Mohicans, a much greater work. Among his tales of the sea, The Pilot and The Red Rover are the best, as the five Leather Stocking tales—The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, The Prairie,—are the best of his stories of Indian life. His other fictions include The Bravo; Lionel Lincoln, or The Leaguer of Boston; The Water-Witch; The Two Admirals; The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish; The Heidenmauer; The Headsman; Homeward Bound; Home as Found; The Monikins, the weakest of all his works; Mercedes of Castile; Wing-and-Wing; Wyandotté; Afloat and Ashore; Satanstoe; The Chainbearer; The Red Skins; Jack Tier; The Crater; The Oak Openings; The Sea Lions; The Ways of the Hour; Miles Wallingford. He wrote, also, History of the United States Navy; Sketches of Switzerland; Gleanings in Europe; Notions of the Americans. See Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Bryant’s Memorial Discourse, 1852; Coffin’s Home of Cooper, 1872; Life, by Lounsbury, 1882; Bryant and his Friends, 1886; Richardson’s American Literature; The Bookman, March, 1897. Ap. Hou. Put.

Cooper, Myles. E., 1735-1785. An Episcopal clergyman who came to America in 1762, and was president of King’s (now Columbia) College, 1763-1775. Being an ardent loyalist, he was obliged to leave the colony, and returned to England. Friendly Advice to all Reasonable Americans on our Political Confusions; Poems on Several Occasions; Address to the Episcopalians of Virginia; The American Querist.

Cooper, Peter. N. Y., 1791-1883. A famous philanthropist of New York city who founded the Cooper Institute. Ideas for a System of Good Government; Financial Opinions, with Autobiography.

Cooper, Susan Fenimore. N. Y., 1813-1894. Daughter of J. F. Cooper, supra. A writer of rural sketches, whose life was passed at Cooperstown, New York. Rural Hours; Country Rambles; Rhyme and Reason; Country Life; The Shield, a Narrative; Mount Vernon and the Children of America. Hou.

Cooper, Thomas. E., 1759-1840. A noted scientist who came to America in 1795 with Dr. Priestley, infra, and was president of the College of South Carolina, 1820-34. Letters on the Slave Trade; Tracts Ethical, Theological, and Political; Information concerning America; The Bankrupt Law of America compared with that of England; Tracts on Medical Jurisprudence; Elements of Political Economy; An English Version of the Institutes of Justinian.

Cooper, William. Ms., 1694-1743. A once famous Congregational minister of Boston. Tract Defending Inoculation for the Small Pox, 1720; The Doctrine of Predestination unto Life.

Cope, Edward Drinker. Pa., 1840-1897. A noted Philadelphia naturalist. Origin of Genera; Extinct Batrachia and Reptilia of North America; Primary Groups of Batrachia Anura; Systematic Relations of the Fishes; Vertebrate Palæontology of New Mexico; Tertiary Vertebrata of the West; The Origin of the Fittest, include the more important of his writings. Ap.

Cope, Gilbert. Pa., 1840- ——. A genealogist of Pennsylvania. Record of the Cope Family; The Browns of Nottingham; Genealogy of the Dutton Family; Genealogy of the Sharpless Family; History of Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Coppée, Henry. Ga., 1821-1895. A prominent educator, president of Lehigh University, 1866-75, and professor there until his death. During the Mexican War he served as an officer in the American army. His most important work is a History of the Conquest of Spain by the Arab Moors, which takes up the narrative at the period reached at the close of Irving’s “Mahomet and his Successors.” His other works comprise Elements of Logic; Elements of Rhetoric; Grant and his Campaigns; Manual of Battalion Drill; Evolutions of the Line; Manual of Court Martial. Lit.

Copway, George, or Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh. Mch., 1818-c. 1869. An Indian of the Ojibway tribe who was a journalist in New York City, and was well known as a lecturer. Recollections of a Forest Life; Copway’s “American Indian;” The Traditional History of the Ojibway Nation; The Ojibway Conquest, a poem; Running Sketches of Men and Places in Europe, include the most of his writings.

Corbin, Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth [Fairfield]. Ct., 1835- ——. A Chicago writer of fiction and other works. Rebecca; His Marriage Vow; Belle and the Boys; A Woman’s Philosophy of Love, a psychological treatise. Le.

Corbin, John. Il., 1870- ——. Son of Mrs. Corbin, supra. The Elizabethan Hamlet. Scr.

Cornelius, Elias. N. Y., 1794-1852. A missionary to the Cherokee Indians who wrote The Little Osage Captive, an Authentic Narrative.

Cornell, Alonzo Barton. N. Y., 1832- ——. A governor of New York, 1880-83, and a son of the founder of Cornell University. His only publication is True and Firm, a Biography of Ezra Cornell: a Filial Tribute. Bar.

Cornell, John Henry. N. Y., 1828-1894. A musician and organist of New York City. Primer of Modern Musical Tonality; Practice of Sight Singing; Easy Method of Modulation; Theory and Practice of Musical Form; A Manual of Roman Chant; Congregational Tune Book.

Cornell, William Mason. Ms., 1802-1895. A physician of Boston and elsewhere. Robert Raikes, the Founder of Sunday Schools; Life of Horace Greeley; Grammar of the English Language; Consumption Prevented; Treatise on Epilepsy; History of Pennsylvania, include the most of his writings. Fu. Lo.

Cornwall, Henry Bedinger. Ct., 1844- ——. A professor of mineralogy at Princeton College since 1873, who has published A Manual of Blow-Pipe Analysis.

Cornwallis, Kinahan. E., 1835- ——. A New York journalist who came to America about 1860. His more important works are Yarra Yarra, or the Wandering Aborigine, a Poetical Narrative; The New Eldorado of British Columbia; Wreck and Ruin, or Modern Society; My Life and Adventures, an Autobiography; Adrift with a Vengeance; Pilgrims of Fashion; The Gold Room and the New York Stock Exchange. Har.

Cornwell, Henry Sylvester. N. H., 1831-1886. A physician of New London, Connecticut, who wrote much thoughtful verse. The Land of Dreams and Other Poems (1879), is the only collection that has been made of his poems.

Corson, Hiram. Pa., 1828- ——. A Chaucerian and Early English scholar, professor at Cornell University since 1870. The Voice and Spiritual Education; Elocutionary Manual; Jottings on the Text of Hamlet; Introduction to the Study of Browning; Lectures on English Language and Literature; The Aims of Literary Study; Vocal Culture in Relation to Literary Study; Thesaurus of Early English; Handbook of Anglo-Saxon and Early English. He has also edited Chaucer’s Legende of Goode Women. Gi. Ho. Mac.

Corson, Juliet. Ms., 1842-1897. A cooking instructor of New York, founder of the School of Cooking there in 1876. Cooking Manual; Cooking School Text-Book; Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six; Meals for the Million; Practical American Cookery; Family Living on Five Hundred Dollars a Year; Diet for Invalids and Children. Do. Har.

Corthell, Elmer Lawrence. Ms., 1840- ——. A civil engineer of distinction. History of the Jetties at the Mouth of the Mississippi.

Corwin, Edward Tanjore. N. Y., 1834- ——. A Reformed Dutch clergyman of New Jersey, among whose works are Manual of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America; Manual of the Reformed Church in America; Corwin Genealogy.

Cossett, Franceway Ranna. N. H., 1790-1863. A Cumberland Presbyterian clergyman of Tennessee. He published The Life and Times of Ewing, which gives a history of the beginnings of the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination.

Cotheal, Alexander Isaac. N. Y., 1804-1894. An Oriental scholar of New York City who published Sketch of the Language of the Mosquito Indians; Atoff the Generous, a translation from the Arabic.

Cotting, John Ruggles. Ms., 1783-1867. A once noted Georgia scientist. Introduction to Chemistry; Lectures on Geology; Soils and Manures.

Cotton, John. E., 1585-1652. The foremost clergyman of his century in New England. He came to the Massachusetts colony in 1633, having been for 20 years vicar of St. Botolph’s church in Boston, Lincolnshire. He was at once made teacher of the church in the new settlement of Boston, and until his death exercised an influence in church and state unequalled by any one since in New England. He was a prolific writer, but his writings have no charm of style, and the power which he wielded was a force that lay in the man himself, not in his books. His principal works comprise The Bloody Tenet Washed and made White in the Blood of the Lamb, a reply to Roger Williams’s famous “Bloody Tenet of Persecution”; A Brief Exposition upon Ecclesiastes; The Covenant of Grace; The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven; The Way of the Congregational Churches Cleared; The Way of Life; Treatise concerning Predestination; The New Covenant; Meat for Strong Men, Spiritual Milk for Babes. See Cotton Mather’s Magnalia; Lives by Norton, 1653; McClure, 1843; Tyler’s American Literature.

Coues [kŏwz], Elliott. N. H., 1842-1899. An eminent naturalist connected with the Smithsonian Institution. Key to North American Birds; Field Ornithology; Birds of the Northwest; Fur-Bearing Animals; Check List of North American Birds; Birds of the Colorado Valley; New England Bird Life (with W. A. Stearns); Biogen, a Speculation on the Origin of Life; The Dæmon of Darwin; Our Native Birds. Est. Le. Wn.

Coulter, John Merle. Ch., 1851- ——. A botanist who was president of the Indiana State University, 1891-93. Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado (with T. C. Porter); Manual of Rocky Mountain Botany; Manual of Texan Botany; Text-Book of Western Botany (with Asa Gray, infra).

Councilman, William Thomas. Md., 1854- ——. A physician and instructor at the Harvard Medical School. Contribution to the Study of Inflammation; On Arterio Sclerosis; Syphilis of the Lungs; On the Ætiology of Malaria, and other works.

Courtenay [kŭrt´ni], Edward Henry. Md., 1803-1853. A civil engineer who was professor of mathematics in the University of Virginia, 1842-53, and published a Treatise on Differential Calculus and the Calculus of Variations.

Covell, James. Ms., 1796-1845. A Methodist clergyman of New York and Vermont who published a Dictionary of the Bible. Meth.

Cowan, Frank. Pa., 1844- ——. A Pennsylvania lawyer and journalist, who has travelled extensively and who entered Corea before that country had made any treaties with foreign nations. Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Zomara, a Romance of Spain; Southwestern Pennsylvania in Song and Story; The City of the Royal Palm, and Other Poems; A Visit in Verse to Honolulu; Fact and Fancy in New Zealand.

Cowdin, Jasper Barnett. 18— - ——. Esther’s Wedding and Other Poems.

Cowell, Benjamin. Ms., 1781-1860. A jurist of Providence who published an historical work, The Spirit of ’76.

Cowen, Patrick H. ——-18—. Digest of Criminal Decisions of the Court of New York; Reports of Criminal Cases; The Poor Laws of the State of New York.

Cowles [kōlz], Henry. Ct., 1803-1881. A Congregational clergyman who was professor of theology at Oberlin College, 1835-48. Gospel Manna for Christian Pilgrims; Hebrew History; Critical Notes on the Old and New Testament, in 16 volumes. Ap.

Cowley, Charles. E., 1832- ——. A lawyer of Lowell. Memories of the Indians and Pioneers of Lowell; Illustrated History of Lowell; Famous Divorces of all Ages; Our Divorce Courts.

Cox, Edward Travers. Va., 1821- ——. A geologist of New York City who made a number of important surveys, and published Annual Reports of the Geological Survey of Indiana.

Cox, Jacob Dolson. O., 1828-1900. An Ohio lawyer who served in the Union army during the Civil War as major-general, was governor of Ohio, 1860-67, Secretary of the Interior, 1869-1870, and president of Cincinnati University, 1885. Atlanta: The March to the Sea; The Second Battle of Bull Run as connected with the Fitz-John Porter Case. Scr.

Cox, Palmer. Q., 1840- ——. An artist of New York City widely known by the various volumes of the Brownie Books, a series of juveniles consisting of very original humourous pictures and somewhat indifferent verses. Other works of his include Squibs, or Every-Day Life Illustrated; Hans Von Petter’s Trip to Gotham; How Columbus Found America; That Stanley; Queer People, such as Goblins, etc.; Queer People with Claws and Wings; Queer People with Wings and Stings. Cent.

Cox, Samuel Hanson. N. J., 1793-1880. A Presbyterian clergyman of the New School party noted for his eccentricities and fondness for controversy. Quakerism not Christianity; Theopneuston, or Select Scriptures Considered; Interviews Memorable and Useful, are his most important writings.

Cox, Samuel Sullivan. O., 1824-1889. A noted Democratic Congressman from Ohio, and later from New York, who was a popular lecturer, humourist, and writer of travels. He was minister to Turkey, 1885-86. Eight Years in Congress; Why We Laugh; Three Decades of Federal Legislation; Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey; A Buckeye Abroad; Search for Winter Sunbeams in the Riviera, Corsica, Algiers, and Spain; Arctic Sunbeams; Orient Sunbeams; Free Land and Free Trade. Har.

Coxe, Arthur Cleveland. N. J., 1818-1896. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Western New York. A son of S. H. Cox, supra, having adopted an older spelling of his surname. A writer of much force and originality, holding opinions with great tenacity and much given to controversy. Christian Ballads; Halloween; Athanasius and Other Poems; Advent, a Mystery; Saul, a Mystery; Athwold, a Romaunt; St. Jonathan, the Lay of a Scald, include his writings in verse. His other works comprise Impressions of England; Thoughts on the Services; Apollos, or the Way of God; The Criterion, a Means of Distinguishing Truth from Error; Institutes of Christian History; Signs of the Times; L’Episcopat de l’Occident, a defence of Anglican theology; The Penitential. Ap. Dut. Lip.

Coxe, Eckley Brinton. Pa., 1839-1895. A Pennsylvania mining engineer who was the author of Theoretical Mechanics.

Coxe, John Redman. N. J., 1773-1864. A noted physician who was the first to introduce the practice of vaccination in Philadelphia. Inflammation; Importance of Medicine; Vaccination; Combustion; American Dispensatory; Recognition of Friends in Another World; Agaricus Atramentarius; The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen Epitomized; Refutation of Harvey’s Claim to the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood; Appeal to the Public.

Coxe, Margaret. N. J., 1800-18—. Claims of the Country on American Females; Wonders of the Deep; Ladies’ Companion.

Coxe, Tench. Pa., 1755-1824. A once noted Philadelphia writer on commerce and political economy. Inquiry into the Principles of a Commercial System for the United States; View of the United States; On the Navigation Act; Thoughts on Naval Power; Address on American Manufactures.

Coyle, John Patterson. Pa., 1852-1895. A Congregational clergyman formerly of North Adams, Massachusetts, but settled in Denver at the time of his death. The Imperial Christ, with a Biographical Introduction by George A. Gates; The Spirit in Literature and Life. Hou.

Cozzens, Frederick Swartwout. N. Y., 1818-1869. A wine merchant of New York City, once noted as a humourist, but now neglected. The Sparrowgrass Papers; Acadia, or a Sojourn among the Blue Noses; Sayings of Dr. Bushwhacker and Other Learned Men; Stone House on the Susquehanna; Prismatics; Fitz-Greene Halleck, a Memorial.

Cozzens, Issachar. R. I., 1781-18—. Uncle of F. S. Cozzens, supra. A mineralogist who published History of New York Island.

Cozzens, Samuel Woodworth. Ms., 1834-1878. A lawyer of Arizona. Nobody’s Husband; The Marvellous Country, or Three Years in Arizona; The Young Trail Hunters; The Young Silver Seekers; Crossing the Quicksands. Le.

Craddock, Charles Egbert. See Murfree, Mary Noailles.

Crafts, Wilbur Fisk. Me., 1850- ——. A Congregational clergyman of New York City and elsewhere. Through the Eye to the Heart; Childhood; The Ideal Sunday-School; The Rescue of Child Soul; Must the Old Testament Go?; The Sabbath for Man; Talks to Boys and Girls about Jesus; Successful Men of To-Day; Practical Christian Sociology, include the larger number of his writings. Fu. Le.

Crafts, William. S. C., 1787-1826. A once noted lawyer and journalist of Charleston. See Poems, Essays, and Orations, with Memoir, by S. Gilman, infra, 1828.

Crafts, William Augustus. 1819- ——. A Boston writer. Life of General Grant; History of the United States; Pioneers in the Settlement of America.

Cram, Ralph Adams. N. H., 1863- ——. An architect of Boston. The Decadent, being the Gospel of Inaction; Black Spirits and White, a book of ghost stories; In the Island of Avalon, a book of verse. Cop. St.

Cranch, Christopher Pearse. Va., 1813-1892. Son of W. Cranch, infra. He was ordained as a Unitarian minister, but after a few years in the ministry gave up his profession and devoted himself to art. For many years he lived in Italy and Paris, but his later years were spent in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His early sympathies were with the New England Transcendentalists, and his best known poem, Thought, was written for The Dial. His work as a poet is uneven, but at its best is excellent. It never strongly appealed to popular tastes, but was always appreciated by thoughtful minds. Poems, 1844; The Bird and the Bell, and Other Poems; Ariel and Caliban, and Other Poems; Satan: a Libretto; The Æneid in English Blank Verse. The Last of the Huggermuggers; Kobboltzo, are juvenile prose tales. Hou. Le.

Cranch, Richard. E., 1726-1811. A lawyer of Braintree, Massachusetts, who published Views of the Prophets concerning Anti-Christ.

Cranch, William. Ms., 1769-1855. Son of R. Cranch, supra. A noted jurist who was chief justice of the District of Columbia, 1805-55. Reports of Cases in the United States District Court of the District of Columbia, 1801-41; Supreme Court Reports, 1800-1815.

Crandall, Charles Henry. N. Y., 1858- ——. A littérateur of Springdale, Connecticut. Wayside Music, a book of verse. Put.

Crane, Cephas Bennett. N. Y., 1833- ——. A Baptist clergyman of Boston. The Spiritual Court of the Christian Church.

Crane, Jonathan Townley. N. J., 1819-1880. A Methodist clergyman of New Jersey. Methodism and its Methods; The Right Way; Essay on Dancing; Popular Amusements; Arts of Intoxication; Holiness the Birthright of all God’s Children.

Crane, Oliver. N. J., 1822-1896. A Presbyterian clergyman who lived in Boston during his latest years. Minto and Other Poems; Virgil’s Aeneid translated literally into English dactylic hexameter.

Crane, Stephen. N. J., 1870-1900. A popular novelist of New York City. George’s Mother; The Black Riders and Other Lines, a collection of wilfully eccentric verse; The Red Badge of Courage, a striking historical romance of the Civil War in America; Maggie, a story of slum life. Ap. Cop.

Crane, Thomas Frederick. N. Y., 1844- ——. A professor of Romance languages at Cornell University. Italian Popular Tales; The Exempla, or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones of Jacques de Vitry; Tableaux de la Revolution Française; Le Romantisme Française; La Société Française au Dixseptiéme Siècle; Chansons Populaires de la France.

Crane, William Carey. Va., 1816-1885. A Baptist clergyman of Texas, president of Baylor University, 1863-1885, which was renamed Crane College in his honour, 1885. Discourses; Life of Sam. Houston, and lesser works.

Crawford, Mrs. Alice [Arnold]. Wis., 1850-1874. A Milwaukee writer who published A Few Thoughts for a Few Friends, a collection of verse.

Crawford, Francis Marion. Iy., 1854- ——. A son of the noted sculptor, Crawford. His life has been mainly spent in Italy, where he has devoted himself to novel-writing with great perseverance. His novels are of varying degrees of excellence and always entertaining, but none of them reach the high-water mark of enduring excellence. Mr. Isaacs; Dr. Claudius; A Roman Singer; To Leeward; An American Politician; Zoroaster; Adam Johnstone’s Sin; A Tale of a Lonely Parish; Saracinesca; Marzio’s Crucifix; Paul Patoff; With the Immortals; Greifenstein; Sant’ Ilario; A Cigarette-maker’s Romance; Khaled; The Witch of Prague; The Three Fates; Don Orsino; Children of the King; Pietro Ghisleri; Marion Darche; The Ralstons; Katherine Lauderdale; Casa Braccio; Love in Idleness, a Tale of Bar Harbour; The Novel: What it Is; Constantinople, a book of travels; Taquisara. See Vedder’s American Writers. Mac. Mer. Scr.

Crawford, Nathaniel Morton. Ga., 1811-1871. A Baptist minister of Kentucky, president of Georgetown College, Kentucky, 1865-71, and the author of Christian Paradoxes.

Crayon, Porte. See Strother.

Creswell, Mrs. Julia [Pleasants]. Al., 1827-1886. A Southern writer who published Aphelia and Other Poems by Two Cousins; Callamura, an allegorical novel.

Crocker, George Glover. Ms., 1843- ——. A lawyer of Boston. Principles of Procedure in Deliberative Assemblies.

Crocker, Mrs. Hannah [Mather]. Ms., 1765-1847. A granddaughter of Cotton Mather, infra. Letters on Free Masonry; The School of Reform; Observations on the Rights of Woman.

Crocker, Uriel Haskell. Ms., 1832-1902. Brother of G. G. Crocker, supra. A lawyer of Boston. The Cause of Hard Times; Notes on Common Forms; Book of Massachusetts Law; Excessive Saving a Cause of Commercial Distress; Notes on General Statutes of Massachusetts (with G. G. Crocker). Lit.

Crockett, David. Tn., 1786-1836. A noted hunter and pioneer who enlisted in the Texan army in the revolt against Mexico, and was slain in the massacre at the Alamo, in San Antonio. Tour to the North and Down East; Life of David Crockett, by Himself (1834); Colonel Crockett’s Exploits in Texas; Life of Martin Van Buren, Heir Apparent; Leisure Hour Musings in Rhyme. See Life by E. S. Ellis; Bibliography of Texas.

Croffut, William Augustus. Ct., 1835- ——. A well-known journalist attached to many journals, East and West, and connected with the United States Geological Survey since 1888. The War History of Connecticut; A Helping Hand; Bourbon Ballads; Deseret, an Opera; A Midsummer Lark, a humorous volume of travels; The Vanderbilts; The Folks Next Door; The Prophecy, and Other Poems.

Croly, David Goodman. N. Y., 1829-1889. A journalist of New York City. Life of Horatio Seymour; History of Reconstruction; The Positivist Primer; Glimpses of the Future.

Croly, Mrs. Jane Cunningham. “Jennie June.” E., 1829-1901. Wife of D. G. Croly, supra. The founder of Sorosis, and editor of Demorest’s Magazine, 1860-87. The originator of duplicate correspondence. Talks on Women’s Topics; For Better or Worse; Knitters and Crochet; Letters and Monograms; Cookery Book for Young Beginners; Thrown upon her Own Resources. Cr.

Crooks, George Richard. Pa., 1822-1897. A Methodist clergyman and religious journalist. Life of John McClintock, infra; Life of Matthew Simpson; First Books in Latin and Greek (with J. McClintock); Latin-English Lexicon (with A. J. Schem). Fu. Har.

Crosby, Alpheus. N. H., 1810-1874. An educator of Massachusetts who published Greek Lessons; Greek Fables; Greek Tables; First Lessons in Geometry; an edition of Xenophon’s Anabasis.

Crosby, Howard. N. Y., 1826-1891. A Presbyterian clergyman long prominent in New York City who was chancellor of the University of New York city, 1870-81. The Christian Preacher; Notes on the New Testament; Life of Jesus; Christ and Science; At the Lord’s Table; Sermons; Lands of the Moslem; Œdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, with Notes; Bible Manual; Bible Companion; Bible View of the Jewish Church; The Seven Churches of Asia, or Worldliness in the Church; Thoughts on the Pentateuch; Commentary on the New Testament, include his principal works. Fu. Ran.

Crosby, Nathan. N. H., 1798-1885. Brother of A. Crosby, supra. A prominent lawyer of Lowell, who published First Half Century of Dartmouth College.

Crosby, William Otis. O., 1850- ——. A professor of geology in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has published Common Minerals and Rocks; Contributions to the Geology of Eastern Massachusetts.

Cross, Charles Robert. N. Y., 1848- ——. A professor of physics in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Course in Elementary Physics; Lecture Notes on Mechanics and Optics.

Cross, David Wallace. N. Y., 1814-1891. A Cleveland lawyer of local fame as a sportsman. Fifty Years with the Rod and Gun.

Cross, Joseph. E., 1813-1893. An Episcopal clergyman who from 1829-1856 was a prominent Methodist divine. The more important of his writings include Headlands of Faith; Pisgah Views of the Promised Inheritance; A Year in Europe; Coals from the Altar; Pauline Charity; Prelections on Charity; Old Wine and New.

Cross, Mrs. Jane Tandy [Chinn] [Harding]. Ky., 1817-1870. Wife of J. Cross, supra. Wayside Flowerets; Heart Blossoms for my Little Daughters; Bible Gleanings; Driftwood; Gonzalo de Cordova, a translation from the Spanish; Duncan Adair, a novel.

Croswell, Andrew. 1709-1785. A Boston clergyman, very active as a controversialist. The Apostle’s Advice to the Jailor Improved; Heaven shut against Arminians and Antinomians.

Croswell, Harry. Ct., 1778-1858. An Episcopal clergyman who was rector of Trinity Church, New Haven, 1816-58, but in earlier life was a political journalist noted for his scathing editorials. Young Churchman’s Guide; Manual of Family Prayers; Guide to the Holy Sacrament.

Croswell, William. Ms., 1804-1851. Son of H. Croswell, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston, the first rector of the Church of the Advent. Some of his hymns appear in various religious anthologies and hymnals. Poems Sacred and Secular.

Crowe, Winfield Scott. Ind., 1850- ——. A Universalist clergyman, of Newark, New Jersey, editor of the Universalist Monthly. The Man of Evolution; The God of Evolution; The Lordship of Jesus.

Crowell, Eugene. N. Y., 1817-1894. A writer of San Francisco, and later of New York city, who was a zealous defender of Spiritualism. The Identity of Primitive Christianity with Modern Spiritualism; The Spirit World; The Philosophy of Death; Spiritualism and Insanity; The Religion of Spiritualism.

Crowell, William. Ms., 1806-1871. A Baptist clergyman who published The Church Member’s Manual of Ecclesiastical Principles; Church Member’s Handbook; History of Baptist Literature for Fifty Years.

Cruger, Mrs. Julia Grinnell [Storrow]. “Julien Gordon.” F., 18— - ——. A popular novelist of New York city. A Diplomat’s Diary; Poppaea; A Successful Man; A Wedding and Other Stories; Mademoiselle Réséda; A Puritan Pagan. Lip.

Cruger, Mary. N. Y., 1834- ——. A writer of Montrose, New York. Hyperæsthesia; A Den of Thieves, or the Lay Reader of St. Mark’s; The Vanderheyde Manor House; How She Did It; Brotherhood. Fo. Lo.

Crummell, Alexander. N. Y., 1819-1898. A coloured Episcopal clergyman of Washington. The Future of Africa; Greatness of Christ, and Other Sermons; Africa and America.

Cruse, Christian Frederick. Pa., 1794-1864. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city whose translation of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius is a standard English version.

Cruse, Mary Anne. Al., 18— - ——. A writer and educator of Huntsville, Alabama. Besides a novel of the Civil War, Cameron Hall, she has written several popular Sunday-school books, such as The Little Episcopalian; Bessie Melville.

Cruttenden, Daniel Henry. N. Y., 1816-1874. An educator of New York city, among whose text-books are Systematic Arithmetic Series; The Philosophy of Language; Rhetorical Grammar.

Crynkle, Nym. See Wheeler, A. C.

Culbertson, Matthew Simpson. Pa., 1818-1862. A Presbyterian missionary to China. Darkness in the Flowery Kingdom, or Religious Notions in North China.

Cullum, George Washington. N. Y., 1809-1892. A brevet major-general in the United States army. Military Bridges with India-Rubber Pontoons; Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, 1802-90; System of Military Bridges. Hou.

Cumming, Kate. Al., c. 1835- ——. A resident of Mobile, prominent during the Civil War as an organizer of field hospitals in the Confederate army. Hospital Life in Tennessee from the Battle of Shiloh to the End of the War.

Cummings, Amos Jay. N. Y., 1842-1902. A journalist of New York city. Horace Greeley Campaign Songster; Sayings of Uncle Rufus; Ziska Letters.

Cummings, Jeremiah W. D. C., 1823-1866. A once popular Roman Catholic clergyman of New York city. Italian Legends; Songs for Catholic Schools; Spiritual Progress; The Silver Stole.

Cummings, Thomas Seir. E., 1804-1894. A New York artist who was author of the Historic Annals of the National Academy from its Foundation to 1865.

Cummins, Ebenezer Harlow. N. C., 1790-1835. A clergyman and magistrate of Baltimore. Geography of Alabama; History of the Late War (1820).

Cummins, Maria Susanna. Ms., 1827-1866. A once famous novelist of Massachusetts, whose first book, The Lamplighter, enjoyed for a time a phenomenal popularity. Her subsequent stories include El Fureidîs, a tale of Palestine; Haunted Hearts; Mabel Vaughan. Cr. Hou.

Curry, Daniel. N. Y., 1809-1887. A Methodist divine of note. New York, an Historical Sketch; Life Story of Rev. D. W. Clark, supra; Fragments, Religious and Theological; Platform Papers.

Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe. Ga., 1825-1903. A Baptist clergyman who served in the Confederate army during the Civil War, achieved prominence as an educator, and was United States Minister to Spain in 1885. Baptists and Pedobaptists, their Radical Differences in Faith and Practice; Constitutional Government in Spain; Gladstone, a Study; Southern States of the American Union.

Curry, Otway. O., 1804-1855. An Ohio journalist who published Love of the Past, a poem.

Curry, Samuel Silas. Tn., 1847- ——. An educator of Boston whose specialty is the culture of expression. The Province of Expression; Lessons in Vocal Expression; Imagination and Dramatic Instinct.

Curtin, Jeremiah. Wis., 1838- ——. Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland; Hero Tales of Ireland; Tales of the Fairies and the Ghost World, collected from Oral Tradition in South Munster; Myths and Folk-Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars. His translations include Tales of Three Centuries, from the Russian of Zagoskin; The Romances of Sienkiewicz, from the Polish. Lit.

Curtis, Alva. N. H., 1797-1881. An Ohio physician and medical writer. Medical Discussions; Lectures on Midwifery; Theory and Practice of Medicine; Medical Criticisms.

Curtis, Benjamin Robbins. Ms., 1809-1874. A noted jurist of Boston. Reports of Cases in the Circuit Courts of the United States; United States Supreme Court Decisions; Digest and Decisions of United States Supreme Court. See Memoir by G. T. Curtis. Lit.