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Curtis, Benjamin Robbins, Jr. Ms., 1855-1891. Son of B. R. Curtis, supra. A municipal court judge of Boston. Dottings Round the Circle, a volume of travels.

Curtis, Mrs. Caroline Gardiner [Cary]. “Carroll Winchester.” N. Y., 1827- ——. A novelist of Boston. From Madge to Margaret; The Love of a Lifetime.

Curtis, Edward. R. I., 1838- ——. Brother of G. W. Curtis, infra. A physician of New York who has published Manual of General Medical Technology.

Curtis, George Ticknor. Ms., 1812-1894. Brother of B. R. Curtis, supra. An eminent lawyer of New York city, well known as a legal writer and biographer. Digest of English and American Admiralty Decisions; Digest of Decisions of Courts of Common Law and Admiralty in the United States; American Conveyancer; Law of Patents; Equity Precedents; Inventor’s Manual; Law of Copyright; Rights and Duties of Merchant Seamen; Commentaries on the Jurisprudence, Practice, and Peculiar Jurisdiction of United States Courts; A History of the Constitution of the United States; Life of James Buchanan; Life of Daniel Webster; Creation or Evolution; Last Years of Daniel Webster; John Charaxes, a novel. Har. Lit.

Curtis, George William. R. I., 1824-1892. One of the foremost of American essayists, and a writer whose influence was as helpful as it was widespread. In boyhood he was one of the members of the famous Brook Farm Association at West Roxbury. To Putnam’s Monthly he contributed The Potiphar Papers, a spirited satire upon society; and Prue and I, a story far superior to his more ambitious novel, Trumps. For thirty-five years he filled the Easy Chair department of Harper’s Monthly, and from 1863-92 he was the political editor of Harper’s Weekly. He was zealous in the cause of civil service reform, and by his efforts as writer and lecturer accomplished very much in that direction. Beside the volumes already named, his writings include Nile Notes of a Howadji; Lotus Eating; The Howadji in Syria; James Russell Lowell, an Address; Eulogy on Wendell Phillips; From the Easy Chair; Speeches, Addresses, &c., edited by C. E. Norton, infra; Literary and Social Essays. See Life by E. Cary, 1895; Address by J. W. Chadwick, supra; Century Magazine, February, 1883; Smalley’s Studies of Men.

Curtis, Moses Ashley. Ms., 1808-1872. A botanist and Episcopal clergyman of North Carolina. Edible Fungi of North Carolina; Contributions to Mycology of North America; Catalogue of the Plants of North Carolina; Esculent Fungi; Indigenous and Native Plants of North Carolina.

Curtis, Samuel Ives. Ct., 1844- ——. A Congregational clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary of Chicago. The Name Maccabee; The Levitical Priests; Ingersoll and Moses; The Date of our Gospels. Rev.

Curtis, Thomas F. E., 1815-1872. A Baptist divine who was for some years president of Lewisburg University, Pennsylvania. Progress of Baptist Principles in the Last Hundred Years (1857); The Human Element in the Inspiration of the Sacred Scriptures, a work which occupies the Colenso position on the subject and is in places more advanced.

Curtis, William Eleroy. O., 1850- ——. A prominent Washington journalist. The United States and Foreign Powers; Life of Zachariah Chandler; The Capitals of Spanish America; The Land of the Nihilist; Venezuela; The Yankees of the East: Japan Sketches; The True Thomas Jefferson. Har. St.

Curtiss, Mrs. Abby [Allin]. Ct., 1820- ——. A verse-writer of Madison, Wisconsin, who published Home Ballads (1850).

Curwen, Samuel. Ms., 1715-1802. A loyalist who lived in England during the American Revolution, but returned after its close to his native town of Salem. While an exile he kept a journal which contains much valuable information concerning loyalist exiles. It was first published in 1842, with the title Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen, Judge of Admiralty, an American Refugee in England, 1775-1884.

Cushing, Caleb. Ms., 1800-1879. A Massachusetts statesman and diplomatist, who was attorney-general of the United States, 1853-57. Historical and Political Review of the Late Revolution in France, 1833; Practical Principles of Political Economy; Life of William Henry Harrison; Growth and Territorial Progress of the United States, 1837; Reminiscences of Spain; History of Newburyport; The Treaty of Washington. See Appleton’s American Biography. Har.

Cushing, Luther Stearns. Ms., 1803-1856. A well-known authority on parliamentary practice and a Massachusetts jurist who was lecturer on Roman Law in Harvard University, 1848-56. Massachusetts Reports, 1848-53; Manual of Parliamentary Practice; Trustee Process; Remedial Law; Reports of Controverted Election Cases in Massachusetts; Introduction to the study of Roman Civil Law; Elements of the Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States; Lex Parliamentaria Americana; Rules of Proceeding and Debates in the Deliberative Assemblies. Lit.

Cushing, William. Ms., 1811-1895. Brother of L. S. Cushing, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts who, after retiring from the ministry, devoted himself to literary research, and published Anonyms; Initials and Pseudonyms, useful guide-books of literary information. Cr.

Custer, Mrs. Elizabeth [Bacon]. Mch., 184- - ——. Wife of G. A. Custer, infra. Boots and Saddles, or Life in Dakota with General Custer; Tenting on the Plains, or General Custer in Kansas and Texas; Following the Guidon; The Boy General. Har. Scr.

Custer, George Armstrong. O., 1839-1876. A famous general in the Federal army during the Civil War, who afterwards became noted in campaigns against the Indians, and was killed with his entire command in a battle with the Sioux in the Black Hills. My Life on the Plains was his only publication.

Custis, George Washington Parke. Va., 1781-1857. An adopted son of General Washington. He published Recollections of Washington.

Cuthbert, James Hazard. S. C., 1822- ——. A Baptist divine of Washington. Our Mission as Baptists; Life of Richard Fuller, infra.

Cutler, Elbridge Jefferson. Ms., 1831-1870. A professor of modern languages at Harvard University, 1865-1870. War Poems; Stella. See Memoir by A. P. Peabody, infra, 1872.

Cutler, Mrs. Hannah Maria [Tracy] [Conant]. Ms., 1815-1896. A prominent woman-suffragist who became a physician in 1879, and practiced in Cobden, Illinois. Woman as She Was, Is, and Should Be; Phillipia, or A Woman’s Question; The Fortunes of Michael Doyle, or Home Rule for Ireland.

Cutler, Jervis. Ms., 1768-1844. A Western pioneer who published Topographical Description of the Western Country (1812). See Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler.

Cutler, Mrs. Lizzie [Petit]. Va., 1836- ——. A novelist of New York City. Light and Darkness; Household Mysteries, a romance of Southern life; The Stars of the Crowd, or Men and Women of the Day.

Cutter, George Washington. Ms., 1801-1865. A verse-writer of Washington. Buena Vista, and Other Poems; Song of Steam; Poems National and Patriotic.

Cutting, Hiram Adolphus. Vt., 1832-1892. A State geologist of Vermont. Mining in Vermont; Climatology of Vermont; Microscopic Revelations; Farm Pests; Notes on Building Stones; Lectures on Plants, Fertilization, etc.; Lectures on Milk, etc.; Farm Lectures; Vermont Agricultural Reports.

Cutting, Sewall Sylvester. Vt., 1813-1882. A Baptist clergyman and religious journalist. Historical Vindications; Struggles and Triumphs of Religious Liberty; Ancient Baptistries.

Cuyler [ky´ler], Theodore Ledyard. N. Y., 1822- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of note, formerly pastor of Lafayette Avenue Church of Brooklyn. Stray Arrows; Cedar Christian; The Empty Crib; Wayside Springs; Right to the Point; Thought Hives; God’s Light on Dark Clouds; Pointed Papers; Heart Life; From the Nile to Norway; Newly Enlisted, or Talks to Young Converts; The Young Preacher; Stirring the Eagle’s Nest; How To Be a Pastor; Christianity in the Home, comprise the greater number of his works. Rev.

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Dabney, Richard. Va., 1787-1825. A once noted instructor in Richmond, Virginia, whose Poems, Original and Translated, contain scholarly translations from Euripides, Alcæus, and other classic poets.

Dabney, Richard Heath. Va., 1859- ——. The Causes of the French Revolution. Ho.

Dabney, Robert Lewis. Va., 1820-1898. Nephew of R. Dabney, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman, from 1882 professor of moral philosophy in the University of Texas. Life of T. S. Sampson; Life and Campaigns of General Stonewall Jackson; Sacred Rhetoric, or Lectures on Preaching; Defence of Virginia and the South; The Sensualistic Philosophy of the 19th Century; A Course of Systematic and Polemic Theology; The Christian Sabbath; Collected Discussions. Ran.

Dabney, Virginius. Va., 1835-1894. A staff officer in the Confederate service during the Civil War, who published Don Miff, a Symphony of Life; Gold That Did Not Glitter. Lip.

Daboll [da´bŏl], Nathan. 1750-1818. A once famous instructor of Connecticut. He prepared The Schoolmaster’s Assistant, long a standard text-book on arithmetic, and The Practical Navigator.

Daboll, Nathan. Ct., 1782-1863. Son of N. Daboll, supra. A probate judge of Connecticut. The author, with his son, of Daboll’s New Arithmetic, and compiler of the New England Almanac, begun by the father in 1773. The second of the name continued its preparation from 1818 to the year of his own death.

Da Costa, Jacob Mandes. W. I., 1833-1900. A Philadelphia physician connected with Jefferson Medical College since 1864, and a specialist in diseases of the throat and lungs. Epithelial Tumours and Cancers of the Skin; The Pathological Anatomy of Acute Pneumonia; The Physicians of the Last Century; Serous Apoplexy; Medical Diagnosis; Inhalation in Treatment of Diseases of the Respiratory Passages; Strain and Over-action of the Heart; Harvey and his Discovery. Lip.

Dadd, George H. E., c. 1813- ——. A veterinary surgeon who has published The Modern Horse Doctor; Manual of Veterinary Science; Anatomy and Physiology of the Horse; The American Cattle Doctor.

Dagg, John Leadley. Va., 1794-1884. A Baptist clergyman who retired from the ministry in 1833, and was president of Mercer University, Georgia, 1844-56. Manual of Theology; Elements of Moral Science; Evidences of Christianity; English Grammar. Bap.

Dahlgren, John Adolph. Pa., 1809-1870. A famous United States naval officer, made admiral in 1863, who invented the cannon bearing his name, and conducted the siege of Charleston during the Civil War. Thirty-Two Pounder Practice for Rangers; System of Boat Armament in the United States Navy; Naval Percussion Locks and Primers; Ordnance Memoranda; Shells and Shell Guns; Memoir of Ulric Dahlgren; Notes on Maritime International Law, edited by Charles Cowley, supra. See Memoir by Mrs. Dahlgren, infra.

Dahlgren, Mrs. Madeleine [Vinton] [Goddard]. O., 1835-1898. Second wife of J. A. Dahlgren, supra, to whom she was married in 1865. A novelist of Washington. Idealities; Thoughts on Female Suffrage; South Sea Sketches; Etiquette of Social Life in Washington; Memoir of Admiral Dahlgren; South Mountain Magic, a Narrative; A Washington Winter, a Society Novel; The Lost Name; Divorced; Lights and Shadows of a Life. Lip.

Dalcho, Frederick. E., 1777-1836. An Episcopal clergyman of Charleston, rector of St. Michael’s Church there, 1819-36, but in earlier life successively a physician and journalist. The Evidence of the Divinity of Our Saviour. Historic Account of the Episcopal Church in South Carolina; Ahiman Rezon, a work for freemasons.

Dale, James Wilkinson. Del., 1812-1881. A clergyman of eastern Pennsylvania. The Cup and the Cross, or the Baptism of Calvary; Classic Baptism; Judaic Baptism; Johannic Baptism; Christic and Patristic Baptism.

Dales, John Blakely. N. Y., 1815-1893. A United Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, whose principal writings include Roman Catholicism; Dangers and Duties of Young Men; The Gospel Minister.

Dall, Mrs. Caroline Wells [Healey]. Ms., 1822- ——. Wife of C. H. A. Dall, infra. A Washington writer whose early efforts were mainly in the line of social reforms, while her later works were concerned with general literature. Essays and Sketches; Historical Pictures Retouched; Life of Dr. Marie Zakrzewski; Woman’s Rights under the Law; The Romance of the Association, or one Last Glimpse of Charlotte Temple and Eliza Wharton; What we Really Know about Shakespeare; Woman’s Place in History; Life of Dr. Anandabai Joshee; College, Market and Court; Woman’s Right to Labor; Essays on Confucius; Patty Gray’s Journey to the Cotton Islands; My First Holiday, or Letters from Colorado; Egypt’s Place in History, include her principal works. Le. Rob.

Dall, Charles Henry Appleton. Md., 1816-1886. A Unitarian missionary to Calcutta. The Temperance Movement in Modern Times; Theism, in Questions and Answers.

Dall, William Healey. Ms., 1845- ——. Son of C. H. and C. W. Dall, supra. A naturalist of distinction who has been connected with the United States Coast Survey and the Geological Survey. Alaska and its Resources (1870); Tribes of the Extreme Northwest; Scientific Results of the Exploration of Alaska; Coast Pilot of Alaska; Pacific Coast Pilot; Reports on the Mollusca of the Blake Expedition. Le.

Dallas, Alexander James. F., 1759-1817. A noted statesman who was secretary of state, 1796-1801, and secretary of the treasury under Madison. Features of Jay’s Treaty; Speeches on the Trial of Blount; Address to Constitutional Republicans; Causes and Character of the Late War (1815); Reports of Cases. See Life and Writings of, by G. M. Dallas, infra.

Dallas, George Mifflin. Pa., 1792-1864. Son of A. J. Dallas, supra. A statesman who was minister to Russia, 1837-39, vice-president of the United States, 1845-49, minister to England, 1856-61. Series of Letters from London; Eulogy on Andrew Jackson, as well as many single speeches and addresses. Lip.

Dalton [dawl´ton], John Call. Ms., 1825-1889. A physician of note who was a professor in various medical colleges. Observations on Trichina Spiralis; The Experimental Method in Medical Science; Doctrines of the Circulation; Topographical Anatomy of the Brain; History of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city; Treatise on Human Physiology; Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene.

Daly, Charles Patrick. N. Y., 1816-1899. A prominent jurist of New York City. Historical Sketch of the Judicial Tribunals of New York, 1823-46; Reports of Cases in Court of Common Pleas, City and County of New York; First Settlement of Jews in North America; What we Knew of Maps and Map Drawing before Mercator.

Daly, John Augustin. N. C., 1838-1899. A dramatist and theatrical manager of New York city who, besides adapting many plays from the German and the French, wrote Divorce; Pique; Horizon; Under the Gaslight, and other plays, as well as Peg Woffington, a Tribute to the Actress and the Woman.

Damon, Howard Franklin. Ms., 1833-1884. A hospital physician of Boston. Leucocythæmia; Neurosis of the Skin; General Remarks on the Frequency of Skin Diseases. Lip.

Dana, Alexander Hamilton. E., 1807-1887. A lawyer of New York State. Ethical and Physiological Inquiries; Inductive Inquiries in Physiology; Ethics and Ethnology; Enigmas of Life, Death, and the Future State.

Dana, Charles Anderson. N. H., 1819-1897. A distinguished journalist of New York City. He was assistant secretary of war 1863-65, and since 1868 the editor of The New York Sun. His political writing is noted for its bitter partisanship, but the literary quality of his work is admirable. With J. G. Wilson, infra, he prepared a Life of General Grant, and was co-editor with George Ripley, infra, of the American Cyclopædia. The Household Book of Poetry was edited by him. Ap.

Dana, Charles Louis. Vt., 1852- ——. A physician of note as a neurologist, who has published a Text-Book on Nervous Diseases.

Dana, Edward Salisbury. Ct., 1849- ——. Son of J. D. Dana, infra, assistant professor of natural philosophy at Yale University since 1879, and curator of the mineral cabinet in the Peabody Museum there. Since 1875 he has been one of the editors of Silliman’s Journal. Text-Book of Mineralogy; Text-Book of Elementary Mechanics; Appendix II. (1875) and Appendix III. (1883) of Dana’s System of Mineralogy. Wil.

Dana, James. Ms., 1735-1812. A once famous Congregational clergyman of New Haven, who wrote An Examination of Edwards on the Will.

Dana, James Dwight. N. Y., 1813-1895. A celebrated geologist, professor at Yale University from 1850. System of Mineralogy; Manual of Mineralogy; Text-Book of Geology; Corals and Coral Islands; The Geological Story Briefly Told. Am. Do. Wil.

Dana, James Freeman. N. H., 1793-1827. A chemist and physician, the first professor of chemistry at Dartmouth College. Epitome of Chemical Philosophy; Outlines of the Mineralogy and Geology of Boston and its Vicinity (with S. L. Dana, infra).

Dana, Mrs. Katharine [Floyd]. L. I., 1835-1886. A writer of New York City. Our Phil and Other Stories. Hou.

Dana, Mrs. Mary. See Shindler, Mrs.

Dana, Richard Henry. Ms., 1787-1879. A poet and critic who was one of the founders of the North American Review in 1815. As a critic his Lectures on Shakespeare represent him fairly, and it must not be forgotten that he was one of the earliest in America to appreciate the genius of Wordsworth. The Idle Man, a publication begun in 1821 and extending to six numbers, includes his two novels, Tom Thornton; Paul Felton. His later publications include The Buccaneer, and Other Poems; Poems and Prose Writings. His verse is both imaginative and original, but at the same time unmelodious. See Atlantic Monthly, April, 1879; Harper’s Magazine, April, 1879; Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Bryant and his Friends.

Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. Ms., 1815-1882. Son of R. H. Dana, supra. A noted lawyer of Boston, best known in literature by the famous Two Years before the Mast, a narrative of personal adventure, which first appeared in 1840, and was reissued, enlarged, in 1869. His other works include The Seaman’s Friend, known in England as The Seaman’s Manual; Letters on Italian Unity; To Cuba and Back; Letters on the Somers Mutiny; Life of Major Vinton; Enemy Property and Enemy Territory. See Life by C. F. Adams, 1891.

Dana, Samuel Luther. N. H., 1795-1868. Brother of J. F. Dana, supra. A noted chemist of Lowell, who made many improvements in cotton-printing, and was one of the foremost agricultural writers of his time. Chemical Changes in the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid; Muck Mineral for Manures; Essay on Manures. See American Journal of Science, May, 1868.

Dana, William Coombs. Ms., 1810-1873. A Presbyterian clergyman of Charleston. Hymns for Public Worship; A Transatlantic Tour; Life of Samuel Dana.

Dana, Mrs. William Starr. See Parsons, Mrs. Frances.

Dandridge, Mrs. Danske [Bedinger]. Dk., 1858- ——. A verse-writer of Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Joy, and Other Poems.

Dane, Nathan. Ms., 1752-1835. A very prominent lawyer of Massachusetts, who founded the Dane professorship at the Harvard University Law School. He published an Abridgment and Digest of American Law [in nine volumes].

Danenhower, John Wilson. Il., 1849-1887. An Arctic explorer who was second in command of the De Long Expedition in 1879, and published The Narrative of the Jeannette, 1882.

Danforth, John. Ms., 1660-1730. Son of S. Danforth, infra. A once noted Congregational clergyman of Dorchester, Massachusetts, who published many single sermons and occasional poems.

Danforth, Joshua Noble. Ms., 1798-1861. A Congregational minister of Massachusetts and Virginia, who published Gleanings and Groupings from a Pastor’s Portfolio.

Danforth, Samuel. E., 1626-1674. A once famous Puritan clergyman of Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1650-74. An Astronomical Description of the Comet of 1664; An Election Sermon; The Cry of Sodom Inquired Into.

Danforth, Samuel. Ms., 1666-1727. Son of S. Danforth, supra. A Congregational clergyman of Taunton, Massachusetts, famous for his great learning and wide influence. Eulogy on Thomas Leonard; Essay Concerning the Singing of Psalms. The MS. of his Indian Dictionary is now the property of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Dangé, Henri. See Hammond, Mrs.

Daniel, John Moncure. Va., 1825-1865. A once noted Virginia journalist who edited The Richmond Examiner, and was minister to Italy 1853-60. See Writings of, with Memoir by his brother, 1868.

Daniel, John Warwick. Va., 1842- ——. A prominent Virginia lawyer who was an adjutant-general in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Attachments under the Code of Virginia; Negotiable Instruments.

Daniels, Mrs. Cora [Linn]. Ms., 1852- ——. A novelist of Franklin, Massachusetts. Sardia, a Story of Love; As It Is to Be. Ban. Le.

Daniels, William Haven. Ms., 1836- ——. A Methodist clergyman, prominent as an evangelist. D. L. Moody and his Work; That Boy, who Shall Have Him?; The Temperance Reform and its Great Reformers; Moody, his Words, Work, and Workers; Illustrated History of Methodism in the United States; Graduated with Honour; Memorials of Gilbert Haven; Short History of the People called Methodists. Meth.

Dannelly, Mrs. Elizabeth Otis [Marshall]. Ga., 1838- ——. A Texas writer of verse. Cactus, or Thorns and Blossoms; Wayside Flowers.

Da Ponte, Lorenzo. Iy., 1749-1838. An Italian dramatist who furnished libretti for Mozart’s operas, Don Giovanni and Nozze di Figaro. He came to America in 1805, and after 1828 was professor of Italian in Columbia College. He published his own Life (1823); History of the Florentine Republic and the Medici (1833).

Darby, John. See Garretson.

Darby, John. Ms., 1804-1877. An educator who was connected with various colleges North and South. Manual of Botany; The Botany of the Southern States; Chemistry, are some of his publications.

Darby, William. Pa., 1755-1834. A geographer who published Geographical Dictionary of Louisiana; Plan of Pittsburg and Adjacent Country; Emigrant’s Guide to the Western Country; Tour from New York to Detroit (1819); Geography and History of Florida; View of the United States (1823); Lectures on the Discovery of America; Mnemonica, a Register of Events from the Earliest Period; Geographical Dictionary.

Darden, Mrs. Fannie [Baker]. Al., 1829- ——. Romances of the Texas Revolution; Poems.

Dargan, Clara Victoria. See Maclean, Mrs.

Darley, Felix Octavius Carr. Pa., 1822-1888. A well-known artist and illustrator whose home was at Claymont, Delaware. His only writing is included in Sketches Abroad with Pen and Pencil.

Darling, Mrs. Flora [Adams]. N. H., 1840- ——. A writer of fiction whose writings include Mrs. Darling’s Letters, or Memoirs of the Civil War; A Wayward Winning Woman; The Bourbon Lily; Was it a Just Verdict?; A Social Diplomat; From Two Points of View; The Senator’s Daughter.

Darling, Henry. Pa., 1823-1891. A Presbyterian clergyman who was president of Hamilton College, 1881-1891. The Close Walk; Slavery and the War; Conformity to the World; Not Doing but Receiving.

Darling, Mary Greenleaf. Pa., 1848- ——. Battles at Home; In the World; Gladys, a Romance. Le. Lo.

Darling, William. S., 1815-1884. A distinguished New York physician who published Anatomography, or Graphic Anatomy; Essentials of Anatomy (with A. L. Ranney).

Darlington, William. Pa., 1782-1863. A famous botanist of West Chester, Pennsylvania, in whose honour Darlingtonia, a genus of pitcher-plants, was named. Mutual Influence of Habits and Disease; Agricultural Botany; Flora Cestrica; Memorials of John Bartram, supra, and Humphrey Marshall.

D’Arusmont, Madame Frances [Wright]. S., 1795-1852. A very energetic and versatile Scottish reformer who came several times to America, and finally settled in Cincinnati. Her attacks on social institutions aroused much hostility, her opposition to slavery making her the object of especial dislike. Popular Lectures on Free Inquiry; Biographical Notes and Political Letters of Fanny Wright D’Arusmont (1844); Altorf: a tragedy; Views of Society and Manners in America; A Few Days in Athens, include her principal works. See Gilbert’s The Pioneer Woman, 1855; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 14.

Daveiss, Mrs. Maria [Thompson]. Ky., 1814-1896. A Kentucky author who wrote much for agricultural journals, and published Roger Sherman, a Tale of ’76; Woman’s Love; History of Mercer and Boyle Counties, Kentucky; Cultivation and Uses of the Chinese Sugar Cane.

Davenport, John. E., 1597-1670. A famous Puritan divine who, before coming to America in 1637, was a celebrated London preacher. In 1638 he was one of the founders of New Haven, and in 1660 concealed the noted regicides, Goffe and Whalley, from their pursuers. In 1666 he became pastor of the First Church in Boston. Instructions to Elders of the English Church; Catechism containing the Chief Heads of the Christian Religion; Discourse about Civil Government in New England. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 14.

David, Jean Baptist. F., 1761-1841. A Roman Catholic bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky. Among his many works are Vindication of Catholic Doctrine concerning Images; Address to Brethren of Other Professions; On the Rule of Faith; True Piety.

Davidson, Charles. O., 1852- ——. An instructor of Belmont, California. The Phonology of the Stressed Vowels of Beowulf; Studies in the English Mystery Plays.

Davidson, George. E., 1825- ——. An astronomer of distinction, founder of the Davidson Observatory in San Francisco. The United States Coast Survey of the Pacific Coast; Coast Pilot of Alaska; Voyages of Discovery on the Northwest Coast of America, 1539-1603.

Davidson, James Wood. S. C., 1829- ——. An educator of South Carolina and elsewhere, whose Living Writers of the South is quite wanting in discrimination and critical ability. His other works include School History of South Carolina; The Correspondent; The Poetry of the Future; Florida of To-Day. Ap.

Davidson, Lucretia Maria. N. Y., 1808-1825. A precocious verse-writer now quite forgotten. Amir Khan and Other Poems was issued in 1829. See Memoir by S. F. B. Morse, and Life by C. M. Sedgwick, infra.

Davidson, Margaret Miller. N. Y., 1823-1838. Sister to L. M. Davidson, and, like her, a juvenile prodigy whose immature verses were extravagantly lauded by contemporary writers, but by no critics of a later day. See Memoir by Washington Irving.

Davidson, Robert. Md., 1750-1812. A Presbyterian clergyman who was president of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1804-09. Epitome of Geography in Verse for Schools; The Christian’s A, B, C, or the 119th Psalm in Metre; New Metrical Version of the Psalms, with Notes.

Davidson, Robert. Pa., 1808-1876. Son of R. Davidson, supra. A Presbyterian minister in Kentucky and other States, among whose writings are Elijah, a Sacred Drama, and Other Poems; The Christ of God, or the Relation of Christ to Christianity.

Davidson, Thomas. S., 1840-1900. A writer on art and philosophy who came to the United States in 1866 and settled at Cambridge. The Parthenon Frieze and Other Essays; The Place of Art in Education; Giordano Bruno and the Relation of his Philosophy to Free Thought; Handbook of Dante, from the Italian of Scartazzini, with Notes and Additions; Prolegomena to Tennyson’s “In Memoriam;” Aristotle, and Ancient and Modern Educational Ideals; The Education of the Greek People and its Influence on Civilization. Ap. Gi. Hou.

Davies, Charles. Ct., 1798-1876. A noted professor of mathematics in Columbia College from 1857. Beside a notable series of mathematical text-books, from A Primary Table Book to Elementary Geometry and Trigonometry, he published also editions of Legendre’s Geometry and Bourdon’s Algebra. Other works by him comprise Practical Mathematics; Elements of Surveying; Analytical Geometry; Differential and Integral Calculus; Logic and Utility of Mathematics; The Metric System; Mathematical Dictionary (with W. G. Peck).

Davies, Samuel. Del., 1724-1761. A Presbyterian clergyman of great renown in his day as a preacher, and the fourth president of Princeton College. He wrote a number of hymns still in use, and his Sermons in 5 volumes appeared in London in 1767. See Sermons, 1851, with Memoir by Albert Barnes, supra.

Davies, Thomas Alfred. N. Y., 1809-1899. Brother of C. Davies, supra. A Federal officer in the Civil War. Cosmogony, or Mysteries of Creation; Adam and Ha-Adam; Genesis Disclosed; Answer to Hugh Miller and Theoretical Geologists; How to Make Money and how to Keep It.

Davis, Andrew Jackson. N. Y., 1826- ——. A noted spiritualist of Poughkeepsie, among whose many mystical rhapsodical writings the following may be considered the most important: The Great Harmonia; Harmonial Man; Present Age and Inner Life; Philosophy of Spiritual Intercourse; The Principles of Nature; The Penetralia; Genesis and Ethics of Conjugal Love; Autobiography, 1885. Ban.

Davis, Andrew McFarland. Ms., 1833- ——. Brother of H. Davis, infra. An antiquarian writer of Cambridge. Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. Mac.

Davis, Asahel. Ms., 1791-18—. A Massachusetts antiquary who published Ancient America and Researches of the East (1847); History of New Amsterdam.

Davis, Augusta Cordelia. Me., 1836- ——. Poems from Yare.

Davis, Mrs. Caroline E—— [Kelly]. N. H., 1831- ——. A prolific writer of Sunday-school tales. Among her fifty or more volumes are, No Cross, No Crown; Little Conqueror Series; Miss Wealthy’s Hope; That Boy. Lo.

Davis, Charles Henry. Ms., 1807-1877. Son of D. Davis, infra. A rear-admiral in the United States navy, and a noted hydrographer. Besides editing the American Nautical Almanac, he published Law of Deposit of Flood Tide; Geological Action of Tidal and Other Ocean Currents; and translated Gauss’s Theoria Motus Corporum Cœlestium. See Life, by C. H. Davis, infra, 1899.

Davis, Charles Henry. Ms., 1845- ——. Son of C. H. Davis, supra. A United States naval officer. Chronometer Rates as Affected by Temperature and Other Causes; Telegraphic Determination of Longitudes.

Davis, Charles Henry Stanley. Ct., 1840- ——. A physician of Meriden, Connecticut. History of Wallingford and Meriden; The Voice as a Musical Instrument; Education and Training of Feeble Minded Children; Index to Periodical Literature.

Davis, Cushman Kellogg. N. Y., 1838-1900. A prominent Minnesota lawyer and United States senator, who wrote The Law in Shakespeare.

Davis, Daniel. Ms., 1762-1835. A Massachusetts jurist who was solicitor-general of his State, 1800-32. Criminal Practice; Precedents of Indictments.

Davis, Edwin Hamilton. O., 1811-1888. An archæologist whose chief work is Monuments of the Mississippi.

Davis, Emerson. Ms., 1798-1866. A Congregational clergyman who was president of Williams College, 1861-68. Historical Sketch of Westfield, Massachusetts; The Teacher Taught; The First Half Century, or Events and Changes, 1800-50.

Davis, George Thomas. Ms., 1810-1877. A Massachusetts lawyer whose speeches in Congress were published in 1852.

Davis, Henry Winter. Md., 1817-1865. A Maryland statesman and lawyer, conspicuously loyal to the Union during the Civil War. The War of Ormuzd and Ahriman in the 19th Century (1853); Speeches and Addresses in Congress (1867). Har.

Davis, Horace. Ms., 1831- ——. Nephew of G. Bancroft, supra. A manufacturer of California. Dolor Davis, a Sketch of his Life; American Constitutions and the Relation of the Three Departments as adjusted by a Century; Shakespeare’s Sonnets, an Essay.

Davis, Jefferson. Ky., 1808-1889. President of the Confederate States. After the fall of the Confederacy, in 1865, he was confined as a prisoner of war in Fortress Monroe, and upon his release, in 1867, he lived in retirement in Mississippi. His history, which appeared in 1881, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, is a valuable commentary on the Civil War as it appeared to one of the chief figures of the time, but it is as narrowly conceived as it is diffuse in statement and bitter in tone. See Lives, by Alfriend, 1868; E. A. Pollard, infra, 1869; Prison Life of, by Craven, 1866; Memoir by his Wife, 1890; London Times Biographies of Eminent Persons, 4th Series. Ap.

Davis, John A. G. Va., 1801-1840. A Virginia lawyer, professor of law in the University of Virginia, 1830-40. Estates Tail, Executive Devises, and Contingent Remainders under Virginia Statutes; Treatise on Criminal Law.

Davis, John Chandler Bancroft. Ms., 1822- ——. Brother of H. Davis, supra. A diplomatist who was agent for the United States before the Geneva court of arbitration on the Alabama claims, and afterwards, 1873-77, minister to Germany. The Massachusetts Justice; The Case of the United States before the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva; Treaties of the United States, with Notes; United States Supreme Court Reports; Mr. Fish and the Alabama Claims. Hou.

Davis, John Woodbridge. N. Y., 1854-1902. Son of E. H. Davis, supra. A civil engineer who, besides contributing much to engineering journals, published Formulæ for the Calculation of Railroad Earth Work and Average Haul (1876), which speedily came into use as a text-book.

Davis, Lemuel Clarke. Md., 1835- ——. A Philadelphia journalist, editor of The Inquirer, and author of The Stranded Ship, a Story of Sea and Shore.

Davis, Mrs. Mary Evelyn [Moore]. Al., 1852- ——. A prominent writer of New Orleans, on the editorial staff of the Picayune. Minding the Gap, and Other Poems; In War Times at La Rose Blanche, sketches for young people; Under the Man-Fig, a novel; An Elephant’s Track and Other Stories; The Wire-Cutters. Har. Hou. Lo.

Davis, Matthew L. N. Y., 1766-1850. A Washington journalist who published a Life of Aaron Burr.

Davis, Nathan Smith. N. Y., 1817-1904. A Chicago physician, dean of the Northwestern University, whose principal writings include Lectures on Various Important Diseases; Principles and Practice of Medicine; Verdict of Science concerning the Effects of Alcohol on Man; Medical Education and Reform.

Davis, Noah Knowles. Pa., 1838- ——. A professor of moral science in the University of Virginia since 1873. The Theory of Thought, a Treatise on Deductive Logic; the Elements of Inductive Logic; the Elements of Deductive Logic. Har.

Davis, Peter Seibert. Md., 1828-1892. A German Reformed divine who wrote The Young Parson.

Davis, Mrs. Rebecca Blaine [Harding]. Pa., 1831- ——. Wife of L. C. Davis, supra. A novelist whose first story, Life in the Iron Mills, a powerful but sombre study of labouring-class life, attracted great attention in the earlier pages of The Atlantic Monthly. Her later works in fiction include Margret Howth; Waiting for the Verdict; Dallas Galbraith; A Law unto Herself; Kitty’s Choice; John Andross; Doctor Warrick’s Daughters; Silhouettes of American Life; Kent Hampden, a Story of a Boy; Natasqua; The Faded Leaf of History; Frances Waldeaux. Har. Lip. Scr.

Davis, Reuben. Tn., 1813-1890. A Mississippi lawyer and a general in the Confederate service, who was the author of Recollections of Mississippi and the Mississippians. Hou.

Davis, Richard Bingham. N. Y., 1771-1799. A verse-writer of New York city. See Poems, with Memoir edited by John T. Irving, 1807.

Davis, Richard Harding. Pa., 1864- ——. Son of L. C. and R. H. Davis, supra. A popular New York writer whose first book, Gallegher and Other Stories, brought him very suddenly into notice in 1890. His work is always characterized by dash and spirit, but exhibits some defects of style, and touches scarcely more than the superficial side of life. Van Bibber and Others; The Princess Aline; The Exiles; The West from a Car Window; Our English Cousins; About Paris; The Rulers of the Mediterranean; Three Gringos in Venezuela; Stories for Boys. Har. Scr.

Davis, Varina Anne Jefferson. Va., 1864-1898. Daughter of Jefferson Davis, supra. An Irish Knight of the 19th Century, a Sketch of Robert Emmet; The Veiled Doctor. Har.

Davis, William Bramwell. O., 1832- ——. A physician and surgeon of Cincinnati. Report on Vaccination; Consumption and Life Insurance; Revaccination; Intestinal Obstruction; Progress of Therapeutics; The Alcohol Question.

Davis, William Morris. Pa., 1850- ——. A professor of physical geography in Harvard University since 1890. Nimrod of the Sea, or the American Whaleman; Whirlwinds, Cyclones, and Tornadoes; Elementary Meteorology. Gi. Har. Le.

Davis, William Watts Hart. Pa., 1820- ——. El Gringo, or New Mexico and her People; History of the 104th Pennsylvania Regiment; The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico; History of the Doylestown Guards. Har.

Dawes, Anna Laurens. Ms., 1851- ——. A daughter of Senator Dawes of Massachusetts, who has written much for journals and periodicals. How we are Governed; The Modern Jew, his Present and Future; Biography of Charles Sumner. Do. Gi.

Dawes, Rufus. Ms., 1803-1859. A witty jurist of Massachusetts, who won notice both as orator and poet. The Valley of the Nashaway, and Other Poems; Athena of Damascus, a tragedy; Nix’s Mate, an Historical Romance; Miscellaneous Poems.

Dawson, George. S., 1813-1883. A once influential Albany journalist, editor of the Evening Journal, 1846-77, and author of The Pleasures of Angling.

Dawson, Henry Barton. E., 1821-1889. An historical writer of New York city, editor of the Historical Magazine, 1866-77, and editor of The Federalist, reprinted from the original text. Battles of the United States by Sea and Land; Current Fictions tested by Uncurrent Facts; Rutgers against Waddington; Westchester County in the Revolution. Scr.

Day, Henry. Ms., 1820-1893. A lawyer of New York city. The Lawyer Abroad; From the Pyrenees to the Pillars of Hercules, a volume of Spanish travels.

Day, Henry Noble. Ct., 1808-1890. Nephew of J. Day, 2d. A Congregational clergyman, for many years a Western railway president, and president of Ohio Female College, 1858-64. The Art of Rhetoric, reprinted as Art of Discourse; Elements of Logic; Science of Æsthetics; The Art of Elocution; Rhetorical Praxis; Logical Praxis; Science of Thought; Elements of Mental Science; The Logic of Sir William Hamilton; Introduction to the Study of English Literature, include the greater number of his writings. Scr.

Day, Jeremiah. Ct., 1738-1806. A Congregational clergyman of Connecticut, whose Sermons Collected were issued in 1797.

Day, Jeremiah. Ct., 1773-1867. Son of J. Day, supra. A noted mathematician who was president of Yale College, 1817-46. Introduction to Algebra; Mensuration of Superficies and Solids; Examination of Edwards’s Freedom of the Will; Plane Trigonometry; Navigation and Surveying; Inquiry Respecting the Self-Determining Power of the Will and Contingent Volition.

Day, Richard Edwin. N. Y., 1852- ——. A journalist of Syracuse. Lines in the Sand; Thor, a Drama; Lyrics and Satires; Poems.

Dayton, Amos Cooper. N. J., 1813-1865. A Baptist clergyman and physician of Tennessee, whose novel Theodosia, or the Heroine of Faith, was very popular. His other works comprise The Infidel’s Daughter, a novel; Baptist Facts and Methodist Fiction; Baptist Question Book; Children brought to Christ; Pedobaptist and Campbellite Immersion.

Dean, Amos. Vt., 1803-1868. A jurist of Albany. Lectures on Phrenology; Manual of Law; Philosophy of Human Life; Medical Jurisprudence; Bryant and Stratton’s Commercial Law; History of Civilization.

Dean, John. Ms., 1831-1888. A physician who published Microscopic Anatomy of the Lumbar Enlargement of the Spinal Cord; Gray Substance of the Medulla Oblongata.

Dean, John Ward. Me., 1815-1902. A noted antiquarian of Boston, editor of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, and one of the founders of the Prince Society. Memoir of Nathaniel Ward, infra; Memoir of Michael Wigglesworth, infra; Life of John H. Sheppard; Life of William Blanchard Towne; Brief Memoir of Giles Firmin; The Embarkation of Cromwell for New England.

Dean, Paul. Vt., 1789-1860. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor in Boston, 1813-40, who was author of Lectures on Final Restoration.

Deane, Charles. Me., 1813-1889. An antiquarian writer of Cambridge, who published Some Notices of Samuell Gorton, with Memoir; First Plymouth Patent; and edited Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation; John Smith’s True Relation of Virginia, and other specimens of early American literature.

Deane, Margery. See Pitman, Mrs.

Deane, Samuel. Ms., 1784-1834. A Baptist clergyman of Scituate, Massachusetts. The Populous Village, a poem; History of Scituate.

Deane, Silas. Ct., 1737-1789. A diplomatist who, with Franklin and Lee, negotiated a treaty of peace and amity between France and the United States. He was subjected to much misrepresentation, and died abroad in poverty and exile. Letters to Robert Morgan; Paris Papers, or Mr. Silas Deane’s late Intercepted Letters to his Brother and Other Friends.

Deane, William Reed. Ms., 1809-1879. An antiquary of Mansfield, Massachusetts, who published genealogies of the families of Deane, Leonard, and Watson.

Dearborn, Henry Alexander Scammell. N. H., 1783-1851. A lawyer and public-spirited citizen of Boston, a son of Commodore Dearborn. Commerce of the Black Sea; Biography of Commodore Bainbridge; History of Navigation and Naval Architecture.

De Bow, James Dunwoody Brownson. S. C., 1820-1867. A noted statistician of New Orleans, who founded De Bow’s Review. Industrial Resources of the South and West; Statistical View of the United States; The Southern States, their Agriculture, Commerce, etc. (1850).

De Charms, Richard. Pa., 1796-1864. A Swedenborgian divine of Baltimore and New York city. Freedom and Slavery in the Light of the New Jerusalem; The New Churchman Extra; Lectures at Charlestown.

De Costa, Benjamin Franklin. Ms., 1831-1904. A prominent Episcopal clergyman of New York city, well known as an historical writer. The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America, illustrated by translations from the Icelandic Sagas; The Northmen in Maine; The Moabite Stone; Verrazano, the Explorer; The Rector of Roxburgh, a novel; and a number of historical monographs. See Bibliography of Maine.

Deems, Charles Force. Md., 1820-1893. A Methodist clergyman, prominent for many years in New York city as pastor of the Church of the Strangers. Triumphs of Peace, and Other Poems; Home Altar; Twelve College Sermons; Life of Dr. Adam Clarke; Devotional Melodies; Weights and Wings; The Light of the Nations; The Gospel of Common Sense as Contained in the Epistle of James; The Gospel of Spiritual Insight; A Scotch Verdict in re-Evolution; My Septuagint, comprise the larger number of his writings. Cas. Fu.

Deering, Nathaniel. Me., 1791-1881. A writer of Portland, Maine, whose work enjoyed a local fame. Carabasset, a tragedy; The Clairvoyants, a comedy performed both in Portland and Boston; Bozzaris, a tragedy. See Biographical Encyclopedia of Maine.

De Forest, John William. Ct., 1826- ——. A novelist of New Haven who was a Federal officer in the Civil War. His stories are skillfully constructed, and the characterization is strong, but they have hardly won the reputation that, as a whole, they deserve. History of the Indians of Connecticut to 1850; Oriental Acquaintances, or Travels in Asia Minor; European Acquaintances; Witching Times; The Lauson Tragedy; Seacliff, Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty; Overland; Kate Beaumont; Honest John Vane; The Bloody Chasm; The Wetherel Affair; Justine Vane; Irene Vane; Irene the Missionary; Playing the Mischief. Ap. Har.

De Hart, William Chetwood. N. Y., 1800-1848. An officer in the United States army who published Observations on Military Law and Constitution and Practice of Courts Martial.

Dehon, Theodore. Ms., 1776-1817. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of South Carolina. A once popular preacher. Ninety Sermons on the Public Means of Grace.

De Kay, Charles. D. C., 1849- ——. Grandson of J. R. Drake, infra. A New York journalist and poet, literary editor of The Times since 1877. Hesperus; Vision of Nimrod; Vision of Esther; Love Poems of Louis Barnaval; The Bohemians, a Tragedy of Modern Life; Barye, his Life and Works. Ap.

De Kay, James Ellsworth. Pl., 1792-1851. A physician and naturalist of Oyster Bay, Long Island. Sketches of Turkey; Natural History of New York.

De Koven, James. Ct., 1831-1879. An Episcopal clergyman of Wisconsin, very prominent at one time as a leader of ritualistic thought, whose views more than once prevented his elevation to the episcopate. Sermons Preached on Various Occasions was issued after his death. Ap.

De Kroyft, Mrs. Susan Helen [Aldrich]. N. Y., 1818- ——. A writer living in Dansville, New York, who became blind soon after her marriage in 1845, her husband having died on their wedding day. A Place in thy Memory, a very popular collection of letters; Darwin and Moses, a lecture; Little Jakey, a story.

Delafield, Francis. N. Y., 1841- ——. A physician and surgeon of New York city, who was the first president of the Association of American Physicians and Pathologists. Handbook of Post Mortem Examinations and Morbid Anatomy; Studies in Pathological Anatomy; Handbook of Pathological Anatomy.

De Lancey, Edward Floyd. N. Y., 1821- ——. A lawyer and historical writer of New York city. Memoir of James De Lancey; The Capture of Fort Washington the Result of Treason; Memoir of James W. Beekman; Memoir of William Allen, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania; Origin and History of Manors in the Province of New York; History of Mamaroneck, New York.

Deland, Ellen Douglas. N. Y., 1860- ——. A popular writer of stories for young people. Oakleigh; In the Old Herrick House; Malvern, a Neighbourhood Story. Har. We.

Deland, Mrs. Margaret Wade [Campbell]. Pa., 1857- ——. A novelist and poet of Boston who became suddenly famous on the publication of John Ward, Preacher, a story upon lines similar to Mrs. Ward’s “Robert Elsmere.” Other works by her include The Old Garden and Other Verses; Sydney; The Story of a Child; Mr. Tommy Dove and Other Stories; Philip and his Wife; Florida Days, a volume of travels. Hou. Lit.

Delano, Amasa. Ms., 1763-1817. A once noted Massachusetts sea captain who was an extensive traveller, and published Narrative of Voyages and Travels.

Delavan, Edward Cornelius. N. Y., 1793-1871. A retired wine merchant of Schenectady, conspicuous as a temperance reformer. Adulterations of Liquors; Temperance in Wine Countries.

De Leon, Edwin. S. C., 1828-1891. A Washington journalist who was European diplomatic agent of the Confederacy during the Civil War period. Thirty Years of my Life on Three Continents; The Khedive’s Egypt; Askaros Kassis, the Copt, a novel; Under the Star and Under the Crescent. Lip.

Del Mar, Alexander. N. Y., 1836- ——. A New York writer on political economy. Gold Money and Paper Money; Essays on Political Economy; The Great Paper Bubble; What is Free Trade?; Resources, Productions, and Social Condition of Egypt; Why Should the Chinese Go?; History of the Precious Metals; History of Money in China; History of Money in Various Countries; The Science of Money; Money and Civilization; Statistical Handbook; The National Banking System; The Worship of Augustus Caesar.

De Long, George Washington. N. Y., 1844-1881. An Arctic explorer who was a lieutenant-commander in the United States navy. The Voyage of the Jeannette, including his journals of his latest expedition, edited by his wife, appeared in 1884.

Demarest, David D. N. J., 1819-1898. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, New Jersey. History and Characteristics of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church; Practical Catechetics; The Huguenots on the Hackensack.

Demarest, John Terhune. N. J., 1813-1897. A Dutch Reformed clergyman. Exposition of the Efficient Cause of Regeneration; Exposition of the First Epistle of Peter; Commentary on Second Epistle of Peter; Commentary on the Catholic Epistles; Christocracy (with W. R. Gordon).

Demarest, Mrs. Mary Augusta [Lee]. N. Y., 1838-1888. A writer of popular, unpretentious verse, who published My Ain Countree and Other Poems.

Deming, Henry Champion. Ct., 1815-1872. A prominent lawyer of Hartford who published translations of the novels of Eugène Sue and a Life of General Grant.

Deming, Philander. N. Y., 1829- ——. A stenographic court reporter of Albany until 1882, whose sketches are characterized by much originality. Adirondack Stories; Tompkins and Other Folks. Hou.

Dempster, John. Fl., 1794-1863. A noted Methodist preacher and educator, and one of the founders of the theological school of Boston University. Lectures and Addresses was issued in 1864. Meth.

Denio [de-ni´o], Hiram. N. Y., 1799-1871. A Utica jurist who published Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court, and the Court for Correction of Errors.

Denison, Charles Wheeler. Ct., 1809-1881. A clergyman who as a young man was editor of The Emancipator, an anti-slavery journal of New York. During the Civil War he served as chaplain in the Federal army. The American Village and Other Poems; Paul St. Clair, a temperance tale; Antonio, the Italian Boy; The Child Hunters, an exposure of the padrone system; Life of General Grant; Out at Sea, a volume of verse; Sunshine Castle, a tale. The Tanner Boy; The Bobbin Boy; Winfield, the Lawyer’s Son, form a series of biographies of noted men for juvenile reading.

Denison, Daniel. E., 1613-1682. A famous colonial soldier of Massachusetts. Irenicon, or Salve for New England’s Sore.

Denison, Frederic. Ct., 1819-1901. A Baptist divine of Rhode Island. The Supper Institution; The Sabbath Institution; History of the First Rhode Island Cavalry; Westerly and its Witnesses, 1626-1876; Picturesque Narragansett; Picturesque Rhode Island, are his principal writings.

Denison, John Henry. Ms., 1841- ——. A Congregational clergyman retired from active service, but at one time college pastor at Williamstown, Massachusetts. Christ’s Idea of the Supernatural. Hou.

Denison, John Ledyard. Ct., 1826- ——. Brother of F. Denison, supra. A publisher of Norwich, Connecticut. Picturesque History of the Wars of the United States; Illustrated History of the New World.

Denison, Mrs. Mary [Andrews]. Ms., 1826- ——. Wife of C. W. Denison, supra. A prolific author of tales, mainly of home life, some of them to be classed as Sunday-school literature, while others are of a more ambitious character. Among them are Opposite the Jail; That Husband of Mine, which was issued anonymously and enjoyed an extraordinary popularity for a short time; That Wife of Mine; Rothmell; His Triumph; Old Slip Warehouse; Home Pictures; Like a Gentleman; If She Will, She Will. Har. Le. Lip.

Dennie, Joseph. Ms., 1768-1812. A journalist and essayist of Philadelphia, whose reputation in his day vastly exceeded his deserts. The Lay Preacher, or Short Sermons for Idle Readers, is his only literary legacy. See A. H. Smyth’s Philadelphia Magazines, 1892.

Denton, Franklin Evert. O., 1859- ——. A journalist of Cleveland who published in 1883 The Early Poems of Franklin Denton.

Depew, Chauncey Mitchell. N. Y., 1834- ——. A very prominent lawyer and railway president of New York city, of wide fame as a ready after-dinner speaker. He has published Orations and After-Dinner Speeches; Later Speeches. Cas.

De Peyster, John Watts. N. Y., 1821- ——. An historical writer of New York city, and a general of the State militia. Life of Torstenson; The Dutch at the North Pole and the Dutch in Maine; Decisive Conflicts of the Late Civil War; Personal and Military History of General Kearney; Life of Sir John Johnston; Mary, Queen of Scots, a Study; The Character of Mary and a Justification of Bothwell; Bothwell, a drama; The Thirty Years’ War; Before, At, and After Gettysburg; Life of Baron Cohorn; Caurausius, the Dutch Augustus; The Real Napoleon Bonaparte.

De Puy, Henry Walter. N. Y., 1820- ——. A lawyer and journalist. Kossuth and his Generals; Louis Napoleon and his Times; Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys of ’76.

De Puy, William Harrison. N. Y., 1821-1901. A Methodist clergyman of western New York. Threescore Years and Beyond; Statistics of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Home and Health; Home Economics, a very popular book. Meth.

Derby, Elias Hasket. Ms., 1803-1880. A noted railway attorney of Boston. Two Months Abroad; Catholic Letters; The Overland Route to the Pacific; Position and Prospects of the United States with Respect to Finance, Commerce, and Prosperity.

Derby, George. Ms., 1819-1874. Cousin of E. H. Derby, supra. A physician of Boston, prominent as a sanitarian, who published Anthracite and Health.

Derby, George Horatio. “John Phœnix.” Ms., 1823-1861. Son of J. B. Derby, infra. A topographical engineer in the United States army who was a popular humourist in his day. Phœnixiana; Squibob Papers.

Derby, James Cephas. N. Y., 1818-1892. A noted publisher of New York and San Francisco, and author of Fifty Years Among Authors, Books, and Publishers.

Derby, John Barton. Ms., 1792-1867. Half-brother of G. Derby, supra. A verse-writer whose later years were spent in Boston. Musings of a Recluse; The Sea; The Village.

De Saussure, Henry William. S. C., 1763-1839. A jurist of South Carolina, who was director of the United States Mint in 1794, and published Reports of the Courts of Chancery and Equity in South Carolina from the Revolution to 1813.

Deshon, George. Ct., 1823-1903. A Roman Catholic priest of the Paulist order, whose Guide for Young Catholic Women has had a very extended circulation.

De Smet, Peter John. Bm., 1801-1872. A noted Roman Catholic missionary to the Indians, who came to the United States in 1821. His writings, originally published in French, include The Oregon Missions and Travels over the Rocky Mountains; Indian Letters and Sketches; Western Missions and Missionaries; New Indian Sketches.

De Trobriand [trō-brĕe-ăan´], Philip Regis. F., 1816-1897. A military writer who came to the United States in 1841, entered the army, and, after serving through the Civil War, retired from active service in 1879, and resided in New Orleans. Les Gentilshommes de l’Ouest, a novel; Quatre ans de Campagnes à armée du Potomac.

De Vere, Mary Ainge, “Madeline Bridges.” N. Y., 18— - ——. A writer of Brooklyn, Long Island. Love Songs and Other Poems; Poems.

De Vere, Maximilian Schele. Sn., 1820-1898. A philologist of note who came from Sweden to the United States in 1843, and after 1844 was a professor in the University of Virginia. Outlines of Comparative Philology; Studies in English; Americanisms; Wonders of the Deep; Grammar of the Spanish Language; Stray Leaves from the Book of Nature; Romance of American History, include the most important of his works. Lip. Put. Scr.

Devereux, Thomas Pollock. N. C., 1793-1869. A North Carolina lawyer who published Reports of North Carolina Supreme Court, 1826-34; Reports in the Superior Court, 1834-40; Equity Reports, 1826-40.

De Vinne, Daniel. I., 1793-1883. A Methodist clergyman of New York city. The Methodist Episcopal Church and Slavery; Recollections of Fifty Years in the Ministry; Irish Primitive Church.

De Vinne, Theodore Low. Ct., 1828- ——. Son of D. De Vinne, supra. A noted printer of New York city. Printer’s Price List; Invention of Printing; Historic Types.

Dew, Thomas Roderick. Va., 1802-1846. An educator of Virginia, president of William and Mary College, 1836-46. A Digest of the History and Laws of Ancient and Modern Nations is his chief work. Other writings of his include The Policy of the Government; Lectures on History; Usury; Essay in Favour of Slavery, which had a great influence in turning popular sentiment against emancipation. Ap.

De Walden, Thomas Blaides. E., 1811-1873. A New York actor of some note as an author and adapter of many plays, among which are The Upper Ten and the Lower Twenty; Kit; The Jesuit.

Dewees, William Potts. Pa., 1768-1841. A once popular physician of Philadelphia, professor of obstetrics in the University of Pennsylvania. His literary style was bad, yet his writings were widely circulated in the profession and highly valued. Medical Essays; Physical and Medical Treatment of Children; System of Midwifery; Practice of Medicine. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.

Dewey, Chester. Ms., 1783-1867. A botanist who as an educator was connected with various colleges, and lastly with the University of Rochester. Besides a History of Herbaceous Plants of Massachusetts, he wrote an elaborate monograph on the Carices of North America, the result of many years’ labour.

Dewey, Melvil. N. Y., 1851- ——. The librarian of Columbia College and director of the New York State library. Library School Rules; The Decimal Classification and Relation Index.

Dewey, Orville. Ms., 1794-1882. A Unitarian clergyman of conservative opinions, once prominent as a pastor in New York and Boston. Unitarian Belief; Discourses on Human Life; The Old World and the New; Letters on Revivals; Problems of Human Life and Destiny; Education of the Human Race, comprise his principal writings. See Autobiography and Letters, 1883. A. U. A.

De Witt, Benjamin. 1774-1819. A New York physician and scientist who published Oxygen; Minerals in New York.

De Witt, John. N. Y., 1821- ——. A Reformed Dutch clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1863-92. The Sure Foundation and how to Build on It; The Psalms, a New Translation (1891); What is Inspiration? Rev.

De Witt, John. Pa., 1842- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor at Princeton Theological Seminary since 1892, and the author of Sermons on the Christian Life.

De Witt, Simeon. N. Y., 1756-1834. A once famous surveyor who is commonly held responsible for the classical nomenclature of places in central and western New York. He published Elements of Perspective.

Dexter, Henry Martyn. Ms., 1821-1890. A Congregational clergyman of prominence in Boston as editor of The Congregationalist, 1867-90. He was a positive, dogmatic writer, much addicted to historical and religious controversy. His most important work is The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years. Handbook of Congregationalism; Pilgrim Memoranda; The Verdict of Reason; As to Roger Williams and his Banishment, a marked example of special pleading; History of the Old Plymouth Colony; History and the Study of History; The Right Use of Books; The Study of Politics, include the greater number of his other works. C. P. S. Har.

Dexter, Samuel. Ms., 1761-1816. A jurist of Boston who was secretary of war under President John Adams. Letters on Free Masonry; Progress of Science, a poem; Speeches and Political Papers.

Diaz, Mrs. Abby [Morton]. Ms., 1821-1904. A Boston writer who in youth was one of the famous company at Brook Farm, and was afterward prominent in relation to social reforms. Her books for juvenile readers, which are characterized by a strong vein of humour, include The William Henry Letters; William Henry and his Friends; Chronicles of the Stimpcett Family; The Cats’ Arabian Nights; The John Spicer Lectures; Lucy Maria; Polly Cologne; Jimmyjohns; A Story-book for Children. Other works are Bybury to Beacon Street, a discussion of social topics; Domestic Problems; Only a Flock of Women. Lo.

Dibble, Sheldon. N. Y., 1809-1845. A missionary to the Sandwich Islands who published History of the Sandwich Island Missions.

Dickenson, Baxter. Ms., 1795-1875. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, author of Letters to Students.

Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth. Pa., 1842- ——. A once famous lecturer on politics and woman-suffrage who, after a short and unsuccessful career as an actress, has since lived in retirement. A Paying Investment, a Plea for Education; A Ragged Register of People, Places, and Opinions; What Answer? a novel; and two plays, Mary Tudor; The Crown of Thorns. Har. Hou.

Dickinson, Charles Monroe. N. Y., 1842- ——. A journalist of Binghamton, New York, who published The Children, and Other Verses.

Dickinson, Daniel Stevens. Ct., 1800-1866. A Democratic politician, long prominent in the State of New York. Speeches and Correspondence, with a biography of him by his brother, appeared in 1867.

Dickinson, Emily. Ms., 1830-1886. A poet whose entire life was passed in Amherst, Massachusetts, in great seclusion, and who rarely published any of her work. Since her death attention has been drawn to the strikingly original nature of her poetry by the publication of three volumes of Poems, selected from her manuscripts. They display an utter disregard of technique as well as an almost startling originality of conception. See Letters of, 1847-1886, edited by Mrs. Todd. Rob.

Dickinson, John. Md., 1732-1808. A political writer of great influence during the period of the Revolution. Dickinson College, which he helped to found, was named in his honour. He wrote vigorously against the Stamp Act, and his various state papers display both eloquence and dignity. Petition to the King; Second Petition to the King; Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer; Letters of Fabius.

Dickinson, Jonathan. E., 16— -1722. A chief justice of Pennsylvania who came to the colony in 1696. His book, entitled God’s Protecting Providence Man’s Surest Help in Times of Danger, is a narrative of personal adventure, and has been several times reprinted since its first appearance in 1699.

Dickinson, Jonathan. Ms., 1688-1747. A Presbyterian clergyman of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, who was one of the chief American theologians of his day, and the first president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton College). He was a voluminous writer, and much given to controversy of a theological nature. Among his many works are included Familiar Letters upon Important Subjects in Religion; Reasonableness of Christianity; True Scripture Doctrine. See Tyler’s American Literature.

Dickinson, Richard William. N. Y., 1804-1874. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Scenes from Sacred History; Responses from the Sacred Oracles; Religious Teaching by Example; Life and Times of John Howard; The Resurrection of Christ Historically and Logically Viewed.

Dickinson, Rodolphus. Ms., 1787-1863. An Episcopal clergyman in Deerfield, Massachusetts, who published a much criticised New and Corrected Version of the New Testament; Geographical and Statistical View of Massachusetts.

Dickson, Andrew Flinn. S. C., 1825-1879. A Presbyterian clergyman of Alabama. Plantation Sermons; The Temptation in the Desert; The Light, is it Waning?

Dickson, John. N. H., 1783-1852. A New York congressman, early prominent in opposition to slavery. Remarks on the Presentation of Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia.

Dickson, Samuel Henry. S. C., 1798-1872. A physician of eminence in Charleston, and afterwards in Philadelphia, where from 1858 to 1872 he was a professor in the Jefferson Medical College. He wrote much on medical and other topics, his literary style being greatly admired. Essays on Life, Sleep, Pain, and Death; On the Correlation of Forces; Æsthetics of Suicide; Elements of Medicine; Dengue, its History, Pathology, and Treatment; Manual of Pathology; Practice of Medicine; Essays on Pathology and Therapeutics; Studies in Pathology and Therapeutics. See Allibone’s Dictionary; Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.

Didier [dy´deer], Eugene Lemoine. Md., 1838- ——. Son of F. J. Didier, infra. A Baltimore littérateur whose style as a critic is somewhat aggressive. Life of Poe; Life and Letters of Madame Bonaparte; Primer of Criticism; The Political Adventures of James G. Blaine (1884). Scr.

Didier, Franklin James. Md., 1794-1840. A Baltimore physician who was the author of Didier’s Letters from Paris; Franklin’s Letters to his Kinsfolk.

Dillaye, Stephen Devalson. N. Y., 1820-1884. The Money and Finances of the French Revolution of 1789.

Dillon, John Forrest. N. Y., 1831- ——. A noted jurist of Iowa, and, since 1879, of New York city. United States Circuit Court Reports; Municipal Corporations; Removal of Causes from State to Federal Courts; Municipal Bonds; Laws and Jurisprudence of England and America. Lit.

Diman, Jeremiah Lewis. R. I., 1831-1881. A Congregational clergyman who was professor of history and political economy in Brown University from 1864. Orations and Essays; The Theistic Argument as Affected by Recent Theories. See Memoirs by Caroline Hazard, infra. Hou.

Dimitry, Charles Patton. D. C., 1837- ——. A novelist and journalist of New Orleans. Guilty or not Guilty; Angela’s Christmas; The Alderly Tragedy; The House in Balfour Street.

Dimitry, John Bull Smith. D. C., 1835-1901. Brother of C. P. Dimitry, supra. A journalist of New York city. History and Geography of Louisiana from its Earliest Settlement to the Close of the Civil War.

Dimmock, George. Ms., 1852- ——. A naturalist of Cambridge, at one time editor of Psyche, a journal of entomology. Anatomy of Mouth Parts of Some Insects of the Order of Diptera.

Dinnies, Mrs. Anna Peyre [Shackelford]. S. C., 1816-1886. A verse-writer of New Orleans who published The Floral Year, a collection of one hundred poems.

Dinsmore, Robert. N. H., 1757-1836. A homely verse-writer of Windham, New Hampshire, who was known as “The Rustic Bard,” and published Incidental Poems, strongly imitative of Burns. See Whittier’s Old Portraits and Modern Sketches.

Dirck, Cornelius Lansing. N. Y., 1785-1857. A Presbyterian clergyman for many years connected with Auburn Theological Seminary, who published Sermons on Important Subjects.

Disosway, Gabriel Poillon. N. Y., 1798-1868. An antiquary of New York city. The Children’s Book of Sermons; The Earliest Churches of New York and its Vicinity.

Disturnell, John. N. Y., 1801-1877. A map-publisher of New York city who was an industrious compiler of guide-books and similar literature. New York as it Was and Is, 1876; Influence of Climate in North and South America; The Great Lakes of America; Traveller’s Guide to Hudson River; Tourist’s Guide to the Upper Mississippi, include some of his more important works.

Ditson, George Leighton. Ms., 1812- ——. A noted traveller who published Circassia, or a Tour to the Caucasus; Crimora; The Para Papers, or France, Egypt, and Ethiopia; The Crescent and the French Crusaders; The Fedariti of Italy, a Romance of Circassian Captivity.

Dix, Dorothea Lynde. Me., 1802-1887. A famous Massachusetts philanthropist the greater part of whose life was spent in efforts to improve the condition of the insane. The present enlightened treatment of the insane throughout the world is due in large measure to the impetus given in that direction by her labours in America and Europe. Her writings, except Prisons and Prison Discipline, are intended for children, and include The Garland of Flora; Conversations about Common Things; Alice and Ruth; Evening Hours. See Life by F. Tiffany, infra.

Dix, John Adams. N. H., 1798-1879. A general and statesman who while secretary of the treasury in 1861 issued the celebrated order, “If any one attempts to tear down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.” A Winter in Madeira, and A Summer in Spain and Florence; Speeches and Occasional Addresses; Resources of the State of New York. See Memoir, by Morgan Dix, infra. Ap.

Dix, John Homer. Circa 1810-1884. An oculist and aurist of Boston who published Changes of the Blood, a translation from the French of Gibert; Treatise on Strabismus; Morbid Sensibility of the Retina; The Opthalmoscope and its Uses.

Dix, Morgan. N. Y., 1827- ——. Son of J. A. Dix, supra. A prominent Episcopal clergyman of New York city conspicuous among High Church theologians, and rector of Trinity Church since 1859. Sermons, Doctrinal and Practical; Lectures on the Calling of a Christian Woman; Memoir of J. A. Dix, supra; Gospel and Philosophy; The Sacramental System; The Seven Deadly Sins; Lectures on the First Prayer Book of King Edward VI.; The Two Estates,—Wedded in the Lord, Single for the Kingdom of Heaven’s Sake. Ap. Dut. Har.

Dixon, James Main. S., 1856- ——. A professor of English literature in Washington University, St. Louis, since 1892, and the author of A Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases.

Doane, George Hobart. Ms., 1830- ——. Son of G. W. Doane, infra. A prelate of the papal household at Rome since 1886, with the title of Monsignore. First Principles; Exclusion of Protestant Worship from Rome; Manual of Instructions and Prayers.

Doane, George Washington. N. J., 1799-1859. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of New Jersey; consecrated bishop in 1832. Songs by the Way; Sermons on Various Occasions. The familiar hymn beginning “Softly now the light of day” is one of his most noted poems. See Life and Writings of, by W. C. Doane, infra.

Doane, William Croswell. N. J., 1832- ——. Son of G. W. Doane, supra. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Albany. He has contributed much to reviews and other periodicals on topics of the day, is the author of a number of poems, among which The Sculptor Boy is often quoted, and has published several works, including Sermons; Mosaics, or the Harmony of Collect Epistle and Gospel for the Sundays of the Christian Year. As a theologian his place is amongst liberal High Churchmen.

Dod, Albert Baldwin. N. J., 1805-1845. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of mathematics at Princeton College, 1830-45. Theological Essays was his only published work.

Dodd, Mrs. Anna Bowman [Blake]. L. I., 1855- ——. A New York writer whose volumes of travels have been very popular. The Republic of the Future, or Socialism a Reality; Cathedral Days; Glorinda: a Story; Three Normandy Inns; In the Norfolk Broads. Cas. Rob.

Dodd, Stephen. N. J., 1777-1856. A Presbyterian minister of Connecticut, who published History of East Haven; Revolutionary Memorials.

Doddridge, Joseph. Pa., 1769-1826. An Episcopal clergyman of western Virginia. Logan, a drama; Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Country, 1763-83.

Dodge, David Low. Ct., 1774-1852. A New York merchant who was the first president of the New York Peace Society. The Mediator’s Kingdom not of this World; War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ. See Memorials of, 1854.

Dodge, Ebenezer. Ms., 1819-1890. A Baptist clergyman, president of Madison (now Colgate) University, 1868-90. Evidences of Christianity; Christian Theology.

Dodge, Mary Abby. “Gail Hamilton.” Ms., 1838-1896. A noted essayist and magazinist of Hamilton, Massachusetts, whose aggressive, pungent style made her writings at one time extremely popular. Much of her work is ephemeral in its nature, but it is always readable and often brilliant. A New Atmosphere; Gala Days; Woman’s Wrongs; Red-Letter Days; Summer Rest; Battle of the Books; Twelve Miles from a Lemon; Sermons to the Clergy; First Love is Best; What Think ye of Christ?; Country Living and Country Thinking; Skirmishes and Sketches; Wool-Gathering; Woman’s Worth and Worthlessness; Little Folk Life; Nursery Noonings; Our Common School System; Divine Guidance; The Insuppressible Book; A Washington Bible Class; Biography of James G. Blaine. Ap. Har.

Dodge, Mrs. Mary Barker [Carter]. Pa., 18— - ——. Belfry Voices; The Gray Masque and Other Poems. Lo.

Dodge, Mrs. Mary [Mapes]. N. Y., 1838- ——. A writer of New York city who has edited the Saint Nicholas Magazine since 1873. Her writings for young people include Hans Brinker; Donald and Dorothy; Rhymes and Jingles; Irvington Stories; A Few Friends; The Land of Pluck; When Life is Young, poems for young people. She has also written Theophilus and Others; Along the Way: a volume of Short Poems. Scr.

Dodge, Nathaniel Shatswell. Ms., 1810-1874. A Boston littérateur who was the author of Stories of a Grandfather about American History. Le.

Dodge, Richard Irving. N. C., 1827-1895. A colonel in the United States army who saw much service in Indian campaigns, and made careful study of the Indian character. The Black Hills; The Plains of the Great West; Our Wild Indians; A Living Issue.

Dodge, Theodore Ayrault. Ms., 1842- ——. A captain and brevet lieutenant-colonel in the United States army, prominent as a military historian. The Campaign of Chancellorsville; A Bird’s-Eye View of our Civil War; Great Captains; Alexander, a History of the Origin and Growth of the Art of War from the Earliest Times to the Battle of Ipsus, B. C. 301, with a detailed account of the Campaigns of the Great Macedonian; Hannibal; Cæsar; Gustavus Adolphus; Patroclus and Penelope, a Chat in the Saddle; Riders of Many Lands. Har. Hou.

Dods, John Bovee. N. Y., 1795-1872. A clergyman of New York city whose published works include Thirty Sermons; Philosophy of Mesmerism; Philosophy of Electrical Psychology; Immortality Triumphant; Spirit Manifestations Examined and Explained.

Doe, Charles Henry. Ms., 1838-1900. A journalist of Worcester, Massachusetts. Buffets, a novel.

Doesticks, Q. K. Philander. See Thomson, Mortimer.

Doggett, David Seth. Va., 1810-1880. A Methodist bishop who lived at Richmond, Virginia, and published The War and its Close.

Dolbear, Amos Emerson. Ct., 1837- ——. A professor of physics and astronomy at Tufts College since 1874. The Art of Projecting; The Speaking Telephone; Sound and its Phenomena. Matter, Ether, and Motion. Le.

Dole, Charles Fletcher. Me., 1845- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston. The Citizen and the Neighbour; Jesus and the Men about Him; A Catechism of Liberal Faith; The American Citizen.

Dole, Edmund Pearson. Me., 1850- ——. Cousin of C. F. Dole, supra. Assistant attorney-general of the Hawaiian Islands. Talks About Law. Hou.

Dole, Nathan Haskell. Ms., 1852- ——. Brother of C. F. Dole, supra. A littérateur of Boston who, besides publishing translations from the Russian of Tolstoï and other writers, is the author of A Score of Famous Composers; The Hawthorn Tree and Other Poems, a collection of pleasing, unpretentious verse; Not Angels Quite; History of the Turko-Russian War of 1877-1878; On the Point, a Summer Idyl; Flowers from Foreign Gardens. One of his most important works is a variorum edition of the Rubáyát of Omar Khayyám. Cr. Est. Kt. Mer.

Donald, Elijah Winchester. Ms., 1848-1904. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston, rector of Trinity Church from 1892. The Expansion of Religion. Hou.

Donaldson, Frank. Md., 1822-1891. A Baltimore physician, professor of hygiene in the University of Maryland since 1866. Influence of City Life and Occupations in Consumption.

Donaldson, James Lowry. Md., 1814-1885. A colonel and brevet major-general in the United States army who published Sergeant Atkins, a tale of the Florida War.

Donnelly, Eleanor Cecilia. Pa., 1838- ——. Sister of I. Donnelly, infra. A Philadelphia writer of religious verse, the greater part of which is occupied with Roman Catholic themes. Among her many volumes are Domus Dei; Out of Sweet Solitude; Hymns of the Sacred Heart; Children of the Golden Sheaf and Other Poems.

Donnelly, Ignatius. Pa., 1831-1901. A Minnesota writer who, besides publishing An Essay on the Sonnets of Shakespeare; Atlantis: the Antediluvian World; Cæsar’s Column; Ragnarok: the Age of Fire and Gravel, was the author of The Great Cryptogram. In this work he claims to have discovered a cipher in the plays of Shakespeare which sufficiently establishes the fact that they were written by Lord Bacon, an eccentric exercise of ingenuity that has not been taken seriously by scholars. Ap. Har.

Doolittle, Benjamin. Ms., 1695-1749. A clergyman of Northfield, Massachusetts, 1718-49. Narrative of the Mischief of the French and Indians, 1744-48; Inquiry into Enthusiasm.

Dorchester, Daniel. Ms., 1827- ——. A noted Methodist clergyman of Massachusetts. Concessions of Liberalists to Orthodoxy; Problem of Religious Progress; Latest Drink Sophistries; The Liquor Problem in All Ages; The Why of Methodism; Christianity in the United States; Romanism versus the Public Schools. Meth.

Dorgan, John Aylmer. 1836-1866. A lawyer and verse writer of Philadelphia, whose only publication was a collection of verse entitled Studies. See Manhattan Magazine, June, 1883.

Dorr, Benjamin. Ms., 1796-1869. An Episcopal clergyman who was rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia, 1837-69. The Churchman’s Manual; The History of a Pocket Prayer-Book; Recognition of Friends in Another World; Sunday-School Teacher’s Encouragement; Prophecies and Types Relative to Christ; Memorials of Christ Church; Travels in the East; Memoir of John Fanning Watson, infra.

Dorr, Mrs. Julia Caroline [Ripley]. S. C., 1825- ——. A poet and novelist of Rutland, Vermont. Her verse, much of which reaches a high degree of excellence, includes Daybreak, an Easter Poem; Vermont; Friar Anselmo; Afternoon Songs; Legend of the Baboushka; Poems (complete edition). Her other writings comprise four novels: Lanmere; Sibyl Huntington; Expiation; Farmingdale; Bermuda, a volume of travel; Bride and Bridegroom, or Letters to a Young Married Couple; The Flower of England’s Face; A Cathedral Pilgrimage. Lip. Mac. Meth. Ran. Scr.

Dorsey, Mrs. Anna Hanson. D. C., 1815-1896. A prolific writer of dramas, novels, poems, and essays, long resident in Washington, and from 1840 an ardent Roman Catholic. Among her works are May Brooke; Guy the Leper, an epic poem; The Old House at Glenarra; Palms; Warp and Woof.

Dorsey, Ella Loraine. D. C., 1853-1901. Daughter of Mrs. Anna Dorsey, supra. A Washington writer of stories for boys. Midshipman Bob; Saxty’s Angel; The Two Tramps.

Dorsey, James Owen. Md., 1848-1895. An ethnologist who for a time was an Episcopal missionary to the Ponka Indians, but for many years has been engaged in linguistic studies for the Bureau of Ethnology. Omaha Sociology; Osage Traditions; Kansas Mourning and War Customs; The Dhegiha Language, are among his writings.

Dorsey, Mrs. Sarah Anne [Ellis]. Mi., 1829-1879. A Mississippi author who was the amanuensis of Jefferson Davis, supra, to whom she bequeathed her estate of Beauvoir on the Gulf of Mexico, where he died. Lucia Dare; Agnes Graham, both stories of the Civil War; Panola, a tale of Louisiana; Atalie, or a Southern Villeggiatura; Life of Governor Allen of Louisiana.

Dorsheimer, William. N. Y., 1832-1888. A prominent citizen of Buffalo who was twice lieutenant-governor of New York, and published A Life of Grover Cleveland (1884).

Doten, Lizzie. Ms., 1829- ——. A Boston spiritualist trance medium whose verses are claimed to be inspired by the spirits of Shakespeare, Burns, Poe, and other poets of the past. Poems of Progress; Poems from the Inner Life. Ban.

Doubleday, Abner. N. Y., 1819-1893. A colonel and brevet major-general in the United States army who retired from active service in 1873. Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie; Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; Gettysburg made Plain. Har. Scr.

Doubleday, Charles William. E., 1829- ——. A soldier who accompanied Walker on the famous Nicaragua expedition, and later served as acting brigadier-general in the United States army. Reminiscences of the Filibuster War in America.

Douglas, Alice May. Me., 1865- ——. A writer of verse and juvenile tales whose home is at Bath, Maine. Her verse includes Phlox; May Flowers; Gems Without Polish. Jewel Gatherers; The Peacemaker; Self-Exiled from Russia, are among her tales for young readers.

Douglas, Amanda Minnie. N. Y., 1837- ——. A popular novelist of Newark, New Jersey, whose more than thirty works of fiction have obtained a wide circulation. They are readable, and not without skill in construction, but are not particularly strong on the literary side. Among them are In Trust; Stephen Dane; Claudia; With Fate Against Him; Sherburne House; In Wild Rose Time; Seven Daughters; Larry; Hope Mills. Do. Le.

Douglas, Marian. See Robinson, Mrs. A.

Douglas, Silas Hamilton. N. Y., 1816-1890. A professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan, 1844-79. Tables for Qualitative Chemical Analysis; Qualitative Chemical Analysis (with A. R. Prescott).

Douglass, Frederick. Md., 1817-1895. A famous orator and the most distinguished member of the African race in America. He was born in slavery, but escaped to the North in 1838, educated himself, and soon became prominent as an anti-slavery speaker. As time went on, his style, always picturesque and eloquent, became polished and elegant. My Bondage and My Freedom; Narrative of My Experience in Slavery; Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881). See Life by Holland, 1891.

Douglass, William. S., c. 1691-1752. A Scottish physician who came to America and settled in Boston in 1718. He was a man of very positive views, most of which were opposed to those of the age and the community in which he lived, and his time was well filled in controversies with the clergy, physicians, magistrates, and colonial governors. His principal work is a Summary, Historical and Political, of the British Settlements in America. Others of less note are Mercurius Novanglicanus, an almanac; Treatise on Small Pox; Midwifery; Practical History of a New, Eruptive, Miliary Fever. See Tyler’s American Literature.

Dow, Daniel. Ct., 1772-1849. A Congregational clergyman of Thompson, Connecticut. Familiar Letters to Rev. John Sherman; The Pedobaptist Catechism; The Sinaitic and Abrahamic Covenants; Free Inquiry Recommended on the Subject of Free Masonry.

Dow, Lorenzo. Ct., 1777-1834. An eccentric Methodist travelling preacher, especially vehement against the Jesuits. Polemical Works; The Stranger in Charleston, or the Trial and Confession of Lorenzo Dow; A Short Account of a Long Travel; Journal and Miscellaneous Writings; History of a Cosmopolite, an autobiographic work.

Dowd, Mary Alice. W. Va., 1855- ——. An educator of Stamford, Connecticut, who has published Vacation Verses.

Dowling, John. E., 1807-1878. A Baptist clergyman of New York city whose writings had a large circulation. Vindication of the Baptists; History of Romanism; Defence of the Protestant Scriptures; Power of Illustration; Nights and Mornings; Judson Offering; Exposition of the Prophecies concerning the Second Coming of Christ.

Downes, John. N. Y., 1799-1882. A mathematician of Washington. Peter Parley’s Almanacs for Old and Young; Logarithms and Logarithmic Sines and Tangents; United States Almanac Complete, or Ephemeris.

Downes, William Howe. Ct., 1854- ——. A Boston journalist, for many years on the staff of the Transcript, and an art critic. Spanish Ways and By-Ways; The Tin Army of the Potomac, or a Kindergarten of War.

Downie, David. S., 1838- ——. A Baptist missionary to India who has published a History of the Telugu Mission.

Downing, Andrew Jackson. N. Y., 1815-1852. A once noted horticulturist and landscape gardener of New York who did much to popularize a knowledge of rural art. Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening; Fruit and Fruit Trees of America; Architecture of Country Houses; Cottage Residences; Rural Essays. See Garden and Forest, vol. 8. Wil.

Downing, Mrs. Frances [Murdaugh]. N. Y., c. 1835-1894. A writer of Charlottesville, North Carolina, who has published Pluto, or the Origin of Mint Julep, a story in verse after the manner of the “Ingoldsby Legends;” and several novels, including Nameless; Perfect Through Suffering; Florida; Five Little Girls and Two Little Boys.

Downing, Jack. See Smith, Seba.

Drake, Benjamin. Ky., 1794-1841. A Cincinnati journalist whose writings include Cincinnati in 1820; Tales and Sketches from the Queen City; Life of Black Hawk; Life of William Henry Harrison; Life of Tecumseh.

Drake, Charles Daniel. O., 1811-1892. Son of Daniel Drake, infra. An eminent lawyer of St. Louis who published Law of Attachments; Life of Daniel Drake. Lit.

Drake, Daniel. N. J., 1785-1852. Brother of B. Drake, supra. A distinguished physician of Cincinnati and Philadelphia who is best known by his valuable work on The Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America, which embodies a vast amount of patient research. His other works include Pictures of Cincinnati and the Miami Country (1815); History of the Prevention and Treatment of Epidemic Cholera; Essays on Medical Education; Discourses; Pioneer Life in Kentucky. See Lives by Mansfield, 1855, C. D. Drake, supra, 1871; Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries. Clke.

Drake, Francis Samuel. Ms., 1828-1885. Son of S. G. Drake, infra. A bookseller of Boston whose Dictionary of American Biography is incorporated in Appleton’s Cyclopedia of Biography. Other works of his are Life of General Knox; The Town of Roxbury; Tea Leaves; Indian History for Young Folks. Har. Lip.

Drake, Joseph Rodman. N. Y., 1795-1820. A talented physician of New York city, co-author with Halleck, infra, of The Croaker Papers in the Evening Post. His poetical fame rests on The Culprit Fay, a delicate, fanciful creation, and the often-quoted poem The American Flag. His poetry was once extremely popular, but has failed to interest the readers of the latter half of the 19th century. A selection from his poems was made by his daughter and published in 1836.

Drake, Samuel Adams. Ms., 1833- ——. Son of S. G. Drake, infra. A littérateur of Boston whose histories and books of home travel have been deservedly popular. Around the Hub, a Boy’s Book About Boston; The Heart of the White Mountains; Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston; Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast; Old Landmarks and Historic Fields of Middlesex; Captain Nelson; The Watch Fires of ’76; Burgoyne’s Invasion of 1777; The Taking of Louisburg; The Battle of Gettysburg; Our Colonial Homes; New England Legends and Folk-Lore; The Making of New England, 1580-1643; The Making of Virginia and the Middle Colonies, 1578-1701; The Making of the Ohio Valley States, 1660-1837; The Making of the Great West, 1512-1853; History of Middlesex County; The Pine-Tree Coast. Est. Har. Le. Rob. Scr.

Drake, Samuel Gardiner. N. H., 1798-1875. A Boston bookseller of antiquarian tastes who, beside editing several historical works, was the author of Memoir of Cotton Mather; Entertaining History of King Philip’s War; Book of the Indians; Old Indian Chronicle; Account of the Family of Drake; Memoir of Walter Raleigh; History and Antiquities of Boston; Indian Biography; Indian Captivities; Annals of Witchcraft in the United States; History of the French and Indian War. See Bibliography of Maine.

Draper, Andrew Sloan. N. Y., 1848- ——. A lawyer and educator of Albany, and, since 1894, president of the University of Illinois. What Ought the Common Schools to Do?; How to Improve the Country Schools; Powers and Obligations of Teachers; School Administration in Large Cities; Origin of the New York Common School System; A Teaching Profession; Authority of the State in Education; Legal Status of the Public Schools; Normal and Training School System of New York; Responsibility and Authority of Trustees; American Schools and American Citizenship; Public School Pioneering in New York and Massachusetts.

Draper, Henry. Va., 1837-1882. Son of J. W. Draper, infra. A professor in the University of New York. The Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope; Text-Book of Chemistry.

Draper, John Christopher. Va., 1835-1885. Son of J. W. Draper, infra. A New York physician, professor in the University of New York. Text-Book in Anatomy; Physiology and Hygiene; Practical Laboratory Course in Physics; Text-Book of Medical Physics.

Draper, John William. E., 1811-1882. A distinguished scientist who came from England to the United States in 1832, and from 1839 to 1881 was connected with the University of New York. History of the Civil War in America; History of the Intellectual Development of Europe; The Future Civil Policy of America; Human Physiology; Elements of Chemistry; Text-Book of Natural Philosophy; Text-Book on Physiology; Researches in Actino-Chemistry; Scientific Memoirs; History of the Conflict between Religion and Science. See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 16.

Draper, Lyman Copeland. N. Y., 1815-1891. An antiquarian writer of Madison, Wisconsin. Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin; King’s Mountain and its Heroes.

Drayton, John. S. C., 1766-1822. Son of W. H. Drayton, infra. A South Carolina statesman, twice governor of his State. View of South Carolina; Letters written during a Tour through the Northern and Eastern States.

Drayton, William Henry. S. C., 1742-1779. A prominent figure among statesmen of the Revolution and a member of the Continental Congress. A History of the American Revolution, which he left in manuscript, was afterwards published by his son.

Drinker, Anne. “Edith May.” Pa., 1827- ——. A verse-writer of Montrose, Pennsylvania. Poems by Edith May; Tales and Verses for Children; Katy’s Story.

Drisler, Henry. N. Y., 1818-1897. A classical scholar of distinction, professor at Columbia College from 1843, whose Greek-and-English Lexicon has long been a standard authority.

Droch. See Bridges, Robert.

Drone, Eaton Sylvester. O., 1842- ——. A legal writer on the staff of the New York Herald. The Law of Property in Intellectual Productions, embracing Copyright and Playright. Lit.

Drummond, Josiah Hayden. Me., 1827-1902. A lawyer who was attorney-general of Maine for some years, and published Maine Masonic Text-Book for Use of Lodges; History of Masonic Jurisprudence.

Drury, Augustus Waldo. 1851- ——. A clergyman of the sect of United Brethren in Christ who has written a Life of Otterbein, the founder of the sect.

Drury, John Benjamin. N. Y., 1838- ——. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of Ghent, New York, who has published Truths and Untruths of Evolution. Ran.

Duane, James Chatham. N. Y., 1824-1897. A retired brigadier-general of the United States army, author of A Manual for Engineer Troops.

Duane, William. N. Y., 1760-1835. A once prominent journalist and politician of Philadelphia. Military Dictionary; The Mississippi Question; An Epitome of the Arts and Sciences; Visit to Colombia in 1822; American Military Library; Handbook for Riflemen; Handbook for Infantry.

Duane, William. Pa., 1808-1882. Son of W. J. Duane, infra. A Philadelphia writer who published Relation of Landlord to Tenant in Pennsylvania; Law of Roads, etc., in Pennsylvania; Canada and the Continental Congress; Ligan, a collection of Tales and Essays.

Duane, William John. I., 1780-1865. Son to W. Duane, supra. An eminent lawyer of Philadelphia who was secretary of the treasury in 1833, and was dismissed from office by President Jackson for declining to order the deposits removed from the Bank of the United States. The Law of Nations Investigated; Letters on Internal Improvement; Narrative and Correspondence Concerning the Removal of the Deposits, 1838.

Dubbs, Joseph Henry. Pa., 1838- ——. A German Reformed clergyman, professor of history in Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, since 1875. Otterbein and the Reformed Church; Historic Manual of the Reformed Church; Home Ballads and Metrical Versions; Why Am I Reformed?

Du Bois, Augustus Jay. O., 1849- ——. A professor of engineering at Yale University since 1877. Elements of Graphical Statics; The New Method of Graphical Statics; Strains in Framed Structures; Mechanics. Wil.

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. Ms., 1868- ——. An educator of African descent, assistant professor of sociology in the University of Pennsylvania. The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States, 1638-1810. Lgs.

Du Bois, William Ewing. Pa., 1810-1881. A Philadelphia numismatist, assayer at the Mint. Manual of Gold and Silver Coins of All Nations; Pledges of History, an account of the Antique Coins in the United States Mint.

Du Bose, Mrs. Catherine Anne [Richards]. E., 1826- ——. A Georgia writer who published The Pastor’s Household, or Lessons on the Eleventh Commandment, a juvenile tale.

Ducatel, Julius Timoleon. Md., 1796-1849. A chemist of Baltimore, professor in the University of Maryland and author of a Manual of Toxicology.

Du Chaillu [dü-chä-yü´], Paul Belloni. F., 1835-1903. A noted French traveller who became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Ivar the Viking; Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa; A Journey to Ashango Land; My Apingi Kingdom; Wild Life under the Equator; Lost in the Jungle; The Country of the Dwarfs; Land of the Midnight Sun; Age of the Vikings; Stories of the Gorilla Country. The greater number of his works are intended for juvenile reading. Har.

Duché, Jacob. Pa., 1737-1798. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia who made the prayer at the opening of the Continental Congress. Becoming discouraged at the want of success of the colonists, he urged Washington to abandon the cause. He was thereupon considered an enemy of the country and his property was confiscated. Caspipina’s Letters; Discourses on Various Subjects.

Dudley, Dean. Me., 1823- ——. A Boston lawyer of antiquarian tastes. Pictures of Life in England and America; The Dudley Genealogies; Social and Political Aspects of England and the Continent; History of the First Council of Nice; Officers of the Army and Navy; History of the Dudley Family.

Dudley, Thomas Underwood. Va., 1837-1904. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Kentucky. He served in the Confederate army as a colonel, and afterwards entered the ministry. A Wise Discrimination the Church’s Need.

Dudley, William Russell. Ct., 1849- ——. A professor of botany at Cornell University, who has published The Cayuga Flora.

Duer, Edward Louis. N. J., 1836- ——. A physician of Philadelphia. Post Mortem Discoveries; Treatment of Diphtheria.

Duer, John. N. Y., 1782-1858. A once prominent New York jurist whose specialty was insurance law. Duer’s Reports; Laws and Practice of Marine Insurance.

Duer, William Alexander. N. Y., 1780-1858. Brother of J. Duer, supra, and like him a prominent jurist. He was president of Columbia College, 1829-42. Constitutional Jurisprudence of the United States.

Duff, Peter. N. B., 1802-1869. An educator of Pittsburg, where he founded Duff’s Mercantile College, one of the earliest institutions of the kind. The North American Accountant was his only publication of note.

Duffel, Mary Gordon. Al., c. 1840- ——. A resident of Alabama, who published A History of Alabama; Guide to the Mammoth Cave.

Duffield, George. Pa., 1794-1869. A Presbyterian clergyman, once prominent in Detroit as a leader among New School Presbyterians. Dissertations on the Prophecies; Regeneration; Travels in the Holy Land; Claims of Episcopal Bishops Examined, include his most important writings.

Duffield, George. Pa., 1818-1888. Son of G. Duffield, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of some note as a hymn-writer, one of his most popular hymns being “Stand up for Jesus.”

Duffield, John Thomas. Pa., 1823-1901. A Presbyterian clergyman who was professor of mathematics in Princeton College for many years, and published The Princeton Pulpit and many religious monographs.

Duffield, Samuel Augustus Willoughby. L. I., 1843-1887. Son of G. Duffield, 2d. A Presbyterian clergyman of Bloomfield, New Jersey. English Hymns, their Authors and History; Latin Hymn-Writers and their Hymns; Warp and Woof, a Book of Verse. Fu.

Duffield, William Ward. Pa., 1823- ——. An engineer of Kentucky who was a brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil War. School of the Brigade and Evolutions of the Line.

Duganne, Augustine Joseph Hickey. Ms., 1823-1884. A journalist of New York city chiefly known as a poet. During the Civil War he served in the Federal army, and was for some time a captive in Southern prisons. Among his writings are Prison Life in the South; Camps and Prisons; History of Governments; The Lydian Queen, a tragedy; Home Poems; Parnassus in Pillory, a satire.

Dugdale, Richard L. F., 1841-1883. A writer on sociology. The Jukes, or Heredity in Crime; Further Studies of Criminals.

Duhring, Julia. Pa., 1836- ——. An essayist who has published Philosophers and Fools; Gentlefolks and Others; Amor in Society; Mental Life and Culture. Lip.

Duhring, Louis Adolphus. Pa., 1845- ——. Brother of J. Duhring, supra. A physician of Philadelphia, prominent as a dermatologist. Atlas of Skin Diseases; Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin; Epitome of Skin Diseases; Cutaneous Medicine. Lip.

Duke, William. Md., 1757-1840. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Maryland who published A Clew to Religious Truth.

Dulany, Daniel. Md., 1721-1797. A noted Maryland statesman. Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes on the British Colonies.

Dulles, Charles Winslow. E. I., 1850- ——. A surgeon of Philadelphia. What to Do First in Accidents or Poisoning; What to Do First in Accidents and Emergencies; Accidents and Emergencies.

Dulles, John Welsh. Pa., 1823-1887. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, at one time a missionary to India. The Soldier’s Friend; Life in India; The Ride Through Palestine.

Dummer, Jeremiah. Ms., c. 1680-1739. A noted scholar who was colonial agent for Massachusetts in London, 1710-21, and was a political friend of Bolingbroke. A Letter to a Noble Lord concerning the Late Expedition to Canada; A Defence of the New England Charters,—both excellent specimens of literary skill as well as patriotism. See Tyler’s American Literature.

Dumont, Mrs. Julia Louisa [Carey]. O., 1794-1857. A once noted educator of Vevay, Indiana. Life Sketches from Common Paths.

Dunbar, Charles Franklin. Ms., 1830-1900. A professor of political economy at Harvard University from 1871. Chapters on The Theory and History of Banking. Put.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. O., 1872- ——. A verse-writer of Dayton, Ohio, of African descent. Lyrics of Lowly Life. Do.

Duncan, William Cecil. N. Y., 1824-1864. A Baptist clergyman of New Orleans. Life of John the Baptist; History of the Baptists for the First Two Centuries of the Christian Era; The Years of Jesus; Brief History of the Baptists.

Duncan, William Stevens. Pa., 1834- ——. A physician of Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Medical Delusions; Physiology of Death.

Dunglison [dŭng´glĭ-son], Richard James. Md., 1834-1901. Son of R. Dunglison, infra. A physician of Philadelphia who published Practitioner’s Reference Book; Elementary Physiology.

Dunglison, Robley. E., 1798-1869. An eminent Philadelphia physician, professor in Jefferson Medical College from 1836, and one of the most learned men of his profession. His most important work is his Medical Dictionary, which has a very wide reputation. Other works are, Human Physiology; Elements of Hygiene; General Therapeutics; The Medical Student; The Practice of Medicine; Commentaries on Diseases of the Stomach and Bowels in Children. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.

Dunham, Carroll. N. Y., 1828-1877. A once prominent homœopathic physician of New York. Homœopathy the Science of Therapeutics; Lectures in Materia Medica.

Dunham, William Russell. N. H., 1833- ——. A physician of Keene, New Hampshire, who has published Theory of Medical Science.

Dunlap, Andrew. Ms., 1794-1835. A lawyer of Boston, and author of Admiralty Practice in Cases of Maritime Jurisdiction.

Dunlap, John A. Circa 1793-c. 1858. A justice of the peace in New York city. Practice of the Superior Court of New York in Civil Actions; Abridgement of the 13th and 14th books of Coke’s Reports.

Dunlap, Samuel Fales. Ms., 1825- ——. Son of A. Dunlap, supra, and, like him, a lawyer of Boston. Origin of Ancient Names; Vestiges of the Spirit History of Man.

Dunlap, William. N. J., 1766-1839. A once prominent artist, dramatist, and theatrical manager of New York city. Life of George Frederick Cooke; Life of Charles Brockden Brown; The American Theatre; History of New York; History, Rise, and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States; Thirty Years Ago, a novel; New Netherlands, Province of New York; The Father, a comedy; Leicester, a tragedy, include the greater part of his writings.

Dunlop, James. Pa., 1795-1856. A Pittsburg lawyer prominent as an opponent of slavery. Laws of Pennsylvania, 1700-1853; Digest of the General Laws of the United States.

Dunn, Jacob Piatt. Ind., 1855- ——. The State librarian of Indiana. History of Indiana; Massacres of the Mountains, a History of Indian Wars in the Far West. Har. Hou.

Dunn, Lewis Romaine. N. J., 1822-1876. A Methodist divine of New Jersey. Lizzie Hagar, the Orphan Girl; The Mission of the Spirit; Angels of God; Sermons on the Higher Life.

Dunning, Albert Elijah. Ct., 1844- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, editor of the Congregationalist. The Sunday-School Library; Bible Studies; Congregationalists in America. C. P. S. Hi.

Dunning, Mrs. Annie [Ketchum]. “Nellie Grahame.” N. Y., 1831- ——. A prolific writer of Sunday-school tales, mainly for the Presbyterian Board of Publication. Among them are Clementina’s Mirrour; A Story of Four Lives; Broken Pitchers; Contradictions. Lo.

Dunning, Charlotte. See Morse, Mrs.

Duponceau [du-pŏn´sō or dü´poN´so´], Pierre Etienne. F., 1760-1844. A Frenchman who came to America as aid to Baron Steuben, settled in Philadelphia, and became eminent as a lawyer. He was president of the American Philosophical Society, and his Memoir on the Indian Languages of North America attracted much attention amongst scholars.

Dupuy [dü-pwe´], Eliza Ann. Va., 1814-1881. A sensational novelist of Kentucky, for many years a regular contributor of serial stories to the New York Ledger. Among them are The Conspirator, a story of Aaron Burr; The Huguenot Exiles; The Concealed Treasure. Har.

Durbin, John Price. Ky., 1800-1876. A Methodist clergyman noted for his eloquence, who was missionary secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1850-72. Observations in Europe; Observations in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor. See Life by J. A. Roche, 1879. Har.

Durfee, Job. R. I., 1790-1847. A Rhode Island jurist who was chief justice of his State, 1835-47. What Cheer, or Roger Williams in Exile; Panidea, a philosophical treatise. See Complete Works, with Memoir by his son, 1849.

Durivage, Francis Alexander. Ms., 1813-1881. Nephew to Edward Everett, infra. A magazinist of Boston, among whose writings are The Fatal Casket; Life Scenes from the World Around Us; Cyclopedia of History.

Durrie, Daniel Steele. N. Y., 1819-1892. An antiquarian writer of Madison, Wisconsin, who published Bibliographia Genealogica Americana; History of Madison.

Dutcher, Addison Porter. N. Y., 1818-1884. A physician of Cleveland. Selections from my Portfolio, essays on Popular and Scientific Subjects; Pulmonary Tuberculosis; Sparks from the Forge of a Rough Thinker; Two Voyages to Europe. Lip.

Dutcher, Jacob C. Circa 1820- ——. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of New York. Requisites of National Greatness; The Prodigal Son; Our Fallen Heroes; The Old Home by the River; Frank Lyttleton, or Winning his Way.

Dutton, Clarence Edward. Ct., 1841- ——. An officer in the United States army associated with the Geological Survey. Geology of the High Plateaus of Utah; Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District; Hawaiian Volcanoes; Mount Taylor and the Zuñi Plateau; The Charleston Earthquake of 1886.

Dutton, Henry. Ct., 1796-1869. A prominent jurist of Connecticut who issued a Digest of the Connecticut Reports.