temperance who was the presidential nominee of the prohibitionists in
1872. Is Prohibition a Necessity; History of the Prohibition Party; The
Prohibition Party.
=Black, James Rush.= _S._, 1827- ----. An Ohio physician, since 1876
a professor of hygiene in the medical college of Columbus. Ten Laws
of Health, a valuable work on hygiene; Guide to Protection against
Epidemic Disease.
=Black, Warren Columbus.= _Mi._, 1843- ----. A Methodist clergyman of
Mississippi. Temperance and Teetotalism; Christian Womanhood.
=Black, William Henry.= _Ind._, 1854- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of
St. Louis. God our Father; Womanhood; Sermons for the Sunday School.
=Blackburn, William Maxwell.= _Ind._, 1828-1900. A Presbyterian
clergyman, since 1886 president of Pierre University, South Dakota.
Among his many works, chiefly on religion and biography, are History
of the Christian Church; Geneva’s Shield; Exiles of Madeira; Judas the
Maccabee; The Rebel Prince; College Days of Calvin; Young Calvin in
Paris; St. Patrick and the Early Irish Church; Admiral Coligny and the
Rise of the Huguenots; The Theban Legion; and the Uncle Alick series of
juvenile tales. _Meth._
=Blackwell, Mrs. Antoinette Louisa [Brown].= _N. Y._, 1825- ----. A
Unitarian minister prominent in the woman-suffrage movement. Studies
in General Science; The Market Woman; The Island Neighbours: a novel
of American life; The Sexes Throughout Nature; The Physical Basis of
Immortality; The Philosophy of Individuality. _Har._
=Blackwell, Elizabeth.= _E._, 1821- ----. A physician of New York city
who, with her sister Emily, organized the woman’s medical college of
the New York Infirmary. Laws of Life, or the Physical Education of
Girls; Counsel to Parents in the Moral Education of their Children;
Pioneer Work in opening the Medical Profession to Women. _Lgs._
=Blaikie, William.= _N. Y._, 1843-1904. A lawyer and athlete of New
York city. How to Get Strong; Sound Bodies for our Boys and Girls.
_Har._
=Blaine, James Gillespie.= _Pa._, 1830-1893. A very prominent
Republican leader who was an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency
in 1884. Twenty Years of Congress, an able and reasonably impartial
work; Eulogy on James Abram Garfield. _See Appleton’s American
Biography, vol. 1, and Annual Cyclopedia, 1893; Lives, by Cressey,
1884; Balestier, 1884; Ramsdell; Dodge, 1895; Mr. Blaine and his
Foreign Policy, 1884; North American Review, vol. 147._
=Blair, Andrew Alexander.= _Ky._, 1846- ----. A chemist of
Philadelphia. The Chemical Analysis of Iron; Methods in Analysis of
Iron, Steel, Copper, and Alloys of Copper, Zinc, and Tin. _Lip._
=Blair, Mrs. Eliza [Nelson].= _N. H._, 1859- ----. A writer of
Manchester, New Hampshire. Her novel, ’Lisbeth Wilson, gives an
excellent picture of New Hampshire rural life a half century ago. _Le._
=Blair, James.= _S._, 1656-1743. An Episcopal clergyman of Virginia who
founded William and Mary College, and was its president for 50 years.
The State of His Majesty’s Colony in Virginia; Our Saviour’s Divine
Sermon on the Mount, a series of 117 sermons written in a simple,
unornamental style; moderate in tone and very much to the point. _See
Tyler’s American Literature._
=Blake, Mrs. Euphemia [Vale].= _E._, 1824-1904. Daughter of G. Vale,
_infra_. Teeth, Ether, and Chloroform; History of Newburyport; Arctic
Experiences, a history of the Polaris Expedition.
=Blake, James Vila.= _N. Y._, 1842- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of
Chicago. Poems; Essays; A Grateful Spirit; Anchor of the Soul; St.
Solifer; Legends from Story Land. _Ke._
=Blake, John Lauris.= _N. H._, 1788-1857. An Episcopal clergyman of
Boston long prominent as an educator. Text Book of Geography and
Chronology; Family Encyclopædia of Agriculture and Domestic Economy;
Farmer’s Every-Day Book; Modern Farmer; Letters on Confirmation;
General Biographical Dictionary; Book of Nature Laid Open; Wonders of
the Earth; Wonders of Art.
=Blake, Mrs. Lillie [Devereux] [Umstead].= _N. C._, 1835- ----. A
prominent advocate of woman-suffrage. Fettered for Life; Southwold;
Rockford; Woman’s Place To-Day; The Hypocrite, or Sketches of American
Society.
=Blake, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [McGrath].= _I._, 1840- ----. A Boston
writer of prose and verse. Poems; Youth in Twelve Centuries; Verses by
the Way. Her prose includes On the Wing, sketches of American travel;
A Summer Holiday: travel experiences in Europe; Mexico: Picturesque,
Political, Progressive (with Mrs. Sullivan, _infra_). _Hou. Le._
=Blake, William Phipps.= _N. Y._, 1826- ----. A mineralogist of
prominence. Silver Ores and Silver Mines; California Minerals;
Production of the Precious Metals; Iron and Steel; Ceramic Art and
Glass; History of Hamden, Ct.; Life of Captain Jonathan Mix.
=Blauvelt, Augustus.= _N. Y._, 1832- ----. A Dutch Reformed clergyman
of New Jersey, deposed from the ministry on account of his liberal
doctrinal views embodied in papers in the Century Magazine. The Kingdom
of Satan; The Present Religious Crisis.
=Blavatsky, Helene Petrovna [Hahn-Hahn].= _R._, 1831-1891. A writer
of Russian birth but naturalized in the United States, who visited
India, and, embracing Buddhism, founded the Theosophical Society of New
York. Isis Unveiled; The Secret Doctrine; Voices of Silence; Key to
Theosophy. _See Memoirs of, by Sinnett, 1886; Review of Reviews, vol.
3._
=Bledsoe, Albert Taylor.= _Ky._, 1808-1877. A Southern clergyman who
left the Episcopal for the Methodist church, and wrote extensively
on metaphysics and mathematics. Liberty and Slavery; Examination of
Edwards on the Will; Philosophy of Mathematics; Is Davis a Traitor?
or was Secession a Constitutional Right previous to the War of 1861?;
Theodicy. _Lip. Meth._
=Bliss, Daniel.= _Vt._, 1826- ----. A Congregational missionary,
president of the Protestant college at Beyrout since 1864. Mental
Philosophy; Natural Philosophy (in Arabic).
=Bliss, Porter Cornelius.= _N. Y._, 1838-1885. A journalist and
diplomat of some repute as a philologist. The Ethnography of Gran
Chaco, a district of Argentina; Historia Secreta de la mision, del
ciudadano norte-Americano, Charles A. Washburn, cerca del gobierno de
la república del Paraguay; The Conquest of Turkey 1877-78 (with L.
Blodgett, _infra_).
=Bliss, William Dwight Porter.= _Iy._, 1856- ----. An Episcopal
clergyman of Boston, prominent as a leader among Christian Socialists.
A Handbook of Socialism; The Social Faith of the Catholic Church; What
is Christian Socialism? He has edited The Encyclopædia of Socialism.
_Fu. Scr._
=Bliss, William Root.= _Ct._, 1825- ----. A business man of New York
city. Side Glimpses from the Colonial Meeting-House; The Old Colony
Town and other Sketches; Colonial Times on Buzzard’s Bay; Quaint
Nantucket; Paradise in the Pacific. _Hou._
=Blodget, Lorin.= _N. Y._, 1823-1901. An eminent statistician of
Philadelphia who published more than 150 volumes, mainly reports upon
finance, revenue, and industrial progress. The Climatology of the
United States; Commercial and Financial Resources of the United States.
_Lip._
=Bloede, Gertrude.= “Stuart Sterne.” _Sxy._, 1845- ----. A poet and
novelist of Brooklyn who has usually written under a pseudonym. Angelo;
Giorgio and Other Poems; Beyond the Shadow; Pièro da Castiglione, a
tale in verse of the time of Savonarola; The Story of Two Lives: a
novel. _Hou._
=Bloomfield-Moore, Mrs. Clara Sophia [Jessup].= _Pa._, 1824-1899.
A Philadelphia writer who passed much time abroad, and chiefly in
England. Miscellaneous Poems; On Dangerous Ground, a romance of
American Society; Sensible Etiquette; Gondaline’s Lesson and Other
Poems; Slander and Gossip; The Warden’s Tale and Other Poems. _Co._
=Blot, Pierre.= _F._, 1818-1874. A once noted cooking instructor of
New York city. What to Eat and How to Cook It; Lectures on Cookery;
Handbook of Practical Cookery. _Ap._
=Blunt, Edmond March.= _N. H._, 1770-1862. A bookseller of Newburyport
whose chief work, The American Coast Pilot (1796), is still in use.
=Blunt, George William.= _Ms._, 1802-1878. Son of E. M. Blunt, _supra_.
Hydrographer. Atlantic Memoir; Sheet Anchor; Harbour Laws of New York;
Plan to Avoid the Centre of Violent Gales.
=Blunt, Joseph.= _Ms._, 1792-1860. Son of E. M. Blunt, _supra_. A
lawyer who was one of the founders of the Republican party. Historical
Sketch of the Formation of the American Confederacy; Speeches, Reviews,
and Reports; Merchants’ and Shipmasters’ Assistant.
=Boardman, George Dana.= _Bh._, 1828-1903. A prominent Baptist
clergyman of Philadelphia. Coronation of Love; Studies in the
Creative Week; Epiphanies of the Risen Lord; Studies in the Mountain
Instruction; University Lectures on the Ten Commandments; The Divine
Man. _Ap. Bap._
=Boardman, Henry Augustus.= _N. Y._, 1808-1880. A once noted
Presbyterian divine of Philadelphia. The Bible in the Family; The
Bible in the Counting-House; The Christian Ministry not a Priesthood;
Earthly Suffering and Heavenly Glory; A Handful of Corn, are among his
writings. _Lip. Ran._
=Bogart, William Henry.= _N. Y._, 1810-1888. A writer of New York
state. Life of Daniel Boone; Who Goes There? or Men and Events. _Le._
=Bok, Edward William.= _H._, 1863- ----. Editor of the Ladies’ Home
Journal. The Young Man in Business; Successward, a Young Man’s Book for
Young Men. _Rev._
=Boker, George Henry.= _Pa._, 1823-1890. A poet and diplomat of
Philadelphia, United States Minister to Turkey and Russia successively.
His verse is of uneven excellence, but at its best is notably good, as,
for example, the familiar Dirge for a Soldier. Of his four tragedies,
Calaynos; Anne Boleyn; Lenor de Guzman; Francesca da Rimini, the first
and last are the finest, the last having been revived with success in
very recent years. His volumes of verse include The Lesson of Life;
Poems of War; The Book of the Dead; Königsmark; Street Lyrics; Our
Heroic Themes. Plays of lesser rank are The Widow’s Marriage; The
Betrothal. _See Atlantic Monthly, vol. 65; Lippincott’s Magazine, vol.
45._ _Lip._
=Bollan, William.= _E._, 17-- -1776. An English lawyer who settled
in Boston in 1740, and was subsequently colonial agent in London for
Massachusetts. He was active in its behalf and wrote many political
tracts for that end, among which The Mutual Interests of Great Britain
and the American Colonies Considered, is a favourable example.
=Boller, Alfred Pancoast.= _Pa._, 1840- ----. An engineer of note
whose specialty is bridge construction. Practical Treatise on the
Construction of Iron Highway Bridges; Report on Thames River Bridge.
_Wil._
=Bolles, Albert Sidney.= _Ct._, 1845- ----. A political economist of
prominence, professor in the University of Pennsylvania. Chapters in
Political Economy; The Conflict between Labour and Capital; Industrial
History of the United States; Financial History of the United States,
1774-1860; Elements of Commercial Law. _Ap._
=Bolles, Frank.= _Ms._, 1856-1894. A writer of nature studies of the
school of Jefferies and Thoreau, though with important differences from
either. From Blomidon to Smoky; At the North of Bearcamp Water; Land of
the Lingering Snow; Chocorua’s Tenants, a volume of verse. _Hou._
=Bolster, William Wheeler.= _Me._, 1823- ----. A lawyer of Auburn,
Maine. Digest of the Law of Tax Titles; The Authority and Duty of Town
Officers.
=Bolton, Charles Knowles.= _O._, 1867- ----. Son of S. K. Bolton,
_infra_; librarian of Brookline, Massachusetts. The Boltons of Old and
New England; Gossiping Guide to Harvard; Saskia the Wife of Rembrandt;
Notes on Special Collections in American Libraries (with W. C. Lane).
Verse: Poems: from Heart and Nature; The Wooing of Martha Pitkin; the
Love Story of Ursula Wolcott. _Cop. Lam._
=Bolton, Henry Carrington.= _N. Y._, 1843-1903. Scientist and professor
of chemistry at Trinity College. Application of Organic Acids to
the Examination of Minerals; Literature of Uranium; Literature of
Manganese; Student’s Guide in Quantitative Analysis; Counting-out
Rhymes of Children; their Antiquity, Origin, and Wide Distribution.
_Wil._
=Bolton, Mrs. Sarah [Knowles].= _Ct._, 1841- ----. A miscellaneous
writer of Cleveland whose successive collections of biographical
sketches have been extremely popular. Famous Givers and Their Gifts;
How Success is Won; Poor Boys who Became Famous; Girls who Became
Famous; Famous American Authors; Famous American Statesmen; Successful
Women; Social Studies in England; Famous Types of Womanhood; Famous
Voyages and Explorers; Famous Leaders among Men; The Inevitable, a
collection of pleasing, unpretentious verse. _Cr. Lo._
=Bolton, Mrs. Sarah Tittle [Barritt].= _Ky._, 1820-1893. A writer whose
name is kept in mind by her oft quoted poem, Paddle Your Own Canoe. The
Songs of a Life Time; Life and Poems of, 1880.
=Bomberger, John Henry Augustus.= _Pa._, 1817-1890. A German Reformed
theologian, president of Ursinus College, 1870-90. Infant Salvation and
Baptism; Revised Liturgy; Reformed not Ritualistic.
=Bond, George Phillips.= _Ms._, 1825-1865. An astronomer of note,
professor in Harvard University. On the Construction of the Rings
of Saturn; The Method of Least Squares; Mathematical Memoirs upon
Mechanical Quadrations.
=Boner, John Henry.= _N. C._, 1845- ----. A poet and littérateur of New
York city. Whispering Pines: poems.
=Bonner, Sherwood.= _See MacDowell._
=Bonney, Charles Carroll.= _N. Y._, 1831-1903. A lawyer of Chicago.
Rules of Law for Carriage and Delivery of Persons and Property by
Railway; Summary of the Law of Marine, Fire, and Life Insurance; Our
Remedy in the Laws.
=Booth, Henry Matthias.= _N. Y._, 1843-1899. A Presbyterian clergyman
of New Jersey. The Heavenly Vision and other Sermons; Sunrise, Noonday,
and Sunset of the Day of Grace; First Communion. _Ran._
=Booth, Mary Louise.= _L. I._, 1831-1889. Editor of Harper’s Bazar
from its establishment in 1867 to 1889. She made over 30 valuable
translations from the French. A History of the City of New York was her
only piece of original writing.
=Bostwick, Mrs. Helen Louise [Barron].= _N. H._, 1826- ----. A
verse-writer of Bucyrus, Ohio. Buds, Blossoms and Berries.
=Botta, Mrs. Anne Charlotte [Lynch].= _Vt._, 1820-1891. Wife of V.
Botta, _infra_. A well-known New York writer whose weekly receptions
were for many years the nearest approach in New York city to a _salon_.
Handbook of Universal Literature; Leaves from the Diary of a Recluse;
Poems. _Hou._
=Botta, Vincenzo.= _Iy._, 1818-1894. An Italian educator who came
to the United States in 1853, and was for a long period a professor
of Italian Literature in the University of New York. The System of
Education in Piedmont; Life of Cavour; Historical Account of Modern
Philosophy in Italy; Dante as Philosopher, Patriot, and Poet. _Scr._
=Botts, John Minor.= _Va._, 1802-1869. A Virginia lawyer eminent for
his devotion to the Union during the Civil War. Letters on the Nebraska
Question; The Great Rebellion: its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and
Disastrous Failure. _Har._
=Boudinot= [boo´de-not], =Elias.= _Pa._, 1740-1821. A philanthropist
of Burlington, New Jersey, and the first president of the American
Bible Society. The Second Advent of the Messiah; The Age of Revelation,
a reply to Paine; The Star in the West, an attempt to identify the
American Indians with the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. _See Life, edited
by J. J. Boudinot, 1896._
=Boughton, Willis.= _N. Y._, 1854- ----. An educator, professor of
English literature in Ohio University from 1892. A History of Ancient
Peoples; Mythology in Art. _Put._
=Bourke, John Gregory.= _Pa._, 1846-1896. A United States army officer.
The Snake Dance of the Moquis of Arizona, a valuable contribution to
ethnology; An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre; On the Border with
Crook. _Scr._
=Bouton, John Bell.= _N. H._, 1830-1902. Son of N. Bouton, _infra_. A
New York littérateur. Loved and Lost: essays; Round the Block, a novel;
Treasury of Travel and Adventure; Memoir of General Bell; Roundabout to
Moscow, an Epicurean Journey; Uncle Sam’s Church. _Ap. Lam._
=Bouton, Nathaniel.= _Ct._, 1797-1878. State historian of New
Hampshire. He is best known for his edition of ten volumes of
Provincial Records and for a History of Concord, New Hampshire.
=Boutwell, George Sewall.= _Ms._, 1818- ----. A Massachusetts
statesman; Governor of the State, 1852-53; Secretary of the Treasury,
1869-73. Thoughts on Educational Topics; Manual of the Direct and
Excise Tax System of the United States; The Taxpayer’s Manual; Speeches
and Papers relating to the Rebellion; Why I am a Republican: a History
of the Republican Party; The Lawyer, the Statesman, the Soldier; The
Constitution of the United States at the end of the First Century. _Ap.
He._
=Bouvé, Edward Tracy.= 18-- - ----. A Boston writer of fiction.
Centuries Apart. _Lit._
=Bouvet, [Marie] Marguerite.= _La._, 1865- ----. A writer of excellent
juvenile books. Sweet William; Prince Tip-Top; Little Marjorie’s Love
Story; My Lady; A Child of Tuscany; Pierrette. _Mg._
=Bouvier= [boo-veer´], =Hannah.= Daughter of J. Bouvier, _infra_. _See
Peterson, Mrs._
=Bouvier, John.= _Iy._, 1787-1851. A jurist of Philadelphia. Law
Dictionary; Institutes of American Law. _Lip._
=Bovee, Christian Nestell.= _N. Y._, 1820-1904. An epigrammatic writer,
some of whose sayings have been much quoted. Thoughts, Feelings, and
Fancies; Intuitions and Summaries of Thought.
=Bowditch, Henry Ingersoll.= _Ms._, 1808-1892. Son of N. Bowditch,
_infra_. An eminent physician of Boston. Life of Nathaniel Bowditch for
the Young; The Young Stethoscopist; Public Hygiene in America.
=Bowditch, Nathaniel.= _Ms._, 1773-1838. A famous mathematician of
Salem, Massachusetts, whose translation of La Place’s Mécanique
Céleste, with extensive commentary, was his greatest work. The New
American Navigator was his only original work of note. _See Memoir, by
H. I. Bowditch._
=Bowen, Eli.= _Pa._, 1824-188-. A once popular Pennsylvania author.
Coal Regions of Pennsylvania; Pictorial Sketch Book of Pennsylvania;
Rambles in the Path of the Iron Horse; The Creation of the Earth;
United States Post-Office System; Coal and Coal Oil.
=Bowen, Francis.= _Ms._, 1811-1890. A professor of philosophy at
Harvard University for many years, and eminent both as philosopher and
political economist. He opposed the systems of Kant, Fichte, Cousin,
Comte, and Mill, and was answered by the latter in a third edition of
his Logic. Critical Essays in Speculative Philosophy; Modern Philosophy
from Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann; Treatise on Logic;
American Political Economy; Principles of Political Economy; A Layman’s
Study of the English Bible considered in its Literary and Secular
Aspects; Gleanings from a Literary Life. _Scr._
=Bowen, John Eliot.= _N. Y._, 1858-1890. A New York journalist. The
Conflict of East and West in Egypt; Songs of Toil, a translation from
Carmen Sylva.
=Bowen, Mrs. Sue [Petigru] [King].= _S. C._, 1824-1875. A novelist of
Charleston, South Carolina. Sylvia’s World; Gerald Gray’s Wife; Lily;
Busy Moments of an Idle Woman, a collection of stories.
=Bowker, Richard Rogers.= _Ms._, 1848- ----. The editor for some years
of the Publishers’ Weekly. Work and Wealth: a Summary of Economics; A
Primer for Political Education; Economics for the People; The Library
List; Electoral Reform. _Har._
=Bowles, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1826-1878. Journalist of Springfield,
Massachusetts, editor of the Springfield Republican. Across the
Continent; Our New West. _See Life of, by Merriam, 1885._
=Bowne, Borden Parker.= _N. J._, 1847- ----. A philosophical writer and
professor of philosophy in Boston University. The Philosophy of Herbert
Spencer; Studies in Theism; Metaphysics: a Study of First Principles;
Introduction to Psychological Theory; Philosophy of Theism; Principles
of Ethics. _Har. Meth._
=Boyd, James Robert.= _N. Y._, 1804-1890. A Presbyterian clergyman,
formerly professor of moral philosophy at Hamilton College. Elements
of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism; Moral Philosophy; The Westminster
Shorter Catechism, with Analysis; Elements of Logic; Last Days of a
Christian Philosopher; Memoir of Doddridge, are some among his rather
numerous publications. _Har._
=Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth.= _N._, 1848-1895. A writer of Norwegian
birth, long resident in New York, and a professor in Columbia College
at the time of his death. His novels and sketches are pleasantly
written, but as essays in fiction are not much above average merit.
Gunnar; A Norseman’s Pilgrimage; Tales from Two Hemispheres;
Falconberg; A Daughter of the Philistines; Queen Titania; Ilka on the
Hill Top and Other Stories; Goethe and Schiller, their Lives and Works;
Literary and Social Silhouettes; The Story of Norway, an historical
work; Social Strugglers; Essays on Scandinavian Literature; Essays on
German Literature; Idylls of Norway and Other Poems; the Norseland
series of books for boys, including: Norseland Tales; Boyhood in
Norway; The Modern Vikings; Against Heavy Odds; The Golden Calf. _Fl.
Har. Mac. Scr._
=Boynton, Edward Carlisle.= _Vt._, 1825-1893. A United States army
officer. History of West Point.
=Bozman, John Leeds.= _Md._, 1757-1823. A once noted Maryland lawyer.
Historical Sketch of the Prime Causes of the Revolutionary War; History
of Maryland. _See Memoir by S. A. Harrison, 1888._
=Brace, Charles Loring.= _Ct._, 1826-1890. Son of J. P. Brace, _infra_.
A noted clergyman and philanthropist of New York city who founded the
Children’s Aid Society, and gave much of his time to philanthropic
work. Norse-folk; Home Life in Germany; The Races of the Old World;
Gesta Christi; The Dangerous Classes of New York. _See Life, chiefly
told in his own Letters._ _Scr._
=Brace, John Peirce.= _Ct._, 1793-1872. A once prominent educator of
Litchfield, Connecticut. Lectures to Young Converts; Tales of the
Devil; The Fawn of the Pale Faces: a Novel.
=Brackenridge, Henry Marie.= _Pa._, 1786-1871. Son of H. H.
Brackenridge, _infra_. A noted Florida jurist. History of the Late War
between the United States and Great Britain (1816); Voyage to South
America; Views of Louisiana; Recollections of Persons and Places in the
West; Essay on Trusts and Trustees; History of the Western Insurrection.
=Brackenridge, Hugh Henry.= _S._, 1748-1816. A Pennsylvania lawyer and
humourist whose writing enjoyed great popularity in the early years
of the 19th century. His principal work was Modern Chivalry, or the
Adventures of Captain Farrago and Teague O’Regan, his Servant, a rough,
sharp piece of humourous fiction, partaking, to some extent, of the
nature of an autobiography. _See edition of 1848, with illustrations by
Darley; Hart’s American Literature._
=Brackett, Albert Gallatin.= _N. Y._, 1829-1896. A United States
cavalry officer. General Lane’s Brigade in Central Mexico; History of
the United States Cavalry, 1854. _Har._
=Brackett, Anna Callender.= _Ms._, 1836- ----. An educational writer.
The Education of American Girls; Woman and the Higher Education; The
Technique of Rest. _Har._
=Brackett, Edward Augustus.= _Me._, 1819- ----. A sculptor of Boston.
Twilight Hours, a volume of verse.
=Bradford, Alden.= _Ms._, 1765-1843. Secretary of State for
Massachusetts, 1812-24. Eulogy on Washington; History of Massachusetts,
1764-1820; Life of Jonathan Mayhew; History of the Federal Government;
Biographical Notices of Distinguished Men of Massachusetts; New England
Chronology, 1497-1843.