clergyman of New York. The Bible Work, an extended scriptural
commentary; The Fourfold Gospel. _Fu._
=Butler, John Jay.= _Me._, 1814-1891. A Free Baptist clergyman of
Michigan, professor of sacred literature in Hillsdale College from
1873. Natural and Revealed Theology; Commentary on the Gospels, are his
principal works.
=Butler, Nicholas Murray.= _N. J._, 1862- ----. An educator of New York
city, professor of philosophy in Columbia College. Horace Mann and
American Systems of Education.
=Butler, Noble.= _Pa._, 1819-1882. A classical professor in the
University of Louisville, who published A Practical and Critical
English Grammar and other valuable text-books.
=Butler, Thomas Belden.= _Ct._, 1806-1873. A Connecticut jurist whose
Philosophy of the Weather, 1856, appeared later in enlarged form as a
Concise Analytical and Logical Development of the Atmospheric System.
=Butler, William.= _I._, 1819-1899. A Methodist missionary. The Land of
the Veda; From Boston to Bareilly and Back; Mexico in Transition from
the Power of Political Romanism to Civil and Religious Liberty.
=Butler, William Allen.= _N. Y._, 1825-1902. A lawyer of New York city
well known as a writer of poetical satires, among which Nothing to
Wear has long been famous. Others are, Two Millions; General Average,
a satire upon mercantile life; Barnum’s Parnassus. His prose writings
include, Martin Van Buren, a Biography; Mrs. Limber’s Raffle, an
able attack on the morality of church fairs; Domesticus, a Story;
Oberammergau. _Ap. Har. Scr._
=Butterfield, Consul Willshire.= _N. Y._, 1824-1899. A Wisconsin
educator. Historical Account of the Expedition against Sandusky, 1782;
System of Punctuation for Schools; History of the Discovery of the
Northwest by John Nicollet, 1634, comprise his chief works. _Clke._
=Butterfield, Daniel.= _N. Y._, 1831-1901. A major-general in the
United States army. Camp and Outpost Duty. _Har._
=Butterworth, Hezekiah.= _R. I._, 1837- ----. A Boston writer, for
many years editor of The Youth’s Companion. Besides publishing several
volumes of Zig-Zag Journeys, Great Composers, The Knight of Liberty,
In the Boyhood of Lincoln, The Patriot Schoolmaster, and other popular
juvenile books, he is the author of two collections of musical verse,
Songs of History; Poems for Christmas, Easter, and New Year’s. _Ap. Cr.
Est. Lo. Mer._
=Butts, Mrs. Mary Frances [Barber].= _R. I._, 1836- ----. A writer of
popular juvenile works. Three Girls; Lottie; Nellie’s New Home; Lizzie
and her Friends; The Frolic Series, are some of them.
=Byerly, William Ellwood.= _Pa._, 1849- ----. A professor of
mathematics at Harvard University. Elements of Differential Calculus;
Elements of Integral Calculus. _Gi._
=Byers, Samuel Hawkins Marshall.= _Ms._, 1838- ----. A United States
consul at Zurich, subsequently a consul-general to Italy and now
a resident of Des Moines. Switzerland; Switzerland and the Swiss:
Historical and Descriptive; Florence; History of Switzerland; What I
Saw in Dixie; Military History of Iowa; The Happy Isles, and Other
Poems.
=Byfield, Nathaniel.= _E._, 1653-1733. A jurist of note in
Massachusetts in the colonial period. Account of the Late War in
England, 1689.
=Byford, William Heath.= _O._, 1817-1890. A physician of prominence
in Chicago. Practice of Medicine and Surgery Applied to Diseases
and Accidents Peculiar to Women; Theory and Practice of Obstetrics;
Philosophy of Domestic Life, are his more important works.
=Byington, Ezra Hoyt.= _Vt._, 1828-1901. A Congregational clergyman of
Newton, Massachusetts. Puritan in England and New England; Puritan as
Colonist and Reformer; Christ of Yesterday, To-day, and Forever. _Lit._
=Byles, Mather.= _Ms._, 1706-1788. A Congregational clergyman of Boston
famous both as preacher and wit. After 43 years’ ministry in the Hollis
Street Church, his Tory sympathies obliged him to give up his charge in
1776. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Tyler’s American
Literature; Unitarian Review, vol. 27; Atlantic Monthly, vol. 59._
=Bynner, Edwin Lassetter.= _N. Y._, 1842-1893. A popular historical
novelist of Boston. His best work is included in the three historical
tales, Agnes Surriage; The Begum’s Daughter; Zachary Phips. Of lesser
importance are Nimport; Tritons; Damen’s Ghost; Penelope’s Suitors;
An Uncloseted Skeleton (with L. P. Hale, _infra_); The Chase of the
Meteor, a book for boys. _Hou._
=Byrd, William.= _Va._, 1674-1744. A colonial Virginian and man of
letters, whose Journals, first published in 1841, are known as The
Westover Manuscripts, from Westover, the family mansion of Byrd. A
fuller collection, styled The Byrd Manuscripts, was printed in 1866,
edited by T. Wynne. They are well worth reading for their wit, keen
observations, and vigorous style. They comprise The Story of the
Dividing Line, an account of the expedition to fix the boundary between
Virginia and North Carolina; A Progress to the Mines; A Journey to
the Land of Eden. _See Hart’s American Literature; Tyler’s American
Literature; Century Magazine, vol. 20._
=Byrn, Marcus Lafayette.= 18-- - ----. A physician. Complete Practical
Brewer; Rattlehead’s Travels, or the Recollections of a Backwoodsman;
Complete Practical Distiller; Repository of Wit and Humour; Book of
Nature, an expositor of the Science of Life and Sexual Physiology;
Family Physician.
C
=Cabell, James Lawrence.= _Va._, 1813-1889. An eminent Virginia
physician. The Testimony of Modern Science to the Unity of Mankind.
=Cabell, Mrs. Julia [Mayo].= _Va._, 18-- -185-. An Odd Volume of Facts
and Fiction in Prose and Verse; Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg.
=Cable, George Washington.= _La._, 1844- ----. A writer of fiction who
has reproduced with much success the life and dialect among the creoles
of Louisiana. He served in the Confederate army during the Civil War,
and is now a resident of Northampton, Massachusetts. Old Creole Days;
The Grandissimes; Madame Delphine; Dr. Sevier; John March, Southerner;
Bonaventure; Strange True Stories of Louisiana; The Creoles of
Louisiana; The Silent South; The Busy Man’s Bible; The Negro Question.
_See Vedder’s American Writers._ _Fl. Scr._
=Cabot, James Elliot.= _Ms._, 1821-1903. A Boston writer whose
principal work is A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson. _Hou._
=Cahan, Abraham.= _R._, 1860- ----. A New York city journalist, editor
of Zukunft. Yekl, a Tale of the New York Ghetto; Raphael Narizokh (in
Yiddish). _Ap._
=Cain, William.= _N. C._, 1847- ----. A professor of civil engineering
in the University of North Carolina. Theory of Voussoir; Solid and
Braced Arches; Maximum Stress in Framed Bridges; Solid and Braced
Elastic Bridges; Symbolic Algebra; Practical Designing of Retaining
Walls.
=Caines, George.= 1771-1825. A reporter of the New York Supreme Court.
Lex Mercatoria Americana; Cases in the Court of Errors; Forms of New
York Supreme Court; Summary of Practice in New York Supreme Court;
Cases in the Court for Trial of Impeachments; New York Supreme Court
Reports.
=Caldwell, Charles.= _N. C._, 1772-1853. A Kentucky physician, who
beside publishing some 200 technical monographs and pamphlets, wrote
The Life and Campaigns of General Greene, and translated Blumenbach’s
Elements of Physiology. _See Autobiography, 1855; Life, by Caruthers,
infra; Sketches of Contemporaries, by S. D. Gross, infra._
=Caldwell, George Chapman.= _Ms._, 1834- ----. A professor of
agricultural chemistry at Cornell University. Agricultural Qualitative
and Quantitative Analysis; Manual of Introductory Chemical Practice
(with A. Breneman); Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis (with S. M.
Babcock).
=Caldwell, Joseph.= _N. J._, 1773-1835. A once noted educator who was
president of the University of North Carolina. A Compendious System of
Elementary Geometry; Letters of Carleton.
=Caldwell, Linus Boues.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A Methodist clergyman
and educator, of Tennessee. Wines of Palestine, or The Bible Defended;
Beyond the Grave.
=Caldwell, Merritt.= _Me._, 1806-1848. A professor of metaphysics
at Dickinson College. The Doctrine of the English Verb; Manual of
Elocution; Philosophy of Christian Perfection; Christianity Tested by
Eminent Men. _See Memoir by S. M. Vail._ _Meth._
=Caldwell, Samuel Lunt.= _Ms._, 1820-1889. A Baptist clergyman whose
later life was passed in Providence. Cities of Our Faith and Other
Addresses and Discourses. _Hou._
=Caldwell, William Warner.= _Ms._, 1823- ----. A resident of
Newburyport who has published Poems, Original and Translated, and has
translated many lyrics from the German.
=Calef, Robert.= _Ms._, _c._ 1648-1719. A Boston merchant who published
in 1700 More Wonders of the Invisible World, a satirical reply to
Cotton Mather’s Wonders of the Invisible World. Its line of argument
was in direct opposition to the witchcraft persecutions, and the
book was publicly burnt by Increase Mather in the grounds of Harvard
College. _See Tyler’s American Literature._
=Calhoun= [kăl-hoon´], =John Caldwell.= _S. C._, 1782-1850. A South
Carolina statesman who was secretary of state under Monroe, and again
under Tyler, vice-president under John Quincy Adams, and United States
senator from 1845 till his death. He was one of the ablest of political
leaders, a great orator, and a political thinker of the first rank. His
literary style is both vigourous and concise, and displays at times
a remarkable intensity of expression. A Disquisition on Government;
The Constitution and Government of the United States. _See Works in 6
volumes; Parton’s Famous Americans; Lives by Jenkins; Von Holst._ _Ap._
=Calkins, Norman Allison.= _N. Y._, 1822-1895. The first assistant
superintendent of primary schools in New York city for thirty-three
years. Primary Object Lessons; How to Teach; Manual of Object Teaching;
Aids for Object Teaching; Trades and Occupations; Natural History
Series for Children.
=Callender, James Thomas.= _E._, 17-- -1803. A writer who was exiled
from England on account of his pamphlet, The Political Progress
of Great Britain. He was at first the friend and soon the violent
political opponent of Thomas Jefferson. Sketches of the History of
America; The Prospect before Us.
=Callender, John.= _Ms._, 1706-1748. A Baptist clergyman of Newport,
Rhode Island, whose Historical Discourse, 1739, is a careful monograph
of Rhode Island history for the first century of the colony’s
existence. _See edition of 1838, with notes and memoir._
=Calthrop, Samuel Robert.= _E._, 1829- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of
Syracuse. Essay on Religion and Science; The Rights of the Body.
=Calvert, George Henry.= _Md._, 1803-1889. A littérateur of Newport,
Rhode Island, who published a great number of volumes of verse that
never was mistaken for poetry by any reader, and almost as many prose
works. Among his writings are Goethe: his Life and Works; Dante and his
Latest Translators; St. Beuve, the Critic; Count Julian, a tragedy;
Three Score, and Other Poems; a translation of Schiller’s Don Carlos.
=Cameron, Henry Clay.= _W. Va._, 1827- ----. A professor at Princeton
College since 1877. Princeton Roll of Honour; History of American Whig
Society.
=Camp, Walter.= _Ct._, 1859- ----. A writer of prominence on athletic
matters. Book of College Sports; American Football; Football Facts and
Figures; Football (with L. F. Deland). _Har. Hou._
=Campbell, Alexander.= _I._, 1788-1866. A Baptist clergyman of West
Virginia, who was the founder of the sect of Campbellites, or Disciples
of Christ. He established Bethany College in 1841, and was its first
president. His writings, mainly controversial, are nearly sixty in
number, among them being Christian Baptism; Infidelity Refuted by
Infidels; Essay on Life and Death; Popular Lectures and Addresses;
Christianity as it Was; Familiar Lectures on the Pentateuch; Six
Letters to a Sceptic. _See Hart’s American Literature; Memoir by
Richardson, 1868._
=Campbell, Alexander Augustus.= _Va._, 1789-1846. A Presbyterian
clergyman and physician, once prominent in Tennessee, whose only book
was a work on Scripture Baptism.
=Campbell, Alexander James.= 18-- - ----. Son of A. Campbell, _supra_.
The Power of Christ to Save to the Uttermost; American Practical
Cyclopædia; A True Friend, reflections on Life, Character, and Conduct.
=Campbell, Bartley.= _Pa._, 1843-1888. A journalist of Pittsburg, who
turned his attention to the stage and became a popular playwright. My
Partner; The Galley Slave; Matrimony; Siberia; The Big Bonanza; The
White Slave; and Peril, comprising his most successful plays.
=Campbell, Charles.= _Va._, 1807-1876. An educator of Petersburg,
Virginia, whose father, John Wilson Campbell, a bookseller there
for many years, wrote a History of Virginia to 1781. The writings of
Charles Campbell include History of the Colony of Virginia; Genealogy
of the Spotswood Family; The Bland Papers; Memoir of John Daly Burk,
_supra_. _Lip._
=Campbell, Douglas.= _N. Y._, 1840-1893. Son of W. W. Campbell,
_infra_. A lawyer of New York city, whose notable historical work, The
Puritan in Holland, England, and America, has attracted much attention.
_Har._
=Campbell, Douglas Houghton.= _Mch._, 1859- ----. A professor of botany
in Stanford University. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany;
Structure and Development of the Mosses and Ferns. _Mac._
=Campbell, Mrs. Helen [Stuart].= 1839- ----. A writer who is deeply
concerned in philanthropic and social reforms, and whose work covers
a wide range of topics. In Foreign Kitchens; The Easiest Way in
Housekeeping, are books for the housekeeper. Prisoners of Poverty;
Prisoners of Poverty Abroad; Some Passages in the Life of Dr. Martha
Scarborough; Women Wage-Earners; Problem of the Poor; Darkness and
Daylight in New York, relate to the social problems of the time. Six
Sinners; His Grandmothers; Roger Berkeley’s Probation; Miss Melinda’s
Opportunity; Mrs. Herndon’s Income; The What-to-Do-Club; Under Green
Apple-Boughs; Unto the Third and Fourth Generation; Patty Pearson’s
Boy, are fictions. Other works are Girls’ Handbook of Work and Play; A
Sylvan City, a description of Philadelphia; The Ainslee Stories, for
juvenile readers; Anne Bradstreet and her Time, _supra_. _Fo. Hou. Lo.
Rob._
=Campbell, James Valentine.= _N. Y._, 1823-1890. A Michigan jurist.
Outlines of the Political History of Michigan.
=Campbell, John Lyle.= _Va._, 1818-1886. A professor of chemistry at
Washington and Lee College, 1851-86. Manual of Scientific and Practical
Agriculture; Idaho, Six Months in the New Gold Diggings; Guide to the
Agricultural and Mineral West; Geology and Mineral Resources of the
James River Valley, Virginia.
=Campbell, John Poage.= _Va._, 1767-1814. A once popular clergyman on
the Ohio border. The Passenger; Strictures on Stone’s Letters on the
Atonement; Vindex; Letters to the Rev. Mr. Craighead; The Pelagian
Defeated; An Answer to Jones.
=Campbell, William Henry.= _Md._, 1808-1890. A Dutch Reformed
clergyman, president of Rutgers College, 1863-82. Subjects and Modes
of Baptism; Influence of Christianity in Civil and Religious Liberty;
System of Catechetical Instruction.
=Campbell, William W.= _N. Y._, 1806-1881. A jurist of New York city.
Annals of Tryon County, reissued as Border Warfare; Memoirs of Mrs.
Grant, Missionary to Persia; Life and Writings of De Witt Clinton;
Sketches of Robin Hood and Captain Kidd.
=Canfield, Henry Judson.= _Ct._, 1789-1856. An agriculturist who
published a serviceable Treatise on the Breed, Management, Structure,
and Diseases of Sheep.
=Cannon, Charles James.= _N. Y._, 1810-1860. A New York littérateur who
besides compiling a series of readers published, among other works,
Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous; Pencillings from the Web of Life,
and a number of dramas now forgotten.
=Cannon, James Spencer.= _W. I._, 1776-1852. A Dutch Reformed clergyman
of New Jersey, professor of metaphysics at Rutgers College, 1826-56.
Lectures on Chronology; Lectures on Pastoral Theology.
=Capen, Nahum.= _Ms._, 1804-1886. A Boston publisher who was postmaster
1857-61, and introduced the custom of street letter-box collections.
The Republic of the United States; Reminiscences of Spurzheim and
Combe; History of Democracy, or Political Progress Historically
Illustrated.
=Capers, William.= _S. C._, 1790-1855. A Methodist bishop once
prominent in the South. Cathechisms for Negro Missions; Short Sermons
and True Tales for Children. _See Life, by Wightman, 1859._
=Carey, Henry Charles.= _Pa._, 1793-1879. Son of M. Carey, _infra_.
One of the foremost of American political economists, who advocated
protection as a preliminary step toward ultimate free trade. He opposed
such theorists as Malthus and Ricardo, holding that human progress
depends upon success in subjugating nature; that land values depend
upon labour; and that the social well-being is directly dependent
upon existing conditions. Principles of Political Economy; The Credit
System; The Principles of Social Science; Lectures on the Currency;
Letters on Political Economy; Letters on International Copyright;
Financial Crises; The Unity of Law, comprise his chief works.
_See Allibone’s Dictionary; Memoir by Elder; Gross’s Sketches of
Contemporaries._ _Bai. Lip._
=Carey, Matthew.= _I._, 1760-1839. An Irishman who came to America in
1785, entered into politics, and established himself in Philadelphia
as a bookseller. His writings include The Olive Branch, or Faults on
Both Sides, Federal and Democratic (1814), which soon entered a tenth
edition; Vindiciæ Hibernicæ; Thoughts on Penitentiaries and Prison
Discipline; Essays on Political Economy; The Yellow Fever of 1793.
=Carleton, Henry Guy.= _N. M._, 1856- ----. A journalist of New York
city who is best known as a writer of plays, among which are Memnon;
The Pembertons; Victor Durand.
=Carleton, Osgood.= 1742-1816. A Massachusetts mathematician. American
Navigator; South American Pilot; Practice of Arithmetic.
=Carleton, William.= _Mch._, 1845- ----. A writer of homely verse which
appeals with great force to imperfectly educated tastes, and has been
very popular, but which is without literary merit. Farm Ballads; Farm
Festivals; Farm Legends; City Legends; City Ballads; City Festivals;
Rhymes of our Planet; Young Folks’ Centennial Rhymes; The Old Infant,
and Similar Stories. _Har._
=Carman [William], Bliss.= _N. B._, 1861- ----. A poet of Canadian
birth, whose literary work has been done mainly in New York and
Boston. Low Tide on Grand Pré; A Seamark; Behind the Arras; Songs from
Vagabondia (with R. Hovey, _infra_); More Songs from Vagabondia (with
R. Hovey); Ballads of Lost Haven, a Book of the Sea. _Cop. Lam._
=Carnegie, Andrew.= _S._, 1835- ----. A noted steel-manufacturer of
Pittsburg who came to America in 1845. He has made many important
gifts to his native Scotland and to Pittsburg, and as a writer is
distinguished for the rather exuberant Americanism of his work. An
American Four-in-Hand in Europe; Round the World; Triumphant Democracy,
or Fifty Years’ March of the Republic. _Scr._
=Carnochan, John Murray.= _Ga._, 1817-1887. A New York surgeon of
distinction. Treatise on Congenital Dislocations; Contributions to
Operative Surgery. _Har._
=Carpenter, Edmund Janes.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. A journalist of Boston.
A Woman of Shawmut, a Romance of Colonial Times; History of Roger
Williams. _Lit._
=Carpenter, Esther Bernon.= _R. I._, 1848-1893. A writer of southern
Rhode Island, whose South Country Neighbours is a series of sympathetic
studies in fiction of Rhode Island types of character. _Rob._
=Carpenter, Francis Bicknell.= _N. Y._, 1830-1900. A portrait painter
of New York city, who painted The Emancipation Proclamation in the
Capitol at Washington. Six Months in the White House with Abraham
Lincoln.
=Carpenter, Henry Bernard.= _I._, 1840-1890. A Unitarian clergyman of
Boston, brother of W. Boyd Carpenter, the Anglican bishop of Ripon.
He wrote principally in verse, his only published books including The
Oatmeal Crusaders; Liber Amoris, a Metrical Romaunt of the Middle Ages;
A Poet’s Last Songs. The last-named volume was issued after his death,
with memorial sketch by J. J. Roche, _infra_. _Hou._
=Carpenter, Stephen Cullen.= _E._, _c._ 17-- -1820. An English
journalist who came to America in 1803 and settled in Charleston.
Memoir of Thomas Jefferson, containing a Concise History of the United
States (1809); An Overland Journey to India, published under the
pseudonym “Donald Campbell.”
=Carpenter, Stephen Haskins.= _N. J._, 1831-1878. A Wisconsin educator,
professor of literature at the University of Wisconsin. Evidences of
Christianity; English of the 14th Century; Introduction to the Study of
Anglo-Saxon; Elements of English Analysis. _Gi._
=Carr, Lucien.= _Mo._, 1829- ----. An archæologist of Cambridge,
assistant curator of the Peabody Museum, 1876-1894. The Mounds of the
Mississippi Valley Historically Considered; Missouri, a brief history
of the State; Prehistoric Remains of Kentucky (with N. S. Shaler,
_infra_). _Clke. Hou._
=Carrier, Augustus Stiles.= _N. Y._, 1857. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Chicago, professor of Hebrew in McCormick Theological Seminary from
1892. The Hebrew Verb, a Series of Tabular Studies.
=Carrington, Henry Beebe.= _Ct._, 1824- ----. A general in the United
States army living in Boston. His principal writings include Crisis
Thoughts; Battles of the American Revolution; Apsaraka, or Indian
Operations on the Plains; Hints to Soldiers Taking the Field; The
Washington Obelisk and its Voices. _See One of a Thousand._ _Bar. Le.
Lip._
=Carrol, John.= _Md._, 1735-1817. The first Roman Catholic archbishop
of Baltimore. His writings are mainly of a controversial cast. Concise
View of the Principal Points of Controversy between the Protestant and
Catholic Churches; Discourse on General Washington.
=Carroll, Anna Ella.= _Md._, 1815-1894. A political writer who was the
real author of the Federal campaign of 1862 in Tennessee. The Great
American Battle, or The Contest between Christianity and Political
Romanism; The Star of the West, or National Men and National Measures;
The Union of the States; The War Powers of the General Government; The
Relation of the National Government to the Revolted Citizens Defined.
See _S. E. Blackwell’s A Military Genius._
=Carroll, Henry King.= _N. J._, 1847- ----. A Methodist clergyman and
religious statistician. The World of Missions; The Catholic Dogma of
Church Authority; The Religious Forces of the United States.
=Carryl, Charles Edward.= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. A broker of New York
city, the author of the popular juvenile tales, Davy and the Goblin;
The Admiral’s Caravan. _Cent. Hou._
=Carson, Joseph.= 1808-1876. A medical professor at the University of
Pennsylvania from 1850. Illustrations of Medical Botany; Lectures on
Materia Medica and Pharmacy.
=Carter, Franklin.= _Ct._, 1837- ----. President of Williams College.
Life of Mark Hopkins, _infra_, and a scholarly translation of Goethe’s
Iphigenie auf Tauris. _Hou._
=Carter, James Gordon.= _Ms._, 1795-1849. A once prominent educator of
Massachusetts. Essays on Popular Education; Geography of New Hampshire;
Geography of Massachusetts; Letters to William Prescott on the Free
Schools of New England.
=Carter, Nathaniel Franklin.= _N. H._, 1830- ----. A Congregational
clergyman in New Hampshire. The Ride for Life, and Other Poems; History
of Pembroke, New Hampshire.
=Carter, Nathaniel Hazeltine.= _N. H._, 1787-1830. A New York
journalist who published Letters from Europe (1827), and wrote many
poems of reflection.