_supra_. A prominent lawyer and historian of San Francisco. Adventures
of Captain Capen Adams; General Laws of California, 1850-64, commonly
called Hittell’s Digest; Codes and Statutes of California; History of
California, a work of great value, the first two volumes, appearing
in 1885, carrying the narrative as far as the close of the Mexican
War, the remaining two volumes, issued in 1897, bringing it to 1887.
Goethe’s Faust, a critical review, was issued in 1870. _Se._
=Hobart, John Henry.= _Pa._, 1775-1830. The third Protestant Episcopal
bishop of New York, and a leader of Church thought in his day.
Companion for the Altar; State of Departed Spirits; Festivals and
Fasts; Apology for Apostolic Order. _See Early and Professional Years
of Bishop Hobart, 1834-36._ _Dut._
=Hobart, John Henry.= _N. Y._, 1817-1889. Son of J. H. Hobart, _supra_.
An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. Instruction and Encouragement
for Lent; Church Reform in Mexico; Mediæval Papal and Ritual Principles
Stated and Contrasted.
=Hobby, William.= _Ms._, 1707-1765. A Congregational clergyman of
Reading, Massachusetts. Vindication of Whitefield; Self-Examination.
=Hodge, Archibald Alexander.= _N. J._, 1823-1886. Son of C. Hodge,
_infra_. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of theology at Princeton
College from 1877. Outlines of Theology; Life of Charles Hodge,
_infra_; The Atonement; Commentary on the Confession of Faith; Popular
Lectures on Theological Themes. _Scr._
=Hodge, Charles.= _Pa._, 1797-1878. A Presbyterian clergyman,
for nearly forty years editor of The Princeton Review, which he
founded, and to which he was the chief contributor. Systematic
Theology; Commentaries on the Epistles; Constitutional History of
the Presbyterian Church in the United States; What is Darwinism?;
Discussions in Church Polity; Conference Papers. _See Life by A. A.
Hodge; Princetoniana, by Charles Salmond._ _Scr._
=Hodge, Frederick Webb.= _E._, 1864- ----. An ethnologist at the
Smithsonian Institution. Architecture of the Prehistoric Pueblos of
Southern Arizona; Methods of Irrigation of the Ancient Inhabitants of
the Salado Valley.
=Hodge, Hugh Lenox.= _Pa._, 1796-1873. Brother of C. Hodge, _supra_.
A physician who was professor of obstetrics in the University of
Pennsylvania from 1835. Principles and Practice of Obstetrics; Diseases
Peculiar to Women.
=Hodge, John Aspinwall.= _Pa._, 1831-1901. A Presbyterian clergyman in
Hartford, 1866-92. What is Presbyterian Law?; Theology of the Shorter
Catechism (second part); Recognition After Death.
=Hodges, George.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, dean
of the Theological School at Cambridge from 1894, and prominent among
Broad Church thinkers. The Heresy of Cain; Christianity Between
Sundays; Faith and Social Service. _Wh._
=Hodgkin, Louise Manning.= _Ms._, 1846- ----. An educator who was from
1876 to 1891 professor of English Literature in Wellesley College.
Guide to the Study of Nineteenth Century Literature; Via Christi.
=Hodgson, Francis.= _E._, 1805-1877. A Methodist minister in
Pennsylvania and other States. Examination into the System of New
Divinity; Ecclesiastical Policy of Methodism Defended; Calvinistic
Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted. _Meth._
=Hoffman, Charles Fenno.= _N. Y._, 1806-1884. Half brother of M.
Hoffman, _infra_. A once popular poet and story-writer of New York
city who from 1850 lived in absolute retirement by reason of mental
disorder. He excelled as a song-writer, his best known songs being,
Sparkling and Bright, and The Myrtle and Steel. A Winter in the West;
Wild Scenes in the Forest and Prairie; The Vigil of Faith, and Other
Poems; The Echo, or Borrowed Notes for Home Circulation (verse). Love’s
Calendar, and Other Poems; Grayslaer, a novel. _See Poems of, edited by
E. Hoffman, 1874._
=Hoffman, David.= _Md._, 1784-1854. A lawyer who was professor of law
in the University of Maryland. A Course of Legal Study; Legal Outlines;
Legal Hints; Miscellaneous Thoughts on Men and Things; Chronicles
Selected from the Originals of Cartaphilus, the Wandering Jew; Viator,
a Peep into my Notebook.
=Hoffman, David Bancroft.= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. A politician and
physician of San Diego who has published Medical History of San Diego
County, California.
=Hoffman, David Murray.= _N. Y._, 1791-1878. A once prominent New York
jurist. Office and Duties of Masters in Chancery; Estate and Rights
of the Corporation of New York as Proprietors; Law of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United States; Ecclesiastical Law in the State
of New York; Law and Practice as to References.
=Hoffman, Eugene Augustus.= _N. Y._, 1829-1902. An Episcopal clergyman
of New York city, dean of the General Theological Seminary from 1879,
and a prominent benefactor of that institution. Free Churches; The
Ritualistic Week; Manual of Devotion for Communicants.
=Hoffman, John N----.= _Pa._, 1804-1857. A Lutheran clergyman of
Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Evangelical Hymns, Original and Selected; A
Collection of Tests; The Broken Platform, a Defence of the Symbolical
Books of the Lutheran Church.
=Hoffman, Wickham.= _N. Y._, 1821-1900. Son of D. M. Hoffman, _supra_.
A diplomatist who, after serving as secretary of legation at Paris,
London, and St. Petersburg successively, was minister to Denmark,
1883-85. Camp, Court, and Siege, a Narrative of Personal Adventure
during Two Wars; Leisure Hours in Russia.
=Hogan, John.= _I._, 1805-1892. A politician and banker of St. Louis.
Thoughts about St. Louis; Resources of Missouri; Sketches of Early
Western Pioneers; History of Western Methodism.
=Hoge= [hōg], =Moses.= _Va._, 1752-1820. A Presbyterian clergyman and
educator of Virginia, president of Hampden and Sidney College, 1806-20,
and widely known as an eloquent preacher. Christian Panoply, a Reply to
Paine’s “Age of Reason;” Sermons.
=Hoge, William James.= _Va._, 1821-1864. A Presbyterian clergyman of
New York city, and subsequently of Petersburg, Virginia, very popular
in his day, and the author of Blind Bartimeus, or the Sightless Sinner.
=Hogg, Wilson Thomas.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A Free Methodist clergyman,
president of Greenville College from 1893. Handbook of Homiletics and
Pastoral Theology; Revivals and Revival Work.
=Hoke, Jacob.= 18-- - ----. The Age we Live In; Holiness, or the Higher
Christian Life; Clusters from Eshcol; Guide to the Battle Field of
Gettysburg; The Great Invasion of 1863.
=Holbrook, Alfred.= _Ct._, 1816- ----. An educator of Lebanon, Ohio.
The Normal, or Methods of Teaching; An English Grammar Conformed to
Present Usage.
=Holbrook, James.= 1812-1864. From 1845 a special agent of the United
States Post Office. He published Ten Years Among the Mailbags.
=Holbrook, John Edwards.= _S. C._, 1794-1871. A physician and
naturalist, professor of anatomy at the Medical College in Charleston
for more than thirty years. American Herpetology; Ichthyology of South
Carolina.
=Holbrook, Martin Luther.= _O._, 1831-1902. A physician of New York
city, professor of hygiene in the New York Medical College and Hospital
for Women, and editor of The Herald of Health and Journal of Hygiene.
Parturition Without Pain; Eating for Strength; Hygiene of Brain and
Nerves; Marriage and Parentage; How to Strengthen the Memory; Hygienic
Treatment of Consumption.
=Holbrook, Silas Pinckney.= _S. C._, 1796-1835. Brother of J. E.
Holbrook, _supra_. A lawyer of Medfield, Massachusetts. Sketches by a
Traveller is a collection of his contributions to the Boston Courier
and the New England Galaxy.
=Holcombe, Henry.= _Va._, 1762-1826. A Baptist clergyman of
Philadelphia. Lectures on Primitive Theology; First Fruits.
=Holcombe, Hosea.= _S. C._, 1780-1841. A Baptist clergyman of Alabama.
Collection of Sacred Hymns; Anti-Mission Principles Exposed; History of
Alabama Baptists.
=Holcombe, James Philemon.= _Va._, 1820-1873. A lawyer and educator
of Virginia, professor of law in the University of Virginia, 1852-60,
and member of the Confederate Congress, 1861-1863. Law of Debtor and
Creditor; Literature and Letters; Introduction to Equity Jurisprudence;
Leading Cases upon Commercial Law; Digest of United States Supreme
Court Decisions; Merchants’ Book of Reference. _Ap._
=Holcombe, William Frederick.= _Ms._, 1827- ----. A physician of
New York city, professor of eye and ear diseases in several medical
institutions. History of Mount Sterling, Kentucky; History of the
Holcombes in America; Family Records, their Importance and Value.
=Holcombe, William Henry.= _Va._, 1825-1894. Brother of J. P. Holcombe,
_supra_. A homœopathic physician of New Orleans, who was well known
as a Swedenborgian writer. Our Children in Heaven; Lost Truths of
Christianity; The Other Life; Southern Voices, a volume of verse;
Scientific Basis of Homœopathy; How I Became a Homœopath; Poems; The
Sexes Here and Hereafter; In Both Worlds; The End of the World; The
New Tenant; Letters on Spiritual Subjects; Condensed Thoughts About
Christian Science. _Lip._
=Holden, Edward Singleton.= _Mo._, 1846- ----. An astronomer, president
of the University of California since 1880, and director of the Lick
Observatory. Astronomy for Students (with S. Newcomb, _infra_); Life
of Sir William Herschel; Monograph of the Central Parts of the Nebula
of Orion; Notes on the Bastion System of Fortification; Astronomical
Bibliography; Handbook of Lick Observatory; The Mogul Emperors of
Hindustan. _Scr._
=Holden, George Henry.= _Ms._, 1848- ----. The proprietor of a bird
store in Boston who has published Canaries and Cage Birds. _Ju._
=Holden, Luther Loud.= 18-- - ----. Persis, a Tale of the White
Mountains; A Summer Jaunt through the Old World.
=Holder, Charles Frederick.= _Ms._, 1851- ----. Son of J. B. Holder,
_infra_. A naturalist of New York city, and a popular writer upon
natural history topics. Elements of Zoölogy (with J. B. Holder);
Marvels of Animal Life; The Ivory King; Living Lights; Wonder Wings; A
Strange Company; A Frozen Dragon, and Other Tales; All About Pasadena;
Along the Florida Reef; Life of Agassiz; Young Folks’ Story Book of
Natural History. _Ap. Do. Le. Lo. Put. Scr._
=Holder, Joseph Bassett.= _Ms._, 1824-1888. A zoölogist who was a
curator in the American Museum of Natural History, New York city.
History of the North American Fauna; History of the Atlantic Right
Whales; The Living World.
=Holdich, Joseph.= _E._, 1804-1893. A Methodist clergyman who was
secretary of the American Bible Society, 1849-78. Bible History; Life
of A. H. Hurd; Life of Wilbur Fisk, _supra_. _Har. Meth._
=Holland, Edward Clifford.= _S. C._, 1794-1824. A journalist of
Charleston who was the author of a volume of Odes, Naval Songs, and
Other Poems.
=Holland, Frederick May.= _Ms._, 1836- ----. Son of F. W. Holland,
_infra_. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts. The Reign of the
Stoics; Stories from Robert Browning; The Rise of Intellectual Liberty
from Thales to Copernicus; Life of Frederick Douglass. _Fu. Ho._
=Holland, Frederick West.= _Ms._, 1811-1895. A Unitarian clergyman of
Concord, Massachusetts. Scenes in Palestine; Sinai and Jerusalem, or
Scenes from Bible Lands.
=Holland, Henry Ware.= _N. Y._, 1844- ----. Son of F. W. Holland,
_supra_. A Boston lawyer and journalist. William Dawes and his Ride
with Paul Revere.
=Holland, Josiah Gilbert.= “Timothy Titcomb.” _Ms._, 1819-1881. A
popular author and lecturer whose writings met with severe criticism as
literary productions without being materially affected in popularity.
They were addressed to average commonplace humanity, and exerted a wide
and helpful influence. He was editor of The Springfield Republican,
1849-66, and of Scribner’s Magazine from 1870 until his death. His
writings in verse include, Kathrina; Bitter Sweet; The Mistress of the
Manse; The Marble Prophecy; Garnered Sheaves, including all his poems
up to 1873; The Puritan’s Guest, and Other Poems. In fiction: The Bay
Path; Arthur Bonnicastle; Sevenoaks; Miss Gilbert’s Career; Nicholas
Minturn. His other works comprise, Gold Foil Hammered from Popular
Proverbs; History of Western Massachusetts; Letters to Young People;
Lessons in Life; Concerning the Jones Family; Plain Talks on Familiar
Subjects; Life of Abraham Lincoln, which had an enormous sale. _See
Century Magazine, December, 1881; Memoir by Mrs. H. M. Plunkett._ _Scr._
=Holland, Robert Afton.= _Tn._, 1844- ----. An Episcopal clergyman
of St. Louis, but formerly a clergyman of the Methodist faith. The
Philosophy of the Real Presence; Relations of Philosophy to Agnosticism
and Religion; The Proof of Immortality; Midsummer Night’s Dream, an
Interpretation; Democracy in the Church; What is the Use of Going to
Church?
=Holley, Alexander Lyman.= _Ct._, 1832-1882. An engineer of eminence
who was a lecturer on iron and steel manufacture in the Columbia School
of Mines from 1879, and an inventor of prominence. Railway Economics
(with Zerah Colburn, _supra_); Treatise on Ordnance and Armor. _See
Memorial of, 1884._
=Holley, Marietta.= “Josiah Allen’s Wife.” _N. Y._, 1844- ----. A
well-known and popular humourous writer whose home has always been at
Ellisburg, New York. Her writings contain much real wit and shrewd
sense, but the effect is often marred by extravagance and faults of
taste. My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet’s; My Wayward Pardner; Josiah
Allen’s Wife as a P. A. and a P. I.; Samantha at the World’s Fair;
Samantha in Europe; Samantha Among the Brethren; Samantha at Saratoga;
Samantha at the Centennial; Poems; Sweet Cicely; Josiah’s Alarm. _Fu.
Lip._
=Holley, Mrs. Mary [Austin].= 17-- -1846. The wife of Horace Holley,
a Unitarian clergyman of Kentucky. Texas: Observations Historical,
Geographical, and Descriptive (1833); Memoir of Horace Holley.
=Holley, Orville Luther.= _Ct._, 1791-1861. Brother-in-law of Mrs.
Holley, _supra_. A lawyer and journalist of New York city. Description
of New York City; Life of Benjamin Franklin.
=Hollister, Gideon Hiram.= _Ct._, 1817-1881. A lawyer of Litchfield,
Connecticut, who was minister to Hayti, 1868-69. Mount Hope, an
historical romance; History of Connecticut; Thomas à Becket, a Tragedy,
and Other Poems; Kinley Hollow.
=Holloway, Mrs. Laura [Carter].= _Tn._, 1848- ----. A writer who was
for ten years on the editorial staff of The Brooklyn Eagle. Ladies
of the White House; An Hour with Charlotte Brontë; The Hearthstone,
or Life at Home; The Mothers of Great Men and Women; Chinese Gordon;
Howard, the Christian Hero; Life of Adelaide Neilson; The Buddhist Diet
Book. _Fu._
=Holly, Henry Hudson.= _N. Y._, 1834-1892. An architect of New York
city. Country Seats; Church Architecture; Modern Dwellings in Town and
Country.
=Holm, Saxe.= _See Jackson, Mrs. Helen._
=Holmes, Abiel.= _Ct._, 1763-1837. A Unitarian clergyman of Cambridge,
pastor of the First Church there, 1792-1832. Life of Ezra Stiles,
_infra_; History of Cambridge; American Annals; Memoir of the French
Protestants. _See Life by W. Jenks._
=Holmes, Daniel.= _N. Y._, 1810-1873. A Methodist preacher in Michigan
and Indiana. Pure Gold, or Truth in its Native Loveliness; The Wesley
Offering; Discussion on the Atonement.
=Holmes, Mrs. Georgiana [Klingle].= “George Klingle.” _Pa._,
185- - ----. A verse-writer of Philadelphia. Make Thy Way Mine; In the
Name of the King. _Sto._
=Holmes, John.= _Ms._, 1773-1843. A once prominent senator in Congress
from Massachusetts, and subsequently from Maine, who was the author of
The Statesman, or Principles of Legislation.
=Holmes, Mrs. Mary Jane [Hawes].= _Ms._, 18-- - ----. A voluminous
author of popular fiction of a domestic kind, the literary merit of
which is slight. She has for many years lived at Brockport, New York.
Among her writings are, Lena Rivers; Tempest and Sunshine; Marian Grey;
Gretchen. _Dil._
=Holmes, Nathaniel.= _N. H._, 1814-1901. A jurist of St. Louis in
earlier life, but from 1868-72 Royall professor of law in Harvard
University, and for many years a resident of Cambridge. He was
an ardent advocate of the Baconian theory of the authorship of
Shakespeare’s plays. The Authorship of Shakespeare; Realistic Idealism
in Philosophy Itself. _Hou._
=Holmes, Oliver Wendell.= _Ms._, 1809-1894. Son of A. Holmes, _supra_.
A famous physician of Boston, widely known as poet, novelist, and
essayist. He was born in Cambridge, and there and in Boston his life
was almost entirely passed. From 1847 to 1882 he was professor of
anatomy in Harvard University. His popularity dates from the founding
of The Atlantic Monthly in 1857, in the earliest number of which he
began the publication of the articles entitled The Autocrat of the
Breakfast Table. Much of his verse was composed for especial occasions,
and is more or less ephemeral in its nature; but his serious verse and
his essays entitle him to a high place among American writers. The
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table; The Professor at the Breakfast Table;
The Poet at the Breakfast Table; Mechanism in Thought and Morals;
Memoir of Motley; Over the Teacups; Our Hundred Days in Europe; Life
of Emerson; Medical Essays; Elsie Venner; The Guardian Angel; A Mortal
Antipathy; Currents and Counter Currents; Pages from an Old Volume of
Life, comprise his prose works. In verse his publications include,
Urania; Astræa; Songs in Many Keys; Songs of Many Seasons; The Iron
Gate; The School-Boy; Before the Curfew. _See Lives by W. Kennedy, E.
E. Brown, J. T. Morse; Haweis’s American Humourists; Nichol’s American
Literature; Richardson’s American Literature; Stedman’s Poets of
America; O. W. Holmes, by Walter Jerrold; Ashcroft Noble’s Impressions
and Memories; Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors, 1890; Harper’s
Monthly, December, 1896._ _Hou._
=Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. Son of O. W. Holmes,
_supra_. A jurist of Boston who has published The Common Law and edited
Kent’s Commentaries. _Lit._
=Holst, Hermann Eduard von.= _Livonia_, 1841-1904. An historian who
first came to America in 1866 and engaged in lecturing and writing,
but returned to Europe in 1872 and was successively professor of
history in the University of Strassburg, 1872-74, and at Freiburg,
1874-92. In 1892 he became professor of history at the University of
Chicago. His greatest work is Verfassung und Demokratie der Vereinigten
Staaten von Amerika, the translation of which is entitled The
Constitutional and Political History of the United States. His other
works are, Life of Calhoun; Life of John Brown; Constitutional Law of
the United States. _Hou._
=Holt, John Saunders.= _Al._, 1826-1886. A lawyer of New Orleans. Life
of Abraham Page, a Novel; What I Know About Ben Eccles; The Quines.
_Lip._
=Homes, Henry Augustus.= _Ms._, 1812-1887. A Congregational clergyman
who was a missionary at Constantinople, 1836-50, and subsequently in
the diplomatic service there. From 1854 he was employed as librarian
in the State library at Albany. The Need of Yezedees of Mesopotamia;
Design and Import of Medals; Our Knowledge of California; The Palatine
Emigration to England in 1709; The Water Supply of Constantinople,
comprise his principal works.
=Homes, Mrs. Mary Sophie [Shaw] [Rogers].= _Md._, 1830- ----. A
writer of New Orleans. Carrie Harrington, or Scenes in New Orleans;
Progression, or the South Defended, a volume of verse; A Wreath of
Rhymes.
=Honeywood, Saint John.= _Ms._, 1763-1798. A lawyer of Salem, New York,
whose political Poems were published in 1801.
=Hood, George.= _Ms._, 1807-1882. A clergyman long prominent as an
educator in Massachusetts. Southern Church Melodies; Musical Manual;
History of Music in New England (1846).
=Hood, John Bell.= _Ky._, 1831-1879. A noted general in the Confederate
army. Advance and Retreat: Personal Experience in the United States and
Confederate Armies, a careful defence of his military movements.
=Hood, Samuel.= _I._, _c._ 1800-1875. A Philadelphia lawyer, author of
A Practical Treatise on the Law of Decedents in Pennsylvania.
=Hooke, William.= _E._, 1601-1678. A Puritan clergyman who was a cousin
of Oliver Cromwell. He came to America about 1636; was for some seven
years minister at Taunton, and for twelve years following pastor at New
Haven. Returning to England in 1656, he became chaplain to Cromwell.
New England’s Teares for Old England’s Feares is the best known of his
writings. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the
American Pulpit._
=Hooker, Edward William.= _Ct._, 1794-1875. A Congregational clergyman
of Vermont who was a descendant of T. Hooker, _infra_. A Plea for
Sacred Music; Life of Thomas Hooker.
=Hooker, Herman.= _Vt._, 1804-1865. An Episcopal clergyman who retired
from the ministry and became a bookseller in Philadelphia. Family Book
of Devotion; The Uses of Adversity; Thoughts and Maxims; The Portion of
the Soul; Popular Infidelity; The Christian Life a Life of Faith.
=Hooker, Horace.= _Ct._, 1793-1864. A Congregational clergyman of
Hartford. Youth’s Book of Natural Theology; Bible History.
=Hooker, Mrs. Isabella [Beecher].= _Ct._, 1822- ----. The youngest
daughter of Lyman Beecher, _supra_. A philanthropist of Hartford,
prominent as an advocate of spiritualism and woman-suffrage. Womanhood:
its Sanctities and Fidelities.
=Hooker, Thomas.= _E._, 1586-1647. A Puritan clergyman who came to
America in 1633, and was for three years minister at Cambridge,
then called Newtowne. In 1636 he led a large portion of his flock
to the Connecticut valley, where they founded the town of Hartford.
A theologian of great influence in his century. Survey of the Summe
of Church Discipline (with John Cotton); Application of Redemption;
The Poore Doubting Christian drawne to Christ. _See Tyler’s American
Literature; Palfrey’s History of New England; Allibone’s Dictionary;
Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 27._
=Hooker, Worthington.= _Ms._, 1806-1867. A physician of Norwich,
Connecticut, who was professor of medicine at Yale University, 1852-67.
Physician and Patient; An Examination of Homœopathy; Human Physiology
for Schools; Rational Therapeutics; Child’s Book of Nature; Child’s
Book of Common Things; Lessons from the History of Medical Delusions;
Science for the School and Family; The Medical Profession and the
Community. _Har._
=Hooper, Edward James.= _E._, 1803-189-. A once prominent agriculturist
in the West who published a Dictionary of Agriculture.
=Hooper, Johnson.= _N. C._, 1815-1863. A lawyer of Alabama. Adventures
of Captain Simon Suggs; Widow Rugby’s Husband, and Other Alabama Tales.
=Hooper, Lucy.= _Ms._, 1816-1841. A verse-writer of much promise whose
home was in Brooklyn. Scenes from Real Life, a collection of prose
Sketches, appeared during her lifetime, and her Complete Poems in 1848.
_See Griswold’s Female Poets of America._
=Hooper, Mrs. Lucy Hamilton [Jones].= _Pa._, 1835-1893. A Philadelphia
author who lived in Europe after 1870, and was Paris correspondent for
several American papers. Poems, with translations from the German;
Under the Tri-Color, a Novel; The Tsar’s Window, a Novel. _Lip. Rob._
=Hope, James Barron.= _Va._, 1827-1887. A lawyer and journalist of
Norfolk. Leoni di Monti, and Other Poems; An Elegiac Ode; Under the
Empire, or the Story of Madelon; Arms and the Man, and Other Poems.
=Hopkins, Alphonso Alvah.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. A journalist, educator,
and lecturer. His Prison Bars, a Temperance Tale; Newspaper Poets; Our
Sabbath Evenings; Sinner and Saint, a Novel; Life of General Clinton
Fisk; Asleep in the Sanctum, and Other Poems; Waifs and their Authors;
Wealth and Waste; Geraldine, a novel in verse on the model of Lucile.
_Fu. Hou._