retired in 1879 with the rank of captain, whose military novels and
other works have been very popular. Among his many publications are,
Famous and Decisive Battles; Between the Lines; Campaigning with Crook;
Stories of Army Life; Cadet Days; The Colonel’s Daughter; The Deserter;
A War Time Wooing; Kitty’s Conquest; Under Fire; Waring’s Peril; Foes
in Ambush; Fort Frayne; Noble Blood. _See Bibliography of Wisconsin._
_Har. Lip. Ne._
=King, Clarence.= _R. I._, 1842-1901. A geologist for a number of
years in the government service. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada;
Systematic Geology.
=King, Dan.= _Ct._, 1791-1864. A Rhode Island physician. Life and Times
of Governor Dorr; Quackery Unmasked; Tobacco: What it Is and What it
Does.
=King, David Bennett.= _Pa._, 1848- ----. A lawyer of New York city.
Latin Pronunciation; The Irish Question. _Scr._
=King, Edward.= _Ms._, 1848-1896. A journalist who lived in Paris as
correspondent for American journals. The Gentle Savage; The Golden
Spike; French Leaders; My Paris, or French Character Sketches;
Kentucky’s Love; The Great South; Echoes from the Orient, a volume
of poems; Europe in Storm and Calm; A Venetian Lover, a Poem; Joseph
Zalmonah; Under the Red Flag. _Co. Hou. Le._
=King, Grace Elizabeth.= _La._, 1859- ----. A popular writer of New
Orleans. Monsieur Motte; Tales of a Time and Place; Earthlings; New
Orleans, the Place and the People; Jean Baptiste Lemoine, Founder of
New Orleans; Balcony Stories. _Cent. Do. Har. Mac._
=King, Henry Melville.= _Mo._, 1838- ----. A Baptist clergyman. Early
Baptists Defended; Mary’s Alabaster Box, a collection of homilies; Our
Gospels. _Bap._
=King, Horatio.= _Me._, 1811-1897. An attorney in Washington who was
postmaster-general in 1861. Sketches of Travel, or Twelve Months
in Europe; Turning on the Light, a Survey of the Administration of
Buchanan. _Lip._
=King, Horatio Collins.= _Me._, 1837- ----. Son of H. King, _supra_. A
journalist of New York city. Guide for Regimental Courts Martial; The
Brooklyn Congregational Council; The Plymouth Silver Wedding.
=King, James Wilson.= _Md._, 1818- ----. A naval engineer, chief of the
bureau of steam engineering, 1869-73. European Ships of War; The War
Ships and Navies of the World.
=King, Jonas.= _Ms._, 1792-1869. A Congregational missionary in Greece
who lived at Athens from 1831. He was a profound Oriental scholar,
and his various works were written in Modern Greek, Classical Greek,
French, and Arabic. The Defence of Jonas King; Exposition of an
Apostolic Church; Hermeneutics of the Sacred Scriptures; Sermons;
Synoptical View of Palestine; Miscellaneous Works. _See Life, 1879._
=King, Rufus.= _O._, 1817-1891. A prominent lawyer of Cincinnati.
History of Ohio. _Hou._
=King, Mrs. Sue [Petigru].= _See Bowen, Mrs._
=King, Thomas Starr.= _N. Y._, 1824-1864. A Unitarian clergyman of
Boston, 1845-56, and of San Francisco for the remainder of his life.
He was largely instrumental in securing the wavering allegiance of
California to the general government at the opening of the Civil War,
and as a religious writer his influence was widely felt. Substance and
Show; Christianity and Humanity, with a Memoir by E. P. Whipple; The
White Hills, a volume of travel in the White Mountains; Patriotism, and
Other Papers. _Hou._
=King, William Basil.= _P. E. I._, 1859- ----. An Episcopal clergyman
of New York. The Daily Song: Thoughts on the Offices for Morning and
Evening Prayer; Griselda, a novel. _S._
=King, William Rufus.= _N. Y._, 1839- ----. An engineering officer in
the United States army. Torpedoes, their Invention and Use; Materials
for Defensive Armor.
=Kingsley, Calvin.= _N. Y._, 1812-1870. A Methodist bishop. The
Resurrection of the Dead; Round the World.
=Kinney, Coates.= _N. Y._, 1826- ----. An Ohio lawyer and journalist.
Keuka, and Other Poems; Lyrics of the Real and Ideal. The Rain upon the
Roof is his most familiar poem. _Clke._
=Kinney, Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine [Dodge] [Stedman].= _N. Y._,
1810-1889. Mother of E. C. Stedman, _infra_. A verse-writer of Newark,
New Jersey, but resident in Italy, 1850-65. Felicitá; Poems; Bianca
Capello: a Tragedy. _See Griswold’s Female Poets of America._
=Kinzie, Mrs. Juliette Augusta [Magill].= _Ct._, 1806-1870. A novelist
of Chicago. Wau-bun, or the Early Day in the Northwest; Walter Ogilby;
Mark Logan. _Lip._
=Kip, Leonard.= _N. Y._, 1826-1901. Brother of W. I. Kip, _infra_. A
lawyer of Albany. California Sketches; The Volcano Diggings; Ænone, a
Roman Tale; The Dead Marquise; Hannibal’s Man, and Other Tales; Under
the Bells, a romance; Nestlenook, a novel; At Cobweb and Crusty’s;
Thalöe; The Puntacooset Colony; Three Pines; A Tale of the Incredible.
=Kip, William Ingraham.= _N. Y._, 1811-1893. The first Protestant
Episcopal bishop of California, 1853-93. A popular religious writer
whose works have gone into many editions. Double Witness of the Church;
Lenten Fasts; Early Conflicts of Christianity; Christmas Holidays
in Rome; Catacombs of Rome; Early Jesuit Missions in North America;
Recantation, an Italian tale; The Unnoticed Things of Scripture; The
Church of the Apostles; The Olden Time in New York. _Ap. Dut. Ran. Wh._
=Kirk, Edward Norris.= _N. Y._, 1802-1874. A Congregational clergyman
of Boston, pastor of the Mount Vernon church, 1842-74. Sermons;
The Parables of our Lord; Lectures on Revivals; Canon of the Holy
Scripture; The Waiting Saviour; Christian Sympathy Awakened.
=Kirk, Eleanor.= _See Ames, Mrs. E._
=Kirk, Mrs. Ellen Warner [Olney].= “Henry Hayes.” _Ct._, 1842- ----.
Wife of J. F. Kirk, _infra_. A popular novelist of Germantown,
Philadelphia. Through Winding Ways; A Midsummer Madness; Walford;
The Story of Margaret Kent; Sons and Daughters; Love in Idleness; A
Lesson in Love; Fairy Gold; Queen Money; Better Times, short stories;
A Daughter of Eve; Narden’s Choosing; Ciphers; The Story of Lawrence
Garthe. _Hou._
=Kirk, John Foster.= _N. B._, 1824-1904. The secretary to the historian
Prescott for eleven years, and from 1885 lecturer on European history
at the University of Pennsylvania. History of Charles the Bold;
Supplement, to Allibone’s Dictionary. _Lip._
=Kirkbride, Thomas Story.= _Pa._, 1809-1883. A physician of
Philadelphia, widely known for skillful treatment of the insane,
who was superintendent of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane,
1840-83. Appeal for the Insane; Essays on Insanity; Construction of
Hospitals for the Insane.
=Kirke, Edmund.= _See Gilmore._
=Kirkland, Mrs. Caroline Matilda [Stansbury].= _N. Y._, 1801-1864.
A once popular writer of New York city. A New Home, Who’ll Follow?;
Western Clearings; Fireside Talks on Morals and Manners; Holidays
Abroad; A Book for the Home Circle; Forest Life, include her principal
writings. _See Hart’s American Literature._ _Cr. Scr._
=Kirkland, Elizabeth Stansbury.= _N. Y._, 1828-1896. Daughter of Mrs.
Kirkland, _supra_. An educator of Chicago. Six Little Cooks; Dora’s
Housekeeping; Speech and Manners for Home and School; Short Histories
of English Literature, France, England, Italy, for Young People. _Mg._
=Kirkland, John Thornton.= _N. Y._, 1770-1840. A Unitarian clergyman
who was president of Harvard University, 1810-27. Life of Fisher Ames;
Eulogy of General Washington.
=Kirkland, Joseph.= _N. Y._, 1830-1894. Son of Mrs. Kirkland, _supra_.
A lawyer of Chicago who was a major in the Federal army during the
Civil War. His two novels of pioneer life in Illinois, Zury, and The
McVeys, are notably faithful, graphic studies. His other writings
include, The Captain of Company K; The Story of Chicago; Story of the
Chicago Massacre of 1812. _Hou._
=Kirkman, Marshall Monroe.= _Il._, 1842- ----. The vice-president of
the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. Railway Disbursements; Railway
Revenue; Railway Service; Baggage Car Traffic; Railway Expenditures;
Handling of Railway Supplies; Railway Rates and Government Control; How
to Collect Railway Revenues without Loss.
=Kirkwood, Daniel.= _Md._, 1814-1895. An astronomer of distinction,
professor in Indiana University from 1850. Meteoric Astronomy; Comets
and Meteors; Asteroids and Minor Planets between Mars and Jupiter.
=Kirkwood, Robert.= _S._, 1793-1866. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Yonkers. Lectures on the Millennium; Universalism Explained; A Plea for
the Bible; Illustration of the Offices of Christ.
=Kirwan.= _See Murray, Nicholas._
=Klingle, George.= _See Holmes, Mrs. Georgiana._
=Knapp, Arthur May.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor
at Fall River, Massachusetts, from 1891. Feudal and Modern Japan. _Kt._
=Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo.= _Ms._, 1783-1838. A lawyer of New York city,
among whose many works are, The Genius of Freemasonry; Travels in North
America by Ali Bey; American Biography; Lives of Aaron Burr, Andrew
Jackson, Daniel Webster; Female Biography.
=Kneeland, Abner.= _Ms._, 1774-1844. A Universalist clergyman who
became a free-thinker, and established The Investigator in Boston in
1832. The Deist; Universal Benevolence; Universal Salvation; Review of
Evidences of Christianity.
=Kneeland, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1821-1888. A naturalist and surgeon of
Boston. Science and Mechanism; An American in Iceland; The Wonders of
the Yo Semite; Volcanoes and Earthquakes. _Lo._
=Knight, Edward Henry.= _E._, 1824-1883. An English writer who settled
in the United States in 1845, and was long connected with the patent
office in Washington. American Mechanical Dictionary; New Mechanical
Dictionary. _Hou._
=Knight, James.= _Md._, 1810-1887. A physician of New York city.
Improvement of Health by Natural Means; Orthopædia; Static Electricity
as a Therapeutic Agent.
=Knight, Sarah Kemble.= _Ms._, 1666-1727. A teacher of Boston among
whose pupils was Benjamin Franklin. Her Narrative of a Journey
from Boston to New York in 1704 is a valuable historical record of
contemporary manners and customs written in a graphic, entertaining
style.
=Knortz, Karl.= _P._, 1841- ----. A German writer who came to the
United States in 1863, and settled in New York city. Märchen und
Sagen der nordamerikanische Indianer; Amerikanische Skizzen; An
American Shakespeare Bibliography; Humorische Gedichte; Longfellow:
eine literarhistorische Studie; Aus der Wigwam; Kapital und Arbeit in
Amerika; Aus der transatlantischen Gesellschaft; Staat und Kirche in
Amerika; Shakespeare in Amerika; Amerikanische Lebensbilder; Brook Farm
and Margaret Fuller, include his principal writings. _Ho._
=Knox, Mrs. Adeline [Trafton].= _Me._, 1845- ----. A novelist of St.
Louis. Katharine Earle; His Inheritance; An American Girl Abroad;
Dorothy’s Experience. _Le._
=Knox, Charles Eugene.= _N. Y._, 1833-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman,
president of the theological seminary at Bloomfield, New Jersey,
from 1863. A Year with Saint Paul; Love to the End; David the King;
Graduated Sunday-school Text-Books. _Meth. Ran._
=Knox, George William.= _N. Y._, 1853- ----. A Presbyterian missionary
in Japan, professor of ethics in the University of Japan from 1886. His
writings in Japanese include: A Brief System of Theology; Outlines of
Homiletics; Christ the Son of God; The Basis of Ethics. In English he
has published The Japanese Systems of Ethics.
=Knox, John Jay.= _N. Y._, 1828-1892. A financier of distinction,
comptroller of the currency, 1867-84. He published United States Notes,
a History of the Various Issues of Paper Money by the United States
Government. _Scr._
=Knox, Thomas Wallace.= _N. H._, 1835-1896. A journalist and traveller
whose home was in New York city. His books of travel for young people
have been widely popular. Overland Through Asia; Camp-Fire and
Cotton-Field; Backsheesh; Underground Life; John; The Boy Travellers
Series, in sixteen volumes; How to Travel; Pocket Guide Around the
World; The Voyage of the Vivian; Hunting Adventures on Land and Sea;
Marco Polo for Boys and Girls; Decisive Battles since Waterloo; Life
of Robert Fulton; Hunters Three; In Wild Africa; The Siberian Exiles;
The Lost Army, include the greater number of his books. _Ap. Cas. Har.
Mer. Put. We._
=Kobbe, Gustav.= _N. Y._, 1857----. A littérateur of New York city.
Jersey Coast and Pines; Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelung;” New York City
and its Environs. _Har._
=Koehler, Sylvester Rosa.= _G._, 1837-1900. An art critic of Boston,
editor of the American Art Review. His more important publications
are, American Art; Etching: an Outline of its Technical Processes and
History. _Cas. Le._
=Koopman= [kope´man], =Harry Lyman.= _Me._, 1860----. A verse-writer,
librarian of Brown University. The Great Admiral; Orestes, and Other
Poems; Woman’s Will, with Other Poems; What to Read.
=Kouns= [koonz], =Nathan Chapman.= _Mo._, 1833-1890. A Missouri
lawyer, State librarian at Jefferson City from 1886, who published two
historical romances, Arius the Libyan; Dorcas the Daughter of Faustina.
_Ap. Fo._
=Kraitsir, Charles.= _Hy._, 1804-1860. An educator and philologist of
New York city. The Poles in the United States; Significance of the
Alphabet; Glossology.
=Krauth, Charles Porterfield.= _Va._, 1823-1883. A prominent Lutheran
clergyman of Philadelphia, professor of moral science in the University
of Pennsylvania, 1868-83. The Conservative Reformation and its Theology
is his greatest work; and among others are, The Evangelical Mass and
the Romish Mass; Sketch of the Thirty Years’ War; Christian Liberty;
Infant Baptism and Salvation in the Calvinistic System; Chronicle of
the Augsburg Confession. _See American Lutheran Biographies._ _Lip._
=Krebs, John Michael.= _Md._, 1804-1867. A Presbyterian clergyman of
New York city. Righteousness and National Prosperity; The American
Citizen; Private, Domestic, and Social Life of Jesus; The Presbyterian
Psalmist.
=Krehbiel, Henry Edward.= _Mch._, 1854----. A musical critic on the
staff of the New York Tribune. Notes on the Cultivation of Choral
Music; Review of the New York Musical Seasons, 1885-90; Studies in the
Wagnerian Drama; How to Listen to Music. _Har. Scr._
=Kroeger, Adolph Ernst.= _Sg._, 1837-1882. A writer of St. Louis. The
Minnesingers of Germany; Our Forms of Government and the Problems of
the Future; translations of Fichte’s Science of Knowledge and Science
of Rights.
=Kron, Karl.= _See Bagg._
=Krotel, Gottlob Frederick.= _Wg._, 1826- ----. A Lutheran clergyman
of New York city. Who are the Blessed?; Explanation of Luther’s Small
Catechism; several translations from the German.
=Kunz= [koonz], =George Frederick.= N. Y., 1856- ----. A mineralogist
of note, the foremost American specialist in precious stones. He has
published Gems and Precious Stones of North America.
=Kunze= [koont-se], =John Christopher.= _Sxy._, 1744-1807. A once
famous Lutheran clergyman of New York city, professor of ancient
languages in Columbia College. History of the Christian Religion and of
the Lutheran Church; Catechism and Liberty.
=Kunze, Richard Ernest.= _G._, 1838- ----. A physician of New York
city who has done much to promote a knowledge of medical botany.
Cactus; Cardinal Points in the Study of Medical Botany; Germination and
Vitality of Seeds.
=Kurtz, Benjamin.= _Pa._, 1795-1865. A Lutheran clergyman, for nearly
thirty years the editor of The Lutheran Observer. Lutheran Prayer-Book;
Year-Book of the Reformation; Why are You a Lutheran?; Faith, Hope, and
Charity; Theological Sketch-Book, are his most important works.
L
=Labagh, Isaac Peter.= _N. Y._, 1804-1879. An Episcopal clergyman of
Iowa, but formerly a clergyman of the Dutch Reformed faith. Great
Events of Unfulfilled Prophecy; The Great Events that are Coming; The
Two Witnesses, Moses and Elijah; Theoklesia.
=La Borde, Maximilian.= _S. C._, 1804-1873. An educator who was
professor in the University of South Carolina, 1842-73. Introduction
to Physiology; Story of Lethea and Verona; History of South Carolina
College.
=Ladd, George Trumbull.= _O._, 1842- ----. A Congregational clergyman
of prominence, professor of philosophy at Yale University from 1881.
Principles of Church Polity; The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture;
Philosophy of Mind; A Primer of Psychology; Psychology, Descriptive
and Explanatory; Outlines of Psychological Psychology; Elements of
Psychological Psychology; Introduction to Philosophy; What is the
Bible? He has translated Lotze’s Philosophical Outlines, from the
German. _Gi. Scr._
=Ladd, Horatio Oliver.= _Me._, 1839- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, but
formerly of the Congregational faith, at one period president of the
University of New Mexico. History of the War with Mexico; The Story of
New Mexico. _Do. Lo._
=La Farge, John.= _N. Y._, 1835- ----. A noted figure and landscape
artist of New York city. Lectures on Art. _Mac._
=Laighton, Albert.= _N. H._, 1829-1887. A banker of Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, cousin of Mrs. Thaxter, _infra_. Poems, a collection of
quiet, thoughtful verse, was published in 1878.
=Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte.= _Ga._, 1798-1859. The second of the four
presidents of the Republic of Texas, 1838, and United States minister
to Central America, 1857-58. Verse Memorials. _See Bibliography of
Texas._
=Lamb=, =Mrs. Martha Joan Reade= [=Nash=]. _Ms._, 1829-1893. An
historical writer of New York city, editor of the Magazine of American
History, 1883-93. The History of the City of New York, her chief work,
is the result of a vast amount of patient labour and research. Her
other works include, Spicy, a novel; Play-School Stories; The Christmas
Owl; Snow and Sunshine, a Story for Girls; Wall Street in History.
_Bar. Do._
=Lambert, Mrs. Mary Eliza [Perine] [Tucker].= _Al._, 1838- ----. A
writer of Philadelphia. Poems; Loew’s Bridge, a Broadway Idyl; Life of
Mark Pomeroy.
=Lamon, Ward Hill.= _Va._, 1828-1893. An Illinois lawyer, law partner
of Abraham Lincoln. Recollections of Abraham Lincoln; Life of Abraham
Lincoln. _Mg._
=Lamson, Alvan.= _Ms._, 1792-1864. A Unitarian clergyman of Dedham,
Massachusetts, 1818-60. History of the First Church in Dedham; Sermons;
The Church of the First Three Centuries.
=Lamson, Daniel Lowell.= _N. H._, 1834-18--. A physician of Fryeburg,
Maine. Lectures; Differential Diagnosis of Diseases.
=Lamson, Mrs. Mary [Swift].= _Ms._, 1822- ----. For five years a
teacher of Laura Bridgman, the noted blind deaf-mute, and for three
years in entire charge of her education. Life and Education of Laura
Dewey Bridgman. _Hou._
=Lance, William.= 1791-1840. A lawyer and political writer of
Charleston, who published a Life of Washington in Latin.
=Lander, Meta.= _See Lawrence, Mrs._
=Lander, Sarah West.= _Ms._, 1810-1872. A writer of Salem,
Massachusetts, whose Spectacles for Young Eyes, a series of volumes of
travel, was very popular.
=Landon, Judson Stuart.= _Ct._, 1832- ----. A lawyer of Schenectady,
justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York and lecturer in
the Albany Law School. The Constitutional History and Government of the
United States. _Hou._
=Landon, Melville De Lancey.= “Eli Perkins.” _N. Y._, 1839- ----. A
popular humourous lecturer. The Franco-Prussian War in a Nutshell;
Saratoga in 1901; Eli Perkins at Large; Eli Perkins’s Wit, Humor, and
Pathos; Fun and Fact, Thirty Years of Wit; Money: Silver, Gold, or
Bimetallism, include the most of his writing. _Cas. Ke._
=Langdell, Christopher Columbus.= _N. H._, 1826- ----. A legal writer
of distinction, dean of the Harvard Law School. Cases on the Law of
Contracts; Summary of Equity Pleading; Cases in Equity Pleading;
Elementary Treatise on the Law of Contracts.
=Langdon, William Chauncey.= _Vt._, 1831-1895. An Episcopal clergyman
of Bedford, Pennsylvania. The Defects of our Practical Catholicity;
Plain Papers for Parish Priests and Peoples; The Catholic Reform
Movement in the Italian Church; Conflict of Practice and Principle in
the American Church.
=Langley, Samuel Pierpont.= _Ms._, 1834- ----. An astronomer of
eminence, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1887.
Researches on Solar Heat; The New Astronomy. _Hou._
=Langston, John Mercer.= _Va._, 1829-1897. A distinguished educator
of African birth, minister to Hayti, 1877-85, and president of the
Virginia Normal Institute at Petersburg from the latter date. He
published Freedom and Citizenship.
=Lanier= [la-neer´], =Clifford Anderson.= _Ga._, 1844- ----. A Georgia
writer of fiction. Two Hundred Bales; Thorn-Fruit.
=Lanier, Sidney.= _Ga._, 1842-1881. Brother of C. A. Lanier, _supra_.
A distinguished Southern writer over whose rank as a poet much
controversy has arisen. His verse can hardly be said to appeal to many
readers, and its formlessness at times repels rather than attracts.
A Centennial Ode, written for the opening of the Exposition of 1876,
first brought him into general notice. Subsequently he lectured upon
English literature in Baltimore. Poems; Tiger Lilies, a novel; The
Science of English Verse; The English Novel and its Development;
Florida: its Scenery, History, and Climate. He edited The Boys’ Percy;
The Boys’ Mabinogion; The Boys’ King Arthur; The Boys’ Froissart. _See
Century Magazine, April, 1884; Gosse’s Questions at Issue._ _Lip. Scr._
=Lanigan, George Thomas.= _Q._, 1845-1886. A journalist of Montreal,
and subsequently of New York city. Canadian Ballads; Fables Out of the
World.
=Lanman, Charles.= _Mch._, 1819-1895. An artist and author of
Washington, at one time the private secretary of Daniel Webster. Essays
for Summer Hours; Summer in the Wilderness; Private Life of Daniel
Webster; Dictionary of Congress; The Red Book of Michigan; Leading Men
of Japan; Letters from a Landscape Painter; Tour to the River Saguenay;
Farthest North; Haphazard Personalities, include the most of his works.
_Ap. Le. Lo._
=Lanman, Charles Rockwell.= _Ct._, 1850- ----. A professor of Sanskrit
at Harvard University from 1880. Noun Inflection in the Vedas; A
Sanskrit Reader, with Notes. _Gi._
=Lansing, John Gulian.= _La._, 1851- ----. A Dutch Reformed clergyman,
professor of Old Testament Languages in the New Brunswick Theological
Seminary, New Jersey. American Revised Version of the Book of Psalms;
An Arabic Manual. _Scr._
=Lanza, Marchioness Clara [Hammond].= _Ks._, 1858- ----. Daughter of
W. A. Hammond, _supra_. A novelist of New York city. Tit for Tat; Mr.
Perkins’s Daughter; A Righteous Apostate; Tales of Eccentric Life; A
Modern Marriage; David Morton’s Transgression; A Golden Pilgrimage.
=Lapham= [lăp´a̯m], =Increase Allen.= _N. Y._, 1811-1875. A prominent
scientist of Milwaukee. Antiquities of Wisconsin; Wisconsin: its
Geography, Topography, History, Geology, and Mineralogy. _See Popular
Science Monthly, April, 1883._
=Lapham, William Berry.= _Me._, 1828-1894. An agricultural editor of
Maine, who published several histories of Maine localities, including
Woodstock, Paris, Norway, Bar Harbor, and Mount Desert Island. _See
Bibliography of Maine._
=Larcom, Lucy.= _Ms._, 1824-1893. A popular verse and prose writer
of Beverly, Massachusetts, who in early life worked in the Lowell
factories, and was a contributor to the noted Lowell Offering. Her
writings in verse include, At the Beautiful Gate; Childhood Songs; Wild
Roses of Cape Ann; An Idyl of Work; Easter Gleams; Complete Poems.
Skipper Ben and Hannah Binding Shoes are her best known lyrics. Her
original work in prose comprises, Ships in the Mist, and Other Stories;
The Sunbeam; Similitudes; Leila among the Mountains; The Unseen Friend;
As It is in Heaven; A New England Girlhood, an autobiographic work.
_See Life by D. D. Addison._ _Hou._
=Larned, Augusta.= _Vt._, 1835- ----. A journalist of New York city.
Home Story Scenes; Talks with Girls; Old Tales from Grecian Mythology;
Tales from the Norse Grandmother; Village Photographs, a work of the
nature of Miss Mitford’s “Our Village,” and with much of the same
charm; In Woods and Fields, a book of verse. _Ho. Meth. Put._
=Larned, Josephus Nelson.= _Ont._, 1836- ----. The superintendent of
the public library at Buffalo, 1877-1897. History for Ready Reference;
Talks About Labor. _Ap._