of Ithaca. Life of Thomas Jefferson; The Roorback Papers; Legal and
Commercial Commonplace Book.
=Linton, William James.= _E._, 1812-1897. An English engraver and
poet who came to the United States in 1867 and settled in New Haven.
Beside ably editing several poetical anthologies, he was the author of
Claribel, and Other Poems; Life of Thomas Paine; a valuable History
of Wood Engraving in America; The English Republic; The Flower and
the Star, and Other Stories; Practical Hints on Wood Engraving; Wood
Engraving, a Manual of Instruction; Poems and Translations; Three
Score and Ten Years; Life of Whittier. _See Stedman’s Victorian Poets;
Atlantic Monthly, February, 1883._ _Le. Mac. Rob. Scr._
=Lippard, George.= _Pa._, 1822-1854. A sensational romancer of
Philadelphia, among whose now nearly forgotten tales are, Blanche of
Brandywine; Legends of Mexico; The Ladye Annabel.
=Lippincott, Mrs. Esther J---- [Trimble].= _Pa._, 1838-1888. An
educator of Pennsylvania, professor of literature in the Westchester
Normal School. Handbook of English and American Literature; Short
Course in Literature.
=Lippincott, Mrs. Sara Jane [Clarke].= “Grace Greenwood.” _N. Y._,
1823-1904. A popular littérateur of Philadelphia who wrote much in the
line of newspaper correspondence, but whose early fame was gained as
a writer for young people. Greenwood Leaves; Records of Five Years;
Poems; Life of Queen Victoria; New Life in New Lands; Recollections of
My Childhood; Merrie England, include the most of her books.
=Lippitt, Francis James.= _R. I._, 1812-1902. A soldier who served
in the Federal army during the Civil War, and was brevetted
brigadier-general of volunteers. A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the
Three Arms; Treatise on Intrenchments; Special Operations of War; Field
Service in War; Massachusetts Criminal Law; Physical Proofs of Another
Life. _Hou._
=Lippmann, Julie Mathilde.= _L. I._, 1864- ----. A writer of Brooklyn.
Through Slumbertown and Wakeland; Jack O’Dreams; Miss Wildfire.
=Lipscomb, Andrew Adgate.= _D. C._, 1816-1890. A Methodist clergyman
and educator of Tennessee, who was professor in Vanderbilt University.
Studies in the Forty Days; Supplementary Studies; Our Country;
Christian Heroism, are among his works.
=Litchfield, Grace Denio= [dē-nī´o]. _N. Y._, 1849- ----. A
fiction-writer of Washington. Only an Incident; The Knight of the
Black Forest; Criss-Cross; A Hard-Won Victory; Little Venice, and Other
Stories; Mimosa Leaves; Little He and She; In the Crucible. _Lo. Put._
=Littell, Squier.= _N. J._, 1803-1886. A Philadelphia physician. Manual
of Diseases of the Eye; Illustrations of the Prayer Book.
=Littell, William.= _N. J._, _c._ 1780-1825. Cousin of S. Littell,
_supra_. A lawyer of Frankfort, Kentucky. Statute Law of Kentucky;
Selected Cases; Festoons of Fancy.
=Little, George.= _Ms._, 1754-1809. A United States naval officer who
published The American Cruiser; Life on the Ocean.
=Little, Mrs. Sophia Louise [Robbins].= _R. I._, 1799-18--. A
verse-writer of Newport, Rhode Island. The Last Days of Jesus, and
Other Poems (1877), is a reprint of the contents of her several
previous volumes.
=Littlejohn, Abram Newkirk.= _N. Y._, 1824-1901. The first Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Long Island. Conciones ad Clenem; Individualism;
The Christian Ministry; The Philosophy of Religion.
=Livermore, Abiel Abbot.= _N. H._, 1811-1892. A Unitarian clergyman who
was president of the theological seminary at Meadville, Pennsylvania,
from 1863 to 1890. Lectures to Young Men; Discourses; Commentaries
on the Gospels, Acts, Romans, Corinthians to Philemon, Hebrews to
Revelation; The Marriage Offering; History of Wilton, New Hampshire.
_A. U. A. El._
=Livermore, Mrs. Mary Ashton [Rice].= _Ms._, 1821- ----. A noted
lecturer upon temperance and woman-suffrage whose home is in Melrose,
Massachusetts. Superfluous Women, and Other Lectures; Pen Pictures;
Thirty Years Too Late: a Temperance Tale; What Shall we Do with Our
Daughters?; My Story of the War. _Le._
=Livermore, Samuel.= _Circa_ 1786-1833. A lawyer of New Orleans.
Treatise on Law of Principal and Agent and Sales by Auction;
Contrariety of Laws of Different States and Nations.
=Livingston, Edward.= _N. Y._, 1764-1836. An eminent jurist of New York
city, and subsequently of New Orleans, who was secretary of state,
1831-32, and minister to France, 1833-35. System of Penal Law for
Louisiana; Penal Law for the United States; Criminal Jurisprudence.
_See Life by Hunt, 1864; Recollections of by Davezac; Appletons’
American Biography._
=Livingston, Mrs. Margaret Vere [Farrington].= _Me._, 1863- ----. The
wife of an Episcopal clergyman in Augusta, Maine. Tales of King Arthur
and His Knights; Fra Lippo Lippi, a Romance of Florence. _Put._
=Livingston, Robert R.=[5] _N. Y._, 1747-1813. Brother of E.
Livingston, _supra_. The chancellor of New York, 1771-1801. He
administered the oath of office to Washington at his inauguration
in 1789. Essays on Agriculture; Essay on Sheep. _See Life by F. De
Peyster, 1878._
=Livingston, William.= _N. Y._, 1723-1790. An eminent statesman who was
governor of New Jersey, 1776-90. Philosophic Solitude, a poem; Review
of the Military Operations in North America, 1757; Digest of the Laws
of New York. _See Memoir by T. Sedgwick; Tyler’s American Literature._
=Lloyd, David Demarest.= _N. Y._, 1851-1889. A journalist and
playwright of New York city. His plays include, For Congress; The Woman
Hater; The Dominie’s Daughter; The Senator.
=Lloyd, Henry Demarest.= _N. Y._, 1847-1903. Brother of D. D. Lloyd,
_supra_. A writer of Winnetka, Illinois, but formerly a journalist
of Chicago. A Strike of Millionaires against Miners, or the Story of
Spring Valley; Wealth Against Commonwealth. _Har._
=Locke, David Ross.= “Petroleum V. Nasby.” _N. Y._, 1833-1888. A widely
known political humourist whose satires had much effect upon public
opinion. A Paper City, a novel; Swingin’ Round the Cirkle; The Moral
History of America’s Life Struggle; Ekkoes from Kentucky; Struggles
of Petroleum V. Nasby; Nasby in Exile; Morals of Abou Ben Adhem; The
Demagogue, a novel; Hannah Jane, a poem. _Le._
=Locke, Mrs. Jane Erminia [Starkweather].= _Ms._, 1805-1859. A
verse-writer of Boston. Poems; Rachel, or the Little Mourner; Boston, a
Poem; Eulogy in rhyme on the Death of Webster.
=Locke, John Staples.= _Me._, 1836- ----. A writer of Saco, Maine.
Shores of Saco Bay; Historical Sketches of Old Orchard; The Art of
Correspondence; A Brave Struggle, a novel; Pleasing Rhymes for Happy
Times; Bright Hours. _Cas._
=Locke, Richard Adams.= _N. Y._, 1800-1871. A journalist of New York
city who published, in 1835, Great Astronomical Discoveries lately made
by Sir John Herschel, since known as “The Moon Hoax.” He subsequently
issued The Lost Manuscript of Mungo Park, another hoax.
=Lockhart, Arthur John.= _N. S._, 1850- ----. A Methodist clergyman and
verse-writer. The Mask of Minstrels; Beside the Narragaugus.
=Lockwood, Henry Hayes.= _Del._, 1814-1899. A United States army
officer. Manual of Naval Batteries; Exercises in Small Arms.
=Lockwood, Ingersoll.= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. Nephew of R. I. Lockwood,
_infra_. A lecturer and littérateur of New York city. The Travels of
Little Baron Trump; Wonderful Deeds of Little Giant Roab; Extraordinary
Experience of Little Captain Doppelkopp; Baron Trump’s Journey
Underground. _Le._
=Lockwood, Ralph Ingersoll.= _N. Y._, 1798-1855. A lawyer of New York
city. Rosine Laval, a novel; The Insurgents, a novel; Lockwood’s
Reversed Cases.
=Lockwood, Samuel.= _E._, 1819-1894. A Reformed Dutch clergyman who
after 1867 was school superintendent of Monmouth County, New Jersey,
and wrote much on scientific themes. Temperance, Fortitude, Justice;
The American Oyster; Abnormal Entozoa in Man; The Life of an Oyster;
Animal Memoirs.
=Lodge, Giles Henry.= _Ms._, 1805-1880. A physician of Boston, the
author of a scholarly translation of Winckelmann’s History of Ancient
Art.
=Lodge, Henry Cabot.= _Ms._, 1850- ----. Nephew of G. H. Lodge,
_supra_. A Massachusetts politician of prominence, representative in
Congress, 1886-1892, and senator from 1893. Essay on Anglo-Saxon Land
Law; Life and Letters of George Cabot; Short History of the English
Colonies in America; Lives of Washington, Webster, Hamilton; Studies in
History; Historical and Political Essays; Speeches; History of Boston;
Hero Tales from American History (with T. Roosevelt, _infra_). _Cent.
Har. Hou. Lit. Lgs._
=Logan, Celia.= Daughter of C. A. Logan, 2d, =infra=. _See Connelly,
Mrs._
=Logan, Cornelius Ambrose.= _Ms._, 1836-1896. Son of C. A. Logan,
_infra_. A physician of Leavenworth, Kansas, minister to Chili, 1873,
and 1881-1883. Sanitary Relations of Kansas; Climatology of the
Missouri Valley; Physics of Infectious Diseases.
=Logan, Cornelius Ambrosius.= _Md._, 1806-1853. A dramatist and
theatrical manager of Cincinnati among whose plays are The Wag of
Maine; The Wool Dealer; Yankee Land.
=Logan, James.= _I._, 1674-1751. Chief justice of Pennsylvania, and
a man of much note in the early history of that colony. He founded
the Loganian Library at Philadelphia. Duties of Man; Defence of
Aristotle; Experimenta de Plantarum Generatione; Essays on Languages; a
translation, with notes, of Cicero’s De Senectute, printed by Franklin
in 1744.
=Logan, John Alexander.= _Il._, 1826-1886. A major-general in the
Federal army during the Civil War who was nominated as the Republican
candidate for vice-president in 1884. The Great Conspiracy; The
Volunteer Soldier of America.
=Logan, John Henry.= _S. C._, 1822-1885. A physician who was a
professor in the medical college at Atlanta. History of the Upper
Country of South Carolina; Students’ Manual of Chemico-Physics.
=Logan, Olive.= Daughter of C. A. Logan, 2d, _supra_. _See Sikes, Mrs._
=Lomax, John Tayloe.= _Va._, 1781-1862. A Virginia jurist. Digest of
United States Real Property Laws; Treatise on the Law of Executors and
Administrators.
=Long, Charles Chaillé.= _Md._, 1842- ----. A soldier who served in
the Federal army during the Civil War, became colonel in the Egyptian
army in 1869, and in 1887 was American consul-general in Corea. Central
Africa; The Three Prophets,--Chinese Gordon, the Mahdi, Arabi Pacha.
_Ap. Har._
=Long, John Davis.= _Me._, 1838- ----. A prominent jurist of Boston
who was governor of Massachusetts, 1880-82. After-Dinner and Other
Speeches; a blank-verse translation of the Æneid; The New American
Navy. _Do. Hou._
=Long, Robert Carey.= _Circa_ 1819-1849. An architect of New York city
who published a work on Ancient Architecture in America.
=Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.= _Me._, 1807-1882. The most widely read
of American poets. He was born in Portland, Maine, and graduated at
Bowdoin College in 1825 in the class with Nathaniel Hawthorne. After
three years of study in Europe he was professor of modern languages
at Bowdoin College, 1829-35, and filled the same position at Harvard
University, 1835-1854, his home being at Cambridge from 1835. The
range of his thought is not wide, and his genius was rather adaptive
than creative, but his poetry appeals to a larger number of readers of
verse than, perhaps, any other poet of his time. Its finished execution
is especially noteworthy in most of his later work, his sonnets, for
example, being nearly flawless specimens of their kind. Coplas de
Manrique, a verse translation from the Spanish (1833); Outre-Mer, a
prose volume of travels (1835); Hyperion, a prose romance (1839);
Voices of the Night (1839); Ballads, and Other Poems (1841); Poems on
Slavery (1842); The Spanish Student (1843); The Belfry of Bruges, and
Other Poems (1846); Evangeline (1847); Kavanagh, a prose tale (1849);
Seaside and Fireside (1850); The Golden Legend (1851); Hiawatha (1855);
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858); Tales of a Wayside Inn, 1st
series (1863); Flower de Luce (1867); New England Tragedies (1868);
Dante’s Divina Commedia; a translation (1867-1870); The Divine Tragedy
(1872); Three Books of Song (1872); Aftermath (1874); The Masque of
Pandora (1875); Kéramos (1878); Ultima Thule (1880); In the Harbor
(1882); Michael Angelo (1883). _See Lives by S. Longfellow, infra,
Stoddard, Underwood, Austin; Atlantic Monthly, December, 1863, and
June, 1882; Scribner’s Magazine, November, 1878; Harper’s Magazine,
June, 1882; Living Age, November 4, 1882; Fortnightly Review, January,
1883; Century Magazine, October, 1883; Hazeltine’s Chats About Books;
Stedman’s Poets of America; Works on American Literature by Nichol,
Richardson, Hawthorne; Cheney’s That Dome in Air; Bibliography of
Maine; Memorial Address by D. R. Goodwin._ _Hou._
=Longfellow, Samuel.= _Me._, 1819-1892. Brother of H. W. Longfellow,
_supra_. A Unitarian clergyman who held pastorates at Fall River,
Brooklyn, and Germantown, but whose latest years were spent in
Cambridge. He was a poet with a very distinct individuality, and as a
hymn-writer had few equals, a large number of the best of Unitarian
hymns being from his pen. Life of H. W. Longfellow; Hymns and Verses;
Memoir of S. Johnson; Essays and Sermons. With S. Johnson, _supra_, he
edited Hymns of the Spirit. _See Memoir and Letters, edited by J. May;
New England Magazine, October, 1894._ _Hou._
=Longfellow, William Pitt Preble.= _Me._, 1836- ----. Nephew of H. W.
Longfellow, _supra_. An architect of note, editor of the Cyclopædia of
Architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant. The Column and the Arch.
_Scr._
=Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin.= _S. C._, 1790-1870. A jurist and
educator of Georgia who became a Methodist minister in 1838, and was
subsequently president of several Southern colleges. He is remembered
for his genuinely humourous Georgia Scenes. Among his other works are,
Master William Mitten; Letters from Georgia to Massachusetts.
=Longstreet, James.= _S. C._, 1821-1904. A noted general of the
Confederate army. From Manassas to Appomattox. _Lip._
=Loomis, Alfred Lebbeus.= _Vt._, 1831-1895. A physician of New York
city, professor in the University of the City of New York from 1865.
Lessons in Physical Diagnosis; Diseases of the Respiratory Organs;
Lectures on Fevers; Diseases of Old Age; Text-Book of Practical
Medicine.
=Loomis, Augustus Ward.= _Ct._, 1816- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman,
for many years a missionary among the Chinese of California. Learn to
Say No; Scenes in Chusan; Scenes in the Indian Country; The Profits
of Godliness; Confucius and the Chinese Classics; English and Chinese
Lessons.
=Loomis, Eben Jenks.= _N. Y._, 1828- ----. An astronomer of Washington
city, senior assistant in the Nautical Almanac office. Wayside
Sketches; An Eclipse Party in Africa. _Rob._
=Loomis, Elias.= _Ct._, 1811-1889. An astronomer and mathematician who
was professor at Yale University from 1860. He published a series of
text-books in thirteen volumes, among which are, Plane and Spherical
Trigonometry; Treatise on Astronomy; Treatise on Meteorology. _Har._
=Loomis, Justin Rudolph.= _N. Y._, 1810-1898. An educator of
Pennsylvania, president of Lewisburg University, 1858-78. Elements of
Geology; Elements of Anatomy.
=Loomis, Lafayette Charles.= _Ct._, 1824- ----. A physician and
educator of Washington city. Mizpah: Prayer and Friendship; Mental and
Social Culture; Summer Guide to Central Europe; Index Guide to Travel
and Art Study in Europe. _Lip. Scr._
=Loomis, Samuel Lane.= _Ms._, 1856- ----. A Congregational clergyman of
Boston. Modern Cities and their Religious Problems.
=Loomis, Silas Laurence.= _Ms._, 1822-1896. Brother of L. C. Loomis,
_supra_. A physician and educator of Washington city. Analytical
Arithmetic; Normal Arithmetic. _Lip._
=Lord, David Nevins.= _Ct._, 1792-1880. A merchant and importer of New
York city. Exposition of the Apocalypse; Characteristics of Figurative
Language; Louis Napoleon: is he to be Anti-Christ?; Visions of
Paradise, an Epic.
=Lord, Eleazer.= _Ct._, 1788-1871. Brother of D. N. Lord, _supra_. A
noted financier of New York city who was the founder of the Manhattan
Insurance Company. Among his rather numerous writings are, Credit,
Currency, and Banking; Six Letters on a National Currency; The Epoch of
the Creation; Analysis of Isaiah; The Prophetic Office.
=Lord, John.= _N. H._, 1809-1894. A Congregational clergyman widely
known as an historical lecturer, who did much to arouse an interest in
the study of history. History of the United States; Modern History;
Points of History; The Old Roman World; Ancient States and Empires;
Life of Emma Willard, _infra_; Beacon Lights of History; Two German
Giants. _Ap. Fo._
=Lord, John Chase.= _N. Y._, 1805-1877. A prominent Presbyterian
clergyman of Buffalo. The Land of Ophir, and Other Lectures; Occasional
Poems. _See Memoir, 1878._
=Lord, William Wilberforce.= _N. Y._, 1819- ----. Brother of J. C.
Lord, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Vicksburg, Mississippi, and
more recently of Cooperstown, New York, whose verse attracted the
praise of Wordsworth simultaneously with the ridicule of Poe. Poems;
Christ in Hades; André, a tragedy.
=Lord, Willis.= _Ct._, 1809-1889. A Presbyterian clergyman who held
several theological professorships as well as pastorates in Chicago and
elsewhere. Men and Scenes Before the Flood; Christian Theology for the
People; The Blessed Hope.
=Lorimer, George Claude.= _S._, 1837-1904. A noted Baptist clergyman
of Boston, pastor of Tremont Temple. Isms Old and New; Under the
Evergreens; The Great Conflict; Jesus: the World’s Saviour; Studies in
Social Life. _Le. Sc._
=Loring, Charles Greeley.= _Ms._, 1794-1868. A lawyer of Boston. The
Neutral Relations of England and the United States; English Liability
for Indemnity; Life of William Sturgis.
=Loring, Edward Greeley.= _Ms._, 1837-1881. A physician of New York
city. Text-Book of Ophthalmoscopy: I. The Normal Eye; II. Diseases of
the Retina. _Ap._
=Loring, Frederic Wadsworth.= _Ms._, 1848-1871. A Boston journalist
killed by the Apaches in Arizona. Two College Friends, a novel; The
Boston Dip, and Other Verses.
=Loring, George Bailey.= _Ms._, 1817-1891. A noted agriculturist of
Salem, Massachusetts, United States commissioner of agriculture,
1881-85, minister to Portugal, 1889-90. The Farmyard Club of Jotham.
=Loring, William Wing.= _N. C._, 1818-1886. A soldier who, after
serving successively in the United States and Confederate armies,
served in the Egyptian army, 1869-79. A Confederate General in Egypt is
a narrative of personal adventure.
=Loskiel, George Henry.= _R._, 1740-1814. A Moravian bishop in
Pennsylvania whose two books have been many times reprinted. Etwas fürs
Herz; History of the Moravian Missions among the North American Indians.
=Lossing, Benson John.= _N. Y._, 1813-1891. An artist and wood-engraver
of Poughkeepsie who made many valuable contributions to American
history. His later years were spent at Dover Plains, New York. The
more important of his many works include, Pictorial Field-Book of
the Revolution; Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812; Pictorial
Field-Book of the Civil War; Life of General Philip Schuyler; The Two
Spies: Nathan Hale and John André; Cyclopædia of United States History;
Mary and Martha Washington; History of the United States Navy for Boys;
Mount Vernon and its Associations; The Empire State, a History of New
York; Life of Washington; Lives of the Presidents (1847). _Ap. Fu. Har.
Ho._
=Lothrop, Amy.= _See Warner, Anna._
=Lothrop, Mrs. Harriet Mulford [Stone].= “Margaret Sidney.” _Ct._
1844- ----. A popular writer of juvenile literature, living at Concord,
Massachusetts. Among her many books of this character are, Five Little
Peppers and How They Grew; The Pettibone Name; So as by Fire; Half
Year at Bronckton; What the Seven Did; Rob; The Golden West; How they
Went to Europe; Hester, and Other New England Stories. _Lo._
=Lothrop, Thornton Kirkland.= _N. H._, 1830- ----. A lawyer of Boston.
The Life of William H. Seward, _infra_.
=Loughborough= [luf´boro], =Mrs. Mary Webster.= _N. Y._, 1836-1887. A
writer of Little Rock, Arkansas. My Cave Life in Vicksburg, an account
of life in Vicksburg during the siege; For Better, for Worse, and Other
Stories.
=Loughead, Mrs. Flora [Haines].= _Wis._, 1855- ----. A writer of Santa
Barbara, California. The Libraries of California; The Man Who was
Guilty, a novel; Quick Cookery; The Abandoned Claim, a story for young
people; Practical Handbook of Science. _Hou._
=Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A professor of
English at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University from
1871. History of the English Language; Life of James Fenimore Cooper;
Studies in Chaucer. _Ho. Hou._
=Love, William De Loss.= _N. Y._, 1819-1898. A Congregational
clergyman. Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion.
=Love, William De Loss.= _Ct._, 1851- ----. Son of W. D. Love, _supra_.
A Congregational clergyman, pastor in Hartford, Connecticut, from 1885.
The Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England. _Hou._
=Lowe, Mrs. Martha Ann [Perry].= _N. H._, 1829-1902. A verse-writer of
Somerville, Massachusetts, whose husband, Charles Lowe, was a Unitarian
minister of prominence. The Olive and the Pine, a book of verse; Love
in Spain, and Other Poems; The Story of Chief Joseph (verse); Life of
Charles Lowe.
=Lowell, Abbott Lawrence.= _Ms._, 1856- ----. A lawyer of Boston.
Essays on Government; Governments and Parties in Continental Europe.
_Hou._
=Lowell, Mrs. Anna Cabot [Jackson].= _Ms._, 1819-1874. Sister-in-law of
J. R. Lowell, _infra_. Theory of Teaching; Edward’s First Lessons in
Grammar and Geometry; Outlines of Astronomy; Letters to Madame Pulksky;
Seed Grains for Thought, and several compilations. _Rob._
=Lowell, Charles.= _Ms._, 1782-1861. A prominent Unitarian clergyman of
Boston, pastor of the West Church from 1806 until his death. Occasional
Sermons; Practical Sermons; Meditations for the Afflicted; Devotional
Exercises for Communicants.
=Lowell, Edward Jackson.= _Ms._, 1845-1894. Grand-nephew of C. Lowell,
_supra_. A lawyer of Boston. The Hessians and Other German Auxiliaries
of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War, an exhaustive survey of the
subject; The Eve of the French Revolution. _Har. Hou._
=Lowell, Francis Cabot.= _Ms._, 1855- ----. A Boston jurist. Joan of
Arc, a valuable historical biography. _Hou._