The foremost American man of letters. He was born in Cambridge, and
was graduated from Harvard University in 1838, where he succeeded
Longfellow as professor of belles-lettres in 1855. He was one of the
founders of The Atlantic Monthly, editing that periodical from the
start in 1857 until 1862, and co-editor of The North American Review
with C. E. Norton, _infra_, 1863-72. In 1877 he was appointed minister
to Spain, and in 1878 transferred to England, where he remained as
minister until 1885. He did much to make America and American letters
respected in England, and was very popular with the English people both
as a man and as a writer, a window having been placed to his memory
in the chapter-house of Westminster Abbey in 1893. His work in verse
includes: A Year’s Life (1841); Poems (1844); The Vision of Sir Launfal
(1848); A Fable for Critics (1848); The Biglow Papers (1848); Poems
(editions of 1848, 1849, 1854, 1858); The Commemoration Ode (1865);
The Biglow Papers, Second Series (1866); Under the Willows, and Other
Poems (1869); Three Memorial Poems (1876); Heartsease and Rue (1888);
Last Poems (1895). In prose his writing comprises Conversations with
Some of the Old Poets (1845); Life of Keats (with an edition of his
works) (1854); Fireside Travels (1864); The President’s Policy (1864);
Among My Books (1870); My Study Windows (1871); Among My Books, Second
Series (1876); Democracy, and Other Addresses (1886); Political Essays
(1888); Latest Literary Essays and Addresses (1891); The Old English
Dramatists (1892); Letters, edited by C. E. Norton (1893). _See Lives
by E. E. Brown, Underwood, Lowell, by G. W. Curtis; Steuart’s Letters
to Living Authors, 1890; Haweis’s American Humourists; Stedman’s Poets
of America; works on American Literature, by Nichol, Richardson,
Hawthorne; Cheney’s That Dome in Air._ _Har. Hou._
=Lowell, Mrs. Josephine [Shaw].= _Ms._, 1843- ----. Daughter-in-law of
Mrs. Anna Lowell, _supra_. A philanthropist of New York city. Public
Relief and Private Charity. _Put._
=Lowell, Mrs. Maria [White].= _Ms._, 1821-1855. The first wife of J.
R. Lowell, _supra_. A verse-writer whose only volume of poems was
privately printed. The Alpine Sheep is her best known poem.
=Lowell, Percival.= _Ms._, 1855- ----. Brother of A. L. Lowell,
_supra_. A Boston writer, traveller, and astronomical investigator.
Chosön, a sketch of Korea; The Soul of the Far East; Noto: an
Unexplored Corner of Japan; Occult Japan; Mars. _Hou._
=Lowell, Robert Traill Spence.= _Ms._, 1816-1891. Son of C. Lowell,
_supra_. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, head master of St.
Mark’s School, Southborough, 1869-73, and professor of Latin at Union
College, 1873-79. After the latter date he continued to live at
Schenectady, which is the _locale_ of his book, A Story or Two from an
Old Dutch Town, as Southborough suggests that of his popular story of
school life, Antony Brade. His other works include The New Priest in
Conception Bay, a novel of life in Newfoundland, the scene of his first
rectorship; Fresh Hearts that Failed Three Thousand Years Ago, and
Other Poems. The Defence of Lucknow is his most familiar poem. _Rob._
=Lowrie, John Cameron.= _Pa._, 1808-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman of
New York city. Travels in Northern India; Two Years in Upper India;
Manual of Foreign Missions; Missionary Papers; Presbyterian Missions.
=Lowrie, John Marshall.= _Pa._, 1817-1867. Cousin of J. C. Lowrie,
_supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of New Jersey. Esther and Her Times;
Adam and His Times; A Week with Jesus; The Translated Prophet; The
Prophet Elisha; The Life of David.
=Lucas, Daniel Bedinger.= _W. Va._, 1836- ----. A lawyer of
Charlestown, West Virginia, who was a United States senator in 1887.
A Wreath of Eglantine, and Other Poems; The Maid of Northumberland, a
dramatic poem; Ballads and Madrigals.
=Luce, Stephen Bleecker.= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. A rear-admiral of the
United States navy, retired in 1887, who, beside publishing a treatise
on Seamanship, has edited a collection of Naval Songs.
=Lüders, Charles Henry.= _Pa._, 1858-1891. A verse-writer of
Philadelphia. The Dead Nymph, and Other Poems; Hallo, My Fancy! a
collection of verse (with S. D. Smith). _Scr._
=Ludlam, Reuben.= _N. J._, 1831-1899. A Chicago physician, dean of the
Hahnemann Medical College. Clinical Lectures on Diphtheria; Clinical
Lectures on Diseases of Women.
=Ludlow, Fitzhugh.= _N. Y._, 1836-1870. A littérateur and journalist of
New York city. The Hasheesh-Eater; The Opium Habit; The Heart of the
Continent; Little Brother, and Other Genre Pictures; Augustus Jones,
Jr. _Le._
=Ludlow, James Meeker.= _N. J._, 1841- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman
of East Orange, New Jersey, from 1886. My Saint John; Concentric Chart
of History; The Captain of the Janizaries, a tale of the times of
Scanderbeg; A King of Tyre, a tale of the times of Ezra and Nehemiah;
That Angelic Woman, a novel. _Fu. Har._
=Ludlow, Noah Miller.= _N. Y._, 1795-1886. An actor and theatrical
manager in the Southern States. Dramatic Life as I found It.
=Lukens, Henry Clay.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. A journalist of New York city.
The Marine Circus at Cherbourg, and Other Poems; Lean Nora, a travesty;
Story of the Types; Jets and Flashes.
=Lum, Daniel Dyer.= 18-- - ----. The Spiritual Delusion; Early Social
Life of Man; Utah and its People. _Lip._
=Lummis, Charles Fletcher.= _Ms._, 1859- ----. A Los Angeles writer.
The Land of Poco Tiempo; A Tramp Across the Continent; The Spanish
Pioneers; The Man who Married the Moon: Indian folk-lore stories; Some
Strange Corners of our Country; The Gold Fish of Grand Chimú; A New
Mexico David, and Other Stories. _Cent. Lam. Mg. Scr._
=Lund, Mrs. Mary Dwinell [Chellis].= _N. H._, 18-- - ----. A prolific
writer of Sunday-school fiction, among whose works are, All for Money;
Old Sunapee; Fife and Drum; Good Work; Mystery of the Lodge; Father
Merrill. _Cr. Lo._
=Lundy, John Patterson.= _Pa._, 1823-1892. An Episcopal clergyman of
New York city. Review of Bishop Hopkins’s “Bible View of Slavery;”
Monumental Christianity; Forestry.
=Lunt, Edward Clark.= 186- - ----. A writer on economics. The Present
Condition of Economic Science.
=Lunt, George.= _Ms._, 1803-1885. A lawyer of Newburyport, and later a
resident of Scituate, among whose writings in verse and prose are, The
Age of Gold, and Other Poems; Lyric Poems: Sonnets and Miscellanies;
Old New England Traits; Three Eras of New England. The latest
collection of his verse was made in 1883.
=Lunt, William Parsons.= _Ms._, 1805-1857. A Unitarian clergyman of
Quincy, Massachusetts, from 1835 until his death, whose literary work
was much admired for the beauty of its style. Union of the Human Race;
Gleanings.
=Lupton, Nathaniel Thomas.= _Va._, 1830-1893. An educator and scientist
of Alabama, State chemist from 1885, and author of The Elementary
Principles of Scientific Agriculture.
=Lusk, William Thompson.= _Ct._, 1838-1897. A prominent obstetric
physician of New York city. The Science and Art of Midwifery.
=Luska, Sidney.= _See Harland, Henry._
=Lyle, William.= _S._, 1822- ----. A verse-writer of Rochester, New
York. The Martyr Queen, and Other Poems.
=Lyman, Henry Munson.= _H. I._, 1835- ----. A Chicago physician,
professor of medicine in Rush College. Insomnia and Other Disorders of
Sleep; Artificial Anæsthesia; Practice of Medicine.
=Lyman, Joseph Bardwell.= _Ms._, 1829-1872. An agricultural journalist
of New York city. Philosophy of Housekeeping; Resources of the Pacific
States; Women of the War; Cotton Culture.
=Lyman, Theodore.= _Ms._, 1792-1849. A noted philanthropist of Boston,
the founder of the Lyman School at Westborough. Three Weeks in Paris;
The Political State of Italy; Account of the Hartford Convention; The
Diplomacy of the United States with Foreign Nations.
=Lyman, Theodore.= _Ms._, 1833-1897. Son of T. Lyman, _supra_. A
scientist of note associated with the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy
in Cambridge from 1860. His principal work is the Ophiuroidea of the
Challenger Expedition.
=Lynch, Anne C.= _See Botta, Mrs._
=Lynch, James Daniel.= _Va._, 1836- ----. A political writer of
Mississippi. Kemper County Vindicated; Bench and Bar of Mississippi;
Bench and Bar of Texas.
=Lynch, William Francis.= _Va._, 1801-1865. A naval officer of
prominence as an explorer. Narrative of the United States Exploring
Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea; Naval Life, or Afloat
and Ashore.
=Lyon, Anne Bozeman.= _Al._, 1860- ----. A Southern writer of fiction.
No Saint; A Sterlings Camp.
=Lyon, David Gordon.= _Al._, 1852- ----. An educator of Cambridge,
Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard University from 1882.
Keilschrifttexte Sargons Koenigs von Assyrien; An Assyrian Manual.
_Scr._
=Lyon, Irving Whitall.= _N. Y._, 1840-1896. A Hartford physician who
wrote Colonial Furniture in New England. _Hou._
=Lyons, Albert Brown.= _H. I._, 1841- ----. A prominent chemist of
Detroit who has published a Manual of Practical Assaying.
=Lytle, William Haines.= _O._, 1826-1863. A general in the Federal army
during the Civil War, remembered in literature for the poem beginning,
“I am Dying, Egypt, Dying.” _See Poems of, edited, with Memoir, by W.
Venable, infra._ _Clke._
M
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= 1845- ----. A journalist and essayist of
New York city, editor of The Outlook. Norse Stories Retold from the
Eddas; My Study Fire; Under the Trees and Elsewhere; Short Studies in
Literature; Essays in Literary Interpretation; Essays on Nature and
Culture; Essays on Books and Culture. _Do. Rob._
=McAdoo, Mrs. Mary Faith [Floyd].= _Tn._, 1832- ----. Wife of W.
McAdoo, _infra_. The Nereid, a romance; Antethusia.
=McAdoo, William Gibbs.= _Tn._, 1820-1894. A jurist of Tennessee.
Poems; Elementary Geology of Tennessee (with H. C. White).
=MacAfee, Mrs. Nelly Nichol [Marshall].= _Ky._, 1845- ----. A Kentucky
writer of fiction. Eleanor Morton, or Life in Dixie; Gleanings from
Fireside Fancies; Sodom Apples; Wearing the Cross; Passion; A Criminal
through Love.
=McAnally, David Rice.= _Tn._, 1810- ----. A Methodist clergyman,
prominent in St. Louis and elsewhere in the Southwest, who, besides
a History of Methodism in Missouri, has written a number of lives of
Methodist bishops.
=MacArthur, Arthur.= _S._, 1815-1896. A prominent jurist of Washington.
Lectures on the Law; Reports of Supreme Court Cases; Education in its
Relation to Manual Industry. _Ap._
=MacArthur, Robert Stuart.= _Q._, 1841- ----. A distinguished Baptist
clergyman of New York city, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church from
1870. Quick Truths in Quaint Texts; Calvary Pulpit, or Christ and Him
Crucified; Divine Balustrades, and Other Sermons. _Bap. Fu. Re._
=McBride, James.= _Pa._, 1788-1859. A writer of Hamilton, Ohio. Pioneer
Biography. _See Bibliography of Ohio._
=McCabe, James Dabney.= _Va._, 1842-1883. A versatile and prolific
Southern writer whose principal work is a Life of General Robert Lee,
while among his many others are, Planting the Wilderness; History of
the War between France and Germany; History of the Turko-Russian War;
Paris by Sunlight and Gaslight; Our Young Folks Abroad; The Great
Republic; Lights and Shadows of New York Life; Centennial History of
the United States. _Le. Lip._
=McCabe, William Gordon.= _Va._, 1841- ----. Cousin of J. D. McCabe,
_supra_. A Confederate officer, since 1888 head master of a school in
Petersburg, Virginia. The Defence of Petersburg; A Latin Grammar.
=McCall, George Archibald.= _Pa._, 1802-1868. A soldier of
Philadelphia, who served in the Mexican war, and in the Civil War was
brigadier-general of volunteers in the Federal army. Letters from the
Frontier.
=McCall, Hugh.= _S. C._, 1767-1824. A United States army officer.
History of Georgia (1811-16).
=McCall, John Cadwalader.= _Pa._, 1793-1846. Cousin of G. A. McCall,
_supra_. A lawyer of Philadelphia. The Troubadour, and other poems;
Fleurette, and other rhymes.
=McCall, Peter.= _N. J._, 1809-1880. Cousin of G. A. McCall, _supra_.
An eminent lawyer of Philadelphia, mayor of that city, 1844-45. Rise
and Progress of Civil Society; History of Pennsylvania Law and Equity.
=MacCarroll, James.= _I._, 1815-1892. A musical and dramatic critic
of New York city. Letters of Terry Finnegan to D’Arcy McGee; The New
Gauger; Adventures of a Night; The New Life-Boat.
=MacCarty, J---- Hendrickson.= _Pa._, 1830- ----. A Methodist
clergyman. The Black Horse and Carry-All; Inside the Gates; Two
Thousand Miles through the Heart of Mexico; Fact and Fiction in Holy
Writ. _Meth._
=Macchetta, d’Allegri, Blanche Roosevelt [Tucker], Marchesa.= _O._,
1853-1898. Home Life of Longfellow; Marked “In Haste;” Stage Struck;
Life of Doré; The Copper Queen; Verdi, Milan, and Othello. _Fo._
=McClellan, Carswell.= _Pa._, 1835-1892. Brother of H. B. McClellan,
_infra_. A topographical assistant on the staff of General A. A.
Humphreys in the Civil War. Afterwards a civil engineer in railroad and
government service. The Personal Memoirs and Military History of U. S.
Grant _versus_ The Record of the Army of the Potomac. _Hou._
=McClellan, Ely.= _Pa._, 1834-1893. Brother of C. McClellan, _supra_.
Assistant medical director, United States army. The Cholera Epidemic of
1873 in the United States.
=McClellan, George.= _Ct._, 1796-1847. A noted surgeon of Philadelphia,
professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical College, for which
institution he obtained the charter. The Principles and Practice of
Surgery. _Lip._
=McClellan, George Brinton.= _Pa._, 1826-1885. Son of G. McClellan,
_supra_. A distinguished soldier, general-in-chief of the armies of the
United States, 1861-62; an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency
in 1864; governor of New Jersey, 1878-81. His most important works
include, The Armies of Europe; Organization and Campaigns of the
Army of the Potomac; European Cavalry; McClellan’s Own Story. _See
Appletons’ American Biography._
=McClellan, Henry Brainerd.= _Pa._, 1840- ----. Brother of C.
McClellan, _supra_. A major in the Confederate service during the Civil
War, who published an admirable Life of Major-General J. E. B. Stuart.
_Hou._
=McClelland, Alexander.= _N. Y._, 1796-1864. A Reformed Presbyterian
clergyman and educator. Canon and Interpretation of Scripture; Sermons.
=MacClelland, Margaret Greenway.= 18-- -1895. A Virginia novelist.
Mammy Mystic; Old Ike’s Memories, a book of verse. Princess; Oblivion;
Jean Monteith; Madame Silva; Manitou Island; Burkett’s Lock; St.
John’s Wooing; The Old Post Road. _Har. Ho. Mer._
=MacClelland, Milo Adams.= _Pa._, 1837- ----. A physician of Knoxville,
Illinois. Civil Malpractice, a Treatise on Surgical Jurisprudence.
_Hou._
=MacClenachan, Charles Thompson.= _D. C._, 1829- ----. A lawyer of New
York city, long employed in the department of public works, among whose
writings are, Law of the Fire Department; The Atlantic Cable of 1858;
Book of the Ancient Accepted Rite of Scottish Freemasonry.
=McClintock, John.= _Pa._, 1814-1870. A Methodist clergyman of New
York city, professor in Drew Theological Seminary at the time of his
death. He is best known by the Theological and Biblical Cyclopædia
which he began with James Strong, _infra_, but he was the author, also,
of Living Words; Lectures on Theological Encyclopædia and Methodology.
_See Life by G. R. Crooks, supra._ _Meth._
=McClure, Alexander Kelly.= _Pa._, 1828- ----. A Philadelphia
journalist, founder of The Times in 1873, and its editor since then.
Three Thousand Miles Through the Rocky Mountains; The South: its
Industrial, etc., Condition. _Lip._
=McClure, Alexander Wilson.= _Ms._, 1808-1865. A Congregational
clergyman of Boston, among whose writings are, Lectures on Ultra
Universalism; Life of John Cotton, _supra_.
=McConnel, John Ludlam.= _Il._, 1826- ----. A lawyer and novelist of
Jacksonville, Illinois, who was a soldier in the Mexican War. His
fictions are studies of Western life. Talbot and Vernon; Grahame, or
Youth and Manhood; The Glenns; Western Characters.
=McConnell, Samuel D=[6] Pa., 1846- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of
prominence as an independent thinker, rector of St. Stephen’s Church
in Philadelphia, 1882-96, and of Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, subsequently.
Sons of God; Sermon Stuff; History of the Episcopal Church in the
United States; A Year’s Sermons; An Open Secret. _Ar. Wh._
=McCook, Henry Christopher.= _O._, 1837- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Philadelphia, well known as a naturalist. Object and Outline
Teaching; The Last Year of Christ’s Ministry; The Last Days of Jesus;
Garfield Memorial Sermons; The Women Friends of Jesus; The Gospel in
Nature; The Mound-Making Art of the Alleghanies; Natural History of the
Agricultural Ant of Texas; Honey Ants and Occident Ants; Tenants of an
Old Farm; American Spiders. _Fu. Lip._
=McCord, Mrs. Louisa Susannah [Cheves].= _S. C._, 1810-1880. A writer
of South Carolina. Sophisms of the Protective Policy, translated from
Bastral; Caius Gracchus, a tragedy; My Dreams, a volume of verse.
=McCormick, Richard Cunningham.= _N. Y._, 1832- ----. An Arizona
journalist, governor of that Territory, 1866-69. Visit to the Camp at
Sebastopol; St. Paul’s to St. Sophia; Arizona: its Resources (1865).
=McCosh, James.= _S._, 1811-1894. A metaphysician of eminence and
a Presbyterian divine of the Free Church. After being professor in
Queen’s College, Belfast, 1852-68, he came to America in 1868, and
was president of Princeton College, 1868-88, resigning in the latter
year, but holding an emeritus professorship until his death. As a
philosophical thinker he exercised an extended influence. His principal
writings include, Logic: the Laws of Discursive Thought; Christianity
and Positivism; Scottish Philosophy; Mill’s Philosophy; Method of
the Divine Government; First and Fundamental Truths; Psychology; The
Emotions; Our Moral Nature; Gospel Sermons; Philosophy of Reality; The
Religious Aspect of Evolution; Realistic Philosophy defended; Whither?
O Whither Tell Me Where; The Development of Hypotheses; Philosophic
Series: I. Expository, II. Historical and Critical. _See Life of,
edited by W. M. Sloane, infra._ _Meth. Scr._
=McCoy, Mrs. Catherine [Webb] [Towles].= _Ms._, 1823- ----. A writer
of Columbus, Georgia. Tales from the Freemason’s Fireside; The Three
Golden Links; Poor Claire, or Life Among the Queer.
=McCrackan, William Denison.= _Bv._, 1864- ----. An author and lecturer
of New York city, born in Munich of American parents. The Rise of the
Swiss Republic; Romance and Teutonic Switzerland; Swiss Solutions of
American Problems; Little Idyls of the Big World. _Ar. Kt._
=MacCracken, Henry Mitchell.= _O._, 1840- ----. A Presbyterian
clergyman and educator, chancellor of the University of the City of
New York from 1891. Tercentenary of Presbyterianism; Kant and Lotze; A
Metropolitan University; Leaders of the Church Universal.
=MacCreary, George Washington.= _Ind._, 1835-1890. An Indiana jurist.
Treatise on the American Law of Elections; Reports of the Circuit
Courts of the United States, Eighth District, 1879-83.
=McCulloch, Hugh.= _Me._, 1808-1895. A distinguished financier,
secretary of the treasury, 1865-69 and 1884-85. Men and Measures of
Half a Century was his only publication. _Scr._
=McDermott, Hugh Farrar.= 1833-1890. A journalist of New York city.
Poems from an Editor’s Table; The Blind Canary, a book of verse.
=McDonald, James Madison.= _Me._, 1812-1876. A Congregational clergyman
who was pastor of a church in Princeton, New Jersey, 1856-76.
Credulity; My Father’s House, or the Heaven of the Bible; Life and
Writings of St. John; Ecclesiastes Explained; Key to the Book of
Revelation. _Scr._
=McDougal, Mrs. Frances Harriet [Whipple] [Greene].= _R. I._,
1805-1875. A Rhode Island writer who resided in California from 1862.
The Original; The Mechanic; Might and Right, a History of the Dorr
Rebellion; Shahmah in Pursuit of Freedom; The Dwarf Boy, and Minor
Poems; Beyond the Veil.
=MacDowell, Mrs. Katherine Sherwood [Bonner].= _Mi._, 1849-1883. A
writer of Holly Springs, Mississippi, from 1873 to 1878 a resident of
Boston and the private secretary of Longfellow. In Mrs. Kirk’s novel
of “Margaret Kent” she figures as the heroine. Dialect Tales; Suwanee
River Tales; Like unto Like. _Har. Rob._
=Mace, Mrs. Frances Parker [Laughton].= _Me._, 1836- ----. A popular
verse-writer of San José, California. The authorship of Only Waiting,
her best known poem, has been claimed by several writers. Legends,
Lyrics, and Sonnets; Under Pine and Palm. _Hou._
=McFadden, Bernarr Adolphus.= _Mo._, 1868- ----. A teacher of physical
training in New York city. The Athlete’s Conquest, a novel; System of
Physical Training.
=MacFerrin, Anderson Purdy.= _Tn._, 1818- ----. A Methodist clergyman
in Tennessee. Sermons for the Times; Heavenly Shadows and Hymns.
=MacFerrin, John Berry.= _Tn._, 1807-1887. Brother of A. P. MacFerrin,
_supra_. A Methodist clergyman in Tennessee. History of Methodism in
Tennessee.
=McGaffey, Ernest.= _O._, 1861- ----. A lawyer of Chicago. Poems of Gun
and Rod; Poems. _Do. Scr._
=MacGahan, Januarius Aloysius.= _O._, 1844-1878. A famous journalist
and war correspondent. During the Franco-Prussian war he was the
correspondent at Paris of the New York Herald, and he went through
the Russo-Turkish war as the correspondent of the London Daily News.
Campaigning on the Oxus, and the Fall of Khiva; Under the Northern
Lights; Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria. _Har._
=McGarvey, John William.= _Ky._, 1829- ----. A clergyman of the
Christian denomination, professor of sacred history in the University
of Kentucky from 1865. Commentary on the Acts; Commentary on Matthew
and Mark; Lands of the Bible; Text and Canon; Credibility and
Inspiration of the Bible.
=McGiffert, Arthur Cushman.= _N. Y._, 1861- ----. A Presbyterian
clergyman, professor of church history in Union Seminary from 1893.
Dialogue of Papias and Jason. He has published a translation with
prolegomena and notes of the Church History of Eusebius Pamphilus; The
Apostolic Age. _Scr._
=McGill, John.= _Pa._, 1809-1872. A Roman Catholic bishop of Richmond.
Our Faith the Victory; The True Church Indicated; Life of John Calvin,
from the French.
=McGlasson, Eva Wilder.= _See Brodhead, Mrs._
=McIlvaine= [ma̯k-il-văn´], =Charles Petitt.= _N. J._, 1799-1873. The
second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio, and long a prominent figure
among Low Churchmen. Evidences of Christianity; Oxford Divinity; The
Holy Catholic Church; The Truth and the Life, include his chief works.
_Ran._
=McIlvaine, Joshua Hall.= _Del._, 1815-1897. A Presbyterian clergyman
of note in the Middle States who founded Evelyn College at Princeton,
New Jersey, in 1887. He was professor of belles-lettres at Princeton
College, 1860-70, and president of Evelyn College at the time of his
death. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; Elocution, the
Sources and Elements of its Power; The Wisdom of Holy Scripture; The
Wisdom of the Apocalypse; Pastoral Directions to Inquiring Souls. _Ran.
Scr._
=McIntosh, Maria Jane.= _Ga._, 1803-1878. A New York writer whose
novels and tales of domestic life enjoyed a long popularity. Her
writings include, Praise and Principle; Conquest and Self-Conquest;
Violet; Two Lives, or To Seem and To Be; Charms and Counter-Charms; The
Lofty and the Lowly; Meta Gray; Two Pictures; Evenings at Donaldson
Manor; Aunt Kitty’s Tales; Woman in America, her Work and her Reward;
The Cousins, a juvenile tale. _Ap._
=Mackaye, Mrs. Maria Ellery [Goodwin].= _R. I._, 1830- ----. An
educator of Cambridge, author of The Abbess of Port Royal, and Other
French Studies. _Le._
=McKeever, Harriet Burn.= _Pa._, 1807-1886. A Philadelphia writer of
Sunday-school fiction, among whose works are, Nothing but Leaves;
Edith’s Ministry; The Old Château; Crown Jewels. _Meth._
=McKellar, Thomas.= _N. Y._, 1812- ----. A prominent type-founder of
Philadelphia who, beside publishing American Printer, and was the
author of Tam’s Fortnight Ramble, and Other Poems; Droppings from the
Heart; Lines for the Gentle and Loving; Rhymes Atween Times. His verse
is unpretentious, and seldom more than commonplace in sentiment and
execution. _Lip._
=McKenny, Thomas Lorraine.= _Md._, 1785-1859. A writer for many years
in charge of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sketches of a Tour to the
Lakes; Essays on the Spirit of Jacksonianism; History of the Indian
Tribes (with J. Hall); Memoirs, Official and Personal.
=McKenzie, Alexander.= _Ms._, 1830- ----. A Congregational clergyman of
Cambridge from 1867. Cambridge Sermons; History of the First Church in
Cambridge; Some Things Abroad; The Two Boys. _Lo._
=Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell.= _N. Y._, 1803-1848. A naval officer of
prominence in his day. Popular Essays on Naval Subjects; The American
in England; Lives of John Paul Jones, Commodore Decatur, Commodore
Oliver Hazard Perry; A Year in Spain. _Har._