who came to America in 1852, and from 1857 was the literary editor of
the Philadelphia Press. His writings include, Lives of Dickens, Scott,
and Guizot; Titian: an art novel; Lays of Palestine; Partnership _en
Commandité_, a work upon commercial law; Bits of Blarney; Mornings at
Matlock; Tressilian and his Friends.
=Mackey= [măk´ee], =Albert Gallatin=. _S. C._, 1807-1881. A physician
of Charleston whose life was principally devoted to the study
of freemasonry. Text-Book of Masonic Jurisprudence; Lexicon of
Freemasonry; The Mystic Tie; Book of the Chapter; Manual of the Lodge;
Cryptic Masonry; Masonic Ritualist; Masonic Parliamentary Law; History
of Freemasonry in South Carolina; Encyclopædia of Freemasonry. He
edited the Ahimon Rezon.
=Mackey, John.= _S. C._, 1765-1831. A journalist, and educator of
Charleston whose American Teacher’s Assistant (1826) was the first
comprehensive work on arithmetic published in America.
=Mackie, John Milton.= _Ms._, 1813-1894. A New England writer, in early
life a tutor in Brown University. Cosas de España; Lives of Leibnitz,
Schamyl, Samuell Gorton; Tai Ping Wang; From Cape Cod to Dixie.
=McKim, Randolph Harrison.= _Md._, 1842- ----. An Episcopal clergyman,
rector of the Church of the Epiphany at Washington. Nature of the
Christian Ministry; Vindication of Protestant Principles; Future
Punishment; Bread in the Desert, and Other Sermons; Christ and Modern
Unbelief; Christianity and Buddhism. _Wh._
=McKinney, Mordecai.= _Pa._, _c._ 1796-1867. A jurist of Harrisburg.
Pennsylvania Justice of the Peace; United States Constitutional Manual;
Our Government; The American Magistrate and Civil Officer; Pennsylvania
Tax Laws; Digest of Pennsylvania Banking Laws.
=McLaren, William Edward.= _N. Y._, 1831- ----. The third Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Chicago. He was consecrated bishop in 1875, but
prior to 1872 was a Presbyterian clergyman. Catholic Dogma the Antidote
of Doubt; The Practice of the Interior Life.
=McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham.= _Il._, 1861- ----. A professor of
American history at the University of Michigan from 1891. Life of Lewis
Cass, _supra_. _Hou._
=Maclean, Mrs. Clara Victoria [Dargan].= _S. C._, _c._ 1840- ----. An
educator of South Carolina. Her work in fiction includes Riverlands;
Helen Howard.
=McLellan, Isaac.= _Me._, 1806-1899. A verse-writer of New York city of
note as a sportsman. His verse, once popular, is now nearly forgotten.
The Year, and Other Poems; The Fall of the Indian; Poems of the Rod and
Gun (1883), with biographical sketch.
=McLeod, Alexander.= _S._, 1774-1833. A Reformed Presbyterian minister
of New York city, famous as a preacher in his day. Negro Slavery
Unjustifiable; The Messiah; Life and Power of True Godliness; American
Christian Expositor, include his chief works.
=McLeod, Xavier Donald.= _N. Y._, 1821-1865. Son of A. McLeod, _supra_.
A Roman Catholic clergyman, but before 1852 an Episcopal clergyman.
Pynnshurst, his Wanderings and Ways of Thinking; Life of Sir Walter
Scott; Life of Mary Queen of Scots; Our Lady of Litanies; Devotion to
the Blessed Virgin Mary, include the more important of his works.
=McMahon, John Van Lear.= _Md._, 1800-1871. A prominent lawyer and
politician of Maryland, whose Historical View of Maryland is an
authority on the early history of the province.
=McMaster, Gilbert.= _I._, 1778-1854. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman
of Duanesburgh, New York. The Shorter Catechism Analyzed; Apology for
the Psalms; Moral Character of Civil Government.
=McMaster, Guy Humphrey.= _N. Y._, 1829-1887. A jurist and verse-writer
of Bath, in central New York. He wrote a History of Steuben County,
but his name lingers in anthologies as author of the well-known lyric,
Carmen Bellicosum.
=McMaster, John Bach.= _L. I._, 1852- ----. A professor of American
history at the University of Pennsylvania from 1883, and prior to that
date an instructor in engineering at Princeton College. Bridge and
Tunnel Centres; High Masonry Dams; History of the People of the United
States; Franklin as a Man of Letters; Pennsylvania and the Federal
Constitution (with F. D. Stone). _Ap. Hou._
=McMillan, Conway.= _Mch._, 1867- ----. A professor of botany in
the University of Minnesota from 1891. Twenty-Two Common Insects of
Nebraska; The Metaspermæ of the Minnesota Valley.
=McMurtrie, Henry.= _Pa._, 1793-1865. An educator of Philadelphia.
Lexicon Scientiarum is his principal work.
=McMurtrie, William.= _N. J._, 1851- ----. A professor of chemistry
in the University of Illinois. Culture of the Sugar Beet; Culture of
Sumac; Grape Culture in the United States, are among his publications.
=McNamara, John.= _I._, 1824-1885. An Episcopal clergyman of Nebraska.
Three Years on the Kansas Border; The Black Code of Kansas.
=McNaughton, John Hugh.= _N. Y._, 1829- ----. A verse-writer of
Caledonia, New York, many of whose songs have been set to music, and
proved extremely popular. Babble Brook Songs; Onnalinda, a romance in
verse.
=Macomb, Alexander.= _D. C._, 1782-1841. An officer of prominence in
the American army during the War of 1812, becoming major-general in
command of the army in 1828. Treatise on Martial Law; Treatise on
Practice of Courts-Martial; Pontiac, a drama. _See Memoir by G. H.
Richards._
=Macon, John Alfred.= _Al._, 1851- ----. A journalist of New York city.
Uncle Gabe Tucker. _Lip._
=McPherson, Edward.= _Pa._, 1830-1895. A journalist of Gettysburg,
editor of The Tribune Almanac from 1877, and for some years American
editor of the Almanach de Gotha. Political History of the United States
during the Civil War; Political History of the United States during
Reconstruction; Handbook of Politics.
=MacQueary, Howard.= _Va._, 1861- ----. A Universalist clergyman of
Minneapolis. He was formerly an Episcopal clergyman in Ohio, but, on
account of his denial of the Virgin birth of Christ, was tried for
heresy in 1891, and suspended from the Episcopal ministry. Evolution of
Man and Christianity; Topics of the Times, lectures on theological and
sociological themes. _Ap._
=McSherry, James.= _Md._, 1819-1869. A lawyer of Frederick, Maryland.
Père Jean, the Jesuit Missionary; Williloft, or the Days of James the
First; History of Maryland.
=McSherry, Richard.= _W. Va._, 1817-1885. A physician of prominence in
Baltimore, and in early life in the naval service. Early History of
Maryland, and Other Essays; El Puchero, a discursive work on Mexico;
Military Life in Field and Camp; Health and How to Promote It, are his
principal writings. _Ap._
=McTyeire= [măk-teer´], =Holland Nimmons.= _S. C._, 1824-1889. A
Methodist bishop in Tennessee. Manual of Discipline; Duties of Masters;
History of Methodism, are among his works.
=McVickar, William Augustus.= _N. Y._, 1827-1877. An Episcopal
clergyman who became rector of Christ Church, New York city, in 1876.
Life of Rev. John McVickar; City Missions. _Hou._
=Macy, Jesse.= _Ind._, 1842- ----. A professor of political science in
Iowa College. Our Government; The English Constitution. _Mac._
=Madison, James.= _Va._, 1751-1836. The fourth President of the
United States. The Reports of the Debates in the National Convention
of 1788 are the most important writings of his earlier career. His
complete works have been issued in six volumes. _See Lives by Rives,
J. Q. Adams, S. H. Gay; History of the United States, Madison’s
Administrations, by H. Adams._
=Maffit, John Newland.= _I._, 1795-1850. A once noted Methodist
preacher and lecturer. Tears of Contrition; Pulpit Sketches; Poems.
=Magill, Mary Tucker.= _Va._, 1832- ----. Granddaughter of H. St.
George Tucker, _infra_. An educator and fiction-writer of Winchester,
Virginia. The Holcombes; Women, or Chronicles of the Late War; School
History of Virginia; Pantomimes, or Wordless Poems. _Lip._
=Magoon, Elias Lyman.= _N. H._, 1810- ----. An eminent Baptist
clergyman of Philadelphia, well known as a lecturer and art connoisseur
of liberal thought and wide attainments. Proverbs for the People;
Orators of the American Revolution; Republican Christianity; Westward
Empire; Eloquence of the Colonial Times; Living Orators in America.
=Magruder, Allan Bowie.= 18-- - ----. The Bible Defended; Life of John
Marshall, _infra_. _Hou._
=Magruder, Julia.= _Va._, 1854- ----. A novelist. Miss Ayr of Virginia,
and Other Stories; The Child Amy; Across the Chasm; At Anchor; A
Magnificent Plebeian; Honored in the Breach; The Violet; Princess
Sonia. _Cent. Har. Lgs. Lip. Lo. S. Scr._
=Mahan= [ma̯-hăn´], =Alfred Thayer.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A
distinguished officer in the United States navy whose masterly works
upon sea power in history have received official recognition from
both home and foreign governments. The Influence of Sea Power upon
History, 1600-1783; Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution
and Empire, 1783-1812; The Gulf and Inland Waters; Life of Admiral
Farragut; Life of Nelson, the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great
Britain. _Ap. Lit. Scr._
=Mahan, Asa.= _N. Y._, 1799-1889. A Congregational clergyman and
educator, president of Adrian College, 1860-1871, and after the latter
date resident in England. Critical History of Philosophy; The Science
of Intellectual Philosophy; Science of Moral Philosophy; The Doctrine
of the Will; The Scripture Doctrine of Christian Perfection; Logic;
Theism and Anti-Theism in their Relations to Science; Critical History
of the American Civil War. _Bar. Meth._
=Mahan, Dennis Hart.= _N. Y._, 1802-1871. A military engineer of
distinction whose text-books have been widely used. Treatise on Field
Fortifications; Elementary Course of Civil Engineering; Elementary
Treatise on Advanced Guard, etc.; Industrial Drawing; Descriptive
Geometry; Philosophy of Engineering; Permanent Fortifications;
an edition of Moseley’s Mechanical Principles of Engineering and
Architecture, with additions. _Wil._
=Mahan, Milo.= _Va._, 1819-1870. Brother of D. H. Mahan, _supra_.
An Episcopal clergyman of Baltimore. The Exercise of Faith; History
of the Church; Reply to Colenso; Palmoni, a Free Inquiry; Comedy of
Canonization.
=Malcom, Howard.= _Pa._, 1799-1879. A Baptist clergyman and educator at
one time prominent in Philadelphia. Nature and Extent of the Atonement;
Bible Dictionary; Christian Rule of Marriage; Travels in Southeastern
Asia.
=Mallery, Garrick.= _Pa._, 1831-1894. An army officer in charge of the
bureau of ethnology from its foundation in 1879. Calendar of the Dakota
Language; Introduction to the Study of Sign Language among North
American Indians; Greeting by Gesture; Israelite and Indian, a Parallel
in Planes of Culture; Picture Writing of the American Indians, are
among his important contributions to ethnology.
=Malone, Walter.= _Mi._, 1866- ----. A verse-writer of Memphis,
Tennessee. Songs of Dark and Dawn.
=Maltby, Isaac.= _Ct._, 1767-1819. A Boston author who was general of
militia. Elements of War; Courts-Martial and Military Law; Military
Tactics.
=Manly, Basil.= _S. C._, 1825-1892. A Baptist clergyman and educator,
professor in the Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville. Kind Words
Teacher; A Call to the Ministry; Bible Doctrine of Inspiration Defended.
=Manly, John Matthews.= _Al._, 1865- ----. Pre-Shakesperean Drama.
=Mann, Cyrus.= _N. H._, 1785-1859. A Congregational clergyman of
Westminster, Massachusetts, 1815-41. Epitome of the Evidences of
Christianity; History of the Temperance Reformation.
=Mann, Horace.= _Ms._, 1796-1859. A famous Massachusetts educator
and philanthropist, president of Antioch College, Ohio, 1852-59, and
for twelve years secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education.
He entirely remodelled the school system of his State. Beside his
twelve important annual reports on education, he published Lectures
on Education; An Educational Tour; Thoughts for a Young Man; Slavery:
Letters and Speeches; Lectures on Intemperance; Powers and Duties of
Women. _See Life by Mrs. Mann; Boone’s Education in the United States;
Gordey’s Rise and Growth of the Normal School System; Horace Mann, the
Educator, by A. Winship._ _Le._
=Mann, Mrs. Mary Tyler [Peabody].= _Ms._, 1806-1887. Wife of H. Mann,
_supra_, and sister of Elizabeth Peabody, _infra_. Flower People;
Christianity in the Kitchen; Culture in Infancy (with E. Peabody); Life
of Horace Mann; Juanita, a Romance of Real Life in Cuba. _Le. Lo._
=Mann, Matthew Derbyshire.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. A physician, professor
of gynæcology in the University of Buffalo, who has published a
Text-Book on Prescription Writing, and edited The American System of
Gynæcology.
=Mann, William Julius.= _G._, 1819-1892. A Lutheran clergyman of
Philadelphia, author of Life and Times of Henry Muhlenberg. _See Memoir
by E. T. Mann, 1893._
=Manning, Jacob Merrill.= _N. Y._, 1824-1882. A Congregational
clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Old South Church, 1857-82. Helps to
a Life of Prayer; Half Truths and the Truth; Not of Man, but of God;
Sermons. _Hou._
=Mansfield, Edward Deering.= _Ct._, 1801-1880. Son of J. Mansfield,
_infra_. A lawyer and journalist of Cincinnati. Utility of Mathematics;
Treatise on Constitutional Law; Political Grammar of the United States;
Legal Rights, etc., of Married Women; Life of General Scott; History
of the Mexican War; American Education; Memoirs of D. Drake, _supra_;
Popular Life of General Grant; Personal Memories. _Clke._
=Mansfield, Jared.= _Ct._, 1759-1830. A mathematician, professor at
West Point, 1812-28, who published Essays: Mathematical and Physical.
=Mansfield, Lewis William.= _Ct._, 1816- ----. A writer of Cohoes, New
York. The Morning Watch, a book of verse; Up-Country Letters; Country
Margins.
=Manship, Andrew.= _Md._, 1824- ----. A Methodist evangelist of
Philadelphia. Thirteen Years in the Itineracy; Cherished Memories;
Reminiscences from the Saddle-Bags of a Methodist Preacher; History of
Gospel Tents and Experience.
=Manville, Mrs. Helen Adelia [Wood].= _N. Y._, 1839- ----. A
verse-writer of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Heart Echoes, a volume of verse.
=Manville, Marion.= Daughter of Mrs. Manville, _supra_. _See Pope, Mrs._
=Marble, Manton.= _Ms._, 1835- ----. A journalist of New York city,
editor and proprietor of The World, 1862-76, and author of A Secret
Chapter of Political History.
=March, Alden.= _Ms._, 1795-1869. A once prominent surgeon of Albany.
Wounds of the Abdomen; Improved Forceps for Harelip Operations.
=March, Charles Wainright.= _N. H._, 1815-1864. A journalist and
essayist of New York city. Daniel Webster and His Contemporaries;
Sketches in Madeira, Portugal, and Spain.
=March, Daniel.= _Ms._, 1816-1902. A Congregational clergyman. Walks
and Homes of Jesus; Night Scenes in the Bible; Our Father’s House; From
Dark to Dawn; Home Life in the Bible; The First Khedive, or Lessons in
the Life of Joseph; Morning Light in Many Lands. _C. P. S._
=March, Francis Andrew.= _Ms._, 1825- ----. A philologist of
distinction, professor at Lafayette College from 1856, and the
successor of James Russell Lowell in 1891 as president of the American
Language Association. Relation of the Study of Jurisprudence to the
Roman Period; Hamilton’s Theory of Perception; Method of Philological
Study of the English Language; Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon
Language; Anglo-Saxon Reader. _Har._
=Marcy, Erastus Edgerton.= _Ms._, 1815-1900. A physician of New
York city. Theory and Practice of Medicine; Theory and Practice of
Homœopathy; Christianity and its Conflicts; Life Duties.
=Marcy, Henry Orlando.= _Ms._, 1837- ----. A physician of Cambridge.
Anatomy and Surgical Treatment of Hernia; professional translations
from the Italian of Ercolani. _Ap._
=Marcy, Randolph Barnes.= _Ms._, 1812-1887. Brother of E. E. Marcy,
_supra_. A brigadier-general in the United States army. Exploration of
the Red River in 1852; Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border; The
Prairie Traveller; Border Reminiscences. _Har._
=Marden, Orison Swett.= _N. H._, 1848- ----. A Boston writer whose
collections of brief biographies, comprise Pushing to the Front;
Architects of Fate. _Hou._
=Marguerittes, Julie de.= _See Rea, Mrs._
=Markell, Charles Frederick.= _Md._, 1855- ----. A Maryland lawyer and
journalist. Charmodine, a volume of verse.
=Markham, Charles Edwin.= _Or._, 1852- ----. An educator and
verse-writer of California. In Earth’s Shadow, a book of verse; Songs
of a Dream Builder; The Man with the Hoe.
=Markham, Jared Clark.= _Ms._, 1816- ----. An architect who designed
the Saratoga monument. Appeal in Behalf of National Monuments;
Monumental Art; Historic Sculpture.
=Markoe, Thomas Masters.= _Pa._, 1819-1901. A surgeon of New York city,
professor in Columbia College from 1860, and author of a Treatise on
Diseases of the Bones. _Ap._
=Marsh, Mrs. Caroline [Crane].= _Ms._, 1816-1901. Wife of G. P. Marsh,
_infra_. The Hallig, or the Sheepfold in the Waters, from the German
of Biernatzki; Wolfe of the Knoll, and Other Poems; Life of George P.
Marsh. _Scr._
=Marsh, George Perkins.= _Vt._, 1801-1882. A philologist of distinction
who was minister to Italy, 1861-82. Lectures on the English Language;
Man and Nature, re-written and enlarged with the title, The Earth as
Modified by Human Action; Icelandic Grammar; Origin and History of the
English Language; Mediæval and Modern Saints and Miracles. _See Life by
Mrs. Marsh, supra._ _Har. Scr._
=Marsh, John.= _Ct._, 1788-1864. A Congregational clergyman long
prominent as a temperance lecturer. Epitome of Ecclesiastical History;
Half Century Tribute to Temperance; Temperance Recollections.
=Marsh, Othniel Charles.= _N. Y._, 1831-1899. A palæontologist,
professor at Yale University from 1866. Odontornithes; Dinocerata;
Sauropoda, are among valuable scientific monographs by him.
=Marshall, Edward Chauncey.= _N. Y._, 1824-1898. An educator, inventor,
and journalist. Book of Oratory; History of the United States Naval
Academy; Ancestry of General Grant.
=Marshall, Humphrey.= _Pa._, 1722-1801. A famous botanist of
Marshallton, Pennsylvania. Arboretum Americanum, a very valuable work
of his, was translated into a number of foreign languages.
=Marshall, John.= _Va._, 1755-1835. Chief Justice of the United States
from 1801 until his death. The Life of Washington; Writings upon the
Federal Constitution. _See Lives by Van Santvord, 1854, Flanders, 1858,
Magruder, 1885; Appletons’ American Biography._
=Martin, Edward Sandford.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. A journalist of New
York city. Sly Ballades in Harvard China; A Little Brother of the Rich,
and Other Poems; Cousin Anthony and I, some Views of Ours; Windfalls of
Observation; Lucid Intervals. _Har. Scr._
=Martin, François Xavier.= _F._, 1764-1846. A New Orleans jurist,
chief justice of Louisiana, 1837-45. General Digest of Louisiana Laws;
Reports of Louisiana Supreme Court, 1813-30; History of Louisiana to
1814.
=Martin, Henry Newell.= _I._, 1848-1896. A biologist of note,
professor of biology at Johns Hopkins University from 1876. The Human
Body; Practical Biology (with T. H. Huxley); Handbook of Vertebrate
Dissection (with W. A. Moale). _Ho._
=Martin, John Hill.= _Pa._, 1823- ----. A lawyer of Philadelphia, legal
editor of The Intelligencer from 1881. Bethlehem and the Moravians;
The Bench and Bar of Philadelphia; Chester and its Vicinity; Delaware
County.
=Martin, Mrs. Margaret [Maxwell].= _S._, 1807- ----. An educator
of Columbia, South Carolina. Day Spring; Christianity in Earnest;
Religious Poems; Scenes and Scenery of South Carolina, include the
larger part of her writings.
=Martin, William Alexander Parsons.= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. A
Presbyterian clergyman and missionary, president of the Tungwen
College, Peking. Among his writings in Chinese are, Evidences of
Christianity; The Three Principles; Religious Allegories. In English he
has published The Chinese: their Education, Philosophy, and Letters;
The Lore of Cathay. _Har._
=Martyn, Mrs. Sarah Towne [Smith].= _N. H._, 1805-1879. A writer
of Sunday-school semi-historical fiction whose home was in New York
city. Among her many works are comprised Huguenots of France; William
Tyndale; Lady Alice Lisle.
=Martyn, William Carlos.= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. Son of Mrs. Martyn,
_supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. History of the
Huguenots; History of the English Puritans; The Pilgrim Fathers of New
England; History of the Dutch Reformation; Lives of John Milton, John
B. Gough, Wendell Phillips, William E. Dodge. _Fu._
=Marvel, Ik.= _See Mitchell, D. G._
=Marvin, Enoch Mather.= _Mo._, 1823-1877. A bishop of the Methodist
Church South. The Work of Christ; Sermons; To the East by Way of the
West.
=Mason, Mrs. Caroline Atherton [Briggs].= _Ms._, 1823-1890. A
verse-writer of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, whose poem, Do They Miss
Me at Home, was long a popular song. Utterance, a Collection of Home
Poems; The Lost Ring, and Other Poems; Rose Hamilan, a tale. _Hou._
=Mason, Mrs. Clara Stevens Arthur.= _Me._, 1844-1884. The Cherry Blooms
of Yeddo, a volume of verse. _Lo._
=Mason, David Hastings.= _Pa._, 1828-1903. A Chicago journalist who
published a Short Tariff History of the United States. _Bai._
=Mason, Emily Virginia.= _Ky._, 1815- ----. A nurse in Confederate
hospitals, and after the Civil War an educator in Paris. She edited a
collection of Southern Poems of the War, and wrote a Popular Life of
General Robert E. Lee.
=Mason, George Champlin.= _R. I._, 1820-1894. An architect of Newport,
Rhode Island. Newport and its Environs; Application of Art to
Manufactures; The Old House Altered; Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart;
Reminiscences of Newport.
=Mason, John.= _E._, 1600-1672. A Puritan soldier who held a place in
the estimation of the Massachusetts Bay Puritans corresponding to that
filled by Miles Standish among the Pilgrims. History of the Pequot War
is a vigorous narrative, first printed by Increase Mather in 1677.
_See Tyler’s American Literature; Life by G. E. Ellis, supra._
=Mason, John Mitchell.= _N. Y._, 1770-1829. A Presbyterian clergyman
of New York city, long famous as a pulpit orator, his Oration on the
Death of Alexander Hamilton being especially noted. Letters on Frequent
Communion; Plea for Sacramental Communion on Catholic Principles. _See
Works in four volumes; Memoirs by Van Vechten, 1856._
=Mason, Otis Tufton.= _Me._, 1838- ----. An anthropologist of note. The
Hupa Indian Industries; Woman’s Share in Primitive Culture; The Origins
of Invention; The Land Problem; Cradles of the North American Indians;
The Antiquities of Guadeloupe. _Ap. Scr._
=Mather, Cotton.= _Ms._, 1663-1728. Son of I. Mather, _infra_. A
famous Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the North Church,
1683-1728, and his father’s colleague for the greater part of that
period. He was a prolific author, publishing nearly four hundred works,
large and small, but it is upon the Magnalia Christi Americana that his
reputation rests. Among other works are Wonders of the Invisible World;
Christian Philosopher; Psalterium Americanum; Manductio ad Ministerium;
Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcraft; Essays to Do Good; The
Armour of Christianity; Batteries Upon the Kingdom of the Devil; Death
made Easie and Happy. His style is disfigured by pedantry and strained
analogies, and is at all times far removed from simplicity, but the
author is nevertheless easily seen to be intensely in earnest in his
endeavours to be of service to his generation. _See Lives by S. Mather,
1729, W. B. O. Peabody, A. P. Marvin, 1889, B. Wendell, 1892; North
American Review, July, 1840, April, 1869; Tyler’s American Literature;
Pond’s The Mather Family; Old Colony Days, by Mrs. May Alden Ward._