_supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman, editor of The New York Observer for
forty-five years. Among his many works are, Fifteen Years of Prayer;
Irenæus Letters; The Old White Meeting-House; Life in New York; Annals
of the English Bible; Songs of the Soul; Life of S. B. F. Morse,
_supra_; Prayer and its Answer; Walking with God; Travels in Europe and
the East; The Bible in the Levant; The Alhambra and the Kremlin; Under
the Trees. _See Autobiography, 1886._ _Ap. Har. Ran. Scr._
=Prime, William Cowper.= _N. Y._, 1825- ----. Son of N. S. Prime,
_supra_. A lawyer and journalist, professor of the history of art at
Princeton College from 1884. Boat Life in Egypt; Tent Life in the Holy
Land; Pottery and Porcelain; The Owl Creek Letters; Coins, Medals, and
Seals; I Go A-Fishing; Holy Cross; Along New England Roads; Among the
Northern Hills. _Har. Ran._
=Prince, Mrs. Helen Choate [Pratt].= _Ms._, 1857- ----. A granddaughter
of R. Choate, _supra_. A novelist now living in France. The Story of
Christine Rochefort; A Transatlantic Chatelaine; The Strongest Master.
_Hou._
=Prince, Le Baron Bradford.= _L. I._, 1840- ----. Son of W. R. Prince,
_infra_. A jurist of New Mexico. Agricultural History of Queen’s
County, Long Island; E Pluribus Unum, or American Nationality; General
Laws of New Mexico; History of New Mexico; The American Church and its
Name.
=Prince, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1687-1758. A Congregational minister, pastor
of the Old South Church in Boston, 1718-58, and one of the most
fair-minded, accurate historical writers that America has had. His
library now forms a separate collection in the Boston Public Library.
Earthquakes of New England (1755); Chronological History of New
England. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Allibone’s Dictionary._
=Prince, William.= _L. I._, 1766-1842. A horticulturist of Flushing,
Long Island, whose Treatise on Horticulture (1826) was the first
comprehensive work on the subject published in the United States.
=Prince, William Robert.= _L. I._, 1795-1869. Son of W. Prince,
_supra_. A horticulturist of Flushing. History of the Vine (with W.
Prince); Pomological Manual; Manual of Roses.
=Proctor, Edna Dean.= _N. H._, 1838- ----. A littérateur formerly of
Brooklyn, New York, now (1904) of South Framingham, Massachusetts.
Poems; A Russian Journey; The Song of the Ancient People. _Hou._
=Proctor, Lucien Brock.= _N. H._, 1826-1900. A legal writer of Albany.
The Bench and Bar of the State of New York; Lives of the State
Chancellors; Life of Thomas Emmet; Lawyer and Client; Bench and Bar of
King’s County; Legal History of Albany and Schenectady Counties.
=Proudfit, Alexander Moncrief.= _Pa._, 1770-1843. An Associate Reformed
Presbyterian clergyman. Discourses on the Parables; Theological Works
(four volumes, 1815). _See Life of, by Forsyth._
=Proudfit, David Law.= “Peleg Arkwright.” _N. Y._, 1842-1897. A Federal
officer during the Civil War, and subsequently a resident of New York
city. Love Among the Gamins, and Other Poems; Mask and Domino (verse).
_Co._
=Proudfit, John Williams.= _N. Y._, 1803-1870. Son of A. M. Proudfit,
_supra_. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, professor of Greek in Rutgers
College, 1840-64. Man’s Two-Fold Life.
=Prudden, Theophile Mitchell.= _Ct._, 1849- ----. A New York physician,
professor of pathology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Manual of Normal Histology (with Delafield); Dust and its Dangers;
Water and Ice; Handbook of Pathological Anatomy; Story of the Bacteria.
_Put._
=Pugh= [pew], =Mrs. Eliza Lofton [Phillips].= “Arria.” _La._,
1841- ----. A novelist of Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Not a Hero; In
a Crucible.
=Pulte, Joseph Hippolyt.= _G._, 1811-1884. A physician of Cleveland.
The Homœopathic Domestic Physician; The Science of Medicine; The
Woman’s Medical Guide.
=Pumpelly= [pum-pĕl´ly], =Mrs. Mary Hollenback [Welles].= _Pa._,
1803-1879. A verse-writer whose religious historical Poems were
collected in a volume in 1852.
=Pumpelly, Raphael.= _N. Y._, 1837- ----. Son of Mrs. Pumpelly,
_supra_. A geologist of note, professor of mining engineering at
Harvard University from 1866. Geological Researches in China; Across
America and Asia; Notes of a Five-Years’ Journey Around the World. _Ho._
=Punchard, George.= _Ms._, 1806-1881. A Boston journalist, for
many years editor of The Traveller, but who, prior to 1845, was a
Congregational clergyman in New Hampshire. History of Congregationalism
from A. D. 250; View of Congregationalism. _C. P. S._
=Purinton, Daniel Boardman.= _Pa._, 1850- ----. A Baptist clergyman and
educator of Ohio, president of Denison University from 1889. Christian
Theism; The Battle of the Frogs, a poem. _Put._
=Purple, Samuel Smith.= _N. Y._, 1822-1900. A physician of New York
city. The Corpus Luteum; Menstruation; Contributions to the Practice of
Midwifery; Observations on Wounds of the Heart.
=Purves, George Tybout.= _Pa._, 1852-1901. A Presbyterian clergyman,
professor of New Testament literature at Princeton College from 1892.
The testimony of Justin Martyr to Early Christianity. _Ran._
=Putnam, Albigence Waldo.= _O._, 1799-1869. A lawyer of Nashville;
History of Middle Tennessee; Life and Times of General James Robertson;
Life of General John Sevier.
=Putnam, Eleanor.= _See Bates, Mrs. H._
=Putnam, George Haven.= _E._, 1844- ----. Son of G. P. Putnam, _infra_.
A prominent publisher of New York city. Authors and Publishers;
International Copyright; Authors and their Public in Ancient Times.
_Put._
=Putnam, George Palmer.= _Me._, 1814-1872. A well-known publisher of
New York city, the founder of the present publishing house of G. P.
Putnam’s Sons. The Tourist in Europe; American Facts; The World’s
Progress. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._ _Put._
=Putnam, Mrs. Katharine Hunt [Palmer].= _Ms._, 1792-1869. A Boston
writer. Scripture Text Book; The Old Testament Unveiled.
=Putnam, James Osborne.= _N. Y._, 1818-1903. A Buffalo lawyer who was
minister to Belgium in 1880. Addresses, Speeches, and Miscellanies.
=Putnam, Mrs. Mary [Lowell].= _Ms._, 1810-1898. Sister of J. R. Lowell,
_supra_. A lifelong resident of Boston. Fifteen Days; History of the
Court of Hungary; Records of an Obscure Man; Tragedy of Errors; Tragedy
of Success.
=Putnam, Ruth.= 18-- - ----. Daughter of G. P. Putnam, _supra_. Life of
William the Silent. _Put._
=Putnam, Mrs. Sarah A.---- Brock.= _Va._, _c._ 1845- ----. A writer of
New York city. Richmond During the War; The Southern Amaranth; Kenneth,
My King; Myra, a novel.
=Pyle, Howard.= _Del._, 1853- ----. Artist and littérateur of
Wilmington, Delaware. The Merrie Adventures of Robin Hood; Within the
Capes: a novel; Otto of the Silver Hand; Twilight Land; The Garden
Behind the Moon; Pepper and Salt, or Seasoning for Young Folk; A Modern
Aladdin; The Rose of Paradise; Men of Iron, a romance of chivalry; Jack
Ballister’s Fortunes. _Cent. Har. Scr._
=Pynchon, Thomas Ruggles.= _Ct._, 1823-1904. Descendant of W. Pynchon,
_infra_. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, president of Trinity
College, 1874-83, and professor of chemistry there. Bishop Butler: a
Religious Philosopher for All Time; Introduction to Chemical Physics.
_Ap._
=Pynchon, William.= _E._, 1590-1662. A noted colonist of New England
who founded the town of Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1636. In 1652
he returned to England. The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, first
published in 1650, excited a storm of controversy, and was publicly
burned on Boston Common as an heretical book. It was reprinted in 1655
as The Meritorious Price of Man’s Redemption, or Christ’s Satisfaction
discussed and explained, with a rejoinder to Rev. John Norton’s Answer;
The Jewes Synagogue; How the First Sabbath was Ordained; The Covenant
of Nature made with Adam.
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=Quackenbos, George Payn.= _N. Y._, 1826-1881. An educator of New York
city. School History of the United States; Natural Philosophy; a series
of English grammars; An Advanced Course of Rhetoric.
=Quackenbos, John Duncan.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. Son of G. P.
Quackenbos, _supra_. An adjunct professor of English literature at
Columbia College from 1884. Illustrated History of the World; History
of the English Language; History of Ancient Literature; Practical
Rhetoric. _Har._
=Qualtrough, Edward F----.= _N. Y._, 1850- ----. A United States naval
officer who has published The Sailor’s Handy Book and Yachtsman’s
Manual; The Boat Sailor’s Manual. _Scr._
=Quiet, Charles.= _See Noyes, C. H._
=Quinby, George Washington.= _Me._, 1810-1884. A Universalist clergyman
in Maine and Ohio. The Salvation of Christ; Brief Exposition of
Universalism; Marriage and Its Duties; The Gallows, the Prison, and the
Poor House; Heaven Our Home.
=Quincy, Edmund.= _Ms._, 1703-1788. A Boston merchant who wrote a
Treatise on Hemp Husbandry. One of his daughters married John Hancock.
=Quincy, Edmund.= _Ms._, 1808-1877. Son of J. Quincy, 2d, _infra_.
A Boston writer whose literary fame was hardly proportioned to his
deserts. Wensley, and Other Stories; The Haunted Adjutant, and Other
Stories; Life of President Josiah Quincy. _Hou. Lit._
=Quincy, Josiah.= _Ms._, 1744-1775. Nephew of E. Quincy, 1st. A famous
Boston lawyer and patriot, very prominent at the opening of the
Revolutionary period. Observations on the Boston Port Bill. _See Life
of, by his son._
=Quincy, Josiah.= _Ms._, 1772-1864. Son of J. Quincy, _supra_. An
eminent Massachusetts statesman, mayor of Boston, 1823-29; president
of Harvard University, 1829-45; representative in Congress, 1805-13.
History of Harvard University; Speeches and Orations in Congress;
History of Boston; Life of Josiah Quincy, Jr. _See Life by E. Quincy;
Duyckinck’s American Literature; Lowell, My Study Windows._ _Lit._
=Quincy, Josiah.= _Ms._, 1802-1882. Son of J. Quincy, 2d, _supra_. A
citizen of Boston, and mayor of that city, 1845-1849. Figures of the
Past. _Rob._
=Quincy, Josiah Phillips.= _Ms._, 1829- ----. Son of J. Quincy, 3d,
_supra_. A littérateur of Boston. Charicles, a drama; Lyteria, a drama;
The Peckster Professorship, a Story; The Protection of Majorities, and
Other Papers. _Hou. Rob._
=Quincy, Samuel Miller.= _Ms._, 1833-1887. Son of J. Quincy, 3d. A
Boston lawyer who served in the Federal army during the Civil War. The
Man Who was Not a Colonel; A Prisoner’s Diary.
=Quint, Alonzo Hall.= _N. H._, 1828-1896. A prominent Congregational
clergyman of Boston. The Potomac and the Rapidan, or Army Notes;
Records of the Second Massachusetts Infantry, 1861-65.
=Quitman, Frederick Henry.= _Wa._, 1760-1832. A Lutheran clergyman of
Rhinebeck, New York. Treatise on Magic; Sermons on the Reformation, are
his more important writings.
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=Raff, George Wertz.= _O._, 1825-1888. A savings bank president of
Canton, Ohio. Guide to Executors and Administrators in Ohio; Manual of
Pensions; The Law Relating to Roads in Ohio; War Claimant’s Guide.
=Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel.= _Ty._, 1784-1842. An eccentric
naturalist and botanist of French parentage who, after years of travel,
settled in Philadelphia. The value of his work is impaired as much
by his inaccuracy as by his very eccentric methods. Among his many
works are, Medical Flora of the United States; A Life of Travel and
Researches; Annals of Kentucky; Recent and Fossil Conchology (edited by
Binney and Tryon, 1864). _See Silliman’s Journal, 1841; Life by R. E.
Call._ _Mor._
=Ragozin, Madame Zénaïde Alexeïevna.= _R._, _c._ 1835- ----. A Russian
historical writer, naturalized in the United States in 1874. The Story
of Chaldea; The Story of Assyria; The Story of Media and Babylon; The
Story of Vedic India. _Put._
=Raguet= [ra-gā´], =Condy.= _Pa._, 1784-1842. A merchant and lawyer of
Philadelphia. The Principles of Free Trade; Currency and Banking; An
Inquiry into the Present State of the Circulating Medium of the United
States (1815).
=Rains, George Washington.= _N. C._, 1817-1898. A Confederate army
officer, professor of chemistry at the University of Georgia from 1867.
Steam Portable Engines; Rudimentary Course of Analytical and Applied
Chemistry; Chemical Qualitative Analysis.
=Rainsford, William Stephen.= _I._, 1850- ----. A prominent Episcopal
clergyman of New York city, rector of St. George’s Church from 1883,
and an active worker in philanthropic and other reforms. Sermons
Preached in St. George’s; The Church’s Opportunity in the City of
To-Day. _Do._
=Ralph, Julian.= _N. Y._, 1853-1903. A popular journalist and
littérateur. On Canada’s Frontier; Dixie; Our Great West; Chicago and
the World’s Fair; People We Pass; Alone in China, and Other Stories.
_Har._
=Ralston, Samuel.= _I._, 1756-1851. A Presbyterian clergyman in what
is now Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, from 1796 till his death. On
Baptism; The Last Plagues; The Currycomb, are among his writings.
=Ralston, Thomas Neely.= _Ky._, 1806-1891. A Methodist clergyman and
religious editor of Kentucky. Elements of Divinity; Evidences of
Christianity; Ecce Unitas; Bible Truths.
=Ramsay, David.= _Pa._, 1749-1815. A physician of Charleston, eminent
among early American historians. History of the American Revolution;
History of the United States; Life of Washington; History of South
Carolina, include his chief works. _See Tuckerman’s Sketch of American
Literature; Allibone’s Dictionary._
=Ramsay, Mrs. Vienna G---- [Morrell].= _Me._, 1817- ----. Facts on
Missions; Evenings With the Children; A Legend of the White Hills, and
other Poems. _Lo._
=Rand, Asa.= _N. H._, 1783-1871. A Congregational clergyman in Maine
and New York prominent as an opponent of slavery. Teachers’ Manual in
English Grammar; The Slave-Catcher Caught in the Meshes of Eternal Law.
=Rand, Benjamin.= _N. S._, 1856- ----. An instructor in philosophy at
Harvard University. Economic History Since 1763; A Bibliography of
Economics; and also bibliographies of æsthetics, ethics, psychology,
metaphysics, logic, history of philosophy, philosophy of religion.
=Rand, Benjamin Howard.= _Ms._, 1792-1862. A Philadelphia teacher of
penmanship who published The American Penman and similar works.
=Rand, Benjamin Howard.= _Pa._, 1827-1883. Son of B. H. Rand, _supra_.
A physician of Philadelphia. Outlines of Medical Chemistry; Elements of
Medical Chemistry. _Lip._
=Rand, Edward Augustus.= _N. H._, 1837-1903. An Episcopal clergyman,
rector at Watertown, Massachusetts, from 1883. Christmas Jack; Behind
Manhattan Gables; School and Camp Series; Sailor Boy Bob; Pushing
Ahead; Fighting the Sea Series, are among his many books for juvenile
readers. _Lo. Meth. Wh._
=Rand, Edward Sprague.= _Ms._, 1834-1897. Formerly a floriculturist
of Dedham, Massachusetts. Garden Flowers; Complete Manual of
Orchid-Culture; Popular Flowers; Rhododendrons; Flowers for the Parlor
and Garden; The Window Gardener; Life Memoirs, and Other Poems. _Hou._
=Rand, Mrs. Mary Frances [Abbott].= _Me._, 1840- ----. Wife of E. A.
Rand, _supra_. Holly and Mistletoe; Home-Spun Yarns for Christmas
Stockings.
=Randall, David Austin.= _Ct._, 1813-1884. A Baptist clergyman and
religious editor of Ohio. God’s Handwriting in Egypt; The Wonderful
Tent, or the Mosaic Tabernacle. _Clke._
=Randall, Henry Stephens.= _N. Y._, 1811-1876. A once prominent
advocate of public instruction in New York State. Sheep Husbandry;
Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry; Practical Shepherd; Life of Thomas
Jefferson. _Lip._
=Randall, James Ryder.= _Md._, 1839- ----. A journalist of Augusta,
Georgia, and elsewhere in the South, who has written a number of
spirited lyrics, the best known of which is the famous song, Maryland,
My Maryland.
=Randall, Samuel Sidwell.= _N. Y._, 1809-1881. Cousin of H. S. Randall,
_supra_. A superintendent of public schools in New York city, 1854-70.
History of the State of New York; Mental and Moral Culture; Principles
of Popular Education; Incitements to the Study of Geology, include his
more important works. _Har._
=Randolph, Anson Davies Fitz.= _N. J._, 1820-1896. A publisher and
religious verse-writer of New York city. Hopefully Waiting; Verses; At
the Beautiful Gate; The Palace of the King; Unto the Desired Haven.
_Ran._
=Randolph, Sarah Nicholas.= _Va._, 1839-190-. A great-granddaughter of
Thomas Jefferson. An educator of Baltimore. The Domestic Life of Thomas
Jefferson; The Lord Will Provide; The Life of Stonewall Jackson. _Har.
Lip. Ran._
=Ranger, Robert.= _See Freeman, J. M._
=Rankin, Jeremiah Eames.= _N. H._, 1828-1904. A Presbyterian clergyman,
president of Howard University. Auld Scotch Mither, and Other Poems;
Subduing Kingdoms; The Hotel of God, and Other Sermons; Atheism of the
Heart; Christ His Own Interpreter; Ingleside Rhaims.
=Rankin, John.= _Tn._, 1793-1886. A Presbyterian clergyman of Ripley,
Ohio, famous as an abolitionist, and many times mobbed for his
anti-slavery zeal. Letters on American Slavery; The Covenant of Grace.
_See Ritchie’s Life of, entitled The Soldier, the Battle, and the
Victory._
=Rankin, John Chambers.= _N. C._, 1816-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Baskingridge, New Jersey, from 1851. The Coming of the Lord.
=Ranney, Ambrose Loomis.= _Ms._, 1848- ----. A physician, professor of
nervous diseases in the University of the City of New York. A Practical
Treatise on Surgical Diagnosis; Applied Anatomy of the Nervous System;
Practical Medical Anatomy; Lectures on Nervous Diseases, include his
principal writings. _Ap._
=Rapelje, Stewart.= _N. Y._, 1842-1896. A legal writer of New York
city. Digest of Decisions of New York Courts to 1881; Digest of Federal
Decisions and Statutes from the Earliest Period to 1880; Treatise on
the Law of Witnesses; Dictionary of American and English Decisions.
=Raphall, Morris Jacob.= _Sn._, 1798-1868. A Jewish clergyman once
prominent in New York city. Post-Biblical History of the Jews;
Literature of the Jews in Spain; Social Condition of the Jews;
Festivals of the Lord; The Path to Immortality. _Ap._
=Rarey, John S----.= _O._, 1828-1866. A famous horse-tamer who wrote a
Treatise on Horse-Taming that was very extensively circulated.
=Rau, Charles.= _Bm._, 1826-1887. An archæologist of distinction of
Belgian birth who settled in the United States in 1848, and was curator
of antiquities in the United States National Museum, 1875-87. Early Man
in Europe; Prehistoric Fishing. _Har._
=Rauch, Friedrich Augustus.= _G._, 1806-1841. A psychologist of
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, prominent among thinkers of the German
Reformed faith. Psychology: a View of the Human Soul; The Inner Life of
the Christian.
=Raum, Green Berry.= _Il._, 1829- ---- A commissioner of internal
revenue, 1876-83; later United States commissioner of pensions. The
Existing Conflict between Republican Government and Southern Oligarchy
(1884).
=Ravenel, Henry William.= _S. C._, 1814-1887. A botanist of Aiken,
South Carolina, distinguished for his knowledge of fungi. Fungi
Caroliniani Exsiccati; Fungi Americani Exsiccati (with Cooke).
=Rawle, Francis.= _E._, 1660-1727. A Quaker colonist of Pennsylvania
whose Ways and Means for the Inhabitants of Delaware to become Rich is
said to have been the first book printed by Franklin.
=Rawle, William.= _Pa._, 1759-1836. Great-grandson of F. Rawle,
_supra_. A distinguished lawyer of Philadelphia. View of the
Constitution of the United States; The Study of the Law. _See Memoir
of, by Wharton, 1840; Allibone’s Dictionary._
=Rawle, William Brooke.= _Pa._, 1843- ----. Grand-nephew of W. Rawle,
_supra_. A lawyer of Philadelphia who has published The Right Flank at
Gettysburg; With Gregg in the Gettysburg Campaign.
=Rawle, William Henry.= _Pa._, 1823-1889. Grandson of W. Rawle,
_supra_. A prominent lawyer of Philadelphia. Law of Covenants for
Title; Some Contrasts in the Growth of Pennsylvania in English Law;
Equity in Pennsylvania. _Lit._
=Rawson, Albert Leighton.= _Vt._, 1829-1902. A traveller of note who
was the author of Histories of all Religions; Antiquities of the
Orient; The Unseen World, and a number of dictionaries and vocabularies
of Oriental tongues.
=Ray, Anna Chapin.= _Ms._, 1865- ----. A writer of West Haven,
Connecticut, whose tales for juvenile reading have been popular. Cadets
of Fleming Hall; Half a Dozen Boys; Half a Dozen Girls; In Blue Creek
Cañon; Dick; Margaret Davis Tutor. _Cr._
=Ray, Isaac.= _Ms._, 1807-1881. A physician of Philadelphia.
Conversations on Animal Economy; Education in Relation to the Health of
the Brain; Mental Hygiene; Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity.
=Ray, Joseph.= _Va._, 1807-1855. A mathematician and educator of
Cincinnati, who published an Eclectic Series of Arithmetics long
popular in the Western States.
=Raymond, George Lansing.= _Il._, 1839- ----. A professor of oratory
at Princeton College from 1881. His writings in verse include,
Colony Ballads; A Life in Song; Ballads of the Revolution, and Other
Poems; Sketches in Song; Pictures in Verse. Other works of his are,
The Orator’s Manual; Modern Fishers of Men, a novel; Poetry as a
Representative Art; The Genesis of Art Form; Art in Theory; Painting,
Sculpture, and Architecture as Representative Arts; Rhythm and Harmony
in Poetry and Music; Ideals Made Real. _Put._
=Raymond, Henry Jarvis.= _N. Y._, 1820-1869. A journalist who founded
and edited The New York Times. Life of Lincoln; Political Lessons of
the Revolution; History of the Administration of Lincoln; Letters to
Mr. Yancey. _See Maverick’s Raymond and the New York Press._
=Raymond, Miner.= _N. Y._, 1811-1897. A Methodist clergyman of
Illinois, theological professor in Garrett Biblical Institute at
Evanston, Illinois, from 1864. Systematic Theology. _Meth._
=Raymond, Rossiter Worthington.= _O._, 1840- ----. A mining engineer
of Brooklyn, editor of The Engineering and Mining Journal from 1868.
Among his technical and other writings are included, Mines and Mining
of the Rocky Mountains; Mines, Mills, and Furnaces of the Pacific
Slope; Silver and Gold; Brave Hearts, a novel; The Man in the Moon, and
Other People; The Book of Job; Essays and a Metrical Paraphrase; The
Merry-Go-Round; Two Ghosts, and Other Tales. _Lo._
=Rea, Mrs. Julie [de Marguerittes] [Foster].= _E._, 1814-1866. An opera
singer and dramatic critic of Philadelphia. The Ins and Outs of Paris;
Italy and the War of 1859; Parisian Pickings.
=Read, Hollis.= _Vt._, 1802-1887. A Presbyterian foreign missionary who
after 1835 was settled over various New Jersey parishes. Journal in
India; The Hand of God in History, a very popular book at one time; The
Palace of the Great King; India and its People; The Coming Crisis of
the World; The Negro Problem Solved; The Devil in History.
=Read, Jane Maria.= _Ms._, 1853- ----. A verse-writer of Colebrook
Springs, Massachusetts, who has published, Between the Centuries, and
Other Poems.
=Read, John Meredith.= _Pa._, 1837-1896. A lawyer of Albany who was
minister to Greece 1873-79, and subsequently filled other important
diplomatic positions. An Historical Inquiry Concerning Hendrick Hudson.
=Read, Opie.= _Tn._, 1852- ----. A journalist now living in Chicago
who edited The Arkansaw Traveller for some years, and whose studies
of Arkansas life have been widely read. My Young Master; An Arkansaw
Planter; Len Gansett; Up Terrapin River; A Kentucky Colonel; On the
Suwannee River; Miss Polly Lopp, and Other Stories; The Captain’s
Romance; The Jucklins, a novel.