economics. Familiar Science; Science of Common Things; Our Merchant
Marine; Primer of Tariff Reform; Practical Economics; Local Taxation;
Robinson Crusoe’s Money; Study of Mexico; Recent Economic Changes;
Relation of the Tariff to Wages; Principles of Taxation; Production and
Distribution of Wealth. _Ap. Har. Put._
=Wells, Henry Parkhurst.= _R. I._, 1842- ----. A lawyer of New York
city. City Boys in the Woods; Fly Rods and Fly Tackle; The American
Salmon Fisherman. _Har._
=Wells, J---- C----.= 18-- - ----. A legal writer of Ohio. Delineation
of the Law of Limitation in Illinois; My Uncle Toby: his Table Talks
and Reflections; Questions of Law and Fact; Treatise on the Doctrines
of Res Adjudicata and Stare Decisis; On the Separate Property of
Married Women under the Separate Enabling Acts; E Pluribus Unum; Magna
Charta, or the Rise and Progress of Constitutional Civil Liberty in
England and America; The Jurisdiction of Courts; Powers and Duties of
Ohio County Commissioners.
=Wells, Mrs. Kate Gannett.= _See Wells, Mrs. Catherine._
=Wells, Samuel Roberts.= _Ct._, 1820-1875. A phrenologist of New York
city, long a member of the publishing house of Fowler & Wells. The New
Physiognomy; Wedlock, or the Right Relations of the Sexes.
=Wells, William Harvey.= _Ct._, 1812-1885. An educator of Chicago,
superintendent of the city public schools, 1856-64. Historical
Authorship of English Grammar; several popular text-books on English
Grammar.
=Wells, William Vincent.= _Ms._, 1826- ----. Great-grandson of S.
Adams, _supra_. Explorations in Honduras; Walker’s Expedition to
Nicaragua; Life of Samuel Adams.
=Welsh, Alfred Hix.= _O._, 1850-1889. A professor of English in Ohio
State University from 1885. Development of English Literature and
Language; English Literature in the Eighteenth Century; The Conflict of
Ages; Man and His Relations; Plane Trigonometry. _Sil. Sc._
=Welsh, Herbert.= _Pa._, 1851- ----. A philanthropist of Philadelphia,
prominent as a champion of the rights of the Indians. Civilization
among the Sioux Indians; Four Weeks among some of the Sioux Tribes; A
Visit to the Navajo, Pueblo, and Hualpais Indians.
=Wendell, Barrett.= _Ms._, 1855- ----. An assistant professor of
English at Harvard University. The Duchess Emilia, a romance; Rankell’s
Remains, a novel; Life of Cotton Mather, _supra_; English Composition;
Stelligeri, and Other Essays; William Shakspere, a Study in Elizabethan
Literature; Ralegh in Guiana, a play. _Do. Scr._
=Wesselhoeft, Conrad.= _G._, 1834- ----. A well-known homœopathic
physician of Boston, professor of pathology and therapeutics in the
Boston University School of Medicine, who has translated Hahnemann’s
Organon and contributed extensively to homœopathic journals.
=Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth Foster [Pope].= _Ms._, 1840- ----. Wife
of C. Wesselhoeft, _supra_. A Boston writer of popular juvenile tales.
Jerry the Blunderer; Sparrow the Tramp; Flipwing the Spy; Old Rough the
Miser; The Winds, the Woods, and the Wanderer; Frowzle, the Runaway.
_Rob._
=West, Andrew Fleming.= _Pa._, 1853- ----. A professor of Latin in
Princeton College from 1883. The Philobiblion of Richard de Bury;
Alcuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools. _Scr._
=West, Mary Allen.= _Il._, 1837-1892. An Illinois educator who was Knox
County superintendent of schools, 1873-1892. Childhood: its Care and
Culture.
=West, Nathaniel.= _I._, 1794-1864. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Philadelphia. The Ark of God the Safety of the Nation; Popery the Prop
of European Despotism; Babylon the Great; Right and Left Hand Blessings
of God; Complete Analysis of the Whole Bible.
=West, Stephen.= _Ct._, 1735-1819. A Congregational clergyman, pastor
at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1759-1819. Essay on Moral Agency; Life
of Reverend Samuel Hopkins, _supra_; Evidence of the Divinity of
Christ; Duty and Obligation of Christians to Marry Only in the Lord.
_See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._
=Westcott, Thompson.= _Pa._, 1820-1888. A Philadelphia journalist,
editor of The Sunday Dispatch, 1848-84. Life of John Fitch, the
Inventor of the Steamboat; The Tax-payer’s Guide; Official Guide to
Philadelphia; Historic Mansions of Philadelphia. _Co._
=Weston, Mrs. Mary Catherine [North].= _N. Y._, 1822-1882. Calvary
Catechism; Synopsis of the Bible; Jewish Antiquities; Biography of Old
and New Testament Characters. _Dut._
=Weston, Roxana.= 1800-1891. A verse-writer of Skowhegan, Maine, whose
poems were published in 1889.
=Wetherell, Elizabeth.= _See Warner, Susan._
=Wetherill, Charles Mayer.= _Pa._, 1825-1871. A professor of chemistry
at Lehigh University, 1866-71; The Manufacture of Vinegar.
=Wetherill, Julie K.= _See Baker, Mrs. J._
=Wetmore, Mrs. Elizabeth [Bisland].= _Ts._, 1863- ----. A journalist of
New York city. A Flying Trip Around the World. _Har._
=Wetmore, Prosper Montgomery.= _Ct._, 1798-1876. A once prominent
citizen of New York city. Lexington, and Other Fugitive Poems;
Observations on the War with Mexico.
=Wharey, James.= _N. C._, 1789-1842. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Goochland County, Virginia. Baptism; Sketches of Church History. _See
Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._
=Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth.= _Pa._, 1845- ----. A Philadelphia
writer. The Wharton Family; Virgilia; St. Bartholomew’s Eve; Colonial
Days and Dames; Through Colonial Doorways; A Last Century Maid, and
Other Stories for Children; Martha Washington, a biography. _Lip. Scr._
=Wharton, Charles Henry.= _Md._, 1748-1833. An Episcopal clergyman of
Burlington, New Jersey, rector of St. Mary’s Church, 1798-1833. Reply
to Bishop Carroll’s Address to the Roman Catholics of America; Proofs
of the Divinity of Christ; Concise View of the Principal Points of
Controversy between Protestant and Roman Catholic churches.
=Wharton, Francis.= _Pa._, 1820-1889. Son of T. I. Wharton, _infra_.
An Episcopal clergyman of Boston, professor of ecclesiastical and
international law in the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge.
Criminal Law of the United States; Medical Jurisprudence; State Trials
of the United States; The Silence of Scripture; Treatise on Theism;
Precedents of Indictments; The Law of Homicide in the United States;
The Conflict of Laws; Law of Agency and Agents; Digest of International
Law (with M. Stillé, _supra_); The Law of Negligence; Commentary on the
Law of Evidence in Civil Issues; The Law of Contracts. _Lip._
=Wharton, Henry.= _Pa._, 1827-1880. Son of T. I. Wharton, _infra_. A
lawyer of Philadelphia. Practical and Elementary Treatise on the Law of
Vicinage.
=Wharton, Thomas Isaac.= _Pa._, 1791-1856. A lawyer of Philadelphia.
Digest of Cases in United States Court, Third District; Reports of
Cases in Pennsylvania Supreme Court; Memoir of William Rawle, _supra_.
=Wharton, Thomas Isaac.= _Pa._, 1859-1896. Son of H. Wharton, _supra_.
A journalist. A Latter Day Saint; Hannibal of New York; Bobbo.
=Wheat, John Thomas.= _D. C._, 1800-1888. An Episcopal clergyman in
Tennessee who published a very popular Preparation for Holy Communion.
=Wheatley, Charles Moore.= _E._, 1822-1882. A mineralogist of
Phœnixville, Pennsylvania, who published a Catalogue of the Shells of
the United States.
=Wheatley, Phillis.= _See Peters, Mrs._
=Wheatley, Richard.= _E._, 1831- ----. A Methodist clergyman of New
Jersey. Cathedrals and Abbeys in Great Britain and Ireland. _Har._
=Wheaton, Henry.= _R. I._, 1785-1848. A diplomatist and an eminent
authority upon international law, chargé d’affaires to Denmark,
1827-35, minister to Prussia, 1835-45. History of the Progress of the
Law of Nations; Elements of International Law (completed by Lawrence);
History of the Northmen; Reports of Cases in United States Supreme
Court; Digest of Supreme Court Decisions from 1789 to 1820; Life of
William Pinkney in Sparks’s American Biography. _See Westminster
Review, July, 1847; Allibone’s Dictionary._
=Whedon, Daniel Denison.= _N. Y._, 1808-1885. A Methodist clergyman,
editor of The Methodist Quarterly Review, 1856-84. The Freedom of the
Will; Commentary on the New Testament; Commentary on the Old Testament;
Essays, Reviews, and Discourses; Statements: Theological and Critical.
_Meth._
=Wheeler, Andrew Carpenter.= “Nym Crynkle.” _N. Y._, 1835-1903. A
dramatic and musical critic of New York city. The Chronicles of
Milwaukee; The Twins, a comedy; The Primrose Path of Dalliance, a
theatrical tale.
=Wheeler, Benjamin Ide.= _Ms._, 1854- ----. A professor of comparative
philology at Cornell University from 1886, and of Greek also from 1888.
Life of Alexander the Great; The Greek Noun Accents; Introduction to
Study of History and Language. _Put._
=Wheeler, Charles Gardiner.= _Ms._, 1855- ----. Nephew of W. A.
Wheeler, _infra_. A writer formerly of Winchendon, Massachusetts, and
later of Topsham, Maine. Who Wrote It? a literary index, and Familiar
Allusions, both begun by his uncle, were completed by him. The Course
of Empire: Outlines of the Chief Political Changes in the History of
the World. _Hou._
=Wheeler, Charles Stearns.= _Me._, 1816-1843. A classical scholar who
published an edition of Herodotus from the text of Schweighäuser.
=Wheeler, Crosby Howard.= _Me._, 1823-1896. A missionary to Turkey.
Little Children in Eden; Letters from Eden; Ten Years on the Euphrates;
Odds and Ends; Grace Illustrated.
=Wheeler, David Hilton.= _N. Y._, 1829-1902. A Methodist clergyman,
president of Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, 1883-87.
Brigandage in South Italy; By-Ways of Literature; Our Industrial Utopia
and its Unhappy Citizens. _Mg._
=Wheeler, Henry Nathan.= _Ms._, 1850- ----. Formerly an instructor
in mathematics at Harvard University and now engaged in educational
publishing work in Boston. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; The
Elements of Logarithms; Second Lessons in Arithmetic. _Gi. Hou._
=Wheeler, John Hill.= _N. C._, 1806-1882. A diplomatist who was
minister to Nicaragua, 1854-57. History of North Carolina; Legislative
Manual of North Carolina; Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina.
=Wheeler, Junius Brutus.= _N. C._, 1830-1886. Brother of J. H. Wheeler,
_supra_. A military engineer, professor at West Point, 1866-85. Civil
Engineering; Art and Science of War; Elements of Field Fortifications;
Military Engineering.
=Wheeler, Mrs. Mary Sparks.= _E._, 1835- ----. A Philadelphia writer.
Poems for the Fireside; Modern Cosmogony and the Bible. _Meth._
=Wheeler, William Adolphus.= _Ms._, 1833-1874. A librarian of Boston
who, besides editing an edition of Webster’s Dictionary, was author of
Noted Names of Fiction; Familiar Allusions; Who Wrote It? a literary
index. _Hou. Le._
=Wheelwright, John Tyler.= _Ms._, 1856- ----. A Boston lawyer. Rollo’s
Journey to Cambridge (with F. Stimson, _supra_); A Child of the
Century, a novel; A Bad Penny. _Lam. Scr._
=Wheildon, William Willder.= _Ms._, 1805-1892. A journalist of
Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1827-70, and long a resident of Concord,
in the same State. Letters from Nahant; Contributions to Thought; New
History of the Battle of Bunker Hill; The Arctic Regions; Curiosities
of History.
=Whelan, James.= _I._, 1823-1878. A Roman Catholic bishop of Nashville.
Catena Aurena, or Papal Infallibility no Novelty.
=Whelpley, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1766-1817. A Baptist clergyman (from
1806 Presbyterian) and educator of New Jersey. Letters on Capital
Punishment; a once popular Compend of History; The Triangle, a
theological discussion.
=Whipple, Edwin Percy.= _Ms._, 1819-1886. A Boston essayist and
critic, whose writing was as discriminating as it was vigourous and
epigrammatic in style. Character and Characteristic Men; Literature and
Life; Essays and Reviews; Success and its Conditions; Literature of
the Age of Elizabeth; Recollections of Eminent Men, with Other Papers;
American Literature, and Other Papers; Outlooks on Society, Literature,
and Politics; Rufus Choate, a volume of personal recollections. _Har.
Hou._
=Whipple, Squire.= _Ms._, 1804-1888. A civil engineer of note. The Way
to Happiness; Treatise on Bridge Building; The Doctrine of Central
Forces.
=Whistler, James Abbott McNeill.= _Ms._, 1834-1903. An artist who from
1863 to 1892 lived in London, and in Paris from the latter date. Ten
O’Clock; The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. _Hou._
=Whitaker, Alexander.= _E._, 1588-after 1613. An Episcopal clergyman
who came to Virginia in 1611. He baptized Pocahontas, and officiated
at her wedding. Good Newes from Virginia, one of the very first books
written in the colony. _See Tyler’s American Literature._
=Whitaker, Epher.= _N. J._, 1820- ----, A Presbyterian clergyman,
pastor at Southold, Long Island, from 1851. The War of Death; New
Fruits from an Old Field; Ready for Duty; Collection of Original Hymns;
History of Southold, 1640-1740; Old Town Records.
=Whitaker, Mrs. Mary Scrimgeour [Furman] [Miller].= _S. C._,
1820- ----. A New Orleans writer. Poems; Albert Hasting, a novel.
=Whitaker, Nathaniel.= _L. I._, 1732-1795. A Presbyterian clergyman in
New England and Virginia, popular in the colonial period. Discourses on
Reconciliation; Discourses on Toryism, which were widely read.
=Whitcher, Mrs. Frances Miriam [Berry].= _N. Y._, 1812-1852. A still
popular humourist who was the wife of an Episcopal clergyman in Elmira,
New York. The Widow Bedott Papers; Widow Spriggins, and Other Sketches.
=White, Andrew Dickson.= _N. Y._, 1832- ----. A distinguished
diplomatist and educator, minister to Germany, 1879-81, and to Russia,
1892, president of Cornell University, 1867-85, appointed ambassador
to Germany in 1897. Lectures on Mediæval and Modern History; The New
Germany; History of the Doctrine of Comets; European Schools of History
and Politics; Studies in General History; Paper Money Inflation in
France; The Warfare of Science with Theology. _Ap._
=White, Carlos.= _Vt._, 1842- ----. Ecce Femina, an Attempt to Solve
the Woman Question.
=White, Catherine Ann.= _N. Y._, 1825-1878. A former Superior of the
Convent of the Sacred Heart, New York city. The Students’ Mythology;
Classical Literature; Bible Literature.
=White, Charles.= _Ind._, 1795-1861. A Congregational clergyman and
educator, president of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana,
1841-1861. Essays in Literature and Ethics.
=White, Charles Abiathar.= _Ms._, 1826- ----. The State geologist of
Iowa, 1865-70, and on the United States Geological Survey from 1882.
Report of Iowa Geological Survey; Physical Geography of Iowa.
=White, Charles Ignatius.= _Md._, 1807-1877. A Roman Catholic clergyman
of Washington, long pastor of St. Matthew’s Church. Life of Mrs. Eliza
Seton, _supra_. He translated, from the French, Chateaubriand’s Genius
of Christianity, and other works.
=White, Daniel Appleton.= _Ms._, 1776-1861. A jurist of Salem,
Massachusetts. The Jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Court of Probate;
New England Congregationalism in its Origin and Purity; Eulogy on
Nathaniel Bowditch.
=White, Eliza Orne.= _N. H._, 1856- ----. A writer of Brookline,
Massachusetts. Miss Brooks; When Molly was Six, a juvenile tale;
Winterborough; A Little Girl of Long Ago; The Coming of Theodora. _Hou.
Rob._
=White, Mrs. Ellen G---- [Harmon].= _Me._, 1828- ----. Wife of James
White, _infra_. The Spirit of Prophecy.
=White, Emerson Eldridge.= _O._, 1829-1902. An Ohio educator,
superintendent of the Cincinnati public schools from 1883. The
Elements of Pedagogy; School Management.
=White, Greenough.= _Ms._, 1863-1901. An Episcopal clergyman and
educator, professor of English at the University of the South,
Sewanee, Tennessee, 1885-1887, and professor of ecclesiastical history
and polity there from 1894. Sketch of the Philosophy of American
Literature; The Rise of Papal Supremacy; Outline of the Philosophy of
English Literature. _Gi._
=White, Henry.= _Ms._, 1790-1858. A Congregational clergyman of Maine
and New Hampshire, who published, The Early History of New England.
=White, Henry Clay.= _Md._, 1850- ----. The State chemist of Georgia
from 1880. Complete History of the Cotton Plant; Elementary Geology of
Tennessee (with MacAdoo).
=White, Horace.= _N. H._, 1834- ----. A journalist, editor of The
Chicago Tribune, 1864-74, and since 1883 one of the editors of The New
York Evening Post. The Silver Question; The Tariff Question; Coin’s
Financial Fool; Money and Banking Illustrated by American History; The
Gold Standard. _Gi._
=White, James.= _Me._, 1821- ----. A Seventh Day Adventist elder who
published Life Incidents of the Great Advent Movement.
=White, James Terry.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. A publisher of New York city,
but formerly a resident of San Francisco. His volumes of original verse
comprise, Christmas Greeting; Bouquet of California Flowers; Flowers
from Arcady; Captive Memories.
=White, John.= _Ms._, 1677-1760. A Congregational clergyman, pastor
at Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1703-60. The Gospel Treasure in Earthen
Vessels; New England’s Lamentations for the Decay of Godliness (1735).
=White, John Blake.= _S. C._, 1781-1857. An artist, lawyer,
and dramatist of Charleston. Foscari; Mysteries of the Castle;
Intemperance; Modern Honor; Triumph of Liberty.
=White, John Silas.= _Ms._, 1847- ----. An educator of New York city,
master of the Berkeley School from 1880. Boys’ and Girls’ Plutarch;
Herodotus and Pliny. _Gi._
=White, John Williams.= _O._, 1849- ----. A professor of Greek at
Harvard University from 1877. Greek and Latin at Sight; First Lessons
in Greek; The Beginner’s Greek Book; An Illustrated Dictionary to
Xenophon’s Anabasis (with M. H. Morgan). _Gi._
=White, Matthew.= _N. Y._, 1857- ----. An editor and novelist of New
York city. One of the Profession; The Affair at Islington; A Born
Aristocrat.
=White, Pliny Holton.= _Ct._, 1822-1869. A Unitarian clergyman of
Coventry, Vermont, but prior to 1859 a lawyer there. History of
Coventry.
=White, Mrs. Rhoda Elizabeth [Waterman].= 18-- - ----. Portraits of My
Married Friends; From Infancy to Womanhood, a Book for Young Mothers;
What Will the World Say?
=White, Richard Grant.= _N. Y._, 1822-1885. An eminent Shakespearean
scholar and littérateur of New York city. His critical twelve-volume
edition of Shakespeare appeared in 1865, and the Riverside edition in
1883. His original works comprise, Words and Their Uses; Every-Day
English; England Without and Within; Biographical and Critical Handbook
of Christian Art; Shakespeare’s Scholar; Memoirs of Shakespeare;
Studies in Shakespeare; The New Gospel of Peace, a political satire;
Revelations: a Companion to The New Gospel of Peace; The Fate of
Mansfield Humphreys, a novel; The Fall of Man, or the Loves of the
Gorillas; The American View of the Copyright Question; The Chronicles
of Gotham. _See Atlantic Monthly, February, 1882; Foley’s American
Authors._ _Hou._
=White, Sallie Joy.= _See White, Mrs. Sarah._
=White, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth [Joy].= _Me._, 18-- - ----. A Boston
journalist. Housekeepers and Homemakers; Business Openings for Girls.
_Lo._
=White, William.= _Pa._, 1748-1836. The first Protestant Episcopal
bishop of Pennsylvania. Memoir of the Episcopal Church; Lectures on the
Catechism; Comparative View of the Controversy Between Calvinists and
Arminians, are among his writings. _See Life by Bird Wilson, 1839;
Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._ _Dut._
=White, William Allen.= _Ks._, 1868- ----. The Real Issue, and Other
Stories; Stratagems and Spoils.
=White, William Charles.= _Ms._, 1777-1818. A lawyer and dramatist
of Worcester, Massachusetts. The Country Cousin; The Poor Lodger;
Compendium of the Laws of Massachusetts.
=White, William N----.= _N. Y._, 1819-1861. A bookseller of Athens,
Georgia, who edited The Southern Cultivator. Gardening for the South;
Scientific Gardening.
=Whitehead, Charles Edward.= _N. Y._, 1829- ----. The Campfires of the
Everglades, or Wild Sports in the South.
=Whitehead, William Adee.= _N. J._, 1810-1884. A prominent citizen
of Newark, New Jersey. Biographical Sketch of William Franklin;
Contributions to the Early History of Perth Amboy; East Jersey Under
the Proprietary Governments.
=Whiteley, Mrs. Isabel [Nixon].= _N. Y._, 1859- ----. A Philadelphia
writer. The Falcon of Langéac, a romance. _Cop._
=Whitfield, Henry.= _E._, 1597-1658. A Puritan clergyman who came to
New England in 1637, and was one of the founders of the New Haven
colony. He returned to England in 1650. Helps to stir up to Christian
Duties; The Light Appearing; Strength out of Weakness.
=Whiting, Charles Goodrich.= _Vt._, 1842- ----. A journalist of
Springfield, Massachusetts, on the editorial staff of The Republican.
The Saunterer: Essays on Nature. _Hou._
=Whiting, Henry.= _Ms._, _c._ 1790-1851. A United States army officer.
Otway, the Son of the Forest, a Poem; Sanilæ, a Poem; The Age of Steam;
Life of Zebulon Pike, in Sparks’s American Biography.
=Whiting, Lilian.= _N. Y._, 1855- ----. A Boston journalist. From
Dreamland Sent, verse; The World Beautiful, two collections of essays;
After her Death; A Study of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Kate Field: A
Record. _Lit._
=Whiting, Samuel.= _E._, 1597-1679. A Puritan clergyman, pastor at
Lynn, Massachusetts, 1636-79. Oratio quam Comitijs Cantab. Americanis,
etc.; The Last Judgment; Abraham Interceding for Sodom.
=Whiting, William.= _Ms._, 1813-1873. Descendant of S. Whiting,
_supra_. A Boston jurist whose chief work, The War Powers of the
President and the Legislative Powers of Congress, has been widely read.
_See Duyckinck’s American Literature._ _Le._
=Whitlock, George Clinton.= _Vt._, 1808- ----. A Methodist clergyman
and educator of Iowa. Elements of Geometry; New System of Surveying.
=Whitman, Bernard.= _Ms._, 1796-1834. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at
Waltham, Massachusetts, 1826-34, and prominent as a controversialist.
On Denying the Lord Jesus; Letters on Religious Liberty; Village
Sermons; Friendly Letters to a Universalist. _See Sprague’s Annals of
the American Pulpit; Memoir by J. Whitman, infra._
=Whitman, Charles Otis.= _Me._, 1842- ----. A naturalist of note,
head professor of zoölogy in the University of Chicago from 1892. He
established The Journal of Morphology in 1887. Methods of Research in
Microscopical Anatomy and Embryology.
=Whitman, Jason.= _Ms._, 1798-1848. Brother of B. Whitman, _supra_. A
Unitarian clergyman of Portland, Maine. Memoir of B. Whitman, _supra_;
Young Man’s Assistant; Young Lady’s Aid to Usefulness; Week Day
Religion; Discussions on the Lord’s Prayer.
=Whitman, Mrs. Sarah Helen [Power].= _R. I._, 1813-1878. A poet of
Providence whose Still Day in Autumn, her finest effort, still finds an
honoured place in anthologies. Hours of Life, and Other Poems; Edgar
Poe and his Critics. A complete edition of her poems appeared in 1879.
_See Easy Chair of Harper’s Magazine, September, 1878._