educator, president of several Baptist institutions. Commentary on the
Epistle to the Ephesians.
=Pattison, Thomas Harwood.= _E._, 1838-1904. A Baptist clergyman,
professor of homiletics at the Theological Seminary, Rochester, New
York. Present Day Lectures; History of the English Bible; The Making of
the Sermon; Public Worship; The Ministry of the Sunday School.
=Patton, William Macfarland.= _Va._, 1845- ----. A professor of
engineering in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Practical Treatise
on Foundations; General Treatise on Civil Engineering. _Wil._
=Payson, William Farquhar.= _N. Y._, 1876- ----. A New York novelist.
The Copymaker, a story; The Titlemongers; John Vytal; The Triumph of
Love; Debonnaire.
=Peabody, Cecil Hobart.= _Vt._, 1855- ----. A professor of naval
architecture and marine engineering in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology from 1893. Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine; Valve Gear
for Steam Engines; Steam Boilers. _Wil._
=Peabody, James Chute.= _Ms._, 1828-1900. A Newburyport journalist who
published Key Notes, a book of verse; and a translation of Dante’s
Inferno.
=Peabody, Josephine Preston.= _N. Y._, 1874- ----. A Cambridge poet.
The Wayfarers, a book of verse; Fortune and Men’s Eyes: Poems with a
Play; Marlowe, a drama; Old Greek Folk Stories; The Singing Leaves.
_Hou. Sm._
=Peabody, Selim Hobart.= _Vt._, 1829-1903. An educator, president of
the University of Illinois, 1880-1891. Natural History for Children;
Elements of Astronomy; American Patriotism.
=Peacock, Virginia Tatnall.= _Pa._, 1873- ----. A Washington
journalist. Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century. _Lip._
=Peake, Elmore Elliott.= _O._, 1871- ----. A Wisconsin writer. The
Darlingtons, a novel; The Pride of Tellfair.
=Peale, Albert Charles.= _Pa._, 1849- ----. A geologist in the
government service. Lists and Analysis of the Mineral Springs in the
United States.
=Pearse, John Barnard.= _Pa._, 1842- ----. A Philadelphia chemist
of note. A Concise History of the Iron Manufacture of the American
Colonies up to the Revolution, and of Pennsylvania to the Present.
=Pearson, Charles William.= _E._, 1846- ----. A Unitarian clergyman in
Quincy, Illinois, but prior to 1902 in the Methodist ministry and a
professor in Northwestern University. Methodism: a Retrospect and an
Outlook; The Carpenter Prophet.
=Peary, Mrs. Josephine [Diebitsch].= _D. C._, 18-- - ----. Wife of R.
E. Peary, _infra_, an Arctic explorer. My Arctic Journal; The Snow
Baby. _Sto._
=Peary, Robert Edwin.= _Pa._, 1854- ----. A noted Arctic explorer; a
civil engineer in the United States navy, with the relative rank of
lieutenant. Northward over the Great Ice: a Narrative of Life and Work
in Northern Greenland in 1886 and 1891-1897; Snowland Folk. _Sto._
=Peaslee, John Bradley.= _N. H._, 1842- ----. A prominent educator of
Cincinnati, superintendent of schools in that city, 1874-1886. Thoughts
and Experiences In and Out of School (1900); Trees and Tree Planting;
Occasional Poems and Sacred Songs.
=Peck, William Farley.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A journalist of Rochester,
New York. History of Rochester; Landmarks of Monroe County.
=Peckham, Mrs. Mary Chace [Peck].= _Ms._, 1839-1892. Wife of S. F.
Peckham, _infra_. A writer and reformer of Providence. Father Gabriel’s
Fairy; Windfalls Gathered Only for Friends, a collection of verse.
=Peckham, Stephen Farnum.= _R. I._, 1839- ----. A chemist of New York
city. Elementary Chemistry; Report on Production; Technology and Uses
of Petroleum.
=Peebles, James Martin.= _Vt._, 1822- ----. A physician and author of
Battle Creek, Michigan. Seers of the Ages; Immortality and Our Homes
Hereafter; Three Journeys Round the World; The Christ Question Settled.
=Peet, Isaac Lewis.= _Ct._, 1824-1898. Son of H. P. Peet (page 290),
and, like him, a noted instructor of deaf-mutes in New York city. A
monograph on Decimal Fractions; Language Lessons for the Deaf and
Dumb; Manual of Vegetable Physiology; Psychical Status and Criminal
Responsibility of the Uneducated Deaf Mute.
=Peirce, Augustus.= _Ms._, 1802-1849. A physician of Tyngsboro,
Massachusetts, who, while a student at Harvard College, wrote The
Rebelliad, a witty, though somewhat coarse, mock heroic metrical
satire, which appeared in 1818 and was very popular, the authorship
long remaining undisclosed.
=Peirce, Mrs. Melusina [Fay].= _Vt._, 1836- ----. A Newport writer on
domestic science. Coöperative Housekeeping.
=Pellew, Charles Ernest.= _E._, 1863- ----. A professor of chemistry
at Columbia University from 1897. Manual of Practical Medical and
Physiological Chemistry.
=Pendleton, Edmund.= _O._, 1845- ----. A novelist. A Conventional
Bohemian; A Virginia Inheritance; One Woman’s Way; A Complication in
Hearts. _Ap._
=Penfield, Frederic Courtland.= _N. Y._, 1855- ----. A diplomatist,
now (1904) resident in New York city. He was consul-general to Egypt,
1893-1897, and has held other posts in the diplomatic service. Besides
contributing to periodicals on economic and other topics, he has
published Present Day Egypt; Mahmoud Pasha. _Cent._
=Penniman, Josiah Harmar.= _Ms._, 1868- ----. A professor of English
literature in the University of Pennsylvania. The War of the Theatres.
_Gi._
=Penrose, Boies.= _Pa._, 1860- ----. A United States senator from
Pennsylvania. History of the City Government of Philadelphia.
=Penrose, Charles Bingham.= _Pa._, 1862- ----. A Philadelphia
physician. Text Book of Diseases of Women.
=Pepper, Charles Melville.= _O._, 1859- ----. A journalist of
Washington city. To-morrow in Cuba. _Har._
=Pepper, George Wharton.= _Pa._, 1867- ----. A lawyer of Philadelphia.
The Borderland of Federal and State Decisions; Pleading at Common Law
and Under the Codes; Digest and Encyclopædia of Pennsylvania Law (with
W. D. Lewis).
=Percival, Henry Robert.= _Pa._, 1854-1903. An Episcopal clergyman
of Philadelphia. A Digest of Theology; The Doctrine of the Episcopal
Church; Invocation of Saints Treated Theologically and Historically;
The Seven Ecumenical Councils of the Undivided Church. _Lgs. Put._
=Percival, Olive May Graves.= _Il._, 1868- ----. An underwriter of Los
Angeles. Mexico City: an Idler’s Notebook. _S._
=Perkins, William Oscar.= _Vt._, 1831-1902. A Boston composer who in
addition to many professional works published The War in South Africa,
or Boer and Briton.
=Perley, Sidney.= _Ms._, 1858- ----. A lawyer of Salem, Massachusetts.
Practice in the Probate Court of Massachusetts; History of Boxford,
Massachusetts; Historic Storms of New England; Poets of Essex County;
Principles of the Law of Interest; Mortuary Law; Massachusetts
Adjudicated Forms. _Hou._
=Perry, J[oseph] Frank[lin].= _Me._, 1840- ----. A Boston physician.
A Friend in Need; Health in Our Homes; Health of Our Children; Kennel
Secrets; Kennel Diseases; Dogs in Health and Disease.
=Perry, Mrs. Lilia Cabot.= _Ms._, 185- - ----. Wife of T. S. Perry
(page 293). Impressions, a book of verse; The Heart of the Weed; From
the Garden of Hellas, a translation. _Hou._
=Perry, Nelson William.= _O._, 1853-1898. An electrician who published
Electric Railway Motors.
=Peter, Philip Adam.= _G._, 1832- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of Ohio.
The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century; Saint Paul, the Great Apostle
to the Gentiles.
=Peters, John Punnett.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of
New York city, prominent as an archæologist. Nippur, or Explorations
and Adventures on the Euphrates; The Old Testament and the New
Scholarship; Some Old Testament Problems; Early Hebrew Story. _Mac.
Put._
=Peters, Madison Clinton.= _Pa._, 1859- ----. A Baptist clergyman, of
Baltimore, but formerly in the Reformed (German) ministry. Justice to
the Jew; The Great Hereafter; Empty Pews; The Panacea for Poverty;
The Path of Glory; Sanctified Spice; The Birds of the Bible; Hebrew
Heroines of Sacred Story; Wrongs to be Righted; Wit and Wisdom of the
Talmud; The Jew as a Patriot; Will Our Republic Live?
=Phelps, Charles Edward.= _Vt._, 1833- ----. A law professor in the
University of Maryland. Juridical Equity; Falstaff and Equity.
=Phelps, Charles Henry.= _Cal._, 1853- ----. A New York lawyer,
authority upon copyright law. Californian Verses.
=Phelps, Edward Bunnell.= _Ct._, 1863- ----. A journalist of New York
city. War Risks; Tropical Hazards; Universal Club Book.
=Phelps, Edward John.= _Vt._, 1822-1900. A noted lawyer and diplomat,
United States minister to England, 1885-89. Orations and Essays.
=Phelps, William Franklin.= _N. Y._, 1822- ----. An educator of St.
Paul. Teachers’ Handbook; Normal Schools of Europe and America.
=Philipson, David.= _Ind._, 1862- ----. A Jewish rabbi of Cincinnati,
professor of homiletics at the Hebrew Union College. The Jew in English
Fiction; Old European Jewries; The Oldest Jewish Congregation in the
West; Progress of the Jewish Reform Movement in the West; A Holiday
Sheaf. _Clke._
=Phillips, David Graham.= _Ind._, 1867- ----. A New York novelist.
The Great God Success; Her Serene Highness; A Woman Ventures; Golden
Fleece; The Master Rogue; The Cost. _Bo. Har._
=Phillips, John Herbert.= _Ky._, 1853- ----. A superintendent of public
schools in Birmingham, Alabama, from 1883. History and Literature in
Grammar Schools; The Negro and Education. _He._
=Phillips, Morris.= _E._, 1834-1904. For many years the proprietor
of the New York Home Journal, now Town and Country, and formerly
associated with N. P. Willis (page 427) in its management. At Home and
Abroad (1893).
=Pidgin, Charles Felton.= _Ms._, 1844- ----. A Boston novelist. Quincy
Adams Sawyer, an extremely popular tale; Blennerhassett; Mason’s Corner
Folks; Practical Statistics; Stephen Holton; The Climax. _Pa._
=Pieper, Franz August Otto.= _P._, 1852- ----. A Lutheran clergyman in
St. Louis. Grundbekenntniss der lutheranische Kirche; Lehre von Christi
Werke; Distinctive Doctrines of the Lutheran Church.
=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= _Pa._, 1874- ----. A Boston novelist,
now (1904) on the editorial staff of the Youth’s Companion. The
Pedagogues, a story of the summer school of Harvard University; The
Sentimentalists; The Triumph; Boys of Saint Timothy’s. _Scr._
=Piffard, Henry Granger.= 1842- ----. A physician who has published
Treatise on the Materia Medica and Therapeutics of the Skin; Elementary
Treatise on Diseases of the Skin; Guide to Urinary Analysis. _Ap._
=Pike, Granville Ross.= _O._, 1855- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman in
Chicago. The Divine Drama. _Mac._
=Pilch, Frederick Henry.= _N. J._, 1842-1889. A New Jersey writer whose
Homespun Verses appeared in 1889.
=Pilsbry, Henry Augustine.= _Ia._, 1862- ----. A conchologist of note,
connected with the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science. The Manual
of Conchology; Guide to the Study of Helices.
=Pinkney, Ninian.= _Md._, 1776-1825. A colonel in the United States
army, who published in 1809 Travels in the South of France and in the
Interior of Languedoc, a book widely popular in its day.
=Pitkin, Helen.= 18-- - ----. A novelist of New Orleans. An Angel by
Brevet. _Lip._
=Pittsinger, Mrs. Eliza A----.= _Ms._, 1837- ----. A California
verse-writer. Bugle Peals.
=Plummer, Mary Wright.= _Ind._, 1856- ----. A Brooklyn Librarian,
director of the Pratt Institute free library. Hints to Small Libraries;
Verses.
=Plympton, Almira George.= _Ms._, 18-- - ----. A Massachusetts writer
for young people. A Willing Transgressor; A Bud of Promise; Dear
Daughter Dorothy; Betty, a Butterfly; The Little Sister of Wilifred;
Robin’s Recruit; Penelope Prig; The Black Dog; Dorothy and Anton; Rags
and Velvet Gowns; Wanlasset; Two Dogs and a Donkey; Child of Glee; A
Flower of the Wilderness; Gerald and Geraldine and Other Stories; In
the Shadow of the Black Pine. _Lit._
=Polk, William Mecklenburg.= _Tn._, 1844- ----. A physician of New York
city. The Biography of Leonidas Polk: Bishop and General.
=Pollard, Percival.= _P._, 1869- ----. A New York littérateur, born in
Pomerania of English and German parentage, and resident in the United
States from 1885. Figaro Pictures, a collection of short stories; Cape
of Storms, a novel; The Imitator; Lingo Land; Posters in Miniature;
Dreams of To-day; The Kiss that Killed. _S._
=Pollock, Edward.= _Pa._, 1823-1858. A California lawyer and
verse-writer whose Collected Poems was published in 1876.
=Poor, Agnes Blake.= _Ms._, 18-- - ----. A writer of Brookline,
Massachusetts. Brothers and Strangers; Boston Neighbours in Town and
Out. _Put._
=Porter, Anthony Toomer.= _S. C._, 1828-1902. An Episcopal clergyman,
forty-three years rector of the Church of the Holy Communion,
Charleston. Led on Step by Step, an autobiography. _Put._
=Porter, Horace.= _Pa._, 1837- ----. A United States army officer,
brevetted brigadier-general, and minister to France from 1897. West
Point Life; Campaigning with Grant. _Cent._
=Porter, Jermain Gildersleeve.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. An astronomer of
Cincinnati. Our Celestial Home: an Astronomer’s View of Heaven; The
Stars in Song and Legend. _Gi._
=Porter, Robert Percival.= _E._, 1852- ----. A journalist of Cleveland,
superintendent of the Eleventh Census. The West; Free Trade Folly; Life
of William McKinley; Industrial Cuba; Vested Wrongs; Other People’s
Money; Municipal Ownership a Public Franchise. _Put._
=Post, Charles Cyrel.= _Mch._, 1846- ----. A Florida journalist. Driven
from Sea to Sea; Congressman Swanson; Metaphysical Essays; Men and
Gods; From Wabash to the Rio Grande.
=Post, George Edward.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman,
professor of surgery in the Syrian Protestant College, Beirut, Syria.
In Arabic he has published Flora of Syria, Palestine and Egypt; Text
Book of Surgery; Text Book of Botany, and other works, and in English,
Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai.
=Post, Melville Davisson.= _W. Va._, 1870- ----. A novelist of
Wheeling. The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason; The Man of the Last
Resort; Dwellers in the Hills. _Put._
=Potter, Elisha Reynolds.= _R. I._, 1811-1882. A Rhode Island jurist.
The Early History of Narragansett; A Brief Account of Emissions of
Paper Money made by the Colony of Rhode Island; The Bible and Prayer in
the Public Schools, include his more important works.
=Potter, Margaret Horton.= _See Black, Mrs. Margaret._
=Potter, Mary Knight.= _Ms._, 18-- - ----. A Boston writer. The
Councils of Crœsus; Love in Art; The Art of the Vatican; Peggy’s Trial;
The Art of the Louvre. _Pa._
=Potter, Samuel Otway Lewis.= _I._, 1846- ----. A San Francisco
physician among whose publications are Handbook of Materia Medica;
Pharmacy and Therapeutics; Speech and its Defects.
=Potts, Charles Sower.= _Pa._, 1864- ----. A Philadelphia physician.
Nervous and Mental Diseases.
=Potts, William.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. A civil service reformer of New
York city. From a New England Hillside; Noblesse Oblige; The Monetary
Problem; The Socialistic Method. _Mac._
=Poulsson, Anne Emilie.= _N. J._, 1853- ----. A kindergarten educator
in Boston. Nursery Finger Plays; In the Child’s World; Through the
Farmyard Gate; Child Stories and Rhymes. _Lo._
=Powderly, Terence Vincent.= _Pa._, 1849- ----. A noted labour leader,
admitted to the bar in 1894. Thirty Years of Labor.
=Powell, Aaron Macy.= _N. Y._, 1832-1899. A philanthropist of
Plainfield, New Jersey. State Regulation of Vice; Personal
Reminiscences of the Anti-Slavery and Other Reforms and Reformers.
=Powell, William Bramwell.= _N. Y._, 1836- ----. A superintendent of
public schools in Washington city from 1885. English Grammar Language
Lessons; Rational Grammar of the English Language (with L. Connolly);
History of the United States for Elementary Schools. _Am._
=Powell, William Henry.= _D. C._, 1838-1901. A lieutenant-colonel in
the United States army. The History of the Fifth Army Corps, 1861-1865;
History of the Fourth United States Infantry; Tactical Queries; Records
of Living Officers of the United States Army (1890). _Put._
=Prall, William.= _N. J._, 1853- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of
Albany, New York. Civic Christianity; The State and the Church. _Wh._
=Pratt, Anna Maria.= _Ms._, 18-- - ----. A Cleveland author. Little
Rhymes for Little People.
=Pratt, Charles Stuart.= _Ms._, 1854- ----. A writer of juvenile books.
(His wife, Mrs. E. F. Pratt, is mentioned on page 302.) By-O-Baby
Ballads; Baby’s Lullaby Book; Buz-Buz, and similar works.
=Pratt, Cornelia Atwood.= _O._, 18-- - ----. A novelist who has
published A Book of Martyrs; The Daughter of a Stoic; Dr. Berkeley’s
Discovery (with R. Slee). _Put. Scr._
=Pratt, Edwin Hartley.= _Pa._, 1849- ----. A Chicago surgeon. Orificial
Surgery; Composite Man.
=Pratt, Henry Sherring.= _O._, 1859- ----. A professor of biology in
Haverford College, Pennsylvania. A Course in Invertebrate Zoölogy. _Gi._
=Preble, William Pitt.= _Me._, 1854- ----. Brother of H. Preble (page
302). A lawyer of New York city. Patent Case Index; Collisions in
United States Waters.
=Prichard, Sarah Johnson.= _Ct._, 1830- ----. A writer of Waterbury,
Connecticut. Martha’s Hooks and Eyes; Hugh’s Fire on the Mountain;
Nat’s Shoes; Kate Morgan and her Soldiers; Kenny Carle’s Uniform;
Joe and Jim; The Old Stone Chimney; Margie’s Matches; Faye Mar; Rose
Marbury; Shawney and the Lighthouse; Aunt Sadie’s Cow; History of
Waterbury, 1674-1784; The Only Woman of the Town.
=Priestley, Joseph.= _E._, 1733-1804. A celebrated English scientist
and Unitarian theologian, who came to the United States in 1794 and
settled in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. From 1780 to 1791 he had
been pastor of a Unitarian chapel in Birmingham, but in the latter
year his house and chapel were burned by a mob. He was one of the
foremost scientists of his time, the discovery of oxygen being his most
important contribution to scientific knowledge. Among his many works
are: Rudiments of English Grammar; Theory of Language and Universal
Grammar; History and Present State of Electricity (1767); Vision,
Light, and Colours; Experiments and Observations relating to Natural
Philosophy; Familiar Letters to the People of Birmingham; General
History of the Christian Church; Notes on all the Books of Scripture;
The Doctrines of Heathen Philosophy compared with those of Revelation.
A collection of his Theological and Miscellaneous Works (excluding
those upon science) appeared in twenty-six volumes in 1817-1832. _See
Brougham’s Lives of Philosophers; Dictionary of National Biography,
volume 46._
=Prince, John.= _Ms._, 1820-1900. A citizen of Essex, Massachusetts,
of prominence in state politics, and in earlier life a Universalist
clergyman. Rural Lays and Sketches; A Wreath of Saint Crispin.
=Prince, Samuel Thornton Kemeys.= _Ct._, 1834- ----. A Chicago compiler
of crop statistics. Crop Reports; Model Farmers and Their Methods.
=Pritchett, Henry Smith.= _Mo._, 1857- ----. An astronomer,
superintendent of the government coast and geodetic survey 1897-1900,
and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1900.
Among numerous scientific monographs by him are: Determination of
the Mass of Mars; The Rotation Period of Jupiter; Eclipses of the
Satellites of Saturn.
=Prolix, Peregrine.= _See Nicklin._
=Pulitzer, Walter.= 18-- - ----. A littérateur of New York. That Duel
at the Château Marsanac; Through the Shadows; Chess Harmonies; Prose
Harmonies; Links of Life and Love. _Fu._
=Pullen, Mrs. Elizabeth [Jones] [Cavazza].= _Me._, 18-- ----. A
littérateur of Portland, Maine. Don Finimondone; Calabrian Sketches;
Mr. Whitman. _Lo._
=Pupin, Michael Idvorsky.= _Hy._, 1858- ----. A physicist and
inventor who came to the United States in 1874. He became adjunct
professor of mechanics at Columbia University in 1892, and in 1902 of
electro-mechanics. Beside professional monographs he has published
Thermodynamics of Reversible Cycles in Gases.
=Putnam, Eben Frederic.= _Ms._, 1868- ----. Son of F. W. Putnam,
_infra_. A genealogist of Salem, Massachusetts. His principal work is a
valuable History of the Putnam Family in England and America.
=Putnam, Frederic Ward.= _Ms._, 1839- ----. A noted archæologist of
Cambridge, professor of American archæology and ethnology at Harvard
University from 1886, and curator of the Peabody Museum there from
1874. His professional papers, reports, and other contributions to
science are exceedingly numerous and valuable.
=Putnam, George I[srael].= _N. Y._, 1860- ----. A newspaper publisher
in Claremont, New Hampshire, but prior to 1889 an officer in the United
States army. On the Offensive; and In Blue Uniform, are novels of army
life. _Scr._
=Putnam, John Pickering.= _Ms._, 1847- ----. An architect of Boston.
The Metric System of Weights and Measures; The Open Fireplace in All
Ages; The Principles of House Drainage; Imported Plumbing Appliances.
=Putnam, Samuel Porter.= _N. H._, 1838-1896. A writer who, after
holding successive pastorates in Congregational and Unitarian churches,
became known as an extremely radical thinker. Prometheus: a Poem; The
Golden Throne: a Radical Romance; Four Hundred Years of Free Thought.
=Pyle, Katherine.= _Del._, 18-- - ----. Sister of H. Pyle (page 306).
A writer of Wilmington, Delaware. As the Goose Flies; The Christmas
Angel; The Counterpane Fairy; In the Green Forest; When the Wind Blows;
Stories of Humble Friends; Childhood. _Dut. Lit._
=Pyle, Walter Lytle.= _Pa._, 1871- ----. A Philadelphia physician.
A Manual of Personal Hygiene; Diseases of the Eye; Cyclopedia of
Practical Medicine and Surgery; Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine.
Q
=Quad, M.= _See Lewis, C. B._ (page 229).
=Quayle, William Alfred.= _Mo._, 1860- ----. A Methodist clergyman of
Kansas City. The Poet’s Poet, and Other Essays; A Hero and Some Other
Folk; In God’s Out of Doors.
=Quesada, Gonzalo de.= _C._, 1868- ----. Minister plenipotentiary at
Washington from Cuba. Mi Primera Offenda; Patriotismo; Ygnacio Mora;
History of Free Cuba.
=Quin, Dan.= _See Lewis, Alfred Henry._
=Quin, Minnie.= _Ga._ An educator of Atlanta. May Blossoms, a book of
verse.
=Quinn, Arthur Hobson.= _Pa._, 1875- ----. An instructor in English in
the University of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Stories. _Pen._
R
=Radford, Benjamin Johnson.= _Il._, 1838- ----. A Christian (Disciples)
clergyman of Eureka, Illinois. The Court of Destiny, and Other Poems.
=Raimond, C. E.= _See Parkes, Mrs. Elizabeth._
=Ranck, George Washington.= _Ky._, 1831-1901. A writer of Lexington,
Kentucky. History of Lexington; Girty, the White Indian; The Travelling
Circus; Story of Bryan’s Station; The Bivouac of the Dead and its
Author. _Clke._
=Randall, John Witt.= _Ms._, 1813-1892. A Boston physician and
naturalist. Consolations of Solitude, a book of verse (1856); Critical
Notes on Etchers and Engravers; Poems of Nature and Life, edited by F.
E. Abbott, and including Consolations of Solitude (1899). _El._
=Randall, Thomas.= _N. H._, 1778-1869. A pastoral versifier of Eaton,
New Hampshire, the author of The Farmer’s Meditations, or Shepherd’s
Songs (1833).
=Randolph, Alfred Magill.= _Va._, 1836- ----. The first Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Southern Virginia. Reason, Faith and Authority in
Christianity. _Wh._
=Randolph, Paschal Beverley.= _N. Y._, 1825- ----. A physician of
some note at one period as a miscellaneous writer. Waa-gu-Nah; Lara;
The Grand Secret, a medical work; The Unveiling; It Isn’t All Right;
Hesperina; Dealings with the Dead; Human Love; Rosicrucian’s Love;
Wonderful Story of the Ravalette; Tom Clodd and his Wife; Pre-Adamite
Man; Dhonla Bel; Edward Price; After Death, or Disembodied Man.
=Rantoul, Robert.= _Ms._, 1805-1852. A prominent anti-slavery
congressman from Massachusetts. The Republic in the United States;
Memoirs, Letters, and Speeches, edited by Luther Hamilton (1854).