Fishkill, New York. Skeleton Routes through England, etc.; Treatise on
Landscape Gardening. _Ap._

=Sargent, John Osborne.= _Ms._, 1811-1891. Brother of E. Sargent,
_supra_. A lawyer and journalist of New York city. He translated Grün’s
Last Knight; and published, also, Papers for the Times by a Berkshire
Farmer; and Horatian Echoes: Translation of the Odes of Horace. _Hou._

=Sargent, Lucius Manlius.= _Ms._, 1786-1867. Brother of H. W. Sargent,
_supra_, and a distant cousin of W. Sargent, 1st, _infra_. A once
prominent temperance advocate of Boston. Temperance Tales, a very
popular work; Dealings with the Dead; The Irrepressible Conflict;
Hubert and Ellen, and Other Poems; Translations from the Minor Latin
Poets. _See Reminiscences of, by Sheppard, 1889._

=Sargent, Nathan.= _Vt._, 1794-1875. A journalist and politician. Life
of Henry Clay; Public Men and Events (1875).

=Sargent, Winthrop.= _Ms._, 1753-1820. A patriot soldier in the
Revolutionary War, governor of Northwest Territory, 1798-1800, and
of Mississippi Territory, 1790 and 1801. Papers Relating to Certain
American Antiquities; Boston, a poem.

=Sargent, Winthrop.= _Pa._, 1825-1870. Grandson of W. Sargent, _supra_.
A lawyer of New York city. Life of Major André, a work displaying much
research. He also edited the History of Braddock’s Expedition, from
Original Papers.

=Sartwell, Henry Parker.= _Ms._, 1792-1867. A botanist and physician
of Penn Yan, New York, who from 1840 devoted his attention to the
genus Carex. His herbarium of more than eight thousand specimens is in
Hamilton College. Carices Americanæ Exsiccatæ.

=Satterlee, Henry Yates.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. The first Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Washington, prior to 1896 a prominent clergyman of
New York city. A Creedless Gospel and the Gospel Creed. _Scr._

=Saunders, Frederick.= _E._, 1807-1902. The librarian of the Astor
Library, New York city, 1859-96. New York in a Nut-Shell; Salad for the
Solitary and Salad for the Social; Memoirs of the Great Metropolis; The
Story of Some Famous Books; Story of the Discovery of the New World by
Columbus (1892); Pastime Papers; Stray Leaves of Literature; Character
Studies. _Ran. Wh._

=Savage, Edward Hartwell.= _N. H._, 1812-1893. A Boston policeman and
justice of the peace. Boston Police Recollections; Five Thousand Boston
Events, 1630-1880.

=Savage, James.= _Ms._, 1784-1873. A Boston lawyer eminent as a
genealogist. He is best known as the author of a Genealogical
Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, upon which twenty
years of labour were expended.

=Savage, John.= _I._, 1828-1888. A journalist of New York city, and
subsequently of Washington. Poems; Picturesque Ireland; Lays of
the Folkstead; Modern Revolutionary History of Ireland; Our Living
Representative Men; Life of Andrew Johnson; Fenian Heroes and Martyrs;
Sibyl, a tragedy; and several other plays.

=Savage, Minot Judson.= _Me._, 1841- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of
prominence among radical thinkers, pastor of Unity Church, Boston,
1874-96, and, since the latter year, of the Church of the Messiah in
New York city. Christianity the Science of Manhood; Beliefs About Man;
Belief in God; Life Questions; Poems; The Religion of Evolution; The
Religion of Morals; Talks About Jesus; The Modern Sphinx; Man, Woman,
and Child; Social Problems; My Creed; Religious Reconstruction; Signs
of the Times; Helps for Daily Living; Four Great Questions Concerning
God; The Evolution of Christianity; Is This a Good World?; Jesus
and Modern Life; A Man; Light on the Cloud; Bluffton, a novel; The
Minister’s Handbook. _See Men of Progress of Massachusetts._ _El._

=Savage, Philip Henry.= _Ms._, 1868-1899. Son of M. J. Savage, _supra_.
A Boston littérateur. First Poems and Fragments. _Cop._

=Savage, Richard Henry.= _N. Y._, 1846-1903. A novelist. My Official
Wife; For Life and Love; A Daughter of Judas; The Anarchist; Delilah of
Harlem; In the Old Chateau; The Little Judge of Lagunitas; The Masked
Venus; The Flying Halcyon; Miss Devereux of the Mariquita; After Many
Years, and Other Poems. _Ne._

=Sawtelle, Henry Allen.= _Me._, 1832-1885. A Baptist clergyman of San
Francisco and elsewhere. Open Communion; Things to Think Of. _Ne._

=Sawyer, Mrs. Caroline Mehetabel [Fisher].= _Ms._, 1812-1894. Wife of
T. J. Sawyer, _infra_. The Poetry of Hebrew Tradition.

=Sawyer, Frederick William.= _Me._, 1810-1875. A Boston lawyer.
Merchant’s and Shipmaster’s Guide; Plea for Amusements; Hits at
American Whims.

=Sawyer, Leicester Ambrose.= _N. Y._, 1807-1898. A Presbyterian
clergyman and educator, after 1860 a resident of Whitesboro, New York,
prominent as a biblical scholar. Elements of Biblical Interpretation;
Mental Philosophy; Moral Philosophy; A Critical Exposition of Baptism;
Organic Christianity; Reconstruction of Bible Theories. He made a
translation of the Scriptures, of which the New Testament was published.

=Sawyer, Lemuel.= _N. C._, 1777-1852. A North Carolina lawyer. Life of
John Randolph; Autobiography.

=Sawyer, Thomas Jefferson.= _Vt._, 1804-1899. A Universalist clergyman
and educator, after 1869 a professor of theology at Tufts College.
Doctrine of Eternal Salvation; Who Is God,--the Son or the Father?;
Endless Punishment in the Very Words of its Advocates.

=Saxe, John Godfrey.= _Vt._, 1816-1887. A lawyer and littérateur of
Vermont and subsequently of New York, widely known as a humourous poet.
Progress; A New Rape of the Lock; The Proud Miss McBride; The Money
King; Clever Songs of Many Nations; The Masquerade; Leisure Day Rhymes;
Fables and Lyrics in Rhyme. _Hou._

=Say, Thomas.= _Pa._, 1787-1834. A zoölogist who was the first curator
of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. In 1825 he removed to
New Harmony, Indiana, and was the agent of the Owen socialist colony
there. Vocabularies of Indian Languages; American Conchology; American
Entomology. His Complete Writings on Conchology have been edited by
Binney, and those on Entomology by Le Conte. _See Memoir by Ord._

=Sayles, John.= _N. Y._, 1825-1897. A Texas jurist, professor in Baylor
University from 1880. Practice in the District and Supreme Courts
of Texas; Civil Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in the State
of Texas; Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions in the Courts of
Texas; Probate Laws of Texas; Laws of Business; Constitution of Texas,
with Notes; Notes on Texan Reports, include the larger number of his
professional writings. _See Bibliography of Texas._

=Sayre, Lewis Albert.= _N. J._, 1820-1900. A distinguished surgeon of
New York city, professor of orthopædic surgery in Bellevue Hospital
College. Practical Manual of the Treatment of Club-Foot; Lectures on
Orthopædic Surgery; Spinal Curvature and its Treatment. _Ap._

=Scarborough, William Saunders.= _Ga._, 1852- ----. An educator
of African descent, professor of ancient languages in Wilberforce
University, Ohio, from 1877. First Lessons in Greek; Theory and
Functions of the Thematic Vowel in the Greek Verb.

=Schaeffer= [shā´fe̯r], =Charles Frederick.= _Pa._, 1807-1879. Son of
F. D. Shaeffer, _infra_. A Lutheran clergyman and educator, professor
of systematic theology in the Lutheran Theological Seminary at
Philadelphia, 1864-76. A System of Lutheran Theology is one of several
important works which he translated from the German. _See American
Lutheran Biographies._

=Schaeffer, Charles William.= _Md._, 1813-1896. Nephew of C. F.
Schaeffer, _supra_. A Lutheran clergyman and educator of eminence,
professor of church history in the Philadelphia Lutheran Seminary from
1864. History of the Lutheran Church in the United States; Family
Prayers.

=Schaeffer, Frederick David.= _G._, 1760-1836. A once prominent
Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia. Antwort auf eine Vertheidigung der
Methodisten; Eine herzliche Anrede.

=Schaff= [shäf], =Philip.= _Sd._, 1819-1893. A distinguished
German Reformed divine who came to the United States in 1844, and
was professor of church history in the seminary at Mercersburg,
Pennsylvania, 1844-63. In 1873 he became professor of sacred literature
in Union Seminary in New York city. Principles of Protestantism;
History of the Christian Church; Creeds of Christendom; Theological
Propædeutics; Christ and Christianity; Critical Edition of the
Heidelberg Catechism; Bible Revision; Through Bible Lands; Progress of
Religious Freedom; Church and State in the United States; The Person
of Christ; Literature and Poetry; A Companion to the Greek Testament
and the English Version, include his principal original works. He has
edited the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopædia of Religious Knowledge; Lange’s
Commentary, and other important works. _Fu. Har. Ran. Scr. Wh._

=Scharf, John Thomas.= _Md._, 1843-1898. An historical writer of
Baltimore. Chronicles of Baltimore; History of Maryland; History of
Baltimore; History of Western Maryland; History of the City of St.
Louis; History of Philadelphia; History of the Confederate Navy;
History of Delaware.

=Schauffler= [show´fler], =William Gottlieb.= _G._, 1798-1883. A
Congregational missionary in Turkey well known as a linguist. He
translated the Bible into Hebrew-Spanish and Turkish, and also wrote
Essay on the Right Use of Property; Meditations on the Last Days of
Christ. _See Autobiography, 1887._ _Ran._

=Schayer, Mrs. Julia [Thompson] [von Storch].= _Me._, 1840- ----. A
Washington writer. The Tiger Lily, and Other Stories.

=Schem= [shem], =Alexander Jacob.= _G._, 1826-1881. A statistician of
note who was assistant superintendent of schools in New York city,
1874-81. Latin-English Dictionary (with G. Crooks, _supra_); Statistics
of the World; Cyclopædia of Education (with H. Kiddle, _supra_).

=Schenck, William Edward.= _N. J._, 1819-1903. A Presbyterian minister
of Philadelphia. Children in Heaven; Nearing Home; The Fountain for
Sin; Church Extension in Cities.

=Schereschewsky, Samuel Isaac Joseph.= _R._, 1831- ----. The third
Protestant Episcopal bishop of the China Mission. He was consecrated
in 1877, but resigned his office in 1883 and lived for some years in
Cambridge, but since 1895 has lived at Shanghai. He is the author of a
translation of the Bible into Chinese.

=Schiefflin= [shĕf´lin], =Samuel Bradhurst.= _N. Y._, 1811-1900. A
business man of New York city who wrote on religious topics. Message to
the Ruling Elders; Foundations of History; Words to Christian Teachers;
The Church in Ephesus and the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches.

=Schindler, Solomon.= _Sil._, 1842- ----. A Hebrew clergyman now
(1897) living in Cambridge but formerly in charge of Temple Adath
Israel, Boston. Young West, a sequel to “Looking Backward;” Messianic
Exhortations and Modern Judaism; Dissolving Views on the History of
Judaism. _Ar. Le._

=Schley, Winfield Scott.= _Md._, 1839- ----. A naval officer and
explorer who published (with J. R. Soley, _infra_) The Rescue of
Greeley. _Scr._

=Schmauk= [shmowk], =Theodore Emmanuel.= _Pa._, 1860- ----. A Lutheran
clergyman of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, editor of The Lutheran from 1889,
and author of The Negative Criticism.

=Schmidt, Henry Immanuel.= _Pa._, 1806-1889. A Lutheran clergyman and
educator of New York city, professor of German in Columbia College,
1848-80. History of Education; The Lutheran Doctrine of the Lord’s
Supper; Course of American Geography.

=Schmucker, Beale Melanchthon.= _Pa._, 1827-1888. Son of S. S.
Schmucker, _infra_. A Lutheran clergyman of Pittsville, Pennsylvania,
1881-88. A liturgical scholar of note, editor of The Church Book of the
General Council, and of The Church Service, 1888.

=Schmucker, Samuel Mosheim.= _Va._, 1823-1863. Son of S. S. Schmucker,
_infra_. A Philadelphia author who was in the early part of his career
a Lutheran minister. His various writings, which display industry
rather than original talent, comprise for the most part Errors of
Modern Infidelity; The Spanish Wife, a play; History of the Four
Georges; History of All Religions; Court and Reign of Catharine II.;
Lives of Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Webster, Clay, Dr. Kane,
Frémont; Memorable Scenes in French History; History of the Modern
Jews; History of Napoleon Third; Arctic Explorations; History of the
Civil War in the United States (1863). _Co._

=Schmucker, Samuel Simon.= _Md._, 1799-1873. A Lutheran clergyman
and educator, professor in the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg,
1826-64. He was an advocate of American Lutheranism as characterized
by indifference to the distinctive doctrines of Lutheranism. Elements
of Popular Theology; Psychology; Lutheran Manual; Lutheran Symbols, or
American Lutheranism Vindicated; Church of the Redeemer; The Unity of
Christ’s Church, are his chief works. _Ran._

=Schneck, Benjamin Shroder.= _Pa._, 1806-1874. A Lutheran clergyman,
pastor at Chambersburg from 1855. Die deutsche Kanzel; The Burning of
Chambersburg; Mercersburg Theology.

=Schodde, George Henry.= _Pa._, 1854- ----. A Lutheran clergyman and
educator of Ohio, professor at Capitol University from 1880. The Book
of Enoch translated from the Ethiopic, with Notes; A Day in Capernaum,
from the German of Delitzsch.

=Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe.= _N. Y._, 1793-1864. An eminent ethnologist
and geologist, thirty years of whose life were spent among the Indians,
chiefly at Mackinaw. His later life was passed in Washington. He
discovered the source of the Mississippi. Among his many works are
included, View of the Lead Mines of Missouri; Algic Discoveries;
Historical Information Concerning the Indian Tribes; Narrative of
an Expedition to Itasca Lake; Oneota, reissued as The Indian and
His Wigwam; The Myth of Hiawatha; Personal Memoirs of Thirty Years’
Residence with Indian Tribes; Scenes and Adventures in the Ozark
Mountains; Life of General Cass, and several volumes of verse. His
talents lay rather in accumulating facts than in perceiving their
relations to each other. _Lip._

=Schoolcraft, Mrs. Mary [Howard].= _S. C._, ---------. Wife of H. R.
Schoolcraft, _supra_. The Black Gauntlet, a Tale of Plantation Life.
_Lip._

=Schouler= [skool´er], =James.= _Ms._, 1839- ----. Son of W.
Schouler, _infra_. A lawyer and historian of Boston, professor in the
law school of Boston University. The Law of Bailments; The Law of
Personal Property; The Law of Husband and Wife; Law of Executors and
Administrators; Law of Wills; A History of the United States under the
Constitution; Life of Thomas Jefferson; Historical Briefs. _Do. Lit._

=Schouler, William.= _S._, 1814-1872. A journalist of Boston who
published A History of Massachusetts during the Civil War.

=Schroeder, John Frederick.= _Md._, 1800-1857. An Episcopal clergyman
and educator of Flushing, Long Island. Life of Washington; Maxims of
Washington; Class Book of Astronomy; Sunday Addresses. _Ap._

=Schuette, Conrad Herman Louis.= _G._, 1843- ----. A Lutheran clergyman
and educator of Ohio, professor in Capitol University from 1872. Church
Member’s Manual; The State, the Church, and the School.

=Schulte, Mrs. Mary Jemima [McColl].= _E._, 1847- ----. A verse-writer
of Jersey City. Bide a Wee, and Other Poems.

=Schurman, Jacob Gould.= _P. E. I._, 1854- ----. A Canadian educator,
since 1892 president of Cornell University. Kantian Ethics and the
Ethics of Evolution; The Ethical Import of Darwinism; Belief in God;
Agnosticism and Religion. _Scr._

=Schurz= [shoorts], =Carl.= _P._, 1829- ----. A statesman of eminence,
active in the support of civil service reform. He came to America in
1852; settled in Missouri, from which he went to Congress as senator;
served as general in the Union army during the Civil War; removed to
New York city in 1875, and was editor of The Evening Post, 1881-84.
Speeches; Life of Henry Clay; Abraham Lincoln: an Essay. _Hou. Le. Lip._

=Schuyler= [sky´le̯r], =Aaron.= _N. Y._, 1828- ----. A mathematician
who was professor in Baldwin University and president of that
institution, 1875-81, and since 1885 a professor in Kansas Wesleyan
University. The Human Soul; Higher Arithmetic; Principles of Logic;
Surveying and Navigation; Elements of Geometry; Empirical and Rational
Psychology.

=Schuyler, Anthony.= _N. Y._, 1816-1900. An Episcopal clergyman,
rector of Grace Church at Orange, New Jersey, from 1868, and author of
Household Religion.

=Schuyler, Eugene.= _N. Y._, 1840-1890. Son of G. W. Schuyler,
_infra_. A diplomatist who was United States secretary of legation at
St. Petersburg, 1870-76, secretary of legation and consul-general at
Constantinople, 1876-78, and minister to Greece, 1882-84. Peter the
Great as Ruler and Reformer; Turkistan; American Diplomacy and the
Furtherance of Commerce. _Scr._

=Schuyler, George Washington.= _N. Y._, 1810-1888. A prominent State
official of New York for many years. Colonial New York; Philip Schuyler
and his Family. _Scr._

=Schuyler, Montgomery.= _N. Y._, 1814-1896. Cousin of Anthony Schuyler,
_supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of St. Louis, rector of Christ Church
from 1854. The Church: its Ministry and Worship; The Pioneer Church.

=Schuyler, Montgomery.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. Son of Anthony Schuyler,
_supra_. A journalist of New York city on the staff of The Times.
Studies in American Architecture. _Har._

=Schwatka, Frederick.= _Ill._, 1849-1892. A naval officer and explorer.
In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers; Nimrod in the North; Along
Alaska’s Great River; The Children of the Cold. _See Schwatka’s Search,
by W. H. Gilder, supra._ _Cas._

=Schweinitz, Edmund Alexander de.= _Pa._, 1825-1887. Son of L. D. de
Schweinitz, _infra_. A Moravian bishop in Pennsylvania, president
of the Moravian College, 1867-84. The Moravian Manual; The Moravian
Episcopate; Life of Zeisberger, the Western Pioneer and Apostle to the
Indians; Some of the Fathers of the American Moravian Church; History
of the Church known as the Unitas Fratrum; Systematic Benevolence.

=Schweinitz, George Edmund de.= _Pa._, 1858- ----. Son of E. A.
de Schweinitz, _supra_. A Philadelphia physician of note as an
ophthalmologist who has written Diseases of the Eye, and professional
monographs and papers.

=Schweinitz, Lewis David de.= _Pa._, 1780-1834. A Moravian clergyman of
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, famous in his day as a botanist. Conspectus
Fungorum Lusatiæ; Synopsis Fungorum Carolinæ Superioris; Synopsis
Fungorum in America; Boreali Media Digentium. _See Memoir of, by W. R.
Johnson, supra._

=Scollard, Clinton.= _N. Y._, 1860- ----. An educator of Clinton, New
York, professor of English literature and Anglo-Saxon at Hamilton
College, 1888-1896, and a well-known poet of the day. His writings in
verse include, Pictures in Song; With Reed and Lyre; Old and New World
Lyrics; Giovio and Giulia; Songs of Sunrise Lands; Hills of Song;
Skenandoa; A Boy’s Book of Rhyme. In prose he has published, Under
Summer Skies; On Sunny Shores; A Man-at-Arms. _Hou. Lo. Sto._

=Scott, Charles.= _Tn._, 1811-1861. Son of E. Scott, _infra_. A lawyer
of Jackson, Mississippi. Analogy of Ancient Craft Masonry to Natural
and Revealed Religion; The Keystone of the Masonic Arch.

=Scott, Eben[ezer] Greenough.= _Pa._, 1836- ----. A writer of
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Development of Constitutional Liberty in
the English Colonies of America; Commentaries upon the Intestate System
of Pennsylvania; Reconstruction During the Civil War in the United
States of America. _Hou. Put._

=Scott, Edward.= _Va._, 1774-1852. A Tennessee lawyer, prominent in the
State’s early history, who published Laws of the State of Tennessee, in
1822.

=Scott, Henry Lee.= _N. C._, 1814-1886. Son-in-law of Winfield Scott,
_infra_. An army officer who served in the Mexican and Civil Wars, and
was the author of A Military Dictionary.

=Scott, John.= _Pa._, 1820- ----. A Methodist Protestant clergyman of
Cincinnati. Pulpit Echoes; The Land of Sojourn.

=Scott, Mrs. Julia H---- [Kinney].= _Pa._, 1809-1842. A verse-writer
of Towanda, Pennsylvania, whose Poems, with Memoir, were posthumously
published.

=Scott, Robert Nicholson.= _Tn._, 1838-1887. Son of W. A. Scott,
_infra_. An army officer, in charge of the publication of war records
at Washington, 1877-87, who published a Digest of the Military Laws of
the United States.

=Scott, William Anderson.= _Tn._, 1813-1885. A Presbyterian clergyman
of San Francisco, professor in the Theological Seminary there from
1871. The Bible and Politics; Strauss and Renan; Daniel: a Model for
Young Men; Achan in El Dorado; The Giant Judge; The Church in the Army;
The Christ of the Apostles’ Creed; Trade and Letters, include his chief
work.

=Scott, Winfield.= _Va._, 1786-1866. A famous general who served in the
War of 1812, and was commander-in-chief of the American army during the
war with Mexico. General Regulations of the Army; System of Infantry
and Rifle Tactics; Autobiography (1864). _See Lives by Mansfield, 1846,
Headley, 1852, Victor, 1861; and United States histories._

=Scouller, James Brown.= _Pa._, 1820-1899. A prominent United
Presbyterian clergyman. Manual of the United Presbyterian Church;
History of the United Presbyterian Church; Calvinism: its History and
Influence.

=Scoville, Joseph A----.= “Walter Barrett.” _Ct._, 1811-1864. A
journalist of New York city, clerk of the Common Council, and at one
period private secretary to Calhoun. Adventures of Clarence Bolton, or
Life in New York; The Old Merchants of New York; Vigor, a novel; Marion.

=Scripture, Edward Wheeler.= _N. H._, 1864- ----. A scientist,
director of the physical laboratory of Yale University. Thinking,
Feeling, Doing, a popular psychology; The New Psychology; Studies from
the Yale Physical Laboratory. Among his various monographs the more
important are those on the association of ideas and the measurement of
hallucinations. _Fl._

=Scudder, Eliza.= _Ms._, 1821-1896. Cousin of H. E. Scudder, _infra_. A
hymn-writer of Massachusetts. Hymns and Sonnets. _Hou._

=Scudder, Henry Martyn.= _Cy._, 1822-1895. Son of J. Scudder, _infra_.
A Presbyterian clergyman and missionary, pastor in Chicago, 1883-87,
and from 1887 a missionary in Japan. He published, in the Tamil
language, Liturgy of the Dutch Reformed Church; The Bazaar Book; Sweet
Savors of Divine Truth; Spiritual Teaching.

=Scudder, Horace Elisha.= _Ms._, 1838-1902. A Boston littérateur,
editor of The Atlantic Monthly, 1890-1898. Seven Little People and
their Friends; Dream Children; Stories from my Attic; The Dwellers in
Five-Sisters Court; Stories and Romances; Boston Town; Life of Noah
Webster; A History of the United States; A Short History of the United
States; Book of Fables; Book of Folk Stories; George Washington: an
Historical Biography; Men and Letters, essays; Childhood in Literature
and Art; Recollections of Samuel Breck; The Bodley Books, a series of
popular juveniles; James Russell Lowell: a Biography. _Co. Hou. Scr.
Sh._

=Scudder, John.= _N. J._, 1793-1855. A Dutch Reformed missionary and
physician in Ceylon, 1820-39. Letters from the East; Letters to Pious
Young Men; Promises for Passing Over Jordan. _See Memoir by J. B.
Waterbury, 1856._

=Scudder, John Milton.= _O._, 1829-1894. A Cincinnati physician and
educator, long a professor in the Eclectic Medical Institute. Diseases
of Women; Principles of Medicine; Specific Medication; The Reproductive
Organs; Specific Diagnosis.

=Scudder, Moses Lewis.= _Ms._, 1843- ----. A broker of Chicago. Brief
Honors, a romance; Almost an Englishman; National Banking; Congested
Prices; The Labor Value Prophecy.

=Scudder, Samuel Hubbard.= _Ms._, 1837- ----. Brother of H. E. Scudder,
_supra_. A naturalist of Cambridge. The Butterflies of the Eastern
United States and Canada; Butterflies, their Structure, Changes, and
Life Histories; Brief Guide to the Commoner Butterflies; The Life of
a Butterfly; Frail Children of the Air: Excursions into the World of
Butterflies; A Century of Orthoptera; The Fossil Insects of North
America. _Ho. Hou. Mac._

=Scudder, Vida Dutton.= _E. I._, 1861- ----. Niece of H. E. Scudder,
_supra_. An educator of Massachusetts, professor in Wellesley College.
How the Rain Sprites were Freed; The Life of the Spirit in the Modern
English Poets; The Witness of Denial; The Prometheus Unbound of
Shelley. _Dut. He. Hou._

=Seabury, Samuel.= _Ct._, 1729-1796. The first Protestant Episcopal
bishop of Connecticut. He was the first American bishop and the first
presiding bishop. Being refused consecration by the Anglican Church, he
was consecrated at Aberdeen, Scotland, and through him the Episcopal
Church in the United States derives its succession from the Church in
Scotland. During the early days of the American Revolution he attracted
much attention by his pamphlets signed A. W. Farmer, which sharply
criticised the actions of the patriots. They include, Free Thoughts on
the Proceedings of the Continental Congress; The Continental Congress
Canvassed; View of the Controversy between Great Britain and her
English Colonies. His Sermons have been issued in three volumes. _See
Life by E. E. Beardsley, 1881; Seabury Centennial Commemoration._

=Seabury, Samuel.= _Ct._, 1801-1872. Grandson of S. Seabury,
_supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, prominent among
High Churchmen, and professor in the General Theological Seminary.
Continuity of the Church of England; Mary the Virgin; Historical Sketch
of Augustine of Hippo; Supremacy of Conscience; American Slavery
Justified; Theory and Use of the Calendar; Discourses on the Holy
Calendar.

=Seabury, William Jones.= _N. Y._, 1837- ----. Son of Samuel Seabury,
2d. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of the Church of
the Annunciation from 1868, and professor in the General Seminary from
1873. Suggestions in Aid of Devotion; Introduction to the Study of
Ecclesiastical Polity. _See American Church Review, July, 1885._

=Seaman, Ezra Champion.= _N. Y._, 1805-1880. The comptroller of the
treasury, 1849-53, and subsequently inspector of the Michigan State
prisons. Essays on the Progress of Nations; Commentaries on the
Constitution, Laws, People, and History of the United States; The
American System of Government; Views of Nature.

=Seaman, Valentine.= _L. I._, 1770-1817. A once prominent physician
of New York city, active in introducing the practice of vaccination.
Waters of Saratoga; Midwife’s Monitor; On Vaccination.

=Searing, Mrs. Laura Catherine [Redden].= “Howard Glyndon.” _Md._,
1840- ----. A verse-writer and journalist now living in California,
but from 1868-76 on the staff of The New York Mail. Sounds from Secret
Chambers; Poems; Idylls of Battle; Brother and Sister. _Hou._

=Searle, Arthur.= _E._, 1837- ----. A professor of astronomy at Harvard
University from 1887, who has published Outlines of Astronomy.

=Searle, January.= _See Phillips, E. S._

=Searles, William Henry.= _O._, 1837- ----. A civil engineer. Field
Engineering; The Railroad Spiral. _Wil._

=Sears, Barnas.= _Ms._, 1802-1880. A Baptist clergyman and educator of
prominence in his day. He was professor at Newton Theological Seminary,
1836-48, and president of Brown University, 1855-67. Life of Luther;
The Ciceronian or Prussian Mode of Instruction in Latin; Essays on
Classical Literature (with B. B. Edwards, _supra_, and C. C. Felton,
_supra_).

=Sears, Edmund Hamilton.= _Ms._, 1810-1876. A Unitarian clergyman and
religious poet, pastor at Weston, Massachusetts, 1865-76. He wrote
the familiar Christmas hymn, “Calm on the listening ear of night.”
Regeneration; Foregleams and Foreshadows of Immortality, originally
published as Athanasia; The Fourth Gospel the Heart of Christ; Christ
in the Life; Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life; Pictures of the
Olden Time; That Glorious Song of Old. _A. U. A. Le._

=Sears, George W----.= _Ms._, 1821- ----. A writer of Wellsboro,
Pennsylvania, who served in the Federal army during the Civil War.
Woodcraft; Forest Runes (verse).

=Sears, [Joseph] Hamblen.= _Ms._, 1865- ----. A writer of New York
city. The Governments of the World To-Day. _Fl._

=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= _Va._, 1860- ----. A Washington writer and
newspaper correspondent. The Sprightly Romance of Marsac; Hale Weston,
a novel; The Berkeleys and their Neighbors; Throckmorton; Maid Marian,
and Other Stories; Children of Destiny; Little Jarvis; Midshipman
Paulding; Paul Jones; Decatur and Somers; Through Thick and Thin; A
Strange, Sad Comedy; Quarterdeck and Fok’sle. _Ap. Lo. We._

=Seccomb, John.= _Ms._, 1708-1792. A Congregational minister at
Harvard, Massachusetts, 1733-57, and after 1763 at Chester, Nova
Scotia. He was the author of Father Abbey’s Will, a once extremely
popular piece of doggerel, which was followed by The Letter to the
Widow Abbey, a work as destitute of genuine wit and worth as its
predecessor. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Hart’s American
Literature._

=Seccomb, Joseph.= _Ms._, 1706-1760. Brother of J. Seccomb, _supra_.
A Congregational minister at Kingston, New Hampshire, from 1737, and
author of A Plain and Brief Rehearsal of the Operations of Christ as
God.

=Sedgwick, Arthur George.= _N. Y._, 1844- ----. Son of T. Sedgwick, 2d,
_infra_. A lawyer of New York city. Principles and Practices Governing
the Trial of Title to Land (with F. S. Wait); Elements of Damages.
_Lit._

=Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.= _Ms._, 1789-1867. A once famous novelist
whose name was for a time the foremost among those of American literary
women. Her work has very real excellence, but its merits were hardly
of a quality to preserve it, and it is now superseded by the writings
of others who have cultivated the same field with even more skill.
Hope Leslie; Redwood; The New England Tale; The Traveller; Clarence;
Le Bossu; The Linwoods; Married or Single (1857), include her novels.
Other works for older readers are, Letters from Abroad; Historical
Sketches of the Old Painters. Her juvenile moral tales, of which Live
and Let Live; Poor Rich Man and Rich Poor Man; Means and Ends; Morals
and Manners, are good examples, are as entertaining as they were
popular. For a half century she was principal of a school for girls in
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, her native town. _See Life and Letters,
1871._ _Har._

=Sedgwick, Mrs. Elizabeth Buckminster [Dwight].= _Ms._, 1791-1864.
Sister-in-law of C. M. Sedgwick, _supra_, and a teacher for many years.
Beatitudes and Pleasant Sundays; Lessons Without Books; A Talk with My
Pupils; Stories of the Spanish Conquest.

=Sedgwick, Henry Dwight.= _Ms._, 1785-1831. Brother of C. M. Sedgwick,
_supra_. An eminent lawyer of New York city who was a noted opponent of
slavery, and author of English Practice of the Common Law.

=Sedgwick, Mrs. Susan Livingston [Ridley].= 1789-1867. Wife of T.
Sedgwick, 1st, _infra_. A writer for young people. Walter Thornley; The
Morals of Pleasure; The Young Emigrants; Allen Prescott; Alida, or Town
and Country. _Har._

=Sedgwick, Theodore.= _Ms._, 1780-1839. Brother of C. M. Sedgwick,
_supra_. A lawyer of Albany, and from 1819 a resident of Stockbridge,
Massachusetts. Public and Private Economy; Hints to my Countrymen.

=Sedgwick, Theodore.= _N. Y._, 1811-1859. Son of T. Sedgwick, _supra_.
A lawyer of New York city. Rules which Govern the Interpretation and
Application of Statutory and Court Law; Treatise on the Measure of
Damages, a work of much importance.

=Seeley, Charles Sumner.= _See Munday, J. W._

=Seely, [Edward] Howard.= _N. Y._, 1856-1894. A littérateur of New
York city. A Lone Star Bo-peep, and Other Tales of Texan Ranch Life; A
Ranchman’s Stories; A Nymph of the West; The Jonah of Lucky Valley, and
Other Stories; A Border Leander. _Ap. Do. Har._

=Seelye= [see´le], =Mrs. Elizabeth [Eggleston].= _Min._, 1858- ----.
Daughter of E. Eggleston, _supra_. A writer living at Lake George,
New York. The Story of Columbus; Montezuma; Brandt and Red Jacket;
Pocahontas; Tecumseh (with E. Eggleston); The Story of Washington. _Ap.
Do._

=Seelye, Julius Hawley.= _Ct._, 1824-1895. A Congregational clergyman
long prominent as an educator. He was a professor of Amherst College
from 1850, and its president, 1876-90. Natural Religion; The Way, the
Truth, and the Life; Christian Missions; Duty. _Do._

=Seemuller, Mrs. Annie Moncure [Crane].= _Md._, 1838-1872. A novelist
of New York city whose somewhat striking fictions were popular for a
brief period. Emily Chester; Reginald Archer; Opportunity. _See Boyle’s
Distinguished Marylanders._

=Seguin= [sā-gwin´], =Edouard= _F._, 1812-1880. A French physician
who came to the United States in 1848 and whose specialty was the
training of idiots. Among his many works on this and other professional
topics are, New Facts Concerning Idiocy; Family Thermometer; Medical
Thermometry; Théorie et practique de l’éducation des idiots; Traitement
moral, hygiène et éducation des idiots et des autre enfants arrièrés;
Idiocy and its Treatment by the Physiological Methods.

=Segur, Seth Willard.= _Vt._, 1831-1875. A Congregational clergyman of
Ohio and subsequently of Massachusetts. Relation and Responsibilities
of Pastor and People; The True Manhood; The Nation’s Hope; National
Blessings and Duties.

=Seiss= [seess], =Joseph Augustus.= _Md._, 1823-1904. An eminent
Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, pastor of the Church of the Holy
Communion, and a voluminous writer on religious themes. Among his
many works are, The Gospel in the Stars; The Miracle in Stone, a
re-statement of Piazzi Smyth’s famous theory of the Pyramid; Lectures
on the Apocalypse; Lectures on the Epistle to the Hebrews; Luther and
the Reformation; The Lutheran Church; Recreation Songs; Life After
Death; Right Life; The Children of Silence, the Story of the Deaf;
Christ’s Descent into Hell; The Last Times; Voices from Babylon. _See
American Lutheran Biographies._ _Co. Lip._

=Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson.= _N. Y._, 1861- ----. A professor of
political economy and finance in Columbia College. Chapters on Mediæval
Guilds in England; Owen and the Christian Socialists; Railway Tariffs;
Shifting and Incidence of Taxation; Progressive Taxation in Theory and
Practice; Essays on Taxation. _Mac._

=Selyns, Henricus.= _H._, 1636-1701. A Dutch clergyman who came to
New York in 1600, remaining four years as pastor in Brooklyn before
returning to Holland. Settling permanently in New York in 1682, he was
pastor of the First Dutch Reformed Church for the rest of his life. His
Poems, written in Dutch, have been translated by H. C. Murphy, _supra_.

=Semmes, Alexander Jenkins.= _D. C._, 1828- ----. Cousin of R. Semmes,
_infra_. A surgeon in the Confederate navy who became a Roman Catholic
clergyman, president of Pio Nono College, Macon, Georgia, from 1886.
Medical Sketches of Paris; Gunshot Wounds; Notes from a Surgical Diary,
are among his writings.

=Semmes, Raphael.= _Md._, 1809-1877. A celebrated naval officer in the
Confederate service during the Civil War as commander of the Alabama.
Service Afloat and Ashore during the Mexican War; Campaign of General
Scott in the Valley of Mexico; The Cruise of the Alabama; Memoirs of
Service Afloat during the War between the States. _See Sinclair’s Two
Years in the Alabama, 1895._

=Sergeant, Thomas.= _Pa._, 1782-1860. A Philadelphia jurist. Treatise
on the Law of Pennsylvania relating to Proceedings by Foreign
Attachment; Constitutional Law; View of the Land Laws of Pennsylvania;
Sketch of the National Judiciary Powers.

=Seth, James.= _S._, 1860- ----. A professor of moral philosophy in
Cornell University from 1896. A Study of Ethical Principles. _Scr._

=Seton, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann [Bayley].= _N. Y._, 1774-1821. The founder
and first superior of the order of Sisters of Charity in the United
States. After the death of her husband she became a Roman Catholic,
took the veil as a Sister of Charity in 1809, and in 1812 founded at
Emmettsburg, Maryland, the first American house of the order. A volume
entitled Memoirs of Mrs. Seton, written by Herself: a Fragment of Real
History, was published in 1817. _See Life by White; Vie de Madame Seton
by Madame de Barbary._

=Seton, Robert.= _I._, 1839- ----. A grandson of Mrs. Seton, _supra_.
A Roman Catholic clergyman of Jersey City, dean of the monsignori in
the United States. Memoirs, Letters, and Journal of E. Seton; Essays on
Various Subjects, principally Roman.

=Seton, William.= _N. Y._, 1835- ----. A grandson of Mrs. E. Seton,
_supra_. A naval officer of the United States. Romance of the Charter
Oak; The Pride of Lexington; Rachel’s Fate, and Other Tales; The Poor
Millionaire; The Shamrock Gone West; Moida, a Tale of the Tyrol; The
Pioneer, a poem.

=Severance, Mark Sibley.= _O._, 1846- ----. Hammersmith: his Harvard
Days, a novel. _Hou._

=Sewall, Frank.= _Me._, 1837- ----. A Swedenborgian clergyman of
Washington. Moody Mike, or the Power of Love; The Hem of his Garment;
The Pillow of Stones; The New Ethics; The New Metaphysics; Angelo and
Ariel, are among his writings. _Lip. Ran._

=Sewall, Mrs. Harriet [Winslow].= _Me._, 1819-1889. A religious
verse-writer of Boston, some of whose lyrics are found in the
anthologies. A collection of her Poems, with Memoir by Mrs. E. Cheney,
_supra_, appeared in 1889.

=Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell.= _Ms._, 1748-1808. A lawyer of Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, popular in his own day as a verse-writer. His verse is
for the most part forgotten, but his song, War and Washington, is yet
remembered, and in his Epilogue to Cato occurs the famous couplet:--

    “No pent-up Utica contracts your powers,
    But the whole boundless continent is yours.”

Miscellaneous Poems (1801).

=Sewall, Rufus King.= _Me._, 1814-1903. A lawyer of Wiscasset, Maine.
Lectures on the Holy Spirit; Sketches of St. Augustine; Ancient
Dominions of Maine.

=Sewall, Samuel.= _E._, 1652-1730. A noted jurist of Boston, best
remembered for his connection with the Salem witchcraft trials. The
Selling of Joseph; Answer to Queries Respecting America; Accomplishment
of Prophecies; Memorial Relating to the Kennebec Indians; Description
of the New Heaven. _See Diary of, Tyler’s American Literature;
Whittier’s Prophecy of Samuel Sewall._

=Sewall, Stephen.= _Me._, 1734-1804. A grand-nephew of S. Sewall,
_supra_. A Hebrew scholar, professor of Hebrew at Harvard College,
1765-85, among whose writings are, Hebrew Grammar; Scripture Account of
the Shechinah; Carmina Sacra quæ Latine Græceque condidit America.

=Sewall, Thomas.= _Me._, 1786-1845. A Washington physician, professor
of anatomy in Columbian University from 1821, who is chiefly remembered
for his work, The Pathology of Drunkenness, which had a wide
circulation.

=Seward, George Frederick.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A nephew of W. H.
Seward, _infra_, and minister to China, 1876-80. Chinese Immigration in
its Social and Economical Aspects.

=Seward, Theodore Frelinghuysen.= _N. Y._, 1835-1902. Cousin of W. H.
Seward, _infra_. A musical educator of note. Hadrian Theology; The
School of Life; A Plea for the Christian Year.

=Seward, William Henry.= _N. Y._, 1801-1872. A statesman of
distinction, secretary of state during the Civil War period. Diplomatic
History of the Civil War; Orations and Speeches; Life of J. Q. Adams,
_supra_; Travels Round the World. His complete works in five volumes
have been edited by G. E. Baker. _See Autobiography; North American
Review, October, 1866; Bartlett’s Modern Agitators; Life by Lothrop;
and Histories of the Civil War._ _Ap. Co. Hou._

=Seybert, Adam.= _Pa._, 1773-1825. A Philadelphia chemist who published
The Statistical Annals of the United States, 1789-1818. It was in a
notice of this book for The Edinburgh Review that Sydney Smith made the
famous query, “Who reads an American book?”

=Seyffarth= [zif´fa͝art], =Gustav.= _Sxy._, 1796-1885. A German
scientist who was professor of Oriental archæology at Leipzig
University, 1825-55, and, coming to America in the latter year, was
professor at Concordia Seminary, in St. Louis, 1855-71. The remainder
of his life was passed in New York city. He was distinguished for the
extremely literal nature of his biblical interpretations. Among his
voluminous writings are, Rudimenta Hieroglyphica; Grammatica Ægyptiaca;
Egyptian Theology according to a Paris Mummy Coffin. _See Literary Life
of, an autobiography, 1886._

=Seymour, George Franklin.= _R. I._, 1829- ----. The first Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Springfield, and prominent among extreme High
Churchmen. Modern Romanism not Catholicism.

=Seymour, Mrs. Mary Harrison [Browne].= _Ct._, 1835- ----. A writer of
Hartford whose writings are mainly juvenile. Among them are, Mollie’s
Christmas Stocking; Sunshine and Starlight; Recompense; Through the
Darkness; Ned, Nellie, and Amy. _Dut. Ran. Wh._

=Seymour, Thomas Day.= _O._, 1840- ----. A professor of Greek at Yale
University from 1880. Homeric Vocabulary; School Iliad; Selected Odes
of Pindar, with Notes; Introduction to the Language and Verse of
Homer; Homer’s Iliad, books i.-vi. _Gi._

=Shaffner, Taliaferro Preston.= _Va._, 1818-1881. An inventor of note.
The Telegraph Companion; The Telegraph Manual; The Secession War in
America; History of America; Odd Fellowship.

=Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate.= _Ky._, 1841- ----. An eminent geologist,
professor of paleontology at Harvard University, 1868-87, and of
geology from 1887. Kentucky Geological Reports; Kentucky, a Pioneer
Commonwealth; The Nature of Intellectual Property and its Importance to
the State; The Interpretation of Nature; The Story of Our Continent;
Illustrations of the Earth’s Surface: Glaciers (with W. M. Davis); The
United States of America: a study of the American Commonwealth; First
Book in Geology; Nature and Man in America; Sea and Land: Features of
Coasts and Oceans; Aspects of the Earth; Fossil Branchiopods of the
Ohio Valley; American Highways; Domesticated Animals: their Relation to
Man. _Am. Ap. Clke. Gi. Hou. Scr._

=Shanks, William Franklin Gore.= _Ky._, 1837- ----. A journalist of New
York city. Recollections of Distinguished Generals; A Noble Treason, a
tragedy. _Har._

=Shanly, Charles Dawson.= _I._, 1811-1875. A journalist and
verse-writer of New York city. The Walker in the Snow is his best-known
poem. A Jolly Bear and His Friends; The Monkey of Porto Bello; The
Truant Chicken.

=Shapley, Rufus Edmond.= _Pa._, 1840- ----. A Philadelphia lawyer,
author of Solid for Mulhooly, a political satire.

=Sharswood, George.= _Pa._, 1810-1883. An eminent Philadelphia jurist.
Professional Ethics; Popular Lectures on Common Law; Lectures on
Commercial Law; Sharswood’s Blackstone. _Lip._

=Shattuck, Mrs. Harriette [Robinson].= _Ms._, 1850- ----. Daughter of
W. S. Robinson, _supra_. A writer of Malden, Massachusetts, who has
published The Story of Dante’s Divine Comedy; Little Folks East and
West; Woman’s Manual of Parliamentary Law.

=Shaw, Albert.= _O._, 1857- ----. A journalist of New York city, the
American editor of The Review of Reviews from 1891, and a recognized
authority on such themes as municipal government and municipal reforms.
Icaria: a Chapter in the History of Communism; Local Government in
Illinois; Coöperation in a Western City; Municipal Government in Great
Britain; Municipal Government in Continental Europe. _Cent._

=Shaw, Charles.= _Me._, 1782-1828. A lawyer of Montgomery, Alabama,
who published A Topographical Description of Boston from its First
Settlement (1817).

=Shaw, Henry Wheeler.= “Josh Billings.” _Ms._, 1818-1885. A noted
humourist whose shrewd, sensible sayings have been hardly appraised at
their full value owing to the laboriously bad spelling in which they
have been given to the world. Josh Billings’s Sayings; Everybody’s
Friend; Josh Billings’s Trump Kards; Josh Billings’s Spice Box. _See
Life by F. S. Smith, 1883._

=Shaw, Thomas.= _Ont._, 1843- ----. A Canadian educator, since 1893
professor of animal husbandry at the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment
Station. The First Principles of Agriculture; Weeds and How to
Eradicate Them.

=Shea= [shā], =George.= _I._, 1827-1895. Son of J. A. Shea, _infra_. A
jurist who was chief justice of the City Court of New York. Alexander
Hamilton: a Historical Study; Nature and Form of the American
Government. _Hou._

=Shea, John Augustus.= _I._, 1802-1845. An Irish verse-writer who came
to America in 1827, and was a journalist in New York city. His writings
include, Adolph; Parnassian Wild Flowers; Ruddeki, an Eastern Romance,
in verse; Clontarf, a Poem.

=Shea, John Dawson Gilmary.= _N. Y._, 1824-1892. An historical writer
of note, for a number of years editor of Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner,
in New York city. The Catholic Church in the United States; Legendary
History of Ireland; History of Catholic Indian Missions; Discovery and
Exploration of the Mississippi Valley; Early Voyages Up and Down the
Mississippi; Novum Belgium, an Account of New Netherlands, 1633-44;
The Operations of the French under De Grasse; Life of Pius Ninth; The
Catholic Church in Colonial Days; The Catholic Hierarchy of the United
States; Life and Times of Archbishop Carroll, include his principal
original works.

=Shearman= [sher´man], =Thomas Gaskell.= _E._, 1834-1900. A lawyer and
political economist of New York city. Law of Practice and Pleadings;
Law of Negligence; Talks on Free Trade; Does Protection Protect?;
Pauper Labor of Europe; The Single Tax; Natural Taxation; Henry
George’s Mistake; Crooked Taxation.

=Shecut, John Linnæus Edward Whitridge.= _S. C._, 1770-1836. A once
eminent physician and scientist of Charleston. Flora Carolinensis;
Medical and Philosophical Essays; Elements of Natural Philosophy; A New
Theory of the Earth, comprise his chief works.

=Shedd, Joel Herbert.= _Ms._, 1834- ----. An eminent civil engineer of
Providence whose most important professional labour is the Providence
Water Works. He has written a work on Landscape Gardening (with
Follen), and many important professional papers.

=Shedd, Mrs. Julia Ann [Clark].= _Me._, 1834-1897. Wife of J. H. Shedd,
_supra_. Famous Painters and Paintings; Famous Sculptors and Sculpture;
The Ghiberti Gates; Raphael: his Madonnas and Holy Families. _Hou._

=Shedd, William Greenough Thayer.= _Ms._, 1820-1894. A Presbyterian
clergyman of New York city, professor in Union Seminary, 1863-90,
and a theologian of a very conservative type. History of Christian
Doctrine; Sermons to the Natural Man; Homiletics and Pastoral Theology;
Theological Essays; Sermons to the Spiritual Man; Endless Punishment;
Dogmatic Theology; The Pro-Revision of the Westminster Standards;
Calvinism Pure and Mixed; Literary Essays. _Ran. Scr._

=Sheeleigh, Matthias.= _Pa._, 1820-1900. A Lutheran minister at
Fort Washington, near Philadelphia, from 1869. American Ecclesiad;
A Gettysburgiad; Luther: a Song Tribute; Brief History of Luther;
Outlines of Old and New Testament History.

=Sheldon, David Newton.= _Ct._, 1807-1889. A Baptist clergyman who
became a Unitarian in 1856. He was president of Colby University,
1843-1853. Sin and Redemption.

=Sheldon, Edward Austin.= _N. Y._, 1823-1897. A noted educator of
Oswego, principal of the Normal School there from 1862. Manual of
Elementary Training; Lessons on Objects, are his principal works.

=Sheldon, Edward Stevens.= _Me._, 1851- ----. A professor of Romance
philology at Harvard University from 1883. Short German Grammar and
monographs.

=Sheldon, George William.= _S. C._, 1843- ----. A journalist and art
critic of New York city, now (1897) in charge of the London office of
D. Appleton and Company, publishers. American Painters; The Story of
the Volunteer Fire Department of New York City; Hours with Art and
Artists; Artistic Homes; Artistic Country Seats; Selections in Modern
Art; Recent Ideals of American Art. _Har._

=Sheldon, Henry Clay.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. A Methodist clergyman,
professor of historic theology in Boston University from 1882. History
of Christian Doctrine; History of the Christian Church. _Cr. Har._

=Sheldon, Mary Downing.= Daughter of E. A. Sheldon, _supra_. _See
Barnes, Mrs._

=Shelton, Frederick William.= _L. I._, 1814-1881. An Episcopal
clergyman of Carthage Landing, New York, who wrote in both prose and
verse a number of humourous and satirical books. The Trollopiad, or the
Travelling Gentleman in America; The Rector of St. Bardolph’s; Peeps
from the Belfry, or the Parish Sketch-Book; Salander and the Dragon, a
romance; Up the River, a collection of rural sketches; Chrystalline, a
romance; The Gold Mania; Use and Abuse of Reason.

=Shepard, Charles Upham.= _R. I._, 1804-1886. A geologist, professor
of geology at Amherst College, who published a valuable Report on the
Geology of Connecticut.

=Shepard, Edward Morse.= _N. Y._, 1850- ----. A lawyer of Brooklyn,
author of a Life of Martin Van Buren. _Hou._

=Shepard, Elihu Hotchkiss.= _Vt._, 1795-1876. An educator of St. Louis.
Autobiography (1869); Early History of St. Louis and Missouri.

=Shepard, Isaac Fitzgerald.= _Ms._, 1816-1889. A Federal officer in the
Civil War who was consul at Swatow and Hankow, 1874-80. Pebbles from
Castalia; Poetry of Feeling; Scenes and Songs of Social Life; Household
Tales.

=Shepard, Thomas.= _E._, 1605-1649. A Puritan clergyman who came to
America in 1635, and from 1636 until his death was minister of what is
now the Shepard Church in Cambridge. He won great renown as a preacher,
and as a theologian was a Calvinist of the extremest type. New Englands
Lamentations for Old Englands present Errours; The Sound Beleever; The
Clear Sunshine of the Gospel; Theses Sabbaticæ; Subjection to Christ;
The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied; Autobiography. His
Sermons, with Memoir by Alger, were printed in three volumes in 1853.
_See Tyler’s American Literature; Memoir by S. Mather and Greenhill,
1652; Life by Cotton Mather in the Magnalia._

=Shepard, William.= _See Walsh, W. S._

=Shepherd, William Robert.= _S. C._, 1871- ----. History of Proprietary
Government in Pennsylvania. _Mac._

=Sheppard, Furman.= _N. J._, 1823-1893. A Philadelphia lawyer who
published a Constitutional Text-Book.

=Sheppard, Nathan.= _Md._, 1834-1888. A journalist and educator who
was a special correspondent of The Cincinnati Gazette during the
Franco-German war. Shut up in Paris during the Siege; Darwinism Stated
by Himself; Before an Audience; Saratoga Chips. _Ap. Fu._

=Sherburne, John Henry.= _N. H._, 1794-_c._ 1850. A register of the
navy in Washington. Osceola, a tragedy; Erratic Poems; Life of John
Paul Jones; The Tourist’s Guide in Europe; A Suppressed History of the
Administration of John Adams.

=Sheridan, Philip Henry.= _N. Y._, 1831-1888. A famous soldier,
lieutenant-general of the United States army, 1869-88, and general
for the two months preceding his death. Personal Memoirs (1888). _See
Appletons’ American Biography; Life by H. E. Davies; histories of the
Civil War._

=Sherman, Frank Dempster.= _N. Y._, 1860- ----. A lyrist of New York
city, adjunct professor of architecture at Columbia College, who
has written much pleasing _vers de société_ as well as other verse.
Madrigals and Catches; Lyrics for a Lute; Little-Folk Lyrics; New
Waggings of Old Tales (with J. K. Bangs, _supra_). _Hou. Sto._

=Sherman, Henry.= _N. Y._, 1808-1879. A Hartford lawyer, author of An
Analytical Digest of the Laws of Marine Insurance to the Present Time
(1841); The Governmental History of the United States; Slavery in the
United States.

=Sherman, John.= _Ct._, 1772-1828. A Unitarian clergyman of Trenton
Falls, New York, where he conducted an academy. From 1797 to 1805 he
was a Congregational minister at Mansfield, Connecticut, but resigned
his charge on account of his becoming a Unitarian. One God in One
Person Only, the first noteworthy defence of Unitarianism in America;
Philosophy of Language Illustrated; A Description of Trenton Falls.
_See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Sherman, John.= _O._, 1823-1900. Brother of W. T. Sherman, _infra_. A
noted statesman of Ohio; United States senator, 1861-77 and 1881-97;
secretary of the treasury, 1877-1881; and secretary of state,
1897-1898. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate, and
Cabinet; Selected Speeches and Reports on Taxation, 1859-78. _See Life
by Bronson, 1880._

=Sherman, William Tecumseh.= _O._, 1820-1891. A distinguished soldier
who was general of the United States army, 1869-84. The Military
Lessons of the War; Memoirs by Himself. _See Appletons’ American
Biography; Johnson’s Universal Cyclopædia; The Sherman Letters; and
histories of the Civil War._ _Ap._

=Sherwin, Thomas.= _N. H._, 1799-1869. A noted educator of Boston,
master of the High School, 1838-69, and author of treatises on algebra.

=Sherwood, Adiel.= _N. Y._, 1791-1879. A Baptist minister and educator
of Georgia. Gazetteer of Georgia; Christian and Jewish Churches; Notes
on the New Testament. _See Memoir by his daughter, 1884._

=Sherwood, Mrs. Emily [Lee].= _Ind._, 1843- ----. A Washington
journalist who has published Willis Peyton, a novel.

=Sherwood, James Manning.= _N. Y._, 1814-1890. A Presbyterian clergyman
and editor of religious journals. A Plea for the Old Foundations; The
History of the Cross; Books and Authors. _Fu._

=Sherwood, Mrs. John.= _See Sherwood, Mrs. Mary._

=Sherwood, John D=[7] _N. Y._, 1818-1891. Cousin of J. M. Sherwood,
_supra_. A writer whose home was at Englewood, New Jersey. Comic
History of the United States; The Case of Cuba.

=Sherwood, Mrs. Katherine Margaret [Brownlee].= _Pa._, 1841- ----. A
verse-writer and journalist of Canton, Ohio, who has been especially
successful as a writer of army lyrics and poems for military occasions.
Camp Fire and Memorial Poems; Columbia.

=Sherwood, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [Wilson].= _N. H._, 1830-1903. A
Washington novelist and miscellaneous writer, prominent as a social
leader. The Sarcasm of Destiny; A Transplanted Rose; Amenities of Home;
Home Amusements; Manners and Social Usages; Royal Girls and Royal
Courts; Sweet Brier; Roxobel; The Art of Entertaining. _Ap. Do. Har.
Lo._

=Shew, Joel.= _N. Y._, 1816-1855. A hydropathic physician of New York
State among whose writings are, Hydropathy, or the Water Cure; Cholera
Treated by Water; The Hydropathic Family Physician.

=Shields, Charles Woodruff.= _Ind._, 1825-1904. A Presbyterian
clergyman, professor of the harmony of science and revealed religion
at Princeton College from 1865, and active in behalf of church unity.
The Presbyterian Book of Common Prayer according to the Revision of the
Westminster Divines; Philosophia Ultima, or Science of the Sciences;
The Order of the Sciences; Religion and Science in their Relations
to Philosophy; Essays on Church Unity; The Historic Episcopate; The
Question of Unity; The United Church of the United States. _Scr._

=Shields, Mrs. Sarah Annie [Frost].= 18-- - ----. Parlor Charades and
Proverbs; Laws and By-Laws of American Society; The Art of Dressing
Well; Almost a Woman; Sunshine for Rainy Days, are among her works.

=Shillaber, Benjamin Penhallow.= “Mrs. Partington.” _N. H._, 1814-1890.
A journalist of Boston, once widely known as a humourist, whose latest
years were spent in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Life and Sayings of Mrs.
Partington; Partingtonian Patchwork; Mrs. Partington’s Mother Goose;
Ike Partington Stories; Lines in Pleasant Places; Wide Swath, a volume
of collected verse; Rhymes with Reason; Cruises with Captain Bob; The
Double-Runner Club. _See New England Magazine, June, 1891._ _Le._

=Shimeall= [shim´e-all], =Richard Cunningham.= _N. Y._, 1803-1874. An
Episcopal clergyman who adopted Reformed Dutch tenets in 1834, and
subsequently became a Presbyterian. He was a noted biblical scholar
of millenarian views. The End of Prelacy; Christ’s Second Coming;
Prophetic Career and Destiny of Napoleon III.; Unseen World; Political
Economy of Prophecy, are his principal works.

=Shindler, Mrs. Mary Stanley Bunce [Palmer] [Dana].= _S. C._,
1810-1883. A once popular South Carolina verse-writer whose home was
at Nacogdoches, Texas, after 1869. In 1844 she became a Unitarian, and
published the next year Letters on the Trinity. In 1848 she married
her second husband, an Episcopal clergyman, and was received into his
church. The Northern Harp; The Southern Harp; The Parted Family, and
Other Poems; The Temperance Lyre; and several prose works, including
Charles Martin, or the Young Patriot; The Young Sailor; Forecastle Tom;
A Southerner Among the Spirits. _See Bibliography of Texas._

=Shinn, Asa.= _N. J._, 1781-1853. A Methodist Protestant minister in
Ohio. Essay on the Plan of Salvation; Benevolence and Rectitude of the
Supreme Being.

=Shinn, Charles Howard.= _Ts._, 1852- ----. A California writer who has
published Mining Camps, a Study in American Frontier Government; The
Story of the Mine. _Ap. Scr._

=Shinn, Earl.= “Edward Strahan.” _Pa._, 1837-1886. A New York
journalist, at one period art critic of The Nation. The New Hyperion:
from Paris to Marly by Way of the Rhine; Studies in Modern French Art.
_Lip._

=Shinn, George Wolfe.= _Pa._, 1839- ----. An Episcopal clergyman,
rector of Grace Church, Newton, Massachusetts, from 1875. Friendly
Talks About Marriage; Manual of the Prayer Book; Manual of Church
History; Questions about Our Church; Questions that Trouble Beginners
in Religion; Stories for Christmas Time; Some Modern Substitutes for
Christianity. _Kt. Wh._

=Shipp, Albert Micajah.= _N. C._, 1819-1887. A Methodist clergyman and
educator, professor of theology in Vanderbilt University from 1874, and
author of The History of Methodism in South Carolina.

=Shipp, Barnard.= _Mi._, 1813- ----. A verse-writer of Natchez, and
subsequently of Louisville. Fame, and Other Poems; Progress of Freedom,
and Other Poems.

=Shippen, Edward.= _N. J._, 1827- ----. An eminent naval surgeon of
Philadelphia who published Thirty Years at Sea.

=Shirley, John Milton.= _N. H._, 1831-1887. A lawyer of Andover, New
Hampshire. The Early Jurisprudence of New Hampshire; Complete History
of the Dartmouth College Case; Reports of Cases in Supreme Judicial
Court.

=Shirley, William.= _E._, 1693-1771. A noted colonial soldier
who planned the conquest of Cape Breton, and was governor of
Massachusetts, 1741-45. Electra, a tragedy; The Birth of Hercules, a
masque; Letter to the Duke of Newcastle, with Journal of the Siege of
Louisburg; The Conduct of General Shirley Briefly Stated.

=Shock, William Henry.= _Md._, 1821- ----. A United States naval
officer whose Steam Boilers: their Design, Construction, and
Management, is a standard authority.

=Shoemaker, Michael Myers.= _Ky._, 1853- ----. A writer of travels.
Eastward to the Land of Morning; The Kingdom of the White Woman, a
volume of Mexican travel; Trans-Caspia: the Sealed Provinces of the
Czar. _Clke._

=Shoup, Francis Asbury.= _Ind._, 1834-1896. An Episcopal clergyman
and educator of Sewanee, Tennessee, professor of metaphysics in the
University of the South, and a Confederate officer in the Civil War.
Infantry Tactics; Artillery Division Drill; Elements of Algebra.

=Shreve, Samuel Henry.= _N. J._, 1829-1884. A civil engineer of New
York city. The Strength of Bridges and Roofs.

=Shreve, Thomas H----.= _D. C._, 1808-1853. Cousin of S. H. Shreve,
_supra_. A journalist of Louisville. Drayton, an American tale; Poems.

=Shuck= [shook], =Mrs. Henrietta [Hall].= _Va._, 1817-1844. The wife
of a missionary in China. Scenes in China (1852). _See Life by Jeter,
1848._

=Shurtleff, Ernest Warburton.= _Ms._, 1862- ----. A Congregational
clergyman and verse-writer of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Poems; Easter
Gleams; Song of Hope; When I was a Child; New Year’s Peace.

=Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet.= _Ms._, 1810-1874. An antiquarian of
Boston. Elements of Phrenology; A Perpetual Calendar of Old and New
Style; Topographical Description of Boston; Passengers of the Mayflower
in 1620, comprise his principal writings. With D. Pulsifer he edited
The Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in twelve volumes.

=Sibler, Wilhelm.= _P._, 1801-1885. A Lutheran clergyman of Missouri.
Sermons on the Epistles and Gospels of the Christian Year. _See
Biography (Lebeslauf), 1880._

=Sibley, John Langdon.= _Me._, 1804-1885. The librarian of Harvard
University, 1841-77. History of the Town of Union, Maine; Biographical
Sketches of Harvard University Graduates.

=Sidney, Margaret.= _See Lothrop, Mrs._

=Sigourney= [sĭg´or-nĭ], =Mrs. Lydia Howard [Huntly].= _Ct._,
1791-1865. One of the most popular of the earlier American writers, but
now quite neglected. Her fifty-three volumes of prose and verse were
adapted to an uncritical audience that demanded only gentle feeling and
excellence of intention, and they served their purpose well in their
day. Her verse is not without sweetness, but it never strays far beyond
the realm of the commonplace. She was nearly all her life a resident of
Hartford. Among her prose writings are, Myrtis; Post Meridian; Letters
to My Pupils; Letters to Young Ladies; Traits of the Aborigines in
America; Letters of Life (1866). Other works are, Pocahontas; Moral
Pieces in Prose and Verse; Poetry for Children; Zinzendorf, and Other
Poems. _See Griswold’s Female Poets of America; Allibone’s Dictionary;
Stone’s First Editions of American Authors._ _Har._

=Sikes, Mrs. Olive [Logan].= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. Wife of W. W. Sikes,
_infra_. An actress and author, popular at one period as a lecturer.
Photographs of Paris Life; Chateau Frissac, or Home Scenes in France;
John Morris’s Money; Somebody’s Stockings; Apropos of Women and
Theatres; Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes; The Mimic World;
Get Thee Behind Me, Satan; They Met by Chance, a novel.

=Sikes, William Wirt.= _N. Y._, 1836-1883. A journalist of New York
city who was consul at Cardiff, Wales, 1876-1883. British Goblins:
Welsh Folk-Lore; One Poor Girl; Rambles and Studies in Old South Wales;
Studies of Assassination.

=Sill, Edward Rowland.= _Ct._, 1841-1887. A poet and educator of
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, professor in the University of California,
1874-82. His verse is small in quantity, but of rare quality. The
Hermitage, and Other Poems; The Hermitage, and Later Poems; Poems
(containing The Venus of Milo, and other poems). _See Mrs. E. Ward’s
Chapters from a Life._ _Ho. Hou._

=Sill, John Mahelon Berry.= _N. Y._, 1831-1901. A Michigan educator
of prominence, principal of the State Normal School. Synthesis of the
English Sentence; Practical Lessons in English.

=Silliman, Augustus Ely.= _R. I._, 1807-1884. Cousin of B. Silliman,
2d, _infra_. A banker of New York city who published A Gallop Among
American Scenery.

=Silliman, Benjamin.= _Ct._, 1779-1864. A chemist of distinction,
professor of chemistry at Yale University, 1802-55, and the founder
in 1818 of Silliman’s Journal of Science and Art. Journal of Travels
in England (1810); Narrative of a Visit to Europe (1853); Elements of
Chemistry; Consistency of Modern Geology with Sacred History. _See
Life by G. P. Fisher; American Journal of Science, May, 1865; Popular
Science Monthly, June, 1883._

=Silliman, Benjamin.= _Ct._, 1816-1885. Son of B. Silliman, _supra_. A
professor of chemistry at Yale University from 1846 until his death,
and editor of Silliman’s Journal. First Principles of Chemistry;
American Contributions to Chemistry; Principles of Physics.

=Silloway, Thomas William.= _Ms._, 1828- ----. A Boston architect who
became a Universalist minister in 1862. Theogonis; Text-Book of Modern
Carpentry; Warming and Ventilation; Cathedral Towns of England (with L.
Powers).

=Silsbee, Mrs. Marianne Cabot [Devereux].= 1812-1889. A Boston writer
who published A Half Century in Salem, and several compilations of
poems. _Hou._

=Silver, Thomas.= _N. J._, 1813-1888. A civil engineer well known as an
inventor. A Trip to the North Pole, or Theory of the Origin of Icebergs.

=Simmons, William Johnson.= _S. C._, 1849- ----. A Baptist minister of
African birth who has published Men of Mark.

=Simms, Jeptha Root.= _Ct._, 1807-1883. A once popular writer of Fort
Plain, New York. History of Schoharie County; The American Spy: Nathan
Hale; The Frontiersman; Trappers of New York.

=Simms, Joseph.= _N. Y._, 1833- ----. Nephew of J. R. Simms, _supra_.
A writer on physiognomy. Nature’s Revelations of Character; Book of
Scientific Lectures; Health and Character; Practical and Scientific
Physiognomy; Human Faces: What They Mean.

=Simms, William Gilmore.= _S. C._, 1806-1870. A voluminous romancer and
verse-writer of Charleston, long popular but now little read. Among
his thirty romances, The Partisan; The Yemassee; Guy Rivers; Martin
Faber; Border Beagles; Beauchampe, are as well known as any; and of
some twelve volumes of verse, Atalantis; Lays of the Palmetto; Areytos,
or Songs and Ballads of the South, are the most characteristic. Other
works of his include, A History of South Carolina; Lives of Marion,
General Greene, Captain John Smith, Chevalier Bayard. _See Allibone’s
Dictionary; Life by Trent. Stone’s First Editions of American Authors._
_Lov._

=Simonds, William.= “Walter Aimwell.” _Ms._, 1822-1859. A Boston
journalist who was a very popular writer for young people. The Aimwell
Stories; The Boys’ Own Guide; Boys’ Book of Morals and Manners.

=Simpson, Edward.= _N. Y._, 1824-1888. A naval officer of prominence,
rear-admiral from 1884. Ordnance and Naval Gunnery; The Naval Mission
to Europe; Report of the Gun Foundry Board.

=Simpson, Henry.= _Pa._, 1790-1868. A Philadelphia author who published
Lives of Eminent Philadelphians.

=Simpson, James Hervey.= _N. J._, 1813-1883. A colonel of engineers
and brevet brigadier-general in the United States army. A Military
Reconnoissance from Santa Fé to the Navajo Country in 1849. The
Shortest Route to California; Coronado’s March in Search of the Seven
Cities of Cibola. _Lip._

=Simpson, Matthew.= _O._, 1811-1884. A Methodist bishop famous as a
pulpit orator. Lectures on Preaching; A Hundred Years of Methodism;
Sermons; Cyclopædia of Methodism. _See Life of, by G. R. Crooks,
supra._ _Har. Meth._

=Sims, Clifford Stanley.= _Pa._, 1839-1896. A lawyer of Arkansas,
and latterly of New Jersey, whose principal work is The Origin and
Signification of Scottish Surnames.

=Sims, James Marion.= _S. C._, 1813-1883. A celebrated surgeon of New
York city to whose influence is due the establishment of gynæcology
as a department of medicine. Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery;
Ovariotomy; The Story of My Life. _See Life of, by T. A. Emmet, supra._
_Ap._

=Sinclair, Carrie Bell.= _Ga._, 1837- ----. A verse-writer of
Philadelphia. Poems; Heart Whispers, or Echoes of Song.

=Skene, Alexander Johnston Chalmers.= _S._, 1837-1900. A Brooklyn
physician, professor of gynæcology in Long Island College Hospital from
1884. Diseases of the Bladder in Women; Diseases of Women from the
Standpoint of the Physician. _Ap._

=Skinner, Charles Montgomery.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A journalist and
littérateur of Brooklyn, associate editor of The Eagle. Villon the
Vagabond, and other plays; Myths and Legends of Our Own Land; Nature in
a City Yard. _Cent. Lip._

=Skinner, Otis Ainsworth.= _Ms._, 1807-1861. A Universalist minister
of Boston and elsewhere. Family Prayer Book; Sermons on Doctrinal
Subjects; Universalism Defended; Letters on Revivals; Moral Duties of
Parents, are his principal works. _See Life of, by T. B. Thayer, infra._

=Skinner, Thomas Harvey.= _N. C._, 1791-1871. A Presbyterian clergyman
of New York city, professor of sacred rhetoric in Union Seminary,
1848-71. Religion of the Bible; Aids to Preaching and Hearing;
Discussions in Theology; Thoughts on Evangelizing the World. _Ran._

=Slade, Daniel Denison.= _Ms._, 1823-1896. A physician and scientist,
professor of zoölogy at Harvard University from 1871. Diphtheria: its
Nature and Treatment; Twelve Days in the Saddle, a Journey in New
England in 1883. Evolution of Horticulture in New England. _Put._

=Slaughter, Philip.= _Va._, 1808-1890. Cousin of W. B. Slaughter,
_infra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Virginia, historiographer of the
diocese. The Colonial Church in Virginia; Man and Woman, are his most
important writings.

=Slaughter, William Bank.= _Va._, 1798-1879. A Wisconsin lawyer of note
who published Reminiscences of Distinguished People I Have Met.

=Sleeper, John Sherburne.= _Ms._, 1794-1878. A shipmaster and
subsequently a journalist of Boston, editor of The Journal, 1834-54.
Tales of the Ocean; Salt-Water Bubbles; Jack in the Forecastle; Mark
Rowland, a Tale of the Sea.

=Slenker, Mrs. Elmina [Drake].= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. A writer living at
Snowville, Virginia. Studying the Bible; John’s Way; The Darwins; Mary
Jones; Little Lessons for Little Folks.

=Slicer, Henry.= _Md._, 1801-1874. A Methodist clergyman, eight times
chaplain of the United States Senate. Appeal on Christian Baptism;
Discourse on Duelling, which materially helped forward the passage of
the anti-duelling law in Congress.

=Sloan, Samuel.= _N. C._, 1815-1884. An architect of Philadelphia.
City and Suburban Architecture; Constructive Architecture; The Model
Architect; Homestead Architecture. _Bai. Lip._

=Sloane, Thomas O’Conor.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. A chemist of New
York city, on the editorial staff of The Scientific American. Home
Experiments in Science; Standard Electrical Dictionary.

=Sloane, William Milligan.= _O._, 1850- ----. A professor of history
at Columbia College. The French War and the Revolution; Life of James
M’Cosh, _supra_; Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. _Cent. Scr._

=Slosson, Mrs. Annie [Trumbull].= _Ct._, 184- - ----. An author of New
York city noted for the excellence of her short stories, and also known
as an entomologist whose specialty is the study of moths. Aunt Liefy;
Fishin’ Jimmy; Seven Dreamers; The Heresy of Mehetabel Clark; Anna
Malann; The China Hunter’s Club. _Har. Ran._

=Sluter, George Ludewig.= _G._, 1837- ----. A Lutheran clergyman,
pastor at Arlington, New Jersey, from 1881. History of Our Beloved
Church; Life of Tiberius; The Religion of Politics, are his principal
writings.

=Smalley, Eugene Virgil.= _O._, 1841-1899. A journalist of St. Paul.
History of the Northern Pacific Railroad; History of the Republican
Party.

=Smalley, George Washburn.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. A noted journalist who
was the London correspondent of The New York Tribune, 1867-95, and from
1895 American correspondent of The London Times. London Letters, and
Some Others; Studies of Men. _Har._

=Smalley, John.= _Ct._, 1734-1820. A Congregational clergyman, pastor
at New Britain from 1758 till his death. National and Moral Inability;
Universal Salvation.

=Smart, Mrs. Helen Hamilton [Gardener].= _Va._, 1853- ----. A Boston
novelist whose writings are mainly concerned with the furtherance of
social reforms. An Unofficial Patriot; Is This Your Son, My Lord?;
Facts and Fictions of Life; Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?; Pushed by
Unseen Hands; A Thoughtless Yes; The Fortunes of Margaret Weld. _Ar._

=Smedes, Mrs. Susan [Dabney].= _Mi._, 1840- ----. A Mississippi writer
now living in Washington, whose Memorials of a Southern Planter is much
valued as an accurate picture of Southern life.

=Smith, Arthur Donaldson.= _Pa._, 1864- ----. An African explorer.
Through Unknown African Countries.

=Smith, Ashbel.= _Ct._, 1805-1886. A Texas politician and physician.
Account of the Geography of Texas; Permanent Identity of the Human Race.

=Smith, Augustus William.= _N. Y._, 1802-1866. An educator who was
professor of mathematics at Wesleyan University, 1831-51, and president
of that institution from 1851. Elementary Treatise on Mechanics.

=Smith, Buckingham.= _Ga._, 1810-1871. A Spanish-American scholar and
antiquary of note, twice secretary of the United States legation at
Mexico, and after 1859 a lawyer in Florida. Among his many publications
are, Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language; Grammar of the Pima, or
Nevome; Coleccion de Varios Documentos para la Historia de la Florida;
Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the Conquest of Florida.

=Smith, Charles.= _Pa._, 1765-1836. Son of William Smith, 1st, _infra_.
A Philadelphia lawyer who published a Treatise on the Land Laws of
Philadelphia.

=Smith, Charles Adam.= _N. Y._, 1809-1879. A Lutheran clergyman, pastor
at Rhinebeck, New York, and elsewhere. The Catechumen’s Guide; Men of
the Olden Time; Before the Flood and After; Among the Lilies; Inlets
and Outlets; Stoneridge, pastoral sketches; Popular Exposition of the
Gospels (with J. Morris). _Lip._

=Smith, Charles Henry.= “Bill Arp.” _Ga._, 1826-1903. A lawyer and
journalist of Rome, Georgia, well known as a humorous contributor to
The Atlanta Constitution. Bill Arp’s Letters; Bill Arp’s Scrap Book:
The Farm and the Fireside: A Side Show of the Southern Side of the War;
Georgia as a Colony and State, 1733-1893. _Gi._

=Smith, Daniel.= _Ct._, 1806-1852. A Methodist clergyman of New York
State very active in the temperance cause. Wisdom in Miniature; Gems
of Female Biography; Anecdotes for the Young; Teachers’ Assistant;
Lectures to Young Men; Book of Manners; Anecdotes of the Christian
Ministry. _Meth._

=Smith, Edward Delafield.= _N. Y._, 1826-1878. A lawyer of New York
city. Avidæ, a poem; Destiny, a poem; Oratory, a poem; Reports of Cases
in the New York Court of Common Pleas; Addresses to Juries in Slave
Trade Trials.

=Smith, Eli.= _Ct._, 1801-1857. A Congregational missionary at Beirut.
Missionary Researches in Armenia (1853); and an Arabic translation of
the Bible.

=Smith, Elias.= _Ct._, 1769-1846. A Congregational clergyman of
Massachusetts. The Clergyman’s Looking-Glass; History of Anti-Christ;
Sermons on the Prophecies, are among his writings.

=Smith, Elihu Hubbard.= _Ct._, 1771-1798. A physician and verse-writer
of New York city. Edwin and Angelina, an opera; American Poems,
Original and Selected.

=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes [Prince].= _Me._, 1806-1893. Wife of Seba
Smith, _infra_. A once prominent writer of prose and verse, who was
the first woman lecturer in America. Her later years were passed in
Hollywood, South Carolina. Among her many works are, The Sinless Child,
and Other Poems; The Newsboy, which first directed public attention
to a hitherto neglected class; Riches Without Wings; Old New York, or
Jacob Leisler, a tragedy; Woman and Her Needs; Bertha and Lily; The
Western Captive.

=Smith, Erasmus Peshine.= _N. Y._, 1814-1882. A jurist and political
economist. Manual of Political Economy.

=Smith, Mrs. Erminnie Adelle [Platt].= _N. Y._, 1837-1886. An
ethnologist who published an Iroquois-English dictionary. _See
Memorial, 1890._

=Smith, Ethan.= _Ms._, 1762-1849. A Congregational clergyman, city
missionary of Boston, 1832-49. A View of the Trinity; A View of the
Hebrews, in which the origin of the American Indians was traced to the
ten tribes of Israel. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Smith, Mrs. Eugenia M. [Bryce].= _Vt._, 1852- ----. A fiction-writer
of Dubuque. Winsome but Wicked; The Parson’s Sin; Our Money-Makers, a
poultry book.

=Smith, Florence.= _N. Y._, 1845-1871. A verse-writer of New York city
who published Piero’s Painting, and Other Poems.

=Smith, Mrs. Frances Irene [Burge].= _See Griswold, Mrs. Frances._

=Smith, Francis Henney.= _Va._, 1812-1890. A Confederate officer who
was professor of mathematics at Hampden Sidney College, Virginia,
1837-39, and superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, 1839-61
and 1865-90. Best Methods of Conducting Common Schools; College Reform;
and a series of algebras.

=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= _Md._, 1838- ----. An artist, civil
engineer, and popular littérateur of New York city. Well-Worn Roads
of Spain, Holland, and Italy; Old Lines in New Black and White; A
White Umbrella in Mexico; Colonel Carter of Cartersville, a novel; A
Day at Laguerre’s, and Other Days; American Illustrators; A Gentleman
Vagabond, and Some Others; Tom Grogan; Gondola Days; Caleb West. _Hou.
Scr._

=Smith, Gerrit.= _N. Y._, 1797-1874. A famous philanthropist of
Peterboro, New York, who was an ardent opponent of slavery. Speeches
in Congress; Sermons and Speeches; The Religion of Reason; The
Theologies; Nature the Basis of a Free Theology. _See Life of, by O. B.
Frothingham, supra._

=Smith, Gertrude.= _Cal._, 1860- ----. Sister of M. C. Smith, _infra_.
A Boston writer, whose early life was spent in the West. The Rousing
of Mrs. Potter, and Other Stories; The Arabella and Araminta Stories;
Dedora Heywood. _Cop. Do. Hou._

=Smith, Gustavus Woodson.= _Ky._, 1822-1896. A Confederate general who
lived in New York city from 1876. Notes on Life Insurance; Confederate
War Papers.

=Smith, Hamilton Lanphere.= _Ct._, 1819-1903. An educator who was
professor of natural philosophy at Hobart College from 1868. Natural
Philosophy; First Lessons in Astronomy and Geology.

=Smith, Henry Boynton.= _Me._, 1815-1877. A Presbyterian clergyman of
eminence as a theologian, and professor of systematic theology in Union
Seminary, New York city, 1854-74. Faith and Philosophy; Apologetics;
Chronological History of the Church of Christ; Introduction to
Christian Theology; System of Christian Theology. _See Life and Work
of, 1881; Life by Stearns, 1892._ _Scr._

=Smith, Henry Hollingsworth.= _Pa._, 1815-1890. A surgeon of
Philadelphia. Minor Surgery; System of Operative Surgery; Practice of
Surgery; Professional Visit to London and Paris.

=Smith, Herbert Huntington.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. A scientist who has
been engaged upon geological surveys in Ohio, New York, and Brazil.
Brazil, the Amazons, and the Coast. _Scr._

=Smith, Horace Wemyss.= _Pa._, 1825-1891. Son of R. P. Smith, _infra_.
A Philadelphia journalist whose principal works include, Nuts for
Future Historians to Crack; Yorktown Orderly Book; Life of Reverend
William Smith, _infra_.

=Smith, James.= _I._, _c._ 1720-1806. A lawyer of York, Pennsylvania,
who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He wrote
The Constitutional Power of Great Britain over the Colonies in America,
which materially aided the cause of the patriots.

=Smith, James.= _Pa._, 1737-1812. A once noted Kentucky pioneer.
Shakerism Developed; Shakerism Detected; Remarkable Adventures in
the Life of Colonel James Smith; Mode and Manner of Indian War. _See
Bibliography of Ohio._

=Smith, Jerome Van Crowninshield.= _N. H._, 1800-1879. A physician of
Boston, where he was mayor in 1854, and subsequently of New York city.
Class Book of Anatomy; Life of Andrew Jackson; Natural History of the
Fishes of Massachusetts; Pilgrimage to Palestine; Turkey and the Turks;
The Ways of Women.

=Smith, Job Lewis.= _N. Y._, 1827-1897. A physician of New York city
who wrote a Treatise on Diseases of Children.

=Smith, John.= _E._, 1579-1631. A celebrated sea captain and adventurer
who was one of the founders of Virginia, and of the company who settled
at Jamestown in 1607. He was a forcible, vigourous writer, much given
to magnifying his own exploits, and not always to be trusted in the
absence of other testimony. A True Relation of Virginia; The Generall
Historie of Virginia, which is partly original and partly compiled;
A Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Country; A Description
of New England (1616); An Accidence, or Pathway to Experience; A Sea
Grammar; The True Travels of Captain John Smith, a work in which his
imagination is under very little restraint as regards facts. _See
Lives by Hillard in Sparks’s American Biography, Mrs. Robinson, 1845,
Simms, 1846, Deane, 1859, Warner, 1881, True, 1882; Tyler’s American
Literature; North American Review, January, 1867; Appletons’ American
Biography._

=Smith, John.= _N. H._, 1752-1809. A Congregational minister and
educator, professor of languages at Dartmouth College and college
pastor, 1778-1809, as well as librarian of the college for some thirty
years. He was the author of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin Grammars, as well
as some minor publications. _See Memoir by his Wife, 1815._

=Smith, John Augustine.= _Va._, 1782-1865. A physician of New York
city, previously president of William and Mary College, 1814-26.
Mutations of the Earth; Moral and Physical Science; Functions of the
Nervous System.

=Smith, John Cotton.= _Ms._, 1826-1882. An Episcopal clergyman of New
York city, rector of the Church of the Ascension, 1860-82. The Church’s
Law of Development; Certain Aspects of the Church; Miscellanies; Old
and New; The Liturgy as a Basis of Union.

=Smith, John Hyatt.= _N. Y._, 1824-1886. A prominent Baptist clergyman
of Brooklyn, a member of Congress, 1880-82. Gilead; The Open Door.

=Smith, John Jay.= _N. J._, 1798-1881. A librarian of Philadelphia who
edited many works, and was author of Notes for a History of the Library
Company of Philadelphia; A Summer’s Jaunt Across the Water; Historical
and Literary Curiosities (with J. F. Watson).

=Smith, John Lawrence.= _S. C._, 1818-1883. A chemist of note who was
professor of chemistry in the University of Louisville. Mineralogy and
Chemistry: Original Researches.

=Smith, John Talbot.= _N. Y._, 1855- ----. A Roman Catholic clergyman
in the diocese of Ogdensburg. History of Ogdensburg Diocese; A Woman
of Culture, a novel; Solitary Island, a novel; Prairie Boy, a juvenile
tale; Our Seminaries: an essay on Clerical Training.

=Smith, Joseph.= _Pa._, 1796-1868. A Presbyterian clergyman, once
prominent in western Pennsylvania. History of Jefferson College; Old
Redstone, or Historical Sketches of Western Presbyterianism.

=Smith, Joseph Edward Adams.= “Godfrey Greylock.” 1822-1896. A writer
of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Taghconic: the Romance and Beauty of the
Hills; A History of Paper.

=Smith, Joseph Mather.= _N. Y._, 1789-1866. A physician of New
York city. Elements of the Etiology and Philosophy of Epidemics;
Illustrations of Medical Phenomena in Public Life.

=Smith, Judson.= _Ms._, 1837- ----. A Congregational clergyman and
educator, secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions from 1884. Lectures in Church History; Lectures on Modern
History.

=Smith, Justin Almerin.= _N. Y._, 1819-1896. A Baptist clergyman of
Chicago, editor of The Standard from 1853. The Martyr of Vilvorde;
Sinclair Thompson, the Shetland Apostle; The Spirit in the Word; Modern
Church History; Patmos.

=Smith, Mrs. Luella [Dowd].= _Ms._, 1847- ----. A verse-writer of
Hudson, New York. Wayside Leaves; Wind Flowers.

=Smith, Mrs. Lura Eugenie [Brown].= _N. Y._, 1864- ----. A journalist
of Little Rock. On the Track and Off the Train.

=Smith, Mrs. Margaret [Bayard].= _Pa._, 1778-1844. Wife of S. H.
Smith, _infra_, and once a social leader in Washington. A Winter in
Washington; What is Gentility?

=Smith, Mrs. Mary Louise [Riley].= _N. Y._, 1842- ----. A popular
verse-writer of New York city. Sometime, and Other Poems; The Inn of
Rest; A Gift of Gentians, and Other Verses; Cradle and Armchair. _Ran._

=Smith, Mrs. Mary Prudence [Wells].= “P. Thorne.” _N. Y._, 1840- ----.
A Cincinnati writer for young people. The Browns; Child Life on a Farm;
Jolly Good Times at School; Jolly Good Times at Hackmatack; More Good
Times at Hackmatack; Miss Ellis’s Mission. _A. U. A. Rob._

=Smith, Mrs. Mary Stuart [Harrison].= _Pa._, 1834- ----. The wife of a
professor at the University of Virginia. She has made many translations
from the German and French, and has also published, Heirs of the
Kingdom; Virginia Cookery Book. _Har._

=Smith, Matthew Hale.= _Me._, 1810-1879. Son of Elias Smith, _supra_.
A clergyman of the Universalist and subsequently of the Presbyterian
and other faiths, who was also a lawyer and a brilliant journalist,
known as “Burleigh.” Universalism Examined, Renounced, and Exposed;
Universalism not of God; Sabbath Evenings; Mount Calvary; Sunshine and
Shadow in New York; Bulls and Bears of Wall Street, include his chief
works.

=Smith, Minna Caroline.= _Cal._, 1860- ----. A journalist of Boston.
The Boys of Cary Farm, a juvenile tale; Trilby, the Fairy of Argyle,
from the French of Nodier. _Lam. Lo._

=Smith, Nathan.= _N. H._, 1762-1828. A physician who was a medical
professor in Dartmouth College, 1798-1813. Practical Essays on Typhus
Fever; Medical and Surgical Memoirs.

=Smith, Nathan Ryno.= _N. H._, 1797-1877. Son of N. Smith, _supra_. A
professor of surgery in the University of Maryland, 1840-70. Surgical
Anatomy of the Arteries; Legends of the South, are among his works.

=Smith, Oliver Hampton.= _N. J._, 1794-1859. A once prominent United
States senator from Indiana. Recollections of a Congressional Life;
Early Indian Trials.

=Smith, Persifor Frazer.= _Pa._, 1808-1882. A lawyer of Philadelphia.
Forms of Procedure in Pennsylvania Courts; Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Reports, 1865-82.

=Smith, Richard Penn.= _Pa._, 1790-1854. Grandson of William Smith,
1st, _infra_. A lawyer and dramatist of Philadelphia, fifteen of whose
plays were placed on the stage, and were once popular, Caius Marius
being one of the best. He wrote also The Forsaken, a novel; The Actress
of Padua, and Other Tales; Lives of Crockett and Martin Van Buren. His
complete works in four volumes were issued in 1888.

=Smith, Richard Somers.= _Pa._, 1813-1877. A soldier and educator,
president of Girard College, 1863-68, and for the last seven years of
his life in charge of the department of drawing at the United States
Naval Academy. Manual of Topographical Drawing; Manual of Linear
Perspective.

=Smith, Richmond Mayo.= _O._, 1854-1901. A professor of political
economy at Columbia College from 1883. Statistics and Economics;
Emigration and Immigration; Statistics and Sociology. _Mac. Scr._

=Smith, Samuel.= _N. J._, 1720-1766. A colonial treasurer of the
province of West Jersey, who published a History of Nova Cæsarea, or
New Jersey, from its Settlement to 1721.

=Smith, Samuel Francis.= _Ms._, 1808-1895. A Baptist clergyman near
Boston, who wrote much religious verse, but will probably be longest
remembered for the familiar “My Country, ’tis of thee.” He published,
for juvenile readers and others, Knights and Sea Kings; Mythology and
Early Greek History; Noble Workers; Poor Boys who Became Great; Rambles
in Mission Fields. _Lo._

=Smith, Samuel Stanhope.= _Pa._, 1750-1819. A Presbyterian divine,
president of Princeton College, 1794-1812. Lectures on the Evidences
of the Christian Religion; Moral and Political Philosophy; Sermons;
Comprehensive View of Natural and Revealed Religion; On the Variety of
Complexion and Figure of the Human Species, which was much noticed in
its day.

=Smith, Mrs. Sarah Louisa [Hickman].= _Mch._, 1811-1832. A Cincinnati
verse-writer whose Poems appeared in 1829.

=Smith, Seba.= “Jack Downing.” _Me._, 1792-1868. A journalist of
Portland, Maine, and, after 1842, of New York city, very popular as a
humourist in the earlier part of his career. The Letters of Major Jack
Downing; Powhatan, a metrical romance; New Elements of Geometry; Way
Down East, or Portraitures of Yankee Life; My Thirty Years Out of the
Senate; Dew-Drops of the Nineteenth Century.

=Smith, Sebastian Bach.= _G._, 1845-1895. A Roman Catholic clergyman at
Paterson, New Jersey. Elements of Ecclesiastical Law; New Procedure in
Criminal and Disciplinary Causes of Ecclesiastics in the United States.

=Smith, Solomon Franklin.= _N. Y._, 1801-1869. A once popular low
comedian who left the stage in 1853, and was afterward a noted lawyer
of St. Louis. Theatrical Apprenticeship; Theatrical Journey Work;
Autobiography (1868). _Har._

=Smith, Stephen.= _N. Y._, 1823- ----. A New York surgeon, professor of
clinical surgery in the University of the City of New York from 1874.
Handbook of Surgical Operations; Principles of Operative Surgery.

=Smith, Uriah.= _N. H._, 1832-1903. A Seventh Day Adventist writer
of Battle Creek, Michigan. Looking Unto Jesus; Here and Hereafter;
The Destiny of the Wicked; Nature and Destiny of Man; A Word for the
Sabbath (verse); The United States in the Light of Prophecy; Daniel
and the Revelation, a very popular work, the sale of which has reached
72,000 copies; The Sure Foundation; Scripture Pathways Cleared of
Stumbling-Stones.

=Smith, William.= _S._, 1721-1803. An Episcopal clergyman of
Philadelphia who came to America from Scotland in 1751, and in 1754
was made first provost of the University of Pennsylvania. A General
Idea of the College of Mirania first brought him to the knowledge of
Franklin, who was then laying plans for the university. He was author,
also, of Brief Account of the Province of Pennsylvania; Sermons;
Discourses on Public Occasions. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Life
and Correspondence of H. W. Smith, supra; Fisher’s Pennsylvania: Colony
and Commonwealth._

=Smith, William.= _N. Y._, 1728-1793. A jurist of New York city who
was a loyalist during the Revolution, and in 1786 was appointed chief
justice of Canada. History of the Province of New York from its
Discovery to 1732. _See Tyler’s American Literature._

=Smith, William.= _S._, 1754-1821. Nephew of W. Smith, 1st, _supra_. An
Episcopal clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island, and elsewhere, of some
note as an educator in his day. Essays on the Christian Ministry. _See
Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Smith, William Andrew.= _Va._, 1802-1870. A Methodist clergyman of
Virginia whose Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery
are considered the ablest presentation of the pro-slavery side of the
question.

=Smith, William Farrar.= _Vt._, 1824-1903. A brevet major-general
in the United States army who resigned in 1867. From Chattanooga to
Petersburg under Generals Grant and Butler. _Hou._

=Smith, William Henry.= _O._, 1833-1896. A journalist of Cincinnati,
subsequently collector of Chicago. The St. Clair Papers; Political
History of the United States.

=Smith, William Loughton.= _S. C._, 1758-1812. A diplomatist who was
minister to Portugal (1797-1800) and to Spain (1800-01), and an active
Federalist politician. Speeches; Comparative View of the Constitutions
of the States; American Arguments for British Rights.

=Smith, William L---- G----.= _Vt._, 1814- ----. Uncle Tom’s Cabin as
It Is.

=Smith, William Rudolph.= _Pa._, 1787-1868. A Wisconsin lawyer, author
of Observations on Wisconsin Territory, 1831; History of Wisconsin.

=Smith, William Russell.= _Al._, 1813-1896. A lawyer of Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, who was a congressman prior to the Civil War, and during that
period sat in the Confederate congress. The Alabama Justice; The Uses
of Solitude, a poem; As It Is, a novel; Condensed Alabama Reports.

=Smith, Worthington.= _Ms._, 1795-1856. A Congregational clergyman
of Vermont, pastor at St. Albans, 1823-1849, and president of the
University of Vermont, 1849-56. His Select Sermons were much read. _See
Memoir by Torrey, 1861._

=Smith, Zachariah Frederick.= _Ky._, 1827- ----. An educator who was
superintendent of public instruction in Kentucky for four years and
author of a History of Kentucky.

=Smock, John Conover.= _N. J._, 1842- ----. A geologist, assistant in
charge of the New York State Museum from 1885. Report on Clay Deposits;
On Building-Stones in New York.

=Smyth, Albert Henry.= _Pa._, 1863- ----. An educator of Philadelphia,
professor of English at the Central High School from 1886. Life of
Bayard Taylor. _Hou._

=Smyth, Egbert Coffin.= _Me._, 1829-1904. Son of W. Smyth, _infra_.
A Congregational clergyman prominent among liberal thinkers in his
denomination, and professor of ecclesiastical history at Andover
Seminary from 1863. The Value of the Study of Church History
in Ministerial Education; translation of Uhlhorn’s Conflict of
Christianity and Heathenism (with W. Ropes).

=Smyth, Herbert Weir.= _Del._, 1857- ----. A professor of Greek in
Bryn Mawr College from 1888. Der Diphthong EI in Griech; Sounds and
Inflections of the Greek Dialects. _Mac._

=Smyth, Julian Kennedy.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. A Swedenborgian clergyman
of Boston. Footprints of the Saviour; Holy Names as Interpretations of
the Story of the Manger and the Cross. _Rob._

=Smyth, [Samuel] Newman [Phillips].= _Me._, 1843- ----. Son of W.
Smyth, _infra_. A Congregational clergyman of prominence and of liberal
theology, pastor of the First Church at New Haven from 1882. Old Faiths
in New Light; The Orthodox Theology of To-Day; The Religious Feeling;
The Morality of the Old Testament; Personal Creeds; Christian Ethics;
Dorner on the Future State; the Reality of Faith. _Cas. Scr._

=Smyth, Thomas.= _I._, 1808-1873. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Charleston, pastor of the Second Church, 1832-73, and very active as
a controversialist, among whose many writings are, Lectures on the
Prelatical Doctrine of the Apostolical Succession; History of the
Westminster Assembly; Why Do I Live?; Solace for Bereaved Parents;
Calvin and his Enemies; Ecclesiastical Republicanism.

=Smyth, William.= _Me._, 1797-1868. An educator who was professor
of mathematics at Bowdoin College from 1825. Elements of Algebra;
Treatise on Algebra; Trigonometry, Surveying, and Navigation; Elements
of Analytical Geometry; Elements of the Differential and Integral
Calculus; Lectures on Modern History.

=Snead, Thomas Lowndes.= _Va._, 1828-1890. A St. Louis lawyer who
served in the Confederate army, and after 1865 resumed his profession
in New York city. The Fight for Missouri in 1861. _Scr._

=Snelling, Henry Hunt.= _N. Y._, 1817- ----. Brother of W. J. Snelling,
_infra_. A writer living at Cornwall, New York, from 1871. History and
Practice of Photography; Dictionary of the Photographic Art.

=Snelling, William Joseph.= _Ms._, 1804-1848. A journalist of Boston.
The Polar Regions of the Western Continent Explored; Truth: a Satirical
Poem; Six Months in a House of Correction.

=Snethen, Nicholas.= _L. I._, 1769-1845. A Methodist itinerant
preacher, active in the formation of the Methodist Protestant
denomination. Preaching the Gospel; Lay Representation; Lectures on
Biblical Subjects. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Snider, Denton Jaques.= _O._, 1841- ----. A literary lecturer of
St. Louis. System of Shakespeare’s Dramas; A Walk in Hellas; Delphic
Days, an idyl in the elegiac distich; Agamemnon’s Daughter, a classic
romantic poem; An Epigrammatic Voyage; Goethe’s Faust: a Commentary;
The Shakespearean Drama.

=Snively, William Andrew.= _Pa._, 1833-1901. An Episcopal clergyman of
Louisville. Family Prayers for the Christian Year; Testimonies to the
Supernatural; Parish Lectures on the Prayer Book; Æsthetics in Worship;
The Oberammergau Passion Play. _Wh._

=Snow, Caleb Hopkins.= _Ms._, 1796-1835. A Boston physician who
published A History of Boston; Geography of Boston and Adjacent Towns.

=Snow, Marshall Solomon.= _Ms._, 1842- ----. A professor of history in
Washington University, author of The City Government of St. Louis. _J.
H. U._

=Snowden, James Ross.= _Pa._, 1810-1878. A numismatist who was director
of the mint, 1856-61. The Mint at Philadelphia; The Mint Manual
of Coins; The Coins of the Bible and its Money Terms; Medals; The
Cornplanter Memorial. _Lip._

=Soley, James Russell.= _Ms._, 1850- ----. An educator, professor at
the Naval Academy, 1871-82, and lecturer on international law at
Newport Naval College from 1885. The Rescue of Greeley (with W. Schley,
_supra_); Foreign Systems of Education; The Blockade and the Cruisers;
The Boys of 1812 and Other Naval Heroes; History of the Naval Academy;
The Sailor Boys of ’61. _Est. Scr._

=Somerville, William Clarke.= _Md._, 1790-1826. A writer who was
appointed minister to Sweden, but died before reaching there and was
buried at the Marquis Lafayette’s home at Lagrange. Letters from Paris
on the Causes of the French Revolution.

=Sophocles, Evangelinus Apostolides.= _Gr._, 1807-1883. A Greek scholar
of distinction, professor at Harvard University, 1849-83. His chief
work is a Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods; and among
his other publications are, Greek Grammar for Learners; History of the
Greek Alphabet. _Scr._

=Sotheran, Charles.= _E._, 1847-1902. An English bibliographer who
came to America in 1874, and, settling in New York city, engaged in
journalism. Alessandro di Cagliostro: Impostor or Martyr; Shelley as
Philosopher and Reformer.

=Soule= [soo´lay], =Mrs. Caroline Augusta [White].= _N. Y._, 1824-1904.
The widow of a Universalist minister who entered the ministry herself,
was the first foreign missionary of that denomination, and in 1888 was
in charge of a congregation in Glasgow, Scotland. House Life; The Pet
of the Settlement; Wine or Water.

=Soule= [sole], =Richard.= _Ms._, 1812-1877. A lexicographer of
Boston. Manual of English Pronunciation (with W. H. Wheeler, _infra_);
Dictionary of English Synonyms; Pronouncing Handbook (with L.
Campbell). _Le._

=Southgate, Horatio.= _Me._, 1812-1894. The first and only Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Constantinople. He was consecrated in 1844, but
resigned his office in 1850, and held various rectorships subsequently,
including that of Zion Church, New York city, 1859-72, in which latter
year he retired from active duties. The Cross Above the Crescent;
Parochial Sermons; Narrative of a Tour Through Armenia, etc.; The War
in the East; Practical Directions for the Observance of Lent.

=Southworth, Mrs. Emma Dorothy Eliza [Nevitte].= _D. C._, 1819-1899.
A voluminous writer of sensational romances, mainly of Southern life
and some sixty in number, for many years a resident of Washington, but
from 1876 of Yonkers, New York. The literary merit of her works is very
slender. They were in nearly every case first issued serially in The
New York Ledger, and have been very popular amongst uncritical readers.
Among them are, Ishmael; The Widow’s Son; Retribution; The Family Doom.
_See Hart’s American Literature._

=Spaeth= [spāt], =Adolph.= _Wg._, 1839- ----. A prominent Lutheran
clergyman of Philadelphia, pastor of St. John’s Church from 1867. Die
Evangelien des Kirchenjahrs; Brosamen von des Herrn Tische; Saarkörner;
Luther in Lied seiner Zeitgenossen; Phœbe the Deaconess; Liederlust;
Faith and Life Represented by Luther; Annotations on the Gospel
according to St. John.

=Spahr, Charles Barzillai.= _O._, 1860-1904. A political economist,
associate editor of The Outlook from 1886. The Distribution of American
Wealth. _Cr._

=Spalding, John Franklin.= _Me._, 1828-1902. The first Protestant
Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Colorado. The Threefold Ministry;
Manual of Prayers; The Church and its Apostolic Ministry.

=Spalding, John Lancaster.= _Ky._, 1840- ----. Nephew of M. J.
Spalding, _infra_. The Roman Catholic bishop of Peoria, and widely
known as a thoughtful essayist and educator. Life of Archbishop
Spalding; Essays and Reviews; Religious Mission of the Irish People
and Catholic Colonization; Lectures and Discourses; America, and Other
Poems; The Poet’s Praise; Education and the Higher Life; Means and Ends
of Education; Things of the Mind; Songs, chiefly from the German. _Mg._

=Spalding, Lyman.= _N. H._, 1775-1821. A physician at Portsmouth, in
his native State, and subsequently of New York city, who was one of the
early advocates of vaccination. Reflections on Fever; Reflections on
Yellow Fever Periods.

=Spalding, Martin John.= _Ky._, 1810-1872. A Roman Catholic archbishop
of Baltimore, 1864-72, active as a controversialist. Review of
D’Aubigné’s History of the Reformation; Modern Civilization; Evidences
of Catholicity; Life of Bishop Flaget; Early Catholic Missions in
Kentucky; Miscellanea. _See Life by J. L. Spalding, supra; Gross’s
Sketches of Contemporaries._

=Spalding, Mrs. Susan [Marr].= _Me._, 18-- - ----. A verse-writer of
Philadelphia whose poems are much above the level of average verse. The
Wings of Icarus, and Other Poems. _Rob._

=Sparhawk, Frances Campbell.= _Me._, 1847- ----. A novelist and
philanthropist of Newton, Massachusetts, who has written much in behalf
of the Indian cause. A Chronicle of Conquest, a romance of the Indian
school at Carlisle; Little Polly Blatchley; Miss West’s Class in
Geography; Elizabeth, a colonial romance; The Query Club; A Lazy Man’s
Work; Onoqua, an Indian Story; Senator Intrigue and Inspector Nosely.
_Le. Lo._

=Sparks, Jared.= _Ct._, 1789-1866. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor
at Baltimore, 1819-23, professor of history at Harvard University,
1839-49, and president of Harvard University, 1849-53. He is best known
by the American Biography which he edited, and of which he was in part
the author. It includes sixty lives, of which he wrote those of Ethan
Allen; Benedict Arnold; Marquette; La Salle; Pulaski; Ribault; Charles
Lee; Ledyard. He was also author of a Life of Gouverneur Morris. He
published editions of the works of Franklin and Washington, with notes
and life of each; and also Correspondence of the American Revolution.
His editing has been sometimes criticised because he occasionally toned
down passages of unorthodox vigour and corrected the spelling of his
subjects, but his eminent merits in other respects have been generally
recognized. _See Lives by Mayer, supra, 1867; G. E. Ellis, supra, 1869;
Herbert Adams, supra._ _Har._

=Sparks, William Henry.= _Ga._, 1800-1882. A Mississippi planter, after
1850 a lawyer of New Orleans, who published Memories of Fifty Years.
He was a popular verse-writer, his best-known poems being, Somebody’s
Darling; The Dying Year.

=Spaulding, Elbridge Gerry.= _N. Y._, 1809-1897. A banker of Buffalo,
author of a History of Legal Tender Money During the Great Rebellion.

=Spaulding, Henry George.= _Ms._, 1837- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of
Massachusetts, among whose writings are, The Teachings of Jesus; Later
Heroes of Israel; Forty Hymns and their Authors.

=Spaulding, Solomon.= _Ct._, 1761-1816. A Congregational clergyman
of New England who left the ministry in 1795 and was subsequently an
iron-founder at Conneaut, Ohio, where he wrote a romance called The
Manuscript Found, published in 1812, and sometimes asserted to be the
basis of the Mormon Bible. _See Patterson’s, Who Wrote the Mormon
Bible? 1882._

=Spear, Charles.= _Ms._, 1801-1863. A Universalist minister of Boston
active in prison reform. Names and Titles of Christ; Essays on the
Punishment of Death; Plea for Discharged Convicts; Voices from Prison.

=Spear, Samuel Thayer.= _N. Y._, 1812-1891. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Brooklyn, editor of The New York Independent from 1871. Family Power;
Religion and the State; Constitutionality of the Legal Tender Act; The
Law of the Federal Judiciary; The Law of Extradition; The Bible Heaven.
_Fu._

=Spears, John Randolph.= _O._, 1850- ----. A journalist of New York
city. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn; The Port of Missing Ships, and
Other Stories of the Sea. _Mac. Put._

=Speed, John Gilmer.= _Ky._, 1853- ----. A journalist of New York city.
Life of Keats.

=Speer, William.= _Pa._, 1822- ----. A Presbyterian missionary in
China. China and the United States; The Great Revival of 1800; God’s
Rule for Christian Giving.

=Spencer, Mrs. Bella Zilfa.= _E._, 1840-1867. A novelist who was the
first wife of General George E. Spencer, formerly of the United States
army. Ora, the Lost Wife; Tried and True; Surface and Depth.

=Spencer, Mrs. Cornelia [Phillips].= _N. Y._, 1825- ----. A North
Carolina writer who published The Last Ninety Days of the War in North
Carolina; History of North Carolina.

=Spencer, Ichabod Smith.= _Vt._, 1798-1854. A Presbyterian clergyman
prominent in Brooklyn for many years. A Pastor’s Sketches; Sermons;
Sacramental Discourses; Evidences of Divine Revelation.

=Spencer, Jesse Ames.= _N. Y._, 1816-1898. An Episcopal clergyman and
educator, professor in the College of the City of New York, 1869-83,
and editor of many valuable classical text-books. His other works
include, History of the English Reformation; History of the United
States, a very popular work; Sermons; Discourses; The East: Sketches
of Travel in Egypt and the Holy Land; Greek Praxis; Five Last Things;
Studies in Eschatology; Papalism _vs._ Catholic Truth; Memorabilia of
Sixty-Five Years, 1820-86. _Wh._

=Spencer, Mrs. Sara [Andrews].= _N. Y._, 1837- ----. A prominent
woman-suffragist of Washington, proprietor of the Spencerian Business
College. Problems on the Woman Question; Lessons in the English
Language.

=Spencer, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1793-1857. A physician who was medical
professor at Hobart College, 1835-57. Lectures on Vital Chemistry;
Practical Observations on Epidemic Diarrhœa known as Cholera. _See
Memoir of, by S. Willard, 1858._

=Spencer, Mrs. William Loring [Nuñez].= _Fl._, 18-- - ----. A writer
who is the second wife of General George E. Spencer, formerly of the
United States army. Salt Lake Fruit; The Story of Mary, republished as
Dennis Day; A Plucky One; Calamity Jane. _Cas._

=Spitzka, Edward Charles.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A physician of New York
city eminent as a neurologist. Insanity, its Classification, Diagnosis,
and Treatment.

=Spofford, Ainsworth Rand.= _N. H._, 1825- ----. The librarian of
Congress, and editor of The American Almanac and Treasury of Facts.
Library of Choice Literature; Library of Historical Characters.

=Spofford, Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth [Prescott].= _Me._, 1835- ----. A
novelist and poet of Newburyport whose best work in both prose and
verse is markedly original, and characterized by striking luxuriance
of description. Azarian; Sir Rohan’s Ghost; The Amber Gods, and Other
Stories; New England Legends; The Thief in the Night; The Marquis of
Carabas, a romance; A Lost Jewel; Hester Stanley at St. Mark’s, a story
for girls; The Scarlet Poppy, and Other Stories; Art Decoration Applied
to Furniture; Home and Hearth; Essays on the Domestic Relations; Three
Heroines of New England (with Alice Brown, _supra_, and L. Guiney,
_supra_); The Servant Girl Question; A Master Spirit; Ballads About
Authors; Poems; In Titian’s Garden, and Other Poems. _See Atlantic
Monthly, April, 1882._ _Cop. Do. Har. Hou. Le. Rob. Scr._

=Spooner, Lysander.= _Ms._, 1808-1887. A lawyer of Boston prominent
as an abolitionist. Our Finances; The Deist’s Reply to the Alleged
Supernatural Evidences of Christianity; A Defence for Fugitive Slaves;
Unconstitutionality of Slavery; The Law of Prices; Poverty: Causes and
Cure.

=Spooner, Shearjashub.= _Vt._, 1809-1859. A dentist of New York city.
Guide to Sound Teeth; Surgical and Mechanical Dentistry; Biographical
and Critical Dictionary of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors, and
Architects; Anecdotes of Painters.

=Sprague, Alfred White.= _Sh._, 1821- ----. A Boston chemist who
published Chemical Experiments; Elements of Natural Philosophy.

=Sprague, Charles.= _Ms._, 1791-1875. A cashier of the Globe Bank,
Boston, 1825-65, well known in his lifetime as a verse-writer, and
still pleasantly remembered for the genuine sentiment in such poems
as The Family Meeting and The Winged Worshippers, though an Ode to
Shakespeare was once much praised. His poems first appeared in 1841,
the latest edition being that of 1876. _See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry
of America._

=Sprague, Charles Ezra.= _N. Y._, 1842- ----. The secretary of the Dime
Savings Institution in New York city from 1878. Logical Symbolism;
Handbook of Volapük.

=Sprague, John Titcomb.= _Ms._, 1810-1888. An officer of the United
States army who was military governor of Florida in 1865. Origin, etc.,
of the Florida War (1848).

=Sprague, Mary Aplin.= _O._, 1849- ----. A novelist of Newark, Ohio. An
Earnest Trifler. _Hou._

=Sprague, Peleg.= _Ms._, 1793-1880. A once noted jurist of Boston.
Speeches and Addresses; Decisions in Admiralty and Maritime Cases.

=Sprague, William Buell.= _Ct._, 1795-1875. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Albany whose Annals of the American Pulpit in ten volumes is the
work by which he is best known. Other works of his include, Letters to
a Daughter; The Daughter’s Own Book; Letters from Europe; Letters on
Revivals; True Christianity, and Other Systems; Life of Edward Dorr
Griffin, _supra_; Letters to Young Men; Women of the Bible; Visits to
European Celebrities; Life of Jedidiah Morse, _supra_; Aids to Early
Religion.

=Sprecher, Samuel.= _Md._, 1810- ----. A Lutheran clergyman, president
of Wurtemburg Seminary at Springfield, Ohio, 1849-74, and author of The
Groundwork of a System of Lutheran Theology.

=Spring, Gardiner.= _Ms._, 1785-1873. A Presbyterian clergyman,
long prominent in New York city as pastor of the Brick Church,
1810-73. Power of the Pulpit; The Church in the Wilderness; Sermons;
Distinguishing Traits of Christian Character; Pulpit Ministrations;
Attractions of the Cross; The Bible Not of Man; The Mercy Seat,
comprise his chief works. _See Personal Reminiscences of._ _C. P. S._

=Spring, Leverett Wilson.= _Vt._, 1840- ----. A Congregational
clergyman and educator, professor of English literature at the
University of Kansas, 1881-86, and professor of rhetoric at Williams
College from 1886. History of Kansas; Mark Hopkins: Teacher. _Hou._

=Springer, Mrs. Rebecca [Ruter].= _Ind._, 1832- ----. The wife of an
Illinois senator, and author of Songs of the Sea, and two novels,
Beechwood; Self.

=Sproull= [sprowl], =Thomas.= _Pa._, 1803-1892. A Reformed Presbyterian
clergyman of Pittsburg, who published Prelections on Theology.

=Squier= [skwīr], =Ephraim George.= _N. Y._, 1821-1888. An archæologist
and diplomatist, consul to Peru, 1863-1865, and consul-general of
Honduras at New York in 1868. Nicaragua; Mexican Hieroglyphics; Ancient
Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (with E. H. Davis, _supra_);
Antiquities of the State of New York; Waikna, or Adventures on the
Mosquito Coast; The States of Central America; Serpent Symbols; Peru.
_Ho._

=Squier, Miles Powell.= _Vt._, 1792-1866. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Geneva, New York. The Problem Solved, or Sin Not of God; Reason and the
Bible; Miscellaneous Writings; Autobiography.

=Staley, Cady.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A civil engineer, president of the
Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, and author of The Separate
System of Sewerage (with G. S. Pierson).

=Stall, Sylvanus.= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1880-87, and since then editor of Stall’s
Lutheran Year Book. Methods of Church Work; Pastor’s Record; Talks to
the King’s Children; Five-Minute Object Sermons to Children. _Fu._

=Stallo, John Bernhard.= _G._, 1823-1900. A Cincinnati lawyer, minister
to Italy in 1885. Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics; General
Principles of the Philosophy of Nature. _Ap._

=Stanley, Anthony Dumond.= _Ct._, 1810-1853. An educator who was a
professor of mathematics at Yale University, 1836-53. Elementary
Treatise of Spherical Geometry and Trigonometry; Tables of Logarithms.

=Stanley, Sir Henry Morton=, originally John Rowlands. _W._, 1841-1904.
A noted African explorer. In 1855 he was adopted by a New Orleans
merchant whose name he took. He was sent by the New York Herald in
search of Livingstone in 1870, and was again sent to Africa by the
Herald in 1874. In 1879 he accompanied an African expedition sent by
the King of the Belgians, which resulted in the establishment of the
Congo Free State. How I Found Livingstone; My Kalulu, Prince, King,
and Slave, a Study of Central Africa; Coomassie and Magdala; Through
the Dark Continent; The Congo and the Founding of its Free State;
In Darkest Africa; My Dark Companions; My Early Travels in America
and Asia; Slavery and the Slave Trade in India. _See Stanley and
Africa, 1890; Headley’s Adventures of Stanley; Lives by Montefiore,
1889, Little, 1890, Reddall, 1890; Packard’s Stanley and the Congo;
Stanley and his Heroic Relief of Emin Pasha, by E. P. Scott; Wauters’s
Stanley’s Emin Pasha Expedition; With Stanley’s Rear Column._ _Har._

=Stansbury, Howard.= _N. Y._, 1806-1863. An explorer who was a
topographical engineer in the United States army, and published An
Expedition to Great Salt Lake (1852). _Lip._

=Stanton, Mrs. Elizabeth [Cady].= _N. Y._, 1815-1902. Wife of H. B.
Stanton, _infra_. A celebrated woman-suffragist and reformer who
devoted the larger part of her life to suffrage and other reforms, and
(with S. Anthony and F. Gage) published a History of the Woman Suffrage
Movement.

=Stanton, Frank Lebby.= _Ga._, 1858- ----. A journalist and popular
verse-writer of Atlanta. Songs of the Soil. _Ap._

=Stanton, Henry Brewster.= _Ct._, 1805-1887. A journalist and reformer
of New York city. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers in Great Britain
and Ireland; Random Recollections. _Har._

=Stanton, Henry Thompson.= _Va._, 1834-1898. Son of R. H. Stanton,
_infra_. An officer in the United States army and an Indian
commissioner who wrote much humorous verse. The Moneyless Man, and
Other Poems; Jacob Brown, and Other Poems. _Clke._

=Stanton, Richard Henry.= _Va._, 1812-1891. A jurist of Kentucky. Code
of Civil and Criminal Practice in Kentucky; Practical Treatise for
Justices of the Peace; Manual for Kentucky Executors.

=Stanton, Robert Livingstone.= _Ct._, 1810-1885. Brother of H. B.
Stanton, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman who published The Church and
the Rebellion.

=Stanton, Theodore.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. Son of H. B. and E. Stanton,
_supra_. A journalist living in Paris. The Woman Question in Europe.
_Put._

=Stanwood, Edward.= _Me._, 1841- ----. A Boston journalist, managing
editor of The Youth’s Companion. A History of Presidential Elections;
History of Cotton Manufacture in New England. _Hou._

=Starr, Eliza Allen.= _Ms._, 1824-1901. An art lecturer in Chicago.
Patron Saints; Pilgrims and Shrines; Songs of a Lifetime.

=Starr, Frederic Ratchford.= _N. S._, 1821-1889. A noted dairy farmer
of Litchfield, Connecticut. Didley Dumps, the Newsboy; May I Not?; What
Can I Do?; Farm Echoes; From Shore to Shore.

=Starr, Moses Allen.= _N. Y._, 1854- ----. A physician of New York
city, prominent as a neurologist. Familiar Forms of Nervous Diseases;
Lectures on Insanity; Brain Surgery.

=Stauffer, Francis Henry.= _Pa._, 1832- ----. A sensational novelist
of Philadelphia, long a contributor to the Saturday Night. Among his
serials published in that paper, none of them of much literary merit,
are Ruth Brandon; Lucy Darrel; Devona the Dauntless.

=Staunton, William.= _E._, 1803-1889. An Episcopal clergyman of New
York city who published an Ecclesiastical Dictionary, and wrote much on
musical topics.

=Stearns, Asahel.= _Ms._, 1774-1839. A Massachusetts lawyer and
Congressman, professor of law at Harvard University, 1817-29. Summary
of the Law and Practice of Real Actions; General Laws, 1780-1822 (with
L. Shaw).

=Stearns, Charles.= _Ms._, 1753-1826. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor
at Lincoln, Massachusetts, from 1785 till his death. The Ladies’
Philosophy of Love, a Poem; Principles of Morality and Religion.

=Stearns, Charles Woodward.= _Ms._, 1818-1887. A physician and surgeon
of note as a Shakespearean scholar. Shakespeare’s Medical Knowledge;
Shakespeare Treasury of Wisdom and Knowledge; Concordance of the
Constitution of the United States; The Black Men and the South and the
Rebels.

=Stearns, Edward Josiah.= _Ms._, 1810-1890. An Episcopal clergyman
and educator in Maryland. A Platform for All Parties; Notes on Uncle
Tom’s Cabin; Practical Guide to English Pronunciation; The Faith of
Our Forefathers, an Examination of Archbishop Gibbons’s “Faith of Our
Fathers;” The Archbishop’s Champion Brought to Book. _Wh._

=Stearns, Frank Preston.= _Ms._, 1846- ----. Great-nephew of L. M.
Child, _supra_. A Boston writer upon art, literature, and history. The
Real and Ideal in Literature; Life of Tintoretto; The Midsummer of
Italian Art; Sketches from Concord and Appledore; Modern English Prose;
Summer Travel in Europe. _Put._

=Stearns, John Glazier.= _N. H._, 1795-1874. A Baptist clergyman
once prominent in central New York. The Primitive Church; Letters on
Freemasonry; The Sovereignty of God and Free Agency; The Influence of
the Spirit and the Word in Regeneration.

=Stearns, John William.= _Ms._, 1829- ----. A professor in the
University of Wisconsin from 1884. The History of Education in
Wisconsin.

=Stearns, Lewis French.= _Ms._, 1847-1892. A Presbyterian clergyman,
afterwards professor of systematic theology in Bangor Theological
Seminary, 1880-92. The Evidence of Christian Experience; Present Day
Theology, with Biographical Sketch by G. L. Prentiss, _supra_; Life of
Henry Boynton Smith, _supra_. _Hou. Scr._

=Stearns, Oakman Sprague.= _Me._, 1817-1893. A Baptist clergyman
of Massachusetts, professor of biblical interpretation at Newton
Theological Seminary from 1868. A Syllabus of Messianic Passages in the
Old Testament; Introduction to the Books of the Old Testament.

=Stearns, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1747-1819. A physician and astronomer of
Worcester, New York city, and lastly of Brattleboro, Vermont. Tour to
London and Paris; Mystery of Animal Magnetism; American Oracle; The
American Herbal or Materia Medica.

=Stearns, William Augustus.= _Ms._, 1805-1876. A Congregational
clergyman, president of Amherst College, 1854-76. Infant Church
Membership; A Plea for the Nation.

=Stearns, Winfrid Alden.= 185- - ----. Son of W. A. Stearns, _supra_.
Labrador: a Sketch of its Peoples, etc.; Wrecked on Labrador; New
England Bird Life (with E. Coues, _supra_).

=Stebbins, Giles Badger.= 1817-1900. After Dogmatic Theology, What?;
The American Protectionist’s Manual; Chapters from the Bible of the
Ages; Facts and Opinions Touching the American Colonization Society;
Progress from Poverty.

=Stebbins, Emma.= _N. Y._, 1815-1882. A sculptress who lived many
years in Rome, where she formed a friendship with Charlotte Cushman.
Charlotte Cushman: Her Letters and Memories of her Life. _Hou._

=Stebbins, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [Moore] [Hewitt].= _Ms._, 1818- ----.
Memorial of F. S. Osgood, _supra_; Songs of Our Lord; Heroines of
History; Poems: Sacred, Passionate, and Legendary.

=Stebbins, Rufus Phineas.= _Ms._, 1810-1885. A Unitarian clergyman of
Ithaca, New York, and subsequently of Newton Centre, Massachusetts. A
Study of the Pentateuch; A Common Sense View of the Books of the Old
Testament.

=Stedman, Edmund Clarence.= _Ct._, 1833- ----. A poet and literary
critic of New York city, for many years a member of the Stock Exchange
there. His volumes of verse include, Poems: Lyric and Idyllic; The
Prince’s Ball; The Battle of Bull Run; Alice of Monmouth; Idyl of the
Great War, and Other Poems; The Blameless Prince; Hawthorne, and Other
Poems; Lyrics and Idyls; Poems, Household Edition; The Star Bearer. His
other works comprise, Octavius Brooks Frothingham and the New Faith;
Victorian Poets; Poets of America; The Nature and Elements of Poetry.
His most important labours as editor have been, A Library of American
Literature (with E. M. Hutchinson, _supra_); The Works of Poe (with G.
E. Woodberry, _infra_); A Victorian Anthology. _See Vedder’s American
Writers; Foley’s American Authors, 1897._ _Hou._

=Steele, Daniel.= _N. Y._, 1824- ----. A Methodist clergyman and
educator of note. Commentary on Joshua; Love Enthroned; Milestone
Papers; Antinomianism Revived; Commentary on Leviticus and Numbers;
Bible Readings; Sermons and Essays. _Meth._

=Steele, David.= _I._, 1827- ----. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman of
Philadelphia from 1861. The Times in Which we Live, and the Ministry
they Require; The Apologetics of History.

=Steele, Mrs. Esther [Baker].= _N. Y._, 1835- ----. Wife of J. D.
Steele, _infra_, and co-author with him of a General History and school
histories of the United States; France; Ancient Peoples; Mediæval and
Modern Peoples; Greece; Rome.

=Steele, George McKendree.= _N. Y._, 1823-1902. A Methodist clergyman
and educator, principal of Wilbraham Academy, Massachusetts. Outline
Study of Political Economy. _Meth._

=Steele, Joel Dorman.= _N. Y._, 1836-1886. A prominent educator of
Elmira, New York, who published Barnes’s History of the United States
and a series of text-books on the sciences, each intended for a course
of study of fourteen weeks, including Natural Philosophy; Geology;
Human Physiology; Zoölogy; Chemistry.

=Steele, Mrs. Margaret.= _See Conkling, Mrs._

=Steele, Thomas Sedgwick.= _Ct._, 1845- ----. Canoe and Camera: a Tour
Through the Maine Forests; Paddle and Portage from Moosehead Lake to
the Aroostook River; A Voyage to Vikingland. _Est._

=Steendam, Jacob.= _H._, 1616-16--?. The earliest verse-writer of New
York. He was in the employ of the Dutch West India Company, and lived
in New Amsterdam, now New York, from 1650 to 1663, about which time
he returned to Holland. The place and date of his death are unknown.
His four small volumes of verse include, Der Distelvink (The Thistle
Finch); Klacht van Nieuw Amsterdam (The Complaint of New Amsterdam);
Tlof van Nieuw Nederland (The Praise of New Netherland); Prichel
Vaarsen (Spurring Verses). The literary merit of his work is small.

=Steenstra, Peter Henry.= _H._, 1833- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of
Cambridge, Massachusetts, professor of Old Testament criticism and
interpretation in the Episcopal Theological School from 1867. The Being
of God as Unity and Trinity. _Hou._

=Steiger, Ernst.= _Sxy._, 1832- ----. A bibliographer and publisher of
New York city. Der Nachdruck in Nordamerika; Das Copyright Law in den
Vereinigten Staaten; Periodical Literature, a bibliography.

=Stella.= _See Lewis, Mrs._

=Stellhorn, Frederick William.= _G._, 1841- ----. A Lutheran clergyman
of Ohio, professor of theology in Capitol University, who has published
a Lexicon of New Testament Greek; Annotations on the Acts of the
Apostles; Annotations on the Gospels.

=Stephen, Mrs. Elizabeth [Willison].= _Al._, 1856- ----. The wife of a
Presbyterian clergyman in Rockport, Illinois. The Confessions of Two, a
novel.

=Stephens, Alexander Hamilton.= _Ga._, 1812-1883. A distinguished
Georgia statesman who was a representative in Congress from his State,
1843-59, vice-president of the Confederacy, subsequently a member
of Congress, and in 1882 governor of Georgia. School History of the
United States; History of the War between the States; Compendium of
United States History. _See Carroll’s Twelve Americans; Life by F. H.
Norton; Life by Johnston and Browne; Harper’s Magazine, February, 1870;
Appletons’ American Biography; Trent’s Southern Statesmen._ _Lip._

=Stephens, Mrs. Ann Sophia [Winterbotham].= _Ct._, 1813-1886. A
novelist and littérateur of New York city whose books were at one time
much read. Among them are, Fashion and Famine, her best work; A Story
of Western Life; The Old Homestead; Myra, the Child of Adoption; The
Heiress; Wives and Widows; The Curse of Gold; A Popular History of the
United States. She wrote not a little verse, her best known poem being
the familiar Polish Boy.

=Stephens, Charles Asbury.= _Me._, 1847- ----. A writer of Norway,
Maine. Camping Out; Off the Geysers; Left on Labrador; Fox Hunting; On
the Amazon; The Young Moose-Hunters; The Knockabout Club in the Woods
and in the Tropics. _Co. Est._

=Stephens, Harriet Marion.= 1823-1850. Home Scenes and Home Sounds;
Hagar the Martyr, a novel.

=Stephens, John Lloyd.= _N. J._, 1805-1852. A traveller of note.
Incidents of Travel in Central America; Yucatan; Egypt, Arabia, and the
Holy Land; Greece, Turkey, and Russia. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._
_Har._

=Stephens, William.= _E._, 1671-1753. A colonial governor of Georgia,
1743-1750, who published a Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia. _See
Biography by his son, entitled The Castle Builder, or the History of
William Stephens of the Isle of Wight._

=Stern, Simon Adler.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. Florentine Nights; Excerpts;
Jottings of Travel in China and Japan.

=Sternberg, George Miller.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A surgeon in the
United States army. Photo-Micrographs; Malaria and Malarial Diseases;
Bacteria, from the French of Maguin; Immunity: Protective Inoculations
in Infectious Diseases; Manual of Bacteriology. _Hou._

=Sterne, Simon.= _Pa._, 1839-1901. A prominent politician of New York
city. Popular Government and Personal Representation; Constitutional
History and Development of the United States; Suffrage in Cities;
Hindrances to Prosperity. _Lip. Put._

=Sterne, Stuart.= _See Bloede._

=Sterrett, John Robert Sitlington.= _Va._, 1851- ----. A professor of
Greek at Amherst College from 1892. Qua in re Hymni Homerici quinque
majores inter se differunt; Inscriptions of Assos; Epigraphical Journey
in Asia Minor; The Wolfe Expedition to Asia Minor.

=Stevens, Abel.= _Pa._, 1815-1897. A Methodist clergyman of New York
city of prominence as a writer, and long connected with the Methodist
Book Concern. History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United
States; History of Methodism; Life of Madame de Staël; Life of Nathan
Bangs, _supra_; Character Sketches; Women of Methodism; Christian Work
and Consolation; Church Polity; Tales from the Parsonage, are among his
many publications. _Har. Meth._

=Stevens, Alexander Hodgdon.= _N. Y._, 1789-1869. A surgeon of New
York city, whose chief works are, Inflammation of the Eye; Lectures on
Lithotomy; First Lines of Surgery.

=Stevens, Benjamin Franklin.= _Vt._, 1833-1902. Brother of H. Stevens,
_infra_. A bibliographer who edited Campaign in Virginia in 1781;
Facsimiles of MSS. in European Archives Relating to America, 1773-83.

=Stevens, Charles Ellis.= _Ms._, 1853- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of
Philadelphia. The Sources of the Constitution of the United States in
Relation to Colonial and English History. _Mac._

=Stevens, George Barker.= _N. Y._, 1854- ----. A Congregational
clergyman and educator of New Haven, professor in Yale Divinity School
from 1886. Commentary on Galatians; The Pauline Theology; The Johannine
Theology; Doctrine and Life. _Scr._

=Stevens, Henry.= _Vt._, 1819-1886. A bibliographer of prominence, who
lived in London after 1845. Historical Nuggets; Historical Collections;
Recollections of James Lenox; The Tehuantepec Railway; Historical and
Geographical Notes; The Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition; Catalogue of
the American Books in the British Museum; and indexes to state papers
in London relating to Virginia, Maryland, Rhode Island, and New Jersey.

=Stevens, John Austin.= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. An author of New York
city, and later of Newport, Rhode Island, who founded the Magazine
of American History; The Valley of the Rio Grande; The Expedition of
Lafayette against Arnold; Life of Albert Gallatin, _supra_. _Hou._

=Stevens, John Leavitt.= _Me._, 1820-1895. A diplomatist who was
minister to Uruguay and Paraguay, 1870-73, to Sweden, 1877-83, to
Hawaii, 1889-93. History of Gustavus Adolphus.

=Stevens, Thomas.= _E._, 1855- ----. A noted cyclist who has published,
Scouting for Stanley in East Africa; Around the World on a Bicycle:
From San Francisco to Teheran, From Teheran to Yokohama; Through Russia
on a Mustang. _Cas. Scr._

=Stevens, William Bacon.= _Me._, 1815-1887. The fourth Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania, consecrated in 1862. History of
Georgia; The Bow in the Cloud; Sermons; Sabbaths of Our Lord; Parables
of the New Testament Unfolded; History of Silk Culture in Georgia; The
Sunday at Home. _Co._

=Stevenson, E[dward] Irenæus.= _N. J._, 1858- ----. A littérateur of
New York city, since 1881 the editor of The New York Independent, and
for many years an editor of Harper’s Weekly. He has been the musical
editor of several journals for a number of years. White Cockades,
an Incident of the “Forty-five;” Janus, reissued as A Matter of
Temperament, a musical novel; Left to Themselves, reissued as Philip
and Gerald; Mrs. Dee’s Encore; A Square of Sevens. _Har. Meth. Scr._

=Stevenson, Sarah Hackett.= _Il._, 1843- ----. A physician of Chicago.
Boys and Girls in Biology; The Physiology of Woman.

=Steward, Theophilus Gould.= _N. J._, 1843- ----. A clergyman of
African descent. Death, Hades, and the Resurrection; The End of the
World; Genesis Re-read.

=Stewart, Austin.= _Va._, _c._ 1793-186-. An author and educator of
African descent who published, Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years
a Freeman.

=Stewart, Charles Samuel.= _N. J._, 1795-1870. A Presbyterian
clergyman, chaplain in the navy. Residence at the Sandwich Islands in
1822-23; Visit to the South Seas in the Ship Vincennes; Sketches of
Society in Great Britain and Ireland in 1832; Brazil and La Plata in
1850-63; Personal Record of a Cruise.

=Stewart, Mrs. Electra Maria [Sheldon].= _N. Y._, 1817- ----. A writer
of Detroit. Early History of Michigan; The Clevelands, a religious