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 ARD CATALOG SERIES 
 
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 STANDARD CATALOG 
 
 BIOGRAPHY SECTION 
 
 COMPILED BY 
 
 CORINNE BACON 
 
 THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY 
 
 NEW YORK 
 1919 
 

STANDARD CATALOG SERIES 
 
 STANDARD CATALOG 
 
 BIOGRAPHY SECTION 
 
 ONE THOUSAND TITLES OF THE MOST REPRESENTATIVE, 
 INTERESTING AND USEFUL BIOGRAPHIES 
 
 COMPILED BY 
 
 CORINNE BACON 
 
 THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY 
 
 NEW YORK 
 1919 
 

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PREFACE 
 
 Scope. This section of the Standard Catalog contains about 1000 titles of 
 the most representative, interesting and useful biographies, with descriptive and 
 evaluative notes. Some biographies which few people care to read thru have 
 been included because of their value in reference work. A few biographies hardly 
 up to standard have been included because of the importance of the subject of 
 the biography. The compiler has tried to consider all biographies appearing up 
 to June 1st, 1919. 
 
 Arrangement. Most of the titles listed are classed in 920-928, Collective 
 biography, or 92, Individual biography ; but lives of artists, sculptors, musicians 
 and actors have been classed with the 700s, Fine arts, altho listed here. Librarians 
 are asked to bear in mind that many so-called "lives" of artists, musicians and 
 writers partake more of the nature of criticism than of biography and will be 
 found classed in the Fine arts and the Literature sections of the Standard Cata- 
 log, rather than in the Biography section. Lives of Jesus, 232, have been in- 
 cluded by request. Lives of Negroes and of Indians of today have been classed 
 in 92 rather than in the numbers assigned by the Decimal classification. Lives 
 of combatants in the European war, limited in scope chiefly to the war, will be 
 included in the History section under European war. The scheme of arrange- 
 ment will be found on preface page v. In Individual biography, the entries have 
 been made under the names of the persons written about, in order not to separate 
 two or more lives of the same individual. 
 
 Index. A partial index of authors' names (p. 77) includes the authors of all 
 biographies classed in 920-928, 232 and the 700s. It has seemed unnecessary to 
 index the 92 section by author, as it is arranged alphabetically by names of biog- 
 raphees. 
 
 Method of Compilation. Questionnaires were sent out to a number of 
 librarians, before beginning the work, dealing with its scope, form, and the data 
 to be included. With these suggestions to guide her, in addition to her own 
 experience in public libraries, large and small, and in one state library, the com- 
 piler formed her plan of work. No attempt was made to go over in detail the 
 ground so carefully covered by the American Library Association up to 1912, 
 altho some of the books published prior to 1912 and not included in the A. L. A. 
 Catalog and Supplement have been listed at the suggestion of collaborators. The 
 chief sources used for the older books were the A. L. A. Catalog of 1904 and its 
 Supplement (1904-1911) and the classified catalog of the Carnegie Library of 
 Pittsburgh. Beginning with 1912, the compiler checked such titles as might be 
 included in a library of 10,000 volumes, in the bulletins of the Carnegie Library 
 of Pittsburgh, the Cleveland Public Library, the Pratt Institute Library, the 
 St. Louis Public Library, and the New York Branch Library News. During the 
 past year, the Bulletin of the Brooklyn Public Library has also been checked. 
 These bulletins were clipped and mounted on cards, together with material from 
 a number of other sources, including bulletins of library commissions, notably 
 that of Wisconsin, the New York Best Books, the Booklist, and two lists entitled 
 "Fifty biographies for a small library," compiled by Mrs. Julia S. Harron, and 
 "Lives and letters, a selected and annotated list," compiled by the Carnegie 
 Library of Pittsburgh. The file of book reviews accumulated by the Book Re- 
 view Digest was constantly used. In this way a tentative list of some 1,300 titles 
 was made and the galley proofs were sent to a few librarians and to a teacher 
 of art for criticism and suggestion. 
 
 Acknowledgments. The compiler wishes to acknowledge her indebtedness 
 to the following librarians and editors who checked up the entire Biography sec- 
 tion and gave much helpful advice: Mr. Hiller C. Wellman of the City Library 
 
Association of Springfield, Massachusetts; Miss Louise Hinsdale of the East 
 Orange (New Jersey) Public Library; Miss Mary L. Jones of the Los Angeles 
 County Free Library; Miss Mary Eastwood, editor of New York Best Books 
 and instructor in the New York Library School ; Mrs. Julia S. Harron, formerly 
 connected with the New York Best Books and with the Booklist, now editor of 
 the Cleveland Open Shelf; Miss Mary Katharine Reely, present editor of the 
 Book Review Digest, and Miss Margaret Jackson, instructor in the New York 
 City Library School, whose work on the Century Cyclopedia of Names and as 
 editor of the Book Review Digest has given her a wide knowledge of men, women 
 and books. Valuable advice on the art biography was given by Miss Helen 
 Jackson, instructor in art in Miss Hills' School in Philadelphia. 
 
 The final decision as to inclusion or exclusion of any title has necessarily been 
 made by the editor in accordance with the weight of evidence. Inasmuch as the 
 selection has been made in this manner, the cooperators should not be held in- 
 dividually responsible for the result. 
 
 Data Given. The attempt has been made to enter biographers and biog- 
 raphees under the more familiar forms of their names. Pretty full titles have 
 been given, followed by number of volumes when more than one, edition, illustra- 
 tions (when important), date (latest copyright date being given when easily ascer- 
 tainable), publisher and price. The prices have been taken in the main from the 
 Publisher's Trade List Annual of 1918, tho a few prices are of more recent date. 
 Series notes have been given when important. A few out-of-print books have 
 knowingly been listed and these are plainly indicated. Almost every title is 
 annotated. A large number of these notes have been taken from library bulletins, 
 the Booklist, the Book Review Digest, and other of the sources used in selection. 
 Mr. G. B. Utley, Secretary of the American Library Association, has kindly per- 
 mitted the use of notes from the A. L. A. Catalog and Supplement. Class num- 
 bers have been given after each entry, because the same linotype slugs will be 
 used later in the dictionary catalog. 
 
 Selection. The selection has been made with both the small and large 
 library in mind, some titles being listed here that will probably be dropped from 
 the 10,000 volume dictionary catalog. Scholarly and expensive books have some- 
 times been included in a note, but have often been listed because of their im- 
 portance. Some valuable books have been omitted because they are not ordinarily 
 called for in a library of 10,000 volumes. A few critical librarians will perhaps 
 note the omission of some "books that no gentleman's library should be without." 
 Others will note the inclusion of titles in their opinion too expensive or too "high- 
 brow" for the smaller libraries. The compiler has tried to list not the ideally best 
 books without regard to expense, availability or limitation of interest to a few 
 scholars, but the best books that the average intelligent frequenter of our public 
 libraries will actually read or study. In so doing she has assumed that the general 
 level of intelligence is rising, and that a greater number of people than before the 
 war, including our new women voters, are interested in worth while books. 
 
 Uses. It is hoped that this Standard Catalog will be of use to librarians as 
 a buying list, in reference work, and as a recommended list of the best reading 
 for users of our public libraries ; also that it will meet the demand of the reader 
 for a printed catalog that he may take home. 
 
 Standard Catalog Series. This Catalog will later form part of a dictionary 
 catalog of 10,000 of the best books for adults on all subjects that should be repre- 
 sented in a public library of that size. As now printed, it probably includes more 
 volumes than will be listed in the final Catalog. This section is issued in advance 
 of the full Catalog in response to requests from public libraries and library com- 
 missions. 
 
 The Standard Catalog Series now includes the Children's Catalog, issued 
 in three sizes, with its 1918 Supplement (1919 Supplement will be issued in the 
 early fall) the Sociology section of the Standard Catalog (second printing), 
 and the Biography section of the same. The Fiction section will be the next one 
 issued. 
 
 . June 30, 1919. Corinne Bacon. 
 
BIOGRAPHY 
 
 Both collective and individual biography of artists, 
 musicians and actors are classed in the 700s. A par- 
 tial author index will be found on page 77. 
 
 920 Collective biography in general 
 920.7 Biography of women 
 
 922 Biography of religion 
 
 923 Biography of sociology 
 
 925 Biography of science 
 
 926 Biography of useful arts 
 928 Biography of literature 
 
 92 Individual biography 
 
 Exclusive of artists, musicians and actors. 
 Arranged alphabetically by the names of the 
 biographies and not indexed. 
 
 232 Lives of Jesus Christ 
 
 709.92 Collective biography of artists 
 
 730.92 Biography of sculptors 
 
 759 Biography of painters 
 
 759.1 American painters 
 
 759.2 English painters 
 
 759.3 German painters 
 
 759.4 French painters 
 
 759.5 Italian painters 
 
 759.6 Spanish painters 
 759.9 Other painters 
 
 780.92 Biography of musicians 
 792 Biography of actors 
 
 [v] 
 
Biography 
 
 920 Collective biography 
 
 Collective biography is classified (920-928) 
 and arranged alphabetically by authors under 
 each class number. Books for reading and ref- 
 erence appear in the same alphabet. 
 
 About biography 
 
 Burr, Mrs Anna Robeson (Brown) 
 
 The autobiography. '09 Houghton $2.50 
 
 920 
 "A comparative and critical study of the 
 origin, motives, ideals and psychological- im- 
 portance of the autobiography." A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Dunn, Waldo Hilary 
 
 English biography. '17 Dutton $2 920 
 "The first book in English to make a detailed 
 study of the origin and evolution of English 
 biography as distinguished from autobiography, 
 which has received a like handling from Mrs 
 Anna Robeson Burr ('The autobiography,' 
 Houghton, $2.50). The treatment is not only 
 historical, but includes some valuable defini- 
 tions of the function and place of biography in 
 letters, and its relation to other subjects, notably 
 fiction, and also some excellent critical material 
 on specific biographies. The author is [19 16] 
 professor of the English language and literature 
 at the University of Wooster." Cleveland 
 
 The appendix contains Biographical compila- 
 tions_ in Latin; Biographical compilations in 
 English; English autobiographies; Shakespeare 
 in biography 
 
 Lee, Sir Sidney Lazarus 
 Principles of biography: the Leslie 
 Stephen lecture delivered in the Senate 
 house, Cambridge, on 13 May, 1911. '11 
 Putnam 60c 920 
 
 General works 
 
 Benson, Arthur Christopher 
 
 Leaves of the tree. '11 Putnam $1.50 920 
 "Portraits in finished style, drawn from life, 
 of the personalities of Henry Sidgwick, J. K. 
 Stephens, Frederick Myers, Henry Bradshaw, 
 Charles Kingsley, Matthew Arnold, Professor 
 Alfred Newton, and Bishops Westcott, Wilkin- 
 son, Lightfoot and Wordsworth." N.Y. state 
 lib. 
 
 Birkhead, Alice 
 
 Heroes of modern Europe. '13 Crowell 
 $2 ( 920 
 
 "The figures from history chosen by the au- 
 thor as the subjects of these sketches are: 
 JLtante; Lorenzo the Magnificent; Savonarola: 
 Martin Luther; Charles the Fifth; William the 
 Silent; Henry of Navarre; Richelieu; Louis 
 XIV; Peter the Great; Frederick the Great; 
 Voltaire; Napoleon; Mazzini; Garibaldi; 
 Napoleon III; Tolstoi." Book rev. digest 
 
 Bolton, Mrs Sarah (Knowles) 
 
 Famous leaders among men. '94 Crowell 
 $1 920 
 
 Contents: Napoleon Bonaparte: Horatio Nel- 
 son; John , Bunyan; Thomas Arnold; Wendell 
 Phillips; Henry Ward Beecher; Charles Kings- 
 Brooff" Sherman; C - H - Spurgeon; Phillips 
 
 Lives of poor boys who became famous. 
 85 (< Crowell $1.50 920 
 
 "Inspiring examples of boys who achieved 
 success m spite of obstacles." A. L. A. 
 
 Booth, William Stone 
 
 (ed.) Wonderful escapes by Americans, 
 il '13 Houghton $2.25 920 
 
 "True stories from various writers recounting 
 the capture of pioneers by Indians, escapes 
 from Libby and Andersonville prisons, adven- 
 tures in fighting fires and tornados, and other 
 thrilling experiences." Pratt quarterly 
 
 Bryce, James Bryce, viscount 
 Studies in contemporary biography. '03 
 Macmillan $3 920 
 
 Beaconsfield, Dean Stanley, Anthony Trol- 
 lope, J. R. Green, Parnell, Gladstone, E. L. 
 Godkin, E. A. Freeman, Cardinal Manning, 
 Lord Acton and ten other character estimates. 
 
 Bullard, Frederic Lauriston 
 
 Famous war correspondents, il '14 Little 
 $2.50 920 
 
 "Biographical sketches of eminent war corre- 
 spondents so arranged as to form practically a 
 history of this branch of journalism." Pratt 
 quarterly 
 
 "Twelve timely and stirring narratives of 
 such notable men as Sir William Howard Rus- 
 sell, Archibald Forbes, Frederick Villiers, G. W. 
 Steevens, James Creelman, etc., with two chap- 
 ters on the 'covering' of the Civil and Spanish- 
 American wars. Seventeen portraits, index." 
 N.Y. state lib. 
 
 Burton, Margaret Ernestine 
 
 Comrades in service, il '15 Missionary 
 educ. 60c; pa 40c 920 
 
 Contents: A servant of the city, Jacob A. 
 Riis; Pilgrim of India, Chundra Lela; Man of 
 the mountains, J. A. Burns; The Frances Wil- 
 lard of Japan, Kaji Yajima; Man with a mes- 
 sabe, Dwight L. Moody; A beloved physician, 
 Li Bi Cu; Pacific pioneer, Thomas Crosby; 
 Bishop of the Niger, Samuel Adjai Crowther; 
 Believer in black folk, Frances Jackson Cop- 
 pin; Ambassador in chains, Syngman Rhee; 
 Story of a friend, Grace H. Dodge. 
 
 "Eleven biographical sketches, interestingly 
 told, of men and women who have found sat- 
 isfaction in serving as teachers, social workers, 
 preachers, and doctors. Useful in connection 
 with Sunday school classes or missionary study 
 classes." A. L. A. bkl. 
 
 Clodd, Edward 
 
 Memories, il '16 Putnam $3 920 
 
 "After giving us an interesting 'Fragment of 
 autobiography,' Mr Clodd devotes the rest of 
 his book to sketches of his friends Grant Al- 
 len, Huxley, Du Chaillu, Mary H. Kingsley, 
 Meredith, Gissing, Andrew Lang, Samuel 
 Butler and many others. The recollec- 
 
 tions are interspersed with letters, poems, and 
 anecdotes, and as 'fireside talk' about a depart- 
 ing generation they are widely sympathetic and 
 genuinely pleasant." Pittsburgh 
 
 "The writer's attitude toward religion will 
 tend to limit the book's appeal." A. L. A. bkl. 
 
 Elias, Edith L. 
 
 In Georgian times, il '14 Little $1.25 
 
 920 
 Contents: The kingship: George the First; 
 George the Second; George the Third; George 
 the Fourth. The state: Robert Walpole, Earl of 
 Orford; William Pitt the Elder; Charles James 
 Fox; Edmund Burke; Warren Hastings; Wil- 
 liam Pitt the Younger; Henry Grattan; George 
 Canning. Army and navy: General Wolfe; 
 Robert, Lord Clive; Horatio, Lord Nelson; 
 Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. Travel 
 and invention: Captain James Cook; Mungo 
 J^ark; Sir Richard Arkwright; James Watt; 
 Sir Humphrey Davy. Religion and philan- 
 
STANDARD CATALOG 
 
 Elias, Edith L. Continued 
 
 thropy: George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne; 
 John Wesley; John Howard; William Wilber- 
 force. Painting and the fine arts: William Ho- 
 garth; Sir Joshua Reynolds 
 
 In Victorian times; with some reference 
 also to the times of William IV. il '15 
 Little $1.25 920 
 
 Contents: The kingship: William IV; Vic- 
 toria. The state: Lord Brougham; Sir Robert 
 Peel; Lord Palmerston; Benjamin Disraeli; 
 Richard Cobden; John Bright; William Ewart 
 Gladstone; Charles Stewart Parnell. Empire 
 building: Sir Henry Havelock; Lord Lawrence; 
 General Charles George Gordon; Cecil J. 
 Rhodes; Earl Roberts. Invention, discovery, and 
 science; George Stephenson; David Livingstone; 
 Charles Darwin; Lord Lister. Religion and 
 philanthropy: John Henry Newman, cardinal; 
 Charles Haddon Spurgeon; Antony Ashley 
 Cooper; Florence Nightingale. Fine arts: J. M. 
 W. Turner; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; G. F. 
 Watts 
 
 Eliot, Charles William 
 
 Four American leaders. '06 Amer. unit, 
 assn. 80c 920 
 
 "Brief, inspiring addresses on those quali- 
 ties and ideals of Franklin, Washington, Chan- 
 ning and Emerson which have influenced Amer- 
 ican life and thought." (N.Y. state lib.) 
 A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Escott, Thomas Hay Sweet 
 
 Great Victorians; memories and person- 
 alities, il '16 Scribner $3.50 920 
 "A pleasant mixture of biographical details 
 and personal reminiscences of men ranging from 
 the Duke of Wellington and Palmerston to Sir 
 Henry Irving and Lord Randolph Churchill." 
 (Nation [London]) Pratt quarterly 
 
 Gilbert, Ariadne 
 
 More than conquerors, il '14 Century 
 $1.35 920 
 
 "Sympathetic and intimate accounts of the 
 author's heroes: Beethoven; Lamb; Scott; Irv- 
 ing; Emerson; Agassiz; Thackeray; Livingstone; 
 Pasteur; Brooks; Booth; Stevenson; Saint 
 Gaudens; Lincoln. Good material for reading 
 clubs." Wis. bul. 
 
 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 
 
 Contemporaries. 1900 Houghton $2.25 
 
 920 
 Contents: R. W. Emerson; A. B. Alcott; 
 Theodore Parker; J. G. Whittier; Walt Whit- 
 man; Sidney Lanier; An evening with Mrs 
 Hawthorne; Lydia Maria Child; Helen Jack- 
 son ("H. H."); John Holmes; Thaddeus 
 William Harris; Visit to John Brown's house- 
 hold in 1859; W. L. Garrison; Wendell Phil- 
 lips; Charles Sumner; Dr Howe's anti-slavery 
 career; U. S. Grant; Eccentricities of reform- 
 ers; Road to England 
 
 Hutton, Laurence 
 
 Talks in a library with Laurence Hutton, 
 recorded by Isabel Moore, il '05 Put- 
 nam $2.50 920 
 
 "Personal and literary recollections including 
 reminiscences and anecdotes of Edwin Booth, 
 Henry Irving, Joseph Jefferson, Alma Tadema, 
 St Gaudens, Du Maurier, Mark Twain, Dickens 
 and many other well known people." (N.Y. 
 state lib.) A. L. A. sup. 
 
 "A miscellaneous collection of literary and 
 personal gossip, a good deal of which is new 
 and most of it decidedly interesting. In a 
 general way it tells the story of Mr Hutton's 
 life, of his first adventures in journalism, of 
 his warm friendships with actors and literary 
 people, and of his wanderings in other lands. 
 The book is unusually rich in stories and anec- 
 dotes." Pittsburgh 
 
 James, George Wharton 
 
 Heroes of California, il '10 Little $2.50 
 
 920 
 
 "Interesting chapters on some of the men to 
 whom California is most indebted. Accounts 
 are given of the Donner party, the scouts, the 
 pony express riders, the gold seekers, the rail- 
 way builders, and the lesser heroes of com- 
 merce and politics." A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Leupp, Francis Ellington 
 
 National miniatures. '18 Knopf $1.50 920 
 
 " 'These papers have been appearing serially 
 in the Nation for the last three years,' and have 
 been 'prepared by one who has passed the larger 
 part of his mature life at the national capital, 
 brushing elbows almost daily with one or an- 
 other' of the men of whom he writes. The> 
 consist of brief intimate glimpses into the per- 
 sonality, character and motives of men (and 
 women) who figure prominently in national is- 
 sues. A few of the personages the author re- 
 veals to us are: President Wilson; William J. 
 Bryan; Chief Justice White; Oscar W. Under- 
 wood; Jeannette Rankin; Emma Goldman; Wil- 
 liam J. Burns; Jane Addams." Book rev. di- 
 gest 
 
 " 'Tattler' is a professional artist, and these 
 portraits are works of art. There is a light- 
 ness of touch and withal a sureness that stamps 
 these 'miniatures' as quite worth while." Spring- 
 field Republican 
 
 McCarthy, Justin 
 
 Portraits of the 'sixties. '03 Harper $2 
 
 920 
 
 "Dickens, Thackeray, Carlyle, Tennyson, 
 
 Cardinal Newman, and other notable people, 
 
 drawn from personal acquaintance." A. L. A. 
 
 Morris, Charles 
 
 Heroes of progress in America, il '06 
 Lippincott $1.25 920 
 
 Contents: Roger Williams; John Eliot; Wil- 
 liam Penn; James Oglethorpe; Benjamin Frank- 
 lin; Patrick Henry; Samuel Adams; Thomas 
 Jefferson; Robert Morris; Alexander Hamilton; 
 John Adams; Eli Whitney; Robert Fulton; 
 John Jacob Astor; Stephen Girard; John Mar- 
 shall; Henry Clay; Daniel Webster; J. C. 
 Calhoun; S. F. B. Morse; C. W. Field; Elias 
 Howe; C. H. McCormick; Charles Goodyear; 
 DeWitt Clinton; Horace Wells; W. L. Garrison; 
 Wendell Phillips; Charles Sumner; Lucretia 
 Mott; E. C. Stanton; S. B. Anthony; Dorothea 
 Dix; George Peabody; Peter Cooper; Abraham 
 Lincoln; W. H. Seward; J. G. Blaine; Horace 
 Greeley; John Ericsson; T. A. Edison; F. E. 
 Willard; Clara Barton; Andrew Carnegie; B. T. 
 Washington 
 
 Oliphant, Mrs Margaret Oliphant (Wilson) 
 Makers of Florence: Dante, Giotto, 
 Savonarola, and their city; il by Pro- 
 fessor Delamotte. '97 Macmillan $4 
 
 920 
 
 Studies of Dante, Arnolfo, Giotto, Ghiberti, 
 
 Donatello, Brunelleschi, Agnolo, Fra Angelico, 
 
 Antonino, Savonarola, Fra Bartolommeo, 
 
 Michael Angelo 
 
 Osborn, Edward Bolland 
 
 New Elizabethans: the first selection of 
 the lives of young men who have fallen 
 in the Great war. '19 Lane $4 920 
 
 Brief chronicles of the life and work of 
 twenty-five young men, nearly all writers, schol- 
 ars, or _ workers in the arts who died cheerfully 
 for their country. 
 
 Contents: Harold Chapin; Richard Moles- 
 worth Dennys; Charles Lister; Anthony Fred- 
 erick Wilding; Basil Hallam; Charles Hamilton 
 Sorley; Brian Brooke; Dixon Scott; Robert 
 William Sterling; Colwyn and Roland Philipps; 
 Douglas Gillespie; Hugh and John Charlton; 
 
BIOGRAPHY Collective 
 
 Osborn, Edward Bolland Continued 
 
 Alan Seeger; Harry Butters; Donald Hankey; 
 Ivar Campbell; Tom Kettle; Ronald Poulton; 
 Thomas Vade-Walpole; William Noel Hodgson; 
 Guy Drummond; Julian and Billy Grenfell 
 
 Parkman, Mary Rosetta 
 
 Heroes of today, il '17 Century $1.35 920 
 
 Contents; The laird of skyland, John Muir; 
 The seer of Woodchuck Lodge, John Burroughs; 
 The deep-sea doctor, Wilfred Grenfell; The cap- 
 tain of his soul, Captain Scott; A modern vik- 
 ing, Jacob Riis; A pioneer of the open, Edward 
 L. Trudeau; "The prophet-engineer," George W. 
 Goethals; A shepherd of "the great country," 
 Bishop Rowe; A hero of flight, Samuel P. 
 Langley; A poet-soldier, Rupert Brooke; A cit- 
 izen of the world, Herbert C. Hoover 
 
 "Short biographies of men who are fighting 
 'the unseen enemies of disease and pestilence; 
 against the monster evils of ignorance, poverty 
 and injustice.' " Pratt quarterly 
 
 Ponsonby, Arthur, and Ponsonby, Doro- 
 thea 
 Rebels and reformers. '19 Holt $1.60 
 
 920 
 
 "We have tried here to tell quite simply the 
 story of the lives of a dozen great men. There 
 are many books about men of action, but it is 
 not so easy to find any simple account of men 
 who have used their minds and their pens, 
 rather than the sword, in their work for the 
 betterment of their country to which they have 
 devoted their lives." Introduction 
 
 Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas 
 
 Roll call of honor; a new book of golden 
 deeds. '13 Sully 920 
 
 "Nine biographical sketches of men and 
 women whose devotion to some great cause or 
 idea has won for them the position of national 
 heroes." Pratt quarterly 
 At present out of print 
 
 Russell, George William Erskine 
 
 Portraits of the 'seventies, il '16 Scrib- 
 ner $3.75 , 920 
 
 "Gossip, pleasant and spicy without malice, 
 about distinguished people: Justin McCarthy, 
 Gladstone, Disraeli, Joseph Chamberlain, Par- 
 nell, Lord and Lady Salisbury, Cardinal New- 
 man, Lady Holland, Tennyson, Browning and 
 many others. 
 
 'Our author has known every public man 
 worth knowing for the last forty years, all 
 those great men whom the rising generation 
 never saw or only caught a glimpse of when 
 they were past their best. He tells us exactly 
 what impression they made upon their con- 
 temporaries.' " (Spectator) Cleveland 
 
 Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin 
 
 Portraits of the seventeenth century, his- 
 toric and literary; tr. by Katharine P. 
 Wormeley. 2v il '09 Putnam $3.50 920 
 
 Contents: vi, Cardinal de Richelieu; Henri, 
 due de Rohan; Cardinal Mazarin; Francois due 
 de la Rochefoucauld; Anne-Genevieve de Bour- 
 bon; Cardinal de Retz; Mademoiselle de l'En- 
 C liVx Tallemant des Reaux and Bussy-Rabutin; 
 Abb6 de Ranee; Anne-Genevieve de Bourbon; 
 Mane-Madeleine de la Vergne; Henrietta Anne 
 of England; Louis XIV; Louise de la Beaume 
 le Blanc 
 
 V2, History of the French academy; Corneille; 
 Mademoiselle de Scudery; Moliere; La Fon- 
 taine; Pascal; Madame de Sevign6; Bossuet; 
 Boileau; Racine; Madame de Caylus; Fenelon; 
 Comte Antoine Hamilton; Princesse des Ursins 
 _ "In these volumes taken from the 'Causer- 
 les du lundi,' the 'Portraits de femmes,' and 
 the Portraits litt6raires,' some passages have 
 been omitted; these relate chiefly to editions 
 that have long since passed away, or to discus- 
 sions on style that cannot be made clear in 
 English. Also, where two or more essays on 
 
 the_ same person have appeared in the different 
 series, they are here put together, omitting rep- 
 etitions." Translator's note 
 
 Slosson, Edwin Emery 
 
 Major prophets of today, il '14 Little 
 $1.50 920 
 
 Contents: Maurice Maeterlinck; Henri Berg- 
 son; Henri Poincare; Elie Metchnikoff; Wil- 
 helm Ostwald; Ernst Haeckel 
 
 "Biographical and critical sketches of a group 
 of the foremost thinkers of the day." Pratt 
 quarterly 
 
 Several of the articles appeared in the In- 
 dependent; each is followed by references for 
 further reading 
 
 Six major prophets, il '17 Little $1.50 
 
 920 
 "Clever, readable, popular exposition rather 
 than criticism of Shaw, Wells, Chesterton, F. C. 
 S. Schiller, John Dewey and Eucken. Aims to 
 introduce readers to the character, scope and 
 messages of these writers. Published in Inde- 
 pendent. Bibliographies, portraits." N.Y. state 
 lib. 
 
 "Informal, good for study clubs." A. L. A. 
 bkl. 
 
 Strachey, Lytton 
 
 Eminent Victorians. '18 Putnam $3.50 
 
 920 
 
 Contents: Cardinal Manning; Florence Night- 
 ingdale; Dr Arnold; General Gordon 
 
 "The portrait that suggests most doubt is 
 that of Dr Arnold of Rugby. . . . The de- 
 tails in Mr Strachey's essay may all be correct 
 . . . but the perspective is all wrong, and the re- 
 sult is caricature. . . . The pictures of Car- 
 dinal Manning and Florence Nightingale are as 
 distinguished as they are unconventional, and 
 the story of the long tragedy of the mission 
 and death of Gordon is a very fine piece of 
 historical writing." Spectator 120:677 
 
 "Infused with sketches of almost Gibbonesque 
 irony, these biographical studies of four dis- 
 tinguished and famous personages present them 
 in aspects which are more or less familiar." 
 Athenaeum, 19 18 
 
 Thayer, William Roscoe 
 
 Throne-makers. '99 Houghton $1.75 920 
 Studies of four 'throne-makers' Bismarck, 
 Napoleon III, Kossuth, Garibaldi and of Car- 
 lyle, Tintoret, Bruno and Bryant 
 
 Walton, Izaak 
 
 Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wot- 
 ton, Sir Richard Hooker, George Her- 
 bert and Dr Robert Sanderson; ed. by 
 Austin Dobson. (Temple classics) 2v 
 Dutton $1 920 
 
 Webb, Mary Griffin, and Webb, Edna 
 Lenore 
 
 (eds.) Famous living Americans, il '15 
 C. Webb & co., Greencastle, Ind. $5 
 
 920 
 "Brief, readable sketches by authorities, ap- 
 preciating and interpreting the life work of 
 forty-three men and women of our day. The 
 articles are introduced by suggestions on the 
 preparation and delivery of biographical speech- 
 es by H. B. Gough of De Pauw university 
 and each is followed by a short bibliography of 
 books and periodicals." Cleveland 
 
 Among the men and women who form the 
 subjects for sketches are Jane Addams, Alex- 
 ander Graham Bell, Maud Ballington Booth, 
 William Jennings Bryan, Luther Biirbank, John 
 Burroughs, Andrew Carnegie and Helen Keller 
 
 Yonge, Charlotte Mary 
 
 Book of golden deeds of all times and all 
 
 lands. '81 Macmillan 50c; (Golden 
 
 treasury ser.) $1.25 920 
 
 "Stirring accounts of courageous deeds per- 
 
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 Hubert, Philip Gengembre, jr. 
 
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 Lives of the engineers. 5v new rev ed 
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 Contents: vi, Early engineering; Vermuyden; 
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 Adams, Oscar Fay 
 
 Dictionary of American authors. 5th ed 
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 928 
 
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 Allibone, Samuel Austin 
 
 Critical dictionary of English literature 
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 teenth century. 5v '91-'96 Lippincott 
 $22.50 928 
 
 Classified subject index 
 
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 reflects Watt's inaccuracies. Arranged alpha- 
 betically by authors, giving for each brief bi- 
 ographical sketch, full list of works with dates, 
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 Brailsford, Henry Noel 
 
 Shelley, Godwin and their circle. (Home 
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 Bibliography, P252-4 
 
 "A study of the influence of the French rev- 
 olution on English political and social ideals as 
 represented by Thomas Paine, William Godwin, 
 Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft, author of 
 the 'Vindication of the rights of women.' " 
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 Cousin, John W. 
 
 Short biographical dictionary of English 
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 Emerson, Edward Waldo 
 
 Early years of the Saturday club, 1855- 
 1870. '18 Houghton $7.50 928 
 
 "Contains memories and recollections of a 
 bygone Boston that are a part of our literary 
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 Erskine, John 
 
 Leading American novelists, il '10 Holt 
 $2 928 
 
 "Biographical and critical studies of Charles 
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 Fields, James Thomas 
 
 Yesterdays with authors; illus. with pho- 
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 The Boston publisher's personal reminiscences 
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 Great authors in their youth, il '15 Holt 
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 Contents: Walter Scott; Robert Louis Stev- 
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 Gosse, Edmund William 
 
 Portraits and sketches. '12 Scribner $2 
 
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 Contents: Swinburne; Philip James Bailey; 
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 of Tennyson; Visit to Whittier; The author of 
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 Lang; Wolcott Balestier; Carl Snoilsky; 
 Eugene Melchior de Vogue; Andre Gide 
 
 "Vivid, pictorial studies from personal ac- 
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 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 
 
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 "Twenty-four essays, mainly illuminating 
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 mund Clarence Stedman, Emily Dickinson, Julia 
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 of an earlier generation, Cooper and Charles 
 Brockden Brown." (N.Y. state lib.) A. L. A. 
 sup. 
 
 Johnson, Samuel 
 
 Six chief lives from Johnson's Lives of 
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 Kernahan, Coulson 
 
 In good company. '17 Lane $1.50 928 
 "Short, readable personal appreciations and 
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 Lee, Sir Sidney 
 
 Great Englishmen of the sixteenth cen- 
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 "Studies of the characters and careers of 
 More, Sidney, Raleigh, Spenser, Bacon and 
 Shakespeare, with a chapter on the spirit of the 
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 tin, Violet (Martin Ross, pseud.) 
 Irish memories, il '18 Longmans $4.20 
 
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 "Delightful volume of reminiscences, letters 
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 thirty years, was broken in 1915 by the death of 
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 by her cousin." Pittsburgh 
 
 Stephen, Sir Leslie 
 
 Studies of a biographer. 4v '98-'02 Put- 
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 Contents: vi, National biography; Evolution 
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 Louis Stevenson; The cosmopolitan spirit in lit- 
 erature 
 
BIOGRAPHY Individual 
 
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 Symons, Arthur 
 
 Figures of several centuries. '16 Dutton 
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 Contents: Saint Augustine; Charles Lamb; 
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 Bronte; Edgar Allen Poe; Thomas Lovel Bed- 
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 Reminiscences, il. '15 Houghton $4 92 
 
 Bibliography, pis 
 
 Appeared in the Outlook, V106-10, Jan. 24, 
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 "An intimately personal record of Dr Abbott's 
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 The reader will find few dates and many in- 
 accuracies in these papers. They are simply a 
 record of the impressions left on the mind of a 
 man who has passed the three-score-years-and-ten 
 as he endeavors to recall some of the personages 
 and incidents of a somewhat busy but not ad- 
 venturous life." Chapter one 
 
 Abdul Hamid II, dethroned sultan of the 
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 Pears, Sir Edwin. Life of Abdul Hamid, 
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 "An authoritative and popular history of the 
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 Stephens, Winifred. Madame Adam (Ju- 
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 "A delightful biography of the warmhearted, 
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 days of the second empire. As the mistress of 
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 (1879-99), Mme Adam did much to consolidate 
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 ministers, and such eminent writers as George 
 Sand, Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Pierre Loti and 
 Maurice Barres." Pittsburgh 
 
 "She is here presented to us by one who has 
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 seven volumes of 'Souvenirs.' " Times (Lon- 
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 Adams, Mrs Abigail (Smith) 
 
 Richards, Mrs L. H. Abigail Adams and 
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 "Well written account of a lovable and in- 
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 by his son. (American statesmen) 1900 
 Houghton $1.35 92 
 
 "Tells little of personal traits. Narration of 
 services while minister to England; sheds valu- 
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 America during the Civil war." N.Y. state lib. 
 
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 Charles Francis Adams, 1835-1915; an au- 
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 "Record of a life notably successful in busi- 
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 N.Y. state lib. 
 
 Contains also a memorial address, delivered 
 Nov. 17, 1915, by H. C. Lodge 
 
 Adams, Henry Brooks 
 
 Education of Henry Adams; an autobiog- 
 raphy; with an introd. by H. C. Lodge. 
 '18 Houghton $5 92 
 
 "A type of autobiography which seems to stand 
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 philosophy of life, its deep understanding of hu- 
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 mood, will surely entitle it to an abiding place 
 
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 Adams, Henry Brooks Continued 
 
 among those rare volumes that are the perennial 
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 Publishers' weekly 94:1307 
 
 "An important autobiography, interesting in 
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 His association with his father in England dur- 
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 with men and affairs here and abroad make the 
 record valuable as history. Privately printed in 
 1905; it was written as a sequel to his 'Mont- 
 Saint Michel and Chartres'." A. L. A. bkl. 
 
 Adams, John 
 
 Morse, J. T., jr. John Adams. (American 
 statesmen) 1900 Houghton $1.35 92 
 
 "Graphic portraiture and excellent study of 
 our politics in the days of Adams, of the for- 
 tunes of the Federal party and attitude of its two 
 hostile forces, represented by Adams and Ham- 
 ilton." (Hartford courant) A. L. A. 
 
 Adams, John, and Adams, Mrs Abigail 
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 Familiar letters of John Adams and his 
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 tion, with a memoir of Mrs Adams. '76 
 Houghton $2.25 92 
 
 "Takes its place by the side of the most 
 valuable documents of our revolutionary his- 
 tory." (Nation) A. L. A. 
 
 Adams, Mrs John. See Adams, A. S. 
 
 Adams, John Quincy 
 
 Morse, J. T., jr. Joh Quincy Adams. 
 (American statesmen) '95 Houghton 
 $1.35 92 
 
 "Trustworthy in details; chief merit in its 
 comprehension of essential character of Adams 
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 and his work." A. L. A. 
 
 Adams, Samuel 
 
 Hosmer, J. F. Samuel Adams. (American 
 statesmen) '99 Houghton $1.35 92 
 
 " 'Interesting and appreciative, setting forth 
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 Furnishes substantially a compact history of oc- 
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 Addison, Joseph 
 
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 of letters) '94 Harper 75c 92 
 
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 life and correspondence. '93 Houghton 
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 Aksakov, Sergiei Timofieevich 
 
 A Russian gentleman; tr. from the Rus- 
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 Russian classic published in 1856 and trans- 
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 92 
 
 "Tho this account of what he saw and felt 
 between the ages of five and eight was not writ- 
 ten until the year before his death at sixty- 
 seven, it takes none of its color from later ex- 
 perience. We have what happened to the child, 
 told so well indeed, that it has become a Rus- 
 sian classic, but giving us only a child's account 
 of what he saw, felt and thought." (Spectator) 
 Cleveland 
 
 This childhood began in eastern Russia in 
 1791; part of it was spent on large estates and 
 the rest in a provincial town 
 
 Albert I, king of the Belgians 
 
 MacDonnell, J. de C. Life of His Majesty 
 Albert, king of the Belgians. '15 Stokes 
 $1 92 
 
 "Mr MacDonnell, who writes frankly as a 
 Royalist and a Roman Catholic, has had the ad- 
 vantage of a residence in Brussels, and we 
 gather that his work was submitted to the King 
 and passed by him for publication." Spectator 
 114=547 
 
 "Tho fragmentary and quite eulogistic, the 
 book is a good one of the popular kind. No in- 
 dex." A. L. A. bkl. 
 
 Alcott, Louisa May 
 
 Cheney, Mrs E. L., ed. Louisa May Al- 
 cott; her life, letters and journals. 1900 
 Little $1.50 92 
 
 "Home life of the author of 'Little women,' 
 her experiences as an army nurse, struggles as 
 an author, etc." (N.Y. state lib.) A. L. A. 
 
 See also "Louisa May Alcott, dreamer and 
 worker," by Belle Moses, 1909, Appleton, $1.35, 
 written especially for girls, which will also in- 
 terest many adults 
 
 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey 
 
 Greenslet, Ferris. Life of Thomas Bailey 
 Aldrich. il '08 Houghton $3.50 92 
 
 " 'Mr Greenslet has brought to his work 
 delicacy and reticence, together with a skill in 
 words that reproduces something of the charm 
 of one who made refinement the end of all his 
 labor. He tells just enough of the child's sur- 
 roundings at Portsmouth, of the clerk and youth- 
 ful editor in New York; he follows the man 
 sympathetically thru his Boston years of pros- 
 perous toil and golden ease, to the honored 
 close. It is a happy life gracefully told.' (Con- 
 densed from Nation) 
 
 There is abundant proof of his pleasant 
 humor in these pages. Aldrich's letters are full 
 of it. He is not an artificial 'literary' letter- 
 writer; his merit is that he is natural, spon- 
 taneous and always light of wit. 'I was fifty- 
 nine yesterday,' he writes. 'It is unpleasant to 
 be fifty-nine; but it would be unpleasanter not 
 to be, having got started.' " (Athenaeum) Pitts- 
 burgh 
 
 Alexandra Feodorovna, ex-czarina of Rus- 
 sia 
 
 Mouchanow, Marfa. My empress. '18 
 
 Lane $2.50 92 
 
 "Twenty-three years of intimate life with the 
 empress of all the Russias from her marriage to 
 the day of her exile." Subtitle 
 
 Pictures the Czarina as wife, mother and 
 empress. Does not touch on political affairs 
 
BIOGRAPHY Individual 
 
 13 
 
 Alexander the Great 
 
 Wheeler, B. I. Alexander the Great; the 
 merging of the East and West in uni- 
 versal history. (Heroes of the nations) 
 1900 Putnam $1.50 92 
 
 "Story of Alexander's aims and achievements 
 told with considerable detail and admirable 
 clearness." (Nation) A. L. A. 
 
 See also Hogarth's "Philip and Alexander of 
 Macedon" 
 
 Alfred the Great 
 
 Besant, Sir Walter. Story of King Al- 
 fred. (Library of useful stories) '01 
 Appleton 50c 92 
 
 "Best brief history of the career of Alfred 
 and the position of England in the 9th century." 
 (Athenaeum) A. L. A. 
 
 Plummer, Charles. Life and times of 
 Alfred the Great. (Ford lectures) '02 
 Oxford $2 92 
 
 Appendix: Sermon on the death of Queen 
 Victoria 
 
 Bibliography, pref. pio-11 
 
 "Tells everything known about Alfred, with 
 abundant references to previous discussions of 
 debatable matters and acute comments on all 
 points of controversy." (Nation) A. L. A. 
 
 See also B. A. Lees' scholarly study, based 
 largely on primary sources, published by Put- 
 nam, 1915, $1.90 
 
 Allier, Roger 
 
 Allier, Raoul, and Allier, Mrs Raoul. 
 Roger Allier; tr. by H. H. King. '19 
 Association press $1.25 92 
 
 "This volume is a family book, not intended 
 for publicity, written to preserve the memory 
 of a young man, Roger Allier, a subaltern in the 
 Chasseurs Alpins, who in the first year of this 
 great war, with quiet heroism, laid down his 
 life for France. The book is by his father, a 
 professor of Protestant theology, in Paris. . . . 
 The great interest of the book lies in the fact 
 that it vividly sets forth the moral preparation 
 which made this youth and his fellows able to 
 check the flood of German aggression in the 
 first two months of the war." Theodore Roose- 
 velt in Introduction 
 
 Amiel, Henri Frederic 
 
 Journal intime; tr. with introd. by Mrs 
 Humphry Ward, new ed '15 Macmillan 
 $1.50 92 
 
 "Amiel has been much compared with Ober- 
 mann and Maurice de GueVin, but he is far nearer 
 to us than either. . . . There was in Amiel that 
 deeper seriousness which we characterize by the 
 word Puritan. It is for that type of religious 
 mind, of which there are very many among 
 English speaking peoples, even tho they disavow 
 the name, that the book will have the strongest 
 attraction." (Nation) Pittsburgh 
 
 Andersen, Hans Christian 
 
 Story of my life. 71 Houghton $1.25 92 
 "The absolute candor with which Andersen 
 lays bare his soul, the complete intentional or 
 unintentional self-revelation, gives a psycholog- 
 ical value to the book which no mere literary 
 grace could bestow. . . . Andersen remained, until 
 the day of his death, a child. His innocence was 
 more than virginal; his unworldliness simply in- 
 conceivable. ... He conceived of his life as 
 a fairy-tale. . . . The feeling of the marvellous 
 pervades the book from beginning to end." 
 (H. H. Boyesen) Pittsburgh 
 
 The autobiography brings the narrative down 
 to 1869. An account of his later years will be 
 found in Bain's "Hans Christian Andersen," 
 published by Dodd and now out of print. 
 
 Antin, Mary 
 
 Promised land. '12 Houghton $2 92 
 
 Appeared in the Atlantic monthly, v 108-9, 
 October 19 11 to April 19 12 
 
 "Autobiography of an immigrant who was born 
 
 less than thirty years ago (1912) in Polotzk, 
 Russia, a town in the Jewish pale, and spent her 
 childhood there. Her family being driven by the 
 pressure of poverty to immigrate, when she was 
 twelve years old she was brought to America, 
 where she made a brilliant progress thru the 
 public schools of Boston and thru Barnard Col- 
 lege. The story of her life is absorbing in its 
 human significance, remarkable for its literary 
 distinction and convincingly hopeful in its view 
 of the immigrant problem in America." Pitts- 
 burgh 
 
 Arblay, Mme Frances (Burney) d' 
 
 Diary and letters (1778-1840) with notes 
 by W. C. Ward, and prefaced by Lord 
 Macaulay's essay. 3v (Chandos clas- 
 sics) Warne $2.80 92 
 
 "Fanny Burney's social advantages were great 
 and the years of intercourse with brilliant peo- 
 ple gave her unusual knowledge of the world. 
 Shortly after the publication of 'Evelina,' she 
 became keeper of the robes to Queen Charlotte. 
 Her 'Diary and letters' gives us one of the best 
 historical pictures of that time, the everyday life 
 at court, King George Ill's increasing insanity, 
 and her own story of discomfort in uncongenial 
 companionship. 
 
 'As a diarist Miss Burney is with Pepys and 
 Evelyn, as a letter writer with Walpole and 
 Chesterfield. And unlike all of these, except 
 Horace, she is a novelist as well.' (George 
 Saintsbury) 
 
 Some readers may prefer the selections from 
 her diary and other writings, edited by L. B. 
 Seeley and entitled 'Fanny Burney and her 
 friends.' " Pittsburgh 
 
 Temporarily out of print 
 
 Another delightfully written book is Con- 
 stance Hill's "Fanny Burney at the court of 
 Queen Charlotte," 19 12, Lane, $5 
 
 Arnold, Benedict 
 
 Stimson, F. J. (J. S. of Dale, pseud.) 
 My story; being the memoirs of Bene- 
 dict Arnold, il '17 Scribner $2 92 
 
 "Author and publisher have given to this book 
 every mark of a genuine autobiographical work, 
 yet have made no pretense that it is other than 
 a work of fiction. It purports to be the life 
 story of Benedict Arnold, written by his own 
 hand, with tHe purpose of justifying his career 
 in the eyes of the British king. Events of his 
 public and private life are closely followed." 
 Book rev. digest 
 
 "Tho presented in the guise of a novel, one of 
 the most important as well as most graphic his- 
 torical books of the year, (1917)." Springfield 
 Republican, November 18, 19 17 
 
 Arnold, Matthew 
 
 Letters, 1848-88; ed. by G. W. E. Russell. 
 1900 Macmillan $2.25 92 
 
 "The greater part of these letters are ad- 
 dressed to the members of the family, whence 
 their perfect frankness and absence of posing 
 The early letters to his elder sister are full of 
 his reading and political views. After his mar- 
 riage they give us many details of his work ana 
 wanderings in inspecting schools. Still later his 
 visits to the continent give occasion for descrip- 
 tions of places and vivacious sketches of ad- 
 venture. The playfulness and tenderness of his 
 nature are revealed in his allusions to his chil- 
 dren. Above all the letters contribute toward an 
 appreciation of Arnold's character, opinions and 
 literary work. 
 
 'These letters are a gift of sunshine to the 
 world. ... In his published writings there were 
 at times a not unbecoming hauteur, a happy 
 malice of the pen, and even something which, 
 while really dexterity in saying things difficult to 
 utter, might be mistaken for affectation. In 
 these letters a more intimate side of his charac- 
 ter is revealed to the public; they are abso- 
 lutely simple and real; wholly free from strain; 
 rich in the temper of enjoyment; unfailing in 
 the spirit of genuine affection; and behind their 
 
14 
 
 STANDARD CATALOG 
 
 Arnold, Matthew Continued 
 
 kindness and their brightness we can discern 
 strength, and even something of unostentatious 
 heroism; loyalty to duty; loyalty to truth; loy- 
 alty to an ideal of life.' " (Edward Dowden) 
 Pittsburgh 
 
 Arnold, Thomas, and Arnold, Matthew 
 Fitch, J. G. Thomas and Matthew Arnold 
 and their influence on English educa- 
 tion. (Great educators) '97 Scribner 
 $1.25 92 
 
 "The author of this biography was a colleague 
 of Matthew Arnold in educational work, and he 
 aims to present those characteristics of both 
 father and son which are of special interest to 
 teachers." Pittsburgh 
 
 Audubon, John James 
 
 Life and adventures of Audubon the nat- 
 uralist; ed. by Robert Buchanan. 
 (Everyman's library) '13 Dutton 70c; 
 lib. binding 90c 92 
 
 Consists chiefly of extracts from his diary 
 Bibliography of Robert Buchanan, P13; bib- 
 liography of John James Audubon, pn 
 
 "Contains an introduction by John Bur- 
 roughs in which he speaks of Audubon as 'One 
 of the most striking figures in our history, while 
 the service he has rendered to ornithology sur- 
 passes perhaps the work of any other one man 
 who ever lived.' " Pratt quarterly 
 
 Audubon, Mrs L. B. Life of John James 
 Audubon the naturalist. (American 
 men of energy) 1900 Putnam $1.50 92 
 Short biography written in 1867 
 
 Herrick, F. H. Audubon the naturalist; a 
 history of his life and time. 2v il '17 
 Appleton $7.50 92 
 
 Bibliography, 2:401-56 
 
 Appendix contains many hitherto unpublished 
 documents 
 
 "A notable biography containing a wealth of 
 interesting new material, particularly on Audu- 
 bon's boyhood in France and experiences in the 
 West. Combines scholarliness with a popular 
 style and is enhanced by many fine illustrations. 
 The author is professor of biology at Western 
 Reserve university and is himself an authority 
 on ornithology." Cleveland 
 
 See also "Audubon and his journals," ed. by 
 M. R. Audubon, 1897, Scribner, 2v., $7.50 
 
 Augustine, Saint, bishop of Hippo 
 
 Confessions of St Augustine; tr. by E. B. 
 Pusey. (Everyman's library) '09 Dut- 
 ton 70c; lib. binding 90c 92 
 
 "These confessions were written at the end of 
 the fourth century by the most distinguished of 
 the Latin fathers as a revelation of his spiritual 
 experience. They have been a source of re- 
 ligious inspiration thru the centuries." Pratt 
 alcove 
 
 The Latin text with parallel English transla- 
 tion is published by Putnam in the Loeb clas- 
 sical library, 2v, $3.60 
 
 Augustus, Caius Octavius 
 
 Firth, J. B. Augustus Caesar and the or- 
 ganization of the empire of Rome. 
 (Heroes of the nations) '03 Putnam 
 $1.50 92 
 
 "A volume of very solid worth . . . the only 
 biography of Augustus in the English language." 
 (Nation, 1909) Pittsburgh 
 
 Austen, Jane 
 
 Austen-Leigh, William, and R. A. Jane 
 
 Austen, her life and letters; a family 
 
 record, il '13 Dutton $3.50 92 
 
 Works referred to, pio; Chronology of Jane 
 
 Austen's life, p 13-15; Bibliography, P421-8 
 
 "By the son and grandson of James Edward 
 Austen-Leigh, a nephew of Jane Austen and 
 
 author of the memoir published in 1869. (Mac- 
 millan, 1906, Eversley series). The present work 
 is a careful rearrangement of her letters with 
 connecting comment and explanation and some 
 added material on her social and family life." 
 Cleveland 
 
 Cornish, F. W. Jane Austen. (English 
 men of letters) '13 Macmillan $1 92 
 "The two biographical chapters are excellent, 
 saying neatly and concisely all that need be said. 
 The comments are to the point; those devoted 
 to the novels are apt in description and criticism, 
 and include some timely corrections of popular 
 misconceptions. The last chapter is somewhat 
 disappointing in that it gives no details of the 
 style, which is surely a chief merit of the 
 novels." (Condensed from Athenaeum) Pitts- 
 burgh 
 
 Smith, Goldwin. Life of Jane Austen. 
 (Great writers) '90 Scribner $1.40 92 
 
 Bibliography, apx. pi-5 
 
 "The first and best chapter contains an excel- 
 lent sketch of Jane Austen's life; the other chap- 
 ters analyze her novels with delicate taste and 
 fine critical faculty." (Athenaeum) Pittsburgh 
 
 Avary, Mrs Myrta Lockett, ed. 
 
 A Virginia girl in the Civil war, 1861-65. 
 '03 Appleton $1.50 92 
 
 "The thrilling experiences of the young wife 
 of a Confederate officer related dramatically and 
 with humor. As interesting as a novel in its 
 true account of adventures and privations, but 
 it is nevertheless a part of the intimate material 
 which makes a background for scholarly history 
 of the period." Cleveland 
 
 Bagehot, Walter 
 
 Barrington, Mrs E. I. W. Life of Walter 
 Bagehot. '14 Longmans $4 92 
 
 "Life of a distinguished English banker, 
 economist, journalist, and man of letters. Inter- 
 esting as a revelation of the brilliant and at- 
 tractive personality which lay hidden beneath the 
 seriousness of his public career." Pittsburgh 
 
 "A delightful and truly interpretive, if over- 
 discursive biography of the English economist 
 and journalist of whom President Wilson wrote 
 in 1905., 'He had social imagination. For minds 
 with this gift of sight, there is a quick way 
 opened to the heart of things. His fame is sin- 
 gularly disproportionate to his charm.' " Cleve- 
 land 
 
 Baldwin, William Henry, jr. 
 
 Brooks, J. G. American citizen, il '10 
 Houghton $1.75 92 
 
 "Inspiring character study of a sincere, large- 
 hearted railroad official, who succeeded in busi- 
 ness yet maintained his moral integrity and sub- 
 ordinated big private enterprises to active interest 
 in the race problem and social reform." (N.Y. 
 state lib.) A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Balzac, Honore de 
 
 Sandars, M. F. Honore de Balzac: his 
 life and writings. '14 Lane $1.50 92 
 
 "The Nation says of the first edition (Dodd, 
 ipos), 'In Miss Sandars' work is presented, for 
 the first time, an exhaustive account of Balzac's 
 The story is told simply, directly, with 
 sympathy, and not infrequent humor.' A satis- 
 factory reprint at half the price, with the type 
 somewhat more compact, but readable, and the 
 number of illustrations increased from four to 
 nine." A. L. A. bkl. 
 
 Bancroft, Mrs Elizabeth (Davis) 
 
 Letters from England, 1846-1849. '04 
 Scribner $1.50 92 
 
 "Letters written to the members of her fam- 
 ily _ by the wife of George Bancroft, the his- 
 torian, during his ministry to England. 'She 
 saw everything with American eyes, commenting 
 and contrasting, always with generous apprecia- 
 tion and with a laudable desire to profit by her 
 splendid social opportunities, but still retaining 
 the old longing for home ways and home peo- 
 ple.'" (Dial 1904) Pittsburgh 
 
BIOGRAPHY Individual 
 
 15 
 
 Bancroft, George 
 
 Howe, M. A. D. Life and letters of 
 George Bancroft. 2v il '08 Scribner $4 
 
 92 
 
 "Recounts his experiences as student at Got- 
 tingen, 1818-20, as secretary of the navy, min- 
 ister to England in 1846, and as minister to Ger- 
 many, 1867-74. Reminiscences and anecdotes of 
 many notable persons, American and European." 
 A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Bancroft, Hubert Howe 
 
 Retrospection, political and personal. 3d 
 ed rev '12 Bancroft co. $2 92 
 
 "Contains much more than the recollections 
 of a long and active life, giving the author's 
 fearless and often caustic comment on practically 
 every matter of vital concern to the country 
 specially those problems connected with the West, 
 past and present. His early life in Ohio, migra- 
 tion to California, accumulation of the Bancroft 
 library and writing of his historical works com- 
 prise the more personal chapters. Written with- 
 out regard^ to matters of style and somewhat 
 garrulous, it is nevertheless full of interest for 
 students _ of United States history and for any 
 reader interested in Pacific coast matters." 
 A. L. A. bkl. 
 
 "As a work of history or of contemporaneously 
 critical value no very high rank can be given to 
 this 'Retrospection' from Mr Bancroft's pen. But 
 as a human document, as impressionistic testi- 
 mony, the book has a value of its own, coming 
 as it does from a man who reached San Fran- 
 cisco in 1852 from an eye-witness of events in 
 California thru six decades." Amer. hist. rev. 
 20:211 
 
 Barclay, Sir Thomas 
 Thirty years: Anglo-French reminiscen- 
 ces (1876-1906). il '14 Houghton $4 92 
 
 "The book is not only an intimate record of 
 an important period of diplomatic history, but 
 contains many good stories of the important peo- 
 ple of the times. The author, as Paris corres- 
 pondent of the London Times, President of the 
 British Chamber of commerce in Paris, and 
 organizer of the International brotherhood al- 
 liance, did valuable work in establishing friendly 
 relations between France and England." Cleve- 
 land 
 
 Barr, Mrs Amelia Edith (Huddleston) 
 
 All the days of my life; an autobiogra- 
 phy, il '13 Appleton $4 92 
 
 Writer is an Anglo-American novelist 
 "The simple personal memoirs of a brave, 
 faithful woman and industrious and successful 
 writer, now past eighty. The story is full of 
 human nature and speaks frankly of 'those spir- 
 itual experiences which are the most potent fac- 
 tors of life.' " Cleveland 
 
 Mrs Barr's "Threescore and ten, a book 
 for the aged," 1915, Appleton, $1.75, should be 
 read in connection with the above 
 
 Barrie, Mrs Margaret (Ogilvy) 
 
 Barrie, J. M. Margaret Ogilvy. '96 
 Scribner $1.35 92 
 
 "Barrie's tender tribute to the memory of his 
 mother, in which appear all his gifts of delicate 
 humor, sympathy, and understanding of the femi- 
 nine mind and heart." Pratt alcove 
 
 Barrows, Samuel June 
 Barrows, Mrs I. C. 
 the biography of S. 
 Little $1.50 
 
 "Tho handicapped by poverty and deficient 
 education, Mr Barrows became an accomplished 
 linguist, writer and leader in reform movements, 
 holding many positions of trust. He was for 
 ten years secretary of the New York Prison as- 
 sociation." N.Y. state lib. 
 
 "An admirable biography of a brilliant and 
 gifted man and many-sided philanthropist, who 
 will be best remembered as a penologist of en- 
 lightened vision and great practical ability." 
 Cleveland 
 
 A sunny life; 
 J. Barrows. '13 
 92 
 
 Barton, Clara 
 
 Epler, P. H. Life of Clara Barton, il '17 
 Macmillan $1.75 92 
 
 "Comprehensive biography, published with the 
 assistance of Miss Barton's literary executors. 
 To serve as the official biography during the ten 
 years or more required for the preparation of 
 the larger 'Life and letters' from papers and 
 documents left by Miss Barton for this purpose. 
 Unpublished war diaries and letters, together 
 with her conversations; observations by eye-wit- 
 nesses, and the records of the Red cross society 
 are the author's original sources." Pittsburgh 
 
 Bashkirtseff, Marie 
 
 Marie Bashkirtseff, the journal of a young 
 artist 1860-84; tr. by M. J. Serrano, new 
 and rev ed '19 Dutton $2.50 92 
 
 "It is not alone the outspoken wit, longing, 
 and opinions of a girl writing for her own heart 
 and poising for her public at the same moment, 
 but the self-revelation of a gifted and forceful 
 nature, working itself out through successive 
 phases of a life which, concentrated into a few 
 short years, leaves an impression almost complete 
 in its distinctness." (Atlantic monthly, 1889) 
 Pittsburgh 
 
 "New in that it has been enlarged by im- 
 portant additions from the original French and 
 a complete revision made of the text." Preface 
 
 Bebel, August 
 
 Bebel's reminiscences; tr. from the first 
 German ed. by Ernest Untermann. '11 
 Rand book store 75c 92 
 
 "It contains an excellent account of the de- 
 velopment of modern German political parties, 
 as seen by a convinced democrat, and is indis- 
 pensable to students of the history of socialism." 
 (Nation [London]) Pratt quarterly 
 
 "This autobiography of the famous leader of 
 the German Social-democratic party (1840-1912) 
 embodies the history of German socialism from 
 its rise to 1878, when the present instalment of 
 his recollections closes." Pittsburgh 
 
 Beecher, Henry Ward 
 
 Abbott, Lyman. Henry Ward Beecher. 
 '03 Houghton $2 92 
 
 Bibliography, pref. pi 7-38 
 
 "Portrays the great preacher from long ac- 
 quaintance, as a man, as pastor, as reformer 
 and as patriot." A. L. A. 
 
 Bennett, Arnold 
 
 Truth about an author; new edition with 
 preface. '11 Doran $1 92 
 
 "The ruthless realism of the life of letters as 
 Mr Bennett sees it is presented in a series of 
 chapters describing the author's ten years' ap- 
 prenticeship to the rapid mastery of journalism, 
 editorship, dramatic and literary criticism, play- 
 writing, story-writing, and novel-writing. It is 
 the commercial side of it all that chiefly exhibits 
 itself in its disillusioning and seamy aspect to 
 the reader." Dial 
 
 Benson, Robert Hugh 
 
 Confessions of a convert. '13 Longmans 
 $1.25 92 
 
 First published serially in Ave Maria, 1906-7 
 "The study of Monsignor Benson's progress 
 thru the various phases of Anglican thought 
 and finally into the Roman Catholic church. 'A 
 clear and beautiful narrative which as a record of 
 psychological experience is a fit companion to 
 the 'Apologia' of Newman.' " Cleveland 
 
 Benson, A. C. Hugh; memoirs of a 
 brother, il '15 Longmans $1.75 92 
 
 "Not a formal biography, but intimate sym- 
 pathetic recollections of the vivid personality of 
 Robert Hugh Benson as he revealed himself to 
 the family circle. Concerned with the details 
 of home and scholastic life, and does not 
 
16 
 
 STANDARD CATALOG 
 
 Benson, Robert Hugh Continued 
 
 discuss Father Benson's public career. Excel- 
 lent photographs." N.Y. state lib. 
 
 "This account is an altogether and rarely de- 
 lightful one." Catholic world 101:818 
 
 Father Martindale's "Life of Benson," 2y, 
 19 16, Longmans $5, is called by the Carnegie 
 library of Pittsburgh "the authoritative life" 
 
 Beresford, Charles William de la Poer 
 Beresford, 1st baron 
 
 Memoirs of Admiral Lord Charles Beres- 
 ford, written by himself. 2v '14 Little 
 $7.50 92 
 
 "Story of the author's career in the British 
 navy from the time he entered as a cadet of fif- 
 teen in 1859 to his retirement in igii.^ The 
 two volumes present a view of the evolution of 
 Great Britain's sea power thru half a century, 
 and relate many excellent anecdotes and nu- 
 merous stories of action and adventure." Cleve- 
 land 
 
 Bismarck-Schonhausen, Otto Eduard Leo- 
 pold, fiirst von 
 Headlam, J. W. Bismarck and the foun- 
 dation of the German empire. (Heroes 
 of the nations) '99 Putnam $1.50 92 
 
 "Best general survey of public life and char- 
 acter. Tells little of personal affairs." (N.Y. 
 state lib.) A. L. A. 
 
 Robertson, E. G. Bismarck. (Makers of 
 the nineteenth century) '19 Holt $2.25 
 
 92 
 
 Bibliography, P506-12 
 
 "Study of Bismarck's statecraft and of Bis- 
 marck himself as one of the makers of modern 
 Europe and of the German nation and empire. 
 Conclusions and judgments expressed were 
 formed before the outbreak of the European 
 war and based on exhaustive study." (Con- 
 densed from preface) Pittsburgh 
 
 "Both historically and psychologically, it is a 
 work often brilliant, always enlightening; writ- 
 ten neither from the professorial chair nor the 
 journalistic desk, but instinct with a full and 
 inner knowledge both of documents and transac- 
 tions." Saturday rev. 125:893 
 
 Boone, Daniel 
 
 Bruce, H. A. B. Daniel Boone and the 
 Wilderness road. '10 Macmillan $1.50 
 
 92 
 
 "As a biography this work offers nothing of 
 importance not already covered by Thwaites' 
 "Daniel Boone," on which it is partly based. 
 As a popular review of Boone's career, and an 
 estimate of his character, his pioneer associates 
 and his influence, it will, however, serve a some- 
 what different purpose. There is a good map of 
 the early West and numerous portraits and 
 views." A. L. A. bkl. 
 
 Thwaites, R. G. Daniel Boone. '02 Ap- 
 pleton $1.25 92 
 
 "Defines Boone's place among western pioneers 
 in the light of manuscripts in Wisconsin his- 
 torical society library." (Nation, 1902) A. L. A. 
 
 Booth, William 
 
 Bateman, C. T. Life of General Booth. 
 '12 Assn. press 60c 92 
 
 Borrow, George Henry 
 Lavengro, the scholar, the gypsy, the 
 priest; a new ed. containing the unal- 
 tered text of the original issue, some 
 suppressed episodes, ms. variorum, vo- 
 cabulary and notes by the author of 
 the life of George Borrow. '14 Putnam 
 $2 92 
 
 "Account of the author's wanderings thru the 
 British Isles < as a champion of religious liberty. 
 He relates his experiences among gypsies and his 
 
 conversations with chance acquaintances. The 
 interest in the narrative is maintained by a con- 
 tinuous thread of mystery." Pratt alcove 
 
 Jenkins, Herbert, comp. Life of George 
 H. Borrow, il '12 Putnam $3.50 92 
 
 "A thoroly satisfactory life of the author of 
 'The Bible in Spain,' containing, however, no im- 
 portant new matter not given in the biography 
 by W. I. Knapp (1899) except Borrow's own ac- 
 count, from St. Petersburg, of the difficulties 
 surmounted in translating and printing the New 
 Testament in Manchu. Details of Borrow's 
 'happiest years' (1833-40) are especially full, and 
 new details of his relations with his employers, 
 the British and Foreign Bible society, are given. 
 Illustrations from portraits." A. L. A. bkl. 
 
 Additional material may be found in C. K. 
 Shorter's "George Borrow and his circle," 19 13, 
 Houghton, $3.50 
 
 Botchkareva, Maria 
 
 Yashka: my life as peasant, officer and 
 exile. '19 Stokes $2 92 
 
 "The autobiography of the commander of the 
 Russian women's battalion of death, as set down 
 by Isaac Don Levine. Includes a full account 
 of her four years' service in the ranks, and a 
 vivid picture of Bolshevism." Brooklyn 
 
 Brandes, Georg 
 
 Reminiscences of my childhood and 
 youth. '06 Duffield $2.50 92 
 
 "Dr Brandes, who (19 10) is one of the fore- 
 most of living critics, gives here a frank and inti- 
 mate revelation of the unfolding of his intel- 
 lectual life, to his thirtieth year and the shaping 
 of his ideas about modern literature which he has 
 enforced with so much impressiveness in his books. 
 The vigor and vitality which characterize his 
 treatment of other writers are equally char- 
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 "Sets forth from Cicero's writings a terse ac- 
 count of the disastrous but not inglorious failure 
 of the last free state of the ancient world." 
 (Publishers weekly) A. L. A. 
 
 Cid Campeador 
 
 Clarke, H. B. Cid Campeador and the 
 waning of the crescent in the west; il. 
 from drawings by Don Santiago Arcos. 
 (Heroes of the nations) '97 Putnam 
 $1.50 92 
 
 List of principal authorities consulted, pref. 
 P13-M 
 
 Clark, Charles Edgar 
 
 My fifty years in the navy, il '17 Little 
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 peace, and unexcelled performance of duty in 
 the war with Spain." (Condensed from Nation 
 19 1 7) Pittsburgh 
 
 
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 Clarke, Mrs Caroline Cowles (Richards) 
 
 Village life in America, 1852-1872. il '12 
 Holt $1.50 92 
 
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 eyes of a shrewd and unaffected girl, are recited 
 with a quaint, often unconscious humor and 
 with sure literary instinct. Privately printed in 
 1910 under title 'Diary, 1852-1872.' " A. L. A. 
 bkl. 
 
 Clarke, Mrs Mary Cowden 
 
 My long life. '97 Dodd $2 92 
 
 "Mrs Cowden Clarke was the daughter of the 
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 She was herself a distinguished Shakespeare 
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 father with what was best in the literary and 
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 tury." Pittsburgh 
 
 Clay, Henry 
 
 Schurz, Carl. Life of Henry Clay. 2v 
 
 (American statesmen) '94 Houghton 
 
 $1.35 ea 92 
 
 "Shows full recognition of significance of 
 movements of popular feeling which so frequently 
 upset the balance of politicians. Personality of 
 Clay constantly brought to the front." A. L. A. 
 
 Clemenceau, Georges Eugene Benjamin 
 Hyndman, H. M. Clemenceau, the man 
 and his time. '19 Stokes $2 92 
 
 Works by Georges Clemenceau, pref. p. 1 
 "[Author has] endeavored not to write a 
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 but to give a study of the growth of a com- 
 manding personality, who is an honor to his 
 country, of the surroundings in which his fac- 
 ulties were developed." Introduction 
 
 Lecomte, Georges. Georges Clemenceau, 
 the tiger of France; tr. by D. C. Stuart. 
 '19 Appleton $1.50 92 
 
 An intimate study of the man and his work 
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 Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, 
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 Mark Twain's letters; ed. by A. B. Paine. 
 2v il '17 Harper $4 92 
 
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 personality irreverent, yet given to hero wor- 
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 of people except where his material interests 
 were involved, irascible in small things and of 
 heroic fortitude under tragic circumstances. 
 Constitutes a revelation of many aspects of 
 American civilization which Mark Twain so 
 broadly and many-sidedly represented.' " (Archi- 
 bald Henderson in Bookman) Cleveland 
 
 Howells, W. D. My Mark Twain; rem- 
 iniscences and criticisms, il '10 Harper 
 $1.50 92 
 
 "Delightful record of a friendship which ex- 
 tended over forty-five years, with a kindly and 
 just appreciation of Clemens' personality and 
 work. Part two contains Howell's reviews of his 
 books, 1869-1905, reprinted from magazines." 
 A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Paine, A. B. Mark Twain; a biography. 
 3v il '12 Harper $6; uniform trade ed 
 $4.50 92 
 
 "The authorized life written by an intimate 
 friend. Fully illustrated and containing chron- 
 ological list of writings published and otherwise, 
 1851-1910. The work has been done with one 
 
 single aim to present the great figure in its 
 many-sided activity and to keep that picturesque 
 personality constantly before the reader. Prob- 
 ably the best biography ever written in America." 
 (William Lyon Phelps in Independent 74:531) 
 N.Y. state lib. 
 
 Chronological list of Mark Twain's work, V3 
 pi 674-84 
 
 Cleveland, Grover 
 
 Parker, G. F. Recollections of Grover 
 Cleveland, il '09 Century $3 92 
 
 "Not a complete biography, but sympathetic, 
 even reverent, studies of personality, character 
 and political career, setting forth attitudes toward 
 public questions and estimates of contempo- 
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 Cobden, Richard 
 
 Hobson, J. A. Richard Cobden, the in- 
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 "By shifting the emphasis from Cobden's early 
 and best known activities in connection with the 
 repeal of the Corn laws to his later application 
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 during the period from the opening of the 
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 war, Mr Hobson has given us a new view of 
 the subject, with a modern attitude and expres- 
 sion. The timeliness of the book is astonishing. 
 It is as if the spirit of Cobden had returned to 
 take his place beside Lowes Dickinson and 
 Bertrand Russell. 
 
 Mr Hobson was fortunate in having new docu- 
 ments to supplement those of which Lord Morley 
 made such conscientious use. The correspon- 
 dence with Mr Richard, of the Peace society, 
 and that with Charles Sumner occupy most of 
 the present volume." R. M. Lovett in Dial 
 66:399 
 
 Morley, John. Life of Richard Cobden. 
 2v 10th ed '03 Macmillan $4 92 
 
 Bibliography, P957-62 
 
 "Tells skilfully Cobden's share in economic 
 and political movements in England since the 
 reform act." A. L. A. 
 
 Cohen, Rose- 
 
 Out of the shadow, il '18 Doran $2 92 
 
 "The self-told story of a Jewess who came as 
 a child from rural Russia to New York city and 
 found employment in a garment factory and 
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 ferent class from many of these immigrant auto- 
 biographies." Cleveland 
 
 Collyer, Robert 
 
 Holmes, J. H. Life and letters of Robert 
 Collyer, 1823-1912. 2v il '17 Dodd $5 
 
 92 
 
 "A sympathetic and appreciative account of 
 the life and personality of this well known 
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 "The man whom Mr Holmes holds up to view 
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 of spirit, full of grace and truth, touched with 
 the potency of love." Book rev. digest 
 
 Columbus, Christopher 
 
 Irving, Washington. Life and voyages 
 of Christopher Columbus to which are 
 added those of his companions. 5v 
 (Knickerbocker ed.) Putnam $6.25 92 
 
 " 'Irving's work has more than literary merit. 
 It is a history written with judgment and im- 
 partiality.' (Harrisse's Christophe Colomb) 'Did 
 not draw characters with the realistic fidelity now 
 
22 
 
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 Columbus, Christopher Continued 
 
 in favor. He smoothed his portrait of Colum- 
 bus, and defects are passed over in silence or 
 left obscure in the background.' " (Larned's Lit- 
 erature of American history) Pittsburgh 
 
 The first edition of "The life and voyages of 
 Christopher Columbus," in four volumes, ap- 
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 printed in 1831 
 
 Same; (Columbus only). (Heroes of 
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 Conrad, Joseph 
 
 Personal record. '12 Harper $1.50 92 
 
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 a novel, 'Almayer's folly.' It was followed by 
 others and he is now acknowledged one of the 
 first of English writers. His autobiography i9 
 quite unlike any other that was ever written. 
 Its discursiveness and its chronological chaos are 
 hardly to be described. It is not less full of 
 charm than the rest of his beautiful, cleanly 
 modeled prose; it is richer than some of his work 
 in humor. Above all, it compels us to see_ and 
 feel things as an intensely recipient and richly 
 gifted spirit has seen them." (Condensed from 
 Outlook [London] 1912) Pittsburgh 
 
 A brief appreciation of Conrad, by Hugh 
 Walpole, is published < by Holt at 75c, in the 
 Writers of the day series 
 
 Constantine I, the Great, emperor of Rome 
 
 Firth, J. B. Constantine the Great: the 
 reorganization of the empire and the 
 triumph of the church. (Heroes of the 
 nations) il '05 Putnam $1.50 92 
 
 "Based on a first-hand study of the_ au- 
 thorities and the fruit of independent reflection." 
 (Nation) A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Conway, Moncure Daniel 
 
 Autobiography, memories and experi- 
 ences. 2v '04 Houghton $7.50 92 
 
 "Mr Conway, during his unique English ca- 
 reer, combined certain very rare advantages for 
 an autobiographer. Himself the most radical of 
 reformers, he was also the minister of a church; 
 and this church being absolutely unsectarian, left 
 everyone free to go to it and left its preacher 
 equally free from all ordinary restrictions. He ' 
 kept in touch with all the scientific men, and, 
 what was most remarkable, with all the doctors 
 of divinity. English editors valued him for_ his 
 knowledge of things American, and American 
 publishers prized him for what he knew about 
 Europe." (Condensed from Nation, 1904) 
 Pittsburgh 
 
 Conwell, Russell Herman 
 
 Acres of diamonds, il '15 Harper $1 92 
 "Russell H._ Conwell has been a popular plat- 
 form speaker in America for many years. One 
 of his best known lectures has been 'Acres of 
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 with ... an account of his life by Robert 
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 'Fifty years on a lecture platform.' " Book rev. 
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 "The bare outline of Dr Conwell's life may 
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 the most popular lecturer in the world; the head 
 of _ two_ hospitals; the founder and head of a 
 university." Boston Transcript, December 29, 
 1915 
 
 Cook, James 
 
 Besant, Sir Walter. Captain Cook. (Eng- 
 lish men of action) '90 Macmillan 80c 
 
 92 
 
 "Vivid, picturesque." (Critic) A. L. A. 
 "There was, and is, but one Captain Cook, 
 
 yet who, among the rising generation, has read 
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 Mr Besant passes by the 'Voyages,' for the most 
 part, to sketch us the portrait of the man. This 
 he has done with clear and just yet kindly 
 touches, as was fitting. . . . That it may call re- 
 newed attention to the fascinating story of his 
 voyages is to be hoped and expected." (Nation 
 1890) Pittsburgh 
 
 Cooper, James Fenimore 
 
 Lounsbury, T. R. James Fenimore 
 Cooper. (American men of letters) '83 
 Houghton $1.35 92 
 
 Partial bibliography of Cooper's writings, 
 P290-9 
 
 "Admirable study of Cooper's work in the 
 light of his life and character." (N.Y. state lib.) 
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 Cornwallis-West, Mrs Jennie (Jerome) 
 
 Reminiscences of Lady Randolph 
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 In spite of the handicap; an autobio- 
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 land 
 
 Cowper, William 
 
 Smith, Goldwin. Cowper. (English men 
 of letters) '80 Harper 75c 92 
 
 "The man, the poet, his work, and his age, 
 portrayed by a scholarly hand." (Leypoldt & 
 lies) A. L. A. 
 
 Creevy, Mrs Caroline Alathea (Stickney) 
 A daughter of the Puritans; an autobio- 
 graphy, il '16 Putnam $1.50 92 
 
 "Recollections of a mid-nineteenth century 
 New England childhood and girlhood, recording 
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 Cromwell, Oliver 
 
 Gardiner, S. R. Oliver Cromwell. '01 
 Longmans $1.50 92 
 
 " 'A cautious, moderate and unpartisan esti- 
 mate. ... A truly marvelous picture of Crom- 
 well.' (Spectator 1899) Beautifully illustrated 
 with reproductions of portraits, busts, medals, 
 seals and miniatures pertaining to Cromwell and 
 his family." Pittsburgh 
 
 Harrison, Frederick. Oliver Cromwell. 
 (Twelve English statesmen) '94 Mac- 
 millan 80c 92 
 
 " 'Popular' in the good, not in the bad sense 
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 Morley, John. Oliver Cromwell. 1900 
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 "Interest less in narrative of Cromwell's ca- 
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 Appeared in the Century magazine, V59-60, No- 
 vember, 1899 to October, 1900 
 
 Cross, Mary Ann (Evans). See Eliot, 
 George 
 
BIOGRAPHY Individual 
 
 23 
 
 Curtis, George William 
 
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 (American men of letters) '94 Hough- 
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 "Straightforward and satisfactory biography 
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 Custer, George Armstrong 
 
 Custer, Mrs E. B. "Boots and saddles"; 
 
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 '02 Harper $1.50 92 
 
 "Entertaining account of an army woman's 
 
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 "Continuation of 'Boots and saddles.' Remin- 
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 Embodies details of General Custer's campaigns." 
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 "Memories of military life during the two years 
 immediately following Lee's surrender." (Na- 
 tion 46:455) A. L. A. 
 
 Dana, Richard Henry 
 
 Adams, C. F., jr. Richard Henry Dana. 
 2v rev ed '90 Houghton $4.50 92 
 
 "Biography of the man best known as the 
 author of 'Two years before the mast,' tho he 
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 prominent in the defense of the fugitive slaves. 
 Two-thirds of the book is autobiography, a large 
 part of that a diary as interesting as his famous 
 book." Pittsburgh 
 
 Dante Alighieri 
 
 Butler, A. J. Dante, his times and his 
 work. 2d ed '01 Macmillan $2.50 92 
 
 Contents: Thirteenth century; Guelfs and 
 Ghibelines; Dante's early days; Florentine af- 
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 Sedgwick, H. D. Dante. '18 Yale univ. 
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 Darwin, Charles Robert 
 
 Life and letters, including an autobio- 
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 the history of a great idea. The man and his 
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 ciated." (Spectator) A. L. A. 
 
 See in connection with this E. B. Poulton's 
 "Charles Darwin and the theory of natural 
 selection," 1896, Longmans, $3 
 
 Darwin, Mrs Emma (Wedgwood) 
 Litchfield, Mrs H. E. D., ed. Emma 
 Darwin; a century of family letters, 
 1792-1896. 2v il '15 Appleton $7.50 92 
 
 "The first volume of these delightful letters 
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 their time; in the second volume, Mrs Darwin 
 herself is the writer of many of the letters which 
 
 give a charming picture of the family life of 
 the great scientist. 'We cannot have too many 
 such records of human nature at its best.' " 
 (Nation) Cleveland 
 
 Davies, William Henry 
 
 Autobiography of a super-tramp; with a 
 preface by Bernard Shaw. '17 Knopf 
 $2.50 92 
 
 "It is, as Mr Shaw says, 'a placid narrative, 
 unexciting in matter and unvarnished in man- 
 ner, of the commonplaces of a tramp's life'. The 
 author as a young man came to America from 
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 spent his small savings set out on a career of 
 tramping and begging, varied by brief intervals 
 of work, which only ended when he tired of it 
 and settled down, on a legacy of eight shillings 
 a week, to write and publish verse." Pittsburgh 
 
 "A human document in the best sense of that 
 much abused phrase." Boston Transcript, April 
 18, 1917 
 
 Davis, Jefferson 
 
 Dodd, W. E. Jefferson Davis. (American 
 crisis biographies) '07 Jacobs $1.50 92 
 
 "Sympathetic yet judicial, portraying the Con- 
 federate president as a man of character and 
 great ability, who used his resources to the best 
 advantage, but whose cause was defeated by its 
 inherent weakness." N.Y. state lib. 
 
 Gordon, A. C. Jefferson Davis. (Figures 
 from American history) '18 Scribner 
 $1.50 92 
 
 "A temperate southern estimate of Jefferson 
 Davis. The author believes that the founda- 
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 Adventures and letters of Richard Hard- 
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 Scribner $2.50 92 
 
 "Letters from the novelist and newspaper cor- 
 respondent in three conflicts, the Spanish-Ameri- 
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 shortly before his death in 1916, in the present 
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 sonality, make an appeal to the popular imagina- 
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 and brother, the latter supplying explanation and 
 comment." Cleveland 
 
 Decatur, Stephen 
 
 Brady, C. T. Stephen Decatur. (Beacon 
 biographies) 1900 Small 60c 92 
 
 Bibliography, pi 38-42 
 
 "An excellent memoir, by a hero worshiper 
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 idol." (Nation 70:497) A. L. A. 
 
 Defoe, Daniel 
 
 Minto, William. Daniel Defoe. (English 
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 Trent, W. P. Daniel Defoe; how to 
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 About 200 pages are devoted to passages 
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 De Quincey, Thomas 
 
 Masson, David. De Quincey. (English 
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 Short biographical and critical study 
 
24 
 
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 Dewey, George 
 
 Autobiography of George Dewey; ad- 
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 Scribner $1.50 92 
 
 "Simple but effective narrative of a career 
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 magazine." Cleveland 
 
 Thirty-five good illustrations chiefly from 
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 Hannay, David. Diaz. (Makers of the 
 nineteenth century) il '17 Holt $2.25 
 
 92 
 
 "An unprejudiced account of Diaz's public 
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 precedented period of years.' " Cleveland 
 
 Diaz, Porfirio 
 
 Hannay, David. Diaz. (Makers of the 
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 92 
 
 "An unprejudiced account of Diaz's public 
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 Dickens, Charles 
 
 Chesterton, G. K. Charles Dickens; a 
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 "Suggestive, appreciative and at times bril- 
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 creative genius." A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Forster, John. Life of Charles Dickens. 
 Gadshill ed 2v Scribner $4 92 
 
 Same. (Biographical ed.) Lippincott 
 $2.50 92 
 
 "A familiar, authentic, revealing, and most 
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 the circumstances surrounding the production of 
 his novels." Pratt alcove 
 
 The memorial edition issued in 191 1 by Chap- 
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 centenary in 1912, is now out of print 
 
 Kitton, F. G. Charles Dickens, his life, 
 writings and personality. '02 Appleton 
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 "Compendious biography by the most eminent 
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 Ward, A. W. Dickens. (English men of 
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 Short biography 
 Wiggin, Mrs K. D. Child's journey with 
 Dickens. '12 Houghton 60c 92 
 
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 Dodd, Walter James 
 
 Macy, John. Walter James Dodd. '18 
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 Walter James Dodd was an x-ray expert of in- 
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 to this country when a boy. His work was a 
 series of adventures and discoveries, made at 
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 Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge. See Carroll, 
 
 Lewis, pseud. 
 Dostoevskii, Feodor Mikhailovich 
 
 Letters to his family and friends; tr. by 
 E. C. Mayne. il '14 Macmillan $2 92 
 
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 the mathematician, of Dostoevskii, the man." 
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 Contains also "Recollections of Dostoevskii," 
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 than as a literary criticism." Cleveland 
 
 Douglas, Stephen Arnold 
 
 Brown, W. G. Stephen Arnold Douglas. 
 (Riverside biographical series) '02 
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 "Discriminating sketch of _ Lincoln's _ rival, 
 faithfully presenting his part in compromises of 
 1850, Kansas-Nebraska legislation, disruption of 
 Democratic party of i860, and creation of a War 
 party of northern Democrats after secession." 
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 Willis, H. P. Stephen A. Douglas. 
 (American crisis biographies) '10 
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 Bibliography and bibliographical notes, P354-? 
 
 " 'Incisive study of a great American poli- 
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 in each of the eight or ten critical games of 
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 with equal composure and without waste of 
 words.'" (Nation, 191 1) Pittsburgh 
 
 Douglass, Frederick 
 
 Washington, B. T. Frederick Douglass. 
 
 (American crisis biographies) il '07 
 
 Jacobs $1.50 92 
 
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 value as an account of the Abolition movement 
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 race." (Dial) Pratt quarterly 
 
BIOGRAPHY Individual 
 
 25 
 
 Dowden, Edward 
 
 Letters of Edward Dowden and his cor- 
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BIOGRAPHY Individual 
 
 27 
 
 Fels, Joseph Continued 
 
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28 
 
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 Francis of Assisi, Saint Continued 
 
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BIOGRAPHY Individual 
 
 29 
 
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 Garrison, W. P., and F. J. William Lloyd 
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 "Possibly too expensive for many libraries, 
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 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 
 
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 (Bohn's standard lib.) rev ed 2v '91 
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 Dobson, Austin. Life of Oliver Gold- 
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 "Continues the autobiography begun in 'My 
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BIOGRAPHY Individual 
 
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 King, Charles. True Ulysses S. Grant, 
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 "Strong in its contrasts. Full chronology a 
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 Greene, Nathaniel 
 
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 "Study of the military operations of the 
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 Grey, Albert Henry George, 4th earl 
 
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 il '15 Doran $1.25 92 
 
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 Root, J. C. Nathan Hale. (True stories 
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32 
 
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 Hall, Mrs Florence Howe 
 
 Memories grave and gay. '18 Harper 
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 "Reminiscences of the daughter of Julia Ward 
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 Lodge, H. C. Alexander Hamilton. 
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 92 
 
 "Brings into strong relief the salient features 
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 Sears, Lorenzo. John Hancock, the pic- 
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 92 
 
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 Merwin, H. C. Life of Bret Harte. il 
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 "Detailed, authoritative biography, dealing 
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 Hasanowitz, Elizabeth 
 
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 92 
 
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 "Most valuable as an appreciative criticism of 
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 Hay, John 
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BIOGRAPHY Individual 
 
 35 
 
 Hearn, Lafcadio Continued 
 
 clearly. The correspondence is of unusual in- 
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 Bibliography, PI53-7. . . . , . , 
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 92 
 
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 Sunny side of diplomatic life, 1875-1912. 
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 Heine, Heinrich 
 
 Sharp, William. Life of Heinrich Heine. 
 (Great writers) '88 Scribner $1.25 92 
 
 Bibliography, 17 pref. p. 
 
 Biography with a critical estimate and de- 
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 Henry IV, king of France 
 
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 Henry, prince of Portugal 
 
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BIOGRAPHY Individual 
 
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 Stephen, Sir Leslie. Samuel Johnson. 
 (English men of letters) 78 Harper 
 75c; Macmillan 60c 92 
 
 "Brief but excellent study of Johnson's 
 career with much acute criticism founded on a 
 clear insight into Johnson's character and much 
 knowledge of his times." Pittsburgh 
 
 Johnson, Tom Loftin 
 
 My story; ed. by E. J. Hauser. il '11 
 Huebsch $2 92 
 
 "This vivid, informal record of boyhood, in- 
 ventions, business success, conversion to the 
 single tax theory, fight against privilege, work 
 in Congress and as mayor of Cleveland, 190 1-9, 
 offers a convincing case for its author's often- 
 questioned sincerity and personal disinterested- 
 ness. Portraits and other halftones." N.Y. 
 state lib. 
 
 Jones, John Paul 
 
 Brady, C. T. Commodore Paul Jones. 
 (Great commanders) 1900 Appleton 
 $1.60 92 
 
 "Covers satisfactorily the main events of 
 Jones' public career. It is written from the 
 viewpoint of an ardent admirer." (Dial, 1900) 
 N.Y. state lib. 
 
 De Koven, Mrs A. F. Life and letters 
 of John Paul Jones. 2v il maps '13 
 Scribner $5 92 
 
 "Fullest and most authoritative life so far 
 published, founded on wide research and some 
 hitherto unused material. Both valuable and 
 interesting, tho overpartial and making some 
 deductions that are open to criticism. The 
 twenty-two illustrations include five portraits 
 of Jones and two maps. Bibliography and in- 
 dex." N.Y. state lib. 
 
 Sources of information, V2, P485-90 
 
 Hapgood, Hutchins. Paul Jones. (Riv- 
 erside biog. ser.) '01 Houghton 75c; 
 school ed 60c 92 
 
38 
 
 STANDARD CATALOG 
 
 Josephine, empress consort of Napoleon I 
 Imbert de Saint-Amand, A. L. Citizen- 
 ess Bonaparte. '94 Scribner $1.50 92 
 
 "Sketches life of Josephine from her mar- 
 riage with Napoleon to his elevation to the con- 
 sulship." Pittsburgh 
 
 Imbert de Saint-Amand, A. L. Court of 
 the Empress Josephine. '94 Scribner 
 $1.50 92 
 
 "Comprises most brilliant period of Jose- 
 phine's life; from the beginning of the empire 
 in 1804 to 1807." Pittsburgh 
 
 Imbert de Saint-Amand, A. L. Wife of 
 the first consul. '94 Scribner $1.50 92 
 
 "Series of brilliant pictures of court of 
 Napoleon and Josephine during the consulate." 
 Pittsburgh 
 
 Meneval, N. J. C. Empress Josephine; 
 tr. from the French by D. D. Fraser. il 
 '12 Lippincott $2.50 92 
 
 "Attempts to correct by means of letters and 
 other documents the impression of Josephine's 
 shallowness and frivolity." Pratt quarterly 
 
 Judson, Mrs Anna (Hasseltine) 
 
 Hubbard, E. D. Ann of Ava. il '13 Mis- 
 sionary educ. movement 60; pa 40c 92 
 
 "Gives in story form a sympathetic account 
 of the life of Ann Hasseltine Judson, courageous 
 young wife of Adoniram Judson, the first Amer- 
 ican missionary to Burma. Attractively printed 
 and bound with twelve illustrations from por- 
 traits and photographs and as many quaint pen 
 and ink sketches." N.Y. state lib. 
 
 Keats, John 
 
 Colvin, Sir Sidney. John Keats, il '17 
 Scribner $4.50 92 
 
 "As delightful and readable as it is au- 
 thoritative and final. Reconstructs Keat's en- 
 vironment and traces the influences of books 
 and people in his work. The standard biogra- 
 phy for both general reader and special student. 
 Thirteen illustrations. Full index." N.Y. state 
 lib. 
 
 "Presents for the first time in full detail the 
 history of Keat's life and poetical activity, dis- 
 cusses with a fullness not hitherto attempted 
 his relations both to his Elizabethian masters 
 and some of his Victorian followers and relates 
 the slow growth of his fame after his death." 
 (Adapted from Times [London]) Pratt quar- 
 terly 
 
 Some material from Colvin's smaller book 
 on Keat's has been incorporated in this 
 
 Keats. (English men of letters) '87 
 Macmillan 60c 92 
 
 Authorities, pref. P7-9 
 
 Keeling, Frederic 
 
 Letters and recollections; with an introd. 
 by H. G. Wells. '18 Macmillan $4 92 
 
 "This stands apart as the most telling and 
 convincing account of the way in which the war 
 has affected the best type of educated young 
 Englishman. The preface by Mr Wells is one 
 of his best contributions to the psychology of 
 the war." Survey 41:939 
 
 "Mr Keeling, who was well known when an 
 undergraduate at Cambridge as one of the lead- 
 ing spirits of the C. U. Fabian society, threw 
 himself wholeheartedly into social work, first at 
 Walworth and later as manager of the Leeds 
 labor exchange. On the outbreak of the war he 
 enlisted, and after several times refusing a com- 
 mission died 'gallantly and brilliantly bombing' 
 in one of the Somme battles of August 1916. 
 These letters cover the whole period of his life 
 from Cambridge to the end." Times [London] 
 lit. sup. 
 
 Keller, Helen 
 
 Story of my life; with letters (1887-1901) 
 and a supplementary account of her 
 
 education, including passages from the 
 reports and letters of her teacher, 
 A. M. Sullivan. '03 Doubleday $1.50 
 
 92 
 
 Published by Houghton at 44c in the River- 
 side literature series 
 
 "The book is indeed unique. The story it- 
 self and the years of effort which have made its 
 telling possible, the personality which it re- 
 veals, and the creation of that personality, 
 these are things which seem little short of 
 miraculous. The narrative of a young woman 
 who has been deaf and blind from infancy is 
 written in a style which is not only idiomatic, 
 but individual and rhythmical. As one reads, 
 one forgets to make allowances for limitations 
 which are apt to slip out of sight, until a 
 chance phrase recalls one with a start to the 
 realization that the mind which deals so freely 
 and normally with the ordinary factors of hu- 
 man life dwells forever in silence and the dark." 
 (Condensed from Atlantic monthly, 1903) Pitts- 
 burgh 
 
 Kelvin, William Thomson, 1st baron 
 
 Gray, Andrew. Lord Kelvin; an account 
 of his scientific life and work. (English 
 men of science) il '08 Dutton $1 92 
 
 "Account of Sir William Thomson's scientific 
 achievements, with brief sketch of personality, 
 by his former pupil and successor in the chair 
 of natural philosophy at Glasgow university. 
 Chiefly interesting to students of physics." 
 (N.Y. state lib.) A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Key, Ellen 
 
 Nystrom-Hamilton, Mrs Louise. Ellen 
 Key; her life and her work; authorized 
 translation from the Swedish by A. E. 
 B. ( Fries, il '13 Putnam $1.50 " 92 
 
 "An estimate and appreciation (and prac- 
 tically a defense) of the life, teachings, and in- 
 fluence of the Swedish educator and feminist. 
 By the wife of the head of the People's Insti- 
 tute in Stockholm where Ellen Key lectured 
 for twenty years." Cleveland 
 
 Kimball, James Peleg 
 Kimball, Mrs M. B. Soldier-doctor of 
 our army, il '17 Houghton $1.50 92 
 
 "A personal biography telling of the varied 
 experiences of an army surgeon. Doctor Kim- 
 ball saw service on the western frontier and in 
 the Spanish-American war, and the descrip- 
 tions of life in a garrison in the Far West give 
 many interesting details not to be obtained in 
 history." A. L. A. bkl. 
 
 Kitchener, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, earl 
 Davray, H. D. Lord Kitchener, his work 
 and his prestige. '17 Unwin 2s 6d 92 
 "A tribute to Kitchener by a Frenchman who 
 analyzes his prestige as a popular hero and 
 balances the qualities which made possible his 
 remarkable achievements against those which 
 were conspicuously absent. H. G. Groser's 
 'Lord Kitchener' contains more biographical 
 facts of his earlier career; Harold Begbie's 
 'Kitchener, organizer of victory,' is more popu- 
 lar, but like this only a sketch." Cleveland 
 
 The Gresham publishing company, London, 
 issued in 1916, at 25s 6d, a "Life of Kitchener" to 
 19 16, in three volumes 
 
 Wheeler, H. F. B. Boys' life of Lord 
 Kitchener, il '16 Crowell $2 92 
 
 "Altho nominally for boys, this is a complete 
 biography of Lord Kitchener, giving very fully 
 the details of his military career." Book rev. 
 digest 
 
 "A popular biography considerably more de- 
 tailed than any that has yet [1917] appeared, 
 and written in a clear, readable and intelligent 
 way; fully appreciative of Kitchener's great- 
 ness, unmarred by any fulsome eulogy." Times 
 [London] lit. sup, 
 
BIOGRAPHY Individual 
 
 39 
 
 Knox, John 
 
 Cowan, Henry. John Knox, the hero of 
 the Scottish reformation. (Heroes of 
 the reformation) il '05 Putnam $1.50 
 
 92 
 "The author is an advocate, but fair, dig- 
 nified and moderate in his advocacy of Knox's 
 course as a Puritan leader." (Dial) A. L. A. 
 sup. 
 
 Krasinska, Franchise, countess, afterward 
 duchess of Courland 
 Journal; tr. from the Polish by Kasimer 
 Dziekonska. 9th ed '96 McClurg $1.25 
 
 92 
 
 "Gives with charming naivete, a picturesque 
 account of high life in Poland at the middle of 
 the last (i8th) century a life still pervaded by 
 feudal traditions and customs. . . . The 
 countess writes with all the vivacity of a girl 
 who does not suspect that the glamour will 
 pass, but withal she has very keen eyes, that 
 see just those details which posterity is most 
 interested in and rarely finds in formal his- 
 tories." (Nation, 1895) Pittsburgh 
 
 Kropotkin, Petr Aleksieevich, prince 
 
 Memoirs of a revolutionist. '99 Hough- 
 ton $2.25 . 92 
 
 "Kropotkin's story is a singularly rich, diver- 
 sified, and romantic one, and it is attractively 
 told. Nothing more interesting in its way has 
 ever been written than the chapters relating his 
 prison life and escape. The book abounds in 
 instructive pictures of Russian life and char- 
 acter, done with unconscious art." (Dial, 1900) 
 Pittsburgh 
 
 Published in Atlantic monthly, September 
 1898 to September 1899, under title "The auto- 
 biography of a revolutionist" 
 
 Lacombe, Albert 
 
 Hughes, Katharine. Father Lacombe, 
 the blackrobed voyageur. il '11 Moffat 
 $2 92 
 
 "A picturesque account of Canada in the last 
 half of the nineteenth century, as well as an 
 enthusiastic portrayal of a lovable character, a 
 French Canadian priest missionary to the In- 
 dians since 1849." N.Y. state lib. 
 
 La Follette, Robert Marion 
 
 La Follette's autobiography; a personal 
 narrative of political experiences, il 
 '13 La Follette co. $1.50 92 
 
 "Largely devoted to his early struggles for 
 reform both in Wisconsin and Washington and 
 his later connection with the Progressive move- 
 ment. Gives a full account of his break with 
 Theodore Roosevelt." A. L. A. bkl. 
 
 "One can trace here better than anywhere 
 else the rise of the spirit of progressiveness in 
 the Senate. . . . The earlier chapters . . . 
 contain the account of the struggle in Wisconsin 
 which in the end placed that state in the fore- 
 front of railway and other industrial regula- 
 tion by government." (Nation) Pratt quarterly 
 
 Lamb, Charles 
 
 Letters. 2v '89 Macmillan $3.50 92 
 
 "As for Lamb, those who love him at all, 
 love him so well that it matters little which of 
 his letters they read, or how often they have 
 read them before. Only it is best to select those 
 written in the meridian of his life. The earlier 
 ones are too painful, the later ones too sad. 
 Let us take him at his happiest, and be happy 
 with him for an hour." (Agnes Repplier) 
 Pittsburgh 
 
 "They are not in the least like anyone else's. 
 They defy classification and escape analysis. 
 Humor and fancy run thru them all, but it is 
 Lamb's humor and Lamb's fancy. Nothing 
 occurs in them but the unexpected." (Paul's 
 "Men and letters") Pittsburgh 
 
 Ainger, Alfred. Lamb. (English men of 
 letters) '94 Harper 75c 92 
 
 "Short biographical and critical study. Au- 
 thor is one of the chief authorities on his sub- 
 ject." Pittsburgh 
 
 Lucas, E. V. Life of Charles Lamb. 2v 
 il '05 Putnam $5 92 
 
 "Tells the story of Charles and Mary Lamb 
 as far as possible in their own and their con- 
 temporaries' words. An exhaustive compila- 
 tion with editorial comment, rather than a sys- 
 tematic biography. Jerrold's 'Charles Lamb,' 
 Bell's miniature series, Macmillan, 1905, 50c, is 
 an excellent introduction to the study of Lamb, 
 briefly sketching his life and writings." 
 A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Lanier, Sidney 
 
 Mims, Edwin. Sidney Lanier, il '05 
 Houghton $1.35 92 
 
 "Well rounded presentation in Lanier's own 
 words, where possible. A sympathetic inter- 
 pretation of a fine and rare character and a 
 frank estimate of the poet's claim to lasting 
 fame." (N.Y. state lib.) A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Larcom, Lucy 
 
 A New England girlhood, outlined from 
 memory. '89 Houghton 75c; holiday ed 
 $1.25 92 
 
 "New England poet's recollections of her 
 childhood in a sea coast village and her young 
 womanhood in a Lowell factory. Interesting 
 contribution to New England social history." 
 (N.Y. state lib.) A. L. A. 
 
 Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich, Eleanor Hulda 
 (Calhoun), princess 
 Pleasures and palaces; memoirs, il '15 
 Century $3 92 
 
 "Miss Calhoun went to Europe as a girl and 
 made a name for herself on the stage, playing 
 Shakesperian parts in both England and France. 
 In 1903 she married Prince Lazarovich-Hrebe- 
 lianovich of Serbia and retired from the stage 
 to devote herself to her husband's work in bet- 
 tering the condition of his people. This book 
 of reminiscences is devoted almost wholly to 
 her stage experiences and to memories of the 
 men and women it was her good fortune to 
 meet." Book rev. digest 
 
 "The pages which relate to her courtship and 
 the arousal of her deepest sympathies with the 
 victims of generations of Turkish tyranny in the 
 Balkans, are by no means the least interesting, 
 in this singularly fascinating book." J. R. 
 Towse in Nation 101:634 
 
 Many illustrations from photographs and 
 drawings by J. W. Adams. Appeared in the 
 Century 
 
 Lear, Edward 
 
 Letters to Chichester Fortescue, lord 
 
 Carlingford and Frances, countess 
 
 Waldegrave; ed. by Lady Strachey. '08 
 
 Duffield $3.50 92 
 
 "Lear (1812-1888) is known chiefly as the 
 author of the 'Book of nonsense,' but he was a 
 considerable water-color artist as well, and a 
 man of interesting personality, as is shown in 
 this collection of letters to his nearest friends. 
 They were written from 1849-1864, most of 
 which time he spent on the continent. 
 
 'Lively and jolly letters. . . . Their en- 
 tertaining quality is greatly augmented by the 
 countless caricatures and odd bits of drawing 
 with which he was wont to adorn his letters. 
 The book is exactly of the kind that one can 
 pick up from a shelf in an odd moment of 
 spare time and dip into here and there with 
 enjoyment.' " (Outlook, 1908) Pittsburgh 
 
 Lee, Robert Edward 
 
 Bradford, Gamaliel, jr. Lee the Amer- 
 ican, il '12 Houghton $3 92 
 Titles of books most frequently cited, P286; 
 notes, P287-312 
 
40 
 
 STANDARD CATALOG 
 
 Lee, Robert Edward Continued 
 
 "Interesting and original. Not a conven- 
 tional biography, but an enthusiastic and ex- 
 tremely careful study, based on authoritative 
 sources, of various aspects of General Lee's 
 character. Illustrations and portraits. All the 
 chapters have appeared in periodicals." N.Y. 
 state lib. 
 
 McKim, R. H. Soul of Lee. il '18 Long- 
 mans $1.50 92 
 "A psychological rather than a biographical 
 study of Lee in popular form. There is a 
 commendable breadth of view on the part of the 
 author, a Confederate veteran." A. L. A. bkl. 
 "An excellent statement of the typical south- 
 ern conception of Lee and the Civil war." 
 Springfield Republican, April 22, 19 18 
 
 "The appendix gives a detailed account of the 
 Gettysburg campaign, and the book contains 
 many unfamiliar and unpublished incidents." 
 Cleveland 
 
 Page, T. N. Robert E. Lee, the man and 
 soldier, il maps '11 Scribner $2.50 92 
 
 "A sympathetic and in the main nonpartisan 
 biography, based on the author's 'Robert E. 
 Lee, the Southerner.' The account of Lee's 
 relation to the civil power of the Confederate 
 government and the history of his campaigns 
 are very full. The spirit and color of the nar- 
 ration make it more acceptable to the general 
 reader than a more carefully documented work 
 might be. Portrait frontispiece and nine maps." 
 A. L. A. bkl. 
 
 "It is almost totally lacking in the keen an- 
 alysis that marks Gamaliel Bradford's recent 
 articles in the Atlantic." Amer. hist. rev. 17: 
 851 
 
 Trent, W. P. Robert E. Lee. (Beacon 
 biographies) '99 Small 60c 92 
 
 Bibliography, pi 32-5 
 Li Hung-Chang 
 
 Bland, J. O. P. Li Hung-Chang. (Mak- 
 ers of the nineteenth century) il '17 
 Holt $2.25 92 
 
 "An admiring but impartially critical biogra- 
 phy of the Chinese diplomat who laid the found- 
 ations of China's foreign policy and during the 
 last thirty years of the nineteenth century was 
 that nation's 'indispensable man.' " Cleveland 
 
 "No new material about Li has been un- 
 earthed, no advance has been made towards 
 obtaining Chinese estimates of the man, no ap- 
 proach towards any but an Englishman's point 
 of view is attempted. . . . On the other hand 
 it is fair to add that the book is easily read and 
 that it portrays a rather splendid type of the 
 original viceroy." Nation 105:488 
 
 Lincoln, Abraham 
 
 Lincoln's own stories; collected and ed. 
 by Anthony Gross. '12 Harper $1.25 
 
 92 
 "The editor's purpose has been to select from 
 the mass of stories attributed to Lincoln those 
 authentic anecdotes which are most essential to 
 an understanding of his character. They have 
 been arranged as far as possible, consecutively, 
 so that they furnish illustrations of the various 
 stages of Lincoln's career." Book rev. digest 
 
 Brooks, Noah. Abraham Lincoln, and 
 the downfall of American slavery. 
 (Heroes of the nations) new ed '94 
 Putnam $1.50 92 
 
 "Specially full of legends of Lincoln's early 
 life in all its picturesqueness. Partly remi- 
 niscent." A. L. A. 
 
 Browne, F. F. Every-day life of Abra- 
 ham Lincoln, rev ed il '15 Putnam $2.50 
 
 92 
 
 "A revision of a readable biography by a 
 
 former editor of the Dial; first published in 
 
 1883. The material was largely gathered from 
 
 men who knew Lincoln and includes numerous 
 
 anecdotes and bits of personal reminiscence." 
 Cleveland 
 
 "An analytical index probably the fullest and 
 most serviceable ever included in a Lincoln 
 biography, will be welcomed by every reader 
 and will give the work a unique reference value 
 in the library." Wallace Rice in Dial 55:408 
 
 See also H. B. Rankin's "Personal recollec- 
 tions of Abraham Lincoln," 19 16, Putnam, $2.50 
 
 Charnwood, G. R. B. Abraham Lincoln. 
 (Makers of the nineteenth century) il 
 '16 Holt $2.25 92 
 
 Bibliographical note, p 455-8 
 
 "Lord Charnwood has given us the most 
 complete interpretation of Lincoln as yet pro- 
 duced, and he has presented it in such artistic 
 form that it may well become classic. . . . 
 The contribution is not one of new fact but of 
 deep thought. ... It is intended for the in- 
 telligent whether they are informed or not, but 
 not for the informed unless they are intelli- 
 gent." (C. R. Fish) Amer. hist. rev. 22:413 
 
 "An English account written for Englishmen 
 and interesting for that reason, and as a full 
 and on the whole fair account of Lincoln's 
 character, personal and political ideals, and the 
 conditions under which he lived and worked. 
 
 'The most successful portrait of Lincoln in a 
 single volume, drawn upon a clearly conceived 
 background of political evolution, that has so 
 far appeared.' " (Dial) Cleveland 
 
 Morgan, James. Abraham Lincoln, the 
 boy and the man. il '08 Macmillan 
 $1.50 92 
 
 "Simple, straightforward story, lacking the 
 literary quality of Nicolay and Hay's 'Short 
 life,' but suited to a less cultured class of read- 
 ers. Chapter, 'A course in Lincoln' is a good 
 select bibliography." A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Morse, J. T. jr. Abraham Lincoln. 2v 
 (American statesmen) '93 Houghton 
 $1.35 ea 92 
 
 "Best (1904) brief life of Lincoln. Con- 
 densed but clear. Very careful of facts and 
 inviting confidence." A. L. A. 
 
 Nicolay, Helen. Personal traits of Abra- 
 ham Lincoln. '12 Century $2 92 
 "When the author's father began his joint 
 work with John Hay on 'Abraham Lincoln: a 
 history,' he put aside certain items to be used 
 in a chapter on 'Personal traits.' This material 
 grew to proportions far beyond his expectations 
 and the chapter as originally planned was not 
 written. It is this material which his daughter 
 has carefully worked over in the making of the 
 present book." Book rev. digest 
 
 Nicolay, J. G. Short life of Abraham 
 
 Lincoln; condensed from Nicolay and 
 
 Hay's Abraham Lincoln. '02 Century 
 
 $3 92 
 
 "So well done that no one ignorant of its 
 relation to the larger book would suspect it of 
 being an abridgment." (Nation, 1902) A. L. A. 
 
 Nicolay, J. G., and Hay, John. Abra- 
 ham Lincoln. lOv '90 Century $25 92 
 
 "The authors, as private secretaries to Pres- 
 ident Lincoln, stood in most intimate and con- 
 fidential relations with him, and had his ap- 
 proval of this history for which they began to 
 prepare during the war. Their work is really 
 a history of the period with Lincoln as the cen- 
 tral figure, particular attention naturally being 
 given to the political struggle preceding the 
 war, and to the narrative of military events. 
 Illustrated." Pittsburgh 
 
 Robinson, L. E. Abraham Lincoln as a 
 man of letters, il '18 Reilly $1.50 92 
 
 Selections from Lincoln's works, p2 19-33 
 
 Bibliographical note, P335-6 
 
 "Traces Lincoln's development as a man of 
 letters, and shows how he steadily grew in his 
 ability to reach the mind and heart of the 
 people." Brooklyn 
 
BIOGRAPHY Individual 
 
 41 
 
 Lincoln, Abraham Continued 
 
 Rothschild, Alonzo. "Honest Abe;" a 
 study in integrity based on the early 
 life of Abraham Lincoln, il '17 Hough- 
 ton $2 92 
 
 "Illuminates Lincoln's moral processes as ex- 
 hibited by his active life from childhood, thru 
 his election to the Senate. Two of the chapters 
 are concerned with him as a lawyer; one as a 
 politician. 
 
 List of books cited, P30o-io-" Pittsburgh 
 Memoir of Alonzo Rothschild, by John 
 Rothschild, P285-306. 
 
 Rothschild, Alonzo. Lincoln, master of 
 men. (Anniversary ed.) il '08 Hough- 
 ton $1.75 . 92 
 
 "Shows Lincoln's moral force by accounts of 
 his relations with Douglas, Sumner, Chase, 
 Seward, Fremont and McClellan, with whom 
 his position brought him into close relations and 
 frequent conflict." (N.Y. state lib.) A. L. A. 
 sup. 
 
 Schurz, Carl. Abraham Lincoln. '91 
 
 Houghton $1.10 92 
 
 "Originally published in the Atlantic monthly 
 
 as a review of 'Abraham Lincoln: a history,' by 
 
 Nicolay and Hay. 
 
 'Perhaps best sketch of character and 
 achievements of the great president.' " (N.Y. 
 state lib.) A. L. A. 
 
 Tarbell, I. M. Life of Abraham Lincoln; 
 drawn from original sources, new ed 2v 
 '17 Macmillan $5 92 
 
 "Illustrated with many reproductions from 
 original paintings, photographs, etc." Subtitle 
 "The seventeen years since the first publica- 
 tion of this book have strengthened the verdict 
 then given that it is one of the most vivid and 
 authentic biographies ever written of 'the first 
 American.' " Boston Transcript, November 14. 
 1917 
 
 Wheeler, D. E. Abraham Lincoln. (True 
 stories of great Americans) il '16 Mac- 
 millan 50c 92 
 
 "Brief, popular biography which is intended 
 for young people, but will be acceptable for 
 anyone who wishes a concise account of Lin- 
 coln's life." Cleveland 
 
 Whitlock, Brand. Abraham Lincoln, il 
 '16 Small 60c; $1.25 92 
 
 "A revised edition of the work originally is- 
 sued as one of the 'Beacon biographies.' 
 
 'The most readable of all the short biogra- 
 phies of Lincoln.' " (Nation) Pratt quarterly 
 
 Wright-Davis, Mary. Book of Lincoln, 
 il '19 Doran $2.50 92 
 
 "An attractive and a comprehensive anthol- 
 ogy. Certain of Lincoln's famous addresses, 
 biographical notes, pedigree, chronology, and 
 poems about him occupy the larger part of the 
 volume. Interesting illustrations. Indexes. 
 Bibliography (i8p). Libraries already have much 
 of the material in usable form." A. L. A. bkl. 
 
 Livingstone, David 
 
 Home, C. S. David Livingstone, new ed 
 il '16 Macmillan $1.25 92 
 
 "Concise, sympathetic relation of the life of 
 the great African explorer and missionary, 
 quoting largely from his diary and letters." 
 N.Y. state lib. 
 
 "In the belief of the writer Livingstone is 
 greatest, not as a scientist nor an explorer but 
 as a man and missionary." Preface 
 
 See in connection with this H. M. Stanley's 
 "How I found Livingstone" Scribner $2.50 
 
 Lloyd, Henry Demarest 
 
 Lloyd, C. A. Henry Demarest Lloyd, 
 1847-1903. 2y il '12 Putnam $5 92 
 
 "The historian who in the future engages in 
 the task of tracing the beginnings of the move- 
 
 ment which we now call the 'social unrest' will 
 find one great landmark to guide him, and that 
 will be Lloyd's work, 'Wealth against common- 
 wealth' which appeared in 1894. The book was 
 the first and even today, may, perhaps fairly 
 be called the greatest speciman of the 'literature 
 of exposure' in this country. . . . For this 
 reason his biography . . . ought to be read by 
 all those who are fighting today for the com- 
 mon good." Nation 94:618 
 
 "Of the biography which is one of the most 
 important sources of history the United States 
 as yet has very little. In England this kind of 
 biography is abundant and of immense im- 
 portance. ... A biography of this character 
 and usefulness to the historian of the United 
 States during the era when Big Business was 
 coming into existence and into control, and one 
 moreover which is worthy to rank with the 
 standard English biographies, is the 'Life of 
 Henry Demarest Lloyd.' It is too soon to es- 
 timate Lloyd's part in the awakening of the 
 public conscience to the evils of the individual- 
 istic system under which the United States 
 reached its great material development of the 
 nineteenth century. It is therefore of special 
 importance to have a true picture of the man as 
 reflected in his private letters, as well as in 
 his published writings. It is of great value to 
 the future historian to be able to ascertain how 
 men regarded the trusts when they first came 
 into existence, and what forces were at work 
 to arouse sympathy for the workers and to 
 awaken the first consciousness of the class prob- 
 lems which the Americans used to imagine could 
 never arise in the new world." (Edward Por- 
 ritt) Amer. pol. sci. rev. 6:656 
 
 Lloyd George, David 
 
 Dilnot, Frank. Llovd George; the man 
 and his story. '17 Harper $1.25 92 
 
 Appendix: Lloyd George on America and the 
 European war 
 
 "Not a critical estimate of the great English 
 leader . . . but a clear journalistic . . . and 
 sympathetic account of the man as he appears 
 to a newspaper writer who has had an unusual 
 opportunity for following his career." (Bell- 
 man) Pratt quarterly 
 
 Evans, B. G. Life romance of Lloyd 
 George; with an introd. by Charles 
 Sarolea. '15 Griffiths 75c ?2 
 
 "Deals mainly with the national and imperial 
 aspects of his career." Pittsburgh 
 
 Lodge, Henry Cabot 
 
 Early memories. '13 Scribner $2.50 92 
 
 "Entertaining recollections of Senator 
 Lodge's boyhood in Boston during the Civil 
 war, travels in Europe, studies at Harvard and 
 impressions of many famous public men and 
 men of letters up to the beginning of his own 
 public career." N.Y. state lib. 
 
 Appeared in a condensed form in Scribner's 
 magazine, V52-53, September 1912 June 1913. 
 under the title "Some earlier memories" 
 
 Logan, Mrs Mary Simmerson (Cunning- 
 ham) 
 Reminiscences of a soldier's wife; an 
 autobiography, il '16 popular ed Scrib- 
 ner $1.50 92 
 
 "Interesting account of the life and times of 
 a Southern woman married at seventeen (1855) 
 to John A. Logan, whose distinguished career 
 as Union officer and United States senator she 
 actively shared and describes in detail. Ap- 
 peared serially in the Cosmopolitan." Cleve- 
 land 
 
 London, Jack 
 
 John Barleycorn, il '13 Century $1.30 
 
 92 
 
 "These supposedly autobiographical sketches 
 
 first published in the Saturday Evening Post are 
 
 an effective plea for prohibition and incidentally 
 
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42 
 
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BIOGRAPHY Individual 
 
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 Stephen, Sir Leslie. Alexander Pope. 
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 century with intimate glimpses of Irving, 
 Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Bayard Taylor and 
 other lesser lights." Pratt quarterly 
 
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 Ravage, Marcus Eli 
 An American in the making. '17 Harper 
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 Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman- 
 Mitford, 1st baron 
 Memories. 2v il '16 Dutton $15 92 
 
 "The cream of autobiography. It is full of 
 stories and characteristic glimpses as an egg is 
 full of meat. It would be hard to cite a work 
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 script, December 11, 1915 
 
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 statesmen, of the Carlyles and many persons of 
 importance, including the Czar Alexander II, 
 the German emperor, and King Edward VII." 
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 Reed, Thomas Brackett 
 
 McCall, S. W. Life of Thomas Brackett 
 Reed, il '14 Houghton $3.50 92 
 
 "This biography of Speaker Reed by a friend 
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 his personality, recording public questions of his 
 day in the light of his action upon them, and 
 presenting his views as far as possible in the 
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 ings." Cleveland 
 
 Revere, Paul 
 
 Moses, Belle. Paul Revere, the torch 
 bearer of the Revolution, il '16 Apple- 
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 "An excellent biography giving not only a 
 full account of Revere's famous ride, but cover- 
 ing the many varied activities in which this 
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 time." Cleveland 
 
 Rhodes, Cecil John 
 
 Fuller, Sir T. E. Right Honorable Cecil 
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 iscence, il '10 Longmans $1.60 92 
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 and interpretation of aims and ideals." N.Y. 
 state lib. 
 
 Richards, Caroline Cowles. See Clarke, 
 
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 Richards, Mrs Ellen Henrietta (Swallow) 
 
 Hunt, C. L. Life of Ellen H. Richards. 
 
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 Dobson, Austin. Samuel Richardson. 
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 de 
 
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 tion." Pittsburgh 
 
 Riis, Jacob August 
 
 Making of an American, new ed '16 Mac- 
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 and the struggle for Scottish inde- 
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 Forrest, Sir G. W. Life of Lord Rob- 
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 Romanes, Mrs E. D. Life and letters of 
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 British naturalist (1848-94) 
 
 The relations of Darwin and Romanes were 
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 Roosevelt, Theodore 
 
 Autobiography, il '13 Macmillan $2.50 92 
 " 'With the exceptions of a few chapters of 
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 writer's public life and more or less connected 
 with his administrative acts.' (Dial) 
 
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 boy land' appeared in his 'Ranch life.' " Cleve- 
 land 
 
 Leupp, F. E. The man Roosevelt; a 
 portrait sketch. (Appleton's historical 
 lives ser.) '04 Appleton $1.35 92 
 
 "Devoted chiefly to Roosevelt's public life to 
 1904, enlivened by many anecdotes and written 
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 velt, il '19 Winston $2.25 92 
 
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 fessor of history at Harvard university. The 
 introduction (i6p) is by William Howard Taft. 
 
 Chronology, P473-4 
 
 Morgan, James. Theodore Roosevelt, 
 the boy and the man. new ed il '19 
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 zen. '04 Macmillan $2 92 
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 _ "Theodore Roosevelt the man is graphically 
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 An appendix contains extracts from his speeches 
 and writings." Book rev. digest 
 
 Washburn, C. G. Theodore Roosevelt; 
 the logic of his career, il '16 Houghton 
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 Ross, Mrs Jane Ann (Duff-Gordon) 
 
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 sociated, Thackeray, Tennyson, Carlyle, Mere- 
 dith, Leighton, Watts and many others. She 
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 of later life in Italy and recent English years 
 and friends. The appropriate illustrations are 
 largely reproductions from photographs." 
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 Rousseau, Jean Jacques 
 
 Hudson, W. H. Rousseau and natural- 
 ism in life and thought. (World's epoch 
 makers) '03 Scribner $1.50 _ 92 
 
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 Roy, Jean 
 
 Fields of the fatherless. '18 Doran $1.75 
 
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 Autobiography of a poor English working girl 
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 Letters to Charles Eliot Norton; ed. by 
 C. E. Norton. 2v il '04 Houghton $5 
 
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 long and close friendship in 1855 down to 1887. 
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 that he loved." Pittsburgh 
 
 "Record of the perplexities of a great and 
 generous soul, the troubles of a tender heart, 
 the spendthrift use and at last the failure of ex- 
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 92 
 
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 ness and fulness of memory, nor in the power 
 of giving interest to the apparently common- 
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 fascinates. . . . The book should be acceptable 
 even to those to whom his social and artistic 
 dogmas have ceased to have much significance." 
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 Benson, A. C. Ruskin; a study in per- 
 sonality. '11 Putnam $1.50 92 
 
 "Sympathetic, yet dispassionate and critical 
 interpretation of the man and his genius. As a 
 biography compares favorably with Harrison. 
 In the fuller life by Cook, copious use has been 
 made of well chosen material from Ruskin's let- 
 ters, diaries and notebooks, in giving a detailed 
 account of every phase of his life." A. L. A. 
 sup. 
 
 Cook, E. T. Life of John Ruskin. 2v il 
 '11 Macmillan $7 92 
 
 "A definite authorized biography founded on 
 Ruskin's diary and letters, from which it quotes 
 copiously, treating of his life, work and char- 
 acter." N.Y. state lib. 
 
 Harrison, Frederic. John Ruskin. (Eng- 
 lish men of letters) '02 Macmillan 
 75c 92 
 
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 Shows his predominance in the esthetic study 
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 fairs." (Outlook [London]) A. L. A. bkl. 
 
 "An eloquent appreciation of the many sided 
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 Ireland of today, ex-draper's assistant, poet, 
 painter and mystic, cooperative missioner, or- 
 ganizer and editor." (Spectator) St. Louis 
 
 Savonarola, Girolamo 
 
 Villari, Pasquale. Life and times of Giro- 
 
 lamo Savonarola; tr. by Linda Villari. 
 new lib ed '01 Scribner $3 92 
 
 "The work of an eminent scholar, who has 
 made a special study of the period of the renais- 
 sance. Founded on the results of much original 
 research, not only in the archives of the gov- 
 ernment, but also among papers preserved by 
 the families of the old Italian nobility." (C. K. 
 Adams) Pittsburgh 
 
 Schaff, Morris 
 
 Spirit of Old West Point, 1858-1862. il '07 
 Houghton $3.50 92 
 
 "Idealized but essentially truthful estimate of 
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 Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von 
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 is a sound piece of work.' (Garnett's Life of 
 Thomas Carlyle) 'It was based on very imper- 
 fect information, but was an inspiring work of 
 genius nevertheless. It is now more valuable as 
 a Carlyle document than as a Schiller docu- 
 ment.' " (Thomas' Life and works of Schiller) 
 Pittsburgh 
 Thomas, Calvin. Life and works of Fried- 
 rich Schiller. '01 Holt $1.75 92 
 
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 study and criticism of Schiller's works. 'A book 
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 ness and impartiality with the best that has ever 
 been written upon the subject.' " (Atlantic 
 monthly, 1902) Pittsburgh 
 
 Survey of Schiller literature, P465-73 
 
 Schopenhauer, Arthur 
 Wallace, William. Life of Arthur Schop- 
 enhauer. (Great writers) '90 Scribner 
 $1.25 92 
 
 "Bibliography, 10 pref. p. 
 
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 Schurz, Carl 
 
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 (1848), American diplomat, Union general and 
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 rors a character distinguished for keen judgment, 
 zest in affairs and persistent idealism." A. L. A. 
 sup. 
 
 Schuyler, Mrs Catherine (Van Rensselaer) 
 
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 (N.Y. state lib.) A. L. A. 
 
 Scott, Sir Walter, bart. 
 
 Journal, from the orginal manuscript at 
 
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 ed $2.50 92 
 
 See also "Familiar letters," 2V, 1894, Hough- 
 ton, $7-50 
 
 "The letters and journal deepen the reader s 
 
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 Scott, Sir Walter, bart. Continued 
 
 love and respect for the man who penned them." 
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 Hutton, R. H. Sir Walter Scott. (English 
 men of letters) [78] Macmillan 60c 92 
 
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 ary lives) il '06 Scribner $1.25 92 
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 new and more that is freshly put in this biogra- 
 phy." (Academy) A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Lockhart, J. G. Life of Sir Walter Scott; 
 abridged and newly ed., with notes etc. 
 by J. M. Sloan. (Lib. of standard bi- 
 ography) '04 Macmillan $1.40 92 
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 "The most important biography of the reign 
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 friends, il '10 Lane $3.50 92 
 
 _ "An entertaining volume, giving an intimate 
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 been written since the publication of new ma- 
 terial during the last few years. 'His most con- 
 spicuous merits are generosity of criticism and 
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 yet there are some judgments that provoke dis- 
 sent." (Athenaeum, 1897) Pittsburgh 
 
 C. S. Olcott's "Country of Sir Walter Scott," 
 1913. Houghton, $3.50, contains two biographical 
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 Meriwether, Colyer. Raphael Semmes. 
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 he has made industrious use." Nation 99:198 
 
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 quise de 
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 by E. P. Anderson. 4th ed (Laurel- 
 crowned letters) '15 McClurg $1 92 
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 period in France, especially the inner life of the 
 court circles of Louis the 'Magnificent.' " Pratt 
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 Seward, Frederick William 
 
 Reminiscences of a war-time statesman 
 and diplomat, 1830-1915. il '16 Putnam 
 $3.50 92 
 
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 he took a prominent part in the purchase of 
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 history in its most interesting form." N.Y. state 
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 Seward, William Henry 
 
 Bancroft, Frederic. Life of William H. 
 Seward. 2v 1900 Harper $5 92 
 
 "Seward was governor of New York 1838-42; 
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 state during the administrations of Lincoln and 
 Johnson." Pittsburgh 
 
 "Original authorities used, including Seward 
 and Bigelow manuscripts. Volume two a posi- 
 tive addition to our historical knowledge of its 
 period." (Nation 70:323) A. L. A. 
 
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 Autobiography; with a supplementary 
 memoir by his wife, il '09 Houghton 
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 scientist, his share in the advance of scientific 
 education, his geological investigations and other 
 activities are presented, but are subordinated to 
 the frank, inspiring study of his big, intensely 
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 the portrayal of Louis Agassiz, his master and 
 friend, and the picture of Civil war conditions 
 in Kentucky." N.Y. state lib. 
 
 "A distinct contribution to the literature of 
 scientific investigation in this country." A. L. A. 
 sup. 
 
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 Macleod); a memoir. 2v '12 Duffield $4 
 
 92 
 
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 with quotations from his books. Criticisms and 
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 sion in the works of Fiona Macleod." N.Y. state 
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 Shaw, Anna Howard 
 
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 "In collaboration with Miss Elizabeth Jordan, 
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 in the Michigan 'back woods' of fifty years ago, 
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 Chesterton, G. K. George Bernard Shaw. 
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BIOGRAPHY Individual 
 
 55 
 
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 Shaw, who has contributed to it what he calls 
 'a mass of unceremonious and irresponsible auto- 
 biography.' Despite the questionable taste of 
 this and the extreme seriousness of the biogra- 
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 count of the various phases of art, economics 
 and literature in which Mr Shaw has interested 
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 has done. Thirty-three illustrations and numer- 
 ous facsimiles in the text, and genealogical chart 
 of the Shaw family." A. L. A. bkl. 
 
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 Heuser, H. J. Canon Sheehan of Doner- 
 aile. il '17 Longmans $3.50 92 
 
 "The biography of a Catholic priest in the 
 south of Ireland who was an ardent Irishman, 
 a well-liked pastor and a frequent author. Writ- 
 ten by a fellow priest and his editor, his relig- 
 ious activities and literary merit are somewhat 
 over-stressed, so that the book will hold interest 
 chiefly for Catholic readers." A. L. A. bkl. 
 
 "He died in 1913. His great work was his 
 interpretation of modern Irish life thru fiction. 
 Intensely devoted to his native land and full of 
 admiration for the virtues of its sturdy sons, 
 yet keenly critical of their vices, he was able to 
 write stories which made the people live for 
 their readers." Springfield Republican 
 
 Shelley, Percy Bysshe 
 
 Dowden, Edward. Life of Percy Bysshe 
 Shelley. 2v '86 Scribner $6 92 
 
 "He has condensed the old Shelley papers by 
 Hogg, Peacock, Trelawney, Medwin, Hunt, Lady 
 Shelley, Stockdale, and other lesser writers, the 
 correspondence and diaries of Godwin, and the 
 modern investigations of Garnett, Rossetti, For- 
 man, and Shelley students of less note; and he 
 has amplified the biography constructed from 
 these sources by manuscript papers of the Shel- 
 ley family and others . . . The work is neces- 
 sarily henceforth the authority for the facts of 
 Shelley's career. It is in a strict sense a biog- 
 raphy. It deals with the events of his life, and 
 touches only incidentally and briefly his works 
 and genius, his contemporaries, and the history 
 of his times." (Nation, 1887) Pittsburgh 
 
 See also Francis Thompson's "Essay on Shel- 
 ley," 1909, Scribner, $1.35 
 
 Sheridan, Philip Henry 
 
 Davies, H. E. General Sheridan. (Great 
 commanders) '95 Appleton $1.60. 92 
 "By an appreciative admirer who served un- 
 der Sheridan. Accurate in war history." (N.Y. 
 state lib.) A. L. A. 
 
 Sherman, John 
 
 Burton, T. E. John Sherman. (American 
 statesman) '06 Houghton $1.35 92 
 
 "Brief, scholarly, readable and wholly ad- 
 mirable work, relying on documentary sources 
 rather than on Sherman's hastily written and 
 often inaccurate 'Recollections.' Follows his 
 part in the anti-slavery agitation, reconstruction 
 finance, silver legislation, etc." (N.Y. state 
 lib.) A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Sherman, William Tecumseh 
 
 Memoirs. 2v 2d ed '86 Appleton $5.50 92 
 "Admirably clear and direct. Free use ot 
 his letters, orders and reports gives great inter- 
 est and value. Closes with great review in 
 Washington, but concluding chapter on military 
 lessons of the war is full of knowledge, wisdom 
 and sound sense." (Atlantic 36:254) A. L. A. 
 
 Force, M. F. General Sherman. (Great 
 commanders) '99 Appleton $1.60 92 
 
 "Latter part by General J. D. Cox. Both 
 authors write from intimate knowledge of facts 
 and hero." (N.Y. state lib.) A. L. A. 
 
 Showerman, Grant 
 
 Country child, il '17 Century $1.75 92 
 "The style of the narrative becomes mon- 
 otonous, but the chronicle successfully repro- 
 
 duces the homely, kindly life in a Wisconsin 
 farm home and neighborhood, thirty or forty 
 years ago." Cleveland 
 
 Country chronicle, il '16 Century $1.75 
 
 92 
 
 "Pictures of life in a Wisconsin village, in 
 the '70s, as seen thru the eyes of a boy of ten. 
 The boy's parents, school companions, and the 
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 church sociable, a temperance lecture, a 'boiling 
 down,' and an old fashioned country dance." 
 Pittsburgh 
 
 A few of the sketches appeared in the Cen- 
 tury 
 
 Sidney, Sir Philip 
 
 Bourne, H. R. F. Sir Philip Sidney: type 
 of English chivalry in the Elizabethan 
 age. (Heroes of the nations) '91 Put- 
 nam $1.50 92 
 
 List of principal authorities, pg-io. 
 
 "Mr Fox Bourne's claim to write about Sidney 
 is well established. His original 'Memoir of 
 Sir Philip Sidney' is among the best things of 
 its kind. Critics have rejoiced ... to throw it 
 in the teeth of succeeding commentators, and, in 
 a word, the first serious rival of Mr Fox Bourne 
 A. D. '62 is Mr Fox Bourne A. D. '92. The 
 thirty years have perhaps shed as much light on 
 the period of Sidney as on any other in liter- 
 ature. And the light has so shone on Mr Bourne 
 that he tells his story afresh, disowning . . . 
 certain hot errors of his youthful blood. . . . 
 In a marked degree he succeeds in picturing to 
 us the possibilities of noble boyhood and man- 
 hood in the Elizabethan days. But it is Sidney 
 for Sidney's sake who has our interest and at- 
 tention thruout the volume." (Athenaeum, 
 1892) Pittsburgh 
 
 See also M. W. Wallace's "Life of Sir Philip 
 Sidney," 1915, Putnam, $3.25 
 
 Sill, Edward Rowland 
 Parker, W. B. Edward Rowland Sill; his 
 life and work, il '15 Houghton $2 92 
 
 "Sill was a native of New England, but 
 twenty-two years of his life were spent in Cali- 
 fornia, and he did much to bring the people of 
 the eastern and western coasts together. 'Those 
 who would like to trace Sill's long struggle be- 
 tween faith and doubt a struggle typical of his 
 period of his wide and discriminating reading, 
 or his self-effacing zeal as a teacher, or his fine 
 disregard for contemporary fame as a writer, 
 or his great and true magnanimity as a man 
 must read all of Mr Parker's book.' " (Nation, 
 1915) Pittsburgh 
 
 Slessor, Mary Mitchell 
 
 Livingstone, W. P. Mary Slessor of Cal- 
 abar. 6th ed il map '16 Doran $1.50 92 
 
 " 'One of the most fascinating missionary bi- 
 ographies ever written.' (Outlook 115:194) 
 Story of a humbly born Scotch woman who, fired 
 by missionary zeal, went to Calabar, West 
 Africa in 1876, where she worked with heroic 
 devotion among the African bushmen till her 
 death in 1915. Pictures vividly native life and 
 customs. Photographs." N.Y. state lib. 
 
 Smith, Adam 
 
 Hirst, F. W. Adam Smith. (English men 
 of letters) '04 Macmillan 75c 92 
 
 "Lucid and attractively written exposition of 
 Smith's economic theories, and a biography with- 
 out suggestion of dulness." A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Smith, Sydney 
 
 Russell, G. W. E. Sydney Smith. (English 
 men of letters) '05 Macmillan 75c 92 
 
 "An adequate biography of the great Whig 
 wit, shrewd and kindly as criticism, and told 
 largely in Smith's own words." A. L. A. sup. 
 
56 
 
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 Levi, N. Jan Smuts; a character sketch 
 of J. C. Smuts, minister of defence, 
 Union of South Africa. '17 Longmans 
 $2.50 92 
 
 "South African statesman and soldier (born 
 1870) who commanded the Boer forces in Cape 
 Colony, and after the war aided loyally in the 
 work of reconstruction. He is (19 17) a mem- 
 ber of the British imperial war cabinet and 
 leader of the campaign against German East 
 Africa." Pittsburgh 
 
 Southey, Robert 
 
 Dowden. Edward. Southey. (English men 
 of letters) '02 Harper 75c 92 
 
 "Best abridged biography." (Dictionary of 
 national biography) Pittsburgh 
 
 Spalding, Franklin Spencer 
 Melish, J. H. Franklin Spencer Spalding, 
 man and bishop, il '17 Macmillan $2.25 
 
 92 
 
 "A helpful book for college men considering 
 the question of a life calling, for ministers af- 
 fected with excessive prudence and laymen who 
 do not appreciate the work of a true minister. 
 Socialists will find the chapter on the church 
 and socialism almost as illuminating, perhaps, as 
 the average churchman." L. A. Walker in N.Y. 
 Call, August 12, 19 1 7 
 
 "An interesting account of the active and 
 useful career of the missionary bishop of Utah." 
 Pratt quarterly 
 
 Spencer, Herbert 
 
 Autobiography. 2v il '04 Appleton $6 92 
 " 'A human document of extraordinary in- 
 terest, the intimate record of a great thinker's 
 life. Besides being the record of a life that was 
 heroic in the finest sense, it is also a very 
 human production and one of the most abso- 
 lutely honest books ever written.' (Dial) 
 
 Duncan's 'Life and letters of Herbert Spen- 
 cer', Appleton, 1908, 2v, $5.50; written at 
 Spencer's request, covers the period after the 
 'Autobiography' ceased. Includes much that ap- 
 peared in the 'Autobiography' but is more pop- 
 ular in style, and contains valuable new matter." 
 A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Elliot, H. S. R. Herbert Spencer. (Makers 
 of the ninteenth century) '17 Holt 
 $2.25 92 
 
 "This account of Spencer's life and writings, 
 while sound in judgment, is a vivid, unhack- 
 neyed study, so lucid and genially readable, that 
 even the person who knows little about Spencer 
 and cares less about his philosophy will find 
 himself interested in both Spencer's life and 
 thought." Springfield Republican, March II, 
 1917 
 
 Thomson, J. A. Herbert Spencer. (Eng- 
 lish men of science) '06 Dutton $1 92 
 
 "An eminent scientist's appreciation of Spen- 
 cer's life, character and scientific work, with 
 special attention to his position as an evolution- 
 ist." (N.Y. state lib.) A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Temporarily out of stock, November 1918 
 
 Stanhope, Lady Hester Lucy 
 
 Hamel, Frank. Lady Hester Lucy Stan- 
 hope: a new light on her life and love 
 affairs, il '13 Funk $5 92 
 
 "Mr Hamel tells the story of Lady Hester's life 
 its happy childhood and girlhood, the disillu- 
 sionment of her young womanhood, her depar- 
 ture from the England she was never to see 
 again, her journey to the Holy Land via Malta, 
 Constantinople and Egypt, and then the long 
 years in Palestine, filled at first with triumphs 
 never before accorded an English woman, but 
 ending in .disappointment, loneliness and poverty 
 . . . The book has new viewpoints, which bring 
 to us more vividly than has hitherto been done, 
 a personality woven of the most conflicting char- 
 acteristics." Boston Transcript 
 
 Stanley, Sir Henry Morton 
 
 Autobiography; ed. by Lady Stanley, il 
 map '09 Houghton $6 92 
 
 "Sir Henry Stanley (1841-1904) prepared 
 the greater part of this work, the supplementary 
 narrative being made up from his letters, diaries, 
 etc. It is an extraordinary life-record, beginning 
 in the workhouse, where he was cruelly treated, 
 continuing in a hand-to-mouth existence, a voy- 
 age to America, soldier life in the Civil war, 
 the ups and downs of journalism, and finally, 
 the African explorations which made him 
 famous." Pittsburgh 
 
 Same, il popular ed '11 Houghton $2.50 
 
 92 
 Stanton, Edwin McMasters 
 
 Gorham, G. C. Life and public services of 
 Edwin M. Stanton. 2v '99 Houghton $7 
 
 92 
 
 "Altho this work contains a sketch of Stan- 
 ton's early life, his professional career and his 
 general characteristics, its main purpose is to 
 present the record of his relation to the Civil 
 war, and to mark the place in history to which 
 his services to the country entitled him. His 
 public life embraced the secession winter of 
 1860-61, three years of the Civil war 1862-65, 
 and three years of the reconstruction struggle 
 which followed." Pittsburgh 
 
 Stedman, Edmund Clarence 
 
 Fuller, Margaret. A New England child- 
 hood. '16 Little $1.50 92 
 
 "The book is a beautiful record of the begin- 
 nings of a beautiful life, but it is something 
 else; it is a vivid and charming and true picture 
 of the New England of eighty years ago." Inde- 
 pendent 88:163 
 
 "The childhood and youth of Stedman, the 
 gifted poet, told by his former secretary, who 
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 the little Edmund was surrounded." St. Louis 
 
 Steiner, Edward Alfred 
 Against the current. '10 Revell $1.50 92 
 
 "Dramatic, appealing story of the author's 
 childhood as an orthodox Hebrew in Hungary, 
 and of the unusual influences contrih 
 mental and spiritual development and his pas- 
 sion for humanity." N.Y. state lib. 
 
 From alien to citizen; the story of my 
 life in America, il '14 Revell $1.75 92 
 
 "Author came to America as a Jewish im- 
 migrant, and after varied experiences in sweat 
 shops, in the steel-mills of Pittsburgh, and in 
 coal mines, among tramps, strikers and fellow 
 immigrants, he rose to honorable service in the 
 Christian ministry. He is (1914) professor of 
 applied Christianity in Grinnell college, Iowa." 
 Pittsburgh 
 
 "Experiences which show how hard the way is 
 made for an immigrant are cited without bitter- 
 ness, and thru all shines an unbounded faith in 
 America." N.J. lib. bul. 
 
 Stephen, Sir Leslie 
 
 Maitland, F. W. Life and letters of Les- 
 lie Stephen, il '06 Putnam $4.50 92 
 
 "Made up largely from Stephen's letters and 
 the appreciative comments of his friends; a study 
 of the man rather than a criticism of his work. 
 Notable as a piece of literature and as a faith- 
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 A. L. A. sup 
 
 "Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) was preemin- 
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 itor of the 'Dictionary of national biography.' 
 Mr Maitland, who was Stephen's intimate friend 
 for many years and his kinsman by marriage, 
 tells with much detail the story of his life and 
 brings together many of his letters. One of the 
 most interesting chapters is devoted to Stephen's 
 first visit to the United States, as some of the 
 best letters are written to his American friends, 
 notably Charles Eliot Norton, James Russell 
 Lowell and Oliver Wendell Holmes." Pittsburgh 
 
BIOGRAPHY Individual 
 
 57 
 
 Sterling, John 
 
 Carlyle, Thomas. Life of John Sterling; 
 ed. with an introd. by H. D. Traill, 
 centenary ed 1900 Scribner $1.75 92 
 
 Sterling (1806- 1844) was an English author, 
 a personal friend of Carlyle 
 
 "Study of spiritual history. Contains the 
 famous portrait of Coleridge seated 'on the brow 
 of Highgate hill.' Saintsbury includes it in an 
 essay on seven great biographies." (N.Y. state 
 lib.) A. L. A. 
 
 "What Carlyle with wonderful art has done 
 is to . . . lead us to believe that we are reading 
 a life of Sterling, while Sterling is really 'van- 
 ished' and we are actually reading an extraor- 
 dinarily interesting history of the places that he 
 lived in, the men he knew . . . and the per- 
 sonality of his redoubtable and admirable friend 
 and biographer, all thrown up on a background 
 of the shortcomings of church and state of Eng- 
 land in the nineteenth century." (George Saints- 
 bury) Pittsburgh 
 
 Stern, Mrs Elizabeth Gertrude (Levin) 
 My mother and I. '17 Macmillan $1 92 
 
 Appeared in the Ladies' home journal, V33, 
 October 1916 
 
 "One of America's foster children, now the 
 head of a cultured American home, writes to 
 tell of what she was and what she has become 
 thru the courage and devotion of the little Jew- 
 ish mother who has retained thru years of life 
 in an American city her alien speech and cus- 
 toms. The remarkable charm of the book lies in 
 the daughter's faithful picture of the mother 
 and in her appreciation of what the American- 
 ization of the foreign-born means in pain and 
 separation, a gap bridged in this case by love 
 and gratitude." Cleveland 
 
 Sterne, Laurence 
 
 Traill, H. D. Sterne. (English men of let- 
 ters) '94 Harper 75c 92 
 "Brilliantly written and picturesque. He has 
 drawn copiously from Mr Fitzgerald's 'Life of 
 Sterne,' no doubt, but then he has not followed 
 the time-honored precedent in such cases of 
 abusing the source from which he draws." 
 (Athenaeum, 1882) Pittsburgh 
 
 Stevens, Thaddeus 
 
 McCall, S. W. Thaddeus Stevens. (Amer- 
 can statesman) '09 Houghton $1.35 92 
 
 Woodburn, J. A. Life of Thaddeus Stev- 
 ens; a study in American political his- 
 tory, especially in the period of the Civ- 
 il war and reconstruction, il '13 Bobbs 
 $2.50 92 
 
 "Is of interest not only as a biography of 
 one of the most important congressional leaders 
 of his time, but also as a study in American 
 political history^ during a period of marked con- 
 gressional dominance." Amer. pol. sci. rev. 
 7=479 , . 
 
 Supplements McCall's life of Stevens 
 
 See also Phillips' "Life of Robert Toombs," 
 19 1 3, Macmillan, $2 
 
 "These two excellent biographies should be 
 studied at the same time, for not yet has the 
 history of the struggle over slavery, the destruc- 
 tion of the institution, and the consequent prob- 
 lems, been written by one man who could feel 
 what both Toombs and Stevens felt." Pol. sci. 
 quar. 29:491 
 
 Stevenson, Robert Louis 
 
 Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson; ed. 
 by Sidney Colvin; a new edition, with 
 150 new letters. 4v (Library ed.) il 
 '11 Scribner $6 92 
 
 "There are few, if any, more readable letters 
 in the language. They are full to the very brim 
 of life, of humor, of strangeness, of wisdom, 
 goodness, book-knowledge, breadth of human 
 sympathy in one word, of Robert Louis Steven- 
 son." Pratt alcove 
 
 Same; il. by E. C. Peixotto and Jules 
 Guerin. 4v Scribner $6.40; biographi- 
 cal ed., without il. $5.40 92 
 
 New letters; selected and ed. by Sidney 
 Colvin. '12 Scribner $1.35 92 
 
 "Contains 162 letters, dating from all periods 
 of Stevenson's life, and addressed mainly to 
 Sidney Colvin, Mrs Sitwell, W. E. Henley, and 
 the author's parents. The same collection, with 
 a few omissions is contained in his 'Letters.' " 
 Pittsburgh 
 
 Vailima letters; [ed. by Sidney Colvin.] 
 2v '95 Scribner $2.25 92 
 
 "Correspondence addressed to Sidney Colvin, 
 November 1890-October 1894." Subtitle 
 
 Balfour, Graham. Life of Robert Louis 
 Stevenson. 2v '01 Scribner $4 92 
 
 Chronological list of writings of Stevenson, 
 V2, P248-61 
 
 "Authorized biography by his cousin and in- 
 timate, largely compiled from Stevenson's own 
 records. Supplements the more valuable and in- 
 spiring 'Letters,' edited by Colvin." (N.Y. state 
 lib.) A. L. A. 
 Same; abridged edition revised, il '15 
 Scribner $2; biographical ed., without 
 il. $1.35 92 
 
 "Minor additions and revisions have been 
 made in the first abridged edition and thirteen 
 illustrations added." A. L. A. 
 
 Stewart, Mrs. Elinore Pruitt Rupert 
 Letters of a woman homesteader, il '14 
 Houghton $1.35 92 
 
 "The strong personality behind these letters 
 is shown in a robust observation of Wyoming 
 life, and an unconventional wielding of homely 
 English . . . The homesteader is writing in- 
 formally to an understanding friend, and her 
 pen enters racily into the doings of Mormons, 
 Christians, and outlaws, of her Scotch em- 
 ployer, the Frenchman Gavotte, and the out-of- 
 doors-loving, assertive Mrs Louderer and Mrs 
 O'Shaughnessy." (Nation, 19 14) Pittsburgh 
 
 "A writer in the London Athenaeum, said of 
 her book: 'The reviewer recalls no other collec- 
 tion of letters so compact of health, mental and 
 physical, of sincerity, and of simple happiness.' " 
 N.Y. Times 20:393 
 
 Appeared in Atlantic monthly, vi 12-13, Oc- 
 tober 1913-February 19 14 
 
 Letters on an elk hunt, il '15 Houghton 
 $1.20 92 
 
 Appeared in the Atlantic monthly, VI15, Feb- 
 ruary-June 1915 
 
 "More letters from the 'Woman homesteader* 
 giving in simple, homely style her experiences 
 on a hunting trip and sketches of the people 
 she met on the way. Characterized by the same 
 warm humanity, romance and touches of tragedy 
 as the first book." N.Y. state lib. 
 
 Stowe, Mrs Harriet Beecher 
 
 Crow, Mrs M. F. Harriet Beecher Stowe. 
 il '13 Appleton $1.35 92 
 
 "A very readable, enthusiastic biography, 
 dwelling specially on her girlhood and home 
 life." Wis. bul. 
 
 Stowe, C. E., and L. B. Harriet Beecher 
 Stowe; the st'ory of her life by her son 
 and grandson. '11 Houghton $1.75 92 
 
 "Valuable for family reminiscences and in- 
 teresting for side lights on the political events 
 of the Civil war period. Her early life in her 
 father's strict Calvinistic household is espec- 
 ially well described. A centennial anniversary 
 volume, and rather a study of her character 
 and personality than of her literary work. Il- 
 lustrations, including portraits." N.Y. state lib. 
 
 See also Mrs Field's "Life and letters of Har- 
 riet Beecher Stowe," 1897, Houghton, $2.25 
 
58 
 
 STANDARD CATALOG 
 
 Stuyvesant, Peter 
 
 Tuckerman, Bayard. Peter Stuyvesant, 
 director-general for the West India 
 company in New Netherland. (Makers 
 of America) '93 Dodd $1 92 
 
 "Useful and well written account of the life 
 of Stuyvesant and of the history of New Nether- 
 land during the last twenty years of its exist- 
 ence." (Larned's Literature of Amer. history) 
 Pittsburgh 
 
 Sukloff, Marie 
 Life-story of a Russian exile; tr. by Greg- 
 ory Yarros. il '14 Century $1.50 92 
 "Dramatic personal narrative of a peasant 
 girl who was exiled twice to Siberia for her 
 Social-revolutionist sympathies and activities, the 
 last time for life, finally escaping after pro- 
 longed illness and suffering to the United 
 States." Cleveland 
 
 Sumner, Charles 
 
 Haynes, G. H. Charles Sumner. (Ameri- 
 can crisis biographies) '09 Jacobs $1.50 
 
 92 
 
 "A good political biography of Sumner and 
 a trustworthy sketch of Civil war history. More 
 interestingly written and fuller on the personal 
 side than Moorfield Storey's life." A. L. A. 
 sup. 
 Storey, Moorfield. Charles Sumner. 
 (American statesman) 1900 Houghton 
 $1.35 92 
 
 Summary of public career and influence 
 
 Swedenborg, Emanuel 
 
 Trobridge, George. Life of Emanuel 
 Swedenborg: his life, teachings, and in- 
 fluence. '19 New-church press $1 92 
 
 "Trobridge's is a 'different' biography of 
 Swedenborg from any of its many predeces- 
 sors. It is not written as a special plea, either 
 to those definitely inside or outside the body of 
 Swedenborg's followers. It is based on all the 
 painstaking research which appears so plainly 
 in some others' work, but in his is all tucked 
 away. . . . The present book is an American 
 issue of the second English (most popular) paper 
 edition, omitting some few topical and other 
 illusions of interest only to British readers." 
 C. W. Harvey in Forward 
 
 Swift, Jonathan 
 
 Stephen, Sir Leslie. Swift. (English men 
 of letters) '82 Macmillan 60c 92 
 
 "Perhaps, too much space is devoted to the part 
 played by Swift _ as a politician; and yet nowhere 
 have we met with an account of Swift's public 
 career so concise and so comprehensive. That the 
 little volume should be entirely satisfactory to 
 the student of the period is impossible, for Mr 
 Stephen has been forced to write, as it were, 
 in shorthand, but the general reader will gain 
 all he is likely to ask for from this admirably 
 written narrative." (Spectator, 1882) Pitts- 
 burgh 
 
 Swinburne, Algernon Charles 
 
 Gosse, E. W. Life of Algernon Charles 
 Swinburne, il '17 Macmillan $3.50 92 
 
 "The first complete life of Swinburne built 
 up, with a mass of added material from Gosse's 
 own sketch of his poet-friend in the Encyclopedia 
 Britannica. An extraordinarily vivid and many- 
 sided characterization, with some tantalizing re- 
 ticences and many features of unique interest." 
 Cleveland 
 
 "It is conversant with all the details of Swin- 
 burne's life, stored with all sorts of lively, in- 
 timate information concerning him, his work, 
 his familiars, and with a literary criticism whose 
 classic authority for praise and dispraise, in 
 most instances at least, it would be hard to 
 match among all that has been written about 
 him." (New Republic, 19 17) Pittsburgh 
 
 See also Swinburne's Letters; ed. by Edmund 
 Gosse and T. J. Wise, 19 19, Lane, 2v., $5 
 
 Symonds, John Addington 
 
 Brown, H. R. F. John Addington Sy- 
 monds; a biography compiled from his 
 papers and correspondence, new ed. '03 
 Scribner $2.50 92 
 
 " 'One who of all the men of our genera- 
 tion best knew, loved and understood the Italian 
 genius in literature.' (Frederic Harrison) 
 
 'Symonds was one of the most lovable of 
 men: brave in his outlook, courageous in 
 face of adverse and often disastrous circun 
 stances, youthfully enthusiastic . . . generous, 
 nature of sweet human sunshine. . . . He 
 a scholar in the best sense of the word: a ma 
 of catholic culture. There has in our time, 
 been no mind more sensitive to beauty.' (Wil- 
 liam Sharp in Academy, 1895) 
 
 Mr Brown, whom Mr Symonds asked to be 
 his literary executor, has very wisely supple- 
 mented Mr Symonds' biography by many let- 
 ters and extracts from diaries and notebooks, 
 and has been unusually successful in putting 
 these together into a consecutive narrative.' 
 Pittsburgh 
 
 Synge, John Millington 
 
 Bickley, Francis. J. M. Synge and the 
 Irish dramatic movement. (Modern bi- 
 ographies) '12 Houghton 75c 
 
 Some estimates of Synge, etc. P97. 
 
 "Small book giving brief biographical details, 
 and analysis of his plays and a resume of the 
 Irish dramatic movement." Pittsburgh 
 
 Bourgeois, Maurice. John Millington 
 Synge and the Irish theatre, il '13 Mac- 
 millan $2.50, 92 
 
 General bibliography, P251-96 
 
 "A scholarly, exhaustive study, which aims 
 to give a 'biographical and sociological, rather 
 than a purely literary interpretation of Synge's 
 life-work.' " A. L. A. bkl. 
 
 "Pronounced by the English Saturday review 
 to be the best book on Synge yet written, in 
 that it has all available information and material, 
 and presents a solid basis of fact and under- 
 standing criticism for all who shall write of 
 Synge hereafter." Cleveland 
 
 Masefield, John. John M. Synge: a few 
 personal recollections, with biograph- 
 ical notes. '15 Macmillan 92 
 Out of print, 19 18 
 
 List of his plays, in chronological order, with 
 dates of their first performances, P33; Other 
 writings, P34. 
 
 Taft, Mrs Helen (Herron) 
 
 Recollections of full years, by Mrs. Wil- 
 liam H. Taft. il '14 Dodd $3.50 92 
 
 Appeared in the Delineator, V84-85, May- 
 November, 1914 
 
 "Delightfully written autobiography of the 
 wife of ex-president Taft, from her childhood 
 to the election of 1912. Is full of intimate de- 
 tails of persons and events that made notable 
 the first 25 years of the married life of the 
 Tafts, all but a single year of which was 
 spent in the public service." N.J. lib. bul. 
 
 Tagore, Sir Rabindranath 
 
 My reminiscences, il '17' Macmillan $1.50 
 
 92 
 
 "Well worth a place in literature. ... In 
 the frankness of its self-revelation and the 
 naivete combined with the latent vigour of the 
 style, it reminds us of Yoshio Markino's 'When I 
 was a child'; but there the resemblance ends . . . 
 It contains much to attract even those who are 
 not interested in the psychological aspects of 
 literature; quaint character sketches of teach- 
 ers, friends and fellow-students, vivid pictures 
 of Indian habits and scenery, analyses of child 
 mentality done with extraordinary insight and 
 sympathy." Spectator 119:191 
 
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 Tagore, Sir Rabindranath Continued 
 
 Roy, B. K. Rabindranath Tagore, the 
 man and his poetry, il '15 Dodd $1.35 
 
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 "A biographical and critical account by a fel- 
 low countryman and personal acquaintance of 
 the poet." Pratt quarterly 
 
 "Comparing this biography by a fellow coun- 
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 Macmillan, $1.25, the Dial says: 'Both biograph- 
 ers have gathered their information at first 
 hand, but Mr Rhys, partly because of his style 
 and partly because of his merely appreciative 
 and interpretive role, has given no very definite 
 outline to the character of the poet and mystic. 
 Mr Roy has been more conscious of the diffi- 
 culties of interpreting the East to the West 
 and has maintained a more critical poise thru- 
 out the book." Cleveland 
 
 Talbot, Ethelbert 
 
 My people of the plains, new ed il '06 
 Harper $1.50 92 
 
 "Reminiscences of the author while bishop in 
 Wyoming and Idaho during their pioneer days, 
 full of life and interest. Adds a new chapter 
 to the history of American missions." A. L. A. 
 sup. 
 
 Tarkington, Booth 
 
 Holliday, R. C. Booth Tarkington. il '18 
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 "An intimate and entertaining biography of 
 the popular author from his precocious baby- 
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 Temple, Dorothy (Osborne), lady 
 
 Love letters to Sir William Temple, 1652- 
 54; ed. by E. A. Parry. '01 Dodd $1.25 
 
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 "Dorothy's letters tell the story of this old- 
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 larly noble and attractive personality of Lady 
 Temple. . . . The letters are written in a 
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 gotiator of the Triple alliance, in a pleasanter 
 light than that in which we have heretofore 
 seen him." (Dial, 1889) Pittsburgh 
 
 Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st baron 
 
 Cary, E. L. Tennyson, his homes, his 
 friends and his work, il '02 Putnam 
 $3.50 92 
 
 "Outline biography, with many quoted crit- 
 ical estimates, including a hitherto unnoted re- 
 view of the 'Princess' by Lowell." (N.Y. state 
 lib.) A. L. A. 
 
 Ellison, Mrs E. N. Child's recollections 
 of Tennyson, il '06 Dutton $1.25 92 
 
 "Charming reminiscences of a privileged 
 childhood on the Isle of Wight _ in intimate 
 friendship with the Tennyson family. Told by 
 the daughter of Dean Bradley of Westminster." 
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 Lang, Andrew. Alfred Tennyson. Mod- 
 ern English writers) '01 Dodd $1.25 92 
 "Based on the authorized life of Tennyson 
 by his son. Of value as the narrative of a 
 judicial historian and as the appreciation of an 
 eminent critic, and thorogoing Tennysonian." 
 (Johnston) A. L. A. 
 
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 son; a memoir. 2v il '97 Macmillan $4 
 
 92 
 
 "Not a continuous narrative, but a collection 
 of letters, extracts, reminiscences and hitherto 
 unpublished poetic fragments linked together by 
 the son's personal recollections." Pratt alcove 
 
 'A record so full as perhaps has never been 
 given to the world, of the growth and progress 
 of the mind of a great imaginative artist.' " 
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 "The edition of Tennyson called the 'Life and 
 complete works' (iov, Macmillan) contains this 
 biography as the first four volumes in very de- 
 sirable form. 
 
 Turnbull, Arthur. Life and writings of 
 Alfred, Lord Tennyson. (Great writers) 
 '15 Scribner $1.25 92 
 
 "A 'life' which does not further our ac- 
 quaintance with Tennyson the man, as its biog- 
 raphical material is largely based on the 
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 Hallam, Lord Tennyson, but is valuable in its 
 discussion of Tennyson as poetic craftsman, its 
 critical comments on the separate poems, and 
 its evaluation of Tennyson's work as a whole." 
 Cleveland 
 
 See also T. R. Lounsbury's "Life and times 
 of Tennyson," a literary biography published in 
 19 15, Yale university press, $3, and Hallam 
 Tennyson's "Tennyson and his friends," Mac- 
 millan, 191 1, $3 
 
 Thackeray, William Makepeace 
 
 Letters to an American family; with an 
 introd. by L. D. Baxter, il '04 Century 
 $1.50 92 
 
 "Reveals a kindly personality, bubbling over 
 with gaiety, sparkling fun and badinage. Writ- 
 ten during and after his American lectures. 
 Drawings by author." A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Merivale, H. C, and Marzials, F. T. Life 
 of W. M. Thackeray. (Great writers) 
 '91 Scribner $1.40 92 
 
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 ters 7-11, by Marzials. Bibliography, 23 pref. p. 
 
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 don," 19 1 3, Doubleday, $4; and Lewis Melville's 
 "The Thackeray country," 191 1, Macmillan, $2 
 
 Thaxter, Mrs Celia (Laighton) 
 
 Letters; ed. by her friends A. F. and 
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 "Written from 1856-1894. Pleasant picture 
 of a quiet sea-island life, full of generous activ- 
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 Thompson, Francis 
 
 Meynell, Everard. Life of Francis 
 Thompson, new ed il '16 Scribner $2.25 
 
 92 
 
 " 'A poet writing of a poet,' the son of 
 Wilfrid Meynell, who rescued Francis Thomp- 
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 had brought him, gives this first clear and won- 
 derfully sympathetic account of that strange 
 and hidden career." Cleveland 
 
 Thoreau, Henry David 
 
 Familiar letters; ed. with an introd. and 
 notes by F. B. Sanborn. (Riverside ed.) 
 '96 Houghton $1.60 92 
 
 "Includes apparently all the letters in Emer- 
 son's edition of 1865. . . . Mr Sanborn's ad- 
 ditional matter is of two kinds letters of 
 Thoreau's not hitherto published in a book, and 
 a good deal of editorial matter, rich in per- 
 sonal recollection and the fruit of much re- 
 search. ... Moreover Mr Sanborn has made 
 good his purpose in undertaking a new collec- 
 tion, namely, to show Thoreau in a less aloof 
 and stoical aspect than Emerson deliberately 
 singled out." (Nation, 1894) Pittsburgh 
 
 "Mr Sanborn, who died in 19 17, was the 
 last surviving member of the Concord group; 
 his friendship with Thoreau covers the ten 
 years before the poet naturalist's death in 1862 
 and he was for many years thereafter an in- 
 timate in the Emerson and Thoreau families." 
 Cleveland 
 
 Emerson, E. W. Henry Thoreau, as re- 
 membered by a young friend, il '17 
 Houghton $1.35 92 
 
 "Recollections written by a son of Ralph 
 Waldo Emerson, which emphasize the lovable, 
 
60 
 
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 Thoreau, Henry David Continued 
 
 friendly side of Thoreau. They show him 
 playing with the Emerson children, mending 
 locks for his neighbors, and as an honest, sin- 
 cere seeker for simplicity in life and thought." 
 A. L. A. bkl. 
 
 Sanborn, F. B. Life of Henry David 
 Thoreau. il '17 Houghton $4 92 
 
 Library of Henry D. Thoreau, P505-19; List 
 of authors read or to be read, by H. D. 
 Thoreau, P520-21 
 
 "Sanborn's life is less satisfactory than 
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 tion, emphasis, focus, definite purpose; is less 
 satisfactory, in some respects than the earlier 
 book by Sanborn. Yet it is far from super- 
 fluous." Norman Foerster in Yale rev. 7:430 
 
 The biographer has made use of all possible 
 sources of information, has included all the re- 
 maining unpublished Thoreau literary material, 
 notably some early essays and has added to the 
 interest of the volume by securing as illustra- 
 tions about 20 old drawings, prints and family 
 photographs, most of them here used for the 
 first time. The volume is not well arranged 
 and coherent, however, and the author's style 
 is stilted even in his lapses into familiar anec- 
 dote. 'The result is therefore, an excellent 
 Thoreau biography in substance but not in 
 form.' " (Boston Transcript) Cleveland 
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 Houghton $1.35 92 
 
 Ticknor, George 
 
 Life, letters and journals. 2v 76 Hough- 
 ton $6 92 
 
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 the American man of letters and society of the 
 first half of this century, as distinguished from 
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 fresh and entertaining, so well told and so il- 
 lustrative of social habits as to form a con- 
 tribution of no slight value to our knowledge 
 of the life of the times." (Nation, 1876) Pitts- 
 burgh 
 
 Tolstoi, Leo Nikolaievitch, count 
 
 Childhood, boyhood and youth. '11 
 Crowell $1.25 92 
 
 "A spiritual, not a literal, autobiography; 
 events are altered and personalities transposed, 
 but Tolstoi's purpose was to recreate the im- 
 pressions he had received from his early sur- 
 roundings." Springfield city library 
 
 Dole, N. H. Life of Count Lyof N. Tol- 
 stoi, il '11 Crowell $1.25 92 
 "Intimate and sympathetic but by no means 
 blindly partisan biography, meant to be 'rather 
 a plain narration than an attempt to rectify or 
 correc^ opinions or theories.' Based chiefly on 
 Tolstoi's supposedly autobiographic writings and 
 biographies by Maude, Behrs, Steiner and 
 Birukoff. The most comprehensive biography 
 in English is Maude's 'Life of Tolstoy,' 19 10. 
 2v., Dodd." A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Garnett, Edward. Tolstoy; his life and 
 writings. (Modern biographies) il '14 
 Houghton 75c 92 
 
 Short bibliography and selected list of writ- 
 ings 
 
 "A sympathetic and illuminating little biogra- 
 phy-, reviewing Tolstoi's works chronologically, 
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 The author is the husband of Mrs Constance 
 Garnett, whom Prof. William Lyon Phelps calls 
 the 'inspired translator' of Russian literature." 
 Cleveland 
 
 Lloyd, J. A. T. Two Russian reformers: 
 
 Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy, il '11 
 Lane $3.50 92 
 
 > "A sympathetic study of Turgenev. The early 
 influences which shaped his conceptions of life 
 and his real self as shown in his works, takes 
 up two-thirds of the volume, the rest of which 
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 some slight comparison of the two men." 
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 $2.50 92 
 
 An entirely rewritten condensation of Ayl- 
 mer Maude's two-volume life of Tolstoi 
 
 Noyes, G. R. Tolstoy. (Master spirits of 
 literature) '18 Duffield $2 92 
 
 Bibliography, P367-71 
 
 "A critical consideration of Tolstoi's many- 
 sided literary work, and an estimate of the per- 
 sonality thus revealed. Based upon Tolstoi's 
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 works of his Russian biographer, Biryukov, and 
 of Aylmer Maude, his authorized English trans- 
 lator. 
 
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 languages at the University of California." 
 Cleveland 
 
 Rolland, Romain. Tolstoy; tr. by Ber- 
 nard Miall. '11 Dutton $2.25 92 
 
 "Psychological study of the various phases 
 thru which Tolstoi passed, and the reflection of 
 these phases in his works. . . . Rolland is so 
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 of Tolstoy . . . and therein perhaps, lie the 
 charm and the value of his book." (Athe- 
 naeum, 191 1) Pittsburgh 
 
 Tolstoi, I. L. Reminiscences of Tolstoy, 
 by his son; tr. by George Calderon. il 
 '14 Century $2.50 92 
 
 "Intimate, homely glimpses of life in the 
 Tolstoi family, with a very human picture of 
 Tolstoi as father, teacher and companion." 
 Cleveland 
 
 Appeared in the Century magazine, v88, June- 
 August, 1914 
 
 n See also Tolstoi's "Diaries" of which vi, 
 'Youth, 1847-52," was published by Dutton iri 
 1917, at $2. The publisher announces two 
 more volumes. Also the "Journal; tr. from 
 the Russian by Rose Strunsky," 19 17, Knopf, $2 
 
 Trowbridge, John Townsend 
 
 My own story, with recollections of not- 
 ed persons. '03 Houghton $3 92 
 Appeared in a condensed form in the Atlantic 
 monthly, V91, January-May, 1903 
 
 "Reminiscences of long literary career and of 
 acquaintance with many distinguished people 
 mainly New Englanders. Written in his 76th 
 year." (N.Y. state lib.) A. L. A. 
 
 Trudeau, Edward Livingston 
 
 Autobiography, il '15 Doubleday $2.50 92 
 
 "Dr Trudeau, himself tubercular at twenty- 
 five, went to the Adirondacks against medical 
 advice in a desperate search for health, and 
 worked out a fresh air treatment for consump- 
 tives, based on his own experience. 'The be- 
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 tage sanitarium at Saranac, here tells the story 
 of his boyhood in Paris, gay youth in New 
 York and later years devoted to his work. The 
 simple narrative is frank bst entirely objective, 
 and is rich in both human and scientific inter- 
 est." Cleveland 
 
 Chalmers, Stephen. The beloved physi- 
 cian, il '16 Houghton $1.10 92 
 "An appreciation, by a close friend, of the 
 character and achievements of the founder of 
 the Adirondack cottage sanitarium at Saranac 
 Lake. This brief memoir published first in the 
 Atlantic monthly, forms a supplement to Dr 
 Trudeau's autobiography." Cleveland 
 
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BIOGRAPHY Individual 
 
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 Turgenev, Ivan Sergieevich 
 
 Garnett, Edward. Turgenev, a study with 
 a foreword by Joseph Conrad. '17 Col- 
 lins 6s 92 
 
 Lloyd, J. A. T. Two Russian reformers: 
 Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy, il '11 
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 "A sympathetic study of Turgenev, the early 
 influences which shaped his conception of life 
 and his real self as shown in his works, takes 
 up two-thirds of the volume, the rest of which 
 is devoted to a similar study of Tolstoi, with 
 some slight comparison of the two men." 
 A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Twain, Mark, pseud. See Clemens, S. L. 
 
 Venizelos, Eleutherios 
 
 Kerofilas, C. Eleftherios Venizelos, his 
 life and work; tr. by Beatrice Barstow. 
 '16 Dutton $2 92 
 
 "Life-story of the great Greek statesman who 
 was premier of Greece during the Balkan war, 
 formed the Balkan alliance against Turkey, and 
 after the war was prominent at the London 
 Peace conference of 1012-1013. An unpreten- 
 tious, rather uncritical sketch by an admiring 
 fellow countryman, covering the essential facts 
 of his career, and valuable as the only English 
 biography." A. L. A. bkl. 
 
 Verbeck, Guido Fridolin 
 
 Griff is, W. E. Verbeck of Japan; a citizen 
 of no country. 1900 Revell $1.50 92 
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 died in Tokio in 1898. He went to Japan in 
 1859 as a missionary of the Reformed church 
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 of the select committee which brought out the 
 Japanese translation of the Bible in 1887 and 
 was president of the University of Tokio." 
 Pittsburgh 
 
 Viaud, Louis Marie Julien. See Loti, 
 Pierre, pseud. 
 
 Victoria, queen of Great Britain 
 
 Training of a sovereign; an abridged se- 
 lection from "The girlhood of Queen 
 Victoria," Her Majesty's diaries be- 
 tween the years 1832 and 1840; published 
 by the authority of His Majesty the 
 king; ed. by Viscount Esher. il '14 
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 Longmans carries the unabridged edition in two 
 volumes at $9 
 
 Lee, Sidney. Queen Victoria. '02 Smith- 
 Elder 10s 6d; rev cheaper ed 6s 92 
 
 Expansion of article in Dictionary of na- 
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 "Likely to remain for a long time the stand- 
 ard authority." (Nation) A. L. A. 
 
 Villard, Henry 
 
 Memoirs of Henry Villard, journalist 
 and financier, 1835-1900. 2v '04 Hough- 
 ton $6 92 
 "Henry Villard was born in Speyer, Bavaria, 
 and came to the United States in 1853. His 
 autobiography is the record of a varied and 
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 ent during the Civil war, and later as the 
 financier who carried the Northern Pacific rail- 
 road to completion." Pittsburgh 
 
 Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de 
 
 Voltaire in his letters; tr. by S. G. Tal- 
 
 lentyre. il '19 Putnam $3.50 92 
 
 "This selection was made to give readers of 
 
 Voltaire access to those of his letters which still 
 
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 umes of the entire correspondence. The title 
 'Voltaire in his letters' was chosen to indicate 
 the autobiographical character of the selection. 
 . . . For the benefit of those not acquainted 
 with _ Voltairean history a brief epitome of his 
 life is included in the preface." Book rev. di- 
 gest 
 
 "The translation is an excellent one, and the 
 book contains several reproductions of con- 
 temporary portraits of Voltaire and others." 
 Boston Transcript, March 5, 19 19 
 
 Morley, John. Voltaire. '03 Macmillan $2 
 
 92 
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 is generally understood. ... It is rather a 
 presentation of Voltaire on the supposition that 
 we are already familiar with the main incidents 
 of his life, and a discussion of his influence and 
 various views. ... It is full of eloquent de- 
 fence of Voltaire, as well as of critical es- 
 timate of his position. . . . We commend 
 this book for its earnestness, its impartiality of 
 aim and its freedom from ill-temper and fanatic- 
 ism." (North American rev., 1872) Pittsburgh 
 
 Waddington, Mme Mary Alsop (King) 
 Italian letters of a diplomat's wife: Jan- 
 uary-May, 1880; February- April, 1904. 
 il '05 Scribner $2.50 92 
 
 "Two series of letters written from Rome, 
 1880- 1904, to the author's American mother and 
 sister. They describe audiences with popes, 
 kings, queens and other interesting personages 
 and give graphic pictures of life and society." 
 A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Letters of a diplomat's wife. 1883-1900. il 
 '03 Scribner $2.50 92 
 
 "The American-born wife of the French am- 
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 impressions of historic personages and scenes 
 in informal family letters." (N.Y. state lib.) 
 A. L. A. 
 
 Wallace, Alfred Russell 
 
 Marchant, James. Alfred Russell Wal- 
 lace; letters and reminiscences, il '16 
 Harper $5 92 
 
 "Greater part of the volume is devoted to 
 the friendly and appreciative letters exchanged 
 between Darwin and Wallace, together with a 
 few of family interest and 80 pages of corre- 
 spondence with Sir Charles Lyell, Hooker, 
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 personal touches reveal the attractive person- 
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 erer with Darwin of the theory of natural se- 
 lection." Cleveland 
 
 "Probably not needed by most libraries who 
 have Wallace's autobiography." A. L. A. bkl. 
 
 Autobiography now (1919) out of print 
 
 Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford 
 
 Best letters of Horace Walpole; ed. with 
 an introd. by Anna B. McMahan. (Lau- 
 rel-crowned letters) '11 McClurg $1 
 
 92 
 
 "A selection from the correspondence of an 
 
 eighteenth century English aristocrat whom 
 
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 the English language.' " Pratt alcove 
 
 Walther, Anna Hilda Louise 
 
 Pilgrimage with a milliner's needle, il '17 
 Stokes $1.50 92 
 
 "The author, a Danish woman, learned the 
 milliner's trade at an early age. Having a 
 great desire to see the world, she traveled from 
 city to city in Germany, Russia, France and 
 South Africa, plying her trade to pay her ex- 
 penses. She finally came to New York where she 
 had many adventures. Her narrative is per- 
 sonal and naively frank in giving emotional de- 
 tails of her own life. It is more readable as 
 autobiography than as travel." A. L. A. bkl. 
 
62 
 
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 Ward, Mrs Humphry 
 
 A writer's recollections. 2v '18 Harper $6 
 
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 Appeared in Harper's magazine, V136-7 Jan- 
 uary-October, 19 18 
 
 "The pages of these volumes are filled with 
 great names. With the beautiful English lake 
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 at Fox How, of her uncle Matthew Arnold, and 
 of the coterie of friends with whom she was 
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 Elsmere,' 'Marcella' and 'Eleanor.' " Pittsburgh 
 
 An epilogue brings the story down to 1908 
 
 Ward, Mary Augusta (Arnold). See Ward, 
 Mrs Humphry 
 
 Washington, Booker Taliaferro 
 
 Up from slavery; an autobiography. '01 
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 "In no other respect is this book more im- 
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 . . . The vicissitudes and achievements of the 
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 the reader's heart beat fast and sometimes dim 
 his eyes." (Nation, 1901) Pittsburgh 
 
 Scott, E. J., and Stowe, L. B. Booker T. 
 Washington, builder of a civilization, 
 il '16 Doubleday $2 92 
 
 "The official biography by Washington's 
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 Beecher Stowe, supplementing 'Up from slav- 
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 presents a complete phase of the later life of 
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 kegee institute being of particular value and in- 
 terest." Cleveland 
 
 Washington, George 
 
 Ford, P. L. True George Washington, il 
 10th ed '03 Lippincott $2 92 
 
 "Aims to make Washington 'a man rather 
 than a historical figure.' " A. L. A. 
 
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 con biographies) '10 Small 60c 92 
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 "Deals mainly with Washington's life before 
 his presidency, the years after 1789 being but 
 briefly surveyed." A. L. A. 
 
 Irving, Washington. Life of George 
 Washington. (Knickerbocker ed.) 8v 
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 denying, unswerving patriotism, of the purity of 
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 Same. 5 v. $7.50 
 
 Lodge, H. C. George Washington. 
 (American statesman) 2v '89 Hough- 
 ton $2.70 92 
 
 "Written from abundant knowledge, embodies 
 excellent judgment and temper, and a strong 
 desire to be accurate." A. L. A. 
 
 Scudder, H. E. George Washington. 
 (Riverside school lib.) '89 Houghton 
 80c 92 
 
 "Recognized ... as one of the best of the 
 lives of Washington for young readers, and 
 among the best of the one-volume lives . . . 
 
 for readers of any age. It embodies no original 
 work, but is judicious, fair, cautious, and of 
 admirable literary quality." (Larned's Liter- 
 ature of American history) Pittsburgh 
 
 Wilson, Woodrow. George Washington. 
 
 il '03 Harper $2; popular ed $1.50 92 
 
 "While not ignoring the everyday character 
 
 of Washington's services, lays less emphasis 
 
 on this phase than Ford does." A. L. A. 
 
 Wister, Owen. Seven ages of Washing- 
 ton, il '07 Macmillan $1.50 92 
 
 "The author concerns himself with the man, 
 only incidentally with the soldier or statesman, 
 but does not neglect background or the final 
 impress upon history. A delightful biography 
 giving a finished portrait, broad and vigorous in 
 treatment." A. L. A. sup. 
 
 See also in connection with Washington, Paul 
 Wilstach's "Mount Vernon," 19 16, Double- 
 day, $2 
 
 Watts-Dunton, Theodore 
 
 Old familiar faces. '16 Dutton $2 92 
 
 "Personal recollections and criticisms of the 
 work of the Rossettis, George Borrow, Tenny- 
 son, William Morris and others of the author's 
 illustrious contemporaries to whom he showed 
 his great genius for friendship. First pub- 
 lished in the Athenaeum. Excellent portraits." 
 N.Y. state lib. 
 
 Hake, Thomas, and Compton-Rickett, 
 Arthur. Life and letters of Theodore 
 Watts-Dunton; including some person- 
 al reminiscences by Clara Watts-Dun- 
 ton. 2v il '16 Putnam $7.50 92 
 "An interesting account of the Victorian 
 writer who continued the tradition of George 
 Borrow in 'The coming of love' and 'Alwyn,' 
 his poems and novel of Romany life; who was 
 the close friend of Swinburne and Rossetti, 
 and whose 'Renascence of wonder' constitutes 
 the most important criticism of the romantic 
 movement in modern literature. The book is 
 at once gossipy and reserved, shows intimate 
 knowledge of Watts-Dunton's personality and 
 criticizes his literary work with discrimination. 
 A chapter which appeals to the imagination is 
 that contributed by the beautiful and devoted 
 young woman whom the critic married in 1905 
 when he was in his seventies." Cleveland 
 
 Webster, Daniel 
 
 Fisher, S. G. True Daniel Webster, il 
 maps '11 Lippincott $2 92 
 
 "A carefully studied and only slightly biased 
 biography in which the admirable drawing of 
 the political, economic and social background is 
 as valuable as the placing of Webster in true 
 relation to it. Excellent testimony in disproof 
 of traditional beliefs concerning Webster's 
 private life and habits is adduced, and the view 
 of his position on abolition differs from that 
 of Lodge. Illustrations chiefly from portraits 
 and satisfactory index." A. L. A. bkl. 
 
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 "Excellent popular life story of Wellington 
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 Heart of John Wesley's journal; with an 
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 '03 Revell $1.50 92 
 
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64 
 
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 Whitman, Walt Continued 
 
 Camden," vi-3, Doubleday, $9. Mr Traubel 
 undertook to "give verbatim his talks with 
 Whitman from March 28, 1888, to the poet's 
 death, together with such incidents of the poet's 
 daily life as came within his observation, all 
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 "By a friend of forty years standing. Tho 
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 Willard, Frances Elizabeth 
 
 Strachey, Ray. Frances Willard; her life 
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 "The story of the childhood of the great re- 
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 Freeman, E. A. William the Conqueror. 
 (Twelve English statesman) '94 Mac- 
 millan 80c 92 
 
 Stenton, F. M. William the Conqueror, 
 and the rule of the Normans. (Heroes 
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 Davis, A. N. The kaiser as I knew him. 
 il '18 Harper $2 92 
 
 "The kaiser and the German royal family as 
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 Hammer, S. C. William the Second, as 
 seen in contemporary documents and 
 
 judged on evidence of his own speeches. 
 '17 Houghton $1.50 92 
 
 Literature concerning William II, P263-4 
 
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 Nation 
 
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 Hill, D. J. Impressions of the kaiser. '18 
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 lord, are thoughtfully set forth by the author 
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 his people saw him; in the second, as American 
 ambassador, he had intimate contact with him." 
 Pittsburgh 
 
 "Not merely a book of recollections but a 
 scholarly exposition of German imperialism." 
 Pratt quarterly 
 
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 Saunders, George. Builder and blunder- 
 er; a study of Emperor William's char- 
 acter ana foreign policy. '14 Dutton 
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 "A fair, frank characterization, written since 
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 English newspaper correspondent who was for 
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 Topham, Anne. Memories of the Kaiser's 
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 "The writer . . . shows much insight into 
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 stamp of sincerity." (Athenaeum, 19 14) Pitts- 
 burgh 
 
 William I, the Silent, prince of Orange 
 
 Putnam, Ruth. William the Silent, 
 
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 Mr Low's point of view is that of a con- 
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 1906 he has been the chief American corre- 
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 extracts from ninety statements and speeches 
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 Winslow, Anna Green 
 
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 "Journal of a little Boston school girl, sup- 
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 ture of domestic life in Boston a century ago." 
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 Woolman, John 
 
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 any other biographer has done on the develop- 
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 759.1 American painters 
 
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 let." A. L. A. sup. 
 
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 many changes made." A. L. A. sup. 
 
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 snatching ardently at friendship, and strewing 
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 sensibilities; making merry over a "succes d'ex- 
 dcration,' yet with that over-sensitiveness to 
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 wit.' " (Life, 1909) Pittsburgh 
 
BIOGRAPHY Artists 
 
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 759.2 English painters 
 
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 Rowbotham, Francis Jameson 
 
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 Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, Dante 
 Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, Holraan 
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 familiar, Messrs Cormal Price, Faulkner, Hal- 
 ford, MacLaren and others.' (Fortnightly rev., 
 1906) Admirably illustrated." Pittsburgh 
 
 Gainsborough, Thomas 
 
 Armstrong, Sir Walter. Gainsborough 
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 Scribner $3.75 759.2 
 
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 Brief, critical study of Hogarth's life and 
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 '90s." A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Reynolds, Sir Joshua 
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 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, and Rossetti, 
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 759.2 
 
 More important writings of D. G. Rossetti, 
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 Chronologic list of paintings and drawings by 
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 759.3 German painters 
 
 Diirer, Albrecht 
 
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 il '05 Scribner $2.50 759.3 
 
 "Less an ordinary biography than an original 
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 759.4 French painters 
 
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 Biographical and critical essays on the "men 
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70 
 
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 Bonheur, Rosa 
 
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 759.4 
 
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 From Cimabue to Paul Veronese 
 
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 Bibliography, pref. po-n; Catalog of Cor- 
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 Donatello 
 
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 '02 Macmillan $1.75 759.5 
 
 Bibliography, pref. pn; Catalog of works, 
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 Michelangelo Buonarroti 
 
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 work as a whole, scholarly yet imaginative, and 
 enthusiastic." A. L. A. bkl. 
 
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 Symonds, J. A. Life of Michelangelo 
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 759.5 
 Books referred to, vi, pref. P23-25 
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 Raphael 
 
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 Similar in scope and treatment to the author's 
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 Strachey, Henry. Raphael. (Great mas- 
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 Catalog of Raphael's works arranged accord- 
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 Sarto, Andrea del 
 
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 Bibliography, pref. pi 5-6; Catalog of del 
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 Titian 
 
 Bensusan, S. L. Titian. (Masterpieces 
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 vividly written, precisely the book for the gen- 
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 Vinci, Leonardo da 
 
 Siren, Osvald. Leonardo da Vinci, the 
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 $6 759.5 
 
 "Altho again and again the story of Leon- 
 ardo's life has been written, never has so full 
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 It is a beautiful book, well printed, finely il- 
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 style which characterizes the best works in liter- 
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 759.6 Spanish painters 
 
 Individual 
 
 Goya y Lucientes, Francisco 
 
 Stokes, Hugh. Francisco Goya, il '14 
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 artist's work, a catalog of his paintings, etch- 
 ings, and lithographs, and a bibliography (6p)."' 
 A. L. A. bkl. 
 
BIOGRAPHY Musicians 
 
 71 
 
 Murillo 
 
 Calvert, A. F. Murillo; a biography and 
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 $1.50 759.6 
 
 Biographical sketch, list of works with a brief 
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 of the originals 
 
 Velasquez 
 
 Bensusan, S. L. Velasquez. (Master- 
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 eight color reproductions of his paintings." 
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 Stevenson, R. A. M. Velasquez. (Great 
 masters) '99 Macmillan $1.75 759.6 
 
 Bibliography, pref. pi 3-1 5; Catalog of the 
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 galleries in which they are contained, pi 27-58 
 
 Discusses principles of the art of Velasquez 
 and his influence on modern painting 
 
 Only imported to order 
 
 759.9 Other painters 
 
 Hals, Frans 
 
 Davies, G. S. Frans Hals. (Great mas- 
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 Approximate chronologies of life and most im- 
 portant works. List of prices at sales in the 
 last century and a half 
 Only imported to order 
 
 Markino, Yoshio 
 A Japanese artist in London, il '10 
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 "Amusing and pathetic account of the au- 
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 His picturesque Japanese-English enhances the 
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 black and white." (N.Y. state lib.) A. L. A. 
 sup. 
 
 Rembrandt 
 
 Brown, G. B. Rembrandt; a study of his 
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 "May be commended as the best book on 
 Rembrandt's life and art for the general reader 
 that has been produced in England." (Ath- 
 enaeum) Cleveland 
 
 Illustrated with more than forty plates repre- 
 senting every phase of the painter's work 
 
 Van Dyck, Sir Anthony 
 
 Cust, L. H. Van Dyck. (Great masters) 
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 "Admirable condensation of the author's 
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 780.92 Musicians and composers 
 
 Some so-called lives of musicians which are 
 musical criticism rather than biography will be 
 found in the Fine arts section of the Standard 
 Catalog. 
 
 Collective 
 
 Baker, Theodore 
 
 Biographical dictionary of musicians, il 
 new ed '18 Schirmer $5 780.92 
 
 "Especially strong for English and American 
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 Famous composers. 2v '02 Crowell $2 
 
 780.92 
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 Handel; Gluck, Haydn; Mozart; Beethoven; 
 Bossini; Weber. v2, Schubert; Spohr; Meyer- 
 beer; Mendelssohn; Schumann; Chopin; Glinka; 
 Berlioz; Liszt; Wagner 
 
 Hadow, William Henry 
 
 Studies in modern music. 4th ed 2v '98- 
 '02 Macmillan $2.25 ea 780.92 
 
 Contents: vi, Berlioz; Schumann; Wagner. 
 V2, Chopin, Dvorak; Brahms. 
 
 "Chiefly, critical biography." A. L. A. 
 
 Hughes, Rupert 
 
 Music lovers' encyclopedia, rev (popu- 
 lar ed) '13 Doubleday $3 780.3 
 Revised edition of his "Musical guide" 
 "Containing a pronouncing and defining dic- 
 tionary of terms, instruments, etc., including a 
 key to pronunciation of sixteen languages, many 
 charts and an explanation of the construction 
 of music for the uninitiated, a pronouncing bi- 
 ographical dictionary, the stories of the operas 
 and many numerous biographical and critical 
 essays by distinguished authorities." Subtitle 
 
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 pages, in some respects the most comprehensive 
 and useful of all musical works of reference, 
 including features to be found neither in Rie- 
 mann's 1,600 pages, nor in the five volumes of 
 Grove. The most important of these is the de- 
 tailed plots of operas sixty of them. The 
 most distinctive merit of this volume lies in the 
 elimination of useless knowledge." Nation 
 96:372 
 
 International who's who in music and mu- 
 sical gazetteer; a contemporary bio- 
 graphical dictionary and a record of 
 the world's musical activity. '18 Cur- 
 rent literature pub. co. $6 780.92 
 Lahee, Henry Charles 
 
 Famous pianists of today and yesterday. 
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 STANDARD CATALOG 
 
 
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 Mendelssohn, Frederic Chopin, Hector Berlioz, 
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 history of music. The other volumes of the 
 
BIOGRAPHY Musicians 
 
 73 
 
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 A. L. A. bkl. 
 
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 Grieg, Edvard Hagerup 
 
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 "Written from fifty years' close association 
 
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 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 
 
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 Nohl, Ludwig. Life of Mozart; tr. by 
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 Paderewski, Ignace Jan 
 
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74 
 
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 Scriabin, Alexander 
 
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 Tchaikovski, Peter Ilyitch 
 
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 Mathilde (Luckemeyer) 
 
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 "Frau Wesendonk was the wife of a wealthy 
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 Heroines of the modern stage, il '15 
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BIOGRAPHY Actors 
 
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 Winter, William 
 
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 Anderson, Mary, afterward Mme de 
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 A few memories. '96 Harper $2.50 792 
 
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 Memories of my life, il '07 Appleton $4 
 
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 recollections and letters. '94 Century 
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 daughter." Pittsburgh 
 
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 in vogue. Includes many interesting anecdotes 
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 in the history of the American stage from 1865 
 to 1898, when Mr Daly died." Cleveland 
 
 Frohman, Charles 
 
 Marcosson, I. F., and Frohman, Daniel. 
 Charles Frohman: manager and man. 
 il '16 Harper $2.50 792 
 
 Complete chronological list of the Frohman 
 productions, P421-40 
 
 "Life of the theatrical manager who for so 
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 his death on the Lusitania. Brimful of humor 
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 actors and actresses who became stars under 
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 Jefferson, Joseph 
 
 Autobiography. '90 Century $4 792 
 
 "As we follow the adventures of the actor, 
 we meet with quaint characters, we hear good 
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 we have many portraits of prominent actors and 
 actresses of the past, and we find ourselves 
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 his life, who has spoken every night the chosen 
 words of the dramatists from Shakespeare to 
 Sheridan. It has the cadence and the color of 
 good dramatic writing, with a charm which seems 
 to be his own." (Condensed from Nation, 
 1890) Pittsburgh 
 
 Wilson, Francis. Joseph Jefferson; rem- 
 iniscences of a fellow player, il '06 
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 "Affectionate and minute, if somewhat un- 
 discriminating appreciation of Jefferson as actor, 
 author and man. Interesting chapter on the 
 tour of the all-star cast of 'The rivals' of which 
 Jefferson and Wilson were members." (N.Y. 
 state lib.) A. L. A. sup. 
 
 Sothern, Edward Hugh 
 
 Melancholy tale of "Me"; my remem- 
 brances, il new popular ed '18 Scrib- 
 ner $2 792 
 
 "Whimsical, random recollections of the 
 famous actor who when a little boy called him- 
 self 'Me.' Largely reminiscent of author's 
 childhood but includes incidents of his later 
 career. Pictures with sympathy and skill some 
 of the leading actors of the last century. Por- 
 tions appeared in Scribner's magazine. Fully 
 illustrated." N.Y. state lib. 
 
Author Index 
 
 This index includes only the names of the authors of all the collective biographies (920-928, with 
 some in the 700's), and of such biographies of individuals as are classed in 232 and in the 700's. Most of 
 the lives of individuals are classed in 92 and arranged alphabetically under the names of the subjects of 
 the biographies, with no main entry under the author, either in the body of the Catalog or in this index. 
 
 Pace 
 
 Abbot, W. J. Notable women in history 5 
 Adams, E. C, and Foster, W. D. Heroines 
 of modern progress 5 
 
 Adams, O. F. Dictionary of American 
 authors 10 
 
 Ady, J. C. Life and art of Sandro Botticelli 
 
 70 
 Raphael 70 
 
 Sandro Botticelli 70 
 
 Allibone, S. A. Critical dictionary 10 
 
 Anderson, F. L. Man of Nazareth 66 
 
 Anderson, M. Few memories 75 
 
 Armstrong, W. Gainsborough 69 
 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds 69 
 
 Bagehot, W. Biographical studies 7 
 
 Baker, T. Biographical dictionary of musi- 
 cians 71 
 Ball, R. S. Great astronomers 9 
 Baring-Gould, S. Lives of the saints 6 
 Baughan, E. A. Ignaz Jan Paderewski 73 
 Bell, M. Sir Edward Burne-Jones 69 
 Benson, A. C. Dante Gabriel Rossetti 69 
 Leaves of the tree 1 
 Bensusan, S. L. Reynolds 69 
 Titian 70 
 Velasquez 71 
 Berlioz, L. H. Life 72 
 Bernhardt, S. Memories of my life 75 
 Birkhead, A. Heroes of modern Europe 1 
 Boase, F. Modern English biography 4 
 Bolton, S. K. Famous leaders among 
 men 1 
 Famous leaders among women 5 
 Famous voyagers and explorers 7 
 Lives of girls who became famous 6 
 Lives of poor boys who became famous 1 
 Bonstelle, J., and DeForest, M., comps. 
 Little women letters 6 
 Booth, W. S., ed. Wonderful escapes by 
 Americans 1 
 Bradford, G., jr. Confederate portraits 7 
 Portraits of women 6 
 Union portraits 7 
 Brailsford, H. N. Shelley 10 
 Brinton, S. Correggio 70 
 Brown, G. B. Rembrandt 71 
 Bryan, M. Bryan's dictionary of painters 
 and engravers 67 
 Bryce, J. B. Studies in contemporary biog- 
 raphy 1 
 Buckley, R. J. Sir Edward Elgar 72 
 Bullard, F. L. Famous war correspond- 
 ents 1 
 Burne-Jones, G. M. Memorials of Edward 
 Burne-Jones 69 
 Burr, A. R. Autobiography 1 
 Burton, M. E. Comrades in service 1 
 Notable women in modern China 6 
 
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 Butler, A. Lives of the saints 6 
 
 Caffin, C. H. American masters of paint- 
 ing 68 
 Calvert, A. F. Murillo 71 
 Cary, E. L. The Rossettis 69 
 Cellini, B. Life 67 
 
 Memoirs 67 
 
 Century cyclopedia of names 4 
 
 Chubb, E. W. Sketches of great painters 
 
 68 
 Cladel, J., comp. Rodin 67 
 
 Clodd, E. Memories 1 
 
 Cortissoz, R. Augustus Saint-Gaudens 67 
 
 John La Farge 68 
 
 Cousin, J. W. Short biographical diction- 
 ary 10 
 Crastre, F. Bastien-Lepage 69 
 Crook, W. H. Thru five administrations 7 
 Cruttwell, M. Donatello 70 
 Cust, L. H. Van Dyck 71 
 Daly, J. F. Life of Augustin Daly 75 
 Davies, G. S. Frans Hals 71 
 Davis, R. H. Real soldiers of fortune 7 
 Dictionary of national biography 4 
 Dodd, W. E. Statesmen of the old South 7 
 Dole, N. H. Famous composers 71 
 Downes, W. H. Life and works of Wins- 
 low Homer 68 
 Dunn, W. H. English biography 1 
 Edersheim, A. Life and times of Jesus 66 
 Elias, E. L. In Georgian times 1 
 
 In Victorian times 2 
 
 Eliot, C. W. Four American leaders 2 
 
 Emerson, E. W. Early years of the Satur- 
 day club 10 
 Erskine, J. Leading American novelists 10 
 Escott, T. H. S. Great Victorians 2 
 Farrar, F. W. Life of Christ 66 
 
 Seekers after God 6 
 
 Fay, A. Music-study in Germany 72 
 
 Field, J. T. Yesterdays with authors 10 
 Finck, H. T. Grieg and his music 73 
 
 Richard Strauss 74 
 
 Fitchett, W. H. Nelson and his captains 7 
 Forbes, B. C. Men who are making Amer- 
 ica 7 
 Foster, W. D., ed. Heroines of modern re- 
 ligion 6 
 Fouard, C. H. Christ 66 
 Frank, M. M. Great authors in their youth 
 
 10 
 Frost, H. F. Schubert 73 
 
 Frothingham, J. P. Sea fighters 7 
 
 Fuller-Maitland, J. A. Brahms 72 
 
 Schumann 74 
 
 Garnett, E. Hogarth 69 
 
 Geikie, J. C. Life and words of Christ 66 
 Gibson, C. R. Heroes of science 9 
 
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 Gilbert, A. More than conquerors 2 
 
 Gilbert, G. H. Jesus 66 
 
 Jesus for the men of today 66 
 
 Gilman, L. Edward MacDowell 73 
 
 Glover, T. R. Jesus of history 66 
 
 Gosse, E. W. Portraits and sketches 10 
 Greely, A. W. Explorers and travelers 7 
 Gronau, G. Titian and his school 70 
 
 Grossman, E. B., ed. Edwin Booth 75 
 
 Guinness, H. Andrea del Sarto 70 
 
 Hadow, W. H. Mozart 73 
 
 Studies in modern music 71 
 
 Haydon, A. L., comp. Book of the V. C. 7 
 Henderson, W. J. Richard Wagner 74 
 
 Hensel, S. Mendelssohn family 73 
 
 Hervey, A. Franz Liszt 73 
 
 Higginson, T. W. Carlyle's laugh 10 
 
 Contemporaries 2 
 
 Hind, C. L. Augustus Saint-Gaudens 68 
 
 Hodges, G. Saints and heroes since the 
 
 middle ages 6 
 
 Saints and heroes to the end of the mid- 
 dle ages 6 
 Hoeber, A. Barbizon painters 69 
 Hopkinson, L. W. Greek leaders 7 
 Howard, K. Confessions of an opera 
 singer 73 
 Hubert, P. G, jr. Inventors 9 
 Hueffer, F. Richard Wagner 74 
 Hueffer, F. M. Memories and impressions 
 
 69 
 Hughes, R. Music lovers' encyclopedia 71 
 Hull, A. E. Great Russian tone-poet 
 Scriabin 74 
 
 Huneker, J. Chopin 72 
 
 Hutton, L. Talks in a library 2 
 
 Hyamson, A. M. Dictionary of universal 
 
 biography 4 
 
 lies, G. Leading American inventors 9 
 
 Imbert de Saint-Amand, A. L. Women of 
 the Valois court 6 
 
 Inness, G, jr. Life, art and letters of 
 George Inness 68 
 
 International who's who in music 71 
 
 Izard, F. Heroines of the modern stage 74 
 Jacobus de Voragine. Golden legend 6 
 James, G. W. Heroes of California 2 
 
 Jameson, A. B. Memoirs of the early 
 Italian painters 70 
 
 Jefferson, J. Autobiography 75 
 
 Johnson, S. Six chief lives 10 
 
 Johnston, C. H. L. Famous cavalry lead- 
 ers 8 
 
 Famous discoverers and explorers of 
 ' America 8 
 
 Famous frontiersmen and heroes of the 
 border 8 
 
 Famous scouts 8 
 
 Johnston, J. T. M. World patriots 8 
 
 Johnston, R. M. Leading American sol- 
 diers 8 
 Kernahan, C. In good company 10 
 Kellogg, C. L. Memoirs 73 
 Kumm, H. K. W. African missionary 
 heroes and heroines 7 
 La Farge, J. Great masters 68 
 Lahee, H. C. Famous pianists 71 
 
 Famous singers 71 
 
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 Famous violinists 71 
 
 Grand opera singers 71 
 
 Larned, J. N. Study of greatness in men 8 
 Laut, A. C. Pathfinders of the West 8 
 Lee, E. Wives of the prime ministers 6 
 Lee, S. Great Englishmen of the sixteenth 
 century 10 
 
 Lee, S. L. Principles of biography 1 
 
 Lehmann, L. My path thru life 73 
 
 Leupp, F. E. National miniatures 2 
 
 Liebich, L. Claude-Achille Debussy 72 
 
 Lossing, B. J. Two spies 8 
 
 Low, W. H. Chronicle of friendships 68 
 McCarthy, J. British political portraits 8 
 Portraits of the 'sixties 2 
 
 McSpadden, J. W. Famous painters of 
 America 68 
 
 Marcosson, I. F., and Frohman, D. Charles 
 Frohman 75 
 
 Marillier, H. C. Dante Gabriel Rossetti 69 
 Markino, Y. Japanese artist in London 71 
 Martin, A. W. Life of Jesus 66 
 
 Mason, D. G. Contemporary composers 71 
 From Grieg to Brahms 71 
 
 Romantic composers 71 
 
 and Mason, M. L. Great modern com- 
 posers 72 
 Mason, W. Memories of a musical life 73 
 Mauclair, C. Auguste Rodin 67 
 French impressionists 69 
 May, F. Girlhood of Clara Schumann 73 
 Men and women of America 4 
 Miller, L. H. Our knowledge of Christ 66 
 Montagu-Nathan, M. Contemporary Rus- 
 sian composers 72 
 Glinka 72 
 Moore, T. S. Albert Durer 69 
 Moran, T. F. American presidents 8 
 Morgan, H. J. Canadian men and women 
 of the time 4 
 Morris, C. Heroes of discovery in America 
 
 8 
 
 Heroes of progress in America 2 
 
 Heroes of the army in America 8 
 
 Heroes of the navy in America 8 
 
 Motley, J. L. Life and death of John of 
 
 Barneveld 7 
 
 National cyclopedia of American biography 
 
 4 
 
 Conspectus 4 
 
 Newman, E. Richard Strauss 74 
 
 Wagner as man and artist 74 
 
 Nohl, L. Life of Mozart 73 
 
 Oliphant, M. O. Makers of Florence 2 
 
 Oman, C. Seven Roman statesmen 8 
 
 Osborn, E. B. New Elizabethans 2 
 
 Parker, J., ed. Who's who in the theater 74 
 
 Parkman, M. R. Fighters for peace 9 
 
 Heroes of today 3 
 
 Heroines of service 6 
 
 Parry, C. H. H. Johann Sebastian Bach 72 
 
 Parry, D. H. Victoria Cross 9 
 
 Parton, J. Captains of industry 9 
 
 Pennell, E. R. and Pennell, J. Life of 
 
 James McNeill Whistler 68 
 
 Perkins, F. M. Giotto 70 
 
 Posonby, A., and Ponsonby, D. Rebels 
 
 and reformers 3 
 
BIOGRAPHY Author Index 
 
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 Poole, R. L. Sebastian Bach 72 
 
 Preev, Z. N. Russian revolution and who's 
 who in Russia 4 
 
 Qui etes-vous? 5 
 
 Quiller-Couch, A. T. Roll call of honor 3 
 Radziwill, C. R. Sovereigns and statesmen 
 of Europe 9 
 
 Raymond, E. T. Uncensored celebrities 9 
 Renan, E. Life of Jesus 66 
 
 Rockstro, W. S. Mendelssohn 73 
 
 Rolland, R. Beethoven 72 
 
 Handel 73 
 
 Michelangelo 70 
 
 Roof, K. M. Life and art of William Mer- 
 ritt Chase 68 
 
 Rowbotham, F. J. Story-lives of our great 
 artists 69 
 
 Rudall, H. A. Beethoven 72 
 
 Russell, G. W. E. Portraits of the 'seven- 
 ties 3 
 Saint-Gaudens, A. Reminiscences 67 
 Sainte-Beuve, C. A. Portraits of the seven- 
 teenth century 3 
 Sanday, W. Outlines of the life of Christ 
 
 66 
 Schevill, F. Karl Bitter 67 
 
 Schumann, R. A. Letters 74 
 
 Seeley, J. R. Ecce homo 67 
 
 Sensier, A. Jean-Francois Millet 70 
 
 Sharp, R. F. Makers of music 72 
 
 Shedd, J. A. Famus sculptors and sculp- 
 r ture 67 
 
 Siren, O. Leonardo da Vinci 70 
 
 Slattery, C. L. Master of the world 67 
 Slosson, E. E. Major prophets of today 3 
 Six major prophets 3 
 
 Smiles, S. Lives of the engineers 9 
 
 Smith, W. Classical dictionary of Greek 
 and Roman biography 5 
 
 Somerville, E. A. O., and Martin, V. Irish 
 memories 10 
 
 Sothern, E. H. Melancholy tale of "Me" 75 
 Spofford, H. E. Little book of friends 6 
 Stalker, J. Life of Jesus Christ 67 
 
 Stanton, T., ed. Reminiscences of Rosa 
 Bonheur 70 
 
 Stephen, L. Studies of a biographer 10 
 Stevenson, R. A. M. Velasquez 71 
 
 Stokes, H. Francisco Goya 70 
 
 Strachey, H. Raphael 70 
 
 Strachey, L. Eminent Victorians 3 
 
 Streatfield, R. A. Handel 73 
 
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 Strickland, A. Lives of the queens of 
 England 9 
 
 Symonds, J. A. Life of Michelangelo 70 
 Symons, A. Figures of several centuries 11 
 Tchaikovsky, M. Life and letters of Peter 
 Ilich Tchaikovsky 74 
 
 Thayer, W. R. Throne-makers 3 
 
 Thomas, J. Universal pronouncing diction- 
 ary of biography and mythology 5 
 Thomas, R. F. Memoirs of Theodore 
 Thomas 74 
 Thompson, V. Life of Ethelbert Nevin 73 
 Upton, G. P. Standard musical biographies 
 
 72 
 
 Vasari, G Lives of seventy of the most 
 
 eminent painters 67 
 
 Vedder, H. C. American writers of today 
 
 11 
 Vincent, H. L. American literary masters 
 
 11 
 Dandies and men of letters 11 
 
 Wagner, R. My Life 74 
 
 and Wesendonk, M. Richard Wagner to 
 Mathilde Wesendonck 74 
 
 Walker, W. Great men of the Christian 
 church 7 
 
 Walton, I. Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir 
 Henry Wotton, Sir Richard Hooker, 
 George Herbert and Dr Robert Sander- 
 son 3 
 Waters, C. E. Painters, sculptors, archi- 
 tects, engravers and their works 67 
 and Hutton, L. Artists of the 19th 
 century 67 
 Webb, M. G., and Webb, E. L., eds. 
 Famous living Americans 3 
 Wer ist's? 5 
 White, A. D. Seven great statesmen 9 
 Who's who in America 5 
 Who's who in New England 5 
 Who's who in New York city and state 5 
 Who's who 1918 5 
 Who's who of the colored race 5 
 Who's who yearbook 5 
 Wilson, F. Joseph Jefferson 75 
 Wilson, J. G, ed. Presidents of the United 
 States 9 
 Winter, W. Vagrant memories 75 
 Wolf, S. Presidents I have known 9 
 Woman's who's who of America 6 
 Yale university. Obituary record 5 
 Yonge, C. M. Book of golden deeds 3 
 
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