to the Demise of George the Fourth. ... [Arranged in classes, chronologically.] 4 vols. London. 1832-34. 8° Note. Vol. IV. contains a General Index. *GLEIG (Rev. George Robert). Lives of the most Eminent British Military Commanders. 3 vols. London. Cycl., 67 – 69.) 8° (LARDNER'S Cab. GODWIN (Parke). York. 1852. 12° Vol. IV.) [GOODRICH (Samuel Griswold)]. Lives of Benefactors; by the Author of Peter Parley's Tales. [Viz. Arkwright, Bowditch, Copernicus, Davy, Franklin, Fulton, Galileo, Guttenberg, Hargraves, Henry, Herschel, Howard, Huber, Jay, Jenner, Kosciusko, La Fayette, Linnæus, Oberlin, William Tell, Washington, Whitney.] Boston. 1849. 16° or 18° (8. and 6.) (CABINET Libr., 4.) Hand-Book of Universal Biography. Newpp. vi., 821. (PUTNAM'S Home Cyclopedia, [ [ [Viz. Acama - Lives of Celebrated American Indians pitzin, Tupac Amaru, Atahualpa, Black Hawk, Brant, Huayna Capac, Mango Capac, Mayta Capac, Caupolican, Cofachiqui, Logan, Donna Marina, Montezuma I., Montezuma II., Philip, Pocahontas, Pontiac, Quetzalcoatl, Red Jacket, Shongmunecuthe, or the Ietan, Tascaluza, Tecumseh, Vitachuco, Xolotl, Ychoalay.] Boston. 1849. 16° or 18° (8. and 6.) (CABINET Libr., 5.) ] Lives of Celebrated Women ... [Viz. Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Barbauld, Lucretia and Maria Davidson, Elizabeth, Queen of England, Madame de Genlis, Isabella of Spain, Joan of Arc, Josephine, Marie Antoinette, Mary Queen of Scots, Hannah More, Madame Roland, Madame de Sévigné, Madame de Stael, Lady Hester Stanhope, Mrs. Washington.] Boston. 1849. 16° or 18o (8. and 6.) (CABINET Libr., 6.) GORTON (John). A General Biographical Dictionary. A new Ed. To which is added a Supplementary Volume completing the Work to the present Time. ... 4 vols. London. 4 vols. London. 1851. 8° Note. A Catalogue of Works relating to Biography and Literary History, and a Chronological Table, are appended to the fourth volume. GRISWOLD (Rufus Wilmot). The Poets and Poetry of America, etc. See Class XIX. The Prose Writers of America, etc. See Class XXXI. *HERBERT (Henry William). The Captains of the Old World [viz. Miltiades, Themistocles, Pausanias, Xenophon, Epaminondas, Alexander, Hannibal]; as compared with the great Modern Strategists, their Campaigns, Characters and Conduct, from the Persian, to the Punic Wars. New York. 1851. 12o IMPOSTORS. See RELIGIOUS Impostors. INTELLIGENT Negroes. (CHAMBERS's Miscel., IV. no. 63.) IRVING (Washington). Mahomet and his Successors. 2 vols. NewYork. 1850. 12° (Works, Vol. XII., XIII.) *JAMES (George Payne Rainsford) and CROWE (Eyre Evans). Lives of the most Eminent Foreign Statesmen. 5 vols. London. 8° (LARDNER'S Cab. Cycl., 83-87.) *JAMESON (Mrs. Anna [MURPHY]). Memoirs of Celebrated Female Sovereigns. 2 vols. New York. 1848. 18° (HARPER'S Fam. Libr., 33, 34.) JOHNSON (Samuel), LL.D. Lives of Eminent Persons. Ascham, Barretier, Blake, Boerhaave, Browne, Burman, Cave, Cheynel, Sir Francis Drake, [Frederick II.] King of Prussia, Morin, Father Paul Sarpi, Sydenham. (Works, 1837. 8° II. 305–384.) Lives of the English Poets. Addison, Akenside, Blackmore, Broome, Butler, Collins, Congreve, Cowley, Denham, Dorset [Sackville], Dryden, Duke, Dyer, Fenton, Garth, Gay, Granville, Gray, Halifax [Montague], Hammond, Hughes, King, Lyttelton, Mallet, Milton, Otway, Parnell, A. Philips, J. Philips, Pitt, Pomfret, Pope, Prior, Rochester [Wilmot], Roscommon [Dillon], Rowe, Savage, Sheffield, Shenstone, Smith, Somervile, Sprat, Stepney, Swift, Thomson, Tickell, Waller, Walsh, Watts, West, Yalden, Young. (Works, 1837. 8° II. 3 – 304.) LIBRARY of Entertaining Knowledge. See SOCIETY, etc. LIBRARY of Useful Knowledge. See SOCIETY, etc. *LIVES of Eminent Individuals, celebrated in American History. ... Vol. I. containing Lives of John Stark, David Brainerd, Robert Fulton, and John Smith. Vol. II. containing Lives of Ethan Allen, Sebastian Cabot, Henry Hudson, Joseph Warren, Israel Putnam, and David Rittenhouse. Vol. III. containing Lives of William Pinkney, Sir Henry Vane, Anthony Wayne, William Ellery, and Richard Montgomery. 3 vols. Boston. 1839. 12° (SCHOOL Libr., Vol. IV. – VI.) LODGE (Edmund). Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of their Lives and Actions. 8 vols. 1849-50. 8° (Bohn's Illustrated Library.) MACKINTOSH (Sir James). Lives of British Statesmen. See FORSTER (J.). Lives, etc. [MALDEN (H.)]. Author? See SOCIETY, etc. Library of Entertaining Knowledge. Distinguished Men, etc. MEN (The) of the Time or Sketches of Living Notables York. 1852. 12° New MONTGOMERY (James). See SHELLEY (Mrs. M. W. [G.]). Lives, etc. MONTYON Prizes (The) - Pauline Copain, Jean Vigier, Henriette Garden, Jeanne Jugan, Pierre Bécard, Eustache, Alexandre Martin, Pierre Guillot and Louis Brune, The Three Brothers Conté. (CHAMBERS's Miscel., VI. no. 107.) Note. These prizes are awarded for acts of virtue and heroism in humble life. NEGROES, Intelligent. (CHAMBERS's Miscel., IV. no. 63.) PAINTERS. See ANECDOTES of the Early Painters, etc. PARLEY (Peter), pseudon. See [GOODRICH (Samuel Griswold)]. PLUTARCHUS. Plutarch's Lives, translated ... with Notes with Notes .... By John Langhorne, D.D. and William Langhorne, A.M. [Containing Lives of Agesilaus, Agis, Alcibiades, Alexander, Antony, Aratus, Aristides, Artaxerxes, Brutus, Julius Cæsar, Camillus, Cato the Censor, Cato the Younger, Cicero, Cimon, Cleomenes, Coriolanus, Crassus, Demetrius, Demosthenes, Dion, Eumenes, Fabius Maximus, T. Q. Flaminius [Flamininus], Galba, Caius Gracchus, Tiberius Gracchus, Lucullus, Lycurgus, Lysander, Marcellus, Marius, Nicias, Numa, Otho, Paulus Æmilius, Pelopidas, Pericles, Philopomen, Phocion, Pompey, Publicola, Pyrrhus, Romulus, Sertorius, Solon, Sylla, Themistocles, Theseus, Timoleon.] See Class XVI. Part II. PORT-ROYALISTS, The. (STEPHEN (Sir J.). ... Essays, pp. 248-313.) PURSUIT of Knowledge under Difficulties. See [CRAIK (G. L.)]. RANKE (Prof. Franz Leopold). The History of the Popes, etc. See Class XXVI. RELIGIOUS Impostors [viz. Thomas Munzer, John Bockholt, or John of Leyden, Richard Brothers, Ann Lee, Jemima Wilkinson, Joanna Southcott, Robert Matthews, John Nicolls Thoms, Joseph Smith]. (CHAMBERS's Miscel., I. no. 14.) *ROSCOE (Henry). Lives of Eminent British Lawyers. London. 8° (LARDNER'S Cab. Cycl., 75.) *ST. JOHN (James Augustus). The Lives of Celebrated Travellers. 3 vols. New York. 1847. 18° (HARPER'S Fam. Libr., 38 - 40.) *SHELLEY (Mrs. Mary Wollstonecraft [GODWIN]). Lives of the most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of France. By Mrs. Shelley, and others. 2 vols. London. 8° (LARDNER's Cab. Cycl., 91, 92.) * Lives of the most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. By Mrs. Shelley, Sir David Brewster, James Montgomery, and others. 3 vols. London. 8° (LARDNER'S Cab. Cycl., 88 – 90.) SHOEMAKERS. See ANECDOTES of Shoemakers. SMITH (William), LL.D. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Edited by W. S. ... Illustrated by numerous Engravings on Wood. ... 3 vols. London. 1844-46-49. 8° *[SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE]. Library of Entertaining Knowledge. Distinguished Men of Modern Times. [Selected from a work ascribed to H. Malden, published by the Society," etc.] ... 2 vols. New York. [1840?] 18° (HARPER'S Fam. Libr., 123, 124.) * 66 L. of E. K. Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties. See [CRAIK (G. L.)]. Library of Useful Knowledge. Lives of Eminent Persons; consisting of Galileo [by John Eliot Drinkwater Bethune], Kepler [by J. E. D. Bethune], Newton [by Jean Baptiste Biot, translated by Howard Elphinstone], Mahomet [by John Arthur Roebuck], Wolsey [by Mrs. Anthony Todd Thomson], Sir E. Coke [by Ed. Plunkett Burke], Lord Somers [by David Jardine], Caxton [by Stephenson], Blake [by John Gorton], Adam Smith [by Wm. Draper], [Carsten] Niebuhr [by Mrs. Sarah Austin], Sir C. Wren [by Henry Bellenden Ker], and Michael Angelo [Buonarroti, by Thomas Roscoe]. ... London. [1833?] 8 Note. These Lives are all paged independently, and were originally published separately. *SOUTHEY (Robert) and BELL (Robert). Lives of the British Admirals. With an Introductory View of the Naval History of England. (Vol. V. by Robert Bell.) 5 vols. London. 8° (LARDNER's Cab. Cycl., 70–74.) *SPARKS (Jared). The Library of American Biography. Conducted by Jared Sparks. 10 vols. New York. [Stereotyped and printed at Cambridge.] 1839-45. 16 or 12" (8. and 6.) * Note. Vols. I. II. and VIII. have only one set of signatures (8.). The same. Second Series. 15 vols. Boston. 1844-48. 16° Note. The last volume of each series contains a General Index. *STRICKLAND (Agnes). Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest; with Anecdotes of their Courts, now first published from Official Records and other Authentic Documents ... New Ed., with Corrections and Additions. ... 12 vols. (bound in 6). Philadelphia. 1848. 12° SULLIVAN (William), LL.D. The Public Men of the Revolution. In cluding Events from the Peace of 1783 to the Peace of 1815. In a Series of Letters. ... With a Biographical Sketch of the Author, and additional Notes and References by his Son, John T. S. Sullivan. ..... Philadelphia. 1847. 8° SWAINSON (William). A Bibliography of Zoology; with Biographical Sketches, etc. See Class XIII. Part IV. SWAINSON (W.). Taxider my, etc. TALE (A) of Norfolk Island. (CHAMBERS's Miscel., I. no. 2.) *THACKERAY (William Makepeace). The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century [Swift, Congreve, Addison, Steele, Prior, Gay, Pope, Hogarth, Smollett, Fielding, Sterne, and Goldsmith]. A Series of [six] Lectures. [With an additional Lecture on "Charity and Humour."] New York. 1853. 12o ... THACHER (Benjamin Bussey). Indian Biography; or, An Historical Account of those Individuals who have been distinguished among the North American Natives as Orators, Warriors, Statesmen, and other Remarkable Characters. 2 vols. New York. 1848. 18° (HAR PER'S Fam. Libr., 45, 46.) PART II. INDIVIDUAL BIOGRAPHY. Note. Sketches of the lives of Authors, not referred to here, may often be found prefixed to their Works. For other sources of biographical information, see Classes XXIX. and XXX. The Penny Cyclopædia and the Encyclopædia Americana deserve special mention. ABBOT (Rev. John Emery). Sketch of his Life and Character. (WARE'S ABERCROMBY (Sir Ralph), Bart. Life, by G. R. Gleig. (LARDNER'S Cab. Cycl., 69, pp. 197 – 250.) ADDISON (Joseph). Life and Writings. (MACAULAY's Essays, V. 82 - 183.) Life. (SPECTATOR. Selections, etc. 1840. 18° I. ix.-xxvi.) ADELICIA of Louvaine, Second Queen of Henry I. Life. (STRICKLAND's AKENSIDE (Mark). Life, by Robert Bell. (LARDNER'S Cab. Cycl., 94, pp. 364-370.) ALBERONI (Giulio), Cardinal. Life, by G. P. R. James. (LARDNER's Cab. Cycl., 86, pp. 130 – 267.) [ALCOTT (William A.)]. Confessions of a Schoolmaster. Andover. 1839. 18° ALDROVANDI (Ulisse). Memoir. (JARDINE'S Nat. Libr., XVII. 17 – 58.) 334. History ... . By Jacob [1848?] 16° By Rev. J. Williams Campaigns and Character. (HERBERT's Captains, etc. pp. 265 New-York. 1843. 18° (HARPER'S Fam. Libr., 7.) Cæsar and Alexander: an Historical Comparison. See Class XXV. Part III. SCHLEGEL (K. W. F. VON). A Course of Lectures, etc. ALFIERI (Vittorio). Life. (LARDNER'S Cab. Cycl., 89, pp. 247 302.) ALFRED the Great, King of England. History With Engravings. New York. [1849.] 16° By Jacob Abbott. Life. English Civilization in the Ninth Century. (LARDNER'S Cab. Cycl., 95, pp. 60 – 124.) ALLAN (David). Life. (CUNNINGHAM'S Lives of Brit. Painters, etc. V. 25-47.) ALLEN (Brig.-Gen. Ethan). Life of E. A.; by Jared Sparks. (SPARKS'S Amer. Biogr., I. 227-356;- SCHOOL Libr., V. 1-83.) AMBOISE (Georges D'), Cardinal. Life, by Eyre Evans Crowe. (LardNER'S Cab. Cycl., 83, pp. 1–24.) ANDRAYNE (Alexandre), Story of. (CHAMBERS's Miscel., VI. no. 99. |