HENRY HAYES. See Ellen O. Kirk.

LAFCADIO HEARN (1850-1904). A resident first of New Orleans, then of New York, and lastly of Japan. The following titles indicate the nature of his works: "Stray Leaves from Strange Literature," "Some Chinese Ghosts," "Youma, the Story of a West Indian Slave," "Out of the East," and "Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life,” etc.

O. HENRY. See Sidney Porter.

ROBERT HERRICK. Born in Massachusetts, 1868. University professor and novelist. Author of "The Man who Wins,' "Literary Love Letters, and Other Stories," "The Common Lot," "One Woman's Life," etc. THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON (1823-1911). Essayist and littérateur of Cambridge. A prominent abolitionist before the Civil War, and since then active advocate of woman's suffrage. Among varied and numerous works are "Atlantic Essays," "Woman and her Wishes," "Short Studies.of American Authors,' ," "Common Sense about Women," "Life of Margaret Fuller Ossoli," "Larger History of the United States," "The Afternoon Landscape" (a collection of poems), and “Cheerful Yesterdays.”

JOHN OLIVER HOBBES. See Pearl Mary-Teresa Craigie.

MARIETTA HOLLEY. Born in New York, 1850. Humorous writer of poems, essays, and stories. Her writings include "My Wayward Partner," "Sweet Cicely," "Poems," "Samantha at Saratoga," "Samantha in Europe," and numerous other Samantha stories.

BLANCHE WILLis Howard (1847–1898) (Frau Von Teuffel).

Born in Maine,

lived in Germany after 1875. Among her novels are "Aunt Serena," "Guenn," and "The Open Door."

JULIA WARD HOWE (1819-1910). A writer of Boston, prominent in philanthropic movements and in the movement for the enfranchisement of women. Her "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is her finest poem. Other works are "Passion Flowers," "Later Lyrics," "Sex and Education," "Modern Society," etc.

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS. Born in Ohio in 1837. He began his literary career as a writer of verse. Consul to Venice and later editor of The Atlantic Monthly. Among his many volumes of realistic fiction may be mentioned "The Undiscovered Country," "A Modern Instance," "The Rise of Silas Lapham," "A Traveller from Altruria," to which may be added a series of delightful farces, "The Mouse Trap," "The Parlor Car," etc. (See text.) HELEN HUNT. 'See Helen Fiske Jackson.

HELEN FISKE JACKSON ("Helen Hunt") (1831-1885). Born in Massachusetts; resided the latter part of her life in Colorado. A prose-writer and poet of unusual gifts. Author of "A Century of Dishonor," "Sonnets and Lyrics," "Ramona," one of our best-known novels, and of many other works.

HENRY JAMES (1843-1916). A native of New York; resided in London since 1869. His numerous novels are written in a style of overdone refinement. Worthy of mention are "The Portrait of a Lady," "Daisy Miller," "The Bostonians," "A London Wife,” “The Sacred Fount," etc. (See text.) SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1848-1909). Born in Maine. Her careful studies of rural New England life and character have justly made her popular. Author of "Old Friends and New," "A Country Doctor," "The King of Folly Island, and Other People," "The Country of the Pointed Firs," etc.

MARY JOHNSTON. Born in Virginia in 1870. Well-known novelist and lecturer on woman's suffrage. Author of "Prisoners of Hope," "To Have and to Hold," "Audrey," "Sir Mortimer," "The Long Roll," "Cease Firing," "Hagar," etc.

RICHARD MALCOM JOHNSTON (1822-1898). A Baltimore educator and a writer of humor and originality. Among varied works may be mentioned "Dukesborough Tales,” “Mr. Absalom Billingslea and Other Georgia Folk," "Studies, Literary and Social," "Mr. Billy Downs and his Likes," "Widow Guthrie, a Novel," and "Mr. Fortner's Marital Claims." HELEN KELLER. Born in Alabama, 1880. Deaf and dumb since the age of 17 months. Lecturer and author. Author of "The Story of my Life," "Optimism" (an essay), "Out of the Dark," and several others. CHARLES KING. Born in New York in 1844. A brigadier-general in the war against Spain. A resident for many years of Wisconsin. Author of more than thirty volumes, principally military novels, which have been extensively read. Among his publications are “Famous and Decisive Battles,” "Between the Lines," "Under Fire," "The General's Double,” “A War Time Wooing," "Kitty's Conquest," etc.

GRACE ELIZABETH KING. Born in New Orleans in 1852. Novelist and historical writer. Author of "Monsieur Motte," "New Orleans, the Place and the People," "De Soto and His Men in the Land of Florida," "History of Louisiana," "Stories from History of Louisiana," and several others. ELLEN OLNEY KIRK ("Henry Hayes"). Born in Connecticut, 1842. Novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Author of "A Midsummer Madness,' "The Story of Margaret Kent," "Dorothy Deane," "Marcia," etc. SIDNEY LANIER (1842-1881). A native of Georgia. A poet, musician, and novelist. A poet of original genius, who did not live to realize all his possibilities. Author of "Poems," "Tiger Lilies" (a novel), "The Science of English Verse," "The English Novel and its Development," etc. (See text.)

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LUCY LARCOM (1824-1893). A native of Massachusetts, who in early life worked in the Lowell mills. She afterwards became popular as a writer both of prose and verse. Among her works are "Childhood Songs,"

"Ships in the Mist, and Other Stories," "The Unseen Friend,” “A New England Girlhood," which is autobiographic, etc. GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP (1851-1898). Born at Oahu, Hawaii. A littéra

teur of New York City. Author of "Dreams and Days" (verse), “An Echo of Passion" and other works of fiction, "A Study of Hawthorne," "Spanish Vistas," etc.

EMMA LAZARUS (1849-1887). A native of New York; a gifted writer of Jewish descent. Among her writings are "Alide, an Episode of Goethe's Life," Admetus, and Other Poems," "Songs of a Semite," "Poems and Ballads translated from Heine."

CHARLES GODFREY LELAND (1824-1903). A native of Philadelphia, a poet and educator, and authority in gypsy lore. Author of "Hans Breitmann's Ballads," "English Gypsies," "Practical Education," "Legends of Florence,' 'Algonquin Legends," "Anglo-Romany Songs," etc.

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FRANCES LITTLE. See Fannie C. Macaulay.

DAVID ROSS LOCKE. ("Petroleum V. Nasby") (1833-1888). A native of New York. A widely known political satirist. Author of "Ekkoes from Kentucky," "Struggles of Petroleum V. Nasby," "Nasby in Exile," etc. HENRY CABOT LODGE. Born in Boston, 1850. Senator, lecturer, editor, and author of many historical and biographical works. Representative of him are his "Short History of the English Colonies in America," "Life of Washington," "Certain Accepted Heroes and Other Essays in Literature and Politics," "Story of the Revolution," and "A Frontier Town and Other Essays."

JACK LONDON. Born in California in 1876. Journalist, lecturer, novelist, socialist, and writer on sociological subjects. An extensive traveler, and war correspondent in the Russo-Japanese War. Author of "The God of his Fathers," "The People of the Abyss," "The Call of the Wild," "John Barleycorn," and many other publications.

CHARLES F. LUMMIS. Born in Massachusetts, 1859. Explorer and author. Among numerous works may be mentioned "Birch Bark Poems,” “A Tramp Across the Continent," "The Man Who Married the Moon, and Other Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories," etc.

SIDNEY LUSKA. See Henry Harland.

HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE. Born in New York in 1846. An essayist and journalist, associate editor of The Outlook. Author of "Norse Stories Retold from the Eddas," "My Study Fire," "Short Studies in Literature," "Nature and Culture," "Books and Culture," "Work and Culture," "The Life of the Spirit," "Shakespeare: Poet, Dramatist, and Man,” etc. FANNIE CALDWELL Macaulay ("Frances Little"). Born in Kentucky, 1863. Author of works of fiction portraying her experiences in Japan, the best

known being the "Lady of the Decoration." Others are "Little Sister Snow," "The Lady and Sada San," and "The House of the Misty Star." GEORGE BARR MCCUTCHEON. Born in Indiana, 1866. Author of romantic and exciting novels. Among the most popular are "Graustark," "Brewster's Millions," "Beverly of Graustark," "Truxton King," and "A Fool and His Money."

PERCY MACKAYE. Born in New York, 1875. Lecturer and prominent dramatist. A long list of works includes "The Canterbury Pilgrims" (comedy), "Jeanne D'Arc" (tragedy), "The Playhouse and the Play" (essays), and "Uriel, and Other Poems."

JOHN BACH MCMASTER. Born in New York, 1852. Historical writer and professor of American history at University of Pennsylvania since 1883. Author of "A History of the People of the United States," "Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters," "With the Fathers, Studies in American History," "The Struggle for the Social, Political, and Industrial Rights of Man," and other similar works.

EDWIN MARKHAM. Born in Oregon in 1852. A teacher, prose-writer, and poet. His poem, "The Man with the Hoe," attracted widespread attention. Author of "The Man with the Hoe, and Other Poems," "Lincoln and Other Poems," etc.

IK MARVEL. See Donald G. Mitchell.

BRANDER MATTHEWS. Born in Louisiana in 1852. A professor in Columbia University, critic, dramatist, and novelist. Among his many writings are "The Theatres of Paris," "Margery's Lovers" (a comedy), "The Last Meeting," "In the Vestibule Limited,” “The Decision of the Court" (a comedy), "His Father's Son," etc.

HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891). A novelist of New York City, once very popular. Author of "White Jacket," "Mardi," "The Piazza Tales," "The Confidence Man,” etc.

CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER ("Joaquin Miller") (1841-1913). A native of Indiana. Lawyer, judge, editor, and author. Among his principal works are "Songs of the Sierras," "Songs of the Sunland," "The Danites in the Sierras," "Shadows of Shasta," "Songs of Far-Away Lands," etc. (See text.)

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JOAQUIN MILLER. See Cincinnatus H. Miller.

DONALD GRANT MITCHELL ("Ik Marvel") (1822-1908). A littérateur of New

Haven. Popular and pleasantly sentimental are his "Dream Life and "Reveries of a Bachelor." Other works are "Dr Johns" (a novel), "Fudge Doings," "Seven Stories," "English Lands, Letters, and Kings," etc. SILAS WEIR MITCHELL (1829-1914). A distinguished physician of Philadelphia, poet, and novelist. Author of "Poems" (5 vols.), and of "Hephzibah

Guinnes," "Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker," which became very popular, "The Autobiography of a Quack,” “Dr. North and His Friends,” etc. WILLIAM Vaughn Moody (1869-1910). A native of Indiana. Professor of English Literature at University of Chicago, editor, and poet. Author of "The Masque of Judgement” (á lyrical drama), "Poems," "History of English Literature," etc. GOUVERNEUR MORRIS. Born in New York in 1876. Well-known short-story writer and contributor to magazines. Author of "Ellen and her Man," "The Footprint, and Other Stories," "Putting on the Screws," etc. LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON (1835-1908). Born in Connecticut. A poet and prose-writer of Boston. She was the literary executor of the English poet, Philip Bourke Marston, whose poems she edited. Her works include "This, That and the Other," made up of stories, essays, and poems, "Juno Clifford," "Poems," "Random Rambles," "In the Garden of Dreams, Lyrics, and Sonnets," etc.

MARY NOAILLES MURFREE ("Charles Egbert Craddock"). Born in Tennessee in 1850. A novelist, whose stories of the Tennessee mountains have made her famous. Author of "In the Tennessee Mountains," "The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountain," "In the Clouds," "The Mystery of Witchface Mountain," "The Bushwhackers, and Other Stories," etc. (See text.)

PETROLEUM V. NASBY. See David R. Locke.
MEREDITH NICHOLSON. Born in Indiana in 1866. Author of "The Hoosiers
(literary history) and of a number of popular novels. Among them may
be mentioned "The House of a Thousand Candles," "The Main Chance,"
"The Port of Missing Men," etc.

JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY (1844–1890). Born in Ireland. Journalist and poet of
Boston. Author of "Songs, Legends, and Ballads," "Songs of the Southern
Seas," "Stories and Sketches" (prose), etc.

THOMAS NELSON PAGE. Born in Virginia in 1853. A novelist of Southern life.
Author of "In Old Virginia," "Two Little Confederates," Among the
Camps," "Meh Lady," "Marse Chan," "Santa Claus' Partner," "Red
Rock," "Gordon Keith," etc.

MRS. PARTINGTON. See Benjamin P. Shillaber.

BLISS PERRY. Born in Massachusetts, 1860. Educator, editor, lecturer, and
author. Author of "The Broughton House," "Salem Kittredge and Other
Stories,"
‚” “A Study of Prose Fiction," "Walt Whitman,” etc.

DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS (1867-1911). A native of Indiana. Author of "The
Great God Success," "Her Serene Highness," "A Woman Ventures,"
"Golden Fleece," "The Social Secretary," "The Second Generation,"
"The Age of Gilt."