KINGSLEY, CHARLES, was born in Devonshire, England, in 1819. He has made a marked success as novelist, essayist, and poet.

LARCOM, LUCY, was born at Beverly, Massachusetts. A volume of her poems has been published by Osgood & Co. She is a charming writer for children as well as for grown people, having been, until quite recently, engaged editorially upon Our Young Folks.

LARNED, AUGUSTA, is a native of Jefferson County, New York, where she spent her childhood, and received the impressions of country life which she has so skillfully woven into her stories. She has written six volumes entitled Home Stories, and is a contributor for the New York Independent, Christian Union, and many other magazines and papers.

LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON, was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1794. He was the son-in-law of Sir Walter Scott, and became his biographer and literary executor. Mr. Lockhart edited the Quarterly Review for many years. He died in 1837.

LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH, was born in Portland, Maine, in 1807. After studying at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, and traveling for three years in Europe, he became professor of modern languages in his own college; but in 1835 removed his professorship to Harvard University. He resides at Cambridge, near Boston, and occupies a house which was originally Washington's headquarters. He has written some prose and much poetry, and his translation of Dante throws a classic halo around his name. His poetry is not startling, but is singularly quaint and beautiful. The Psalm of Life and other of his shorter poems have attained a great popularity, while the Song of Hiawatha is as famous for its singular versification as for its wild melody.

LOVER, SAMUEL, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1797. He was the author of Handy Andy, Treasure Trove, The Confession of Con Gregan, etc. His Irish songs are very popular. Lover was a painter, poet, dramatist, musician, novelist, and orator. He died in 1866.

LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL, was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1819. He is professor of modern languages and belles-lettres at Harvard University. As a humorist, satirist, and essayist, he is deservedly popular.

LYTTON, SIR EDWARD GEORGE LYTTON BULWER, was born in England in 1805. He was the youngest son of General Bulwer, of Heydon Hall, Norfolk. After the death of his father he succeeded to his mother's estate and took her ancient family name-Lytton. He displayed vigorous and varied powers as a novelist, dramatist, and poet. He is buried in the "Poets' Corner," at Westminster Abbey.

MACCARTHY, DENIS FLORENCE, is a native of Ireland. He has produced a volume of Songs, Ballads, and Lyrics, the Poets and Dramatists of Ireland, and has made a collection of the Ballad Poetry of Ireland.

MEEK, ALEXANDER, is a native of Alabama. He is the author of Songs and Poetry of the South, Romantic Passages in Southwestern History,

etc.

MITCHELL, ORMSBY MACKNIGHT, was born in Union County, Kentucky, in 1810. He graduated at West Point Military Academy in 1829, and was for some time a professor of mathematics in that institution. In 1834 he opened a scientific school at Cincinnati, and eventua.ly took charge of the Observatory at that place. He was the author of several very valuable astronomical works, and by his writings and lectures did much toward spreading and popularizing scientific knowl edge. He was made a brigadier-general during the late war, and dieo of fever at Port Royal.

MOORE, THOMAS, was born in Dublin, May 28th, 1779. He wrote lyrics for the ancient music of his country, which were entitled Irish Melodies. One writer has said of these national strains, "They are musical almost beyond parallel in words." His most elaborate work was Lalla Rookh, an Oriental romance, and a poem of most gorgeous imagery and splendor. Such was its accuracy and completeness that it was as welcome in India as if it had been a native production. He died February 26th, 1852.

MULOCK, MISS DINAH MARIA, was born at Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, in 1826. Her first novel appeared in 1849, and was entitled Ogilvies, since which a long list of books has followed. John Halifax, Gentleman, and A Brave Lady, are perhaps her most popular works. She has contributed a great number of short poems and essays to Chambers' Journal and other periodicals. With the happiest power of delineation, and a wonderful combination of humor and pathos, she contrives to introduce, so insidiously that her purpose is most skillfully hidden, more moralistic teaching than any other novelist of the day.

NASBY, REV. PETROLEUM V., (D. R. Locke,) was for many years editor of the Toledo Blade. He has written a great number of letters, which consist of humorous hits upon the times.

NORTON, The HON. MRS., was born in England in 1808, and is a grand-daughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. She was married in 1827 to Hon. George Chapple Norton; but the union was dissolved in 1840. She wrote verses from her childhood, and in her first publication, which was a satire, she added illustrative drawings. The Quarterly Review styles Mrs. Norton the Byron of our modern poetesses.

POE, EDGAR ALLEN, was born in Baltimore in 1811. He was a man of brilliant genius, and both his prose and poetry attracted great attention in England and America. He led a wild, reckless life, and died in a hospital in his native city at the early age of thirty-eight.

PROUT, FATHER, (Rev. Francis Mahony,) was born at Cork, Ireland,

in 1805. He died in 1866.

READ, THOMAS BUCHANAN, was born in Guthrieville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1822. He was a poet, a painter, and a sculptor, showing unmistakable genius in all his efforts. Hawthorne thus speaks of him in the Marble Faun, in the chapter headed "An Esthetic Company:" “A poet-painter, whose song has the vividness of picture, and whose canvas is painted with angels, fairies, and water sprites, done to the ethereal life, because he sees them face to face in his poetic mood." For many years Mr. Read resided in Rome, Italy, where his kindness and polite attention to American travelers made him universally beloved by them. He returned to America early in the spring of 1872, and died at the Astor House, New York.

ROSSETTI, CHRISTIANA GEORGIANA, is a daughter of Gabriele Rossetti, an Italian patriot, who is professor of the Italian language and literature in King's College, London. She is a promising writer.

ROWE, MRS. H. C., resides at Bangor, Maine.

SAXE, JOHN GODFREY, was born at Highgate, Vermont, in 1816. He has written much poetry, chiefly of a humorous character, and has also made some valuable translations.

SCOTT, SIR WALTER, was born in Edinburgh, August 15th, 1771. When very young he read Percey's Reliques, gathering from it poetic inspiration; and at the early age of twelve he began to try his hand at verse. Determining to do for Scotland what Maria Edgeworth had done for Ireland, he gathered the legendary lore of his native land from its old ballads, romances, and tales of feudalism and highland bravery, and, with wonderful skill and most exquisite description of natural scenery, inwrought them in his poems and novels. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, The Lady of the Lake, with Ivanhoe, Guy Mannering, The Heart of Mid Lothian, and Rob Roy, comprise only a very small portion of his vast contribution to the literary store of the world. His name was not at first prefixed to the Waverly, the first of his tales by that name, for fear that his poetic fame might suffer; but the applause with which it was received soon proved that the caution was unnecessary. Still, the name Waverly was affixed to the long line of novels that followed. In February, 1830, his health began to fail, and upon the 21st of September, 1832, he breathed his last.

SEWARD, WILLIAM HENRY, was born in Orange County, New York, May 16th, 1801. He was Governor of New York, for many years a member of the United States Senate, and was Secretary of State under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson. When in very feeble health he made a journey round the world, and embodied his observations in a book, which has appeared since his death.

SHAKSPEARE, WILLIAM, was born at Stratford on Avon, in the county of Warwick, England, April 23d, 1564. As a dramatic writer he has never been equaled in any land or at any time; and the versatility of his knowledge and his skill in delineation have been the wonder of the world for a century past. He died April 23d, 1616.

SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE, the son of a baronet of England, Sir Timothy Shelley, of Castle Garring, was born August 4th, 1792. While \ yet a school-boy, he seemed to have an equal attachment for poetry and metaphysics, and nearly every page of his writings gives evidence of the strange union. His idealisms are sometimes grandly beautiful, sometimes ghastly repulsive. He met an accidental death by drowning, off the coast of Italy, in 1822.

SMITH, GERRIT, resides at Peterboro, New York. He has long been prominent as a philanthropist and pamphleteer, and has contributed extensively to journals of reform. He is now (1873) seventy-six years of age.

SMITH, HORACE, was born in London, in 1779. He was associated with his brother James in many literary works, mostly of a humorous character. The Rejected Addresses, a joint production of the brothers, consisted of clever imitations of Southey, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, and Moore, with parodies on Crabbe, Cobbett, and others. Horace Smith died July 12th, 1849.

STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE, was born in New York city in 1837. He has written Alice of Monmouth, The Blameless Prince, and many other

poems.

STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER, daughter of Dr. Lyman Beecher and wife of Rev. Calvin E. Stowe, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1812. The story of Uncle Tom's Cabin first appeared in the National Era, but was soon after published in book form. In less than a year 200,000 copies were sold in America, and a half million in England. She is now writing for the Christian Union.

TALMAGE, REV. T. DEWITT, is a distinguished clergyman of Brooklyn, New York. He has written Crumbs Swept Up, and other books. His sermons have been published by the Harpers, and he contributes regularly for The Methodist and other periodicals.

TAYLOR, BAYARD, was born in Kennett Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1825. Besides producing many books of travel, he has written several romances and lengthy poems, and has made many valuable translations from the German.

TENNYSON, ALFRED, the present poet-laureate of England, was born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, in 1810. He gave promise of superior talent in youth, taking a prize for a poem while still an under-graduate. The

Bugle Song is universally conceded to be the most exquisite specimen of lyrical poetry in our language. Locksley Hall is the most finished of all his more extended poems. Mr. Tennyson is known and loved as much in America as in England.

TROWBRIDGE, JOHN TOWNSEND, otherwise known as "Paul Creyton" and "Father Brighthopes," was born in Ogden, Monroe County, New York, in 1827. He is a versatile writer. Darius Green and his Flying Machine is inimitable in its rollicking humor, while the most touching pathos is found in the Vagabonds. He is now chief editor of that very excellent magazine, Our Young Folks.

THORNE, OLIVE, resides in Chicago. She writes for many periodicals. TWAIN, MARK (Clemens, Samuel Langhorne), was born at Florida, Missouri, in 1835. He is a humorous writer of great popularity. The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim's Progress has had a great sale in this country; while in England, where it was published under the name of Mark Twain's Travels on the Continent, the demand has scarcely been less. He has been editor of the Daily Alto, California, the Daily Express, Buffalo, New York, and co-editor of The Galaxy.

WALLER, JOHN FRANCIS, was born at Limerick, Ireland, in 1810, and graduated at Trinity College in that city in 1831. He is a member of the Irish bar.

WELBY, AMELIA, was born in Maryland in 1821.

WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF, was born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1807. He is a stanch Quaker, an ardent lover of nature, an enthusiastic reformer, and an intense patriot; and these points of individualism are very clearly seen in his writings.

WILLIAMS, REV. DWIGHT, is upon the editorial staff of the Northern Christian Advocate. He has written many fine poems.