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# The Best Books/1910–1935; 3rd ed.

Third edition
* Part 1 (1910) (transcription project)
* Part 2 (1912) (transcription project)
* Part 3 (1923) (transcription project)
* Part 4 (1926) (transcription project)
* Part 5 (1931) (transcription project)
* Part 6 (1935) (transcription project)
A Reader's Guide and Literary Reference Book
By William Swan Sonnenschein (William Swan Stallybrass)
* A: Theology
* B: Mythology and Folklore
* C: Philosophy
London George Routledge and Sons, Limited 1910
A Reader's Guide and Literary Reference Book
By William Swan Sonnenschein (William Swan Stallybrass)
* D: Society
* E: Geography
London George Routledge and Sons, Limited 1912
A Reader's Guide and Literary Reference Book
By William Swan Sonnenschein (William Swan Stallybrass)
* F: History and Historical Biography
* G: Archæology and Historical Collaterals
London George Routledge and Sons, Limited 1923
A Reader's Guide and Literary Reference Book
By William Swan Sonnenschein (William Swan Stallybrass)
* H: Natural Science
* H*: Medicine and Surgery
* I: Arts and Trades
London George Routledge and Sons, Limited 1926
A Reader's Guide and Literary Reference Book
By William Swan Sonnenschein (William Swan Stallybrass)
London George Routledge and Sons, Limited 1931
A Reader's Guide and Literary Reference Book
By William Swan Sonnenschein (William Swan Stallybrass)
Part VI: Index Including Synopsis of Classification, etc. By Frances H. S. Stallybrass
Preface By W. T. S. Stallybrass, D.C.L.
List of British Publishers, Learned Societies, etc. By Lawrence H. Dawson
London George Routledge and Sons, Limited 1935
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# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Kendall, Ezra Otis

​KENDALL, Ezra Otis, educator, was born in Wilmington, Mass., May 17, 1818. He attended an academy in Woburn, Mass., and in 1835 removed to Philadelphia, Pa., where he studied mathematics under his half-brother, Sears Cook Walker (q.v.). He became professor of theoretical mathematics and astronomy in Central high school, Philadelphia, Pa., upon its organization in 1838 and with Mr. Walker established a thoroughly equipped astronomical observatory in connection with the school. He was professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, 1855–99; vice-provost of the university, 1883–94; Flower professor of astronomy there, 1892–94; sometime dean of the college faculty and honorary vice-provost; and honorary dean of the faculty, 1894–99. He made important contributions to the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac after 1851, giving especial attention to the planets Jupiter and Neptune. He was a member of the American Philosophical society from 1842 and sometime its vice-president; a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1882, and of the American Mathematical society from April, 1891. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1888, in acknowledgment of his scientific attainments. He published a work on uranography; made observations for the U.S. coast survey, and contributed astronomical articles to scientific journals. He was married in 1844 to Emma Lavinia Dick, and their son, Otis Howard Kendall (University of Pennsylvania. A.B., 1866. LL.B., 1868, A. M. 1869), was assistant professor of mathematics there, 1877–89; received the degree Ph. D. from Wittenberg, 1885. and became headmaster of the American faculty of actuaries, 1890. Ezra Otis Kendall died in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 5, 1899.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Ermentrout, Daniel

​ERMENTROUT, Daniel, representative, was born at Reading, Pa., Jan. 24, 1837; son of William and Justina (Silvis) Ermentrout; grandson of Jolm Ermentrout, and great-grandson of Christopher Ermentrout, who was a son of Jolm Ermentrout. He attended the public schools, Franklin and Marshall college, and Elmwood institute, and was admitted to the bar in 1859, practising in his native place. He was district attorney of Berks county, 1862-65; city solicitor of Reading, 1867-70; and state senator, 1873-80. He was a Democratic representative from Pennsylvania in the 47th, 48th. 49th and 50th congresses, 1881-89, and in the 55th congress, 1897- 99. He died in Reading, Pa., Sept. 17, 1899.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Dunbar, Paul Laurence

​DUNBAR, Paul Laurence, poet, was born in Dayton, Ohio, June 27, 1872; son of Joshua and Matilda (Burton) Dunbar, and grandson of Eliza Black. His parents were full-blooded negroes, his father having escaped from slavery in Kentucky, and his mother having been freed from bondage by the events of the civil war. Paul was graduated from the Dayton high school in 1891 and engaged in journalism. In March, 1896, he became a messenger in the Montgomery county, Ohio, court of common pleas, and in October, 1897, he entered the library of congress, Washington, D.C., as assistant. He was married, March 6, 1898, to Alice Ruth Moore of New Orleans, La. From his early childhood he showed literary talent, and during his high school course he was editor of the school paper, into whose columns many of his first writings found their way. His poems attracted the attention and admiration of James Whitcomb Riley and William Dean Howells, the latter using his influence to bring the young poet before the public. He is said to be the first negro poet to write in the English language. His published works include: Oak and Ivy (1892); Majors and Minors (1895); Lyrics of a Lowly Life (1896); Folks from Dixie (1898); The Uncalled (1898); and Lyrics of the Hearth-Side (1899).
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Estes, Dana

​Estes, Dana, publisher, was born in Gorham, Maine, March 4, 1840; son of Joseph and Maria (Edwards) Estes, and a descendant through Joseph, Robert, Samuel, Henry and Beajamin, from Richard (son of Robert Estes of Dover, England), who landed in Boston, Mass., Sept. 27, 1684, and settled at Piscataqua, Oct. 11, 1684. Dana was educated in the public schools, and was a clerk in a general store in Augusta, Maine, 1855–59. He engaged in the book business with Henry D. Degen & Son in Boston, 1859–61. He served in the Union army from April, 1861, until the second battle of Bull Run, Aug. 31, 1862, when his only brother, Albert S. Estes, was killed, and where he was disabled from further service. He re-entered the book business as a clerk in 1864, and in 1866 became a member of the firm of Degen, Estes & Co. He was subsequently connected with the house of Lee & Shepard, until 1872, when he became a partner in the firm of Estes & Lauriat, which was succeeded by Dana Estes & Co., of which he was the head in 1898. He was elected a member of the American association for the advancement of science; of the American archæological institute and of various social and literary clubs. He received the degree of A.M. from Bowdoin college in 1898. He was married April 11, 1867, to Louise S., daughter of Peter and Mary (Filgate) Reid of England, and their sons, Frederick Reid, Dana Jr., and Philip Sydney, became interested in the publishing business. Mr. Estes' second wife, to whom he was married Nov. 10, 1884, was Grace D., daughter of Samuel E. and Charlotte Haven (Ladd) Coues of Portsmouth, N.H. He edited Half-Hour Recreations in Popular Science, and compiled several volumes of juvenile and standard poetry.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Hayes, Augustus Allen

​HAYES, Augustus Allen, chemist, was born in Windsor, Vt., Feb. 28, 1806. He was graduated from the Norwich military school in 1823, and studied chemistry under Prof. James Freeman Dana at Dartmouth, 1823-26. He was assistant professor of chemistry in the New Hampshire medical college, 1826-28, and an expert chemist in Boston, Mass. , 1828-82. He was the discoverer of the organic alkaloid sanguinaria; invented in 1838 a novel arrangement of steam boilers for the economical generation of steam: and first suggested the application of oxides of iron in refining pig-iron; and a process for the production of saltpetre from sodium nitrate by the action of potassium hydroxide. He was [state assayer of Massachusetts and author of papers on The Cause of the Color of Lake Leman, Geneva; The Bed Oxide of Zinc in New Jersey, and technical papers contributed to the Proceedings of various scientific societies of which he was a member and to the American Journal of Science. He received the honorary degree of M.D. from Dartmouth in 1846. He died in Brookline, Mass., June 21, 1882.
# The American Journal of Sociology/Volume 03

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### Articles

* Bates, R. C.Character Building at Elmira
* Bliss, H. L.Eccentric Official Statistics: II
* Bliss, H. L.Eccentric Official Statistics: III
* Closson, C. C.The Hierarchy of European Races
* Commons, J. R.The Junior Republic: I
* Commons, J. R.The Junior Republic: II
* Fairchild, G. T.Populism in a State Educational Institution
* Forrest, J. D.A New Plan for the Control of Quasi-Public Works
* Hegner, H. F.Scientific Value of Social Settlements
* Howerth, I. W.A Programme for Social Study: II
* Howerth, I. W.A Programme for Social Study: III
* Kelley, Florence.The Illinois Child-Labor Law
* King, W. A.The Mortality Statistics of the Census in Relation to Occupations
* Laidlaw, Walter.A Plea and Plan for a Coöperative Church Parish System in Cities
* MacLean, Annie Marion.Factory Legislation for Women in the United States
* Millis, H. A.Law Relating to the Relief and Care of Dependents: I
* Millis, H. A.Law Relating to the Relief and Care of Dependents: II
* Millis, H. A.Law Relating to the Relief and Care of Dependents: III
* Millis, H. A.Law Relating to the Relief and Care of Dependents: IV
* Monroe, Paul.Possibilities of the Present Industrial System
* Moore, E. C.Social Value of the Saloon
* Ratzel, Friedrich.Studies in Political Areas: I
* Ratzel, Friedrich.Studies in Political Areas: II
* Rauschenbusch, Walter.Stake of the Church in the Social Movement
* Ross, E. A.Social Control: VIII
* Ross, E. A.Social Control: IX
* Ross, E. A.Social Control: X
* Ross, E. A.Social Control: XI
* Ross, E. A.Social Control: XII
* Ross, E. A.Social Control: XIII
* Simmel, Georg.The Persistence of Social Groups I
* Simmel, Georg.The Persistence of Social Groups II
* Simons, A. M.A Statistical Study in Causes of Poverty
* Small, A. W.The Sociologists' Point of View
* Small, A. W.The Meaning of the Social Movement
* Starr, Frederick.Study of the Criminal in Mexico
* Stuart, W. M.Official Statistics
* Thomas, W. I.On a Difference in the Metabolism of the Sexes
* Thomas, W. I.The Relation of Sex to Primitive Social Control
* Tosti, Gustavo.Suicide in the Light of Recent Studies
* Veditz, C. W. A.Sociological Instruction at Paris
* Ward, L. F.Utilitarian Economics
* Woodruff, C. R.The Philadelphia Gas Works: A Modern Instance
# The Beauties of Burn's Poems

There are differences between the titles given in the Table of Contents and those at the head of the poems; where this is the case, the latter have been used.
ΤHΕ
BEAUTIES
OF
Burn's Poems:
CONSISTING OF
THE MOST ADMIRED PIECES
OF THAT CELEBRATED
SCOTS POET.
FALKIRK: PRINTED & SOLD BY T. JOHNSTON.
1819.
CONTENTS
[Falkirk—T. Johnston, Printer.]
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# The Beauties of Burn's Poems/A Prayer in the Prospect of Death

A PRAYER,
In the Prospect of Death.
# The Beatific Vision

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* "The Beatific Vision", a poem by G. K. Chesterton ("Then Bernard smiled at me, that I should gaze⁠")
* "The Beatific Vision", a poem by G. K. Chesterton ("Through what fierce incarnations, furled")
# The Beauties of Burn's Poems/A Dream

A DREAM.
[On reading, in the public papers, the Laureat's Ode, with the other Parade of June 4, 1786 the Author was no sooner dropt asleep. than he imagined himself transported to the Birth-day Levee; and, in his dreaming fancy, made the following Address.]
* ↑ King Henry V.
* ↑ Sir John Falstaff—See Shakespeare.
* ↑ Alluding to the Newspaper account of a certain Royal Sailor's amour.
# The Big Four

THE BIG FOUR
The incomparable Hercule Poirot and his bluff but somewhat impulsive friend Hastings find themselves unexpectedly drawn into a ghoulish whirlpool of terror and brutality. The Big Four, the toughest and best organised crime syndicate of all time aims to reduce the world to a state of anarchy in order to satisfy their voracious lust for power by becoming universal dictators. Their Chinese leader is already the Eminence Grise behind the Communist world, the second in command is an American multi-millionaire, the third is a brilliant Frenchwoman and the fourth is the anonymous killer who ruthlessly destroys those who combat the Four. In spite of the seeming omnipresence of the organisation and a grim succession of murders, Poirot calmly unravels a jumbled mass of evidence which leads to a tense climax in a cave in the Dolomites.
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First published 1927
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# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Andrews, Christopher Columbus

​ANDREWS, Christopher Columbus, statesman, was born in Hillsborough, N. H., Oct. 27, 1829. He was educated in a country academy, studied law, and practised his profession in Newton and in Boston, Mass., until 1854. He then removed to Kansas, and afterward to Minnesota. He became locally prominent in politics, and was chosen state senator of Minnesota in 1859. Though he opposed the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, he was an ardent supporter of his administration, and he enlisted as a private in a Minnesota regiment. He served throughout the war with bravery and honor, and in March, 1865, was brevetted major-general. From 1869 to 1877 he was minister to Norway and Sweden, under appointment by President Grant, in 1880 was appointed supervisor of the United States census in the district of Minnesota, and in 1882 President Arthur appointed him consul-general to Brazil. Among his published works are: "Minnesota and Dakota" (1856); "Practical Treatise on the Revenue Laws of the United States" (1858); "Hints to Company Officers on their Military Duties" (1863); and a "Digest of the Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the United States" (1867); and "Brazil, Its Conditions and Prospects."
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Andrews, Elisha Benjamin

​ANDREWS, Elisha Benjamin, educator, was born in Hinsdale, N.H., Jan. 10, 1844, son of Erastus and Almira (Bartlett) Andrews. In boyhood he worked on his father's farm, and his opportunities for early school training were limited. His ambition to prepare himself for college was changed into a patriotic desire to serve his country, when in 1861 President Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand volunteers. A boy of sixteen he enlisted as a soldier in the 4th Connecticut infantry, subsequently the 1st Connecticut heavy artillery. He was commissioned 2d lieutenant in 1863. In the summer of 1864, at the siege of Petersburg, Va., he received a wound that destroyed the sight of his left eye, and incapacitated him for further active service, and he received an honorable discharge in October, 1864. He resumed his studies at Power's institute and the Wesleyan academy, and matriculated at Brown university in 1866, graduating in 1870. He was appointed principal of the Connecticut literary institution, Suffield, Conn., remaining there two years. He entered Newton theological seminary in 1872, was graduated in 1874, and became pastor of the First Baptist church at Beverly, Mass., resigning in 1875 to accept the presidency of Denison university, Granville, O. His success there led to his election to the chair of homiletics in the Newton theological seminary, in 1879. This position he resigned in 1882 to accept the professorship of political economy and history in Brown university, which position he held until 1888, spending one year of the time in Germany at the universities of Berlin and Munich. In 1888 he became professor of political economy and public finance in Cornell university. His varied attainments and his fame as an educator made him a prominent candidate for the presidency of Brown university, and upon the resignation of President Robinson in 1889 he was unanimously chosen, and served in 1889-98. He was superintendent of the public schools of Chicago, Ill., 1898-1900, and on Sept. 22, 1900, accepted the chancellorship of the University of Nebraska. He was one of the commissioners sent by the United States government to the monetary conference at Brussels in 1892. He received the degree of D.D. from Colby in 1884, and that of LL.D. from the University of Nebraska in 1884, from Brown in 1900, and from the University of Chicago in 1901. Among his published works are: "Institutes of Our Constitutional History" (1887); "Institutes of General History" (1889); "Institutes of Economics" (1889); "Eternal Words," a volume of sermons (1894); "Wealth and Moral Law" (1894); "History of the United States" (2 vols., 1894); "An Honest Dollar, a Plea for Bimetallism" (1894); "History of the United States during the Last Quarter Century" (2 vols., 1896). He became a member of the Rhode Island historical society. He was married, Nov. 25, 1870, to Ella Anna Allen.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Andrews, Edmund

​ANDREWS, Edmund, surgeon, was born in Putney, Vt., April 22, 1824. After his graduation from the University of Michigan in 1849 he took up the study of medicine, receiving the degrees of M.D. and A.M. in 1852. From 1851 to 1853 he was demonstrator of anatomy in the university, and in 1853-'54 was also assistant lecturer on ​anatomy. In 1854 and 1855 he was professor of comparative anatomy and demonstrator of human anatomy, resigning to accept a position in the Rust medical college. He went to Chicago in 1856, where he became a prominent surgeon. He aided in founding the Chicago medical college, and was made professor of the principles and practices of surgery and of clinical and military surgery in that institution. At the outbreak of the civil war, he joined the 1st Illinois light artillery as hospital surgeon. After the war he visited the chief European hospitals. He was surgeon-in-chief of Mercy hospital, consulting surgeon of various charitable institutions, and taught the science of surgery in the Northwestern university medical school. He made many valuable improvements in surgical instruments and his original investigations led to the use of free incision, digital exploration, and disinfection of lumbar abscesses, which treatment had been supposed unsafe. He published a work, "Rectal and Aural Surgery," which passed through several editions. He was for many years president of the Chicago academy of science, and president of the Illinois state medical society. In 1881 he received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Michigan.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Andrews, Edward Gayer

​ANDREWS, Edward Gayer, M. E. bishop, was born at New Hartford, N. Y., August 7, 1825. He was educated at the Wesleyan university at Middletown, Conn., from which institution he was graduated in 1847, and entered upon his work as a Methodist preacher. He was ordained deacon in 1848 and elder in 1850. In 1864 he went to Cazenovia, N. Y., where for two years he was a professor, and from 1866 to 1874 was principal of the seminary. He was a member of the Oneida conference in 1848, and of the New York East conference in 1864. In 1872 he was elected bishop and ordained at Brooklyn, N. Y. He visited foreign missions in 1894. He received the degree of LL.D. from Allegheny, and from Wesleyan university in 1900.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Andrew, James Osgood

​ANDREW, James Osgood, M. E. bishop, was born in Wilkes County, Ga., May 3, 1794. In 1812 he entered the South Carolina conference; in 1814 was ordained a deacon in the Methodist Episcopal church and was admitted to the ministry ​in 1816. He preached on various circuits in Georgia and South Carolina, and was afterwards in pastoral charge of churches at Savannah, Ga., Charleston, S. C., Greensboro, Ga., and Athens, Ga. In 1829 he became presiding elder, and in 1832 was made bishop. In 1844 at the general conference in New York he was asked to resign his bishopric, or to give freedom to his slaves, of whom he owned several. He decided to give in his resignation, but the southern delegates requested him to reserve his decision for a season, and in a body protested against the action of the general conference and repudiated its jurisdiction. Later at the conference meeting at Petersburg, Va., May, 1846, the Methodist church, south, was formed, which severed all connection with the parent body. Bishop Andrew was selected as its senior bishop. In 1866 he was retired from active duty at his own request. He was the author of "Family Government," and a volume of "Miscellanies." He died at Mobile, Ala., March 1, 1871.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Andrews, Allen S.

​ANDREWS, Allen S., educator, was born in Randolph county, N. C. His father was a soldier in the war of 1812. Allen S. was born near Fuller's Ford, N. C., the oldest of nine children. He was reared a farmer's boy, accustomed to active life on a plantation. In his early manhood he was a Methodist preacher connected with the North Carolina annual conference. He was elected to the professorship of English literature in the Greensboro female college, and at the end of his first year was elected professor of English in Trinity college. N. C., where he completed his education and was graduated in 1854. In the autumn of 1854, he was transferred to the Alabama annual conference, and took charge of the collegiate institute at Glenville, Ala. In 1837 he resigned from that institution and returned to the active work of the ministry. He was president of the Southern university 1871-'75, and 1883, and served the itinerant ministry, 1875-'82. He received the degree D.D. from Southern university in 1870, and LL.D. from that and from the Agricultural and Mechanical college at Auburn, Ala., in 1886. He was a member of the first œcumenical conference of Methodism in London, in 1880, and of several general conferences of the church. He died at Union Springs, Ala., Dec. 4, 1898.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Andrews, Charles Bartlett

​ANDREWS, Charles Bartlett, governor of Connecticut, was born in Sunderland, Mass., Nov. 4, 1834, son of Erastus and Almira (Bartlett) Andrews, and a descendant of Williams Andrews of Hartford, Conn. Charles was graduated at Amherst in 1858; removed to Connecticut; was State senator, 1868-'69; a representative in the legislature in 1878, governor of Connecticut, 1879-'81; judge of the superior court in 1882, and chief justice of the supreme court of errors, 1890-1901. He received the degree of LL.D. from Connecticut Wesleyan university, 1879, from Yale in 1895. He died in Litchfield, Conn., Sept. 12, 1902.