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=Coles, Abraham.= _N. J._, 1813-1891. A New Jersey physician who
published a volume containing thirteen original translations of the
Dies Irae. His other works include Stabat Mater Dolorosa; Stabat Mater
Speciosa; Old Gems in New Settings; The Microcosm, a psychological
poem; The Evangel in Verse; The Light of the World; The Psalms in
Verse, with notes. _See Biographical Sketch, edited by J. A. Coles,
1892._ _Ap._
=Coles, George.= _E._, 1792-1858. A Methodist clergyman who published
The Antidote, or Revelation Defended; Concordance of the Scriptures;
Heroines of Methodism.
=Colesworthy, Daniel Clement.= _Me._, 1810-1893. A once noted
bookseller of Boston, who was also a writer. Some of his poems for
children, like “Don’t Kill the Birds” and “Little Words of Kindness,”
have been extremely popular. Sunday School Hymns; Advice to an
Apprentice; Opening Buds; Chronicles of Casco Bay; A Group of Children,
and Other Poems; School is Out; The Year; A Day in the Woods, in verse,
comprise the most of his writings.
=Collens, Thomas Wharton.= _La._, 1812-1879. A well-known jurist of New
Orleans, who wrote The Martyr Patriots, a tragedy; Humanics; Views of
the Labour Movement; The Eden of Labour.
=Collier, Mrs. Ada [Langworthy].= _Ia._, 1843- ----. A writer of
Dubuque, whose Lilith, the Legend of the First Woman, is a poem of not
a little merit.
=Collier, Joseph Avery.= _Ms._, 1828-1864. A Reformed Dutch clergyman
of Kingston, New York. The Right Way, or the Gospel Applied to the
Intercourse of Individuals and Nations; The Christian Home; The Young
Men of the Bible; Pleasant Paths for Little Feet; Little Crowns; Dawn
of Heaven.
=Collier, Peter.= _N. Y._, 1835-1896. A chemist of distinction for
several years attached to the Department of Agriculture at Washington.
Sorghum, its Culture and Manufacture Economically Considered;
Investigations of Sorghum as a Sugar Producing Plant. _Clke_.
=Collier, Robert Laird.= _Md._, 1837-1890. A Unitarian clergyman who
in his later years was a London correspondent of the New York Herald.
Every-Day Subjects in Sunday Sermons; Meditations on the Essence of
Christianity; Henry Irving: a Sketch and a Criticism; English Home
Life. _A. U. A. Hou. Rob._
=Collier, Thomas Stephens.= _N. Y._, 1842-1893. A physician and poet
whose home was at New London, Connecticut. Song Spray, a collection of
poems, 1889.
=Collins, Charles.= _Me._, 1813-1875. A Methodist preacher and educator
of Tennessee, who published Methodism and Calvinism Compared.
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