=Crane, Stephen.= _N. J._, 1870-1900. A popular novelist of New York City. George’s Mother; The Black Riders and Other Lines, a collection of wilfully eccentric verse; The Red Badge of Courage, a striking historical romance of the Civil War in America; Maggie, a story of slum life. _Ap. Cop._ =Crane, Thomas Frederick.= _N. Y._, 1844- ----. A professor of Romance languages at Cornell University. Italian Popular Tales; The Exempla, or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones of Jacques de Vitry; Tableaux de la Revolution Française; Le Romantisme Française; La Société Française au Dixseptiéme Siècle; Chansons Populaires de la France. =Crane, William Carey.= _Va._, 1816-1885. A Baptist clergyman of Texas, president of Baylor University, 1863-1885, which was renamed Crane College in his honour, 1885. Discourses; Life of Sam. Houston, and lesser works. =Crawford, Mrs. Alice [Arnold].= _Wis._, 1850-1874. A Milwaukee writer who published A Few Thoughts for a Few Friends, a collection of verse. =Crawford, Francis Marion.= _Iy._, 1854- ----. A son of the noted sculptor, Crawford. His life has been mainly spent in Italy, where he has devoted himself to novel-writing with great perseverance. His novels are of varying degrees of excellence and always entertaining, but none of them reach the high-water mark of enduring excellence. Mr. Isaacs; Dr. Claudius; A Roman Singer; To Leeward; An American Politician; Zoroaster; Adam Johnstone’s Sin; A Tale of a Lonely Parish; Saracinesca; Marzio’s Crucifix; Paul Patoff; With the Immortals; Greifenstein; Sant’ Ilario; A Cigarette-maker’s Romance; Khaled; The Witch of Prague; The Three Fates; Don Orsino; Children of the King; Pietro Ghisleri; Marion Darche; The Ralstons; Katherine Lauderdale; Casa Braccio; Love in Idleness, a Tale of Bar Harbour; The Novel: What it Is; Constantinople, a book of travels; Taquisara. _See Vedder’s American Writers._ _Mac. Mer. Scr._ =Crawford, Nathaniel Morton.= _Ga._, 1811-1871. A Baptist minister of Kentucky, president of Georgetown College, Kentucky, 1865-71, and the author of Christian Paradoxes. =Crayon, Porte.= _See Strother._ =Creswell, Mrs. Julia [Pleasants].= _Al._, 1827-1886. A Southern writer who published Aphelia and Other Poems by Two Cousins; Callamura, an allegorical novel. =Crocker, George Glover.= _Ms._, 1843- ----. A lawyer of Boston. Principles of Procedure in Deliberative Assemblies. =Crocker, Mrs. Hannah [Mather].= _Ms._, 1765-1847. A granddaughter of Cotton Mather, _infra_. Letters on Free Masonry; The School of Reform; Observations on the Rights of Woman. =Crocker, Uriel Haskell.= _Ms._, 1832-1902. Brother of G. G. Crocker, _supra_. A lawyer of Boston. The Cause of Hard Times; Notes on Common Forms; Book of Massachusetts Law; Excessive Saving a Cause of Commercial Distress; Notes on General Statutes of Massachusetts (with G. G. Crocker). _Lit._