=Davis, Nathan Smith.= _N. Y._, 1817-1904. A Chicago physician, dean of the Northwestern University, whose principal writings include Lectures on Various Important Diseases; Principles and Practice of Medicine; Verdict of Science concerning the Effects of Alcohol on Man; Medical Education and Reform. =Davis, Noah Knowles.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. A professor of moral science in the University of Virginia since 1873. The Theory of Thought, a Treatise on Deductive Logic; the Elements of Inductive Logic; the Elements of Deductive Logic. _Har._ =Davis, Peter Seibert.= _Md._, 1828-1892. A German Reformed divine who wrote The Young Parson. =Davis, Mrs. Rebecca Blaine [Harding].= _Pa._, 1831- ----. Wife of L. C. Davis, _supra_. A novelist whose first story, Life in the Iron Mills, a powerful but sombre study of labouring-class life, attracted great attention in the earlier pages of The Atlantic Monthly. Her later works in fiction include Margret Howth; Waiting for the Verdict; Dallas Galbraith; A Law unto Herself; Kitty’s Choice; John Andross; Doctor Warrick’s Daughters; Silhouettes of American Life; Kent Hampden, a Story of a Boy; Natasqua; The Faded Leaf of History; Frances Waldeaux. _Har. Lip. Scr._ =Davis, Reuben.= _Tn._, 1813-1890. A Mississippi lawyer and a general in the Confederate service, who was the author of Recollections of Mississippi and the Mississippians. _Hou._ =Davis, Richard Bingham.= _N. Y._, 1771-1799. A verse-writer of New York city. _See Poems, with Memoir edited by John T. Irving, 1807._ =Davis, Richard Harding.= _Pa._, 1864- ----. Son of L. C. and R. H. Davis, _supra_. A popular New York writer whose first book, Gallegher and Other Stories, brought him very suddenly into notice in 1890. His work is always characterized by dash and spirit, but exhibits some defects of style, and touches scarcely more than the superficial side of life. Van Bibber and Others; The Princess Aline; The Exiles; The West from a Car Window; Our English Cousins; About Paris; The Rulers of the Mediterranean; Three Gringos in Venezuela; Stories for Boys. _Har. Scr._ =Davis, Varina Anne Jefferson.= _Va._, 1864-1898. Daughter of Jefferson Davis, _supra_. An Irish Knight of the 19th Century, a Sketch of Robert Emmet; The Veiled Doctor. _Har._ =Davis, William Bramwell.= _O._, 1832- ----. A physician and surgeon of Cincinnati. Report on Vaccination; Consumption and Life Insurance; Revaccination; Intestinal Obstruction; Progress of Therapeutics; The Alcohol Question. =Davis, William Morris.= _Pa._, 1850- ----. A professor of physical geography in Harvard University since 1890. Nimrod of the Sea, or the American Whaleman; Whirlwinds, Cyclones, and Tornadoes; Elementary Meteorology. _Gi. Har. Le._ =Davis, William Watts Hart.= _Pa._, 1820- ----. El Gringo, or New Mexico and her People; History of the 104th Pennsylvania Regiment; The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico; History of the Doylestown Guards. _Har._