=Denison, Mrs. Mary [Andrews].= _Ms._, 1826- ----. Wife of C. W. Denison, _supra_. A prolific author of tales, mainly of home life, some of them to be classed as Sunday-school literature, while others are of a more ambitious character. Among them are Opposite the Jail; That Husband of Mine, which was issued anonymously and enjoyed an extraordinary popularity for a short time; That Wife of Mine; Rothmell; His Triumph; Old Slip Warehouse; Home Pictures; Like a Gentleman; If She Will, She Will. _Har. Le. Lip._ =Dennie, Joseph.= _Ms._, 1768-1812. A journalist and essayist of Philadelphia, whose reputation in his day vastly exceeded his deserts. The Lay Preacher, or Short Sermons for Idle Readers, is his only literary legacy. _See A. H. Smyth’s Philadelphia Magazines, 1892._ =Denton, Franklin Evert.= _O._, 1859- ----. A journalist of Cleveland who published in 1883 The Early Poems of Franklin Denton. =Depew, Chauncey Mitchell.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A very prominent lawyer and railway president of New York city, of wide fame as a ready after-dinner speaker. He has published Orations and After-Dinner Speeches; Later Speeches. _Cas._ =De Peyster, John Watts.= _N. Y._, 1821- ----. An historical writer of New York city, and a general of the State militia. Life of Torstenson; The Dutch at the North Pole and the Dutch in Maine; Decisive Conflicts of the Late Civil War; Personal and Military History of General Kearney; Life of Sir John Johnston; Mary, Queen of Scots, a Study; The Character of Mary and a Justification of Bothwell; Bothwell, a drama; The Thirty Years’ War; Before, At, and After Gettysburg; Life of Baron Cohorn; Caurausius, the Dutch Augustus; The Real Napoleon Bonaparte. =De Puy, Henry Walter.= _N. Y._, 1820- ----. A lawyer and journalist. Kossuth and his Generals; Louis Napoleon and his Times; Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys of ’76. =De Puy, William Harrison.= _N. Y._, 1821-1901. A Methodist clergyman of western New York. Threescore Years and Beyond; Statistics of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Home and Health; Home Economics, a very popular book. _Meth._ =Derby, Elias Hasket.= _Ms._, 1803-1880. A noted railway attorney of Boston. Two Months Abroad; Catholic Letters; The Overland Route to the Pacific; Position and Prospects of the United States with Respect to Finance, Commerce, and Prosperity. =Derby, George.= _Ms._, 1819-1874. Cousin of E. H. Derby, _supra_. A physician of Boston, prominent as a sanitarian, who published Anthracite and Health. =Derby, George Horatio.= “John Phœnix.” _Ms._, 1823-1861. Son of J. B. Derby, _infra_. A topographical engineer in the United States army who was a popular humourist in his day. Phœnixiana; Squibob Papers. =Derby, James Cephas.= _N. Y._, 1818-1892. A noted publisher of New York and San Francisco, and author of Fifty Years Among Authors, Books, and Publishers.