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=Anderson, Rasmus Björn.= _Wis._, 1846- ----. A Norse scholar of
Norwegian descent who has translated Björnson’s novels and written much
in relation to Norse mythology. America not Discovered by Columbus;
Norse Mythology; Viking Tales of the North; The Younger Edda; The Elder
Edda. _Sc._
=Anderson, Rufus.= _Me._, 1796-1880. A clergyman, who was secretary
of the American Board of Foreign Missions, 1824-74. Foreign Missions,
their Relations and Claims; History of the American Board’s Missions in
the Sandwich Islands, Turkey and India, Peloponnesus and Greek Islands.
_C. P. S._
=Andrew, James Osgood.= _Ga._, 1794-1871. A bishop of the Methodist
Church South. Family Government; Miscellanies.
=Andrews, Christopher Columbus.= _N. H._, 1829- ----. A brevet
major-general in the United States army, who was minister to Sweden
1869-77, and consul-general to Brazil 1882-85. Minnesota and Dakota
(1857); Practical Treatise on the Revenue Laws of the United States;
Hints to Company Officers on their Military Duties; History of the
Campaign of Mobile; Digests of the Opinions of the Attorneys-General of
the United States; Brazil, its Condition and Prospects (1887), third
enlarged edition (1895). _Ap._
=Andrews, Elisha Benjamin.= _N. H._, 1844- ----. A prominent educator,
president of Brown University. Institutes of General History;
Institutes of Economics; Brief Institutes of our Economical History; An
Honest Dollar; Eternal Words and Other Sermons; History of the United
States; Wealth and Moral Law; History of the Last Quarter Century in
the United States, 1870-95. _Gi. Scr. Sil._
=Andrews, Eliza Frances.= _Ga._, 1840- ----. An educator of Macon,
Georgia, whose writing is mainly in the line of fiction. A Mere
Adventurer; A Family Secret; How he was Tempted; Prince Hal.
=Andrews, Ethan Allen.= _Ct._, 1787-1858. An educator who was at
one time professor of ancient languages in the University of North
Carolina. Beside a Latin-English Dictionary, he published a valuable
series of classical text-books. _Hou._
=Andrews, Israel Ward.= _Ct._, 1815-1888. President of Marietta
College. His only published work of importance is a Manual of the
Constitution of the United States. _Va._
=Andrews, Jane.= _Ms._, 1833-1887. A writer of Newburyport whose books
for children have long been deservedly popular. Seven Little Sisters
who Live on the Round Ball that Floats in the Air; The Seven Little
Sisters Prove their Sisterhood; The Stories Mother Nature Told; Ten
Boys who Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now; Only a Year and what
it Brought. _Gi._
=Andrews, Samuel James.= _Ct._, 1817- ----. Brother of I. W. Andrews,
_supra_. An Irvingite clergyman of Hartford, Connecticut. The Life of
Our Lord upon Earth; God’s Revelations of Himself to Men. _Scr._
=Andrews, Sidney.= 1837-1880. A Boston journalist. The Art of Flying;
The South since the War.
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