=Gardner, Samuel Jackson.= _Ms._, 1788-1864. A lawyer of Boston, and subsequently a journalist of Newark, New Jersey, whose essays over the signature “Decius” were issued in book form with the title Autumn Leaves. =Garfield, James Abram.= _O._, 1831-1881. The twentieth president of the United States. A statesman of Ohio, prominent as a general in the Federal army during the Civil War, and subsequently as a congressman till his elevation to the presidency. In July, 1881, he was mortally wounded by an assassin, and died in the September following. His Complete Works have been edited by B. A. Hinsdale, _infra_. _See Appleton’s American Biography; Life by J. R. Gilmore, infra, 1880; Eulogy by G. F. Hoar._ =Garland, Hamlin.= _Wis._, 1860- ----. A novelist who was for some years a resident of Boston, and then returned to the Western States, in which the scenes of his realistic fictions are mainly laid. Main Travelled Roads; A Spoil of Office; Prairie Folks; Prairie Songs; Crumbling Idols; Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly; Little Norsk. _St._ =Garland, Landon Cabell.= _Va._, 1810-1895. A mathematician who held professorships in several Southern colleges, and published Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical. =Garman, Samuel.= _Pa._, 1846- ----. A naturalist of Cambridge, assistant in the Agassiz Museum there. The Reptiles and Batrachians of North America; Reptiles and Batrachians of Bermuda. _Clke._ =Garnett, James Mercer.= _Va._, 1840- ----. A professor of English literature at the University of Virginia since 1882. Translation of Beowulf; Anglo-Saxon Poems; Translations of Elene, Judith, Athelstan, and Byrhtnoth. =Garretson, James Edmund.= “John Darby.” _Del._, 1828-1895. A physician of Philadelphia, dean of the dental college there from 1879. System of Oral Surgery; Odd Hours of a Physician; Thinkers and Thinking; Two Thousand Years Ago; Hours with John Darby; Brushland; 19th Century Common Sense. _Lip._ =Garrett, Alexander Charles.= _I._, 1832- ----. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Northern Texas. Historical Continuity, a series of Sketches on the Church. _Wh._ =Garrigues, Henry Jacques.= _Dk._, 1831- ----. A Danish physician who came to America in 1875, and since 1886 has been professor of practical obstetrics in the post-graduate medical school of New York city. Gastro-Elytrotomy; Practical Guide in Antiseptic Midwifery. =Garrison, James Harney.= _Mo._, 1842- ----. A clergyman and editor of religious journals. Heavenward Way; Alone With God. =Garrison, Joseph Fithian.= _N. J._, 1823-1892. An Episcopal clergyman of Camden, New Jersey, professor of canon law at the Philadelphia Episcopal Divinity School for some years. The Formation of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States; The American Prayer Book.