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=Gurowski, Adam.= _Po._, 1805-1866. A Polish count who came to the
United States in 1849, and was employed as a translator in the state
department at Washington. La Civilisation et la Russie; Pensées sur
l’Avenir des Polonais; Aus meinem Gedankenbuche; Eine Tour durch
Belgien; Impressions et Souvenirs; Die letzen Ereignisse in den drei
Theilen des alten Polen; Le Panslavisme; Russia as It Is; The Turkish
Question; A Year of the War (1855); America and Europe; Slavery in
History; My Diary, 1861-66.
=Gurteen, Stephen Humphreys Villiers.= _E._, 1840-1898. An Episcopal
clergyman of Buffalo, Toledo, and elsewhere, prominent as an organizer
of charities. Phases of Charity; Provident Schemes; What is Charity
Organization; How Paupers are Made; Casuistry; The Arthurian Epic; Epic
of the Fall of Man. _Put._
=Gustafson, Axel.= “Carl Johan.” _Sn._, 1849- ----. A Swedish writer
who came to the United States in 1868, and has published The Foundation
of Death: a Study of The Drink Question; The Drink Problem; Some
Thoughts on Moderation. _Fu._
=Gustafson, Mrs. Zadel [Barnes] [Buddington].= _Ct._, 1841- ----. Wife
of A. Gustafson, _supra_. Meg: a Pastoral, and Other Poems; Can the Old
Love? a novel; Genevieve Ward, a Biography. _Le._
=Gutheim, James Koppel.= _Wa._, 1817-1886. A Jewish clergyman of New
Orleans who published The Temple Pulpit, a volume of sermons; and a
translation of Gratz’s History of the Jews.
=Guyot= [ḡe-o´], =Arnold Henry.= _Sd._, 1807-1884. A geographer of
distinction who came to America in 1849, and from 1854 until his death
was professor of geography at Princeton College. He was the founder
of the Princeton Museum. Earth and Man; Creation, or the Biblical
Cosmogony in the Light of Modern Science; Physical Geography; Social
Economy. _See Memoir by J. A. Dana, supra._ _Scr._
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=Habberton, John.= _L. I._, 1842- ----. A journalist of New York city
whose first book, Helen’s Babies, enjoyed a popularity out of all
proportion to its literary merit. His subsequent writings include Other
People’s Children; The Barton Experiment; The Jericho Road; Who was
Paul Grayson?; The Scripture Club of Valley Rest; The Bowsham Puzzle;
Brueton’s Bayou; Country Luck; Grown-Up Babies; Life of Washington;
Some Folks; My Mother-in-Law; Mrs. Mayburn’s Twins; The Worst Boy in
Town; The Chautauquans; All He Knew; Honey and Gall; The Lucky Lover.
_Fl. Fu. Har. Ho. Lip._
=Habersham, Alexander Wylly.= _N. Y._, 1826-1883. A naval officer
who in later life was a tea merchant in Japan, and the author of My
Last Cruise, an Account of the United States North Pacific Exploring
Expedition. _Lip._
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