=Austin, Arthur Williams.= _Ms._, 1807-1884. A lawyer of Boston. The Woman and the Queen, and Other Specimens of Verse, (1875). =Austin, Benjamin.= _Ms._, 1752-1820. A Boston merchant, active as a political writer and an especially violent champion of democracy. Constitutional Republicanism is a collection of some of his contributions to the newspapers of his day. =Austin, Coe Finch.= _N. Y._, 1831-1880. A botanist of Closter, New York, who published Musci Appalachani, a description of American mosses. =Austin, George Lowell.= _Ms._, 1849-1893. A Boston physician whose miscellaneous writings include Perils of American Women, a Doctor’s Talk with Maiden, Wife, and Mother; Water-Analysis, a Handbook for Water-Drinkers; Under the Tide; Life of Franz Schubert; Popular History of Massachusetts; Life and Deeds of General Grant; Longfellow; Life of Wendell Phillips. _Le._ =Austin, Henry.= _Ms._, 1858- ----. A lawyer of Boston, who has written The Law Concerning Farms; American Farm and Game Laws; American Fish and Game Laws; Liquor Law in New England. =Austin, Henry Willard.= _Ms._, 1858- ----. A journalist and littérateur of Boston. Vagabond Verses. =Austin, James Trecothick.= _Ms._, 1784-1870. A once prominent lawyer of Boston, who published a Life of Elbridge Gerry. =Austin, Mrs. Jane [Goodwin].= _Ms._, 1831-1894. A talented writer of historical fiction, much of whose life was spent in Boston. She was a careful student of colonial history, and will be long remembered for her series of romances relating to the Plymouth Pilgrims and their descendants. These include A Nameless Nobleman; Standish of Standish; Betty Alden: the First-Born Daughter of the Pilgrims; Dr. Le Baron and his Daughters; David Alden’s Daughter and Other Stories of Colonial Times. Other novels by her are Cipher; The Shadow of Moloch Mountain; Mrs. Beauchamp Brown; The Desmond Hundred; Dora Darling; Outpost. Nantucket Scraps is a volume of travel sketches; Moonfolk, a fairy tale. _Hou. Le. Put. Rob._ =Austin, Samuel.= _Ct._, 1760-1830. A Congregational clergyman of Worcester, Massachusetts, 1790-1815, and afterwards president of the University of Vermont. Views of the Church; Theological Essays; Letters on Baptism. =Austin, William.= _Ms._, 1778-1841. A Boston lawyer whose best claim to remembrance is that he was author of the famous sketch Peter Rugg: the Missing Man, which appeared in the New England Galaxy in 1824. It is a very remarkable imaginative study that in some respects anticipates the later work of Hawthorne. Other works of his are Letters from London (1804); The Human Character of Jesus Christ. _See Literary Papers of, with Biographical Sketch, 1890._ _Lit._ =Avery, Benjamin Parke.= _N. Y._, 1829-1875. A Californian journalist who was appointed minister to China in 1874. Californian Pictures in Prose and Verse. =Ayres, Alfred.= _See Osmun._