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=Baker, William Mumford.= _D. C._, 1825-1883. A popular novelist
who was a Presbyterian clergyman in the Southwest until 1870, and
afterwards the pastor of a church in Boston. He was a vigourous
writer of considerable originality, whose earlier works possess
historic interest as pictures of a now past stage of civilization in
the Southern States. Inside: a Chronicle of Secession; The Virginians
in Texas; Oak Mot; The New Timothy; Mose Evans; His Majesty Myself;
Blessed St. Certainty; Thirlmore; Carter Quarterman; A Year Worth
Living; Colonel Dunwoddie: Millionaire; The Making of a Man; The
Ten Theophanies: the Manifestations of Christ before his Birth in
Bethlehem; John Westacott, a juvenile tale. _Har. Le. Ran. Rob._
=Balch, William Stevens.= _Vt._, 1806-1887. A Universalist clergyman,
long resident at Elgin, Illinois, and author of Lectures on Language;
Grammar of the English Language; Ireland as I Saw It; A Peculiar People.
=Baldwin, James Mark.= _S. C._, 1861- ----. A professor of psychology
at Princeton University since 1893. Psychology; Elements of Psychology;
Mental Development in the Child and Man; a translation of Ribot’s
“German Psychology of To-Day.” _Ho. Mac._
=Baldwin, John Denison.= _Ct._, 1809-1883. A journalist of Worcester,
Massachusetts. Raymond Hill, a Poem; Pre-Historic Nations; Ancient
America. _Har._
=Baldwin, Joseph G.= _Va._, 1811-1864. A once popular humourous writer
who was a jurist of prominence in Alabama and afterwards of California,
of which State he became chief justice. Flush Times in Alabama and
Mississippi; Party Leaders, able papers on Southern statesmen.
=Baldwin, Mrs. Lydia Wood.= _Ms._, 1836- ----. Rubina; A Yankee
School-Teacher in Virginia. _Fu._
=Balestier, Charles Wolcott.= 1861-1891. An American writer who
established himself as a publisher in London, and whose sister was
married to Rudyard Kipling the novelist. A Fair Device; Life of Blaine;
A Victorious Defeat; Benefits Forgot; The Naulahka (with Rudyard
Kipling); A Common Story. _See Century Magazine, April, 1892._ _Ap.
Har._
=Ballou, Adin.= _R. I._, 1803-1890. A Universalist clergyman of
Milford, Massachusetts. Christian Non-Resistance Defended; Treatise
on Spirit Manifestations; Primitive Christianity and its Corruptions;
History of the Town of Milford. _See New England Magazine, April, 1891._
=Ballou, Hosea.= _N. H._, 1771-1852. A Universalist theologian of note
in New England, and one of the founders of American Universalism.
With his son he established the Universalist Quarterly. Treatise on
Atonement; Notes on the Parables; An Examination of the Doctrine of
Future Retribution. _See Lives, by M. M. Ballou; Whittemore, 1854;
Safford, 1889. See Universalist Review, vol. 41._
=Ballou, Hosea.= _Vt._, 1796-1861. Nephew of H. Ballou, _supra_. A
Universalist clergyman who was the first president of Tufts College,
1854-61. Ancient History of Universalism.
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