=Bolton, Mrs. Sarah [Knowles].= _Ct._, 1841- ----. A miscellaneous writer of Cleveland whose successive collections of biographical sketches have been extremely popular. Famous Givers and Their Gifts; How Success is Won; Poor Boys who Became Famous; Girls who Became Famous; Famous American Authors; Famous American Statesmen; Successful Women; Social Studies in England; Famous Types of Womanhood; Famous Voyages and Explorers; Famous Leaders among Men; The Inevitable, a collection of pleasing, unpretentious verse. _Cr. Lo._ =Bolton, Mrs. Sarah Tittle [Barritt].= _Ky._, 1820-1893. A writer whose name is kept in mind by her oft quoted poem, Paddle Your Own Canoe. The Songs of a Life Time; Life and Poems of, 1880. =Bomberger, John Henry Augustus.= _Pa._, 1817-1890. A German Reformed theologian, president of Ursinus College, 1870-90. Infant Salvation and Baptism; Revised Liturgy; Reformed not Ritualistic. =Bond, George Phillips.= _Ms._, 1825-1865. An astronomer of note, professor in Harvard University. On the Construction of the Rings of Saturn; The Method of Least Squares; Mathematical Memoirs upon Mechanical Quadrations. =Boner, John Henry.= _N. C._, 1845- ----. A poet and littérateur of New York city. Whispering Pines: poems. =Bonner, Sherwood.= _See MacDowell._ =Bonney, Charles Carroll.= _N. Y._, 1831-1903. A lawyer of Chicago. Rules of Law for Carriage and Delivery of Persons and Property by Railway; Summary of the Law of Marine, Fire, and Life Insurance; Our Remedy in the Laws. =Booth, Henry Matthias.= _N. Y._, 1843-1899. A Presbyterian clergyman of New Jersey. The Heavenly Vision and other Sermons; Sunrise, Noonday, and Sunset of the Day of Grace; First Communion. _Ran._ =Booth, Mary Louise.= _L. I._, 1831-1889. Editor of Harper’s Bazar from its establishment in 1867 to 1889. She made over 30 valuable translations from the French. A History of the City of New York was her only piece of original writing. =Bostwick, Mrs. Helen Louise [Barron].= _N. H._, 1826- ----. A verse-writer of Bucyrus, Ohio. Buds, Blossoms and Berries. =Botta, Mrs. Anne Charlotte [Lynch].= _Vt._, 1820-1891. Wife of V. Botta, _infra_. A well-known New York writer whose weekly receptions were for many years the nearest approach in New York city to a _salon_. Handbook of Universal Literature; Leaves from the Diary of a Recluse; Poems. _Hou._ =Botta, Vincenzo.= _Iy._, 1818-1894. An Italian educator who came to the United States in 1853, and was for a long period a professor of Italian Literature in the University of New York. The System of Education in Piedmont; Life of Cavour; Historical Account of Modern Philosophy in Italy; Dante as Philosopher, Patriot, and Poet. _Scr._ =Botts, John Minor.= _Va._, 1802-1869. A Virginia lawyer eminent for his devotion to the Union during the Civil War. Letters on the Nebraska Question; The Great Rebellion: its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and Disastrous Failure. _Har._