=Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth.= _N._, 1848-1895. A writer of Norwegian birth, long resident in New York, and a professor in Columbia College at the time of his death. His novels and sketches are pleasantly written, but as essays in fiction are not much above average merit. Gunnar; A Norseman’s Pilgrimage; Tales from Two Hemispheres; Falconberg; A Daughter of the Philistines; Queen Titania; Ilka on the Hill Top and Other Stories; Goethe and Schiller, their Lives and Works; Literary and Social Silhouettes; The Story of Norway, an historical work; Social Strugglers; Essays on Scandinavian Literature; Essays on German Literature; Idylls of Norway and Other Poems; the Norseland series of books for boys, including: Norseland Tales; Boyhood in Norway; The Modern Vikings; Against Heavy Odds; The Golden Calf. _Fl. Har. Mac. Scr._ =Boynton, Edward Carlisle.= _Vt._, 1825-1893. A United States army officer. History of West Point. =Bozman, John Leeds.= _Md._, 1757-1823. A once noted Maryland lawyer. Historical Sketch of the Prime Causes of the Revolutionary War; History of Maryland. _See Memoir by S. A. Harrison, 1888._ =Brace, Charles Loring.= _Ct._, 1826-1890. Son of J. P. Brace, _infra_. A noted clergyman and philanthropist of New York city who founded the Children’s Aid Society, and gave much of his time to philanthropic work. Norse-folk; Home Life in Germany; The Races of the Old World; Gesta Christi; The Dangerous Classes of New York. _See Life, chiefly told in his own Letters._ _Scr._ =Brace, John Peirce.= _Ct._, 1793-1872. A once prominent educator of Litchfield, Connecticut. Lectures to Young Converts; Tales of the Devil; The Fawn of the Pale Faces: a Novel. =Brackenridge, Henry Marie.= _Pa._, 1786-1871. Son of H. H. Brackenridge, _infra_. A noted Florida jurist. History of the Late War between the United States and Great Britain (1816); Voyage to South America; Views of Louisiana; Recollections of Persons and Places in the West; Essay on Trusts and Trustees; History of the Western Insurrection. =Brackenridge, Hugh Henry.= _S._, 1748-1816. A Pennsylvania lawyer and humourist whose writing enjoyed great popularity in the early years of the 19th century. His principal work was Modern Chivalry, or the Adventures of Captain Farrago and Teague O’Regan, his Servant, a rough, sharp piece of humourous fiction, partaking, to some extent, of the nature of an autobiography. _See edition of 1848, with illustrations by Darley; Hart’s American Literature._ =Brackett, Albert Gallatin.= _N. Y._, 1829-1896. A United States cavalry officer. General Lane’s Brigade in Central Mexico; History of the United States Cavalry, 1854. _Har._ =Brackett, Anna Callender.= _Ms._, 1836- ----. An educational writer. The Education of American Girls; Woman and the Higher Education; The Technique of Rest. _Har._ =Brackett, Edward Augustus.= _Me._, 1819- ----. A sculptor of Boston. Twilight Hours, a volume of verse.