=Britts, Mrs. Mattie [Dyer].= _N. Y._, 1842- ----. Daughter of S. Dyer, _infra_. The author of many juvenile tales, among which are Edward Lee; Nobody’s Boy. =Broaddus, Andrew.= _Va._, 1770-1848. A Baptist clergyman once noted as a pulpit orator. History of the Bible; Form of Church Discipline; Letters and Sermons. =Broadus, John Albert.= _Va._, 1827-1895. A Baptist clergyman, the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Preparation and Delivery of Sermons; Lectures on Preaching; Sermons and Addresses; Jesus of Nazareth. _Bap._ =Brockett, Linus Pierpont.= _Ct._, 1820-1893. A prolific writer of Hartford, among whose many productions are History of Education; Our Great Captains; The Year of Battles: a History of the Franco-German War of 1870; Epidemics and Contagious Diseases; The Silk Industry in America; Our Western Empire, an account of the resources of the United States west of the Mississippi; The Great Metropolis. =Brodhead, Mrs. Eva Wilder [McGlasson].= 18-- - ----. A popular novelist. One of the Visconti; Diana’s Livery; An Earthly Paragon; Ministers of Grace; Bound In Shallows. _Har. Scr._ =Brodhead, John Romeyn.= _Pa._, 1814-1873. A painstaking, accurate writer, whose work, if somewhat lacking in picturesqueness, is of lasting value. History of the State of New York; The Government of Sir Edmund Andros over New England. _Har._ =Brooks, Arthur.= _Ms._, 1845-1895. Brother of Phillips Brooks, _infra_. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. A volume of his Sermons was reprinted in London with the title, Christ for To-Day. _Wh._ =Brooks, Charles.= _Ms._, 1795-1872. A once prominent Massachusetts educator. History of Medford; The Christian in his Closet; Daily Monitor; Family Prayer-Book; Elements of Ornithology; Introduction to Ornithology, and ten volumes of biography. =Brooks, Charles Timothy.= _Ms._, 1813-1883. A Unitarian clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island, 1837-73, whose English versions of Schiller, Richter, Goethe, and Schefer take high rank. His other work includes Songs of Field and Flood; The Simplicity of Christ; William Ellery Channing: a Centennial Memory; Poems Original and Translated. _See Memoir by Wendte._ _Rob._ =Brooks, Edward.= _N. Y._, 1831- ----. The principal of the Millersville Normal School, Pennsylvania, 1866-83, and since then superintendent of the Philadelphia public schools. His writings are mainly, though not entirely, mathematical, and among them are The Normal Written Arithmetic; Philosophy of Arithmetic; Mental Science and Methods of Culture; The Story of the Iliad; The Story of the Odyssey. =Brooks, Elbridge Gerry.= _N. H._, 1816-1878. A Universalist clergyman of Philadelphia. Universalism a Practical Power; Our New Departure; Universalism in Life and Doctrine. _See Life by E. S. Brooks._