=Brown, Charles Brockden.= _Pa._, 1771-1810. A novelist of Philadelphia, and the first of native authors who adopted literature as a profession. In his novels probability plays a very small part, the local colour is faint, though the scenes are American, and all are overshadowed by an overpowering element of mystery. In spite of extravagances and faults, his work possesses undeniable power of a very high order, and does not deserve the neglect into which it has fallen. Wieland; Ormond, or the Secret Witness; Arthur Mervyn, in some respects the most powerful of his works; Edgar Huntley, or the Memories of a Sleep Walker; Clara Howard, reprinted in England as Philip Stanley; Jane Talbot. _See Lives by Dunlap, 1815, Prescott, 1831; Atlantic Monthly, vol. 61; Nichol’s American Literature._ _My._ =Brown, Charles Rufus.= _N. H._, 1849- ----. A professor of Old Testament interpretation at Union Theological Seminary since 1883. An Aramaic Method: Text and Grammar. _Scr._ =Brown, David Paul.= _Pa._, 1795-1872. A Philadelphia lawyer who was the author of two unsuccessful tragedies, Sestorius; The Trial; a melodrama and a comedy, equally unsuccessful, and The Forum, or Forty Years’ Practice at the Philadelphia Bar. His Forensic Speeches were edited by his son in 1873. =Brown, Emma Elizabeth.= _N. H._, 1847- ----. A writer of popular biographies living at Newton, Massachusetts. Her works include lives of Washington; Grant; Garfield; Wendell Holmes; Russell Lowell; From Night to Light, a story of Bible times; The Child Toilers of Boston Streets; An Hundred Years Ago, a story in verse. _Lo. Me._ =Brown, Francis.= _N. H._, 1849- ----. A professor of Hebrew and cognate languages at Union Theological Seminary since 1890. Assyriology: its Use and Abuse; The Teachings of the Apostles (with R. D. Hitchcock). _Scr._ =Brown, Goold.= _R. I._, 1791-1857. An educator of New York city and a once famous grammarian. Grammar of English Grammars; Institutes of English Grammar; First Lines of English Grammar. =Brown, Helen Dawes.= _Ms._, 1857- ----. A lecturer on English literature in New York city. The Petrie Estate, a novel; Two College Girls; Little Miss Phœbe Gay. _Hou._ =Brown, Henry Armitt.= 1846-1878. A lawyer and orator of Philadelphia, whose Four Historical Orations have been much admired. _See Memoir, by Hoppin; Atlantic Monthly, August, 1880._ =Brown, Henry Billings.= _Ms._, 1836- ----. A justice of the United States Supreme Court since 1890. Admiralty Reports for Western, Lake, and River Districts. =Brown, James Allen.= _Pa._, 1821-1883. A Lutheran clergyman and educator, professor in Gettysburg Seminary, 1864-77. The New Theology. =Brown, John Walker.= _N. Y._, 1814-1849. An Episcopal clergyman who won some fleeting notice as a poet. Christmas Bells, a Tale of Holy Tide, and Other Poems. =Brown, Mrs. Phoebe [Hinsdale].= _N. Y._, 1783-1861. A hymn-writer remembered for her popular religious lyric, “I love to steal awhile away.”