=Capen, Nahum.= _Ms._, 1804-1886. A Boston publisher who was postmaster 1857-61, and introduced the custom of street letter-box collections. The Republic of the United States; Reminiscences of Spurzheim and Combe; History of Democracy, or Political Progress Historically Illustrated. =Capers, William.= _S. C._, 1790-1855. A Methodist bishop once prominent in the South. Cathechisms for Negro Missions; Short Sermons and True Tales for Children. _See Life, by Wightman, 1859._ =Carey, Henry Charles.= _Pa._, 1793-1879. Son of M. Carey, _infra_. One of the foremost of American political economists, who advocated protection as a preliminary step toward ultimate free trade. He opposed such theorists as Malthus and Ricardo, holding that human progress depends upon success in subjugating nature; that land values depend upon labour; and that the social well-being is directly dependent upon existing conditions. Principles of Political Economy; The Credit System; The Principles of Social Science; Lectures on the Currency; Letters on Political Economy; Letters on International Copyright; Financial Crises; The Unity of Law, comprise his chief works. _See Allibone’s Dictionary; Memoir by Elder; Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._ _Bai. Lip._ =Carey, Matthew.= _I._, 1760-1839. An Irishman who came to America in 1785, entered into politics, and established himself in Philadelphia as a bookseller. His writings include The Olive Branch, or Faults on Both Sides, Federal and Democratic (1814), which soon entered a tenth edition; Vindiciæ Hibernicæ; Thoughts on Penitentiaries and Prison Discipline; Essays on Political Economy; The Yellow Fever of 1793. =Carleton, Henry Guy.= _N. M._, 1856- ----. A journalist of New York city who is best known as a writer of plays, among which are Memnon; The Pembertons; Victor Durand. =Carleton, Osgood.= 1742-1816. A Massachusetts mathematician. American Navigator; South American Pilot; Practice of Arithmetic. =Carleton, William.= _Mch._, 1845- ----. A writer of homely verse which appeals with great force to imperfectly educated tastes, and has been very popular, but which is without literary merit. Farm Ballads; Farm Festivals; Farm Legends; City Legends; City Ballads; City Festivals; Rhymes of our Planet; Young Folks’ Centennial Rhymes; The Old Infant, and Similar Stories. _Har._ =Carman [William], Bliss.= _N. B._, 1861- ----. A poet of Canadian birth, whose literary work has been done mainly in New York and Boston. Low Tide on Grand Pré; A Seamark; Behind the Arras; Songs from Vagabondia (with R. Hovey, _infra_); More Songs from Vagabondia (with R. Hovey); Ballads of Lost Haven, a Book of the Sea. _Cop. Lam._