SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF AUTHORS AND THEIR CHIEF WORKS [Footnote: For a complete record of the work of contemporary authors, consult _Who's Who in America_.] EASTERN AUTHORS ABBOTT, JACOB (1803-1879), b. Hallowell, Maine. One of America's most voluminous writers on all classes of popular subjects. He wrote one hundred and eighty volumes and aided in the preparation of thirty-one more. _Illustrated Histories_, _The Rollo Books_. ADAMS, HENRY (1838- ), b. Boston, Mass. Historian. _History of the United States_ from 1801 to 1817, that is, under Jefferson's and Madison's administrations. 9 vols. Excellent for this important period. ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY (1832-1888), b. Germantown, Pa. Daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott. Writer of wholesome, humorous, and interesting stories for young people. _Little Women_, _An Old-Fashioned Girl_, _Eight Cousins_, _Rose in Bloom_. ALLSTON, WASHINGTON (1779-1843), b. Waccamaw, S. C. Moved to New England and graduated at Harvard in 1800. Artist; early poet of Wordsworthian school. _The Sylphs of the Seasons, and Other Poems_. AMES, FISHER (1758-1808), b. Dedham, Mass. Orator, statesman. Best speech, _On the British Treaty_ (1796). AUSTIN, JANE G. (1831-1894), b. Worcester, Mass. Novelist of early colonial New England. _Standish of Standish_, _Betty Alden_, _Dr. Le Baron and his Daughters_, _A Nameless Nobleman_, _David Alden's Daughter, and Other Stories of Colonial Times_. BACHELLER, IRVING (1859- ), b. Pierrepont, N. Y. Novelist. _Eben Holden_, _D'ri and I_, _Darrel of the Blessed Isles_. BANCROFT, GEORGE (1800-1891), b. Worcester, Mass. Historian, diplomatist. _History of the United States, from the Discovery of the Continent to the Establishment of the Constitution in 1789_, 6 vols. _History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States_, 2 vols. Covers the period to the inauguration of Washington. The volumes on the Revolutionary War and the formation of the Constitution are the best part of the work. While Bancroft's improved methods of research among original authorities almost entitle him to be called the founder of the new American school of historical writing, yet the best critics do not to-day consider his work scientific. They regard it more as an apotheosis of democracy, written by a man who loved truth intensely, who shirked no drudgery in original investigations, but who shows the strong bias of the days of Andrew Jackson in the tendency to believe that what democracy does is almost necessarily right. BANGS, JOHN KENDRICK (1862- ), b. Yonkers, N. Y. Humorist. _House-Boat on the Styx_, _The Idiot at Home_, _A Rebellious Heroine._ BARR, AMELIA E. (1831- ), b. Ulverston, Lancashire, Eng. Anglo-American novelist. _A Bow of Orange Ribbon_, _Jan Vedder's Wife_, _A Daughter of Fife_, and _Between Two Loves_. BATES, ARLO (1850- ), b. East Machias, Me. Educator, author. _Under the Beech Tree_ (poems), _Talks on the Study of Literature_. BEDOTT, WIDOW. See WHITCHER, FRANCES.