JEWETT, SARAH ORNE (1849-1909), b. South Berwick, Maine. Artistic novelist of old New England villages. _Deephaven_, _The Country of the Pointed Firs_, _The Tory Lover_. She shows a more genial side of New England life than Miss Wilkins gives. KING, CHARLES (1844- ), b. Albany, N. Y. Soldier, novelist. _A War-Time Wooing_, _The Colonel's Daughter_, _The Deserter_, _The General's Double_. KIRK, ELLEN OLNEY (1842- ), b. Southington, Conn. Novelist. _Through Winding Ways_, _A Midsummer Madness_, _The Story of Margaret Kent_, _Marcia_. LARCOM, LUCY (1826-1893), b. Beverly Farms, Mass. A factory hand in Lowell, encouraged by Whittier to write. _Poems; A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory_. LATHROP, GEORGE P. (1851-1898), b. Oahu, Hawaii. Son-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne, editor, author. _A Study of Hawthorne_, _Spanish Vistas_, _Newport_. LAZARUS, EMMA (1849-1887), b. New York, N. Y. Poet, translator, essayist. _Admetus_, _Songs of a Semite_, _Poems_. LELAND, CHARLES GODFREY ("Hans Breitmann") (1824-1903), b. Philadelphia, Pa. Humorist. _Hans Breitmann's Ballads_, written in what is known as Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. LOCKE, DAVID ROSS ("Petroleum V. Nasby") (1833-1888), b. Vestal, N. Y. Political satirist. _Nasby Letters_. LODGE, HENRY CABOT (1850- ), b. Boston, Mass. Statesman, historian, essayist. _A Short History of the English Colonies in America, Alexander Hamilton, Daniel Webster, Studies in History, Hero Tales from American History_ (with Theodore Roosevelt). "LUSKA, SIDNEY." See HARLAND, HENRY. MABIE, HAMILTON W. (1846-1916), b. Cold Spring, N. Y. Editor, essayist. _My Study Fire, William Shakespeare: Poet, Dramatist, and Man, Essays on Books and Culture_. MACKAYE, PERCY WALLACE (1875- ), b. New York, N. Y. Dramatist. _Jeanne d'Arc_, _Sappho and Phaon_, _The Canterbury Pilgrims_, _Ticonderoga and Other Poems_. MCMASTER, JOHN BACH (1852- ), b. Brooklyn, N. Y. Historian and professor of American history. _A History of the People of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War_. 7 vols. An entertaining history, sometimes suggestive of Macaulay. MARKS, MRS. LIONEL. See PEABODY, JOSEPHINE PRESTON. "MARVEL, IK." See MITCHELL, DONALD G. MELVILLE, HERMAN (1819-1891), b. New York, N. Y. Novelist. _Typee Omoo_, _Mardi_, _White Jacket or the World in a Man of War_, _Moby Dick or the White Whale_ contain interesting accounts of his wide travels. MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT ("Ik Marvel") (1822-1908), b. Norwich, Conn. Essayist. _Reveries of a Bachelor_, _Dream Life_. MITCHELL, S. WEIR (1829- ), b. Philadelphia, Pa. Physician, novelist, and poet. _Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker_; _The Adventures of Francois_; _Dr. North and his Friends_; and _Constance Trescot_. MOORE, CLEMENT CLARKE (1779-1863), b. New York, N. Y. Oriental scholar and poet. Known to children to-day for his poem, _'Twas the Night before Christmas_.