WOOLSON, CONSTANCE FENIMORE (1848-1894), b. Claremont, N. H. Novelist. Best novel, _Horace Chase_. Some of her other novels are _Castle Nowhere, Anne, East Angels, Jupiter Lights, The Old Stone House_. SOUTHERN AUTHORS ALSOP, GEORGE (1638-?), b. England. Published in 1666 an entertaining volume, _A Character of the Province of Maryland_. AUDUBON, JOHN J. (1780-1851), b. near New Orleans, La. Noted ornithologist and painter of birds. Published _Birds of America_ at one thousand dollars a copy and _Ornithological Biography_ in 5 vols. AZARIAS, BROTHER. See MULLANY, P. F. BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON (1849- ), b. Manchester, Eng. Anglo-American novelist. _Little Lord Fauntleroy_, _That Lass o' Lowrie's_, _Haworth's_, _A Fair Barbarian_, _A Lady of Quality_. CALHOUN, JOHN C. (1782-1850), b. Abbeville District, S.C. Statesman, orator. Best work, _Disquisition on Government and Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States_. Best speech, _Nullification and the Force Bill_ (1833). CLAY, HENRY (1777-1852), b. near Richmond, Va. Orator, statesman. Best speeches: _On the War of 1812_ (1813), _The Seminole War_ (1819), _The American System_ (1832). COOKE, JOHN ESTEN (1830-1886), b. Winchester, Va. Colonial and military story writer. Best romance, _The Virginia Comedians_. DIXON, THOMAS (1864- ), b. Shelby, N. C. Clergyman, novelist. _The Leopard's Spots_, _The One Woman_, _The Clansman_. EVANS, AUGUSTA. See WILSON, AUGUSTA EVANS. FOX, JOHN JR. (1863- ), b. in Bourbon Co., Kentucky. Novelist of life in the Kentucky mountains. _The Kentuckians_, _A Mountain Europa_, _A Cumberland Vendetta_, _The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come_, _The Trail of the Lonesome Pine_. GAYARRE, CHARLES E. A. (1805-1895), b. New Orleans, La. Jurist, historian. _History of Louisiana_. GIBBONS, JAMES (1834- ), b. Baltimore, Md. Roman Catholic cardinal. _The Faith of Our Fathers_, _The Ambassador of Christ_. GLASGOW, ELLEN ANDERSON GHOLSON (1874- ), b. Richmond, Va. Novelist. _The Descendant_, _The Voice of the People_, _The Deliverance_. GRADY, HENRY W. (1851-1889), b. Athens, Ga. Editor, orator. Best oration, _The New South_. HEARN, LAFCADIO (1850-1904), b. in Ionian Islands of Irish and Greek parentage. Journalist, author. Lived many years in New Orleans, went thence to New York, and still later to Japan. Author of _Stray Leaves from Strange Literature_, _Two Years in the French West Indies_, _Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan_, _Out of the East_. Shows marked descriptive ability. HEGAN, ALICE. See RICE, ALICE HEGAN. "HENRY, O." See PORTER, SIDNEY. JOHNSTON, MARY (1870- ), b. Buchanan, Va. Writer of vigorous, well-handled romances of Virginia history. _Prisoners of Hope_, _To Have and to Hold_, _Audrey_, _Lewis Rand_. JOHNSTON, RICHARD MALCOLM (1822-1898), b. Hancock Co., Ga. Lawyer, professor of English. Writer of Georgia stories. _Dukesborough Tales_.