§ 24.] Nichols Weld. 85 [François Alexandre Frédéric de] La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Voyage dans les États-Unis d'Amérique, fait en 1795, 1796 et 1797. 8 tomes. Paris, 1799. Rochefoucauld, Travels through the United States of North America, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. 2 vols. London, 1799. James Robertson, A Few Months in America (1853-54). London [1855]. William Howard Russell, Hesperothen; Notes from the West: A Record of a Ramble in the United States and Canada, in the Spring and Summer of 1881. 2 vols. London, 1882. E. Schlaeger, Die sociale und politische Stellung der Deutschen in den Vereinigten Staaten. Berlin, 1874. John F. D. Smyth, A Tour in the United States of America (1784). 2 vols. London, 1784. James Stuart, Three Years in North America (1828–31). 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1833. Robert Sutcliff, Travels in some Parts of North America, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806. Second edition. York, 1815. William Tallack, Friendly Sketches in America. London, 1861. [Mrs.] Frances M. Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans. London, 1832. With Henry Theodore Tuckerman, America and her Commentators. a Critical Sketch of Travel in the United States. N.Y., 1864. Thomas Twining, Travels in America One Hundred Years ago (1795-96). N.Y., 1894. Godfrey T. Vigne, Six Months in America (1831-32). Phila., 1833. Henry Wansey, The Journal of an Excursion to the United States, in the Summer of 1794. Salisbury, England, 1796. Charles Dudley Warner, Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada. N.Y., 1889. Elkanah Watson, Memoirs, including Journals of Travels in Europe and America, from 1777 to 1842. N.Y., 1856. Adlard Welby, A Visit to North America and the English Settlements in Illinois (1819-20). London, 1821. Isaac Weld, Jr., Travels through the States of North America, and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, during the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. London, 1799. George Whitefield, Journal of a Voyage from London to Savannah (Dec. 28th, 1737, to May 7th, 1738). Fifth edition. London, 1739. John Woods, Two Years' Residence in the Settlement on the English Prairie in the Illinois Country, United States (1820-22). London, 1822. John Woolman, Journal. Phila., 1845, and Boston, 1873. Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley, Travels in the United States, etc., during 1849 and 1850. N.Y., 1851. Frances Wright, Views of Society and Manners in America (1818-20). London, 1821. Francis Wyse, America, its Realities and Resources. 3 vols. London, 1846. Lorenzo de Zavala, Viage a los Estados-Unidos del Norte de America. Paris, 1834. § 25. Biographies. Biographies stand midway between sources and secondary histories in so far as they contain letters and other material. The literature of American history is rich in such works, of an elaborate and painstaking kind; and of late years several series of brief biographies have been published which are really little political histories of the period covered by the public life of the characters described. Marshall's Washington and Curtis's Daniel Webster are illustrations of the first class. The most useful brief biographies are the following volumes of the American Statesmen series: Lodge's Washington and Webster; Morse's Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, and Lincoln; Sumner's Jackson; Von Holst's Calhoun; Schurz's Henry Clay. In the Makers of America series may be mentioned Sumner's Robert Morris and Barrett Wendell's Cotton Mather. Few of the collections of biographies are of much value: Sparks's American Biography, Van Santvoord's Lives of the Chief Justices, and J. S. Jenkins's Lives of the Governors of New York are exceptions. Good dictionaries of biography are Allen's, Drake's, and Lanman's works (see § 17); and Harper's Cyclopædia of American Biography. To this list should be added Alexander Johnston's admirable biographical articles in Lalor's Cyclopædia. $ 25-] Adams - Birney. 87 A few of the more useful biographies are enumerated below: the arrangement is alphabetical by the subjects of the works (not by authors): John Quincy Adams and Charles Francis Adams, The Life of John Adams. 2 vols. Phila., 1871. John T. Morse, Jr., John Adams. Boston, 1884. (American Statesmen series.) Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Charles Francis Adams. (American Statesmen series.) [In preparation.] John T. Morse, Jr., John Quincy Adams. series.) Boston, 1882. (American Statesmen Josiah Quincy, Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. Boston, 1858. William H. Seward, Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams. Auburn, 1849. J. K. Hosmer, Samuel Adams. (American Statesmen series.) Boston, 1884. William V. Wells, The Life and Public Service of Samuel Adams, 3 vols. Boston, 1865. Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, editor, Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence. 2 vols. Boston, 1885. Henry Hall, Ethan Allen. N.Y., 1892. Seth Ames, editor, Works of Fisher Ames. 2 vols. Boston, 1854. — With a biographical sketch by John Thornton Kirkland. Winthrop Sargent, The Life and Career of Major John André. Boston, 1861. A. G. Browne, Jr., Sketch of the Official Life of J. A. Andrew. N.Y. 1868. Isaac N. Arnold, Life of Benedict Arnold. Chicago, 1880. Jared Sparks, Life and Treason of Benedict Arnold. (Library of American Biography, Vol. III.) Boston, 1838. Alvah Hovey, A Memoir of the Life and Times of the Rev. Isaac Backus. Boston, 1858. Mary Barney, editor, A Biographical Memoir of the late Commodore Joshua Barney. Boston, 1832. Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Hart Benton. (American Statesmen series.) Boston, 1887. William Birney, James G. Birney and his Times. N.Y., 1890. William Constantine Beecher and Rev. Samuel Scoville, assisted by Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, A Biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. N.Y., 1888. Gail Hamilton [Mary Abigail Dodge], Biography of James G. Blaine. Norwich, 1895. Grace King, Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville. (Makers of America series.) N.Y., Dodd, 1892. Geo. W. Brown, Reminiscences of old John Brown. Rockford, Ill., 1880. James Redpath, Public Life of Capt. John Brown. Boston, 1860. F. B. Sanborn, Life and Letters of John Brown. Boston, 1885. George Ticknor Curtis, Life of James Buchanan. 2 vols. N.Y., 1883. Edward Barrington de Fonblanque, Political and Military Episodes derived from the Life and Correspondence of John Burgoyne. London, 1876. Matthew L. Davis, Memoirs of Aaron Burr. 2 vols. N.Y., 1836, 1837. James Parton, Life and Times of Aaron Burr. N.Y., 1858. Henry Cabot Lodge, Life and Letters of George Cabot. Boston, 1877. [Anon.], Life of John C. Calhoun. N.Y., 1843. Mary Bates, The Private Life of J. C. Calhoun. Charleston, 1852. John Stilwell Jenkins, The Life of John Caldwell Calhoun. Auburn, 1850. H. Von Holst, John C. Calhoun. Boston, 1882. (American Statesmen series.) William Hand Browne, George Calvert and Cecilius Calvert, Barons Baltimore of Baltimore [in Ireland]. (Makers of America series.) N.Y., 1890. Augustus Granville Stapleton, The Political Life of the Right Honourable George Canning (1822-27). 3 vols. London, 1831. Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Lewis Cass. (American Statesmen series.) Boston, 1891. Wm. H. Channing, Memoirs of William Ellery Channing. 3 vols. Boston, 1848. Jacob William Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon P. Chase. N.Y., 1874. Robert Bruce Warden, An Account of the Private Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase. Cincinnati, 1874. Daniel Chipman, A Memoir of Thomas Chittenden, the First Governor of Vermont. Middlebury, Vt., 1849. S. G. Brown, Life of Rufus Choate. Boston, 1870. $ 25.] Beecher Dana. 89 Calvin Colton, Life and Times of Henry Clay. 2 vols. N.Y., 1846. Calvin Colton, The Last Seven Years of the Life of Henry Clay. N.Y., 1856. D. Mallory, Life and Speeches of Henry Clay. 2 vols. N.Y., 1843. Epes Sargent, The Life and Public Services of Henry Clay. N.Y., 1859. Samuel Mosheim Schmucker, Life and Times of Henry Clay. Phila., 1860. Carl Schurz, Henry Clay. (American Statesmen series.) Boston, 1887. 2 vols. James B. Swain, The Life and Speeches of Henry Clay. 2 vols. N.Y., 1842. William W. Campbell, The Life and Writings of De Witt Clinton. N.Y., 1849. David Hosack, Memoir of De Witt Clinton. 2 parts. N.Y., 1829. Samuel Boykin, Memorial Volume of Hon. Howell Cobb. Phila., 1870. Edward Smith, William Cobbett: A Biography. 2 vols. London, 1878. Alfred Ronald Conkling, The Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling. N.Y., 1889. Charles Ross, editor, Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis. 3 vols. London, 1859. Addison Peale Russell, Thomas Corwin. Cincinnati, 1882. Washington Irving, History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. 3 vols. N.Y., 1828. Clements R. Markham, Life of Christopher Columbus. London, 1892. Justin Winsor, Christopher Columbus and how he received and imparted the Spirit of Discovery. Boston, 1891. John J. Jacob, A Biographical Sketch of the Life of Captain Michael Cresap. Cincinnati, 1866. Mrs. Ann Mary Coleman, Life of John J. Crittenden, with selections from his Correspondence and Speeches. 2 vols. Phila., 1871. Edward Cary, George William Curtis. (American Men of Letters series.) Boston, 1894. Charles E. Fitch, George William Curtis. [In preparation.] William Parker Cutler and Julia Perkins Cutler, Life, Journals, and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler. 2 vols. Cincinnati, 1888. George Mifflin Dallas, Life and Writings of Alexander J. Dallas. Phila., 1871. Charles Francis Adams, Richard Henry Dana: A Biography. 2 vols. Boston, 1890. |