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David Ross Locke (1833-1888), author of "Divers Views, Opinions, and Prophesies of Yours Trooly, Petroleum V. Nasby," whose keen, satirical letters purporting to be written by a seces- sionist of "Confederate Cross Roads, Kentucky," delighted Pres- ident Lincoln and were accounted by Secretary Chase as of power- ful effect in helping to save the Union, was certainly a humorist of extraordinary endowment - a genius in his particular sphere. He laughed his enemies to scorn and "drew out Levathian with an hook" of sharpest wit. Mr. Locke was a native of the State of New York, but the greater portion of his life was spent in Ohio, chiefly in Toledo. He published one novel, "A Paper City."
The inimitable Artemus Ward (1834-1867) came to Ohio about the year 1850, and though his sojourn in the state was not long, he wrote, while living on the Western Reserve, a num- ber of his brightest and drollest papers.
POETRY.
In the year 1824 the editor of the Cincinnati Literary Ga- zette printed in his "Notes to Contributors" the following apolo- getic excuse for declining a poetical effusion from a Kentucky correspondent : "Poetry is in so flourishing a state on our side of the river that the limits alloted to this department are preoccu- pied." Timothy Flint, in the Western Magazine and Review, for May, 1827, wrote, "We are a scribbling and forth-putting people. Little as they have dreamed of the fact in the Atlantic country, we have our thousand orators and poets. * We believe that amid the freshness of our unspoiled nature, beneath the shade of the huge sycamores of the Miami, or cooling the forehead in the breeze of the beautiful Ohio, and under the canopy of our Italian sky, other circumstances being equal, a man might write as well as in the dens of a dark city." A volume of "Selections from the Poetical Literature of the West," compiled by W. D. Gallagher, was published in Cincinnati in 1841. It contains 210 pieces, and represents 38 writers, seven of whom are women. Coggeshall's well known "Poets and Poetry of the Ohio Valley," a volume of 680 pp., issued in 1860, gives sketches of 152 writers, with selections from their best book. Twenty-nine of the poets' names belong to Ohio. The admirable
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volume, "American Poetry and Art," edited by J. J. Piatt and published in Cincinnati in 1882, presents, with discriminating judgment, many of the choicest poems written in the Ohio Valley.
There is no need to record here the long list of books of Ohio verse which now exist only in old catalogues or in rare collections. Enough to say that not a few of these possess con- siderable merit, and were sought after, scrap-booked and admired in their little day. It has been the good fortune of a number of the early writers to hold a more secure place in the public memory by virtue of the anthologies in which their poems are kept alive, perhaps under the title of "old favorites."
By far the most eminent of the early poets of the Ohio . Valley was the bard who sang of the "Days When We Were Pioneers," and of the "Green Forest Land," the "Golden Wed- ding on Rolling Fork," the solitude of "Miami Woods," and the song of the "Brown Thrush" and "The Cardinal Bird." We refer to the good poet Wm. D. Gallagher, a truly inspired singer, gifted with the "love of love, the scorn of scorn," and with a Wordsworthian discernment of the feelings, beauty and signifi- cance of nature. As an artist he deserves a fuller appreciation than he has yet received, for he possesses unusual skill in melody, and a command of blank verse seldom attained in American literature. There are passages in his carefully wrought pastorals which, for dignity, noble simplicity and genuine reverence for spiritual beauty, compare with the masterful work of the so- called Lake School of poets. It is to be regretted that some of his most characteristic poems are out of print, but fortunately a few copies of his "Miami Woods and Other Poems" are preserved in libraries.
The now almost forgotten name of Otway Curry ( 1804- 1855) was familiar to the eye and ear of all who, in the West of forty years ago, cared about poetry. The school readers con- tained extracts from Curry's "Eternal River," "Kingdom Come," and "The Lost Pleiad." James H. Perkins was likewise esteemed and quoted. There are scores of persons living in Ohio, who can recite lines from that once hackneyed "declamation," "O Were You Ne'er a School-boy ?" or "The Young Soldier." Charles A.
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Jones ( 1835-1851) is remembered by his oft reprinted "Te- cumseh,"
"Stop, Stranger ! there Tecumseh lies ;"
and by his faithfully descriptive pieces, "The Pioneers" and "Lines to the Ohio River." F. W. Thomas still holds a place in our books of "Selections," by virtue of his fidelity to truth and nature in some meritorious stanzas of his descriptive poem, "The Emigrant," and because of the sentiment and melody of the song, "'Tis Said that Absence Conquers Love." W. W. Fosdick, on whom his contemporaries and patrons, M. D. Con- way, W. H. Lytle and others, bestowed the title, "Laureate of the Queen City," wrote an ambitious volume, "Ariel, and Other Poems," the more labored contents of which have passed into oblivion, while a few of its simple, unpretentious, but genuine poems, faithfully reporting visible and vital fact, continue to exert a charm and to win a due meed of praise. Of these cherised few none are better than the lyrics: "The Maize" and "The Pawpaw." Born five years later than Fosdick, Florus B. Plimpton (1830-1886), journalist and poet, achieved more than a local reputation for the form and quality of his carefully finished literary work. Holmes and Whittier took him into fel- lowship. Though his death occurred less than twenty years ago. and though a beautiful memorial edition of his poems was issued in 1886, almost the only piece of his verse which survives is the vigorous ballad, "Lewis Wetzel," another instance of the vitality of compositions dealing with the actual in a direct and sympa- thetic style. Yet it seems that other of Plimpton's lyrics should be recognized by common consent as worthy of the favor be- stowed upon this one ballad. The anthologies might well in- clude, from his poems, "A Poor Man's Thanksgiving," "Sum- mer Days," "Her Record," "In Remembrance," and the sonnet, "Pittsburg." Byron Foreseythe Willson (1837-1867), whose lit- erary work Mr. J. J. Piatt displays and reviews at great length in the "Hesperian Tree," for 1903, was undoubtedly a poet of rare gifts, but he never was nor will be popular. One of his poems, "The Old Sargeant," had a temporary popularity soon after its publication in the time of the Civil War, but now it is 40 O. C.
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seldom read and only by literary folks. Willson was charac- terized by Mr. Stedman as "A strongly imaginative balladist, whose death was a loss to poetry."
The departed singers whose work has scarcely more than been glanced at in the above paragraph, though not poetical stars of first magnitude, have at least "fixed their glimmers." In their constellation belong three other lights, which whether from accident or because of their intrinsic superiority, have attracted more attention than their contemporaries. These are Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872), William Haines Lytle (1826-1863), and Alice Cary ( 1820-1870).
Thomas Buchanan Read used to say he had four principal homes, Philadelphia, Boston, Florence and Cincinnati. He had many friends in Ohio, to whom he acknowledged his indebted- ess for patronage in art and letters. During his sojourn in the Queen City, he was constantly busy at the easel or the desk, and in that city he painted some of his finest pictures and com- posed some of his best poems. The house in which he lived, on Seventh street, and in which he wrote the poem "Sheridan's Ride," is marked with a bronze tablet, commemorating these facts.
Gen. W. H. Lytle, though not a "one poem poet," gained his secure place in literature through the merit of his mastrepiece, the lyric, "Antony and Cleopatra," a stroke of genius and true inspiration,-a passionate glorification of love and war, of the "Great Triumvir" and the "Star-eyed Egyptian,"-and the author rose to renown. Like Kinney's "Rain upon the Roof," and O'Hara's "The Bivouac for the Dead," the "Antony and Cleo- patra" appears to be "booked for immortality." In the small volume of Lytle's Poems collected by the writer of this sketch and published in 1894, readers will find a number of pieces well worthy to be preserved with the "Antony and Cleopatra." Specially excellent are the lyrics : "Popocatapetl," "Macdonald's Drummer," "Jaqueline," "The Volunteers," "Farewell" and "Sweet May Moon."
A third of a century has elapsed since Alice Cary died ; more than half a century since she gathered her first laurels as a poet. At the very beginning of her literary career she was received with applause, and from year to year her reputation steadily ad-
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vanced. It is to be doubted if any other American woman has ever, through the accomplishment of verse, attained so much celebrity as did this country girl of Clovernook. Even to-day, she has numerous readers and admirers, not only in Ohio, but in all parts of the United States. This is not because her poetry stands the test of severe criticism, for it does not. Yet it has some of the rare and potent qualities essential to excellent poetic composition as a fine art, and she herself was gifted generously with those qualities of genius which, when adequately developed, make the creation of good poetry possible. She was one of the poets "sown by nature;" she was sensitive to all beauty and truth; she had broad sympathies; she had the "vision and the faculty divine." Readers loved her personality and felt in- stinctively that she understood their feelings, and that she wrote of what she really knew, from direct observation and experience.
Phoebe Cary was also a genuine poet, though by no means the peer of her sister. The two women exerted, and still exert a sweet, pure and stimulating influence, especially upon the young in the public schools and upon sentimental readers who care more for melodious common sense than for the subtleties and re- finement of poetic art however masterfully employed.
Coates Kinney (1826-) holds the seniority and the pri- macy among our poets. Nature endowed his large brain richly with the power of thought and the faculty of song. Though he has been a man of affairs - a lawyer, journalist, military officer, state senator - he has never neglected the higher "business of his dreams," but is one of those
"twice blest who in age pursues His art with young desire."
In his youth he gave to the world the spontaneous music of "Rain Upon the Roof," which has maintained its popularity for more than fifty years and which, in its revised form, will no doubt continue a favorite with all who have the gift of nice apprecia- tion. Representative of the author's mature power and of especial interest to the student of Ohio literature is the Ohio Centennial Ode, 1888, a forceful production giving eloquent expression to
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what is best and noblest in Ohio history, tradition and ideals, and worthy to be classed with Lowell's Commemoration Ode. Of Kinney's poetry in general, Julian Hawthorne wrote: "It expands the brain and touches the heart.
* What he has done will last." W. D. Howells assigns to the poet a place among "the few who think in the electrical flushes known only to the passions of most men," and the same critic testifies that Kinney's verse "brings to the reader the thrill imparted by mas- tery in an art which has of late seemed declining into clever artis- try." It is impossible, in this brief sketch, to give and adequate idea of the scope and quality of Coates Kinney's verse. The strength of his imagination, his profound insight into the heart of man and of nature, his vigorous intellectual grasp and subtle analytic acumen, his daring fancy, and his facile command of rythm and rime are revealed in the two important volumes, "Lyrics of the Ideal and Real," 1887, and "Mists of Fire," 1899, which contain a great variety of poems dealing with themes phil- osophical, religious, patriotic, social, and purely æsthetic. When at his best Kinney writes with a vividness, originality and beauty which gives a surprise and delight such as none but poets of first rate genius can awaken. If called upon to select from his later volumes the lyrics which in our judgment entitle him to a place of distinction among the poets of the century, our list of titles would include: "The Old Apple-tree," "Apostrophe of Death," "Alone," "Ships Coming In," "Mars," "Singing Flame," "Vesuvius," "Madonna," and "Our Only Day."
John James Piatt (1835-), has long occupied a secure and deservedly conspicuous position as one of Ohio's indefatigable promoters of belles lettres. He is one of those "planters of celes- tial plants," who have never lost faith in high ideals nor in the divinity of the Muses. He has devoted much of his energy to elevating the literary profession in the Ohio Valley, both by his. discriminating work as an editorial writer and by his many pub- lications in choice prose and genuine poetry. The country owes him a debt of gratitude for editing that notably elegant and compendious volume, "The Union of American Poetry and Art," and for issuing the more recent sumptuous volumes of "The Hes- perian Tree," a Western Annual containing some of the best
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literature of the period. Mr. Piatt's reputation as a poet is estab- lished ; he needs no new encomium. Proud and jealous of the region in which he was born and educated, he has chosen to write much on local themes, "The Pioneer's Chimney," "The Lost Farm," "The Mower in Ohio," and he has given subtle and delicate poetic expression to thoughts and emotions evoked by the idylic, the home-bred and the pensive. Since 1893 he lias resided at North Bend, Ohio, devoting his time to literature. In 1860, he published, in collaboration with W. D. Howells, a first book, "Poems of Two Friends." Other of his poetical writings are : "The Nests at Washington," "Poems in Sunshine and Fire- light," "Western Windows," "Landmarks," "Poems of House and Home," "Lyrics of the Ohio Valley," and "The Ghost's Entry and Other Poems." His prose style is shown at its best in a volume of delightfully artistic essays, entitled, "Penciled Fly Leaves."
Mrs. Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-), wife of John James Piatt, is a woman of original and exceptional genius -- a poet whose name shines in American literature
"Like some great jewel full of fire."
She is unrivalled, in her province of song, by any living writer of her sex, whether native to this continent or of foreign birth. Though her range of concept and invention is not wide, nor her methods of expression remarkable for variety, she is inimitable in her own, vivid, bold and suggestive invention and manner. Whatever she writes has meaning - and the significance is often deep - sometimes strange and elusive - never commonplace. Mrs. Piatt's rare artistic skill has been admired by many who appreciate the technical difficulties of the poetic craft. A London critic of severe discrimination prouounces that her work is "not easy to equal, much less to surpass, on either side of the Atlantic." She is the author of the following: "A Woman's Poems," "A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles," "That New World," "Poems in Company with Children," "Dramatic Persons and Moods," "An Irish Garland," "In Primrose Time," "Child's World Bal- lads," "The Witch in the Glass," "An Enchanted Castle." Her
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"Complete Poems," in two volumes, appeared in 1894, from the press of Longmans, Green & Co., New York and London.
Edith Matilda Thomas (1854-), a brilliant exponent of the culture of the Western Reserve, modified by the influence of New England training, was born in Medina county, and educated in a Normal School at Geneva, Ohio, in which latter village her lit- erary tendencies were encouraged and largely developed. In her early womanhood she came under the influence of Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson who was her friend and counsellor. In 1888, Miss Thomas removed to New York City, where she still resides, and where, as did Alice Cary, she devotes herself to authorship, being an accomplished writer in prose and in verse. In poetry she has published several small volumes: "A New Year's Masque," "Lyrics and Sonnets," "The Inverted Torch," "Fair Shadow Land," "In Sunshine Land," "In the Young World," and "A Winter Swallow, and Other Verse." That she is a true poet, one who has "slept on the Mountain of Song," and brought home pure Parnassian dews, those who appreciateively read her books will testify. A keen and trained intellect, a versatile and often daring fancy, an almost passionate love of nature, an Em- ersonian fondness for the occult, a fine taste for classicism and for the suggestive beauty of myth, are among the elements for her mind and of her artistic equipment. Her poetry, though not characterized by intense passion, spontaneity or haunting melody, is remarkable for strength, feeling, delicacy, variety of stanza form, and for a finish found only in the work of literary virtuosi.
Of recent years only a comparatively few writers in Ohio have chosen to "strictly mediate the Muse," thankless or other- wise, and of those few, the majority are not of the younger gen- eration. No list of Western poets would be complete without the name of "Kate Brownlee Sherwood" (1841 -), of Toledo, whose patriotic pen gave the State and the Republic those in- spiring books, "Camp Fire and Memorial Day Poems," and "Dreams of the Ages, a Poem of Columbia." Nor should the record forget the name of Alice Williams Brotherton, accom- plished scholar and lecturer on literary topics, contributor to the "Century," and author of two books of well conceived and care- fully wrought verse, "Beyond the Veil," and "The Sailing of
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King Olaf." William Norman Guthrie (1868-), author of "Songs of American Destiny, or a Vision of New Hellas," "To Kindle the Yule Log," "The Old Hemlock," and "The Christ of the Ages," sings a subtle Orphic strain in forms of poetic art which follow the cult of Leopardi and George Meredith.
To Dr. John Martin Crawford (1845 -), of Cincinnati, late U. S. Consul to St. Petersburg, is due the credit for having ren- dered into English verse the famous national epic of Finland, the "Kalevala."
Thomas Ewing, Jr., son and grandson, respectively, of the two Ohio statesmen whose name he bears, is the author of "Jonathan : a Tragedy," a dignified, scholarly poem elaborating the story of Jonathan and David as told in the first book of Samuel. The scenes are well wrought in blank verse and the whole work is a creditable achievement in the difficult art of dramatic poetry.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION.
A few of the reference books consulted in the preparation of the foregoing sketch are: Coggeshall's "Poets and Poetry of the West," 1860; Thomson's "Bibliography of the State of Ohio," 1880; "Biographical Cyclopaedia of the State of Ohio," 1887; Stedman's "A Library of American Literature," 1891; Sted- man's "An American Anthology," 1900; Adams's "A Dictionary of American Authors," 1902; and "Who's Who in America," 1902. Much use has been made of library catalogues and pub- lishers' lists. Grateful acknowledgment is made of special cour- tesy and aid received from The Library of Congress and The Public Library of Cleveland. The writer returns personal thanks for assistance rendered by Hon. E. O. Randall, of Columbus ; Hon. C. B. Galbreath, Librarian of the Ohio State Library; Mr. N. D. C. Hodges, Librarian of the Public Library of Cincinnati ; and by Hon. A. R. Spofford, of Washington, D. C.
LIST OF OHIO AUTHORS
WHO HAVE WRITTEN WITHIN RECENT YEARS.
The following list was kindly prepared under the direction of Mr. N. D. C. Hodges, Librarian of the Public Library of
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Cincinnati. The names given, nearly 300 in number, are those of literary people resident in Ohio, who have writen, chiefly within recent years, books, pamphlets or articles, the titles of which are catalogued in the Cincinnati Public Library or in the Cleveland Public Library, or in both. To save space, a few abbreviations are used, as Cin. for Cincinnati, Cl. for Cleveland, and Col. for Columbus.
ALLEN, EMORY ADAMS. History, Cincinnati.
AMBLER, HENRY LOVEJOY. C1.
ANDREAE, PERCY. Fiction.
ASHLEY, BARNAS FREEMAN. 1833 -: Ravenna.
AVERY, MRS. ELROY MCKENDREE. 1844 -: History and Science. C1.
BAINS, MINNIE WILLIS MILLER. 1845 -: Springfield.
BALDWIN, CHARLES CANDEE. Genealogy. Cl.
BANKS, LOUIS ALBERT. 1855 -: Religious works. Cl.
BARNITZ, ALBERT. Poetry. Cl.
BARROWS, JOHN HENRY. 1847-1892: Religous works. Oberlin.
BASHFORD, JAMES WHITFORD. 1849 -: Oratory. Delaware.
BAUDER, LEVI F. 1840 -: C1.
BEAL, JAMES HARTLEY. 1861 -: Scio.
BEATTY, JOHN. 1828 -: Fiction. Col.
BEECHER, EDWARD N. C1.
BENEDICT, ANNE KENDRICK. 1851 -: Story. Cin.
BENEDICT, WAYLAND RICHARDSON. 1848 -: Psychology. Cin.
BENJAMIN, CHARLES HENRY. 1856 -: Science. Cl.
BENNETT, HENRY HOLCOMB. 1863 -: Ornithology, Story. Chillicothe.
BENNETT, JOHN. 1865 -: Fiction, Poetry. Chillicothe.
BENNETT, WILLIAM ZEBINA. 1856 -: Botany. Wooster.
BEYER, FREDERICK CHARLES. 1858 -: Editor Leader. Cl.
BISHOP, JOHN REMSEN. 1860 -: Classics. Cin.
BLISS, EUGENE FREDERICK. 1836 -: History, biography, translation. Cin.
BOLLES, JAMES A. Theology. C1.
BOLTON, CHARLES EDWARD. 1841 -: Civics, municipal science. Cl.
BOLTON, MRS. SARAH ELIZABETH. 1841 -: General literature, juveniles.
C1.
BOOKWALTER, JOHN WESLEY. 1837 -: Finance, trade, travel. Springfield. BOOTH, MRS. EMMA SCARR. Poetry. Cl.
BOONE, RICHARD GAUSE. 1849 -: Education. Cin.
BOURNE, EDWARD GAYLORD. 1860 -: History. Cl.
BOURNE, HENRY ELDRIDGE. 1867 -: History, civics. Cl.
BRAIN, BELLE M. 1859 -: Religion, sociology. Springfield.
BRAINE, ROBERT D. 1861 -: Music, etc. Springfield.
BRAY, FRANK CHAPIN. 1866 -: Editor The Chautauquan. C1. BREWER, ABRAHAM T. Law. Cl.
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BROCKHOVEN, JOHN A. 1852 -: Music. Cin.
BROTHERTON, MRS. ALICE WILLIAMS. Poetry. Cin.
BROWN, WILLIAM KENNEDY. 1834 -: Woman Suffrage, etc. Cin.
BROWN, WILLIAM MONTGOMERY. 1855 -: Bishop, author of "The Church for Americans." Cl.
BUCK, JIRAD DEWEY. 1864 -: Medicine, theosophy. Cin. BURNETT, C. C1.
BURNET, MARGARETTA. Zoology. Cin.
CADWALLADER, STARR. 1869 -: Social settlement literature. Cl.
CHESNUTT, CHARLES WADDELL. 1858 -: Novels. C1.
COLBY, HENRY FRANCIS. 1867 -: Biography, religion. Dayton.
COLLINS, CLINTON. Poetry. Cin.
CONKLIN, DR. W. T. 1844 -: Medicine. Dayton.
CONOVER, CHARLOTTE REEVE. History, Dayton.
COLLINS, MRS. LAURA G. Poetry. Cin.
COLLORD, ISORA. Genealogy. Cin.
CONNER, LEVIETTA BARTLETT. Compiler "Parents' Heart in Song," Cin. CONNER, DR. PHINEAS SANBORN. 1839 -: Surgery. Cin.
COOKE, J. EDMUND VANCE. C1.
CORY, HARRY THOMAS. 1870 -: Engineering. Cin.
Cox, JACOB DOLSON. Military history. Cin.
CRILE, GEORGE'W. C1.
CROOK, ISAAC,, ex-president O. W. University. Biography, church history, etc., Ironton.
CURTIS, MATTOON MONROE. 1858 -: Philosophy, ethics, etc. Cl.
CUSHING, HENRY PLATT. 1860 -: Science. C1. DANZIGER, HENRY. 1852 -: Editor. Cin. DAVEY, JOHN.
DAVIS, EMMA C. C1.
DENNEY, JOSEPH VILLIERS. 1862 -: Rhetoric, literature. Col.
DEVEREAUX, MARY. Author of "From Kingdom to Colony." Cl.
EDGAR, JOHN F. 1814 -: Pioneer life. Dayton.
ELLARD, MRS. VIRGINIA G. Story and poems. Cin.
ELLARD, HARRY. Story and poems. Cin.
ELLIOTT, HENRY WOOD. 1846 -: Science, Alaska, etc. Cl.
EMERSON, OLIVER FARRAR. 1860 -: Literary critic, philologist, author "Memoirs of Gibbon." Cl.
EMMETT, DANIEL DECATUR. 1815 -: Famous song writer. Mt. Vernon. EVERTS, ORPHEUS. 1826 -: Temperance, sanitation, etc. Cin.
EWING, EMMA PIKE. 1838 -: Cookery, etc. Marietta.
EWING, HUGH BOYLE. 1826 -: Fiction. Lancaster.
FAIRCHILD, GERARD JAMES HARRIS. 1817 -: Theology, ethics, education. Oberlin.
FARMER, MRS. LYDIA HOYT. Books for the young. Cl.
FARMER, JAMES EUGENE. 1867 -: Essays, fiction. Cl,
FARMER, SILAS. 1839 -: History. Cl.
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FORAN, MARTIN A. C1.
FOSTER, LEONARD G. C1.
FOWKE, GERARD. 1855 -: Archeology. Chillicothe.
FREESE, ANDREW. Cl.
FOWLER, HAROLD NORTH. 1859 -: Greek and Latin texts. Cl.
GALBREATH, CHARLES BURLEIGH. 1903. Col.
1858 -: "Lafayette's Visit to Ohio.""
GANTVOORT, ARNOLD J. 1857 -: Music. Cin.
GIAQUE, FLORIAN. 1843 -: Numerous law books. Cin.
GILCHRIST, ROSETTA L. C1.
GLADDEN, WASHINGTON. 1836 -: Religion, sociology, civics, etc. Col .. GLACIER, JESSIE. C1.
GLEASON, W. J. C1.
GORDY, JOHN PANCOAST. 1851 -: History, education. Col.
Goss, CHARLES FREDERICK. 1852 -: Fiction. Cin.
GROESBECK, TELFORD. Author of "The Incas." Cin.
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