. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. LINDLEY MURRAY. THE well-known grammarian, Lindley Murray, was bom at Swatara,Pa., in 1745. He was educated at a (Quaker school in Philadel-p
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. LINDLEY MURRAY. THE well-known grammarian, Lindley Murray, was bom at Swatara,Pa., in 1745. He was educated at a (Quaker school in Philadel-phia and another school in New York, and began life in a counting-house, but abandoned commercial pursuits for the study of the his admission to the bar he obtaineda profitable practice. During the Revolu-tionary war he entered upon a mercantilebusiness with so much success that he soonacquired an ample fortune, with which beretired to England and turned his attentionto literature. Besides his Grammar ofthe English Language. he wrote ThePower of Religion on the Mind, EnglishExercises, a Key to his grammar, The English Reader, an • EnglishSpclling-Book, etc. He died near York,England, in 1826. His autobiography waspublished after his death. A JAMES PARTON, Widely Renowned as an Tnterfsting and SAMUEL AUSTIN American authors who have dis-tinguished themselves by the produc-tion of useful books of reference andinstruction, is Samuel Austin Allibone, whowas born at Philadelphia, in 1816. Hisprincipal works are: A Critical Diction-ary of English Literature and British andAmerican Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accountsto the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century, in three volumes, andcontaining notices of 46,499 authors and their writings: severalreligious essays, contributions, American periodicals, and a numberof tracts. JOSEPH CLAY NEAL. THE genial journalist and author, Joseph C. Neal, was born at(Trt;*enland, N. H.,
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