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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

TO MY FRIEND

JOSHUA B. LIPPINCOTT,

WHOSE ENTERPRISE ENABLES ME TO GIVE TO THE WORLD

THE

COMPLETION OF THIS WORK,

I Dedicate

THE SECOND AND THIRD VOLUMES OF THE DICTIONARY OF AUTHORS.

PHILADELPHIA, March 1, 1870.

S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE.

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Taafe. Padilla; a Poem, Lon., 8vo. Taafe, Count. A Comment on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri; by *** * *, vol. i., r. 8vo, pp. 499: Printed in Italy from the Types of Didot, for Murray, London, 1822. All printed. Reviewed in Lon. Mon. Rev., cii. 225-42.

An Impartial History of Ireland,

Taafe, Dennis. Dubl., 1809-11, 4 vols. 8vo.

"It is said that this violent and partial work was suppressed." -Lowndes's Bibl. Man., 1768.

He also published a number of tracts, 1795-1804, &c., in defence of R. Catholics, against the Union, &c. Taafe, Sir John, Knight-Commander of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. History of the Holy, Military, Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Lon., 1852, vols. 8vo.

The historian seeks the revival of the Order, under a different constitution. See Lon. Athen., 1853, 935. Taafe, Nicholas, Lord Viscount. Observations on Affairs in Ireland from the Settlement in 1691 to the Present Time, Lon., 1766, 8vo.

Tabarand, M. Critical History of English Philosophism, from its Origin to its Introduction into France,

Paris, 1806, 2 vols. 8vo.

Tabart, Benjamin. 1. Fairy Tales, collected, Lon., 1818, 12mo. 2. National Spelling-Book, revised by Clark, 12mo.

Taber, Azor. Report of his Argument as Counsel for the Defendant, Case Overbaugh, &c., Albany, 1850,

Svo.

Taber, G. S. Serms. on Various Subjects, 1820, 2

vols. 8vo.

Tabor, J. Land Surveying and Levelling, for Farmers, Lon., 1864, 8vo.

Tabor, Joh. Seasonable Thoughts in Sad Times, 1667, sm. 8vo. In verse.

Tabor, John, M.D. 1. Exercitationes Medica, Lon., 1724, 8vo. 2. Two papers on antiquities, in Phil.

Trans., 1717-18.

Tabram, R. Law of Landlord and Tenant, Stamford, 1823, 8vo.

Taché, Alex., Évêque de Saint Boniface, brother of the succeeding. Vingt Années de Missions dans le Nord-Ouest de l'Amérique, Montreal, 1866, 8vo.

Taché, Sir Etienne Paschal, M.D., b. at St. Thomas, Lower Canada, 1795, and d. there, 1865. 1. Du Développement de la Force physique chez l'Homme, 1820. 2. Quelques Réflexions sur l'Organisation des Volontaires et de la Milice de cette Province; par un Vétéran de 1812, Quebec, 1863.

Tache, Jean Charles, M.D., b. at Kamouraska, Lower Canada, 1821. 1. De la Tenure seigneuriale en Canada, et Projet de Commutation, &c., Quebec, 1854; also 2d ed., and an ed. in English. 2. La Pléiade Rouge; par Gaspard Lemage, 1854. 3. Esquisse sur le Canada

considéré sous le Point de Vue économiste, Paris, 1855, 8vo. 4. Le Canada et l'Exposition Universelle, Toronto, 1856, 8vo. French and English. 5. Des Provinces de l'Amérique du Nord et d'une Union fédérale, Quebec, 1858, 8vo. 6. Notice historiographique sur la Fête

célébrée à Quebec, le 16 Juin, 1859, &c., 1859. 7. Le Défricheur de Langue, Tragédie bouffe, (en vers,) en Trois Actes, en Trois Tableaux; par Isidore Méplats, 1859. See Morgan's Canadians, 1862, 676, and his Bibl. Canad., 1867, 366.

Tacitus, (a pseudonym.) Canal Policy of New York, in a Letter to R. Toup, 1821, 8vo.

Tafel, John Frederic Leonhard, Ph.D., born in Sulzbach, on the Kocher River, in the kingdom of Würtemberg, Germany, Feb. 6, 1800. He graduated at the University of Tübingen in 1820, and taught successively at the gymnasiums in Stuttgart and Ulm, and was Principal of the County Academy in Schorndorf. He emigrated to America in the year 1853, and was for three years Professor of Languages at the Urbana University in Ohio. He resides at present in St. Louis, Mo. His educational works are: Hamilton und seine Gegner, (Hamilton and his Opponents,) Ulm, 1836. From the year 1830 to 1837 he published text-books, according to Hamilton's interlinear method, for instruction in the following languages, viz.: Latin, Greek, English, Spanish, Italian, French, (two editions.) He also prepared a second course of in

struction, according to the same method, in Latin, French, and English. In 1838 he published, in Cotta's Deutsche Vierteljahrschrift, a review of Hamilton's and Jacotot's methods of teaching the languages. In 1845 he wrote his Analytische Lehrmethode, (Analytic Method of Teaching.) His text-books according to this method are Analytisches Lehrbuch der lateinischen Sprache, in 2 vols., Ulm, 1839; Analytisches Lehrbuch der französischen Sprache, Stuttgart, 1846; and Analytisches Lehrbuch der englischen Sprache, Stuttgart, 1847. In 1836 he wrote Die Stadtschulen Würtemberg's; ein Vorschlag zu einer Reform, (The Free-Schools of Würtemberg: a Proposal for their Reformation.) His philological works are: T. Livii Opera omnia, iii. vols., edidit J. T. L. Tafel, Stuttgardiæ, 1823. He translated into German, from the Greek, Xenophon's Anabasis, and Cassius Dio's Roman History, in the collection called Griechische Prosaiker, published by Professors Lucas Tafel, Osiander, and Schwab. The following works have been translated by him from the English: Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, Ivanhoe, Quentin Durward, The Astrologer, The Antiquary, Kenilworth, and The Abbot, Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Thackeray's Pendennis, and Dickens's Dombey and Son and Pictures from Italy. From the French he translated The Mysteries of London. His theological works are: Staat und Christenthum, Tübingen, 1851; Der Christ und der Atheist, Philadelphia, 1856.

Dr. Tafel has been engaged in the publication of the following periodicals. From 1827 to 1830 he was co-editor of the Ausland, a weekly periodical published by Cotta, devoted to foreign literature and the discussion of things abroad. In 1851 he was editor of the Reichstagszeitung, the organ of the German Diet after its removal from Frankfort to Stuttgart. From 1849 to 1853 he participated in editing the Beobachter, a daily paper devoted to the interests of the liberal party, published by his brother, Gottlob Tafel, attorney-at-law, in Stuttgart. A New and Complete English-German and German-English Pocket Dictionary, by J. F. L. Tafel and Louis H. Tafel, Phila., 1870, sq. 12mo. See, also, TAFEL, RUDOLPH LEONHARD.

Tafel, Rudolph Leonhard, Ph.D., Professor of Modern Languages and Comparative Philology at the Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., b. 24th Nov. 1831, in Ulm, kingdom of Würtemberg, Germany, emigrated to the United States in the year 1847.

1. Investigations into the Laws of English Pronunciation and Orthography, vol. i., No. 1, r. 8vo, New York, 1862. The first number also bears the separate title Elementary Sounds of Language in General, and of the English Language in Particular. This first number appeared in the Proceedings of the Amer. Philos. Soc.

2. Le Bois de Guays' Briefe an einen Weltmann, translated from the French, Balt., 1860, 8vo. 3. Emanuel Swedenborg as a Philosopher and Man of Science, Chicago, 1867, 12mo.

With his father, Dr. John F. L. Tafel, (preceding article,) he published: Latin Pronunciation and the Latin Alphabet, 12mo, New York, 1860. He also contributed with his father to the Bibliotheca Sacra, in 1861, a review of Bopp's Comparative Grammar, and in 1862 an article on Semitic Comparative Philology.

Taffetus, Mrs. Hester. Recollections of; ed. by her Granddaughter, Lon., 12mo, 1857; 2d ed., 1858. Taft, Alphonso. Lecture on Cincinnati and her Railroads, Cin., 1850, 8vo, pp. 52.

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Taft, Jonathan, D.D.S., b. at Russellville, Ohio, 1820, graduated at the Ohio Dental College, 1850. Practical Treatise on Operative Dentistry, Phila., 8vo,

1859 2d ed., 1867.

"A first-rate work."-Trübner's Amer. and Orient. Record, June 20, 1865.

Also commended by Edin. Med. Jour., Bost. Med. and Surg. Jour., and Chicago Med. Jour. He edited the Dental Register of the West, vols. i.-ix. et seq.

Tagart, Edward. 1. Memoir of the Late Capt. Peter Heywood, R.N., with his Diary and Corresp., Lon., 1832, 8vo. 2. Remarks on Mathematical or Demonstrative Reasoning, &c., Lon., 1837, 8vo. 3. Lives of the Leading Reformers of the Sixteenth Century, 1843, Svo. See, also, LOCKE, JOHN, (p. 1118, supra;) WHITE, REV. JOSEPH BLANCO, No. 10.

Taggart, Charles Manson, b. at Montreal, L.C.,

1821; graduated at the Meadville (Pa.) Theological Seminary, 1849; d. at Charleston, S.C., 1853. He contributed to the Southern Literary Messenger. A volume of his Sermons, with a Memoir by John H. Heywood, was published Bost., 1856, 12mo.

Taggart, Miss Cynthia, the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, was b. 1801, and d., after many years' illness, near Newport, R.I., 1849. Notices of her life will be found in The Rhode Island Cottage, or, A Gift for the Children of Sorrow, by the Rev. James C. Richmond, and in the autobiography prefixed to her Poems, Providence, 1834, 12mo; 3d ed., N. York, 1848, 12mo. See, also, Duyckink's Cyc. of Amer. Lit.; Griswold's F. Poets of Amer.; May's Amer. Female Poets; Hale's Woman's Record.

Taggart, Samuel, b. at Londonderry, N.H., 1754; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1774; was licensed to preach, 1776; M.C., 1803-17; d. 1825. He published several theological treatises, sermons, orations, political speeches, &c., 1800-19. See Sprague's Annals, iii., Presbyterian, 377-81.

Tailboys, Samuel. New Lachrymentall and Funerall Elegy on L. Duke of Richmond, Lon., 1624, 4to. Tailer, J. Serm., Ps. xc. 9, Lon., 1765, 8vo. Tailfer, Patrick, M.D., and others. A True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia, &c., Charlestown, S.C., 1741, 8vo, pp. 118; Lon., 1741, 12mo. See Rich's Bibl. Amer. Nova, i. 64.

Tailor, Robert. The Hogge hath lost his Pearle; a Comedy, Lon., 1614, 4to. Also in Dodsley's Collec. of Old Plays.

Tailor, Thomas, D.D. See TAYLOR, THOMAS, D.D. Tailour, Rob. See SANDYS, EDWIN, KNT., M.P., No. 2.

Tainter, Dean W. A History and Genealogy of the Descendants of Joseph Taynter, &c.; for Private Distribution, Bost., 1859, 8vo, pp. 100.

"A very well-arranged account of the family," &c.—Whitmore's Amer. Genealog., 1862, 154.

Taintor, Charles M. The Genealogy and History of the Taintor Family, Greenfield, 1847, 18mo, pp. 82. See Whitmore's Amer. Genealog., 1862, 54.

Tait, Rev. Adam Duncan. Letter to the Lord Justice Clerk on the Theological Faculties in the Universities of Scotland, Edin., 1859, 8vo.

Tait, Archibald Campbell, D.D., D.C.L., b. in Edinburgh, Dec. 22, 1811, was educated at the University of Glasgow and Balliol College, Oxford, of which last he became Scholar, Tutor, and Fellow; Head-Master of Rugby School, 1842-50; Dean of Carlisle, 1850; Bishop of London, 1856; Archbishop of Canterbury, 1868. 1. Lessons for School Life: Selection from his Sermons, 12mo. 2. Letter on the Case of the Rev. W. G. Ward, M.A., Edin., 1845, 8vo. See Brit. Quar. Rev., i. 436. 3. Suggestions offered to the Theological Student under Present Difficulties; Five Discourses preached before the University of Oxford, Lon., 1846, p. 8vo.

"We most cheerfully recommend Dr. Tait's most useful volume."-Church and State Gazette.

4. An Historical Sketch of Carlisle Cathedral; a Lecture, 1855. 5. Charge, Primary Visitation, 1858, 8vo. 6. Serm., Consecration of Bishop of British Columbia, 1859, 8vo. 7. Serm., Consecration of the Church of All Saints, 1859, 8vo. 8. The Dangers and Safeguards of Modern Theology; Sermons, 1861, 8vo. He notices the Essays and Reviews: see Lon. Athen., 1861, i. 724. 9. A Charge to the Clergy, Dec. 1862, 8vo. 10. The Word of God and the Ground of Faith; Six Discourses, 1863, 8vo; Part 2, Five Discourses, 1864, 8vo. 11. Harmony of Revelation and the Sciences; an Address, Edin., 1864, 8vo. 12. A Charge to the Clergy, Lon., 1866, 8vo. 13. Ordination Sermon, 1867, 1868, 8vo. The bishop was a contributor to Sermons for the Working Classes, 1858, 12mo, and is the author of articles (educational, &c.) in the Edinburgh and North British Reviews, and Good Words.

Tait, Rev. Christopher. Peat Mosses in Kincardine and Flanders, in Perthshire; Trans. Soc. Edin., 1794.

Tait, George. 1. Powers and Duties of a Constable, &c., 6th ed., Edin., 1827, 8vo. 2. Powers and Duties of a Justice of the Peace in Scotland, 4th ed., 1828, 8vo. 3. Treatise on the Law of Evidence in Scotland, 3d ed., by A. Urquhart, 1834, 8vo.

Tait, Gilbert. The Hymns of Denmark; Translated, Lon., 1868, fp. 8vo.

Tait, John R., an artist, b. at Cincinnati, 1834,

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Tait, N. See SMITH, M., No. 2.

Tait, Peter Guthrie, late Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, formerly Professor of Mathematics in Queen's College, Belfast, and subsequently (in 1862) appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. 1. With STEELE, WILLIAM JOHN, (supra,) Treatise on Dynamics of a Particle, Camb., 1856, cr. 8vo. 2. Value of the Edinburgh Degree; an Address, Edin., 1866, p. 8vo. 3. Elementary Treatise on Quaternions, Camb., 1867, 8vo. 4. Thermodynamics, Edin., 1868, demy 8vo. See, also, THOMSON, WILLIAM, LL.D.

Tait, W. Books on Commercial Arithmetic, &c., 1811.

Tait, William, Surgeon to the Hospitals of Edinburgh. Magdalenism; an Enquiry into Prostitution in Edinburgh, 1841, 8vo; 2d ed., 1842, p. 8vo.

Tait, Rev. William, Incumbent of Trinity Church, Wakefield. 1. Meditationes Hebraica; Expos. of the Epistle to the Hebrews, Lon., 1845, 2 vols. 8vo; new ed., 1854, 2 vols. cr. Svo; enlarged, 1859, 2 vols. 12mo. 2. Christian Indeed: Discourses on the Lord's Prayer, 1846, 12mo. 3. Appeal against the Opium Trade, 1859, Svo. 4. Inspiration and Justification; Two Serms., 1861, Svo. 5. Seeds of Thought, 1863, cr. Svo. 6. Subjects for the Times, 1867, 8vo.

Taitt, Alexander. See INNES, THOMAS. Talbor, Sir Robert. 1. Cause and Cure of Agues, Lon., 1672, 12mo. 2. Secret of Curing Agues and Fevers, 1682, 8vo.

Talbot, Rev. Mr. Narrative of the whole of his Proceedings relative to Jonathan Britain, Bristol, (1772,) 8vo. See Lon. Month. Rev., 1772, i. 623.

Talbot, B. New Art of Land Measuring, Lon., 1780, 8vo.

Talbot, C. R. M., M.P. Sir Isaac Newton's Enumeration of Lines of the Third Order, &c.; from the Latin, with Notes and Examples, Lon., 1861, 8vo.

Talbot, Catherine, only child of Edward Talbot, second son of the Bishop of Durham, was b. 1720, lived with her mother in the family of Archbishop Secker, and d., after a life of good works, 1770. She corrected the MS. of Sir Charles Grandison, assisted other writers, wrote No. 30 of the Rambler, and, in conjunction with Elizabeth Carter, furnished hints for The Adventurer. After her death appeared her Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week, 1770, 6th ed., Lon., 1771, 12mo, (at least 25,000 copies sold;) Essays, (25,) 1772, 2 vols. 12mo; Letters to a Friend on a Future State; Dialogues; Prose Pastorals; Imitations of Ossian; Allegories; Poetry. Collective edits. of her Works: published by Elizabeth Carter, new ed., 1795, 8vo; with Additional Papers, Notes, Illustrations, and Life, by Rev. Montagu Pennington, A.M., 1809, 8vo; 7th ed. of her Works, 1812, 8vo; 8th ed., 1812, (some 1813,) 8vo; 9th ed., 1819, 8vo. Letters: see CARTER, ELIZABETH; PENNINGTON, MONTAGU, No. 2.

"So excellent are the compositions of Miss Talbot which have come down to us, that it is to be greatly regretted that she did not devote more time to writing."-MRS. ELWOOD: Lit. Ladies of Eng., i. 143, (q. v.)

See, also, Drake's Essays, vol. v.; Brydges's Cens. Lit.; Life of Sir J. Mackintosh, ii. ch. i.

Talbot, Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury. See SHREWSBURY.

Talbot, Charles, Lord, b. 1684; M.P. for Tregony, 1719; Solicitor-General, and M.P. for Durham, 1726; Lord Chancellor, and created a baron, 1733; d. 1737. Cases in Equity temp. Talbot, 7 Geo. II.-11 Geo. II., 1734-1738, 1741, fol., &c.: see FORRESTER, Alexander, (add Dubl., 1793, 8vo.)

"Well reported, and have a reputation for accuracy."-1 Kent, Com., 493.

"Lord Talbot's decisions... retain an authority almost untouched by the dissent of later Judges."-W. N. WELSBY: Lives of Em. Judges, 270.

"This opinion is confirmed by other writers."-Wallace's Reporters, ed. 1855, 318, (q. v.)

See, also, Biog. Brit.; Gen. Dict.; The Honour of the Seals, &c., 1737, 8vo, (privately printed;) Townsend's Twelve Judges; Lord Campbell's L. Chan.; Simpson's Study of the Law, ch. ix.; Bridgman's Leg. Bibliog.;

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