Walker, Charles M. History of Athens County, Ohio, and incidentally of the Ohio Land Company, and the First Settlement of the State at Marietta, with Personal and Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers, Narratives of Pioneer Adventures, etc., Cin., 1869, 8vo; 1. p., 2 vols. imp. Svo. (Ohio Valley Hist. Ser., No. 2.) Walker, Charles V., Hon. Secretary to the London Electrical Society, and Superintendent Telegrapher of the Southeastern Railway, &c. 1. Electric Telegraph Manipulation, Lon., 12mo. 2. Electrotype Manipulation, new ed., 1837, 12mo; Phila., 1844, 12mo; new ed., from 25th Lon. ed., Phila., 12mo. 3. Complete Course of Meteorology, by L. Kaemptz; with Notes by Ch. Martins, &c.; Trans., with Notes and Additions, Lon., 1845, 12mo.

"Martin's French translation is the basis of that which we have been reviewing. . . . The English translator, Mr. C. V. Walker, . . . adheres to the French idioms and words so closely that the language becomes absurd, . . . and frequently he commits mistakes inexcusable in a translator or a man of science.' -J. LOVERING: N. Amer. Rev., 1xxi. 93.

4. A Treatise on Electricity, in Theory and Practice, by Auguste de la Rive, Late Professor in the Academy of Geneva; Trans. for the Author, 3 vols. Svo: i., 1853; ii., 1855; iii., 1858.

"Mr. De la Rive has been very happy in the accomplishment of his task."-Edin. Rev., July, 1857, art. ii.

"The best of guides,-a truly philosophical and practical treatise."-N. Brit. Rer., Feb. 1859.

"From his thoroughly practical acquaintance with electricity,

Mr. Walker has been enabled to render Prof. De la Rive's work with great exactness, and thus to give us in the English language one of the best text-books of Electricity to be found in Europe."-Lom. Athen., 1858, i. 430.

Mr. Walker edited The Electrical Magazine, Lon., 8vo: vol. i., 1845. See, also, LARDNER, REV. DIONYSIUS, LL.D., No. 14.

Walker, Clement, a native of Cliffe, Dorsetshire, a royalist and Churchman, acted with the Presbyterians, and became M.P. for Wells, 1640; for writing the First and Second Parts of his History of Independency, was imprisoned by Cromwell in the Tower, 1649, and d. there, 1651. The Compleat History of Independency, 1646-60, 4to. in four Parts: 1, 1661; 2, 1661; 3, 1660; 4, (by T. M.,) 1660. The first edits. of Parts 1, 2, and 3 (all 4to, 1648-49-51) vary (in titles, &c.) from the reprints: see Wood, Lowndes, and Watt, (infra.)

It

"It is written in a rambling way, and in a vindictive Presbyterian spirit, full of bitterness; but it gives you an admirable idea of the character of the times, parties, and persons. . . is full of curious anecdotes."-BISHOP WARBURTON: Letters from a Late Em. Prelate, Iviii., lix.

"This is an author of spirit and ingenuity; and, being a zealous parliamentarian, his authority is very considerable, notwithstanding the air of satire which prevails in his writings."-HUME: Hist. of Eng.: Charles I., ch. lix.

"Should be looked into."-PROF. SMYTH: Lects. on Mod. Hist., Lect. XVI.

He published several political pamphlets. See Bliss's Wood's Athen. Oxon., iii. 292; State Trials, iv. 185; Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Bohn's Lowndes, 2810; FIENNES,

NATHANIEL.

Walker, D. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Hereford, Lon., 1794, 4to.

"The matter is well arranged and suitably expressed."— Donaldson's Agr. Biog., 71.

Walker, David. Remarks on National Education and its Present Tendency, Lon., 1853, 12mo.

Walker, Donald. 1. British Manly Exercises, Lon., 1834, 12mo; Phila., 1836, 12mo; 1856, 12mo; 10th ed., by "Craven," (Bohn's Illust. Lib.,) 1856, p. 8vo; 1860, p. 8vo.

"Of general utility."-Lon. Lit. Gaz.

Sce, also, N. Amer. Rev., 1xxxi. 51, (by A. A. Livermore.) 2. Games and Sports; being an Appendix to "Manly Exercises," 1837, 12mo; 1842, 12mo. 3. Exercises for Young Ladies, 2d ed., 1837, 12mo. 4. Defensive Exercises, 1840, 12mo; red. to 48., 1842.

Walker, Mrs. E. See her Life, Lon., 1827, 12mo. Walker, E. Art of Book-Binding, 1850, 8vo. Walker, E. D. Hints on Sea-Bathing, Teignmouth, 1852, 12mo.

Walker, Sir Edward, Rouge-Dragon Pursuivantat-Arms in Ordinary, and Chester Herald-at-Arms, 1637; Secretary at War and, in 1644, Clerk Extraordinary of the Privy Council to Charles I.; knighted, 1645; accompanied Charles II. in his exile, and made by him Garter King-at-Arms, and, after the Restoration, a Clerk of the Privy Council; held both these offices until his death, 1677. 1. Acts of Knights of the Garter in the Civil Wars. 2. Account of the Celebration of St. George's Day at Windsor in 1674. 3. Iter Carolinum: Marches,

&c. of Charles I., 1641-1648, fol. 4. Military Discoveries, 1705, fol. 5. Historical Discourses: upon the Progress and Success of the Arms of Charles I. in 1644, &c., Lon., 1705, fol.

"Valuable."-PROF. SMYTH: Lects. on Mod. Hist., Lect. XVII. See, also, Edin. Rev., xliv. 27, (by Sir J. Mackintosh.) 6. Circumstantial Account of the Preparations for the Coronation of King Charles II., 1820, 8vo; l. p., imp. Svo. See Clarendon's Rebellion; Noble's Coll. of Arms; Chalmers's Biog. Dict.; Knight's Eng. Cyc., Biog., vi. (1858) 482.

Walker, Edward. Raphael, or the Pupil of Nature: a Poem, Lon., 1805, 2 vols. 12mo.

Walker, Ellis. The most excellent Morals of Epictetus, made English in a Poetical Paraphrase, Lon., 1692, 8vo; new edits.: 1697, 1701, 1709, 1716, 1732; Bost., 1864, pp. ix., 667.

Walker, Ezekiel. Papers on mathematical instruments and natural philosophy, &c. in Nic. Jour., i., ii., iii., iv., vii.-xi.: see Watt's Bibl. Brit.

Walker, Rev. F. See Memoirs of, by Rev. F. Pyne, Lon., 1864, p. 8vo.

Walker, Ferdinand. The Spanish Mandeuile of Miracles; or, Garden of Curious Flowers, from the Spanish of A. de Torquemada, Lon., 1600, sm. 4to; 1618, 4to. Anon.

"A translation into good old English by Lewes Lewkenor, as appears by the second Dedication in the second edition, 1618, though it is commonly attributed to Ferdinand Walker, who originally published it."-GEORGE TICKNOR: Hist. of Span. Lit., 3d Amer. ed., 1863, iii. 206, n.

"Our Mandevile-the Spanish' Mandevile-deals, like his great precursor, in hearsays and hypotheses. . The book is prodigal in narrative and marvel beyond any other which ever came before us."-Retrospec. Rev., (1823,) 272, 279, (q. v.)

Walker, Francis. 1. Monographia Chalciditum, Lon., 1839, 8vo. 2. Insecta Britannica, Svo: vols. iii., iv., 1853-4. See Lon. Athen., 1853, 991. Walker, G. Serm., Is. lviii. 1, Liverp., 1805, 8vo. Walker, G., and Valentine, John. Elementary Text-Book of Vocal Music, Lon., 1855, sq. Walker, G. A., a London surgeon. 1. Gatherings from Grave-Yards, Lon., 1839, 8vo. See Lon. Athen., 1839, 883. 2. Cure of Ulcers by Fumigation, 1844, 8vo. 3. Practical Chart of Diseases of the Skin, 1844, 8vo, case, 38.; on a sheet, 18. 6d. 4. Warm Vapour Cures, 1847, 8vo. 5. Lectures on the Condition of the Metropolitan Grave-Yards, 2d ed., 1849, 8vo. Walker, G. F. Lon., 8vo.

Walker, G. J.

Practical Introduction to Hebrew,

1. Essays, &c. on Scripture, 1850, 18mo. 2. Coming of the Lord, &c., Teignmouth, 1857, 18mo. 3. Ministry of Angels; Separate State, &c., 1859, 18mo.

Walker, G. U. Account of Wesleyan Methodism in Halifax, Lon., 12mo.

Walker, George, an eminent Puritan, b. at Hawkshead, Lancashire, 1581, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, was from 1614 until his death, in 1651, Rector of St. John the Evangelist, Watling Street, London. He was one of the Assembly of Divines in 1645, a witness against Laud, and held public disputations with Edward Norrice, (see Lowndes's Brit. Lib., 1069,) John Fisher, and other Romanists, (see Watt's Bibl. Brit.) In addition to the tracts just referred to, and some sermons, he published: 1. Socinianisme in the Fundamentall Point of Justification Discovered and Confuted, Lon., 1641, sm. Svo. 2. Doctrine of the Holy Weekly Sabbath, 1641, 4to. 3. God made Visible in all his Works, 1644.

"He was a man of a holy life, humble heart, and bountiful hand."-Fuller's Worthies, ed. 1840, ii. 209.

See, also, Brook's Puritans; Chalmers's Biog. Dict. Walker, George. Anglo-Tyrannus, Lon., 1650,

4to.

Walker, George, D.D., the heroic defender of Londonderry after it had been basely abandoned by its governor, was b. in Tyrone, of English parents, and educated at the University of Glasgow: was Rector of Donoughmore, near Londonderry, when James laid siege to that city; successfully resisted the royal army, and was rewarded by the thanks of the House of Commons, the degree of D.D. from Oxford, and £5000 and nomination to the bishopric of Derry from William III.; killed at the battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690, "while exhorting the colonists of Ulster to play the men."

He published a True Account of the Siege of Londonderry, &c., Lon., 1689, 4to, Edin., 1698, 8vo, and A Vindication of the True Account, Lon., 1689, 4to. Other

tracts were published on this subject, some of which will be found in A Collection of Papers relative to the Siege of Derry, &c., Londonderry, 1794, 8vo. See, also, MACKENZIE, JOHN; The Power of Protestant Religious Principle in producing a National Spirit of Defence exemplified in the Diary of the Siege of Londonderry, Lon., 1758, 8vo; and the accounts in Harris's Ware, Noble's Granger, Birch's Tillotson, Smollett's England, Macaulay's England, iii. chaps. xii., xv., xvi. A lofty pillar on the walls of Londonderry still attracts the attention of the stranger:

"On the summit is the statue of Walker, such as when, in the

last and most terrible emergency, his eloquence roused the fainting courage of his brethren. In one hand he grasps a Bible. The other, pointing down the river, seems to direct the eyes of his famished audience to the English topmasts in the distant bay."-LORD MACAULAY: ubi supra, ch. xii.

Walker, George, Preb. of London, 1737. Serm., Lon., 1738, 8vo.

Walker, George, b. at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1734, became pastor of a body of Dissenters at Durham, 1757, of another at Great Yarmouth, 1761 or 1762, and of another at Nottingham, 1774; was Mathematical Tutor at Warrington, 1772-96, and Theological, Mathematical, and Classical Tutor at Manchester, 1796; d. in London, 1807. 1. On the Doctrine of the Sphere, &c., Lon., 1775, 1777, 4to. 2. Dissenter's Plea against the Test Laws, 1790, 8vo. 3. Sermons on Various Subjects, 1790, 2 vols. 8vo; 2d ed., 1808, 4 vols. 8vo.

Pregnant with the celestial fire of genius, and with the vigour

of noble sentiments."-GILBERT WAKEFIELD.

Also commended by Crit. Rev. and Analyt. Rev. 4. Treatise on Conic Sections, in Five Books: Book I., 1794, 4to. 5. Essays on Various Subjects, with Life of the Author, 1809, 2 vols. 8vo. Reviewed by John Foster (the scientific observations by Dr. Olinthus Gregory) in Eclec. Rev., Oct. 1809. He also published several single

Walker, George. Observations on Cotton Twist, Lon., 1803, 8vo.

Walker, George, minister of Trinity Church, Leeds, Head-Master of the Leeds Grammar-School, 1818, and Rector of Papworth Everard, 1820, d. at Leeds, 1830, aged 36. 1. Serms. on the Humiliation and Exaltation of the Son of God, Lon., 1824, 12mo. 2. Scheller's Latin Grammar, from the German, &c., 1825, 2 vols. 8vo; 2d ed., 1838, 2 vols. 8vo. 3. Specimens of English Poetry, 1827, r. 12mo. 4. Do. of Prose, r. 12mo. See Lon. Gent. Mag., (Obituary,) 1830, i. 649, ii. 649.

Walker, George. 1. Elements of Algebraical Notation, &c., Lon., 12mo. 2. Theoretical and Practical Notation, 12mo.

Walker, George. Tailor's Master- Piece, Lon., 8vo. Do. Plates and Tables, Svo.

Walker, George. 1. The New Variations on the Muzio Gambit, Lon. 2. New Treatise on Chess, 1832, fp. 8vo; 3d ed., 1841, fp. 8vo. See Lon. Gent. Mag., 1832, i. 432. 3. Philidor's Analysis of the Game of Chess; Trans., 1832, fp. 8vo; 1835, fp. 8vo. See George Allen's excellent Life of Philidor, ed. Phila., 1863, r. Svo, passim. 4. Selections of Games of Chess played by Philidor and his Contemporaries, 1835, fp. 8vo. 5. Chess made Easy, 1836, sq. 12mo; Balt., 1837, 1839; Phila., 1837, 1839. 6. Philidorian Magazine of Chess and other Scientific Games, Lon., 1836, 8vo. 7. Cribbage-Player's Text-Book, 1837, 12mo. 8. Chess Studies: comprising One Thousand Games, 1844, med. 8vo.

"A complete cyclopædia of reference."-Bell's Life in London. Also commended by Metropol. Mag. and Lon. Exam. 9. Art of Chess Play, 4th ed., 1846, (some 1847,) fp. 8vo; red. to 2s. 6d., 1855. 10. Jaenisch's Chess Preceptor; Trans. from the French, with Notes, 1847, 8vo. Treatise on Chess and Chess Players, consisting of Original Stories and Sketches, 1850, p. 8vo; 1855, 12mo. See, also, STURGES, JOSHUA, No. 1.

11.

"The lovers of chess owe large obligations to Mr. Walker. His publications are all valuable, and equally distinguished by clearness and brevity. His enthusiasm on chess is delightful. Mr. Walker's notes are always to the purpose."-Metropol. Mag. Walker, George. Letters to a Friend on the Trinity and the Atonement, Lon., 1843, 8vo.

Walker, George A., of Christ College, Cambridge. Elementa Liturgica; or, The Churchman's Primer for the Scholastical Study of the Book of Common Prayer, Lon., 1845, fp. 8vo; 2d ed., 1848, fp. 8vo.

"The best companion to the Book of Common Prayer that has been published."-Historical Register. Walker, George Washington. See TYLOR, CHARLES, No. 3.

Walker, Gilbert. A manifest Detection of the moste vyle and detestable Vse of Disceplay and other Practices lyke the same, Lon., by A. Vele, s. a., 16mo: Heber, Pt. 1, £4 14s. 6d.; by R. Tottyl, 1552, 16mo. Reprinted, ed. by J. O. Halliwell, 1850, p. Svo.

Walker, H. 1. The Churche's Purity, 1641, 4to. 2. Tpaynuara, &c.; or, Resolves in all Cases who are Believers, Lon., 1654, 8vo.

Walker, H. Cab Fare and Map Guide of London, Lon., 1851, in case. Walker, H. Fossil Vertebrata, Lon., 1860, 8vo. Walker, Harvey Day, late Principal and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Teaching in the Orangeville (Penna.) Normal School, was b. in Princeton, Mass., 1817, and graduated at Brown University, 1843. 1. Reports on the Relation of Normal Schools to Public Schools, Pittston, (Pa.,) 1859, 8vo. 2. Elements of Grammar, Phila., 1869, 12mo. 3. Book Keeping by Single Entry; in press, 1869, 8vo. 4. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language; in prep., 1870. 5. Book-Keeping by Double Entry; in prep., 1870.

Walker, Henry, an Ironmonger. Seasonable Lecture, Lon., 1642, 4to. See Bohn's Lowndes, 2592, 2811; TAYLOR, JOHN, "The Water Poet," Nos. 79, 80, 82, 96, 97.

Walker, Henry N. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Chancery of the State of Michigan, April, 1842-Mar. 1845, Randolph Manning, Chancellor, Detroit, 1845, 8vo.

Walker, Sir Hovenden, appointed Rear-Admiral of the Red, 1709, Rear-Admiral of the White, 1711, and commander of the unfortunate expedition which sailed from Boston, Mass., against Canada, 1710, is supposed to have d. in Ireland about 1725. He published in his vindication A Journal, or Full Account of the Late Expedition to Canada, Lon., 1720, 8vo. Some copies of this edition have no date on title-page. See Nichols's

Lit. Anec., i. 178, v. 378.

Walker, J. Bradshawe. Warriors of our Wooden Walls, and their Victories, Lon., 1853, fp. 8vo. Walker, J. C. Lon., 12mo.

South American, and other Poems,

Walker, J. H. Life of President Thuanus, Lon., 12mo.

Walker, James, M.D. Account of Effect of Antimonial Wine; Ess. Phys. and Lit., 1756.

Walker, James. 1. Serm., 1795, 8vo. 2. Influence of Philosophers, &c. on the Revolution; from the French of J. J. Mounier, Lon., 1801, 8vo. 3. Serm., 1804, 8vo. 4. Serm., 1806, 8vo. 5. Serm., 1810, 8vo. Walker, James.

8vo.

Walker, James. Walker, James. 1818, 8vo.

Causes of Sterility, Phila., 1797,

See ATKINSON, JOHN AUGUSTUS. Letters on the West Indies, Lon.,

Walker, James, D.D., Bishop of Edinburgh. 1. The Kingdom which is not of this World; a Serm., Lon., 1820, 8vo. 2. XIV. Sermons, &c., 1829, 8vo.

"Elegant in style, sound in doctrine, scriptural in argument, and persuasive in exhortation."-Lon. Chris. Rememb.

Walker, James. The Armorial Bearings of the Incorporated Companies of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, &c., by James Walker and M. A., Newc., 1824, 8vo; some 1. p., with arms emblazoned.

Walker, James, D.D., b. in Burlington, Mass., 1794; graduated at Harvard College, 1814; pastor of the Harvard (Unitarian) Church in Charlestown, Mass., 1818-38; Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy in Harvard University, 1838 to 1853, and from 1853 to 1860 President of the institution. 1. XXV. Sermons

preached in the Chapel of Harvard College, Bost., 1861, 12mo, pp. 397.

"In its tone and attitude the volume, we should say, is consistently, quietly, and strongly conservative, in both theology and morals."-Chris. Exam., Nov. 1861, 440.

"They are a worthy memorial of the author's unsurpassed ability, skill, and fidelity as a religions teacher," &c.-A. P. PEABODY, D.D.: N. Amer. Rev., xciv. 196. 2. Me

See, also, Amer. Theolog. Rev., Jan. 1862. moir of Hon. Daniel Appleton White, 1863, Svo, pp. 71. From Proceed. of Mass. Hist. Soc., 1862-1863, 262-330.

Exam., Chris. Regis., and Chris. Inquirer. See Memoir of James P. Walker; with Selections from his Writings, 1869, 12mo, pp. 262.

Walker, Jason F. Funl. Serm. of F. E. Stowe,

versity, July 19, 1860.

See, also, Rev. Charles T. Brooks's Discourse before the Graduating Class at the Divinity School at Cambridge, Aug. 1860.

Walker, James. Ethics of Labour: Six Lectures, chiefly addressed to the Working Classes, Lon., 1856,

12mo.

"The discourses seem to us well meant rather than convincing."-Lon. Athen., 1856, 1246.

Walker, James Barr, D.D., b. in Philadelphia, 1806, has gained a wide reputation by the following works. 1. The Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation; a Book for the Times, by an American Citizen; with an Introductory Essay by Calvin E. Stowe, D.D., Bost., 1855, 12mo; 22d 1000, with Supp. Chapter, Sept. 1856, 12mo. Repub. in London (19 edits. there to May 1, 1857) by Lon. Tract Soc., in Ward's Lib. of Stand. Div., and by another publisher. Also translated into German, French, Italian, Welsh, and Hindostanee. Commended by Lon. Evangel. Mag., Lon. Meth. Mag., Edin. U. Sess. Mag., Edin. Free Church Mag., Scottish Congreg. Mag., Bost. Mon. Relig. Mag., (by Prof. Huntington, ) &c. 2. God Revealed in Nature and in Christ; including a Refutation of the Development Theory contained in the Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Bost., 1855, 12mo; 3d ed., Sept. 1856, 12mo. Repub. in London (3 edits. to May 1, 1857) and Glasgow. 3. Philosophy of Scepticism and Ultraism; wherein the Opinions of Rev. Theodore Parker and other Writers are shown to be inconsistent with Sound Reason and the Christian Religion, N. York, 1857. 12mo. 4. The Philosophy of the Divine Operation in the Redemption of Man, Lon., 1862, 5. The Living Questions of the Age; by an American Citizen, Chicago, 1869, 12mo. Dr. Walker is the author of some poetical pieces, (see Wm. T. Coggeshall's Poets and Poetry of the West, Columbus, O., 1860, r. 8vo.) and established and edited The Ohio Observer, The Watchman of the Valley, and The Watchman of the Prairies.

cr. Svo.

Walker, James Bradford Richmond, b. in Taunton, Mass., 1821, graduated at Brown University, 1841, and at Andover Theological Seminary, 1846; was pastor of the Elm Street Congregational Church, Bucksport, Me., 1847-53, and of the Second Congregational Church, Holyoke, Mass., 1855-64. 1. Memorial of the Walkers of the Old Plymouth Colony, &c., Northamp., 1861, 8vo. Vol. ii. in prep., 1866. See Whitmore's H.-B. of Amer. Genealog., 1862, 174. 2. The Genealogy of John Richmond, &c., 8vo: in prep., 1866.

Walker, James M., formerly a resident of Charleston, S. Carolina, now deceased. 1. Theory of the Common Law, Bost., 1852, 8vo: 1853, 8vo.

Highly valuable."-PROF. MITTERMAIER, of Heidelberg. "It is eminently a suggestive treatise."-PROF. GREENLEAF. 2. Tract on Government, 1853, 8vo. Walker, James Perkins, of the well-known publishing-house of Walker, Wise & Co., of Boston, was b. at Portsmouth, N.H., 1829. 1. Faith and Patience; a Story-and something more--for Boys, Bost., 1860, 16mo. "We have seldom seen Faith and Patience paralleled-never surpassed-in juvenile literature."-N. Amer. Rev.

2. Sunny-Eyed Tim, the Observant Little Boy, 1861, 16mo. Edited: 3. Oriental Annual, N. York, 1857, 8vo. 4. Book of Raphael's Madonnas, 1860, 4to, pp. 104; photographs 13. Contains a Life of Raphael and historical sketches of the pictures given in phototype. "Undoubtedly the most beautiful and valuable book of the season."-A. P. PEABODY: N. Amer. Rev., Jan. 1860, 274. 5. Altar at Home, 2d Series, Bost., 1862, 12mo. Commended by N. Amer. Rev. and Chris. Exam. Also edited Religious Educator, 1860-61, and contributed to Chris.

Walker, John, Curate of Woodhay, Hants. The Antidote; a Discourse on Government, Lon., 1684, 8vo. Walker, John, D.D., a native of Devonshire, educated at, and Fellow of, Exeter College, Oxford, M.A. 1699, became Rector of St. Mary-the-More, Exeter; d. about 1730. 1. An Attempt towards Recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of England, Heads of Colleges, Fellows, Scholars, &c., who were Sequestered, Harassed, &c. in the Late Times of the Grand Rebellion: occasioned by the Ninth Chapter (now the Second Volume) of Dr. Calamy's Abridgement of the Life of Mr. Baxter : together with an Examination of that Chapter, Lon., 1714, fol., some 1. p.: Williams, 1930, morocco, £6 108. Epitomized by the Author of the "Annals of England," 1862, fp. 8vo. Abridged by Whittaker, 1863, cr. 8vo. Extracts from the Original will be found in Voice of the Church, 1840, 2 vols. r. 8vo. See, also, WYATT, GEORGE. Dr. Edmund Calamy, thus attacked, responded in The Church and the Dissenters compar'd as to Persecution, in some Remarks on Dr. Walker's Attempt, &c., 1719, 8vo. The Rev. John Withers also replied to Walker; and Neal, in his History of the Puritans, does not spare him. See, also, Brydges's Cens. Lit.; Hallam's Constit. Hist. of Eng., 7th ed., 1854, ii. 166; English Nonconformity, by Robert Vaughan, D.D., 1862, 8vo; Lon. Athen., 1862, ii. 804. Watt (Bibl. Brit.) attributes to the author of An Attempt (whom he styles Vicar of Ledbury, Hertfordshire) two single sermons, each 1710, 8vo, and Conscience Displayed, 1729, Svo.

Walker, John. 1. Medicinal Well; Phil. Trans., 1757. 2. Irruption of Solway Moss; Phil. Trans., 1772. Walker, John. On the Ancient Camelot and the Picts: see Archæol., i., 1770, 230.

1.

Walker, John, b. at Colney-Hatch, Middlesex, 1732, in early life an actor, left the stage in 1767, and, in conjunction with James Usher, (supra,) opened a school at Kensington Gravel Pits, which, after two years' trial, he relinquished in favour of public lectures on elocution; and these he delivered with great reputation in England, Scotland, and Ireland; d. 1807. He was educated a Presbyterian, but became a strict Roman Catholic. A General Idea of a Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language: on a Plan entirely New, &c., Lon., 1774, 4to. See Lon. Mon. Rev., 1774, i. 348. An advertisement at the end states that the Dictionary is ready for the press, to be published in 2 vols. 4to, at one guinea and a half subscription; but subscribers were not abundant, and seventeen years elapsed before it made its appearance: see No. 8. 2. Dictionary of the English Language, answering at once the Purposes of Rhyming, Spelling, and Pronouncing on a Plan not hitherto attempted, &c., 1775, 8vo. See Lon. Mon. Rev., 1775, i. 391. Often repub. in Great Britain and America as A Rhyming Dictionary: last Lon. ed., 1865, 12mo. See Lects. on the Eng. Lang., by G. P. Marsh, Lect. XXIII. "I never would have got on without Walker's Rhyming Dictionary."-LORD BYRON.

As regards rhymes, his lordship,

"Not caring, as he ought, for critics' cavils," professed to take

"The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels."

BEPPO.

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3. Elements of Elocution, 1781, 2 vols. 8vo; 2d ed., 1799, 8vo; 6th ed., 1820, 8vo; 1824, 12mo; 1838, 8vo. Repub. in America. Commended by Lon. Crit. Rev. 4. Hints for Improvement in the Art of Reading, Lon., 1783, 8vo. 5. Rhetorical Grammar, 1785, 12mo, (see Lon. Mon. Rev., 1785, ii. 299;) 1801, 8vo; 4th ed., 1807, 8vo; 6th ed., 1816, 8vo; 1823, 8vo. Repub. in America. 6. English Classics Abridged; repub. Lon., 12mo. Melody of Speaking Delineated; or, Elocution taught, like Music, by Visible Signs, 1787, 8vo, pp. 70. 8. Academic Speaker, 1788, 12mo, (see Lon. Mon. Rev., 1789, ii. 172:) again, 1789, 12mo; 1801, 12mo; 1830, 12mo. 9. Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language, 1791, 4to, £1 38., (see Lon. Mon. Rev., 1791, iii. 35;) again, 1797, 4to; 1802, 4to; 1807, 8vo; 1810, 4to; 1818, 8vo; 1821, 8vo; 1823, 8vo; 1829, 8vo; 1833, 8vo; 33d ed., (with Key, No. 10, infra, which is appended to many of the later eds.,) 1839, 8vo; 34th ed., 1847, 12mo; 35th ed., 1856, 8vo;

36th ed., 1862, 8vo. Often repub. in America. We notice some more of the late British editions: I. By B. H. Smart, Lon., 1846, 8vo; 3d ed., 1849, 8vo; 6th ed., 1860, 8vo. Epitomized by Smart, 1840, 16mo; Revised, 1846, fp. 8vo; 1860, fp. 8vo. Appendix to Walker's Dictionary, by Smart, 1846, 8vo. II. By J. Davenport, 1847, 18mo; 1856, 1860, 18mo; 1864, 18mo. III. By J. Davis, Belfast, 1849, 8vo; Lon., 1860, 8vo. IV. By P. A. Nuttall, 1855, fp. 8vo; 1860, fp. 8vo; 1866, 18mo and 12mo. V. By Francis E. Sowerby, 1861, 8vo. VI. Walker and Webster Combined, by John Longmuir, M.A., LL.D., 1864, 8vo; 1865, 8vo; 1866, 8vo and 18mo. See, also, JAMESON, R. S.; KNOWLES, JAMES, No. 2; SMITH, REV. THOMAS, No. 7. See the Prefaces to these editions and to the dictionaries of Todd, Latham, Webster, Worcester, &c., and many of the articles on philology in encyclopædias and the Edinburgh, Quarterly, North American, &c. Reviews, and various works on the English Language, for opinions on the merits and demerits of Walker's system. 10. Key to the Classical Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Proper Names, &c.; to which is added A Complete Vocabulary of Scripture Proper Names, &c., 1798, 8vo, pp. 166, (see Lon. Mon. Rev., 1798, ii. 47;) 2d ed., 1804, 8vo; 1807; 7th ed., 1822, 8vo; 1824, 12mo; 1830, sm. 8vo; 1832,

12mo: 1856, 8vo; Edited by Rev. William Trollope. 1833, 8vo. Also published as an Appendix to No. 9, and laid under contribution by the dictionaries of Webster, Worcester, &c. 11. Teacher's Assistant in English Composition or. Easy Rules for writing Themes, &c., 1801, 12mo, pp. 230, (see Lon. Mon. Rev., 1801, ii. 315;) last edits., English Themes and Essays, 10th ed., 1842, 12mo; 11th ed., 1853, 12mo. 12. Outlines of English Grammar, 1805, 12mo; 1810, 12mo. For notices of Walker, see Chalmers's Biog. Dict., xxx. 499; (Aikin's) Athenæum, 3: Lon. Gent. Mag., lxxvii.

Walker, John, D.D., Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh. 1. Classes Fossilium, &c., Edin., 1787, 8vo. 2. Institutes of Natural History, 1792, 8vo. 3. Essays on Natural History and Rural Economy, 1812, 8vo. Posthumous. 4. Economical History of the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland, 1812,

2 vols. 8vo.

Walker, John. The Itinerant, Lon., 1799, fol., 180 plates. See Bohn's Lowndes, 2813.

Walker, John, Fellow of New College, Oxford, was Vicar of Hornechurch, Essex, from 1819 until his death, April 5, 1831, aged 61. He published the following among other works. 1. Curia Oxoniensis, 8vo. Three edits. 2. Oxoniana: being Selections from Books and Manuscripts deposited in the Bodleian Library, Lon., (1807,) 4 vols. 12mo. 3. Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, 1809, 3 vols. 8vo, (see Lon. Gent. Mag., 1809, ii. 840:) 2d ed., Oxf. and Lon., 1811, 3 vols. 8vo, and vol. iv., 8vo; 3d ed., Lon., 1814, 4 vols. 8vo. The design of this work was suggested by Gibbon, the historian, to John Nichols: see Nichols's Lit. Anec., v. 557.

"Accomplished with great judgment, in 4 vols., by the Rev. John Walker."-J. B. NICHOLS: Illust. of Lit., viii. 11.

1000 copies were sold in a few months. 4. Letters written by Eminent Persons, &c.; from the Originals in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum, &c., 1813, 2 vols. in 3, 8vo. Mr. Walker was one of the original proprietors of the Oxford Herald, and for several years assisted in its editorial department. See Lon. Gent. Mag., 1831, i. 474, (Obituary.)

Walker, John, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and a clergyman of the Established Church, was expelled from the University of Dublin about 1800, and originated "The Church of God." He d. Oct. 25, 1833, in his 66th year. 1. The First, Second, and Sixth Books of Euclid's Elements, demonstrated in General Terms, Dubl., 1808, 8vo. 2. Supplementary Annotations on Livy, designed as an Appendix to the Editions of Drakenborch and Crevier, &c., Glasg., 1822, 8vo; new ed., Lon., 1844, 8vo. He edited an edition of Livy, in 7 vols. 8vo, for the University of Dublin. Commended. 3. Lucianus, Dialogi Selecti, Gr. et Lat., 1822, 12mo; some without Lat.: noticed in Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1822, 363, 374. New edits.: with Mythological Index and Lexicon,

Duhl., 1846, 12mo; with Notes by G. B. Wheeler, Lon., 1848, 12mo; with Notes and Lexicon by Henry Edwardes, 1848, 12mo; 1859, 12mo. 4. Plane Geometry and Trigonometry, new ed., Lon., 1844, 8vo. A short biographical notice of Walker occurs in Lon. Gent. Mag., 1833, ii. 540, (Obituary.) Subsequently appeared--5. Essays and Correspondence of the Late John Walker, by William Burton, 1838, 2 vols. 8vo; Index, 8vo. See Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1838, 5.

Walker, John. 1. Arithmetic, Lon., 12mo, and Key. 2. Philosophy of Arithmetic, 8vo.

Walker, John. Commentary on Logic, Lon., 12mo. Walker, John, M.D., b. 1759, at Cockermouth; d. June 23, 1830; published a Universal Gazetteer and an Atlas. At the time of his death he was head of the Vaccine Institution. See Life of John Walker, M.D., by John Epps, M.D., Lon., 1831, (some 1832,) Svo, 128.; 1. p., 158.

Walker, John, Surgeon to the Manchester Eye Institution. 1. Principles of Ophthalmic Surgery, Lon., 1834, fp. 8vo.

"Exceedingly concise and comprehensive."-Lon. Med. Gaz. "A very meritorious performance."-Lancet, Oct. 17, 1835. 2. Philosophy of the Eye, 1837, p. 8vo. See Lon. Athen., 1837, 584, and Dr. Ryan's Med. and Surg. Jour.

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Oculist's Vade Mecum, 1843, 12mo; 2d ed., 1857, 12mo.

"Embodying the result of twenty years' experience."-Lon. Med. Gaz.

"An excellent practical digest.”—Med.-Chir. Rev.

Walker, John, Geographer to the Honourable East India Company. 1. Sailing Directions for the English Channel and Coast of France, 8vo, with Chart, Lon., 1844. 2. Map of India, showing British Territories, on 6 sheets, 408.; in case, 52s. 6d.; on rollers, 638. Atlas of India, Revised, 1857, fol. 4. Atlas of India, China, and Japan, 26 col'd Maps, Revised.

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Walker, John M. 1. Similarity in Virtue between the Cornus Florida and Sericea, and the Cinchona Officinalis of Linnæus, Phila., 1803, 8vo. 2. Modus Operandi of Astringent Vegetables in preventing Putrefactive Fermentation, 1803, 8vo.

Walker, Joseph. Answer to the Bishop of Condom's [Bossuet] Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholick Church upon Matters of Controversie, Dubl., 1676, 12mo.

Walker, Joseph Cooper, a native of Dublin; in early life employed in his Majesty's Treasury of Ireland; subsequently travelled in Italy; d. at St. Valeri, near Bray, Ireland, April 12, 1810.

1. Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards, &c., Dubl., 1786, 4to: Lon., 1786, 4to. See No. 2.

"It must be owned that a wildness of conjecture and a boldness of assertion (in their defence and explanation) run through this book."-Lon. Mon. Rer., 1787, ii. 429.

This reviewer was criticised by a writer in Lon. Gent. Mag., 1788, 305, who quotes from a complimentary notice of the work in the Efemeridi Literarie di Roma for Mar. 1787. See, also, Lon. Gent. Mag., 1787, 34. 2. Historical Essay on the Dress of the Ancient and Modern Irish, &c., Dubl., 1788, 4to; Lon., 1788, 4to: 2d ed. of Nos. 1 and 2, complete in 2 vols. 8vo, Dubl., 1818. "A work of taste and ingenuity."-Sir R. Peel's Catalogue, 3. Historical Memoir of Italian Tragedy, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, &c., by a Member of the Arcadian Academy of Rome, Lon., 1799, 4to. 4. Historical and Critical Essay on the Revival of the Drama in Italy, 1805, 8vo. After his death appeared-5. Memoirs of Alessandro Tassoni, edited by [his brother] Sam. Walker, 1815, p. 8vo.

"Many interesting particulars respecting Tassoni, accompa nied with contemporary literary history and much sound criticism.... No other reference can hereafter be wanting."Chalmers's Biog. Die., xxix. 151: Tassoni.

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He also contributed several valuable papers to Trans. Irish Acad., 1789-90, 1805. For notices of Walker, see Lon. Gent. Mag., 1787, 34, (same in Nichols's Lit. Anec., ix. 654;) 1833, i. 505; Nichols's Illust. of Lit., vii. 681, viii. (1858) 113, (Index;) Pinkerton, Corresp., ed. by D. Turner; Corresp. of the Abate Cesarotti.

Walker, Joshua, M.D., of Leeds. 1. Essay on the Waters of Harrowgate and Thorp-arch, in Yorkshire, &c., Lon., 1784, 8vo. 2. Cuprum Ammoniacum in the Chorea Sancti Vitis; Med. Com., 1785. 3. Atrophia Lactatia; Mem. Med., 1789.

Walker, Josiah, Professor of Humanity in the University of Glasgow. 1. Monody on John Thurlow, Esq., 1782, 4to. 2. Ode addressed to the Society of Universal Good-Will, 1785, 4to. 3. The Defence of Order: a Poem, Edin., 1802, 8vo; 3d ed., 1803. This