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Lamb, Charles.<br />

Talfourd, Sir Thomas Noon. Final memorials of Charles<br />

Lamb, consisting chiefly of his letters not before published,<br />

with sketches of some of his companions. 2v.<br />

1848 g2 Li7gt<br />

Talfourd was the friend and executor of Lamb, whose letters and<br />

memorials he published with reverent care.<br />

Laval de Montmorency, Frangois de, bp.<br />

Leblond de Brumath, A. Bishop Laval. 1906. (Makers<br />

of Canada.)<br />

92 L381I<br />

Laval (1622-1708) was bishop of Quebec, 1674-83. His name is perpetuated<br />

in Laval University.<br />

Law, John, 1671-1729.<br />

Wood, John Philip. Memoirs of the life of John Law of<br />

Lauriston; including a detailed account of the rise,<br />

progress and termination of the Mississippi system.<br />

1874 92 L3g8w<br />

Chief authority for the life of John Law (1671-1729), financier and<br />

speculator, originator of the Mississippi scheme.<br />

Leslie, Charles Robert.<br />

Autobiographical recollections', ed. with a prefatory essay<br />

on Leslie as an artist and selections from his correspondence,<br />

by Tom Taylor. 2v. in I. i860 92 L644<br />

"List of the principal pictures painted, and of all the pictures exhibited<br />

by C. R. Leslie," v.2, p.319-325.<br />

Leslie (1794-1859) was an English painter of American parentage.<br />

He is chiefly famous as an illustrator of humorous scenes from the<br />

great authors.<br />

Lever, Charles.<br />

His life in his letters; by Edmund Downey. 2V. 1906 92 L664<br />

Trustworthy account of the life of the Irish novelist (1806-72), made<br />

up chiefly of his letters, his "Log-book" and the autobiographical<br />

prefaces to his novels.<br />

Lilly, William.<br />

History of his life and times, from the year 1602 to 1681;<br />

published from the original ms. London, 1715. 1822.. . .rg2 L711<br />

Lilly (1602-81) was an English astrologer.<br />

His autobiography "is a discursive account of his friends and foes, and<br />

has acquired more reputation than its intrinsic merits, either as<br />

literature, or autobiography, deserve." Dictionary of national biography.<br />

Liszt, Franz.<br />

Ramann, Lina. Franz Liszt, artist and man, 1811-1840; tr.<br />

fr. the German by E. Cowdery. 2v. 18S2<br />

92 L738r<br />

"The whole tone of the two good-sized volumes... is one of panegyric<br />

and glorification of the author's subject." Saturday review, 1883.<br />

Lowrie, Mrs Louisa Ann (Wilson).<br />

Fairchild, Ashbel Green, comp. Memoirs of Mrs Louisa A.<br />

Lowrie. wife of the Rev. John C. Lowrie, missionary<br />

to lower India, who died at Calcutta, Nov. 21st, 1833,<br />

aged 24 years; comp. from her letters and private papers;<br />

with an introduction by E. P. Swift. 1836. Pittsburgh<br />

rg2 Lg63f<br />

Macready, William Charles.<br />

Pollock, Lady Juliet. Macready as I knew him. 1884.. ..92 M224P<br />

Brief sketch of Macready (1793-1873) giving a glimpse of his personal<br />

rather than his professional side.<br />

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