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 not a town of any size in the States that he did not visit in the course of his great thirty years campaign. He was admittedly the foremost orator of the United States, and he is probably second to Voltaire in the record of enlightenment. His complete works were published in twelve volumes in 1900; and an admirable selection was published by Messrs. Watts (Lectures and Essays, 3 vols., 1904-1905). The best biographies of him are those of E. G. Smith (1904) and H. E. Kittredge (1911). In person Ingersoll was a man of exceptional fineness and tenderness of feeling, his private letters faithfully reproducing the glow of humane sentiment which adorns his public orations. D. July 21, 1899.

INGERSOLL-BROWN, Eva, American social worker, daughter of Robert G. Ingersoll. Ed. by private tutors. She married the contractor [] in 1889, and she is prominent among the humanitarians and social workers of New York. She is President of the Child Welfare League, member of the Advisory Board of the New York Peace Society, and member of the Consumers League, the Women's Trade Union League, the National Child Labour Committee, the New York Child Labour Committee, the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Society for the Advancement of the Coloured People, and about a score of other beneficent organizations. Her younger sister, aunt, and mother, who live with her, share this large humanitarian activity, and all four are outspoken champions of the Agnostic ideals of Colonel Ingersoll.

INGRAM, Professor John Kells, B.A., D.Litt., LL.D., economist. B. July 7, 1823. Ed. Trinity College, Dublin. In the course of his brilliant and precocious studentship Ingram occasionally wrote verse, and in 1843 he produced the famous Irish song, "The Memory of the Dead" (popularly called "Who Fears to Speak of Ninety-Eight?") He was not then a Unionist, as he afterwards became. Trinity College dispensed him from taking orders, and made him a Fellow; and he was also a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy. He was appointed professor of oratory at Trinity in 1852, regius professor of Greek in 1866, and librarian in 1879. A very able economist, he helped to found the Dublin Statistical Society; and he wrote many volumes on economic, social, and ethical questions. His History of Political Economy (1888) was translated into eight languages, and his History of Slavery and Serfdom (1895) is the most useful work on its subject in English. Dr. Ingram joined the Positivist Society about 1851. He was always outspoken (see his Outlines of the History of Religion, 1900, etc.), and the influence of the Positivist ideal is found in all his work. D. May 1, 1907.

INMAN, Thomas, M.D., writer. B. Jan. 27, 1820. Ed. Wakefield, and King's College, London. After a brilliant medical course Inman was appointed house-surgeon to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, and he also practised privately in Liverpool. Stimulated by the work of Godfrey Higgins, he devoted his leisure to the study of the evolution of religion, mainly on phallic lines, and published his conclusions in his Ancient Faiths (3 vols., 1868-76). He was a Theist, but he dissolved Christianity and all other religions into ancient myths, the key to which he found in the phallic cult. Inman was a learned and esteemed member of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, and he wrote a number of excellent works on hygiene. D. May 3, 1876.

IRELAND, Alexander, journalist. B. May 9, 1810. Ireland was a business man of Edinburgh, who met Emerson in 1833 and became a life-long friend and disciple. In 1847 he was appointed publisher and business-manager of the Manchester Examiner, and he was one of the founders of the Manchester Free Library. Emer-