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Rh pieces that are highly esteemed. The best known are " O Maranhense " and " Domine, exaudi orationem meam," which has been translated into sev- eral foreign languages.

LISPENARD, Leonard, merchant, b. in New York city in 1716 ; d. there, 15 Feb., 1790. He was the grandson of Anthony Lispenard, a Huguenot refugee, who came to New York about the middle of the 17th century and became a merchant there. In 1741 he married Alice, daughter of Anthony Rutgers, who inherited one third of the extensive grant that was made by George II. to her father, and subsequently Mr. Lispenard acquired by pur- chase the remainder of the land, which has since been known as the Lispenard meadows. His country mansion was on Lispenard hill, an elevation overlooking what later was called St. John's park. Mr. Lispenard was assistant alderman from the north ward in 1750-'5, and alderman in 1756-' 62, and member of the provincial assembly in 1765-7. He was an active member of the Stamp-act congress in New York in 1765, of the committee of one hundred that was elected to control all general affairs in May, 1775, and of the first provincial congress in May, 1775. He was also treasurer of King's (now Columbia) college, one of the original members of the Society of the New York hospital, and one of its governors in 1770-'7. — His two sons, Leonard and Anthony, were well-known men at that time. The three streets, Leonard. Anthony (now Worth), and Thomas, were named after the sons of Anthony, and Bache street (now spelled Beach) after his son-in-law, Paul Bache, while Lispenard street was named in honor of the family, and Barclay street after Rev. Thomas Barclay who married his wife's sister.

LIST, Friedrich, political economist, b. in Reutlingen, Germany, 6 Aug., 1789; d. in Kufstien, 30 Nov., 1846. He had become favorably known as a political economist, and in 1821 was elected to the Würtemberg chamber of deputies, but, having attacked the government in a petition, was prevented from taking his seat and sentenced to ten months' imprisonment. After fruitless attempts to obtain pardon and several years of exile, he was imprisoned in the fortress at Asperg. On his release he emigrated to the United States and settled in Pennsylvania, where he became an extensive landholder, and was active in the establishment of railroads. He was appointed U. S. consul at Hamburg in 1830, and, after residing for some time in Paris, returned to Pennsylvania. He finally settled in Leipsic in 1833, where for some time he was U. S. consul. He engaged in journalism in Paris in 1837-'43, and at the latter date established in Augsburg the &ldquo;Zollvereinsblatt,&rdquo; a newspaper in which he advocated the enlargement of the custom's union, and the organization of a national commercial system. In 1846 he visited England with a view to forming a commercial alliance between that country and Germany, but was unsuccessful, and, losing both health and property, he shot himself. He is the author of a &ldquo;New System of Political Economy&rdquo; (Philadelphia, 1827). His literary remains were published with a biography by Ludwig Hausser (Stuttgart, 1850-'1).

LITTELL, Eliakim, editor, b. in Burlington, N. J., 2 Jan., 1797; d. in Brookline, Mass., 17 May, 1870. His grandfather, Eliakim, was a captain in the Revolution, and did good service in the defence of Springfield, N. J., 4 June, 1780. The grandson removed to Philadelphia in 1819, and established a weekly literary paper entitled the &ldquo;National Recorder,&rdquo; whose name he changed in 1821 to the &ldquo;Saturday Magazine.&rdquo; In July, 1822, he again

changed it to a monthly called the &ldquo;Museum of Foreign Literature and Science,&rdquo; which was edited during the first year by Robert Walsh, and subsequently by himself and his brother Squier. After conducting this with great success for nearly twenty-two years, he removed to Boston, Mass., where in April, 1844, he began &ldquo;Littell's Living Age,&rdquo; a weekly literary periodical which is still (1887) continued. In 1855 he began the publication in Boston of the &ldquo;Panorama of Life and Literature,&rdquo; a monthly. Mr. Littell was the author of the &ldquo;Compromise Tariff,&rdquo; which was advocated by Henry Clay and carried through congress during the administration of President Jackson. &mdash; His brother, Squier, physician, b. in Burlington, N. J., 9 Dec., 1803; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 4 July, 1886, was graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1824, the next year practised in Buenos Ayres, South America, and, returning to Philadelphia in 1826, was a physician there until his death. For several years he edited in Philadelphia the &ldquo;Banner of the Cross,&rdquo; and with his brother Eliakim the &ldquo;Museum of Foreign Literature and Science.&rdquo; He was surgeon to the Wills ophthalmic hospital in 1834-'64, becoming surgeon emeritus on his resignation, consulting physician to the Philadelphia dispensary, and a member of various foreign and domestic medical societies. Besides various professional papers, he published &ldquo;Manual of Diseases of the Eye&rdquo; (Philadelphia, 1837; new ed., with notes, by Hugh Houston, London, 1838); &ldquo;Illustrations of the Prayer-Book&rdquo; (1840); and he edited the first American edition of Haynes Walton's &ldquo;Treatise on Operative Ophthalmic Surgery&rdquo; (1853). &mdash; His brother, John Stockton, author, b. in Burlington. N. J.. in 1806; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 11 July, 1875, edited with biographical and historical notes, Alexander Graydon's &ldquo;Memoirs of my own Times&rdquo; (Philadelphia, 1846); and published a sketch of the &ldquo;Life, Character, and Services of Henry Clay.&rdquo; &mdash; Their cousin, William, lawyer, b. in New Jersey about 1780; d. in Frankfort. Ky., in 1825, was an eminent member of the Kentucky bar, and for many years reporter of the decisions of the court of appeals of that state. He published &ldquo;The Statute Law of Kentucky&rdquo; (5 vols., Frankfort, 1808-'19); &ldquo;A Digest of the Statute Law of Kentucky&rdquo; (2 vols., 1822); &ldquo;Reports of Cases at Common Law and in Chancery, decided by the Court of Appeals of Kentucky&rdquo; (4 vols., 1822-4); &ldquo;Selected Cases from the Decisions of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky from 1795 till 1825&rdquo; (1825); and &ldquo;Festoons of Fancy in Essays, Humorous, Sentimental, and Political, in Prose and Verse.&rdquo;

LITTLE, Charles Coffin, publisher, b. in Kennebunk, Me., 25 July, 1799; d. in Cambridge, Mass., 11 Aug., 1869. He went to Boston early in life, and entered a shipping-house, and afterward the book-store of Carter, Hilliard, and Co. He subsequently became a member of the firm of Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, in which he continued until the formation of his partnership with James Brown in the year 1837, under the style of Charles C. Little and Co. This was subsequently changed, by the admission of other partners, to Little, Brown, and Co. The house were not only large publishers of standard works, but for many years the most extensive law-publishers in the United States, and also the largest importers of standard English law and miscellaneous works, introducing to American buyers the &ldquo;Encyclopædia Britannica,&rdquo; the dictionaries of Dr. William Smith, and many other standard works. The present (1887) head of the firm is John Bartlett (q. v.).