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12 Brown&rdquo; (Boston, 1880); &ldquo;A Nameless Nobleman&rdquo; (1881); &ldquo;The Desmond Hundred&rdquo; (1882); &ldquo;Standish of Standish&rdquo; (1889); &ldquo;Dr. Le Baron and his Daughter&rdquo; (1891); and &ldquo;David Alden's Daughter, and other Stories&rdquo; (1892). AVENDASO, Andres (ah-vain-dahn-yo), Span- ish missionary, b. in Old Castile about 1050; d. in Merida, Yucatan, about 1730. He entered the order of St. Francis in the province of Burgos, and was sent to the missions of Yucatan, where in 1705 he was appointed provincial. In his long residence among the Mayas he seems to have been an acute observer, and left several interesting manuscripts : " Diccionario de la longua de Yu- catan," " l)iccionario abreviadode losadverbios de tiempo y lugar de la lengua de Yucatan," " Diccio- nario de nombres de personas, idolos, danzas y otras antigiiedades de los Indios de Yucatan," " Diccionario boUinico y medico de Yucatan," and " Explicacion de varios vaticinios de los antiguos Indios de Yucatan." According to Juan Jose Eguiara, in his "Biblioteca llexicana," these existed in 1760 in the provincial convent of Merida, but so far they have not been discovered in the original, although extracts have appeared in the works of Orozeo y Berra and Icazbalceta copied from contemporaries of AvendaHo. AVERY, Elroy McKendree, author, b. in Erie, Mich., 14 July, 1844. He served in the army through the civil war, and was graduated from Michigan university in 1871, acting during his college course as correspondent of the Detroit “Tribune.” Later he became principal of the Cleveland normal school, and for some years was connected with the Brush electric light company of that city. He has published “Elements of Natural Philosophy” (New York, 1878), and numerous other successful school-books, and contributed biographical and historical articles to the magazines. Mr. Avery is engaged in the preparation of a “Popular History of the United States.” AYALA, Gabriel (i-a'h-lah), Mexican historian, lived in the 16th century. He belonged to the nobility of Texcoco, and in his youth, after the conquest by the Spaniards, was converted to Christianity and appointed notary of the city corporation. He wrote fluently in Nahuatl, the learned language of the valley of Anahuac, in which he composed "Apuntes historicos de la Nacion Mexicana desde 1243 hasta 1563 en lengua Nahuatl," the original MS. of which was in the possession of Lorenzo Boturini, and confiscated with the rest of his collection, but extracted in his "Ensayo de una Nueva Historia General, etc." (Madrid, 1746).