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* WARBEN. 300 WARREN. sioned brigadier-general of volunteers, but in February. 1863. he was relieved of his brigade, and was appointed chief topographical engineer of the Armv of the Potomac, a position which he filled at the time of the battle of Fredericksburg. In May, 1863, he was promoted to be a major-gen- eral of volunteers, and soon afterwards was ap- pointed chief engineer of the Army of the Potomac. At the battle of Gettysburg he was the first to recognize the importance of Little Round Top, and for his promptness and gal- lantry in securing possession of it he was bre- vetteil colonel in the Regular Army. From March, 1864. to April. 1865. he commanded the Fifth Corps and participated in the important battles of the Richmond campaign. After the battle of Five Forks he was relieved of his com- mand by General Sheridan. In ilay, 1865, he re- signed "his commission in the volunteer service, and during the following years he was employed on surveys and harbor improvements. He pub- lished several books, including Ej-iilo-rations in llie DncoUt Country (1855-56) : Prrliminary Re- port of Explorations in Nebraska and Dakota in the Years ISSo-Jil (1858); and An Account of the Fifth Army Corps at the Battle of Five Forks (1866). Consult the Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. ii. (Wash- ington. 18SG). WARREN, Henry (1794-1879). An English water-color painter. He was born in London, first studied sculpture with jSTollekens, and afterwards painting in the schools of the Royal Academy. "Love Among the Roses" (1823) was his first picture exhibited, and among his principal oil paintings was a subject from Collins's "Ode to the Passions." In 1835 he changed to water-color, joining the New So- ciety of Painting in Water-colors, of which he became president four years later. He was a member of the Royal Commission for the Paris Exhibition in 18.55. Writing has also claimed his attention and he has published two books. Notes upon Notes (1832), and Bints upon Tints, with his own illustrations, besides several essays on art. He also illustrated Wordsworth's Pas- toral Poems, Moore's Paradise and the Peri, and Lockhart's Spanish Ballads. "The Happy Val- ley" from Basselas, containing both figures and landscape, was his first imi)ortant water-color. Many of his hiter pictures are on Eastern sub- jects, as "Reliecea at the Well" and "Hagar and Ishmuel." His works display great power of composition and coloring. WARREN, Henry White (1831—). A Methodist l)is]iop and autlior. He was born at Williamsburg, Mass.. and graduated at Weslcyan University, .Middletown. t'onn.. in 1S53. He was instructor in natural science in his alma mater (1851-53), and professor of ancient languages at Wesk-yan Academy, Wilbraliam. Mass. (1853- 55). He entered the New England Conference (1855). After serving chnrchos about Boston he was transferred to the Philadelphia Conference and there occupied the most ]iromiiu"nt churches of his dcMoMilMat ion intil his elect irm as bishop (1880). In 1863 lie was a member of the Massa- chusetts Legislature. He was a prolific writer and published: tiirihts and Insifihts (1874) ; The Lesser Hymnal (1877); Studies of the Stars (1878); Recreations in Astronomy (1879); The Bible in the World's Education (1892) ; and Among the Forces (1898). He was editor of The Study (1896-1900). WARREN, John Byrxe Leicester, third and last ISaron de Tabley (early pseudonym, WiLLl.vM L. caster) (1835-95). An English ])oet, born at Tabley House, in Cheshire, Eng- land. He was educated at Eton, and at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1859. In 1860 he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, but never followed the law. In 1887 he came to his title. In youth he traveled in Italy, and in 1868 he was a temporary attache to Lord Strat- ford de Ecdclille at Constantinople. Being of sensitive temperament, lie passed most of his life in seclusion, enjoying, however, the intimate friendship of several distinguished contempo- raries, among whom were CJladstone and Brown- ing. His volumes of verse comprise mainly: Pra-terita (1863); Eclogues and Monodramas (1864); Studies in Verse (1865); two dramas, Philocietes (1866) and Orestes (1867). his strongest works; Rehearsals (1870); Searching the Net (1873); and a long tragedy, The Sol- dier's Fortune (1876). Though admired by the few, his poetry won no recognition with the pub- lic. In 1893 Warren issued Poems Dramatic and Lyrical (followed by a second series in 1895), comprising old and new pieces, and at once met his full meed of praise. As a novelist he gained some success with .4. jScreir Loose (1868) and Ropes of Sand (1869). He also wrote on numis- matics, botany, and book-plates. Consult: Miles, Poets and Poetry of the Century, vol. iv. (Lon- don, 1891); and the appreciative essay by E. Gosse in Critical Kit-Kats (London and New York, 1896). WARREN, John Collins (1778-1856). An American surgeon, born in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1797: studied medicine with his father and in London and Paris; began practice in Boston in 1802 ; was assistant professor of anatomy and surgery at Harvard University (1806-15); ])rofessor (1815-47); and professor emeritus (1847-56). He was one of the founders and long an editor of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (1828). He was also one of the founders of the McLean Asylum for the Insane, and of the Mass;Kluisetts General Hospital in 1820, of which he was long chief surgeon. In 1846 he performed the first public operation on a patient anasthctized bv ether, in the Massa- chusetts (iencral Hospital, Dr. W. T. G. Morton (q.v.) being the anaesthetist. He was an editor of the Monthly Anthology and Boston Revieio (1804) and the C,ospcl"Adrocate (1821). He made a fine collection of sjieeimens in anatomy, osteology, and iialeontology, now known as the Warren Museum, in which is included his own skeleton. Among his works are: Diseases of the Heart (Boston, 1809) ; Comparatire Vieir of the Sensorial System (ib., 1820) ; Etherization (ib., 1848) : and Mastodon (liganteus (ib., 1855). Consult his Life, Compiled Chiefly from His Autohiography and Journals (Boston, 1860), by Ed:iid :iri('ii. WARREN, .TcsEPH (1741-75). An American patriot, born at Roxbnry, Jlass., .Tune 11, 1741. He gradual e<l at Harvard in 1759, then served for a brief period ns master of the Roxbury Gram- mar School, studied medicine under Dr. James