Mathews, William
educator, author, was born July 28, 1818, in Waterville, Maine. He is an educator and essayist of Chicago, and later of Boston; and the author of Hours with Men and Books; Getting on in the World; The Great Conversers; Literary Style; Men, Places, and Things; Oratory and Orators; Wit and Humor, their Use and Abuse; and Nugæ Litterariæ.
MATHEWS, WILLIAM SMITH BAB- COCK, musician, author, was born in 1837 in New Hampshire. He is a musical critic of Chicago, and the author of Outline of Musical Form; Dictionary of Music and Musicians; How to Understand Music; and New Musical Miscellanies.