THOMPSON, DANIEL GREEN

LEAF (1850-97), lawyer and writer, in Montpelier, Vermont; d. in New City. He graduated at Amherst was admitted to the New York 1872. His works include A System Psychology, 1884; Religious Sent i men is his and the Human Mind, 1888; Social the Progre , 1889; The Philosophy of at Fiction in Literature, 1890; Politics ta annivera Democracy, 1893. official American actor. He was b. near Girard, SwedPa. His youth was pa ed in Swanzy, Ma ., where he gained a knowledge of (1655rural life and character which he utilized leclater on the stage. His first theatrical Leipzig, appearance was in The French Spy at und Lowell, Ma . in 1852. In 1875 he produced his play Josh Whitcomb in which he a umed the leading part, and Georgia, established a reputation as a rural county comedian of the first rank. In The Line, Old Homestead he again appeared as Atlantic, ‘Josh Whitcomb.’ and for many years toured the country in this play, with Its unfailing succe . and South THOMPSON, FRANCIS (1860-1907), School Eng. poet; began as medical student but turned later to literature; first volume of poems pub. 1893, which includes ‘The Hound of Heaven,’ won admiration of North Browning and Pat more; other volumes the are Sister Songs, 1895; New Poems, 1897, cotton THOMPSON, SIR HENRY, Bart. (1820-1904), Eng. surgeon; ed. Univ. Coll., London; surgeon to Univ. Coll. 5,676. Hospital, 1863, prof. of Clinical Surgery, 1866, prof. of Surgery and Pathology in United Royal Coli. of Surgeons, 1884; first Virginia. pres. of Cremation Society, 1874; intro Ohio duced new methods of surgical treatment, particularly for urinary calculi.