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NORTON 505 Lake Superior and the Red River Settlement," by J. S. Dawson (Toronto, 1859) ; " Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploration Ex- pedition of 1857," &c., by H. Y. Hind (2 vols., London, 1860); Esquisse sur le Nord-Ouest, by Archbishop Tach6 (Montreal, 1869; trans- lated by Capt. D. R. Cameron, " Sketch of the Northwest of America," Montreal, 1870) ; "Peace River: a Canoe Voyage from Hud- son's Bay to the Pacific in 1828," edited by Malcolm McLeod (Ottawa, 1872) ; "The Great Lone Land," &c., by Capt. W. F. Butler (Lon- don, 1872) ; and " The Wild North Land," &c., by the same (1873). NORTON, a N. W. county of Kansas, border- ing on Nebraska, and intersected by the N. fork of Solomon river and affluents of the Republican river ; area, 900 sq. m. It is not included in the census of 1870. The surface consists chiefly of rolling prairies. NORTON. I. Andrews, an American author, born in Hingham, Mass., Dec. 31, 1786, died in Newport, R. I., Sept. 18, 1853. He graduated at Harvard college in 1804, became a tutor in Bowdoin college in 1809, and a tutor in mathe- matics in Harvard college in 1811. In 1813 he was appointed librarian of the college, and in the same year succeeded the Rev. Dr. Channing as lecturer on Biblical criticism and interpreta- tion, in the chair endowed by Samuel Dexter. In 1819, on the organization of the divinity school as a separate department of the univer- sity, he was chosen Dexter professor of sacred literature. He resigned the office of librarian in 1821 and his professorship in 1830, and passed the remainder of his life for the most part in retirement, in feeble health. In 1833 he published "A Statement of Reasons for not believing the Doctrines of Trinitarians con- cerning the Nature of God and the Person of Christ " (new ed., 1856, with a memoir by Dr. Newell of Cambridge). In 1837 appeared the first volume of his elaborate work on "The Genuineness of the Gospels," which was fol- lowed in 1844 by vols. ii. and iii., devoted principally to the history of Gnosticism. A fourth volume, on the internal evidences of the genuineness of the Gospels, appeared after his death, and an abridged edition in 1867. He left a "Translation of the Gospels," which was published in 1855, with a supplementary vol- ume of notes, edited by his son. Of his other literary labors, those which attracted the most attention were his inaugural discourse on as- suming the duties of his professorship, and his address to the alumni of the divinity school in 1839, " On the Latest Form of Infidelity." He also edited, in 1833-'4, in connection with Mr. Charles Folsom, the "Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature." II. Charles Eliot, an American author, son of the preceding, born in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 16, 1827. He graduated at Harvard college in 1846, and soon entered a counting house in Boston to become familiar with the East Indian trade. In 1849 he went to sea as supercargo of a ship bound for India, in which country he travelled extensively, returning home through Europe in 1851. He made a second visit to Europe in 1855-'7, and went there a third time in 1868, remaining till 1873. In 1855 he edited with Dr. Ezra Abbot his father's translation of the Gospels with notes (2 vols.), and his " Internal Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels " (1 vol.). During the civil war he edited at Bos- ton the papers issued by the "Loyal Publica- tion Society," and from 1864 to 1868 inclusive he was joint editor with James Russell Lowell of the " North American Review." His pub- lications in book form are : " Considerations on some recent Social Theories" (1853); "Notes of Travel and Study in Italy" (1860); and a translation of the Vita nuova of Dante (1867). NORTON, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (SHERIDAN), an English authoress, born in 1808. She is a granddaughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and sister of Lady Dufferin and the duchess of Somerset. Her first publication was called " The Dandies' Rout," with illustrations from her own designs. In 1827 she was married to the Hon. George Chappie Norton, a brother of Lord Grantley. In 1836 she was accused of criminal intimacy with Lord Melbourne, then prime minister, but on trial was acquitted. This was followed by entire separation from her husband, but without a divorce. Her first volume of poems, comprising among others " The Sorrows of Rosalie," written in her 17th year, was published anonymously in 1829. "The Undying One," founded on the legend of the Wandering Jew, appeared in 1830. Her suc- ceeding works are : " The Wife, and Woman's Reward" (1835); " A Voice from the Facto- ries " (1836) ; " The Dream, and other Poems " (1840); "The Child of the Islands" (1845); "Stuart of Dunleath, a Survey of Modern Times" (1847) ; "Tales and Sketches in Prose and Verse " (1 850) ; " English Laws for English Women in the 19th Century" (privately print- ed, 1854) ; " A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill " (1855) ; " The Lady of La Garaye " (1861); "Lost and Saved "(1863); and "Old Sir Douglas "(1868). NORTON, John, an American clergyman, born at Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, May 6, 1606, died in Boston, Mass., April 5, 1663. Ed- ucated at Cambridge, he was curate in Stort- ford, embraced Puritanism, came to Plymouth, New England, in October, 1635, and preached there during the winter. In 1636 he became minister of the church at Ipswich. With Gov. Bradstreet he was an agent sent from the col- ony in 1662 to address Charles II. after his restoration. He wrote a treatise against the Quakers, entitled " The Heart of New England rent by the Blasphemies of the Present Gene- ration," which so exasperated the members of that sect, that after his death they represented to the king and parliament that "John Nor- ton, chief priest in Boston, by the immediate power of the Lord, was smitten and died."