Samuel Austin Allibone, LL. D. an American author and bibliographer, born in Philadelphia, April 17, 1816. After some years spent in collecting materials for the purpose, he began in 1853 the composition of "A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the latter half of the Nineteenth Century." This work, in 3 vols. royal 8vo (1858, 1870, and 1871), contains notices of 46,499 authors and 40 classified indexes of subjects. Dr. Allibone is also the author of some religious controversial essays, and has contributed articles to the "North American Review,11 the "Evangelical Quarterly Review,11 and other periodicals; and he has privately printed and circulated a number of tracts.