Henry Howard Brownell, an American author, born in Providence, R. I., Feb. 6, 1820, died in East Hartford, Conn., Oct. 31, 1872. He graduated at Washington (Trinity) college, Hartford, in 1841, and subsequently studied law, and was admitted to the bar, but turned his attention more especially to teaching and to authorship. A volume of his "Poems" was published in New York in 1847. He afterward wrote " The People's Book of Ancient and Modern History" (Hartford, 1851), and " The Discoverers, Pioneers, and Settlers of North and South America" (Boston, 1853). In the latter part of 1863 he entered the navy, and served as an acting ensign on the staff of Admiral Farragut. During the war he published several spirited and popular poems, which were gathered in a volume entitled "Lyrics of a Day, or Newspaper Poetry, by a Volunteer in the U. S. Service " (New York, 1864). After the war he accompanied Admiral Farragut to Europe, and then resigned and returned to Hartford. In 1866 a volume of his " War Lyrics and other Poems" was published in Boston.