SPOONER, Shearjashub, author, born in Bran-don, Vermont, in 1809 ; died in Plainfield, New Jersey, in March, 1859. He was graduated at Middlebury in 1830, and at the College of physicians and surgeons, New York city, in 1835, and became a dentist in New York, attaining eminence in his profession. In 1858 he retired from business. Dr. Spooner was the author of "Guide to Sound Teeth" (New York, 1836) ; "Art of Manufacturing Mineral Teeth" (1837); a "Treatise on Surgical and Mechanical Dentistry" (1838); "Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors, and Architects, and Curiosities of Art" (3 vols., 1853); and " Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors, and Architects" (1853; new ed., 2 vols., 1865). He purchased, restored, and reissued the plates of John Bovdell's "Shakespeare Gallery," and bought those of the "Mus6e Frangaise," but, as the government refused to remit the heavy ira-port duty, they were returned to France.