Oscar Fay Adams

“ A colonial writer of Massachusetts, the friend of John Eliot, the “Indian apostle,” and a man far in advance of the general sentiment of his time and country in regard to the treatment of the Indians. For the last thirty years of his life he was superintendent of the Indians in Massachusetts. His writings include Historical Collections of the Indians in New England; Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England. The first of these remained in manuscript until 1792, and the second until 1836. See Tyler’s American Literature. ”

“ A Congregational clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island, the founder of what has been called Hopkinsian Divinity, which differed from Calvinism in maintaining the free agency of sinners, the moral inability of the unregenerate, and ascribing the essence of sin to the disposition and purpose of the mind. ”

“ The Democracy of Christianity; Slavery and Anti-Slavery; The Old and the New, or The Changes of Thirty Years in the East; The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice, American Slavery a Formidable Obstacle to the Conversion of the World. ”

“ An Episcopal clergyman of New York and Connecticut who held professorships in several colleges, and was at one time a journalist in New York city. Moral and Philosophical Essays; Satan as a Moral Philosopher; About Men and Things; Dr. Oldham at Greystones and his Talk There; Social Welfare and Human Progress; Household Liturgy; The Endless Future of the Human Race; Epitome of the History of Philosophy. He was the translator of Guizot’s History of Civilization and other works. ”

“ A statesman who ranks as the ablest political writer of his day in America. In 1789 he became the first secretary of the United States Treasury, and his first Report on the Public Credit was one of the most notable of national state papers. He was the principal contributor to The Federalist, 51 of its 85 articles being by him alone, and he assisted Washington in preparing the latter’s Farewell Address. ”

“ A New York author who wrote much fiction, more or less ephemeral in character, but whose work as a poet takes far higher rank, some of it in the realm of pure fancy standing quite alone in excellence. His novels include An Ambitious Woman ”

“ The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Central New York. He was in earlier life a Unitarian clergyman, and in 1842 was professor of Christian morals in Harvard University. He entered the Episcopal ministry in 1860, and was consecrated bishop in 1864. Christian Believing and Living; Sermons for the People; Christ in the Christian Year; Steps to a Living Faith; Lessons on the Parables; Helps to a Holy Lent; Christ in the World; [Pg 202] Forty Days with the Master, The Fitness of Christianity to Man; Human Society, include the larger part of his works. ”

“ A once famous writer of Boston whose personality was more than anything she ever wrote, and who is little more than a name to the present generation. She was a gifted woman, and as a teacher in Boston, editor of The Dial, and literary critic for The New York Tribune, was a prominent figure. In 1845 she went to Italy, and there was married to the Marquis d’Ossoli. Woman in the Nineteenth Century; Art, Literature, and the Drama ”

“ A philosophical writer, from 1874-87, president of Wisconsin University, subsequently professor of political science at Williams College. Elements of Psychology; Æsthetics; Political Economy for Colleges; Science, Philosophy, and Religion; Natural Theology; The Science of Mind; The Words of Christ; Philosophy of English Literature; Comparative Psychology; Problems in Philosophy; Sociology, Social Theory; Ethics; The New Theology; Historical Interpretation of Philosophy; A Philosophy of Religion. ”

“ A Congregational clergyman, professor in Andover Theological Seminary, 1829-53, and author of Life of Joseph Emerson, and translation of Wisgon’s Augustinianism and Pelagianism. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Ms., 1803-1882. The most distinguished of American essayists, and by some critics ranked as the foremost American poet when the substance of his poetry is considered apart from its form. He was ordained in 1829 as a Unitarian minister in Boston, but retired from the profession in 1833, and the next year settled in Concord, Massachusetts, where the remainder of his life was spent. ”

“ A journalist and littérateur, now professor at the Roman Catholic University of Notre Dame, Indiana. His prose writings include That Girl of Mine; That Lover of Mine; A Garden of Roses; Stories of Duty; The Life Around Us; The Theatre and Christian Parents; Modern Novelists; Lectures on English Literature; The Disappearance of Mr. Longworthy; A Primer of English Literature; A Gentleman; A Marriage of Reason; The Success of Patrick Desmond; The Flower of the Flock. In verse he has published Preludes; Songs and Sonnets, and Other Poems. ”

“ A journalist of New York city chiefly known as a poet. During the Civil War he served in the Federal army, and was for some time a captive in Southern prisons. Among his writings are Prison Life in the South; Camps and Prisons; History of Governments; The Lydian Queen, a tragedy; Home Poems; Parnassus in Pillory, a satire. Dugdale, Richard L. F., 1841-1883. A writer on sociology. The Jukes, or Heredity in Crime; Further Studies of Criminals. Duhring, Julia. Pa., 1836- ——. An essayist who has published Philosophers and Fools; Gentlefolks and Others; Amor in Society; Mental Life and Culture. ”

“ A Boston writer, associated in early life with the prominent New England transcendentalists, who was long active in the woman-suffrage movement, and whose writing had more or less to do with philosophical themes. ”

“ The New England Tale; The Traveller; Clarence; Le Bossu; The Linwoods; Married or Single (1857) , include her novels. Other works for older readers are, Letters from Abroad; Historical Sketches of the Old Painters. Her juvenile moral tales, of which Live and Let Live; Poor Rich Man and Rich Poor Man; Means and Ends; Morals and Manners, are good examples, are as entertaining as they were popular. For a half century she was principal of a school for girls in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, her native town. ”

“ After being professor in Queen’s College, Belfast, 1852-68, he came to America in 1868, and was president of Princeton College, 1868-88, resigning in the latter year, but holding an emeritus professorship until his death. As a philosophical thinker he exercised an extended influence. His principal writings include, Logic: the Laws of Discursive Thought; Christianity and Positivism; Scottish Philosophy; Mill’s Philosophy; Method of the Divine Government; First and Fundamental Truths; Psychology; The Emotions; Our Moral Nature; Gospel Sermons; Philosophy of Reality ”

“ A Scottish nail-maker who came to America in 1794, and subsequently established himself in New York city as a seedsman. He was a noted figure in his day, not only as the hero of Galt’s novel, Lawrie Todd, but because of his eccentricities. Lawrie Todd’s Notes on Virginia; Fifty Years’ Reminiscences of New York; Men and Manners in Great Britain; Hints to Merchants, Married Men, and Bachelors; Forty Years’ Residence in America. ”

“ He was professor at Harvard University 1842-88, and was in charge of the botanical garden at Cambridge. Elements of Botany, now called Structural and Systematic Botany; How Plants Grow; A Free Examination of Darwin’s “Origin of Species;” Darwiniana; Natural Science and Religion; Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States; Synoptical Flora of North America; How Plants Behave; Field, Forest, and Garden Botany; Lessons in Botany; School and Field Book of Botany; Botany of the United States Pacific Exploring Expedition (1854) ”

“ Brother of Jacob Abbott, supra. An historical writer, whose partisan spirit seriously impairs the value of his very readable works. He was for some years a Congregational minister, but after 1844 devoted himself to literature and educational work. Among his works are comprised The Mother at Home; Practical Christianity; Romance of Spanish History; American Pioneers and Patriots; History of Napoleon; Napoleon at St. Helena; History of the French Revolution; History of the Civil War in America; Lives of the Presidents; History of Maine from its Discovery by Northmen ”

“ A Congregational clergyman of Western Pennsylvania and other localities among whose many moral and religious works, mainly juvenile in character, are, Young Lady’s Guide; How to be a Man; How to be a Lady; Manners and Customs of North American Indians. Newcomb, Simon. N. S., 1835- ——. An astronomer of distinction, superintendent of the Nautical Almanac, issued by the Navy Department, from 1877, and professor of astronomy and mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, 1884-93. Popular Astronomy; School Astronomy ”

“ A poet whose fate it has been to be utterly neglected after being once extravagantly praised. Zephiel, or The Bride of Seven, her chief work, is a poem whose incidents are taken from the story of Sara in the apocryphal book of Tobit. ”

“ A geographer of distinction who came to America in 1849, and from 1854 until his death was professor of geography at Princeton College. He was the founder of the Princeton Museum. Earth and Man; Creation, or the Biblical Cosmogony in the Light of Modern Science; Physical Geography; Social Economy. See Memoir by J. A. Dana, supra. Scr. [Pg 162] H
Habberton, John. L. I., 1842- ——. A journalist of New York city whose first book, Helen’s Babies, enjoyed a popularity out of all proportion to its literary merit. His subsequent writings include Other People’s Children ”

“ Son of Lyman Beecher, infra. A Congregational clergyman widely famous as the pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, 1847-87. He was an earnest, large-hearted man, though not a deep thinker, and his cheerful influence upon middle-class American thought was very extensive. His literary work can hardly be said to possess enduring excellence, and much of it is already forgotten, graphic and picturesque as it often is. Eyes and Ears; Life Thoughts; Star Papers; Yale Lectures on Preaching; Lectures to Young Men ”

“ A Welsh poet who came to America in 1828, and settled in central New York. He was long prominent amongst Welsh residents in the United States, and published two volumes of verse, The Crucifixion; The Omnipresence of God. Edwards, John Ellis. N. C., 1814-1891. A Methodist clergyman of Richmond, Virginia. Life of John Wesley Childs; Random Sketches and Notes of European Travel; The Confederate Soldier; Log Meeting-House. Edwards, Jonathan. Ct., 1703-1757. A Congregational clergyman who must be called the most subtle reasoner the New World has ever produced. ”

“ A famous journalist of New York city, founder and editor of The Tribune. In 1872 he was the unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic party for the presidency. For a generation he was one of the most influential leaders of American public opinion. Letters from Texas; Glances at Europe; Essays in Political Economy; What I Know About Farming; The American Conflict; Recollections of a Busy Life. See Lives by Parton, 1868; Reavis, Ingersoll; Appleton’s American Biography. Greely, Adolphus Washington. Ms., 1844- ——. An arctic explorer in the United States service. ”

“ A popular New York littérateur, whose verse includes When Hearts are Trumps; When Love Laughs; When Cupid Calls; When Love is Lord. The Little Lady, Some Other People, and Myself; An Experimental Wooing; Tales by Tom Hall; The Fun and Fighting of the Rough Riders, are prose works. ”

“ A Unitarian minister prominent in the woman-suffrage movement. Studies in General Science; The Market Woman; The Island Neighbours: a novel of American life; The Sexes Throughout Nature; The Physical Basis of Immortality; The Philosophy of Individuality. Har. Blackwell, Elizabeth. E., 1821- ——. A physician of New York city who, with her sister Emily, organized the woman’s medical college of the New York Infirmary. Laws of Life, or the Physical Education of Girls; Counsel to Parents in the Moral Education of their Children; Pioneer Work in opening the Medical Profession to Women. ”

“ A once famous scientist, for many years in charge of the Hydrographical Office at Washington, as well as of the Naval Observatory. During the Civil War he entered the Confederate service, and from 1868-73 was a professor in the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington. Treatise on Navigation; Physical Geography of the Sea; Wind and Current Charts; Physical Geography for Schools; The World we Live In. ”

“ A famous actor of New York city who has published an entertaining Autobiography. He is the author of the famous play, Rip Van Winkle, in which he has long been identified with the leading rôle. Cent. Do. Jefferson, Thomas. Va., 1743-1826. The third president of the United States. A statesman whose literary monument is the world-famous Declaration of Independence. Other writings of his are, Notes on Virginia; Rights of British America; Manual of Parliamentary Practice. A ten-volume edition of his works was published in 1892. ”