1849 a collection of her pieces written for magazines was published, entitled The May Flower. In 1850 Professor Stowe was called to Brunswick College, Maine, and removed thither with his family. In that year Mrs. Stowe began to write, in a series of numbers in the National Era, that remarkable work, entitled Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life among the Lowly, and in 1852 it was published in a book form. The deep interest it excited and the praise it called forth in all lands were such as have seldom, perhaps, been equalled. The Edinburgh Review of April 1855 said that more copies of it had been sold than of any other book in this country, the Bible and Prayer Book excepted. After this Mrs. Stowe went abroad for her health, and on her return published Sunny Memories in Foreign Lands. Since that she has written The Minister's Wooing; The Pearl of Orr's Island; Agnes of Sorrento; Dred, a Tale, &c. She continues to write for our periodicals, chiefly the Atlantic Monthly. Her last papers for that magazine, entitled Little Fores, have been published in a volume;—an admirable little book for all households. TAPPAN, Rev. WILLIAM BINGHAM, was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1795. In 1811 he was apprenticed to a clock-maker in Boston. In 1816 he removed to Philadelphia, and established himself in business there: but he soon found that this was not the sphere for him, and he resolved to devote his time to literature, having early given evidence of much talent, and showing an eager thirst for knowledge. In 1819 appeared his first volume, New England and other Poems, which was well received. Three or four years after, he was engaged by the American Sunday School Union as salesman and general superintendent of their depository, and to this cause he devoted the rest of his life with great devotion and enthusiasm. From year to year he was sent to Cincinnati, Boston, and other cities to advance the great objects of the Union, and in 1841 he was licensed to preach, that he might with more effect present the cause of the Sunday School to the churches; and it may safely be said that no one man for twenty years laboured more or effected more for this holy object. He died suddenly of cholera in Boston in 1849, deeply and widely lamented. Mr. Tappan's publications were, Poetry of the Heart, 1845; Sacred and Miscellaneous Poems, 1846; Poetry of Life, 1848; The Sunday School and other Poems, 1848; Late and Early Poems, 1849. TILTON, Rev. THEODORE, is a graduate of Yale College, New Haven, and is at present (1868) chief editor of the Independent, a weekly paper, literary and religious, published in New York, which is conducted with great ability, and has a very wide circulation. TUCKER, ST. GEORGE, was born in Bermuda in 1752; but, emigrating to Virginia at an early age, completed his education at "William and Mary College." He studied law, became President of the Court of Appeals of his adopted state, and afterwards Judge of the United States District Court in Eastern Virginia. He held this appointment till his death in 1827. He was distinguished for a refined taste, keen wit, and extensive scholastic acquirements. VERY, JONES, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, August 28, 1813; graduated at Harvard University in 1836, and was tutor there from 1836 to 1838. He studied theology at the Cambridge Divinity School, but was never ordained. He now resides in his native place. WARE, Rev. HENRY, jun., the son of Rev. Henry Ware, D.D., Hollis Professor of Divinity in Harvard College, was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1793; graduated at Harvard in 1812, and completed his theological studies in 1816. The following year he was elected pastor of the Second Church, Boston. After twelve years of labour, his health becoming impaired, he was dismissed at his own request, and travelled in Europe. On his return he was elected Parkman Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and Pastoral Theology in Harvard University, which chair he continued to fill with great ability and acceptance till the year before his death, which occurred in September, 1843. His works, consisting of essays, sermons, controversial tracts, poetry, &c., were edited after his death by his friend Rev. Chandler Robins, D.D., and published in four volumes. WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF, "the noble quaker-poet of freedom," was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1808. In his early years, while at the Academy of his native place, he wrote occasional verses for the Haverhill Gazette. In 1828 he went to Boston and became editor of the American Manufacturer. In 1830 he was invited to the editorship of the New England Weekly Review, and remained connected with it for about two years, in the mean time publishing a volume of poems and prose sketches entitled Legends of New England. In 1836 he was elected Secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and edited the Pennsylvania Freeman, a weekly paper published in Philadelphia. About this time appeared his longest poem, Mogg Megone, an Indian story. In 1840 he removed to Amesbury, Massachusetts, where all his later publications have been written. In 1847 he became corresponding editor of the National Era published at Washington, District of Columbia, and gave to that able paper no small share of its deserved celebrity. The next year appeared a beautifully illustrated edition of his poems, including his Voices of Freedom. This was followed by Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal, in 1849; Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, in 1850; and Songs of Labour and other Poems, in the same year. His latest work (1866) Snow Bound, brings before us some charming pictures of New England life in the winter. Mr. Whittier has written much serious poetry, though but very few hymns, strictly so called. He will be most known and honoured and loved in all time as the great poet of Freedom at a period when Slavery was rampant in our land. WILCOX, Rev. CARLOS, was born at Newport, New Hampshire, October 22, 1794, graduated at Middlebury College, Vermont, and studied theology at Andover, Massachusetts. He was settled as pastor of the North Congregational Church, Hartford, Connecticut, but his health, always delicate, began soon to decline rapidly, and after various journeys for its restoration, to no purpose, he breathed his last on the 27th of May, 1827. His Remains; with a Memoir of his Life was published in 1828; containing his two chief poems, The Age of Benevolence, and The Religion of Taste; and also fourteen Sermons. Beneath the shadow of the cross 140 207 155 263 Beside a massive gateway built up in years gone by Beyond where Cedron's waters flow Y 31 241 53 211 88 63 Days of my youth, ye have glided away. 180 83 275 Dear Friend, whose presence in the house Draw nigh to the Holy . Faint not, poor traveller, though thy way 64 228 242 165 188 7 39 136 276 281 Father of Mercies, heavenly Friend 131 Father of Mercies, hear! 89 Father, there is no change to live with Thee 277 For all Thy gifts, we praise Thee, Lord 66 Great God! the followers of Thy Son |