Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature

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[289] slavery; later he studied theology at Cambridge, and his first and only pastoral settlement was in Boston. He became widely known as the leader of the Unitarians, and his numerous writings, published singly, were brought together in five volumes (Boston, 1841) just before his death; a sixth volume being added later, and in 1872 a volume of selected sermons entitled The perfect life. A volume of selections from his Mss. was edited later by one of his granddaughters. Some of his writings on the subject of slavery are a letter on The slavery question (1839); a tract on Emancipation (1840); and an argument (1842) on The duty of the free States, touching the case of the slaves on board the brig Creole. He died at Bennington, Vt., Oct. 2, 1842.

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Channing, William Ellery 2d

Nephew of the foregoing, and son of Walter Channing, M. D. Born in Boston. Entered Harvard in Lowell's class (1838), but did not graduate. He lived for most of his life in Concord, Mass. He published two volumes of poems, in 1843 and in 1847; and several other volumes of verse in subsequent years. His principal prose works are Thoreau, the poet Naturalist (1873) ; and Conversations from Rome, first published in 1902.

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Cooper, James Fenimore

Born in Burlington, N. J., Sept. 15, 1789, of Quaker and Swedish descent. His early life was spent in the then wilderness of New York, and after a short time at Yale he entered the navy, where he remained for about three years. The interesting descriptions which we have in his works are founded on his early life in the wilderness and at sea. His first novel, Precaution, appeared in 1820. He was a prolific writer, and is, perhaps, best known by his Leather-Stocking tales, which are, in order of narration, The Deerslayer (1841), The last of the Mohicans (1826), the Pathfinder (1840), The pioneers (1823), and The Prairie (1827). Other works are The spy (1821); The Pilot (1823); the Red Rover (1828); The water-witch (1830); Homeward bound (1838); the Wing-and-wing