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

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[299] And possessions (1685); Essays to do good (1710); but is best known by his Magnalia Christi Americana; or, the Ecclesiastical history of New England (1702). Died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 13, 1728.

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Motley, John Lothrop

Born in Dorchester, Mass., April 15, 1814. Graduating at Harvard in 1831, he studied at Gottingen, and occupied several public positions abroad. He published Morton's hope, a novel, in 1839, and Merry Mount, a romance of the Massachusetts Colony in 1849. His first historical essay on Peter the Great came out in the North American Review for 1845. The rise of the Dutch Republic was published in three volumes (1856), two volumes of The history of the United Netherlands in 1860, the two concluding volumes in 1868, and The life and death of John of Barneveld, advocate of Holland, with a view of the primary Causes and Movements of the thirty years War (1874). The correspondence of John Lothrop Motley, D. C. L. （1889) was edited by G. W. Curtis. Died at “Kingston-Russell house,” near Dorchester, Eng., May 29, 1877.

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Ossoli, Margaret Fuller

Born in Cambridge, Mass., May 23, 1810. Extremely precocious in youth, she became a prominent member of the group of Transcendentalists, taught, edited The Dial, and was then literary critic for the New York Tribune; went to Italy and married the Marquis of Ossoli, and was actively interested in the Italian struggle for independence in 1849. She had a remarkable personality and a natural talent for literature. Some of her published works are A summer on the Lakes (1843); Woman in the nineteenth century (1844); and Papers on literature and art (1846). She died, by shipwreck, with her husband and child, off Fire Island Beach, N. Y., July 16, 1850.

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Paine, Thomas

Born in Thetford, Norfolk Co., England, Jan. 29, 1737. He was an exciseman, and having been dismissed from the excise service, emigrated in 1775 to America, where his literary ability brought him the position of editor of the Pennsylvania magazine. He published Comn-