CHILD, Frank Samuel, clergyman, author; b, Exeter, N. Y., March ü'j, 1.S51; s. H. H. and Betsey (Brand) C. ; grad. Hamilton Coll.. 1875 (D. D., 1896); grad. Union Theol. Sem., 1878; (L. H. D., Alfred Univ., 1903); m. Oct. 21, 1880, Lizzie J., d. Gen. John Lilly, of Lafayette, Ind. Lecturer on literary and hist, subjects; contb'r to the press; corporate mem. A. B. C. P. M.; trustee F. A. Palmer Fund, same. Author: An Old New England Town, 1895 S3; The Colonial Parson of New England, 1896 Bl; A Colonial Witch, 1897 Bl; A Puritan Wooing, 1897 Bl; The House with Sixty Closets, 1899 L3; An Unknown Patriot, 1899 H5; The Little Dreamer's Adventure, 1900 L3; Friend or Foe, 191X1 H5. Address: Fairflcld, Conn.
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Child, Frank Samuel. N. T., 1854- Fail-field, Connecticut, known as a lecturer on historical subjects. The Boyhood of Beecher ; Be Strong to Hope ; The Friendship of Jesus ; An Old New England Town ; The Colonial Parson of New England ; A Colonial Witch ; A Pariten Wooing ; The House with Sixty Closets ; An Unknown Patriot ; Friend or Foe, a Tale of the War of 1812; Little Dreamer's Adventure. Ba- Hou. Le. Scr. . A Congregational clergyman of Childs,
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“A Puritan Wooing A Tale of Great Awakening in New England” 1898
“Friend or Foe A Tale of Connecticut During the War of 1812” 1900
“The Little Dreamer’s Adventure A Story of Droll Days and Droll Doings” 1900
“Fairfield Ancient and Modern A Brief Account, Historic and Descriptive of A Famous Connecticut Town” 1909
“An Old New England Town Sketches of Life, Scenery, Character” 1895
“An Unknown Patriot A Story of the Secret Service” 1899
“The Colonial Parson of New England A Picture” 1896
“The House with Sixty Closets A Christmas Story for Young Folks and Old Children” 1899
“A Country Parish Ancient Parsons and Modern Incidents” 1911
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“A Colonial Witch Being a Study of the Black Art in the Colony of Connecticut”
“An Old New England Church” 1910
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by Frank Samuel Child - 1898 - 305 pagesL. H. Wright, American fiction, 1876-1900, no. 1024.books.google.com/books?id=W3cgAAAAMAAJ... – this book can be copied (A Puritan Wooing.)
A PURITAN WOOING A Tale of the Great Awakening in New England. 1740-1750. By FRANK SAMUEL CHILD. I2mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.25. The story of a courtship which involved the play of intense, fanatic, religious feeling, and the deep forces which master the human heart in its expenence of the tender passion. The li cof the period called the " Great Awakening " has never been previously touched in fiction. This book is a gateway into a fresh realm of New England life, full of startling changes and tragic situations. A COLONIAL WITCH Mr. Child is a ripe scholar in colonial history, and has given special attention to the psychology of the witchcraft delusion. His treatment of the theme takes the form of a well-sustained and fascinating narrative. Mr. Child has made large use of town and court records, private journals, and public documents in the historic setting of the narrative. Being a Study of the Black Art in the Colony of Connecticut. By the same author. i2mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.25
The Bookman P. 390
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AN ILLUSTRATED LITERARY JOURNAL VOLUME VIII. SEPTEMBER, 1898—FEBRUARY, 1899 " / am a Bookman."—JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY FIFTH AVENUE AND ZIST STREET COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY All Rights Reserved
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1899A treasure."—Boston Journal of Education. A PURITAN WOOING A Tale of the Great Awakening in New England. 1740-1750. By FRANK SAMUEL CHILD. ...books.google.com/books?id=6IQTAAAAMAAJ...
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Mr. Frank Samuel Child, of Connecticut, of whom our readers have had some account in full, has written The Little Dreamer's Adventure,
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by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland - 1900In Connecticut during the War of 1812 Mr. Frank Samuel Child finds the materials for Friend or Foe. There are eight short stories in Mar) Tracy Earle's ...books.google.com/books?id=GDQ-AAAAMAAJ...
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We are glad to see another book from the pen of Rev. Frank Samuel Child, author of “An Old New England Town,” “The Colonial Parson of New England,” etc. Whatever Mr. Child writes, we may be sure is of highest excellence. His latest book, “A Colonial Witch,” is of this order. This book is a keen and sympathetic study of the social conditions which prevailed in Connecticut between the years 1640 and i66o. The author is a ripe scholar in colonial history, and has given special attention to the psychology of the witchcraft delusion. His treatment of the theme takes the form of a well sustained and fascinating narrative. Mr. Child has made large use of town and court records, private journals and public documents in the historic setting of the narrative. The analysis of the witch's character is a deft and subtle piece of literary workmanship, suggestive of the deep problems connected with this popular superstition. Although the theme is a sombre one, the author charms his reader by the play of quaint fancy and genial humor. The black art was a tragic reality in the opinion of the masses. The colony of Connecticut was ore with the whole world in its ready credence. In por. traying a remarkable phase of life in this early period of American history, the author has endeavored to incite an interest that shall prove charitable in respect to our ancestors, at the same time that it shall be intelligent in its survey of the subject. I2mo., cloth, gilt top, $1.25. Sent postpaid on receipt of the price by the Baker & Taylor Co., publishers, 5 and 7 East Sixteenth street, New York.
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by Albert Shaw - 1899The "Sophie May •• books for small children have their assured ... a story by Frank Samuel Child, which takes its name from the old Sherman mansion in Fair- ...books.google.com/books?id=5NMCAAAAYAAJ...
The House with Sixty Closets (Lee & Shupard) is a story by Frank Samuel Child, which takes its name from the old Sherman mansion in Fair- field, Connecticut. It is a fantastical tale of the successive occupants of the many-closeted house.
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by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company - 1894Frank Samuel Child. BAKER, VOORHIS & Co. will have several important books in their special field, full titles of which will be found elsewhere in this ...books.google.com/books?id=6gEDAAAAYAAJ...
This house has just issued " The Friendship of Jesus," an Eister booklet, by Rev. Frank Samuel Child.
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Frederick Douglass. ONE day the accustomed decorum of the Boston Radical Club was interrupted by cries of "Speech!" "Oh, yes!" "Just a few words ! " " Speech ! " to which, at intervals, a round, musical voice answered " No, no ! " and at last laughingly said: "Well, if all you want is to see me, look ! '' and up stood a tall man, probably the tallest man present ; a figure with broad, erect shoulders, graceful port, and a slightly silvered head, at that moment flung backward in mirthful defiance ; dark, steady eyes, and face like an old bronze. Holding a great cloak about him, the man stood for a moment amid applause, and then seated himself, obstinately dumb. He had nothing to say, and would not speak. This rare person was Frederick Douglass, ex-slave, Abolitionist, orator, and editor; the man to whom England gave the money to purchase his freedom ; the friend of John Brown ; the man who had been invaluable in recruiting negro regiments ; the man whose life, in spite of its multifarious outward shows was one long work of self-education and study. He wrote his own "Life and Times" in 1882, and wrote it well ; he wrote two other autobiographies earlier in life, and he appears in all the biographies and reminiscences of the Abolitionists, whom he richly repaid for their goodness to him. There was no lack of material before Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt, who adds his life to the Beacon Biographies. For many reasons his task was difficult. The most active and brilliant parts of Douglass's career were enveloped in an atmosphere of enthusiasm of which the younger generation can have little conception. Toleration there was none. The Abolitionists knew the slaveholders' present deserts and future destiny, and announced them as often as might be, and the slaveholder rejoined with the terror of the Constitution. The Abolitionists making daily sacrifices for an idea consoled themselves with their likeness to the chosen people among the Canaanites, and were happy in persecution, and their persecutor was as self- righteous as they. The fever heat registered in Harriett Martineau's " Martyr Age " burned as hotly in the veins of Maria Chapman as in those of her cousin. Wendell Phillips. Now gentleness icigns, and when any erring brother tries to arouse the old feeling in behalf of a Filipino nobody wastes eggs on him, and somebody makes a cartoon of him. It is probable that Douglass, earnest worker though he was, never actually shared the feelings of his white friends, for he was making no sacrifices, and was working to lib- crate his own. Occasionally he encountered mobs, but he never suffered seriously; as a rule he earned enough to carry out his plans, and if he had it not it came to him from some friend or group of friends. He was always in a state of tutelage to some one. but the yoke was light. He was so busy that the bare racord of his work occupies nearly all the books, and Mr. Chesnutt has deviated little from it. adorning it with the briefest touches of anecdote or epithet, and probably has come nearer to the real man than any one who has described him. (Small. May- rnrd & Co. 75C.)—JV. Y. Times Review. Frank Samuel Child. MR. CHILD, for whom Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Company have just published an historical story called " An Unknown Patriot'' ($1.50), asks: "How could I help reading or writing history when I came of an historic family, live in an historic house, am pastor of an historic church, and have been compelled by circumstances to take a part in the affairs of one of the most historic towns in New England ? " Mr. Child was born in New York, but the Child family for six generations are Connecticut stock, then for two generations from Boston, an-1 further back from England, where the Child Bank is one of the oldest and strongest corporations in England. As to house, Mr. Child lives in the Judge Roger M. Sherman house, given in the early part of the century to the Congregational church for a parsonage. This house has been the centre of intellectual and social life in this section for almost a century. The old clock looks down upon the family. The portraits of the Judge and his lady hang on guard in the east parlor and bestow their constant benediction. This is the house which figures in March, i goo] THE LITERARY NEWS. 73
Mr. Child's " The House with Sixty Closets." His study windows look down upon the Sound, and the old house is surrounded with mighty trees. As to church, Mr. Child is pastor of the First Church of Fairfield, one of the oldest in Connecticut, having resetted its sooth anniversary. It is one of the strongest country churches in New England, and has been served by л famous line of parsons, including such men as President Humphrey of Am- herst, Professor Atwater, and D|¿. McLean, while many eminent laymen like Roger Ltid- low, Governor Gold, General Silliman, etc., have been its efficient officers. During the past two or three years he has spoken many times before schools, colleges, literary societies, Sons or Daughters of the Revolution, etc. Various opportunities have come to him to take professional chairs in colleges and seminaries, or even to take more responsible positions, but the quiet, congenial atmosphere of a literary and historical town with the happy work of an ideal pastorate has held Mr. Child to the present order of things. Ten Years' War. MR. Rus is an expert in the matter of life among the less successful classes ia large From " A Ten Yea»' War." Copyright, 1899, by Houghton.Mlfflln A Co. EVENING IN ONE OF THE COURTS OF THE MILLS HOUSE, NEW YORK CITY. As to town, Fairfield is as full of interesting and delightful historic associations as " an egg is of meat." One never puts the plough into the furrow that he does not turn up old arrow heads, antique cannon balls, venerable coins, and like stuff. The town records, family traditions, journals, and correspondence yield a proditral harvest. Mr. Child was born in the fifties and was graduated from Hamilton College in 1875, and three vears later from Union Theological Seminary, New York. Two years ago his Alma Mater bestowed upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Since his graduation from college he has contributed to the press, and had published a list of five books, all abounding in historical fact and incident. cities. He writes from the fullest and most careful observation, and his opinions as well as his facts are entitled to the most respectful consideration. This book might fitly be entitled The Blossoming of the City Desert, since it not only describes the waste places of human life in the slums and tenements of New York City, but records the sagacious efforts made to better the conditions in which the more unfortunate tenants live, anù the very encouraging results. The subject suggests a somewhat pessimistic view of prevalent discouraging facts, but Mr. Riis out of the amelioration he has witnessed is able to lend a mildly optimistic light to it. His book deserves wide and thoughtful reading; its spirit is admirable and the impression it leaves is hopeful. (Houghton, M. $1.50.)
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by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt - 1899Frank Samuel Child. MR. CHILD, for whom Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Company have just published an historical story called " An Unknown Patriot'' ($1.50), ...books.google.com/books?id=CsUEAAAAYAAJ...
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Mr. Frank Samuel Child carries on the curious machinery of his last year's " House with Sixty Closets " with "The Little Dreamer's Adventure" (Lee & Shepard), and makes the book fully justify its subtitle of " A Story of Droll Days and Droll Doings." Many pen-and-ink drawings by Mr. C. H. L. Gebfert carry on the story's intention
Another book “Friend or Foe” about Connecticut during the War of 1812
THE BOOKMAN,
THE COLONIAL PARSON OF NEW ENGLAND. By Frank Samuel Child. New York : The Baker & Taylor Co. $1.25. OLD COLONY DAYS. Bv May Alden Ward. Boston : Roberts Brothers. $1.25. Old Colony Days, lying along somewhat similar lines, comes after the other like asphalt after cobblestones. In a style of perfect ease and simplicity, its author also has much to say of the colonial parson, whom it would be difficult, indeed, to separate from any account of the beginnings of New England. He is not, however, here made the more important figure. It is to Governor William Bradford, "the father of American history," that the opening chapter is devoted, the Rev. Cotton Mather and his contemporary brethren of the cloth receiving a second place. Under the heading " An Old-time Magistrate" there is a charming portrayal of good Judge Samuel Sewall, a princely gossip, who did for America in the seventeenth century what Pepys did for England, and Saint Simon for France. Each of these men wrote down from day to day, apparently for his own use, the occurrences of the day, the details of the life about him ; and each has given us an incomparable picture ot the world in which he lived—a picture which no historian, biographer, poet, or painter could have equalled. And they have painted three widely differing worlds. Nothing could better illustrate the difference between the countries they represent than the pages of these old diaries of the seventeenth century. Judge Sewall seems to have been in the main a genial and tender-hearted man, yet he believed in witchcraft, and attended executions. The chapter on witchcraft will perhaps be generally regarded as the most interesting in the book. The author has evidently studied this outbreak of superstition in New England thoroughly, and gives in her brilliantly written account of it a mm ¡rent story than most writers on the subject hi to offer. In connection with the colonial parson figures consp sometimes, it is pleasant to re« of his memory. This industrious and conscientious historian of the colonial parson characterises his work as " a picture," but he does not say, and possibly does not know, that the picture has been printed in detached sections, like a child's puzzle, and that it requires a good deal of ingenuity to fit the right body to the right head. It is not easy to tell without looking forward or turning back whether the character immediately under discussion be the New England parson or the Virginia clergyman. The whole book reads, indeed, much as if it had been printed directly from the author's notes, with little thought of sequence or continuity. And yet the work is valuable and even interesting in a jolting, jumping way. It reveals great research ; it is rich in anecdote ; it presents the colonial parson in every aspect by which he is known to history— asan agriculturist, as a politician, a preacher, a teacher, a writer, a scholar, a poet, a man. and, above all, as an ancestor. Certainly no fault can be found with the substance of the work ; and if it be intended for a text-book, as its appearance would seem to indicate, and thus to be taken in small, broken doses, it will doubtless serve its purpose admirably. FOLK-SONGS л tory Exen rösch. New \ It is wit!i publication of i rosch, whose su, serves to be quo; "The chief diftu active promoters ties, especially in tli lack of singers \vl slow process of ti such untrained mau conductor and the "It seems to be m possible opportunity pie who can sing a lit rus, to learn the simj if proper methods are • in a comparatively There is, perhaps, no i more authority or is К subject than Mr. Damn and inspiring work :i combined with his br founder and leader of and the People's Classes, cess of which in widely dh music are well known to ti. cial importance to any sugg in this field of work, and v to leaders and singers. The purpose of th to present a sight-s conductor can readr pose, but to urge the tor permanently su> plement a previous rosch, entitled
A colonial witch. Being a study of the black art in the colony of Connecticut,
Friend or foe. A tale of Connecticut during the war of 1812,
by Frank Samuel Child
Type:
Microform
Language:
English
Publisher:
Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1900.
Editions:
3 Editions
OCLC:
19174929
by Frank Samuel Child
Type:
Microform
Language:
English
Publisher:
New York, The Baker & Taylor Co. [1897]
Editions:
5 Editions
OCLC:
19175010
Both in the University of Washington Library in Microfiche.
“Friend or Foe A Tale of Connecticut During the War of 1812” 1900
“The Little Dreamer’s Adventure A Story of Droll Days and Droll Doings” 1900
“Fairfield Ancient and Modern A Brief Account, Historic and Descriptive of A Famous Connecticut Town” 1909
“An Old New England Town Sketches of Life, Scenery, Character” 1895
“An Unknown Patriot A Story of the Secret Service” 1899
“The Colonial Parson of New England A Picture” 1896
“The House with Sixty Closets A Christmas Story for Young Folks and Old Children” 1899
“A Country Parish Ancient Parsons and Modern Incidents” 1911
Don’t have
“A Colonial Witch Being a Study of the Black Art in the Colony of Connecticut”
“An Old New England Church” 1910
Through Google - A Puritan Wooing: A Tale of the Great Awakening in New England - Google Books Result
by Frank Samuel Child - 1898 - 305 pagesL. H. Wright, American fiction, 1876-1900, no. 1024.books.google.com/books?id=W3cgAAAAMAAJ... – this book can be copied (A Puritan Wooing.)
A PURITAN WOOING A Tale of the Great Awakening in New England. 1740-1750. By FRANK SAMUEL CHILD. I2mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.25. The story of a courtship which involved the play of intense, fanatic, religious feeling, and the deep forces which master the human heart in its expenence of the tender passion. The li cof the period called the " Great Awakening " has never been previously touched in fiction. This book is a gateway into a fresh realm of New England life, full of startling changes and tragic situations. A COLONIAL WITCH Mr. Child is a ripe scholar in colonial history, and has given special attention to the psychology of the witchcraft delusion. His treatment of the theme takes the form of a well-sustained and fascinating narrative. Mr. Child has made large use of town and court records, private journals, and public documents in the historic setting of the narrative. Being a Study of the Black Art in the Colony of Connecticut. By the same author. i2mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.25
The Bookman P. 390
THE BOOKMAN
AN ILLUSTRATED LITERARY JOURNAL VOLUME VIII. SEPTEMBER, 1898—FEBRUARY, 1899 " / am a Bookman."—JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY FIFTH AVENUE AND ZIST STREET COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY All Rights Reserved
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1899A treasure."—Boston Journal of Education. A PURITAN WOOING A Tale of the Great Awakening in New England. 1740-1750. By FRANK SAMUEL CHILD. ...books.google.com/books?id=6IQTAAAAMAAJ...
_______________________________________________________
Mr. Frank Samuel Child, of Connecticut, of whom our readers have had some account in full, has written The Little Dreamer's Adventure,
(The Literary World - Google Books Result
by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland - 1900In Connecticut during the War of 1812 Mr. Frank Samuel Child finds the materials for Friend or Foe. There are eight short stories in Mar) Tracy Earle's ...books.google.com/books?id=GDQ-AAAAMAAJ...
RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Sappington )
We are glad to see another book from the pen of Rev. Frank Samuel Child, author of “An Old New England Town,” “The Colonial Parson of New England,” etc. Whatever Mr. Child writes, we may be sure is of highest excellence. His latest book, “A Colonial Witch,” is of this order. This book is a keen and sympathetic study of the social conditions which prevailed in Connecticut between the years 1640 and i66o. The author is a ripe scholar in colonial history, and has given special attention to the psychology of the witchcraft delusion. His treatment of the theme takes the form of a well sustained and fascinating narrative. Mr. Child has made large use of town and court records, private journals and public documents in the historic setting of the narrative. The analysis of the witch's character is a deft and subtle piece of literary workmanship, suggestive of the deep problems connected with this popular superstition. Although the theme is a sombre one, the author charms his reader by the play of quaint fancy and genial humor. The black art was a tragic reality in the opinion of the masses. The colony of Connecticut was ore with the whole world in its ready credence. In por. traying a remarkable phase of life in this early period of American history, the author has endeavored to incite an interest that shall prove charitable in respect to our ancestors, at the same time that it shall be intelligent in its survey of the subject. I2mo., cloth, gilt top, $1.25. Sent postpaid on receipt of the price by the Baker & Taylor Co., publishers, 5 and 7 East Sixteenth street, New York.
The American Monthly Review of Reviews - Google Books Result
by Albert Shaw - 1899The "Sophie May •• books for small children have their assured ... a story by Frank Samuel Child, which takes its name from the old Sherman mansion in Fair- ...books.google.com/books?id=5NMCAAAAYAAJ...
The House with Sixty Closets (Lee & Shupard) is a story by Frank Samuel Child, which takes its name from the old Sherman mansion in Fair- field, Connecticut. It is a fantastical tale of the successive occupants of the many-closeted house.
_______________________________________________________Publishers Weekly - Google Books Result
by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company - 1894Frank Samuel Child. BAKER, VOORHIS & Co. will have several important books in their special field, full titles of which will be found elsewhere in this ...books.google.com/books?id=6gEDAAAAYAAJ...
This house has just issued " The Friendship of Jesus," an Eister booklet, by Rev. Frank Samuel Child.
_______________________________________________________
Frederick Douglass. ONE day the accustomed decorum of the Boston Radical Club was interrupted by cries of "Speech!" "Oh, yes!" "Just a few words ! " " Speech ! " to which, at intervals, a round, musical voice answered " No, no ! " and at last laughingly said: "Well, if all you want is to see me, look ! '' and up stood a tall man, probably the tallest man present ; a figure with broad, erect shoulders, graceful port, and a slightly silvered head, at that moment flung backward in mirthful defiance ; dark, steady eyes, and face like an old bronze. Holding a great cloak about him, the man stood for a moment amid applause, and then seated himself, obstinately dumb. He had nothing to say, and would not speak. This rare person was Frederick Douglass, ex-slave, Abolitionist, orator, and editor; the man to whom England gave the money to purchase his freedom ; the friend of John Brown ; the man who had been invaluable in recruiting negro regiments ; the man whose life, in spite of its multifarious outward shows was one long work of self-education and study. He wrote his own "Life and Times" in 1882, and wrote it well ; he wrote two other autobiographies earlier in life, and he appears in all the biographies and reminiscences of the Abolitionists, whom he richly repaid for their goodness to him. There was no lack of material before Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt, who adds his life to the Beacon Biographies. For many reasons his task was difficult. The most active and brilliant parts of Douglass's career were enveloped in an atmosphere of enthusiasm of which the younger generation can have little conception. Toleration there was none. The Abolitionists knew the slaveholders' present deserts and future destiny, and announced them as often as might be, and the slaveholder rejoined with the terror of the Constitution. The Abolitionists making daily sacrifices for an idea consoled themselves with their likeness to the chosen people among the Canaanites, and were happy in persecution, and their persecutor was as self- righteous as they. The fever heat registered in Harriett Martineau's " Martyr Age " burned as hotly in the veins of Maria Chapman as in those of her cousin. Wendell Phillips. Now gentleness icigns, and when any erring brother tries to arouse the old feeling in behalf of a Filipino nobody wastes eggs on him, and somebody makes a cartoon of him. It is probable that Douglass, earnest worker though he was, never actually shared the feelings of his white friends, for he was making no sacrifices, and was working to lib- crate his own. Occasionally he encountered mobs, but he never suffered seriously; as a rule he earned enough to carry out his plans, and if he had it not it came to him from some friend or group of friends. He was always in a state of tutelage to some one. but the yoke was light. He was so busy that the bare racord of his work occupies nearly all the books, and Mr. Chesnutt has deviated little from it. adorning it with the briefest touches of anecdote or epithet, and probably has come nearer to the real man than any one who has described him. (Small. May- rnrd & Co. 75C.)—JV. Y. Times Review. Frank Samuel Child. MR. CHILD, for whom Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Company have just published an historical story called " An Unknown Patriot'' ($1.50), asks: "How could I help reading or writing history when I came of an historic family, live in an historic house, am pastor of an historic church, and have been compelled by circumstances to take a part in the affairs of one of the most historic towns in New England ? " Mr. Child was born in New York, but the Child family for six generations are Connecticut stock, then for two generations from Boston, an-1 further back from England, where the Child Bank is one of the oldest and strongest corporations in England. As to house, Mr. Child lives in the Judge Roger M. Sherman house, given in the early part of the century to the Congregational church for a parsonage. This house has been the centre of intellectual and social life in this section for almost a century. The old clock looks down upon the family. The portraits of the Judge and his lady hang on guard in the east parlor and bestow their constant benediction. This is the house which figures in March, i goo] THE LITERARY NEWS. 73
Mr. Child's " The House with Sixty Closets." His study windows look down upon the Sound, and the old house is surrounded with mighty trees. As to church, Mr. Child is pastor of the First Church of Fairfield, one of the oldest in Connecticut, having resetted its sooth anniversary. It is one of the strongest country churches in New England, and has been served by л famous line of parsons, including such men as President Humphrey of Am- herst, Professor Atwater, and D|¿. McLean, while many eminent laymen like Roger Ltid- low, Governor Gold, General Silliman, etc., have been its efficient officers. During the past two or three years he has spoken many times before schools, colleges, literary societies, Sons or Daughters of the Revolution, etc. Various opportunities have come to him to take professional chairs in colleges and seminaries, or even to take more responsible positions, but the quiet, congenial atmosphere of a literary and historical town with the happy work of an ideal pastorate has held Mr. Child to the present order of things. Ten Years' War. MR. Rus is an expert in the matter of life among the less successful classes ia large From " A Ten Yea»' War." Copyright, 1899, by Houghton.Mlfflln A Co. EVENING IN ONE OF THE COURTS OF THE MILLS HOUSE, NEW YORK CITY. As to town, Fairfield is as full of interesting and delightful historic associations as " an egg is of meat." One never puts the plough into the furrow that he does not turn up old arrow heads, antique cannon balls, venerable coins, and like stuff. The town records, family traditions, journals, and correspondence yield a proditral harvest. Mr. Child was born in the fifties and was graduated from Hamilton College in 1875, and three vears later from Union Theological Seminary, New York. Two years ago his Alma Mater bestowed upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Since his graduation from college he has contributed to the press, and had published a list of five books, all abounding in historical fact and incident. cities. He writes from the fullest and most careful observation, and his opinions as well as his facts are entitled to the most respectful consideration. This book might fitly be entitled The Blossoming of the City Desert, since it not only describes the waste places of human life in the slums and tenements of New York City, but records the sagacious efforts made to better the conditions in which the more unfortunate tenants live, anù the very encouraging results. The subject suggests a somewhat pessimistic view of prevalent discouraging facts, but Mr. Riis out of the amelioration he has witnessed is able to lend a mildly optimistic light to it. His book deserves wide and thoughtful reading; its spirit is admirable and the impression it leaves is hopeful. (Houghton, M. $1.50.)
Literary News - Google Books Result
by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt - 1899Frank Samuel Child. MR. CHILD, for whom Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Company have just published an historical story called " An Unknown Patriot'' ($1.50), ...books.google.com/books?id=CsUEAAAAYAAJ...
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Mr. Frank Samuel Child carries on the curious machinery of his last year's " House with Sixty Closets " with "The Little Dreamer's Adventure" (Lee & Shepard), and makes the book fully justify its subtitle of " A Story of Droll Days and Droll Doings." Many pen-and-ink drawings by Mr. C. H. L. Gebfert carry on the story's intention
Another book “Friend or Foe” about Connecticut during the War of 1812
THE BOOKMAN,
THE COLONIAL PARSON OF NEW ENGLAND. By Frank Samuel Child. New York : The Baker & Taylor Co. $1.25. OLD COLONY DAYS. Bv May Alden Ward. Boston : Roberts Brothers. $1.25. Old Colony Days, lying along somewhat similar lines, comes after the other like asphalt after cobblestones. In a style of perfect ease and simplicity, its author also has much to say of the colonial parson, whom it would be difficult, indeed, to separate from any account of the beginnings of New England. He is not, however, here made the more important figure. It is to Governor William Bradford, "the father of American history," that the opening chapter is devoted, the Rev. Cotton Mather and his contemporary brethren of the cloth receiving a second place. Under the heading " An Old-time Magistrate" there is a charming portrayal of good Judge Samuel Sewall, a princely gossip, who did for America in the seventeenth century what Pepys did for England, and Saint Simon for France. Each of these men wrote down from day to day, apparently for his own use, the occurrences of the day, the details of the life about him ; and each has given us an incomparable picture ot the world in which he lived—a picture which no historian, biographer, poet, or painter could have equalled. And they have painted three widely differing worlds. Nothing could better illustrate the difference between the countries they represent than the pages of these old diaries of the seventeenth century. Judge Sewall seems to have been in the main a genial and tender-hearted man, yet he believed in witchcraft, and attended executions. The chapter on witchcraft will perhaps be generally regarded as the most interesting in the book. The author has evidently studied this outbreak of superstition in New England thoroughly, and gives in her brilliantly written account of it a mm ¡rent story than most writers on the subject hi to offer. In connection with the colonial parson figures consp sometimes, it is pleasant to re« of his memory. This industrious and conscientious historian of the colonial parson characterises his work as " a picture," but he does not say, and possibly does not know, that the picture has been printed in detached sections, like a child's puzzle, and that it requires a good deal of ingenuity to fit the right body to the right head. It is not easy to tell without looking forward or turning back whether the character immediately under discussion be the New England parson or the Virginia clergyman. The whole book reads, indeed, much as if it had been printed directly from the author's notes, with little thought of sequence or continuity. And yet the work is valuable and even interesting in a jolting, jumping way. It reveals great research ; it is rich in anecdote ; it presents the colonial parson in every aspect by which he is known to history— asan agriculturist, as a politician, a preacher, a teacher, a writer, a scholar, a poet, a man. and, above all, as an ancestor. Certainly no fault can be found with the substance of the work ; and if it be intended for a text-book, as its appearance would seem to indicate, and thus to be taken in small, broken doses, it will doubtless serve its purpose admirably. FOLK-SONGS л tory Exen rösch. New \ It is wit!i publication of i rosch, whose su, serves to be quo; "The chief diftu active promoters ties, especially in tli lack of singers \vl slow process of ti such untrained mau conductor and the "It seems to be m possible opportunity pie who can sing a lit rus, to learn the simj if proper methods are • in a comparatively There is, perhaps, no i more authority or is К subject than Mr. Damn and inspiring work :i combined with his br founder and leader of and the People's Classes, cess of which in widely dh music are well known to ti. cial importance to any sugg in this field of work, and v to leaders and singers. The purpose of th to present a sight-s conductor can readr pose, but to urge the tor permanently su> plement a previous rosch, entitled
A colonial witch. Being a study of the black art in the colony of Connecticut,
Friend or foe. A tale of Connecticut during the war of 1812,
by Frank Samuel Child
Type:
Microform
Language:
English
Publisher:
Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1900.
Editions:
3 Editions
OCLC:
19174929
by Frank Samuel Child
Type:
Microform
Language:
English
Publisher:
New York, The Baker & Taylor Co. [1897]
Editions:
5 Editions
OCLC:
19175010
Both in the University of Washington Library in Microfiche.
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by Frank Samuel Child - 1898 - 305 pagesL. H. Wright, American fiction, 1876-1900, no. 1024.books.google.com/books?id=W3cgAAAAMAAJ... – this book can be copied (A Puritan Wooing.)
A PURITAN WOOING A Tale of the Great Awakening in New England. 1740-1750. By FRANK SAMUEL CHILD. I2mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.25. The story of a courtship which involved the play of intense, fanatic, religious feeling, and the deep forces which master the human heart in its expenence of the tender passion. The li cof the period called the " Great Awakening " has never been previously touched in fiction. This book is a gateway into a fresh realm of New England life, full of startling changes and tragic situations. A COLONIAL WITCH Mr. Child is a ripe scholar in colonial history, and has given special attention to the psychology of the witchcraft delusion. His treatment of the theme takes the form of a well-sustained and fascinating narrative. Mr. Child has made large use of town and court records, private journals, and public documents in the historic setting of the narrative. Being a Study of the Black Art in the Colony of Connecticut. By the same author. i2mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.25
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AN ILLUSTRATED LITERARY JOURNAL VOLUME VIII. SEPTEMBER, 1898—FEBRUARY, 1899 " / am a Bookman."—JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY FIFTH AVENUE AND ZIST STREET COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY All Rights Reserved
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1899A treasure."—Boston Journal of Education. A PURITAN WOOING A Tale of the Great Awakening in New England. 1740-1750. By FRANK SAMUEL CHILD. ...books.google.com/books?id=6IQTAAAAMAAJ...
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Mr. Frank Samuel Child, of Connecticut, of whom our readers have had some account in full, has written The Little Dreamer's Adventure,
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by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland - 1900In Connecticut during the War of 1812 Mr. Frank Samuel Child finds the materials for Friend or Foe. There are eight short stories in Mar) Tracy Earle's ...books.google.com/books?id=GDQ-AAAAMAAJ...
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We are glad to see another book from the pen of Rev. Frank Samuel Child, author of “An Old New England Town,” “The Colonial Parson of New England,” etc. Whatever Mr. Child writes, we may be sure is of highest excellence. His latest book, “A Colonial Witch,” is of this order. This book is a keen and sympathetic study of the social conditions which prevailed in Connecticut between the years 1640 and i66o. The author is a ripe scholar in colonial history, and has given special attention to the psychology of the witchcraft delusion. His treatment of the theme takes the form of a well sustained and fascinating narrative. Mr. Child has made large use of town and court records, private journals and public documents in the historic setting of the narrative. The analysis of the witch's character is a deft and subtle piece of literary workmanship, suggestive of the deep problems connected with this popular superstition. Although the theme is a sombre one, the author charms his reader by the play of quaint fancy and genial humor. The black art was a tragic reality in the opinion of the masses. The colony of Connecticut was ore with the whole world in its ready credence. In por. traying a remarkable phase of life in this early period of American history, the author has endeavored to incite an interest that shall prove charitable in respect to our ancestors, at the same time that it shall be intelligent in its survey of the subject. I2mo., cloth, gilt top, $1.25. Sent postpaid on receipt of the price by the Baker & Taylor Co., publishers, 5 and 7 East Sixteenth street, New York.
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by Albert Shaw - 1899The "Sophie May •• books for small children have their assured ... a story by Frank Samuel Child, which takes its name from the old Sherman mansion in Fair- ...books.google.com/books?id=5NMCAAAAYAAJ...
The House with Sixty Closets (Lee & Shupard) is a story by Frank Samuel Child, which takes its name from the old Sherman mansion in Fair- field, Connecticut. It is a fantastical tale of the successive occupants of the many-closeted house.
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by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company - 1894Frank Samuel Child. BAKER, VOORHIS & Co. will have several important books in their special field, full titles of which will be found elsewhere in this ...books.google.com/books?id=6gEDAAAAYAAJ...
This house has just issued " The Friendship of Jesus," an Eister booklet, by Rev. Frank Samuel Child.
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Frederick Douglass. ONE day the accustomed decorum of the Boston Radical Club was interrupted by cries of "Speech!" "Oh, yes!" "Just a few words ! " " Speech ! " to which, at intervals, a round, musical voice answered " No, no ! " and at last laughingly said: "Well, if all you want is to see me, look ! '' and up stood a tall man, probably the tallest man present ; a figure with broad, erect shoulders, graceful port, and a slightly silvered head, at that moment flung backward in mirthful defiance ; dark, steady eyes, and face like an old bronze. Holding a great cloak about him, the man stood for a moment amid applause, and then seated himself, obstinately dumb. He had nothing to say, and would not speak. This rare person was Frederick Douglass, ex-slave, Abolitionist, orator, and editor; the man to whom England gave the money to purchase his freedom ; the friend of John Brown ; the man who had been invaluable in recruiting negro regiments ; the man whose life, in spite of its multifarious outward shows was one long work of self-education and study. He wrote his own "Life and Times" in 1882, and wrote it well ; he wrote two other autobiographies earlier in life, and he appears in all the biographies and reminiscences of the Abolitionists, whom he richly repaid for their goodness to him. There was no lack of material before Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt, who adds his life to the Beacon Biographies. For many reasons his task was difficult. The most active and brilliant parts of Douglass's career were enveloped in an atmosphere of enthusiasm of which the younger generation can have little conception. Toleration there was none. The Abolitionists knew the slaveholders' present deserts and future destiny, and announced them as often as might be, and the slaveholder rejoined with the terror of the Constitution. The Abolitionists making daily sacrifices for an idea consoled themselves with their likeness to the chosen people among the Canaanites, and were happy in persecution, and their persecutor was as self- righteous as they. The fever heat registered in Harriett Martineau's " Martyr Age " burned as hotly in the veins of Maria Chapman as in those of her cousin. Wendell Phillips. Now gentleness icigns, and when any erring brother tries to arouse the old feeling in behalf of a Filipino nobody wastes eggs on him, and somebody makes a cartoon of him. It is probable that Douglass, earnest worker though he was, never actually shared the feelings of his white friends, for he was making no sacrifices, and was working to lib- crate his own. Occasionally he encountered mobs, but he never suffered seriously; as a rule he earned enough to carry out his plans, and if he had it not it came to him from some friend or group of friends. He was always in a state of tutelage to some one. but the yoke was light. He was so busy that the bare racord of his work occupies nearly all the books, and Mr. Chesnutt has deviated little from it. adorning it with the briefest touches of anecdote or epithet, and probably has come nearer to the real man than any one who has described him. (Small. May- rnrd & Co. 75C.)—JV. Y. Times Review. Frank Samuel Child. MR. CHILD, for whom Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Company have just published an historical story called " An Unknown Patriot'' ($1.50), asks: "How could I help reading or writing history when I came of an historic family, live in an historic house, am pastor of an historic church, and have been compelled by circumstances to take a part in the affairs of one of the most historic towns in New England ? " Mr. Child was born in New York, but the Child family for six generations are Connecticut stock, then for two generations from Boston, an-1 further back from England, where the Child Bank is one of the oldest and strongest corporations in England. As to house, Mr. Child lives in the Judge Roger M. Sherman house, given in the early part of the century to the Congregational church for a parsonage. This house has been the centre of intellectual and social life in this section for almost a century. The old clock looks down upon the family. The portraits of the Judge and his lady hang on guard in the east parlor and bestow their constant benediction. This is the house which figures in March, i goo] THE LITERARY NEWS. 73
Mr. Child's " The House with Sixty Closets." His study windows look down upon the Sound, and the old house is surrounded with mighty trees. As to church, Mr. Child is pastor of the First Church of Fairfield, one of the oldest in Connecticut, having resetted its sooth anniversary. It is one of the strongest country churches in New England, and has been served by л famous line of parsons, including such men as President Humphrey of Am- herst, Professor Atwater, and D|¿. McLean, while many eminent laymen like Roger Ltid- low, Governor Gold, General Silliman, etc., have been its efficient officers. During the past two or three years he has spoken many times before schools, colleges, literary societies, Sons or Daughters of the Revolution, etc. Various opportunities have come to him to take professional chairs in colleges and seminaries, or even to take more responsible positions, but the quiet, congenial atmosphere of a literary and historical town with the happy work of an ideal pastorate has held Mr. Child to the present order of things. Ten Years' War. MR. Rus is an expert in the matter of life among the less successful classes ia large From " A Ten Yea»' War." Copyright, 1899, by Houghton.Mlfflln A Co. EVENING IN ONE OF THE COURTS OF THE MILLS HOUSE, NEW YORK CITY. As to town, Fairfield is as full of interesting and delightful historic associations as " an egg is of meat." One never puts the plough into the furrow that he does not turn up old arrow heads, antique cannon balls, venerable coins, and like stuff. The town records, family traditions, journals, and correspondence yield a proditral harvest. Mr. Child was born in the fifties and was graduated from Hamilton College in 1875, and three vears later from Union Theological Seminary, New York. Two years ago his Alma Mater bestowed upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Since his graduation from college he has contributed to the press, and had published a list of five books, all abounding in historical fact and incident. cities. He writes from the fullest and most careful observation, and his opinions as well as his facts are entitled to the most respectful consideration. This book might fitly be entitled The Blossoming of the City Desert, since it not only describes the waste places of human life in the slums and tenements of New York City, but records the sagacious efforts made to better the conditions in which the more unfortunate tenants live, anù the very encouraging results. The subject suggests a somewhat pessimistic view of prevalent discouraging facts, but Mr. Riis out of the amelioration he has witnessed is able to lend a mildly optimistic light to it. His book deserves wide and thoughtful reading; its spirit is admirable and the impression it leaves is hopeful. (Houghton, M. $1.50.)
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by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt - 1899Frank Samuel Child. MR. CHILD, for whom Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Company have just published an historical story called " An Unknown Patriot'' ($1.50), ...books.google.com/books?id=CsUEAAAAYAAJ...
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Mr. Frank Samuel Child carries on the curious machinery of his last year's " House with Sixty Closets " with "The Little Dreamer's Adventure" (Lee & Shepard), and makes the book fully justify its subtitle of " A Story of Droll Days and Droll Doings." Many pen-and-ink drawings by Mr. C. H. L. Gebfert carry on the story's intention
Another book “Friend or Foe” about Connecticut during the War of 1812
THE BOOKMAN,
THE COLONIAL PARSON OF NEW ENGLAND. By Frank Samuel Child. New York : The Baker & Taylor Co. $1.25. OLD COLONY DAYS. Bv May Alden Ward. Boston : Roberts Brothers. $1.25. Old Colony Days, lying along somewhat similar lines, comes after the other like asphalt after cobblestones. In a style of perfect ease and simplicity, its author also has much to say of the colonial parson, whom it would be difficult, indeed, to separate from any account of the beginnings of New England. He is not, however, here made the more important figure. It is to Governor William Bradford, "the father of American history," that the opening chapter is devoted, the Rev. Cotton Mather and his contemporary brethren of the cloth receiving a second place. Under the heading " An Old-time Magistrate" there is a charming portrayal of good Judge Samuel Sewall, a princely gossip, who did for America in the seventeenth century what Pepys did for England, and Saint Simon for France. Each of these men wrote down from day to day, apparently for his own use, the occurrences of the day, the details of the life about him ; and each has given us an incomparable picture ot the world in which he lived—a picture which no historian, biographer, poet, or painter could have equalled. And they have painted three widely differing worlds. Nothing could better illustrate the difference between the countries they represent than the pages of these old diaries of the seventeenth century. Judge Sewall seems to have been in the main a genial and tender-hearted man, yet he believed in witchcraft, and attended executions. The chapter on witchcraft will perhaps be generally regarded as the most interesting in the book. The author has evidently studied this outbreak of superstition in New England thoroughly, and gives in her brilliantly written account of it a mm ¡rent story than most writers on the subject hi to offer. In connection with the colonial parson figures consp sometimes, it is pleasant to re« of his memory. This industrious and conscientious historian of the colonial parson characterises his work as " a picture," but he does not say, and possibly does not know, that the picture has been printed in detached sections, like a child's puzzle, and that it requires a good deal of ingenuity to fit the right body to the right head. It is not easy to tell without looking forward or turning back whether the character immediately under discussion be the New England parson or the Virginia clergyman. The whole book reads, indeed, much as if it had been printed directly from the author's notes, with little thought of sequence or continuity. And yet the work is valuable and even interesting in a jolting, jumping way. It reveals great research ; it is rich in anecdote ; it presents the colonial parson in every aspect by which he is known to history— asan agriculturist, as a politician, a preacher, a teacher, a writer, a scholar, a poet, a man. and, above all, as an ancestor. Certainly no fault can be found with the substance of the work ; and if it be intended for a text-book, as its appearance would seem to indicate, and thus to be taken in small, broken doses, it will doubtless serve its purpose admirably. FOLK-SONGS л tory Exen rösch. New \ It is wit!i publication of i rosch, whose su, serves to be quo; "The chief diftu active promoters ties, especially in tli lack of singers \vl slow process of ti such untrained mau conductor and the "It seems to be m possible opportunity pie who can sing a lit rus, to learn the simj if proper methods are • in a comparatively There is, perhaps, no i more authority or is К subject than Mr. Damn and inspiring work :i combined with his br founder and leader of and the People's Classes, cess of which in widely dh music are well known to ti. cial importance to any sugg in this field of work, and v to leaders and singers. The purpose of th to present a sight-s conductor can readr pose, but to urge the tor permanently su> plement a previous rosch, entitled
A colonial witch. Being a study of the black art in the colony of Connecticut,
Friend or foe. A tale of Connecticut during the war of 1812,
by Frank Samuel Child
Type:
Microform
Language:
English
Publisher:
Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1900.
Editions:
3 Editions
OCLC:
19174929
by Frank Samuel Child
Type:
Microform
Language:
English
Publisher:
New York, The Baker & Taylor Co. [1897]
Editions:
5 Editions
OCLC:
19175010
Both in the University of Washington Library in Microfiche.
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