Abbott, Edwin Abbott

D.D. (by Archbishop of Canterbury, 1872), Church of England; b. in London, Dec. 20, 1838; educated at St. John's College, Cambridge; graduated B.A., 1861 (7th senior optime and senior cla ic); M.A., 1864; was fellow of his college; a istant master at King- Edward's School, Birmingham (1862), then at Clifton College, Bristol, and since 1865 head master of the City of London School. In 1869, and twice subsequently, he was select preacher at Cambridge, and the same at Oxford (1877). In 1876 he was Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge. His theological position is that of the Broad Church School. He goes " beyond many of them in rejecting the miraculous, but does not go with many of them in rejecting what is generally called dualism,— some kind of a recognition of an Evil contending against the Good." His religious publications include Bible Le ons, London, 1871; Good Voices, a Child's Guide to the Bible, 1872; Parables for Children, 1873; Cambridge Sermons, 1875; Through Nature to Christ, 1877; Oxford Sermons, 1879; (in connection with W. G. Rushbrooke, editor of the Synoptic on), The Common Tradition of the Synoptic Gospels in the Text of the R,evised Version, 1884. He wrote the article Gospels in the 9th ed. of the Encycl. Brit. (1879), and the anonymous religious fictions, Philochristus, Memoirs of a Disciple of Our Lord, 1878; and Ouesimus, Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul, 1882. Among his other works are, A Shake spear i an Grammar, 1869, 2d ed., 1871; an edition of Bacon's E ays, 1876, 2 vols.; Bacon and E ex, 1877; Hints on Home Teaching, 1883, 2d ed. same year; Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions, 1884, 2d ed., 1885, republished, Boston, 1885; Francis Bacon, an Account of his Life and Works, 1885; and several instruction-books in English and Latin.