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Lydia Maria, an American prose-writer; born in Medford, Ma ., Feb. 11, 1802. She was an ardent abolitionist, and published the first book written on that subject, entitled * Appeal for that cla of Americans called African.” Dr. Channing went over to Roxbury to thank her for it. She died in Way land, Ma ., Oct. 20, 1880.; | Children, Societies for the Pre went i on of Cruelty to, organizations that had their origin in New York City, and have since been adopted in most American and many European cities. Children’s Crusade, The, a sin movement in 1212, preached in nce ee Stephen, a peasant boy, and in Germany the same year by Nicholas, also a peasant boy. Some )0,000 children left their mothers and schoolmasters in the spring “‘to rescue the Holy Land from the infidels.” Part perished by shipwreck and the rest were sold into slavery.