Conway

(Moncure Daniel), author, b. in Fred ericks burg, Stafford co. Virginia, 17 March, 1832. He entered the Methodist ministry ’50, but changing his convictions through the influence of Emerson and Hick site Quakers, entered the divinity school at Cambridge, where he graduated in ’54 and became pastor of a Unitarian church until dismi ed for his anti-slavery discourses. In ’57 he preached in Cincinnati and there published The Natural History of the Devil , and other pamphlets. In ’63 Mr. Conway came to England and was minister of South Place from the close of ’63 until his return to the States in ’84. Mr. Conway is a frequent contributor to the pre . He has also published The Earthward Pilgrimage , 1870, a theory reversing Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progre ; collected a Sacred Anthology from the various sacred books of the world 1873 , which he used in his pulpit; has written on Human Sacrifices , 1876, and Idols and Ideals , 1877. His principal work is Demonology and Devil Lore , 1878, containing much information on mythology. He also i ued his sermons under the title of Le ons for the Day , two vols., 1883, and has published a monograph on the Wandering Jew , a biography of Emerson, and is at present engaged on a life of Thomas Paine.