BRACE, CHARLES LORING

(182690), American author and_philanthropist; 6. Litchfield, Conn. He graduated at Yale in 1846 and later studied theology, though he never entered the ministry. He devoted his life chiefly to poor children and wrote and labored unceasingly for their benefit. He traveled widely in Europe, studying the school systems of various countries, and on his return became secretary of the New York Children’s Aid Society. He did beneficent work among the newsboys of the metropolis. His publications include Hungary In 1851 (1852); The Norse Folk (1857); Short Sermons To Newsboys (1861); The Dangerous Cla es of New York and Twenty Years’ Work Among Them (1872); Gesta Christ (1883), and T’o the Unknown God (1889).