ABBOTT, FRANK FROST

(1860), son Thaddeus Marvin and Mary Jane Abbott. Educated private schools. Graduated from Yale in 1882. Ph.D. in 1891. Studied abroad at Berlin and Bonn universities in 1888-9, Rome, 1889. Became tutor at Yale in Latin, 1884 to 1891. Became member of faculty, University of Chicago, and a ociate profe or in Latin, 1891. Profe or, 1894-1908. Went to Princeton as Kennedy Profe or of Latin in 1908. Profe or Latin-American School Cla ical Studies, Rome, 1901-1902. Author, Repetition in Latin, 1900; History and Description of Roman Political Institutions, 1901; A Short History of Rome, 1906; Handbook for the Study of Roman History, 1906; The Common People of Ancient Rome, 1911; The Spanish Pleas of Albercio Gentile, 2 vols., 1921. Also articles in various American and foreign - cla ical and historical magazines, U.S.A., and educated at Bowdoin College, where he graduated 1820, and at And over. He entered the ministry of the Congregational Church, but he is best known by his writings—educational and religious, and books for the young. The chief are: The Teacher, Hoary Head and McDonner, Summer in Scotland, A _ Series of Celebrated Sovereigns, The Rollo Books, about: 32 vols.; Franc on i a Stories, 10 vols.; Marco Paul’s Adventures, 6 vols.; Harper's Story Books, 36 vols.; American History, 8 vols.; The Harlie Stories, 6 vols.; Rollo and Lucy Books of Poetry, 3 vols.; Florence Stories, 6 vols.; Juno Stories, 4 vols.; August Stories, 4 vols.; Aboriginal America, The Discovery of America, Gentle Measures in Training the Young, Rollo’s Tour in Europe, 10 vols.; Science for the Young, 4 vols.; and Beechnut Tales. Many of his works have been! pub, in England, and many have been trans. into foreign languages in Europe and Asia.