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Dr. Samuel A. Green' in his List of Early American Imprints, in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society, gives the titles of sixty-five that are in Roden's list and also three not given there. These are:

1657.

The Life and Death of that deservedly Famous Mr. John Cotton, the late Reverend Teacher of the Church of Christ at Boston in New England. Collected out of the Writings and Information of the Rev. Mr. John Davenport of New-haven, the Rev. Mr. Samuel Whiting, at Lynne, the pious widow of the Deceased, and others: and compiled by his unworthy Successor, John Norton. Cambridge: Printed by S. Green, 1657.

1662.

"Anti-Synodalia Scripta Americana. | Or, | a Proposal of the Judgment of the Dissenting Messengers of the Churches of New-England Assembled, by the Appointment of the General Court, March 10, 1662, whereof there were several | Sessions afterwards. | This Script or Treatise, by Gods Providence, falling into the hands of a Friend to the Truth, and the Contents thereof, etc., was published for the Churches good, although without any Com- mission from the Dissenting Brethren; which they are desired not to be offended with. | Wherein there is an Answer to the Arguments alleadged by the Synode."

1670.

Viris Authoritate Praecipuis Prudentia Celeberrimis | [Imprint at foot of page]

Cantabrigial Nov-Angliae die nono Sextilis Anno M. DC. LXX. Broadside, Folis.

The Historical Society list contains about thirty not in the Antiquarian Society Library.

The Lenox Library of New York has fifty-nine of the imprints of the first Cambridge Press including one not mentioned by Roden; of those in the Lenox Library, twenty-six are not in the Library of the Antiquarian Society.

1 Dr. Green's original list printed in 1895 contained the titles of over three hundred early American imprints, printed in the United States before 1701. Four supplementary lists increased this list to about four hundred.

Mr. Paine's list with later additions contained over one hundred and fifty titles printed previously to 1701 that were not in that of Dr. Green.

OBITUARIES.

THE unexpected death of the President is a great grief to the Antiquarian Society. Honourable Stephen Salisbury was born in Worcester, March 31, 1835. He was the only son of our first President Salisbury and bore his name. This name, indeed, perpetuated the name and honour in the life of Massachusetts for several generations known.

The grandfather of our late President established himself in Worcester in 1767, forming a partnership known as the firm of Samuel and Stephen Salisbury. They were closely connected with the firm of Sewall and Salisbury in Boston, who for the last years of the eighteenth century and the first part of the nineteenth century were prominent in the foreign commerce and domestic trade of Massachusetts. It was this first Stephen Salisbury who built the house now occupied by the Hancock Club, at the north end of the Main Street in Worcester, the house which becomes the property of the Antiquarian Society under the will of its late President.

The late Stephen Salisbury was educated at our own public schools. He went to Harvard College in the year 1852, where he graduated in the year 1856.

He studied law at the Cambridge Law School and was admitted to the Bar, but in his active life he gave most of his time and energy to the public duties which in his sense of duty belonged to a man of large property in a city like Worcester. And in interpreting those duties he was always proud and glad to take the largest view.

I think it is not improper in this connection to repeat an anecdote of his father which I heard in the year 1846

when the son was but eleven years old. At a town meeting in Worcester some complaint was made of the injustice of maintaining a high school of the first grade, as the town did then, and has done ever since. The father of this child of eleven joined in the discussion to urge the importance of the school and its necessity. The town, true to its tradition and its future, voted the appropriation. It was said at the time that Mr. Salisbury's tax applicable to the maintenance of the school amounted to one quarter of the tax levied on the whole community. Even Philistines might be made to feel that in his generous care for the town and city of Worcester Mr. Salisbury has repaid the pecuniary obligation which he thus owed to it for his education.

Mrs. Salisbury, his mother, who was Miss Rebekah Scott Dean, of Charlestown, New Hampshire, a lady in every way charming, died when he was only eight years old. But to her and to his father he owed an education admirably well conducted, of which the fruits may be seen everywhere. In the last long interview which I had with him he said with great earnestness that what he noticed in the educational systems of modern times was a certain failure to impress the idea of duty. "When I was a boy", he said, “I was trained to do my duty if I could find what that was." This was the central thing. Greek, Latin, Mathematics, botany, paleontology, or the correlation of forces,-whatever the boy's study, was to be made subservient to the business of doing his duty. It seems to me worth while to put this axiom of his on record as a fair statement in short of his solution of the problem of Life.

I suppose that he himself could not remember the first time when his father took him into the old Antiquarian Hall, so attractive in every sense. With dear Mr. Haven, so fondly remembered by the older members of the Society, the boy would have been intimate in a moment.

And from that time till he died our rooms were as much a part of his home as was the house in which he slept at

night. May one be permitted to say that there is a sort of endosmose in which the sentiments and habits soak into the life of a person so fortunately brought into what we like to call the atmosphere of books? The life of Harvard College in those days, though nothing to what it is now, was still important enough to continue habits and to widen interests which were thus formed. I may say that without knowing it the father was training the son to be an invaluable president of the Antiquarian Society.

I never heard him say so, but I suppose that the friendship which he formed in college with our distinguished associate Señor Casares gave him the first interest which he had in the states and provinces of Central America. In his college days under the lead of Squier, Stephens, and Catherwood, the people of the United States were beginning to learn more thoroughly what Humboldt and the early writers had forewarned them of, the mysteries of the archæology of those regions. As early as 1876 Mr. Salisbury contributed to our cabinet and to our printed proceedings the results of his studies and explorations in that quarter. The connection with those regions is now so close that we may hope that they will never be lost sight of and that the Society will always hold the honourable place which under his lead it has taken in the studies of the early history of the Continent.

But his tastes and studies were by no means confined to archæology. The Natural History Society of the City of Worcester, the Horticultural Society, the Society of Antiquity, the Art Museum, the Public Library, all the institutions of public education,-indeed every organization which looks to the Larger Life was sure of his active support.

He was a cordial friend and fellow worker with Dr. Alonzo Hill, Mr. Hall, and Mr. Garver, successive ministers of the Second Church, and in the work of that Religious Society. Almost of course he was a prominent member of the direction of the Peabody Fund in maintaining the

Peabody Museum at Cambridge. Almost of course he was sent by his district to the State Senate as often as he could give so much of his time to their work in the public service.

The Council and the Society are glad to place on record the unanimous testimony of gratitude of its members. EDWARD E. HALE.

Stephen Salisbury president of this society, died at his home in Worcester, Nov. 16th, 1905.

At a meeting of the council held soon after his death, remarks were made by several of the members, in which Mr. Salisbury's life and character were fully described, an account of which meeting has been published by the society.

Rev. Dr. Hale has prepared a tribute which will be presented at this meeting.

The newspapers of Worcester have published elaborate notices of him. It only remains for the biographer to state a few of the important events of his life.

These are,

Born in Worcester March 31st., 1835.

Graduated from Harvard University 1856.
Travelled abroad 1856-58 and in 1888.

Studied in Berlin and Paris 1856-58.

Graduated from Harvard Law School 1861.

Visited Yucatan 1861.

Admitted to the bar 1863.

Member of the Common Council of Worcester 1864-5-6,

being its President 1866.

Member of the Mass. Senate 1893-4-5.

Visited Yucatan and other parts of Mexico and also Cuba 1885.

Member of this society 1863-1905.

Member of its council 1874-84.

Vice-President 1884-88.

President 1888 till death.

His life was passed in Worcester and he was connected with its institutions and organizations, business, educational, artistic, philanthropic, social, in numbers literally too numerous to mention. He declined all further poli

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