Child
Child names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Child RICHARD WASHBURN, an American lawyer and author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RICHARD WASHBURN, an American lawyer and author; born at Worcester, Mass., in 1881. He studied at Harvard, from which he graduated in 1903, and was admitted to the bar in 1906. During the World War he was an assistant of Frank A. Vanderlip in war finance work at the United States Treasury. In 1919 he joined the editorial staff of "Collier's Weekly." He took an active part in the presidential campaign of 1920 on behalf of Senator Harding. He was a frequent contributor to magazines. Among his publications are: "Jim Hands" (1910); "The Man in the Shadow" (1911); "The Blue Wall" (1912); "Bodbank" (1916); etc.
Child FRANCIS JAMES, an American poet and educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANCIS JAMES, an American poet and educator; born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 1, 1825. He was professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard from 1851 till 1876, when he exchanged for the chair of English literature. His principal work, "English and Scottish Ballads," a subject on which he was the highest authority in this country, he improved and enlarged for publication in 1886. Among his other works are. " Four Old Plays " ( 1848), and a collection of "Poems of Sorrow and Comfort" (1865). He died in Boston, Sept. 11. 1896.
Child LYDIA MARIA, an American prose-writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LYDIA MARIA, an American prose-writer; born in Medford, Mass., Feb. 11, 1802. Her first novel, "Hobomok," was written and published in 1821. She was an ardent abolitionist, and published the first book written on that subject, entitled "Appeal for that class of Americans called African." Among her numerous works are: "Philothea," a romance of Greece in the days of Pericles (1835); "Looking Toward Sunset" (1864); "Maria: A Romance of the Republic" (1867); and "Aspirations of the World" (1878). She died in Wayland, Mass., Oct. 20, 1880.
Child RICHARD WASHBURN
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RICHARD WASHBURN. In 1922 he was named chief observer for the United States at the Near Eastern Conference at Lausanne, Switzerland, where he presented America's views and aims.
Child RICHARD WASHBURN, appointed ambassador to Italy
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RICHARD WASHBURN, appointed ambassador to Italy, May 17, 1921.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 called Francis James Child "the highest authority in this country" on ballads, and that has held: his English and Scottish Popular Ballads, issued in parts from 1882 and finished after his death in 1898, gave the 305 "Child numbers" that folk singers and scholars still cite today. Lydia Maria Child, listed here as a novelist and abolitionist, is now known to most Americans for a poem the entry omits, "Over the River and Through the Wood" (1844), while her 1833 Appeal has been restored to the canon of antislavery writing by later scholarship. The sharpest reversal is Richard Washburn Child, the encyclopedia's own editor and Harding's ambassador to Italy: he became an open admirer of Mussolini and helped produce the Duce's 1928 autobiography in English, which is why he is remembered at all now. He died in 1935; his novels are out of print.
Written for this edition, 2026.