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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Frederick Saunders (1807–1902)

Saunders, Frederick. An American scholar and miscellaneous writer; born at London, Aug. 13, 1807; died at Brooklyn, Dec. 12, 1902. He was librarian of the Astor Library, New York, 1859–96. He wrote: ‘Memoirs of the Great Metropolis’ (London, 1852); ‘New York in a Nut-Shell’ (1853); ‘Salad for the Solitary, by an Epicure’ (1853); ‘Salad for the Social’ (1856); ‘Pearls of Thought, Religious and Philosophical, Gathered from Old Authors’ (1858); ‘Mosaics’ (1859); ‘Festival of Song’ (1866); ‘About Women, Love, and Marriage’ (1868); ‘Evenings with the Sacred Poets’ (1869; enlarged 1885); ‘Pastime Papers’ (1885); ‘Story of Some Famous Books’ (1887).