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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1805–1877)

Abbott, John Stevens Cabot. An American biographer and historical writer; born at Brunswick, ME, Sept. 18, 1805; died at Fair Haven, CT, June 17, 1877. Brother of the preceding; author of ‘The Mother at Home’ (1833); ‘History of Napoleon’ (1855); ‘History of the Civil War’ (1863–66); ‘History of Frederick the Great’ (1871); ‘The French Revolution of 1789’; ‘Napoleon at St. Helena’; ‘History of Napoleon III.’ (1868); and numerous other works on kindred themes.