Author: Frothingham, O[ctavius]. B[rooks. 1822 - 1895]
Title: The RISING And The SETTING FAITH And Other Discourses
Description: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1878. 1st Book Edition. Original publisher's terra cotta cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. [6], 272 pp. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5". Square & tight. Gilt bright. Only light wear. A Nr Fine copy. Frothingham "was an American clergyman and author, born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham (1793 – 1870), a prominent Unitarian preacher. He graduated from Harvard College in 1843 and from the Divinity School in 1846. To the later period of his life belongs his best literary work. While he was in New York, he was for a time art critic of the Tribune. Always himself on the unpopular side and an able but thoroughly fair critic of the majority, he habitually underestimated his own worth; he was not only an anti-slavery leader when abolition was not popular even in New England, and a radical and rationalist when it was impossible for him to stay conveniently in the Unitarian Church, but he was the first president of the Free Religious Association (1867) and an early and ardent disciple of Darwin and Spencer. He was a greater orator than a writer, and his sermons in New York were delivered to large audiences, averaging one thousand at the Masonic Temple, and were printed each week; in eloquence and in the charm of his spoken word he was probably surpassed in his day by none save George William Curtis." [Wiki].

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