Sewall's diary, which is now in the hands of the Massachusetts Historical Association, is a minute record of the domestic and public life of its author and contains much valuable historical matter. It covers the period of the Quaker persecutions, King Philip's War, and the English Revolution of 1688.
Justice Sewall was a strong writer on many topics. He was one of the first to protest against African slavery. His little tract, The Selling of Joseph, a powerful and impassioned plea against this evil, is still readable.
Required Reading. — Whittier's "Prophecy of Samuel Sewall"; Hawthorne's "The Pine Tree Shillings," in Grandfather's Chair, i. ch. 6. See also "A Puritan Pepys," with extracts from the diary, in Lodge's Studies in History, p. 21.
2. Cotton Mather (1663-1728).
"In him the Puritan Age culminated and came to an end." — Greenough White.
Life (by his son Samuel, 1729, by W. B. O. Peabody in Sparks' American Biography; by A. P. Marvin; by Barrett Wendell, 1891). For four generMemorable Providences.
Wonders of the Invisible World.
Essays to do Good.
Magnolia Christi Americana.ations the Mather family was prominent in the intellectual history of New England. Richard Mather, its founder, had left his church in England rather than wear a surplice; had migrated to the new world, and had left as his monument his work on the old Bay Psalm Book. But the star of the Mather family was
