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=Crafts, Wilbur Fisk.= _Me._, 1850- ----. A Congregational clergyman of
New York City and elsewhere. Through the Eye to the Heart; Childhood;
The Ideal Sunday-School; The Rescue of Child Soul; Must the Old
Testament Go?; The Sabbath for Man; Talks to Boys and Girls about
Jesus; Successful Men of To-Day; Practical Christian Sociology, include
the larger number of his writings. _Fu. Le._
=Crafts, William.= _S. C._, 1787-1826. A once noted lawyer and
journalist of Charleston. _See Poems, Essays, and Orations, with
Memoir, by S. Gilman, infra, 1828._
=Crafts, William Augustus.= 1819- ----. A Boston writer. Life of
General Grant; History of the United States; Pioneers in the Settlement
of America.
=Cram, Ralph Adams.= _N. H._, 1863- ----. An architect of Boston. The
Decadent, being the Gospel of Inaction; Black Spirits and White, a book
of ghost stories; In the Island of Avalon, a book of verse. _Cop. St._
=Cranch, Christopher Pearse.= _Va._, 1813-1892. Son of W. Cranch,
_infra_. He was ordained as a Unitarian minister, but after a few years
in the ministry gave up his profession and devoted himself to art.
For many years he lived in Italy and Paris, but his later years were
spent in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His early sympathies were with the
New England Transcendentalists, and his best known poem, Thought, was
written for The Dial. His work as a poet is uneven, but at its best is
excellent. It never strongly appealed to popular tastes, but was always
appreciated by thoughtful minds. Poems, 1844; The Bird and the Bell,
and Other Poems; Ariel and Caliban, and Other Poems; Satan: a Libretto;
The Æneid in English Blank Verse. The Last of the Huggermuggers;
Kobboltzo, are juvenile prose tales. _Hou. Le._
=Cranch, Richard.= _E._, 1726-1811. A lawyer of Braintree,
Massachusetts, who published Views of the Prophets concerning
Anti-Christ.
=Cranch, William.= _Ms._, 1769-1855. Son of R. Cranch, _supra_. A noted
jurist who was chief justice of the District of Columbia, 1805-55.
Reports of Cases in the United States District Court of the District of
Columbia, 1801-41; Supreme Court Reports, 1800-1815.
=Crandall, Charles Henry.= _N. Y._, 1858- ----. A littérateur of
Springdale, Connecticut. Wayside Music, a book of verse. _Put._
=Crane, Cephas Bennett.= _N. Y._, 1833- ----. A Baptist clergyman of
Boston. The Spiritual Court of the Christian Church.
=Crane, Jonathan Townley.= _N. J._, 1819-1880. A Methodist clergyman of
New Jersey. Methodism and its Methods; The Right Way; Essay on Dancing;
Popular Amusements; Arts of Intoxication; Holiness the Birthright of
all God’s Children.
=Crane, Oliver.= _N. J._, 1822-1896. A Presbyterian clergyman who lived
in Boston during his latest years. Minto and Other Poems; Virgil’s
Aeneid translated literally into English dactylic hexameter.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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