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

Austin Phelps (1820–1890)

Phelps, Austin. An American clergyman and author; born at West Brookfield, MA, Jan. 7, 1820; died at Bar Harbor, ME, Oct. 13, 1890. He was pastor of the Pine Street Congregational Church, Boston, 1842–48; and professor of sacred rhetoric in Andover Theological Seminary, 1848–79. His works include: ‘The Still Hour’ (1859); ‘The New Birth’ (1867); ‘Men and Books’ (1882); ‘English Style in Public Discourse’ (1883).