Yearbook, 1934 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Yearbook, 1934Our Merchant's interests were not in trade alone, and the goose-quill man could write verses on his letter-sheets behind the propped-up ledgers, and read the Song of Solomon so many verses before bedtime, because it was the Bible. Before the end of the century every English ship was bringing books, and whole libraries came for Harvard College or to be broken up and sold to the public. There was a Steady sea of traffic and an active correspondence with English scientists, divines, and men of letters, broken only during the Restoration. A London bookseller, visiting Boston in 1686, found the city Stirring with his kind, and Salem was the third town in Massachusetts to set up its own public printing press. As the Merchant was thus familiar with both Cavalier and Roundhead literature, it is natural to find echoes of Herrick, Pepys, and Carew, as well as of Bunyan, Fuller, and Milton. The Merchant of the literary type, so well represented by Thomas Maule, was of broader culture than the superficial observer has realized.The Witchcraft Delusion of 1692 showed the age at its worst, but we have the memory of Samuel Sewall's public apology. It was the time and not the place which caused the reign of terror. A bright spot in the dismal picture is the fact that it was here in Salem that the delusion was finally dispelled, causing a general awakening all Over the country and in England. Superstition was not caused by lack of education, for that was ever dear to the hearts of the founders of Salem Town.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.