Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . on of fruit and flowers. In 1873 he wasappointed superintendent of public schools inBrooklyn, N. Y., which office he held at the timeof his death. He was an ardent student and col-lector in American history and ethnology. Hepublished a small volume of poems; Pear Cult-ure (1858): A History of the Battle of LongIsland ( Memoirs of the Long Island HistoricalSociety, vol. ii., 1869); Historic and Antiqua-rian Scenes in Brooklyn and Vicinity (1868); An Essay toward an Indian Bibliography (1873);and left a large manuscript volume of Aphor-isms, selected
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . on of fruit and flowers. In 1873 he wasappointed superintendent of public schools inBrooklyn, N. Y., which office he held at the timeof his death. He was an ardent student and col-lector in American history and ethnology. Hepublished a small volume of poems; Pear Cult-ure (1858): A History of the Battle of LongIsland ( Memoirs of the Long Island HistoricalSociety, vol. ii., 1869); Historic and Antiqua-rian Scenes in Brooklyn and Vicinity (1868); An Essay toward an Indian Bibliography (1873);and left a large manuscript volume of Aphor-isms, selected and original. FIELDING, William Stevens, Canadian jour-nalist, b. in Halifax, 24 Nov., 1848. He was educatedin his native city, and has been connected for manyyears with the Halifax Morning Chronicle. Atthe convention of the Liberal party held in Halifaxafter the resignation of the Thomson governmentin 1882, he declined the portfolios of premier andprovincial secretary. In December of the sameyear he became a member of the administration of. ^S^/ W. T. Pipes, and on the tatters retirement in July,1884, reorganized the administration, becomingpremier and provincial secretary. He was first re-turned to the Nova Scotia house oi assembly in 1882, and was re-elected in 1884 FIELDS, James Thomas, publisher, b. inPortsmouth, N. II., 31 Dec., 1817; d. in Boston, 24 April, 1881. At the age of four years he lost bis father. The lad was educated in a high school inhis native place, and in 1834 went to Boston to be-come clerk in a book-store. In his eighteenth yearhe read the anniversarypoem before the Boston mer-cantile library association. Soon after he reachedthe age of twenty-onehe became a partnerin the publishing firmof Tick nor, Reed &Fields, and continueda member of it till1870, when he 1862 until 1870Mr. Fields was edit-or of the AtlanticMonthly. Mean- while he had lecturedbefore the societies ofHarvard and Dart-mouth,and in 1867 re-ceived from the latterthe degree
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