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Conway, Moncure Daniel

clergyman, lecturer, author, was born March 17, 1832, in Stafford county, Va. He is a unitarian clergyman of extremely radical views, who has for many years been in charge of a congregation in London. He has been a prolific writer in several fields, the larger number of his writings being The Rejected Stone; Idols and Ideals; Demonology and Devil Lore; The Wandering Jew; Sketch of Carlyle; The Earthward Pilgrimage; Sacred Anthology, a compilation; Emerson at Home and Abroad; George Washington and Mount Vernon; Omitted Chapters in Life and Letters of Edmund Randolph; Life of Thomas Paine; Tracts for To-Day; Natural History of the Devil; The Golden Hour; Testimonies Concerning Slavery; Human Sacrifices in England; Lessons for the Day; Travels in South Kensington; A Necklace of Stories; Pine and Palm, a novel; and Prisms of Air, a novel.