Frank Preston Stearns

Frank Preston Stearns (1846–1917) was an American abolitionist, author, and critic. He was known as a biographer of noted Americans and Italians.

Early life Frank Preston Stearns was born in Medford, Massachusetts on January 4, 1846. He was the son of Mary E. (née Preston) and George Luther Stearns, an industrialist and noted abolitionist. Other books include Napolian and Machiavelli, Mid-Summer of Italian Art, Sketches from Concord. His funeral was attended by Harvard alumni and other writers. He was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Selected publications

Books John Brown. Boston Cupples and Hurd, 1889. The Real and Ideal in Literature. Boston: J. G. Cupples Company, 1892. Life and Genius of Jacopo Robusti, Called Tintoretto. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. Cambridge Sketches. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1895. Sketches from Concord and Appledore. Concord Thirty Years Ago; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Louisa M. Alcott; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Matthew Arnold; David A. Wasson; Wendell Phillips; Appledore and its visitors; John Greenleaf Whittier. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. Modern Prose Writers. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. The Life of Prince Otto Von Bismark. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1899. Four Great Venetians; An Account of the Lives and works of Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, and Il Veronese. Freeport: Books for Libraries, 1969 reprint, originally published in 1900. Mid-Summer of Italian Art: Containing an Examination of the works of Michel Angelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael Santi, and Correggio. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. Space and Time: A Critique on Herbert Spencer. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1900. Napolian and Machiavelli; Two Essays in Political Science. Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1903. True Republicanism; or, The Real and Ideal in Politics. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1904. Cambridge Sketches. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1905. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1906. The Life and Public Services of George Luther Stearns. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1907. Germanophobia and Other Fallacies. 1913. Politics and Metaphysics. Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1915.

Articles

"Vanderbilt and Lincoln: An Anecdote of the Civil War". The New England Magazine'' (March 1909). pp. 58–59.