The Rev. Edward A. Abbott, D.D., author of Hints on Home Training and Teaching, for the use of parents, governesses, and teachers, was born in London, in 1838, and having received his preparatory course in King's College School, was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, attaining his degree of Bachelor of Arts, with the rank of seventh Senior Optime, and first class in classics, in 1861, and becoming Fellow in the same year. From 1862 to 1865 he was assistant master in King Edward's school, Birmingham, where he displayed such fine scholarship and efficient management as to secure the appointment of Head Master of the City of London School. The City of London School, resting on an ancient foundation, the bequest of John Carpenter in 1442, to the City of London, for the education of four boys, has been elevated into great prominence, under Dr. Abbott's mastership and twenty assistants, by recent endowments in scholarships and exhibitions by city merchants and bankers, and now educates 620 boys, all day scholars, between the ages of seven and fifteen years, who are admitted on the nomination of a member of the corporation, and the payment of £9 per annum, with the exception of those who obtain some of the numerous scholarships and exhibitions, viz.:

Eight Carpenter Exhibitions of 11. per ann. at School, and 251. at Oxford, Cambridge, or London. One Tegg Exhibition of 221. per ann., tenable at Oxford, Cambridge, or London. One Times Exhibition, at Oxford or Cambridge, of 30%. per ann. Four Beaufoy Exhibitions of 501. per ann. each, tenable at Cambridge. One David Salomons Exhibition, of 50%. per ann., at Oxford, Cambridge, or London. One Travers exhibition of 50%. per ann., at University of London. One Lambert Jones Exhibition of 497. 88. 9d. per ann., at Oxford, Cambridge, or London. One S. Thomas Medical Exhibition, of 30. per ann., at S. Thomas's Hospital, for 3 years. One Goldsmiths' Exhibition, of 50l. per ann., at Oxford or Cambridge. Two Grocers' Exhibitions of 50l. per ann., at Oxford or Cambridge. One Masterman Exhibition of 307. per ann., at any University, all tenable for 4 years (when not otherwise stated) at the Universities. One David Salomons Exhibition, of 317. 108. per ann., tenable at the School. One Jews' Commemoration Exhibition, of 40%. per ann., tenable for 3 years at School or University College, London.

* For the principal facts we are indebted to Rentledge's "Men of the Time (Eleventh Edition)" and "Our Schools and Colleges," by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.

Two William Tite Exhibitions, of 257. and 20l. per ann. each, at the School. One Lionel Rothschild Exhibition, of 60%. per ann., tenable for 4 years at an English or Foreign University. One W. Stormes Hale Scholarship of 431. 178. 6d. per ann., at the School, and afterwards at Oxford, Cambridge, or London University.

Dr. Abbott has been very successful in making the English language both a profitable and interesting study, and his manuals for beginners, "How to tell the Parts of Speech" and "How to Write Clearly," are admirable specimens of condensed directions for the use of teacher and pupil. Grammar ceases to be mere formal drudgery, but is evolved almost unconsciously out of its correct and pleasing use in actual conversation and composition.

Dr. Abbott has published the following theological works: "Bible Lessons," 1872; "Cambridge Sermons," 1875; "Through Nature to Christ," 1877. His other works are, a "Shakespearian Grammar," 1870; an edition of "Bacon's Essays," 1876; "Bacon and Essex," 1877; and an "English Grammar." Dr. Abbott is also the author of two religious romances, published anonymously: "Philochristus: Memoirs of a Disciple of our Lord," 1878; and "Onesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul," 1882.