Thomas Cogswell Upham, an American author, born in Deerfield, N. H., Jan. 30, 1799, died in New York, April 2, 1872. He graduated at Dartmouth college in 1818, and at Andover theological seminary in 1821, when he became assistant teacher of the Hebrew language. While thus engaged he prepared a translation of Jahn's " Biblical Archaeology," which passed through numerous editions. In 1823 he was ordained colleague pastor of the Congregational church in Rochester, N. H.; and from 1825 to 1867 he was professor of mental and moral philosophy in Bowdoin college. Among his works are: "Ratio Discipline, or the Constitution of Congregational Churches " (Portland, 1829); " Elements of Mental Philosophy" (2 vols. 12mo, 1839; abridged ed., 1864); and "Philosophical and Practical Treatise on the Will" (12mo, New York, 1850). He also wrote a series of treatises and memoirs on religious experience, approximating in sentiment to the writings of Tauler, Gerson, and other mystics of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Their titles are:

"Principles of the Interior or Hidden Life" (12mo, New York, 1848); "Life of Faith" (1848); "Treatise on Divine Union" (Boston, 1851); "Religious Maxims" (Philadelphia, 1854); "Life of Madame Catharine Adorna" (Boston, 1856); " Life and Religious Opinions of Madame Guyon, together with some Account of the Personal History and Religious Experience of Archbishop Fénelon" (2 vols. 12mo, New York, 1847); and " A Method of Prayer, an Analysis of the Work so entitled by Madame de la Mothe Guyon" (1859). Besides these, he wrote " Manual of Peace" (8vo, New York, 1836); " Outlines of Imperfect and Disordered Mental Action" (18mo, 1840); "American Cottage Life, a Series of Poems" (16mo, Portland, 1852); " Letters, Aesthetic, Social, and Moral, written from Europe, Egypt, and Palestine" (8vo, Philadelphia, 1857; new ed., 1865); and one of the essays on a congress of nations (8vo, Boston, 1840).