Fiske

Fiske, JOHN, American author, was born 30th March 1842, at Hartford, Conn., and studied at Harvard, where in 1869 he began as a positivist to lecture on philosophy, and in 1872-79 was under-librarian. He is well known as a lecturer throughout the Union. Among his works are Tobacco and Alcohol (1868), Myths and Myth-makers (1872), Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy (2 vols. 1874), Darwinism (1879), The Beginnings of New England (1889), Theodore Parker (1889), The American Revolution (3 vols. 1891), The Discovery of America (2 vols. 1892), &c.

Fisk University. See NASHVILLE.