B. Biography and Criticism
Calef, Robert. More Wonders of the Invisible World. London, 1700. [An attack on the Mathers' activity during the Witchcraft trials.]
Colman, Benjamin. The Holy walk and glorious translation of blessed Enoch. A sermon preached at the Lecture in Boston, two days after the death of the Reverend and learned Cotton Mather D.D. & F.R.S. who departed this life Febr. 13. 1728. Ætat. 65. Boston, 1728.
Deane, Chas. The Light shed upon Cotton Mather's "Magnalia" by his Diary. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. vi, 404-414.
Dexter, Henry M. The Mather Family and its Influence. In Winsor's Memorial History of Boston. II, 297. Boston, 1880-86. [Sympathetic]
Drake, S. G. Memoir, with a genealogy of the Mather family. N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg. vi, 9.
Francke, Kuno. Cotton Mather and August Hermann Francke. Harvard Studies in Phil, and Lit. v, 57-67.
Gee, Joshua. Israel's mourning for Aaron's death. A sermon preached on the Lord's-day after the death of the very Reverend and learned Cotton Mather. Boston, 1728.
Goddard, Delano A. The Mathers [Cotton and Increase] weighed in the balances . . . and found not wanting. Boston and London, 1870.
Haven, Sam'l F. The Mathers and the Witchcraft Delusions. Worcester, 1874. [Reprinted from Am. Antiquar. Soc. Proc]
Haynes, Henry W. Cotton Mather and his Slaves. Am. Antiquar. Soc. Proc. New Series, vi.
Kittredge, G. L. Some Lost Works of Cotton Mather. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. xlv, 418-479. Boston, 1912. [Important for the light it sheds on the Inoculation controversy.]
Marvin, Rev. A. P. The Life and Times of Cotton Mather. Boston, 1892.
Mather, Samuel. The Departure and Character of Elijah considered and improved. A sermon after the decease of ... C. Mather, etc. Boston, 1728.
—Life of Cotton Mather. Boston, 1729. Re-issued in abridged form, Boston, 1744.
Peabody, W. B. O. Life of Cotton Mather. In Sparks's Amer. Biog. vi, 163-350. 1854.
Peirce, B. History of Harvard University. Cambridge, 1833.
Poole, W. F. Cotton Mather and Salem Witchcraft. Boston, 1869. Reprinted from North American Review, CVIII, 337-397. [An able defense, written in reply to Upham.]
Prince, Thomas. The Departure of Elijah lamented. A sermon occasioned by the great & publick loss in the decease of the very Reverend & learned Cotton Mather, D.D. F.R.S. etc. Boston, 1728.
Quincy, J. History of Harvard University. Cambridge, 1840.
Robbins, C. A History of the Second Church, or Old North, in Boston. Etc. Boston, 1852.
Sibley, J. L. Harvard Graduates, III, 42-158. Cambridge, 1885. [With full bibliography.]
Sprague, Wm. B. Annals of the American Pulpit. I, 189-195. 1857.
Upham, C. W. Lectures on Witchcraft, comprising a History of the delusion in Salem in 1692, etc. Boston, 1831.
—Salem Witchcraft; with an Account of Salem Village, and a History of
