Andrew Preston Peabodt, an American clergyman, born in Beverly, Mass., March 19, 1811. He graduated at Harvard college in 1826, studied theology, and in 1832-3 was a tutor in mathematics in the college. In 1833 he was ordained in the south parish church in Portsmouth, N. H., of which he was pastor till Sept. 1, 1860, when he became preacher and Plummer professor of Christian morals in Harvard university, from which in 1852 he had received the degree of D. D. Dr. Pea-body has been industrious as a contributor to periodical literature and a lecturer. From April, 1854, to October, 1863, he was editor of the " North American Review." He has published more than 100 sermons, orations, tracts, and pamphlets; also "Lectures on Christian Doctrine" (1844); "Christian Consolations" (1846); "Christianity the Religion of Nature " (1864); " Sermons for Children " (1866); Eeminiscences of European Travel" (1868); "Moral Philosophy" (1873); "Christianity and Science " (1874); and " Christian Belief and Life " (1875). Several of his works have passed through many editions, and with the Rev. John Hopkins Morison he is now (1875) preparing a commentary on the New Testament.