Town and Country, Or, Life at Home and Abroad

John Stowell Adams (1823-93) was an American author of poetry, prose and lexicographical works. Among his first publications was The Language of Flowers, Poetically Expressed, Being a Complete Flora's Album (1847) which included his own rhymes and those of others. This was followed by other collections of verse including The Floral Wreath (1851), The Seasons (1853), and Psalms of Life (1857). His combined prose and verse collections included Half-hour Stories of Choice Reading for Home and Travel (1854), and Town and Country LIfe at Home and Abroad, Without and Within Us (1855). He also published works reflecting his spiritual beliefs, such as A Rivulet from the Ocean of Truth, an Authentic and Intersting Narrative of the Advancement of a Spirit from Darkness to Light (1854). His two lexicographical works were Five Thousand Musical Terms: A Complete Dictionary of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, French, German, Spanish, English, and Such Other Words, Phrases, Abbreviations, and Signs as are to be Found in the Works of Auber, Beethoven, Bertini...and Other Eminent Musical Composers (1851), and Adams' New Musical Dictionary of Fifteen Thousand Technical Words, Phrases, Abbreviations, Initials, and Signs Employed in Musical and Rhythmical Art and Science, in Nearly Fifty Ancient and Modern Languages (1865). The latter is his last known work, conceived as a complement and extension of his previous dictionary.