ABBOTT, JOHN STEVENS CABOT American writer, was born in Brunswick, Me., on Sept. 18, 1805. He was a brother of Jacob Abbott, with whom he was associated in the management of Abbott's Institute, New York city, and in the preparation of his series of brief historical biographies. He is best known, however, as the author of a partisan and unscholarly but very readable History of Napoleon Bonaparte (1855). Dr. Abbott graduated at Bowdoin college in 1825, studied at Andover theological seminary, and between 183o and 1844, when he retired from the ministry, preached successively at Worcester, Roxbury and Nantucket, Massachusetts. He died at Fair Haven, Conn., on June 17, 1877. He was a voluminous writer of books on Christian ethics, and of popular histories.