CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-188o), American author and reformer, was born at Medford, Mass., Feb. I1, 1802, and died at Wayland, Mass., Oct. 20, 1880. One of the most promi nent women of her day, Mrs. Child's present claims to remem brance are the contemporaneous popularity of her stories Hobo mok (1824), The Rebels (1825) and Philothea (1836); her edi torship of the Juvenile Miscellany, the first children's monthly periodical in the United States; and her efforts in behalf of the slaves, freedmen and Indians, including her stirring Appeal for That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833) and her editing of the Anti-Slavery Standard (184o-44) in association with her husband. In spite of the 35 editions of her Frugal Housewife (1829) and the German, the eight American and the 12 English editions of her Mother's Book (1831), these and her many other stories and books on feminism, religion, biography and history have been superseded by later works.