SEARS, Edmund Hamilton, clergyman, born in Sandisfield, Massachusetts, in 1810; died in Weston, Massachusetts, 14 January, 1876. He was graduated at Union in 1884, and at Harvard divinity-school in 1837, and was pastor of Unitarian societies in Wayland, Massachusetts, in 1839-'40, and in Lancaster in 1840-'7. He then edited the" Monthly Religious Magazine" for several years, and from 1865 until his death was pastor in Weston, Massachusetts Union college gave him the degree of D.D. in 1871. He published "Regeneration " (Boston, 1853; 9th ed., 1873); "Pictures of the Olden Time" (1857) ; " Christian Lyrics" (1860) ; "Athanasia" (1860) ; "The Fourth Gospel: the Heart of Christ" (1872); and " Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life" (1875). SEARS, Edward I., editor, born in County Mayo, Ireland, in 1819; died in New York city, 7 December, 1876. He was graduated at Trinity college, Dublin, in 1839, came to this country in 1848, and for many years was professor of languages in Manhattan college. He became editor and proprietor of the " National Quarterly," a literary magazine, in 1860, and conducted it until his death. He was a writer of cultivated taste and pure and expressive style, and contributed regularly to English and American reviews. He published, under the pen-name of "H. E. Chevalier," "Legends of the Sea" (New York, 1863).