Contributor of prose and poems to Scribner's Magazine and to other periodicals.

Pen Portraits of Literary Women by Themselves and Others: With Biographical Sketches, was published in connection with Jeannette L. Gilder.

Cozzens, Frederick Swartwout.

(Author of The Family Horse, pt. i., p. 167.) Born in New York, March 5, 1818; died in Brooklyn, New York, December 23, 1869.

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Contributor of prose and verse to the Knickerbocker
Magazine, and Putnam's Magazine. Editor
The Wine Press, a trade paper devoted to the interests
of American vine-planters and wine-makers.

Sparrow-Grass Papers and Prismatics are among his published works.

Crane, Thomas Frederick.

(Author of Aunt Maria and the Autophone, pt. iii., p. 163.)

Born in 1844.

Professor of the Romance Languages in Cornell University. In conjunction with Prof. S. J. Brun, has edited a series of French classics for American students, comprising Tableaux de la Révolution Française, Le Romantisme Français, and La Société Française au Dix-septième Siècle.

Italian Popular Tales is his most important work.

Curtis, George William.

(Author of From the Summer Diary of Minerva Tattle, pt. i., p. 272.)

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, February 24, 1824; died in New York, August 31, 1892.

Mr. Curtis was a noted journalist, orator, publicist, and author. He studied in Berlin about 1846. Was connected with the New York Tribune in 1850, and with Putnam's Magazine from 1852-1857. Editor of the Easy Chair in Harper's Magazine from 1853, and of Harper's Weekly, 1857-1892.

Among the best known of his published works are the Potiphar Papers and Prue and I.

De Forest, John William.

(Author of Father Higgins's Preferment, pt. ii., p. 36.)

Born in Seymour, Connecticut, March 31, 1826. Much of his youth was spent abroad, and at an early age he devoted himself to literature. During the Civil War, commanded a company of Connecticut Volunteers. He has contributed largely to the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, and to other periodicals.

Among his published works are a History of the Indians of Connecticut, Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty, etc.

Dodge, Mary Abigail ("Gail Hamilton").

(Author of My Garden, pt. iii., p. 35.)

Born in Hamilton, Massachusetts, in 1838; died in Hamilton, Aug. 16, 1896.

Contributor to the National Era of Washington, D. C., and to other periodicals and journals. Assistant editor of Our Young Folks, 1865-1867.

Country Living and Country Thinking, Woman's Wrongs: A Counter-Irritant, and Sermons to the Clergy are among her published works.

Dodge, Mary Mapes.

(Author of Miss Maloney on the Chinese Question, pt. iii., p. 69.)

Born in New York in 1838.

Contributor of prose and verse to both English and American periodicals. Was one of the earliest editorial writers for Hearth and Home, and for several years had charge of its Children's Department. Became editor of St. Nicholas upon its first issue in 1873.

Of her stories, Hans Brinker is the most widely known, having been translated into several foreign languages.

Fields, James Thomas.

(Author of The Pettibone Lineage, pt. i., p. 158.)

Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, December 31, 1817; died in Boston, April 24, 1881.

In 1845, he was admitted as partner in the firm of W. D. Ticknor & Co., Boston, and in 1854, became head of the firm. Editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 1862– 1870. He was well known as a lecturer, wrote many poems; collected, edited, and published a complete edition of De Quincey's writings.

Yesterdays with Authors is his most noted prose work.

Hale, Edward Everett.

(Author of My Double, and How He Undid Me, pt. i., p. 213.)

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, April 3, 1822.

Learned the trade of printer in the office of the Daily Advertiser, and served on the paper in every capactity from reporter to editor. Graduate of Harvard College in

1839. Entered the ministry; began to preach in 1842. Was settled in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1846-56, then removed to Boston. Contributor to the Chatauquan.

The Man Without a Country, and In His Name are the most noted of his writings.

Hale, Lucretia P.

(Author of Modern Improvements at the Peterkins, pt. i., p. 199.)

Born in Boston, September 2, 1820.

Educated at George B. Emerson's School in Boston. Contributor to various periodicals and journals.

The Peterkin Papers are perhaps the most widely known of her works.

Harris, Joel Chandler.

(Author of Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, pt. iii., p. 247; The Wonderful TarBaby Story, pt. iii., p. 251; How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox, pt. iii., p. 254; Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, pt. iii., p. 257; Why Brother Bear Has No Tail, pt. iii., p. 262.)

Born in Eatonton, Georgia, December 9, 1848.

Printer by trade; became a journalist in Atlanta, and, finally, editor of the Atlanta Constitution. Contributor of prose and verse to current literature.

Uncle Remus is the most widely known of his publications.

Harte, Bret.

(Author of Melons, pt. iii., p. 97; The Society upon the Stanislaus, pt. iii., p. 109.)

Born in Albany, New York, August 25, 1839.

Received a common-school education. In 1857, was printer in a newspaper office in San Francisco, and, later, was placed on the editorial staff. Became editor of the Overland Monthly in 1868, and was, for a time, Professor of Recent Literature in the University of California; United States Consul at Crefeld, Germany, in 1878, but was transferred to Glasgow in 1880. Has published many poems and tales.

His poem The Heathen Chinee, and the story The Luck of Roaring Camp, are the literary works that first gave him note.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

(Author of Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, pt. i., p., 25; The British Matron, pt. i., p. 43.) Born in Salem, Massachusetts, July 4, 1804; died in Plymouth, New Hampshire, May 19, 1864.

Graduate of Bowdoin College in 1825. Member of the Brook Farm Community in 1841. Contributor to various periodicals. Was in the Boston Custom House, 1838-1841, and in the Salem Custom House, 1846-1849. United States Consul at Liverpool, 1853-1857.

The Scarlet Letter and The Marble Faun are the most famous of his books.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell.

(Author of Foreign Correspondence, pr. i., p. 85; Music-Pounding, pt. i., p. 89; The Old Man Dreams, pt. i., p. 91; Dislikes, pt. i., p. 93.)

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 29, 1809; died October 7, 1894.