History of American Literature Part 45

BUNNER, HENRY CUYLER (1855-1896), b. Oswego, N. Y. Editor of _Puck_ for many years. A clever and successful short-story writer. _Short Sixes_, _Love in Old Cloathes_, _Zadoc Pine and Other Stories._

BURROUGHS, JOHN (1837- ), b. Roxbury, N. Y. An exact observer of life in the woods and one of the most conservative and entertaining writers on nature. He tells only what he sees and does not draw on his fancy to endow animals with man's power to reason. Some of his nature books are: _Wake-Robin, Signs and Seasons, Pepacton, Riverby, Locusts and Wild Honey, Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers. Indoor Studies_ and _Whitman, A Study_, show keen critical powers and genuine literary appreciation. Burroughs reminds the reader of Th.o.r.eau in closeness of observation and honesty of expression, but Burroughs is less of a philosopher and poet and more of a scientist.

CARY, ALICE (1820-1871) and her sister Phoebe Gary (1824-1871), b. Miami Valley, near Cincinnati, Ohio. Moved to New York, N. Y. Poets. _Poems_ by Alice and Phoebe Cary.

CHAMBERS, ROBERT W. (1865- ), b. Brooklyn, N. Y. Author of exciting romances. _The Red Republic_, _A King and a Few Dukes_, _The Conspirators._

CHARMING, WILLIAM ELLERY (1780-1842), b. Newport, R. I. Great Unitarian preacher and reformer. _Spiritual Freedom_, _Evidences of Christianity and of Revealed Religion_, _Self-Culture_, _Slavery._

CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880), b. Medford, Ma.s.s. Novelist, editor.

Hobomok, a story of life in colonial Salem; _The Rebels,_ a tale of the Revolution, introduces James Otis, Governor Hutchinson, and the Boston Ma.s.sacre; _Appeal for that Cla.s.s of Americans called Africans._

CHURCHILL, WINSTON (1871- ), b. St. Louis, Mo. Home in Cornish, N. H.

Novelist. _Richard Carvel, The Crisis,_ and _The Crossing_ are interesting novels of American historical events. _Mr. Crewe's Career._

CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810-1888), b. Hanover, N. H. Noted Unitarian clergyman. _Orthodoxy: Its Truths and Errors_, _Ten Great Religions_, _Self-Culture._

CONE, HELEN GRAY (1859- ), b. New York, N. Y. Poet. _Oberon and Puck_, _The Ride to the Lady_, _Verses Grave and Gay._

COOKE, ROSE TERRY (1827-1892), b. West Hartford, Conn. Poet and short-story writer. _The Two Villages_ is her best-known poem, and _The Deacon's Week_ one of her best stories.

CRAIGIE, PEARL MARY TERESA ("John Oliver Hobbes") (1867-1906), b. Boston, Ma.s.s. Novelist. _School for Saints_, _The Herb Moon_, _The Flute of Pan_, _The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes._

CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER PEa.r.s.e (1813-1892), b. Alexandria, Va. Educated in Ma.s.sachusetts. Artist, transcendental poet, and contributor to _The Dial_.

Best poems, _Gnosis, I in Thee._

CRANE, STEPHEN (1870-1900), b. Newark, N. J. Novelist. _The Red Badge of Courage_ is a remarkable romance of the American Civil War.

CRAWFORD, FRANCIS MARION (1854-1909), b. Bagni di Lucca, Italy. Voluminous writer of novels and romances. Some are historical, and the scenes of the best of them are laid in Italy. He wrote his _Zoroaster_ and _Marzio's Crucifix_ in both English and French, and received a reward of one thousand francs from the French Academy. _Saracinesca_, _Sant' Ilario_, and _Don Orsino_, a trio of novels about one Roman family, and _Katherine Lauderdale_ and its sequel, _The Ralstons_, are among his best works.

CURTIS, GEORGE WILLIAM (1824-1892), b. Providence, R. I. Literary and political essayist, civil service reformer, and critic. Was a resident in his youth at Brook Farm. Spent four years of his early life in foreign travel. _Nile Notes of a Howadji_ and _The Howadji in Syria_ are poetic descriptions of his trip. His masterpiece is _Prue and I_, a prose idyl of simple, contented, humble life. The largest part of his work was done as editor. He was editor of _Putnam's Magazine_ at the time of its failure in 1857, and undertook to pay up every creditor, a task which consumed sixteen years. He wrote the _Easy Chair_ papers in _Harper's Monthly_. A volume of these essays contains some of his easiest, most urbane, and humorous writings. They are light and in the vein of Addison's _Spectator_. In _Orations and Addresses_ are to be found some of his strongest and most polished speeches on moral, historical, and political subjects.

DANA, RICHARD HENRY, SR. (1787-1879), b. Cambridge, Ma.s.s. Author, diplomat, judge. Co-editor _North American Review_ when it published Bryant's _Thanatopsis_. Champion of the romantic school of Wordsworth and Coleridge.

Dana's best known poem, _The Buccaneer_, shows the influence of this school.

DANA, RICHARD HENRY, JR. (1815-1882), b. Cambridge, Ma.s.s. Lawyer, statesman, author. His _Two Years before the Mast_ keeps, its place among the best books written for boys during the nineteenth century. The British admiralty officially adopted this book for circulation in the navy.

DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING (1864-1916), b. Philadelphia, Pa. Journalist, playwright, novelist. Best works are short stones of New York life, such as _Van Bibber and Others_, _Gallegher and Other Stories_. _The Bar Sinister_, which holds boys spellbound, is an excellent story of a dog.

DELAND, MARGARETTA WADE (1857- ), b. Allegheny, Pa. Voluminous writer of stories. _Old Chester Tales_, _Dr. Lavendar's People_, _John Ward_, _Preacher._

d.i.c.kINSON, EMILY (1830-1886), b. Amherst, Ma.s.s. Author of unique short lyrics. _Poems_.

d.i.c.kINSON, JOHN (1732-1808), b. Crosia, Md. Statesman. _The Farmer's Letters to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies_.

DODGE, MARY MAPES (1838-1905), b. New York, N. Y. Editor of _Saint Nicholas Magazine_. Among her juvenile books may be mentioned _Hans Brinker_, _Donald and Dorothy_, _The Land of Pluck_.

DORR, JULIA C. R. (1825- ), b. Charleston, S. C. Moved to Vermont. Poet, novelist. _Poems_, _In Kings' Houses_, _Farmingdale_.

DWIGHT, JOHN S. (1813-1893), b. Boston, Ma.s.s. Musician, transcendentalist.

Best poem, _Rest_, appeared in first number of _The Dial_.

EGAN, MAURICE FRANCIS (1852- ), b. Philadelphia, Pa. Diplomat, poet, essayist, novelist. _Preludes_, _Songs and Sonnets_, _Lectures on English Literature_, _The Ghost of Hamlet_.

EVERETT, EDWARD (1794-1865), b. Dorchester, Ma.s.s. Orator, statesman.

_Orations and Speeches_.

FIELDS, JAMES T. (1817-1881), b. Portsmouth, N. H. Editor _Atlantic Monthly_ and publisher. _Yesterdays with Authors_.

FISKE, JOHN (1842-1901), b. Hartford, Conn. Scientist and historian. His histories are both philosophical and interesting. _The Critical Period of American History_, _The Beginnings of New England_, _The American Revolution_, _The Discovery of America_.

FORD, PAUL LEICESTER (1865-1902), b. Brooklyn, N. Y. Novelist, historian.

_The Honorable Peter Stirling_, _Janice Meredith_.

FOSTER, STEPHEN COLLINS (1826-1864), b. Pittsburgh, Pa. Writer of some of the most widely known songs of the nineteenth century. _Old Folks at Home_ ("Down on the Suwanee River"), _My Old Kentucky Home_, _Nellie was a Lady_.

FREDERIC, HAROLD (1856-1898), b. Utica, N.Y. Novelist, journalist. _The d.a.m.nation of Theron Ware_, _Gloria Mundi_.

GILDER, RICHARD WATSON (1844-1909), b. Bordentown, N. J. Editor and poet.

Editor of _Century Magazine_ until his death. Poems: _The New Day_, _Five Books of Song_, _For the Country_.

GOODWIN, MAUD WILDER (1856- ), b. b.a.l.l.ston Spa, N. Y. Writer of romances, chiefly historical. _The Colonial Cavalier_, _or Southern Life before the Revolution_, _Four Roads to Paradise_.

GRANT, ROBERT (1852- ), b. Boston, Ma.s.s. Novelist, essayist, jurist.

_Confessions of a Frivolous Girl_, _An Average Man_, _The Art of Living_.

GREELEY, HORACE (1811-1872), b. Amherst, N. H. Founder and editor of The Tribune, New York, N. Y. Exerted strong influence on the thought of his time. _Recollections of a Busy Life_.

GREEN, ANNA KATHARINE (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs) (1846- ), b. Brooklyn, N. Y.

Voluminous writer of interesting detective stories, of which _The Leavenworth Case_ is the most noted.

GUINEY, LOUISE IMOGEN (1861- ), b. Boston, Ma.s.s. Poet, essayist. _The White Sail and Other Poems_, _A Roadside Harp_, _The Martyr's Idyl and Shorter Poems_.

HALE, EDWARD EVERETT (1822-1909), b. Boston, Ma.s.s. Unitarian divine, author, philanthropist. Best known story, _The Man without a Country_.

Wrote many miscellaneous essays.

HARDY, ARTHUR S. (1847- ), b. Andover, Ma.s.s. Educator, novelist, diplomat. _But Yet a Woman_, _Wind of Destiny_, _Pa.s.se Rose_.

HARLAND, HENRY ("Sidney Luska") (1861-1905), b. Petrograd, Russia.

Novelist. _The Cardinal's Snuff-Box_, _My Friend Prospero_, _The Lady Paramount_.

HAWTHORNE, JULIAN (1846- ), b. Boston, Ma.s.s., son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Novelist, essayist. Deserves to be called his father's Boswell for the excellent and sympathetic two volumes, ent.i.tled _Nathaniel Hawthorne and his Wife_.

HEDGE, FREDERICK H. (1805-1890), b. Cambridge, Ma.s.s. Clergyman, transcendentalist. Best poem, _Questionings_, appeared in _The Dial_.

HIGGINSON, THOMAS WENTWORTH (1823- ), b. Cambridge, Ma.s.s. Unitarian minister, prominent anti-slavery agitator, author. _Life of Margaret Fuller Ossoli_, _Cheerful Yesterdays_, _Contemporaries_, _Old Cambridge_.

"HOBBES, JOHN OLIVER," See CRAIGIE, PEARL MARY TERESA.