. American lands and letters. the Mirror, and better workon his own American magazine—known, too, forcertain novels (the Greijslaer among them) andknown of all frolic-loving college boys by his jing-ling song of Sparkling and bright in liquid light,Does the wine our goblets gleam in. This was poor Hoffman,* who, it may interest * Charles Fenno Hoffman, b. 180G; d. 1884. ; The Vigil of Faith^ and other Poems, 1842. ii8 AMERICAN LANDS &^ LETTERS. the reader to know, was the half-brother of thatbeautiful fiancee of Washington Irving, whosedeath so clouded that authors early years. A
. American lands and letters. the Mirror, and better workon his own American magazine—known, too, forcertain novels (the Greijslaer among them) andknown of all frolic-loving college boys by his jing-ling song of Sparkling and bright in liquid light,Does the wine our goblets gleam in. This was poor Hoffman,* who, it may interest * Charles Fenno Hoffman, b. 180G; d. 1884. ; The Vigil of Faith^ and other Poems, 1842. ii8 AMERICAN LANDS &^ LETTERS. the reader to know, was the half-brother of thatbeautiful fiancee of Washington Irving, whosedeath so clouded that authors early years. Aftermuch good and some brilliant literary work (1834-47) Hoffman was smitten by some mental disease, which involved hos-pital supervision; andhe found this undersuch kindly handsthat he lingered forthirty-seven years atHarrisburg. I sawhim there, in the lat-ter third of that longinterval between lifeand death, his physi-cal buoyancy notbroken down, living amid a great host of illusions ;his mind placid, but John R. Bartlett. From alt engraviitg by Biittre. Southrons and Dr. Ware. Another author, at one time having great pop-ularity — who in summer days used to voyage on
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