Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . blic view —for at the North his vehement partisanship hadmade him unpopular. In his life he had foundedor conducted some half-dozen literary serials,and to them and other periodicals he contributedlargely ; he did much hack-work on a vast varietyof subjects ; and he was highly thought of aslecturer and orator. The illustrated edition of his works (1882-86) fills seventeen volumes. SeeLives by Cable (1
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . blic view —for at the North his vehement partisanship hadmade him unpopular. In his life he had foundedor conducted some half-dozen literary serials,and to them and other periodicals he contributedlargely ; he did much hack-work on a vast varietyof subjects ; and he was highly thought of aslecturer and orator. The illustrated edition of his works (1882-86) fills seventeen volumes. SeeLives by Cable (1888) and Professor Trent (1892). Richard Henry Dana (1787-1879) was bornat Cambridge, Massachusetts, educated at Har-vard, and admitted to the Bar at Boston in 1818 he became associate editor of the NorthAmerican Review, to which he contributed Dying Raven (1821), The Buccaneer (1827),and some others of his poems were warmly praisedby critics ; but his best work was in criticism. His son, Richnr«l Honry »ana (1815-82), gradu-ated at Harvard in 1837 ; but during a break inhis college career, occasioned in part by an affec-tion of the eyes, he had shipped as a common. RICHARD HENRY an Etching by S. A. Schoff. sailor, and made a voyage round Cape Horn toCalifornia and back. This voyage he describedin Two Years before the Mast (1840), on thewhole, perhaps, the best book of its kind ; in1840 he was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar,and was especially distinguished in maritime his works are The Seaman^s Friend {1S41)and To Cuba a?id Back (1859). He also editedWheatons Inter?tational Law, and was a promi-nent Free-soiler and Republican. There is a Lifeof him by Adams (2 vols. 1890). Rodman Drake (1795-1820), asso-ciated with Fitz-Greene Halleck in The CroakerPapers, was born in New York city, and bred tomedicine, but died of consumption in his twenty-sixth year. His most considerable poem, TheCulprit Fay, was written to show that Am
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