The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . referring to devote himself to authorship. He wasalready engaged on the Sketch Book, which ap-peared in numbers, and at once established itself inthe favor both of his American and
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . referring to devote himself to authorship. He wasalready engaged on the Sketch Book, which ap-peared in numbers, and at once established itself inthe favor both of his American and his Englishreaders. In 1820 the completed book was publishedin London by John Murray, as were also Brace-bridge Hall, and the Tales of a Traveller, whichappeared between 1832 and 1834. Mr. Irving re-ceived for these three works from his London pub-lisher, about 115,000, which was a considerable sum 18 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA for the time, and -nhich made liis lifo financiallyeasy. In the meantime Mr. Irving lived for a timein Paris, and afterward in Jladrid, where AlexanderH. Everett, who was then U. S. minister to Spain,appointed him an attache of the legation. While inSpain he began his Life of Columbus, which grewout of some studies which he made at that time ofthe works of Spanish writers on the subject of thevoyages of the American explorer. The book wascompleted in three volumes, and published in 1838. jointly by Murray, in London, and by a publisherin New York, netting for Mr. Irving the sum of$18,000. Other results of his stay in Spain were hisConquest of Granada, which appeared in 1829,and his charming Tales of the Alhambra, whichwas published in 1832. This last is one of the mostpleasing of all of Irvings works. It is full of theMoorish atmosphere, a fact especially due to thesingular good fortune which Mr. Irving enjoyed ofactually residing within the precincts of the Alham-bra, through the permission of the governor. In1829, while still a resident of Madrid, Irvin
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