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 . less than 350,000 copies, and it issupposed that every copy of each journal hasfive readers; if this be correct, nearly two millionsof people were weekly and monthly addressed byMr
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 . less than 350,000 copies, and it issupposed that every copy of each journal hasfive readers; if this be correct, nearly two millionsof people were weekly and monthly addressed byMr. Curtis. That he was able to hold this vastaudience, week after week and month after month,for more than thirty-seven years, shows in him afertility of intellect as well as a range of culture andobservation possessed by very few authors. The Easy Chair papers alone,if collected together, wouldfill more than a score ofbulky octavo volumes. Andyet they will ever be as fresh,as delicate in humor, as purein style and sentiment, asdelightfully entertaining toboth young and old, as meywere when the first num-bers were published in the reading public hasnot comprised the whole ofMr. Curtiss audience. Fortwenty years prior to 1873 hewas one of the most popularlyceum lecturers in the coun-try, and after 1856—when headvocated Mr. Fremontselection to the presidency—he often appeared as a political orator,. it A^JleJ In 1856 hemarried Anna Shaw, daughter of George FrancisShaw, of strong anti-slavery stock, and this marriageexhibited its influence on his mind in his zeal in be-half of the slave, and his public speeches were main-ly directed against the crime of slavery. This alsomanifested itself in his editorial writings. He tookan active interest in local politics in his county, and
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