. First steps with American and British authors. hout success. In company with others,he began the publication of a serial called Salmagundi. It was well conducted, andproyed successful. In 1809he published his Knicker-bockers History of NewYork, the most unique,perfectly rounded, andelaborately sustained bur-lesque in our conducted a magazinein Philadelphia for twoyears, to which he con-tributed articles afterwardincluded in The Sketch-Book. In 1814 he seryedas an aide to Goy. Tomp-kins, and at the end of the war again went to Europe,where he continued to liye for the next seyen
. First steps with American and British authors. hout success. In company with others,he began the publication of a serial called Salmagundi. It was well conducted, andproyed successful. In 1809he published his Knicker-bockers History of NewYork, the most unique,perfectly rounded, andelaborately sustained bur-lesque in our conducted a magazinein Philadelphia for twoyears, to which he con-tributed articles afterwardincluded in The Sketch-Book. In 1814 he seryedas an aide to Goy. Tomp-kins, and at the end of the war again went to Europe,where he continued to liye for the next seyenteen the failure of his brother he lost all his property ; and,haying been thus thrown upon his owm resources, he de-yoted himself to literature to earn a living. His Sketch-Book was published in 1S19. By the personal influenceof Sir Walter Scott it was republished in London, and atonce established Iryings reputation as a great author. His next works were Bracebridge Hall, published in1822, and Tales of a Traveller in 1824. Having been. WASHINGTON IR\^NG. WA SHING TON IR VING. 15 I commissioned to make some translations from the Spanish,he took up his residence in Madrid. To this residence inSpain we are indebted for some of his most charmingworks, as, Life of Columbus, Conquest of Granada,The Alhambra, Mahomet and his Successors, andSpanish Papers. He returned to America in 1832,During the next ten years were published Astoria, Ad=ventures of Captain Bonneville, and Wolferts 1842, Irving w^as appointed minister to Spain. HisLife of Goldsmith was published four years later, afterhis return home. His last and most carefully written workwas the Life of Washington, in five volumes. Irvings last years were spent at Sunnyside, hisdelightful residence at Tarrytown on the Hudson, in themidst of the beautiful scenes which he has died Nov. 28, 1859, ^^e same year with Prescottthe historian, and Macaulay. A friend who saw much ofour author in his lat
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