. The great American book of biography . ents of the modernpolitician our forefathersstandard of dignity in Ameri-can public life. Unquestion-ably the inferior of the greatEnglish statesman, EdmundBurke, in beauties of imagi-nation, precision and incisive-ness of language, and iaprofundity of statesmanship,he was at least more smooth,more even, and more contrast between the two well illustrates the contrast betweenEngland and America in every department of literature. The typical Englishwriter shows the greater mastery of the powers and striking beauties oflanguage. The Ame
. The great American book of biography . ents of the modernpolitician our forefathersstandard of dignity in Ameri-can public life. Unquestion-ably the inferior of the greatEnglish statesman, EdmundBurke, in beauties of imagi-nation, precision and incisive-ness of language, and iaprofundity of statesmanship,he was at least more smooth,more even, and more contrast between the two well illustrates the contrast betweenEngland and America in every department of literature. The typical Englishwriter shows the greater mastery of the powers and striking beauties oflanguage. The American is the smoother and the more polished. TheEnglish is the more intense, and the more self-expressive, and the morepowerful; the American the more guarded and the more contented. Americahas produced as yet no literature comparable to the greater classics of England,but she has produced much worthy to be found in every Anglo-Saxon house-hold, and capable of cheering and strengthening in his work and hardshipsevery Anglo-Saxon WILLIAM CULLtN BR\AM.{^Fron: a Photogiaph by Sarony, New York.) FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHORS. WASHINGTON IRVING, AUTHOR OF THE SKETCH BOOK. IRVING, one of the first authors tomake a real American literature,was born in New York in 1783. Inconsequence of delicate health hespent much of his youth in Euro-pean travel. In 1809 he publishedhis famous Knickerbockers His-tory of New York, which hadgreat success. But it is by hisSketch Book, published in 1819,that he will be longest Van Winkle and his twentyyears sleep, the amorous school-master and the Headless Horse-man of Sleepy Hollow, are charac-ters which live forever book, although published inAmerica, was written in England,where Irving- was then living, en-joying the pleasures of intimatefriendship with Sir Walter Scott,Campbell, and the most famousEnglish writers of the time. Syd-ney Smiths famous taunt, Who reads an American book? lost its truthand its sting after the
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