The magazine of American history with notes and queries . lished works, it is well remembered, were sopopular that they reached a sale of more than onehundred thousand copies each, and who was theaccomplished editor of the Century, has onlyabout half a page allotted to his biography, andthe biographers name is not revealed. We areglad to see that his portrait is given, and it is avery good likeness. William Dean Howellsfinds an appreciative friend in Charles DudleyWarner, who in a page and a half presents thegreat novelist in his real character, with a list ofhis works. The Rev. Mark Hopkins,
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . lished works, it is well remembered, were sopopular that they reached a sale of more than onehundred thousand copies each, and who was theaccomplished editor of the Century, has onlyabout half a page allotted to his biography, andthe biographers name is not revealed. We areglad to see that his portrait is given, and it is avery good likeness. William Dean Howellsfinds an appreciative friend in Charles DudleyWarner, who in a page and a half presents thegreat novelist in his real character, with a list ofhis works. The Rev. Mark Hopkins, ,the distinguished educator and theologian, pres-. ^^0^^ - a ident of Williams College from 1836 to 1872. issketched in just one half page ; Samuel Houston,and Archibishop Hughes, each in about a pageand a half. An interesting biographical sketchof Thomas Sterry Hunt, the scientist, is wellcondensed into about three-fourths of a page. He 96 BOOK NOTICES developed a system of organic chemistry thatwas essentially his own, in which all chemicalcompounds were shown to be formed on simpletypes represented by one or more molecules ofwater or hydrogen. His bibliography includesupward of two hundred titles of separate pa-pers that appeared in reports of the geologicalsurvey of Canada, the transactions of learnedsocieties, and scientific periodicals. ThomasWentworth Higginson, who has contributedso largely and so delightfully to current litera-ture, is given even less space than his scien-tific contemporary. The sketch of Fitz-GreeneHallock, the poet, occupies more than two pages,written by the editor of the dictionary, Gene-ral Wilson. The f
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