The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election Also a list of America's most eligible women . IRVING twenty miles from New York. Here he resided in the midstof his family, consisting of his brother and nieces, occasion-ally visiting his friends in Virginia and elsewhere. At Sunnyside, in these later years, he prepared the re-vised editions of his books, which now became a source ofregular profit, wrote the Life of Oliver Goldsmith, andcompleted the crowning labor of his long literary career, theLife of George Washington. Th
The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election Also a list of America's most eligible women . IRVING twenty miles from New York. Here he resided in the midstof his family, consisting of his brother and nieces, occasion-ally visiting his friends in Virginia and elsewhere. At Sunnyside, in these later years, he prepared the re-vised editions of his books, which now became a source ofregular profit, wrote the Life of Oliver Goldsmith, andcompleted the crowning labor of his long literary career, theLife of George Washington. The interval between thepublication of the first of the five volumes and the last, wasfive years. It was completed the very year of his death. Hisdesign was to present in simple, unambitious narrative, athoroughly truthful view of the character of Washington—of the acts of his life—with an impartial estimate of the menand agencies by which he was surrounded. He attained allthis and more. His work has been read with interest, nay,with affection, and promises long to retain its hold upon thepublic. Mr. Irving had now reached the close of life, withas few of
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