Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) : a biography and bibliography . ecture, that its information was meager, and pre-sented in a desultory, disconnected manner. In 1870 the Panorama turned up in Halifax, NovaScotia, chaperoned by another Brown, who at-tempted to repeat the Mormon lecture in imitation ofthe original. It was not successful and the picturesvanished in the junk-heap of time. A. will was made at Southampton, February23, 1867. It provided first that the library of books be-queathed him by his uncle, Calvin Farrar, should begiven the Waterford boy or girl who passed the bestsch
Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) : a biography and bibliography . ecture, that its information was meager, and pre-sented in a desultory, disconnected manner. In 1870 the Panorama turned up in Halifax, NovaScotia, chaperoned by another Brown, who at-tempted to repeat the Mormon lecture in imitation ofthe original. It was not successful and the picturesvanished in the junk-heap of time. A. will was made at Southampton, February23, 1867. It provided first that the library of books be-queathed him by his uncle, Calvin Farrar, should begiven the Waterford boy or girl who passed the bestschool examination between the first day of Januaryand that of April following his decease, giving MosesMason Robinson, a New York lawyer, a native ofWaterford, the power of appointing the examiners andattending to the details of the bequest. Second, thatGeorge H. Stephens, his personal attendant, shouldwork as a printers apprentice for two years in theRiverside Press at Cambridge, at the end of which time,if his record was good, he was to be sent to the Academy [220]. BUST OF ARTEMUS WARD BY GEFLOWSKI LONDON at North Bridgton, a school still existing, and nearWaterford, the estate to pay the cost of his Maxfield and Livingston Gain Robinson, bothof Waterford, were made trustees. Thomas W. Robert-son, author of Fashion and Society, was namedas literary executor for his books and manuscripts inEngland, and Richard Henry Stoddard and CharlesDawson Shanley were appointed to a similar trust inAmerica. He directed that all revenue should go tothe support of his mother, save the sum needed toeducate Stephens, and upon her decease one thousanddollars each to the children of John C. Gerry, of Water-ford Lower Village, who was husband of his auntNancy, the balance to be paid as his mother mightdevise, save in case her decease preceded his, when theestate was to go to such kin as might legally be entitledto share in it. James Sharp and John Neat Pocock, ofSouthampton, were
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