The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ssell Lowell, the most prominent manof American letters, and his position has been wonworthily, and rests on no whim of popular English writer, William Sharp, in speaking
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ssell Lowell, the most prominent manof American letters, and his position has been wonworthily, and rests on no whim of popular English writer, William Sharp, in speaking ofhim declares. There is none among ourselves whoequals him in breadth of sympathy or in ability toresist allurement by the will-o-the-wisp of mereform ; and Edmund W. Gosse characterizes him asa lyrist of high order, saying, His poetry is freshand buoyant, full of memories of great deeds andjoyous experiences, and seems to contain the ele-ments of a lasting popularity. Mr. Stedman contem-plates soon giving up his business life and devotinghis remaining years to literary work. Being a manof very active teftiperament and a hard woiTier, per-haps the most important of his contributions to lit-erature are yet to be published. He has fixed hishome permanently in New York, only spending hissummers on the sea-coast of New England. He is amember of many literary and social organizations. OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 137. C&piToI ^(blambur
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