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 . .The Story of Little Red Riding Hood, a poem forchildren, was published in New York in 1864, andThe Children in the Wood, also in verse in the same year came out his Abraha
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 . .The Story of Little Red Riding Hood, a poem forchildren, was published in New York in 1864, andThe Children in the Wood, also in verse in the same year came out his Abraham Lincoln,an Horatian Ode, which, though not up to the levelof Drydens Cromwell or Marvels Charles I.,is yet a vigorous and impressive composition. Put-nam the Brave, with illustrations by AlfredFredricks, came out in a popular boys series (1869),and The Book of the East, containing much ofhis best poetry, in 1867. After leaving the customhouse, Mr. Stoddard became confidential clerk toGen. Geo. B. McClellan, which position he held forthree years. During this period he revised RufusW. Griswolds Poets and Poetry of America, en-larging it with a supplement, and bringing it downto date (1873). During the year 1874 he held theoffice of city librarian of New York. In this yearhe re-edited Griswolds Female Poets of America,and the Bric-aBrac Series, a number of biog-raphies of celebrated literary men and t3^iicla4^ 298 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPJSDIA From 1860-70 Mr. Stoddard was literary reviewerof the World, and since 1880 has held the sameposition on the Mail and Express. The amountof his critical work has been large, and his editoriallabors far-reaching. Besides the works mentionedhe has edited: The Last Political Writings of Lyon (1861); John Guy VassarsTwenty-One Years Around the World (1863); Melodies and Madrigals, Mostly from the OldEnglish Poets (1865), and a number of annuals,monographs, prefaces, and translations. Worthy ofspecial mention are his monogr
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