Portraits and biographical sketches of twenty American authors . ience into sketches which were gath-ered into Sannterings. This was the beginning of his moredistinctly literary life. He found his pleasure as well as hisrecuperation thereafter chiefly in rambling and in notingmen and things. His Baddeek and That Sort of Thing.,My Winter on the Nile, In the Levant, In the Wilderness,A RoundahoiLt Journey, and Their Pilgrimage bear witnessto this taste. His interest in literature has always beenstrong, and has led him into the delivery of forcible addressesat college anniversaries and into the e
Portraits and biographical sketches of twenty American authors . ience into sketches which were gath-ered into Sannterings. This was the beginning of his moredistinctly literary life. He found his pleasure as well as hisrecuperation thereafter chiefly in rambling and in notingmen and things. His Baddeek and That Sort of Thing.,My Winter on the Nile, In the Levant, In the Wilderness,A RoundahoiLt Journey, and Their Pilgrimage bear witnessto this taste. His interest in literature has always beenstrong, and has led him into the delivery of forcible addressesat college anniversaries and into the editorshij) of the Amer-ican Men of Letters series, to whlcli he has contributed avolume on Washington Irving, who was his first great ad-miration in modern literature. His interest in literatureand travel has not been that of a dilettante. His humor isscarcely more prominent than his earnest he has given practical expression to his thought in thepart which he has taken in public affairs in Hartford andin the moving question of prison ADELINE D. TRAIN WHITNEY. Mrs. Whitney was born September 15, 1824, and is thedaughter of Enoch Train, who was a large shipping merchantand the founder of a line of packet-ships between Boston andLiverpool. Mrs. Whitneys early days were spent in Bos-ton, with a year also in Northam})ton. She led the life ofa Boston girl of tlie period when home associations werestrong, and summer outings were made in the family carriageinto the rural parts about the decorous, staid New Englandmetropolis. In 1843 she married Mr. Setli D. Whitney ofMilton, Massachusetts, and has since made her home in thattown. Mrs. Whitney published now and then a ])oem, but it wasnot until her family had grown nearly to maturity that shetook up her pen for regular literary work, and she foundher material in the experience and observation which hadattended a devotion to family duties and a familiarity withcountry, especially suburban life. In 1861 she wro
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