. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . life. Brave nobles all, On you I call:Join Hutten in the strife. The path of Hutten and that of Luther beganto diverge. Luther would fight Rome withScripture; Hutten with the sword. The breachbetween the two Reformers came to an open 84fl ULRICFI IIUTTEN quarrel. In 1522 Hutten went to Switzerland,where the Reformers were in nowise to Luther. He was broken in healthand fortun
. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . life. Brave nobles all, On you I call:Join Hutten in the strife. The path of Hutten and that of Luther beganto diverge. Luther would fight Rome withScripture; Hutten with the sword. The breachbetween the two Reformers came to an open 84fl ULRICFI IIUTTEN quarrel. In 1522 Hutten went to Switzerland,where the Reformers were in nowise to Luther. He was broken in healthand fortune, and seems to have been dependentfor bare subsistence upon two or three of theSwiss Reformers. When he died he possessednothing except his pen, and left nothing- exceptthe debt of a few score florins which he had bor-rowed. Few men who have died at five-and -thirty have written so much as Hutten. An edi-tion of his Complete Works, mostly in Latin, waspublished in 1821-27, and republished, in 7 vol-umes, in 1859. The only adequate Life of Huttonis that of Straus (1857; second edition, 1871), trans-lated by Mrs. G. Sturge (1872). The extractsabove quoted are from this translation by HUTTON, Laurence, an American journalist,essayist, and critic, was born in New York City,August 8, 1843. He is the son of a well-knownmerchant of New York, John Hutton, formerlyof St. Andrews, Scotland, a descendant of theRobert Patterson of Scotts Old Mortality. Lau-rence went for a time to a private school in NewYork; then, at an early age, became an employeein a commission-house; and finally drifted intoliterature. He was for a couple of years dramaticcritic of the Evening Mail; and in 1886 he becameliterary editor of Harper s Magazine. During thetwelve years previous to this latter date, he de-voted his entire time to authorship, and becamewell known as the author and compiler of numer-ous works on dramatic and literary subjects. Inthe former line he has issued Plays and Players(187
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