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llHUis (!?ni|lnrii tCUrk. 



THE LITERARY REMAINS OF THE LATE 

 WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK. 



EDITED BY HIS TWIN-BROTIIKR, 



LEWIS GAYLORD CLARK, 



EDITOR OF THE KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE. 



New Edition. In one volume. 8vo. Cloth. Price $1 50. 



Mr. Washl«^gto.v Irving, in a beautiful letter of condolence addressed to his 

 friend, the Editor of these Literary Remains, of his only and twin-brother, says: 

 " My first impression of your departed brother was confirmed and strengthened by 

 all I afterward knew of him, and he has left behind him writinjis which will make 

 men love his memory and lament his loss." 'I'his high tribute is acknowledged 

 throughout the United States ; and perhaps it would be difficult to name an author 

 who possesses more of the affection of the American public. The humor of the 

 " (Jllaimdiiina " Fapers, not less than the exquisite pathos with which it alternates, 

 has made the name of the writer a household word throughout the Union ; while 

 the pure sentiinent, the melodious versification, the faithful portraiture and unaf- 

 fected feeling and delicacy which pervade his verse, have enrolled his name among 

 the best of our .American Poets. 



There is scarcely an author of any note, nor a journal of any celebrity in the 

 country, but has awarded to Mr. Clark the higliest meed of honorable praise. 

 Mr. BuLWER speaks of him in an Englisli Magazine as a " writer of enviable 

 genius, of a fine imagination, and a poetical style eminent alike for feeling and 

 delicacy ;" and the London Examiner, Literary Gazette, At/ientBurn, and other 

 English periodicals, have awarded to hiia kindred praise ; and more than two 

 hundred notices, in the highest degree laudatoiy of his '■ Literary Remains," in 

 prose and verse, are in the hands of the publishers, and would be quoted, were it 

 deemed at all necessary. 



The American Quarterly Review thus sums up the characteristics of this 

 charming poet and humorist ; 



" Mr. Clark's distinguishing traits are tenderness, pathos, and melody. In 

 style and sentiinent he is wholly original ; but if lie resemble any writer, it is Mr. 

 Bryant. The same lotty tone of sentiinent, the same touches of melting pathos, 

 the same refined sympathies with the beauties and harmonies of nature, and the 

 same melody of style, ciiaracterize, in an almost equal degree, these delightful 

 poets. 



" As a prose-writer, Mr. Clark possesses a rare combination of dissimilar 

 qualities. At times eloquent, vehement, and impassioned, pouring out his thoughts 

 in a fervent tide of strong and stirring language, he sweeps the feelings of his 

 readeis along with him; and at otiieis playful, jocular, and buoyant, he dallies 

 with his subject, and mingles mirth and argument, drollery and gravity, so oddly, 

 yet so a])tly, that the effect is irresistible, few men have a more acute perception 

 of the ludicrous ; few understand better how to move the strings of laughter, and 

 when he chooses to indulge in strains of liuinor, his good-natured jesis, and 'quips 

 and cranks and wanton wiles,' show the fulness of his powers, and tiie benevolent 

 strain of his feelings. In kindness and pathos, when such is the bent of his incli- 

 nation, his prose essays are not inferior to his poetical compositions." 



