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of his life in wanderings through the United 

 States, Mexico, Europe, and the Orient, and his 

 keenness of observation, charm of style, and ever- 

 present humor will give his books of travel a per- 

 manent place in their class. My Summer in a Gar- 

 den, the book that first brought fame to Mr. War- 

 ner, appeared in 1 870. It was made up of a series 

 of papers that had appeared in the Courant, and 

 the public at once recognized the fascination of 

 its gentle humor and sane philosophy. In 1877 

 Mr. Warner's Being a Boy, a realistic and amus- 

 ing picture of rural life in a Calvinistic New Eng- 

 land community, was published, and added much 

 to the reputation that he had already won from 

 his .My Summer in a Garden and Backlog Studies, 

 published in 1872. In 1884 Mr. Warner became 

 co-editor of Harper's Magazine, and for many 

 years he conducted the Editor's Drawer, a depart- 

 ment of the magazine, and was for a time in 

 charge of the Editor's Study. Several of his 

 books were published serially in the magazine, 

 and he was a frequent contributor of essays, 

 stories, and sketches of travel. Mr. Warner's 

 was a many-sided nature, his points of contrast 

 with life being more numerous than is usual with 

 the professional man of letters. The late George 

 William Curtis, referring to American authors, 

 asks: "Shall they be stoled priests ministering 

 always at the high altar, with their gorgeous 

 backs to the people, or apostles going into many 

 lands and homes, bearing gifts of healing for the 

 sorrows and wants of to-day?" For the relief 

 of these sorrows and wants Mr. Warner strove 

 not only in words, but in deeds. The education 

 of the Southern negro and the reform of abuses 

 in our prisons were incentives to much of the 

 activity of his latter years. The reader of Mr. 

 Warner's works can not fail to be impressed by 

 the author's common sense, a misnamed quality 

 that served him well in his untiring endeavors as 

 social scientist. Bookish and scholarly al- 

 >ugh he was, he was also a practical man of 

 airs, as is proved by the many places of honor 

 .and trust that he occupied. Mr. Warner was a 

 vice-president of the Egypt Exploration Fund of 

 England, a member of the Park Board of Hart- 

 ford, Conn., one of the Connecticut Commission 

 on Sculpture, and a trustee of the Wadsworth 

 Athenaeum. He was a member of the Century, 

 the Authors', and the Players' Clubs of N<.w 

 York, the Authors' arA the Tavern Clubs of Bos- 

 ton, and the Colonial Club of Hartford. He was 

 a vice-president of the National Prison Congress, 

 und president of the American Social Science As- 

 sociation. He received the degree of A. M. from 

 Y;ilt> in 1872, and from Dartmouth and Hamil- 

 ton in 1884. Hamilton gave him the degree of 

 I.. 11. D. in 1880, and Princeton conferred the 



SM degree in 1890. He received the degree of 



1). < '. L. from the University of the South in 1889. 

 The list of Mr. Warner's published works is as 

 follows: A Book of Eloquence (1853); My Sum- 

 mer in a Garden (1870); Saunterings (1872); 

 Backlog Studies (1872); The Gilded Age (with 

 v L. Clemens, 1873) ; Baddeck, and That Sort of 

 Thing (1874); Mummies and Moslems (1870; re- 

 issued under the title My Winter on the Nile) ; 

 In the Levant (1877); Being a Boy (1877); In 

 the Wilderness (1878); The American Newspaper 

 (1870); Studies of Irving (with W. C. Bryant 

 nd George P. Putnam. 1880) ; Life of Washing- 

 i Irving (1881); edited American Men of Let- 

 's, of which his Irving was the initial volume; 

 aptain John Smith. Sometime Governor of Vir- 

 ginia and Admiral of New England: A Study 

 " his Life and Writings (1881); A Roundabout 

 urncy (1883); Papers on Penology (with 



others; Reformatory Press, Elmira, N. Y., 1886) ; 

 Their Pilgrimage (1886); On Horseback: A Tour 

 in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, Pub- 

 lished with Notes of Travel in Mexico and Cali- 

 fornia (1888); Studies in the South and West, 

 with Comments on Canada (1889) ; A Little Jour- 

 ney in the World: A Novel (1889) ; Looking For- 

 ward: The Dual Government Realized (1890); 

 Our Italy, Southern California (1890); As We 

 Were Saying (1891); Washington Irving (1892); 

 The Work of Washington Irving (1893); As 

 We Go (1893); The Golden House: A Novel 

 (1894); The Relation of Literature to Life 

 (1896); and The People for Whom Shakespeare 

 Wrote (1897). He edited A Library of the 

 World's Best Literature (1896-'98). 



Watsbn, James Madison, author, born in 

 Onondaga Hill, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1827 ; died in Eliza- 

 beth, N. J., Sept. 29, 1900. At the age of sixteen 

 he was teaching in a district school in Oswego 

 County, New York. He gave up teaching to study 

 law, and in 1853 was admitted to the bar at 

 Albany, N. Y. Later he became connected with 

 the publishing house of A. S. Barnes & Co., and 

 was the author of many of their school text-books. 

 Among his published works are a notable series 

 of readers, with Richard Green Parker (1858); 

 The Complete Speller (1878); Handbook of Calis- 

 thenics and Gymnastics (1879); and The Graphic 

 Speller (1884). 



Wells, Henry Horatio, lawyer, born in Roch- 

 ester, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1823; died in Palmyra, N. Y., 

 Feb. 12, 1900. He was educated at Romeo Acad- 

 emy, Michigan, studied law in Detroit, and was 

 admitted to the bar in 1846. From 1854 till 1856 

 he was a member of the Michigan Legislature. In 

 September, 1862, he became colonel of the 26th 

 Michigan Regiment. In February, 1863, he was 

 made provost marshal general of the defenses 

 south of the Potomac, which office he held till the 

 close of the war. In May, 1865, he was brevetted 

 brigadier general of volunteers. After the assas- 

 sination of President Lincoln he took part in the 

 investigation that preceded the capture of the 

 conspirators, and was associate counsel in the pro- 

 ceedings against Jefferson Davis for treason. Late 

 in 1865 he settled in Richmond, and, April 16, 1868, 

 was appointed Provisional Governor of Virginia. 

 In 1869 he was defeated as the Republican can- 

 didate for Governor of the State under its new 

 Constitution. In 1871-72 he was United States 

 attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, and 

 from 1875 till 1880 was United States attorney 

 for the District of Columbia. 



Westlake, William, inventor, born in Corn- 

 wall, England, in 1831; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 Dec. 28, 1900. He came to the United" States in 

 1847, and worked as a roller boy in the office of 

 The Evening Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Later he 

 served an apprenticeship as a tinsmith. He was 

 employed by Capt. Ericsson to make the patterns 

 and models for his first hot-air engine. Later he 

 entered the employ of the La Crosse and Mil- , 

 waukee Railroad Company, and there began the 

 series of inventions that made him famous. These 

 include the Westlake car heater, which dumps the 

 fire in case of accident; the globe lantern, pat- 

 ented in 1862; the oil cook stove in 1865; and the 

 stove board in 1869. The first practical car lamp 

 was perfected by him in 1873. He retired with a 

 competency in 1883, from which tune he lived in 

 Brooklyn ; while in retirement he invented several 

 articles of general utility. 



Willey, Waitman T., lawyer, born in Monon- 

 galia County, West Virginia,' Oct. 18, 1811; died 

 in Morgantown. W. Va.. May ~2. 1900. He was 

 graduated at Madison College in 1831, and was 



