HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT. 
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street under the American Hotel, on the corner of Broad¬ 
way, in the good old days of Col. Cozzens. This kind of 
influence subsequently brought forth those treatises on 
sporting matters and natural history which have now be¬ 
come standard works in our national literature. 
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert, shortly after marriage removed 
from the Carlton House, in Hew York, to the Park House 
in Newark, N. J. In 1846, Mrs. Herbert died while at 
the latter place. Their son had been sent to England, 
where he found great favor with all his father’s relatives, 
and his education had been already undertaken by them. 
A proposition was made for the purchase of a house and 
homestead for the youthful Herbert, which, however, 
should be inalienable for any other purpose, except it 
might be as a residence for H. W. Herbert (held by a 
deed of trust) until his son became of age. Herbert, hav¬ 
ing long liked “ the Cedars,” a little shooting-box between 
Newark and Belleville, suggested its adoption, and took 
up his entire residence there shortly after Mrs. Herbert’s 
death. It is a romantic little spot, only an acre of ground, 
and the cottage is built in the Mary Tudor style, so situ¬ 
ated as to be embowered in foliage. 
Here the mind of “Frank Forester” gave forth “My 
Shooting Box,” “ Ballads of the American Revolution,” 
“The Field Sports of America,” “The Deer Stalkers,” 
“The Quorndon Hounds,” “Fish and Fishing of North 
America,” “Game in its Seasons,” “The Young Sports¬ 
man’s Manual,” and, finally, his great work on “ The 
Horse and Horsemanship of America.” Among the un¬ 
finished works at the time of his death were, “ Tricks and 
Traps of Horsedealers,” “Hints to Horsekeepers,” etc. 
As H. W. Herbert he was equally busy, although, 
perhaps not yet so popularly known, by such works as 
“ The Roman Traitor, a Romance founded on Cataline’s 
Conspiracy,” published in 1848. This was followed by 
