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dered an acceptable service to American historical literature by the "Historical Series" which he projected, in which appeared various original works of interest, edited by Dr. F. B. Hough, Winthrop Sargeant, and others. Besides this series, many choice historical publications of the day, of the "Bradford Club," and others, owe their elegance to the press of Mr. Munsell, who has established a reputation for his office in this department of literature. Mr. Munsell's chief publication, of which the four volumes, in royal 8vo, appeared in 1865-71, is of much interest. It is entitled, Collections on the History of Albany, from its Discovery to the Present Time, with Notices of its Public Institutions, and Biographical Sketches of Citizens Deceased. A Manual of the First Lutheran Church in Albany, 1670 to 1870-the oldest in America-appeared in 1871.

HENRY JARVIS RAYMOND.

Mr. Raymond was born in Lima, Livingston County, N. Y., January 24, 1820. His father was a farmer, and the son in his childhood shared in his rural labors. The latter was edu

Gazetteer of the State of New York (published under the direction of J. H. French, by R. P. Smith, of Philadelphia, 1860, large 8vo, pp. 740); nearly half of this volume was written by Dr. H., including most of the general articles; Papers Relating to Nantucket, while under the Government of New York (Albany, 1856, large 4to, pp. 164, with map, privately printed for gifts); Papers Relating to Pemaquid, * * * while under the Government of New York (Albany, 1856, printed for the Maine Historical Society, and included in vol. 5 of their collections); Narrative of the Causes which led to Philip's Indian War, by John Easton, with introduction, &c. (Albany, 1858, cap 4to, pp. 208, Munsell's Historical Series, No. 2); Proclamations for Thanksgiving issued by the Continental Congress, President Washington, the National and State Governments on the Peace of 1815, and by the Governors of New York, from the Introduction of the Custom, with those of the several States in 1858, with an Introduction (Albany, 1858, large 8vo, pp. 182); Diary of the Siege of Detroit, in the War with Pontiac.cated at the academy at Lima, and was suffiwith notes and introduction (Albany, 1860, cap ciently instructed to become a teacher, at the 4to, pp. 304, Munsell's Historical Series, No. 4); age of fifteen, of a district school. He subseLife of Tehoraguanegen, alias Thomas Williams, quently entered the University of Vermont, by Rev. Eleazer Williams, the reputed Bourbon and graduated at that institution in 1840. (Albany, 1859, 8vo, pp. 92, privately printed); came to New York, studied law in the office Papers concerning the Attack on Hatfield and of Mr. Edward W. Marsh, supporting himself Deerfield, by a Party of Indians from Canada, meanwhile by teaching the classics in a young September 19, 1677 (New York, 1859, 8vo, pp. ladies' seminary, and by contributing to the 82; printed by Munsell, of Albany, No. 1 of New Yorker, a literary journal of merit, edited Bradford Club series); Plan for seizing and by Horace Greeley. When the latter, in 1841, sending to New York Colonel William Goffe established The New York Tribune, Mr. Raythe Regicide, by John Loudon (historical tract, mond became its assistant editor, and contribprivately printed); Washingtoniana, a Collection uted much to its success by his ability as a of Memorials upon the Death of General Wash-writer, and particularly by his skill as a reington, and the Honors paid to his Memory (two volumes, royal 8vo and 4to). The chief merit claimed for this is a bibliographical list of tracts, &c., published in 1799-1801, embracing orations, eulogies, &c. It also contains a list of coins and medals bearing Washington's portrait. New York Convention Manual: Part 1-Constitutions; Part 2-Statistics, 2 vols, 1867; Besides editing many works on historical and statistical subjects, as well as several memorial volumes, Dr. Hough issued a Gazetteer of the State of New York in 1872, prepared entirely under his own editorial supervision (Albany, 8vo, pp. 740).

JOEL MUNSELL.

Mr. Munsell was born in Northfield, Mass., April 14, 1808. He established himself as a printer in Albany, N. Y., in 1827. From 1841 to 1843 he published and edited the New York State Mechanic. His Annals of Albany, a curious and useful historical compilation, extends to ten volumes, published in the years 1850-58. In 1857 he published a Chronology of Paper and Paper Making, later and enlarged editions of which appeared in 1864, and in 1870. In 1856 he published a volume, The Every Day Book of History and Chronology: embracing the Anniversaries of Venerable Persons and Events in every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time (New York, Appletons, 8vo, pp. 537). Mr. Munsell has also ren

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porter, in the more intellectual requirements of the profession. In 1843, he became associated with James Watson Webb in the conduct of his journal, The Courier and Enquirer, writing largely for its pages, and discussing political and other questions in a liberal, philosophical spirit. By temper and education a conservative, he distinguished himself by his advocacy of well-founded religious and social principles, in opposition to such social theories and experiments as those of Fourier and others. A series of controversial articles on "socialism >> from his pen, called forth by a newspaper discussion with Horace Greeley, were published in pamphlet form.

Mr. Raymond was elected by the Whigs a member of the New York State Legislature in 1849, and again in 1850, when he was chosen speaker of the Assembly. After a brief visit to Europe, at the close of the season he returned to New York, and in September, 1851, commenced the publication of The New York Times, which he afterwards edited. He was elected Lieutenant-Governor of the State of New York in 1854, and discharged the duties of this office to the expiration of the term, at the close of 1857. He was in the mean time engaged in the organization of the Republican party, drew up The Address to the People, sent forth by its first national convention at Pittsburgh, in 1856, and continued a leading member of its councils.

In 1864 he was elected a Representative to
Congress from the city of New York.

In addition to his editorial labors, Mr. Raymond, who was one of the most accomplished orators of the day, has published numerous political speeches and addresses in pamphlet form, and is the author of a Life, Administration, and State Papers of President Lincoln, from Official Documents and Private Papers (New York, 8vo, 1865).

**Mr. Raymond was a member of the Thirtyninth Congress, 1865-7, and warmly espoused the measures of President Johnson, thus practically separating himself from the Republican party. He assisted in the organization of the "National Union Convention," which met at Philadelphia in August, 1866, and was the author of the "Philadelphia Address" to the people of the United States. At the close of that term, Mr. Raymond resumed his editorial duties, determined to be "once more a journalist, never again to be a politician." The exhaustion of his strength by incessant labors and anxieties led him to seek a few months rest

misjudged as a trimmer and time-server, when in fact he spoke and wrote exactly as he felt and thought. If what he uttered to-day was not in accordance with what he said yesterday, the difference evinced in his essay was a true reflection of one which had preceded it in his mind. He saw both sides of a controverted issue, and if one of them seemed juster to-day, the other might nevertheless command his preference to

morrow. This mental constitution or mental
habitude is rare with us, and he would have been ·
more favorably judged as a journalist or politician
in Great Britain than in this country. There
were probably others who evinced greater ability
in some special departments, but, regarding jour-
nalism in its broadest aspects, we doubt whether
this country has known a journalist superior to
Henry J. Raymond. He was an admirable
reporter, a discerning critic, a skilful selecter and
compiler of news, as well as an able and ready
writer. There was nothing in the whole range
of newspaper work that he could not do well, and
(what is of equal importance) with unhesitating
promptness. He was never too sick to work when
work had to be done, and always able and willing
to do any amount of labor that the exigency
might require. Others may have evinced a rarer
faculty, which some might term genius; but Mr.
Raymond embodied talents that have rarely been
surpassed.

'WILLIAM SWINTON.

Mr. Swinton was born in Edinburgh, Scot

with his family in Europe in 1867. His departure was preceded by the compliment of a farewell dinner from his associates. He soon returned to his duties refreshed in health, and was subsequently called to preside at the farewell dinner given to Charles Dickens by the Press of New York in April, 1868, where he eloquently responded in behalf of "the Newland, April 23, 1833. He came in early life to York Press." His life was prolonged a year longer, and his decease was most unexpected. "Returning to his residence in West Ninth street at about twelve o'clock on the night of Friday, the 18th of June, 1869, an attack of apoplexy prostrated him in a moment. Two hours later his stertorous breathing attracted the attention of one of his children. The alarmed family, hastening to assist him, found him lying in the hall-way, unconscious, and apparently dying. He had locked the outside door, and closed the inner one. The most eminent medical aid was summoned; but he remained unconscious, and died tranquilly about five o'clock in the morning. Thus ended the earthly life of Henry J. Raymond." * He had just entered on his fiftieth year, and had that morning paid a visit to the grave of a son who had died at the age of fifteen. On the 21st instant appropriate funeral services were performed at the University Place Presbyterian Church, by Rev. Drs. Tyng and Shedd, Revs. Henry Ward Beecher and Alfred A. Kellogg, and the following day he was laid at rest in Greenwood Cemetery.

Perhaps the best tribute to the powers of Hon. H. J. Raymond was from the pen of Horace Greeley: †

"Mr. Raymond's official career, though evincing ability, did less than justice to his comprehensive knowledge and rare intellectual powers. Never so positive and downright in his convictions. as his countrymen are apt to be, he was often

*Henry J. Raymond, and the New York Press for Thirty Years, by Augustus Maverick, New York, 1870. New York Tribune, June 20, 1869.

America, and was educated at Amherst College,
Massachusetts. He has been a frequent contri-
butor to periodical literature in Putnam's Maga-
zine, the Atlantic Monthly, &c., and has written
much for the New York Times. He penned
many of the literary articles, which attracted
much attention in that journal, in 1858–59
During the war which ensued, he was military
editor of the Times, and its special correspond-
ent with the Army of the Potomac, describing
most of its campaigns and battles in elaborate
articles, distinguished by skill in narration and
a critical estimate of men and events.
In 1859,
Mr. Swinton published in New York a work of
English literary criticism, entitled, Rambles
among Words, in which he traced their history
and commented upon their peculiar force.
book was well received at home, and was re-
published in London.

The

** Mr. Swinton published in 1866: The Campaign of the Army of the Potomac: a Critical History of Operations in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, from the Commencement to the Close of the War, 1861-5; Twelve Decisive Battles of the War: a History of the Eastern and Western Campaigns, in Relation to the Actions that Decided their Issue, 1867; and History of the Seventh Regiment, National Guard, during the War of the Rebellion, 1870. In 1869 Mr. Swinton became professor of Belles-Lettres He has in in the University of California. preparation a series of educational text-books, of a high grade. Some of these have already appeared: Word Analysis; Progressive Grammar; and A Condensed History of the United States.

BUCKINGHAM SMITH.

For the Spanish period or portion of our history, no one has rendered greater services to the cause of American literature than Buckingham Smith, of Florida, whose name happily carries down to the extremity of the Atlantic coast the name of Smith, already identified with Canada, New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

Mr. Smith was born on Cumberland Island, Georgia, in 1810, but was a resident of Florida when it passed into the hands of the United States. He was educated at the Cambridge lawschool, and began the practice of his profession in Maine. Entering the field of politics, he became a member of the Assembly, where, with the keen foresight and sound judgment characteristic of the man, he battled manfully against the mad policy which was overwhelming the Territory and State with debts, incurred without reflection or judginent, and for things useless to the people. At a later period he became Secretary of Legation to Spain; and in this congenial land, with all around to recall the heroic pioneers of civilization in Florida, he sought in libraries, public and private archives, in maps, globes, monuments, and family history, whatever bore any relation to the State to which he so entirely belonged.

Elvas, in 1538, to the arrival of the relics of the army at the city of Mexico, in 1543; and a first direct translation in English of the Relacion of Biedma, a Spanish officer. He died in New York city, January 5, 1871.

GEORGE LONG DUYCKINCK.

George Long Duyckinek, an author and man of letters, was born in the city of New York, October 17, 1823, where his father, Evert Duyckinck, was a leading book publisher, his name being found on the title-page of most of the standard literature issued in the city during the first quarter of the present century. George, the younger of two sons, was educated at Geneva College, New York, and at the University of the City of New York, graduating at the last-named institution in 1843. His tastes and associations inclined him to a literary life, and an extended tour in Europe in 1847 and 1848, after the completion of his legal studies, gave him an opportunity of cultivating in a high degree, and by a diligent study of the works of the best schools, his natural love of art. On his return home, he found a congenial field of labor in the editorship, in conjunction with his elder brother, Evert A. Duyckinck, of the Literary World, a weekly journal, which, from 1848 to 1853, was an influential organ of opinion and criticism, numbering among its contributors many of the best writers of the country. At the close of this publication, with its thirteenth volume, Mr. Duyckinck engaged with his brother in the preparation of the Cyclopædia of American Literature, the first edition of which appeared in 1856, and to which he contributed many of its most thorough and elaborate articles. In the same year he revisited Europe, and upon his return, in 1857, he entered upon a separate career of authorship, in a department most congenial with his habits of thought and his matured convictions. He was, by early education and by deliberate choice, warmly attached to the Liturgy and Order of the Episcopal Church, and especially interested in its biographical literature. To this literature he devoted himself, and, having been elected Treasurer of the Sunday-School Union and Church Book Society, he commenced and prosecuted the task of contributing to the works published by that useful society a series of biographies of the worthies of the Church of England, written in a fresh and attractive style, so as to present their lives in a form calculated to interest readers on this side of the Atlantic, and especially those whose religious training would incline them to their perusal The first of these biographies was the life of George Herbert, fol

A similar position in Mexico, where he was for a time Chargé d'Affaires, was similarly improved, and he acquired an immense mass of documents, books, portraits, and monuments of every kind, with that undefinable knowledge of sources and accessories that make a man master of an historic field. His freedom from all jealousy or literary avarice made this knowledge accessible to all; and Sparks, Bancroft, Parkman, and others who have touched the field of Spanish-American history, have been indebted to him for researches, which no other could have made. He has published: The Narrative of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (translated, 4to, Washington, 1851); Letter of Hernando de Soto and Memoir de Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda (same, 1854), each issued in 100 copies, at the expense of Geo. W. Riggs, Esq.; Coleccion de Varios Documentos para la Historia de la Florida У tierras adjacentes (4°, Madrid, 1857); Rudo Ensayo, Tentativa de una Prevencional Descripcion Geografica de la Provincia de Sonora, sus Terminos y Confines; ó mejor, Coleccion de Materiales para hacerla quien lo supiere mejor, 5o San Agustin_de_la Florida, 1863; An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Documents concerning a Discovery in North America, claimed to have been made by Verrazzano (New York, 1864); Grammar of the Pima or Névome, a Language of Sonora, from a Manuscript of the XVII Century (New York, 1862); Doctrina Chris-lowed, in quick succession, by biographies of tiana y Confesionario en Lengua Névome ó sea la Pima (San Agustin, 1862). He prepared in 1866, to be issued by the Bradford Club of New York, Narratives of the Career of Hernando De Soto in Florida, with a number of documents not before published. These narratives consist of a new translation of the Relaçam, written by one of the company of Portuguese knights and gentlemen who joined in the expedition, covering a period from the time of their departure from

Bishop Ken, Latimer, and Jeremy Taylor. These memoirs, though unpretending in forin, and not extended beyond the limits of condensed narrative, belong to the best class of biographies, reproducing, with singular fidelity and a rare sympathy, the best traits of the pure and noble characters which they portray. They were received with warm commendation by the most competent critics, and are contributions of high value to the class of works to which

they belong, being characterized throughout by
the marks of patient and thorough investigation,
and by a tender and elevated tone of thought
and piety. This well-chosen path of literary
labor invited Mr. Duyckinck to further efforts
in the same direction, including a life of Arch-
bishop Leighton; but before entering upon its
preparation, he was seized with the illness
which terminated his life. He died at New
York, March 30, 1863, in the fortieth year of
his age.
The volumes to which this supplement
is added bear ample testimony to the patience
and fidelity with which he pursued his literary
labors.

the authors of the day, in the conduct of The Literary World, formed a useful preparation. The Cyclopædia of American Literature, projected by the publisher, the late Charles Scribner, was committed to their hands, and for about two years exclusively occupied their attention. The first edition of this work appeared in 1856, and ten years afterwards a Supplement was added by its senior author. To the merits of this standard work, welcomed as it has been by the scholars of this country, it can be scarcely necessary here to allude. Many voluntary testimonials bear witness to the conscientious spirit that animated its editors in their delicate and arduous task. We conceive that the discriminative and courteous tone in which it strives to truthfully narrate and illustrate the progress of our literature, is a happy medium between the laudatory and the censorious extremes of criticism.

EVERT AUGUSTUS DUYCKINCK. MR. EVERT AUGUSTUS DUYCKINCK, whose name, -with that of his younger brother, George Long Duyckinek, is borne by the title-page of this work, was born in the city of New York, on the 23d of November, 1816. The Mr. Duyckinck in 1856 edited a volume enfamily had long been residents in that city, the titled, Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney name appearing in its earliest Dutch annals. Smith, being Selections from his Writings, and Christopher Duyckinck took an active part, on passages of his Letters and Table Talk, with a the popular side, in the movements of the Biographical Memoir and Notes, a work which Revolution. His son Evert, father of the sub- has passed through several editions. In 1862 ject of this notice, about the beginning of the he became engaged in writing the letterpresent century became established as a pub-press to the National Portrait Gallery of Emilisher in the book-trade; and for nearly thirtynent Americans, issued by Messrs. Johnson, years was actively engaged in the business, Fry & Co., New York, in two volumes, quarto, being at the time of his retirement the oldest a series of Biographies, from the Revolutionary publisher in New York. era to the present day, of which over a hunEvert A. Duyckinck was educated at Colum-dred thousand copies have been issued. He bia College, New York, a graduate of the class of 1835. After pursuing a course of legal reading in the office of John Anthon, an emi nent counsellor of that city, he was admitted to the bar of the State in 1837. He then passed a year in Europe, chiefly in Holland and Great Britain, returning to New York to enter upon the course of literary employments in which, with varying intervals of leisure, he has since been actively engaged. Previously to going abroad he had contributed several articles, on the poet Crabbe, the works of George Herbert, Oliver Goldsmith, etc., to the early numbers of the New York Review. In 1840, with Cornelius Matthews, he entered upon the editorship of a new monthly periodical in New York, entitled, Arcturus, a Journal of Books and Opinion, which was continued through three volumes, closing in May, 1842. To this work To this work he contributed essays, articles on old English authors, and reviews of the rising authors of the time.

After various occasional contributions to the newspaper literature of the day, Mr. Duyckinck, in the early part of 1847, entered upon the editorship of The Literary World, a new weekly review of books, the fine arts, etc., which, with the exception of an interval of about a year, during which the work was conducted by Charles Fenno Hoffman, was carried on by the brothers Duyckinck to the close of 1853. This journal had many eminent contributors; its notices were confined mostly to subjects of permanent value and interest, and it was characterized by its liberal, appreciative tone.

In 1854, the brothers Duyckinck were again united in a work to which their familiarity with

has also edited a contemporary History of the War for the Union, in three quarto volumes, as well as a History of the World, in four volumes, mainly arranged from the Encyclopædia Britannica, both for the same publishers, who have also now (1873) in course of publication from his pen an extensive series of Biographies of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America, in two volumes, quarto.

Among other miscellaneous literary productions, Mr. Duyckinck has edited, with a memoir and notes, Poems, Relating to the American Revolution, by Philip Freneau, New York, 1865; and the American edition of Poets of the Nineteenth Century. He is also the author of a Memorial of John Allan, an eminent New York bookcollector, printed by the Bradford Club in 1864; and Memorials of Francis L. Hawks, D. D., and Henry Theodore Tuckerman, read before the New York Historical Society, and printed

for that institution.

** FREDERICK BUTLER.

FREDERICK BUTLER, a New England writer of a half century since, who has written on historical and agricultural topics, has hitherto escaped the notice of writers on American biography and bibliography. The accessible data of his life and writings are but scanty. He was born about 1766-7, and was graduated at Yale College in 1795, being at that time a resident of Hartford, Connecticut. He published the following works: A Complete History of the United States to 1820; Hartford, 1821, and Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1822 (3 vols., 8vo., pp. 468, 459, 459); The Farmers Manual; or, The Art of Hus

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