be desolated by the pestilence which walketh in darkness, may decay with the lapse of time, and the busy mart, which now rings with the joyous din of trade, 110 become as lonely and still as Carthage or Tyre, as Babylon or Nineveh, but the names of the great and good shall survive the desolation and the ruin; the memory of the wise, the brave, the patriotic, shall never perish. Yes, Sparta is a wheat-field; a Bavarian prince holds 115 court at the foot of the Acropolis; the traveling virtuoso digs for marble in the Roman Forum and beneath the ruins of the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus; but Lyourgus and Leonidas, and Miltiades and Demosthenes, and Cato and Tully, "still live;" and HE still lives, and all 120 the great and good shall live in the heart of ages while marble and bronze shall endure; and when marble and bronze have perished they shall "still live" in memory so long as men shall reverence law and honor patriotism and love liberty!

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CONTEMPORANEOUS WRITERS.

POETS.

Richard H. Dana (1787-1879).—Editor of the North American Review. Educated at Harvard. Author of The Buccaneer and Poems and Prose Writings.

John Pierpont (1785-1866).—A clergyman. Educated at Yale. Was also a merchant. Wrote Airs of Palestine, Passing Away,

E Pluribus Unum, etc.

James G. Percival (1795-1856).—A surveyor and eminent linguist. Assisted in the preparation of Webster's Dictionary. Author of Clio, three volumes of miscellanies, and the poems Prometheus, To Seneca Lake, and others.

Lydia H. Sigourney (1791-1865).-Called "the Mrs. Hemans of America." Was both a poet and a prose-writer. Author of Letters to Young Ladies, Letters to my Pupils, and many other works, both prose and poetry.

Charles Sprague (1791-1875).-Both a poet and a banker. Educated at the Franklin School, Boston. Author of an Oda on Shakespeare, Curiosity, The Winged Worshipers, etc.

John Howard Payne (1792-1852).—An actor and dramatist. Author of Brutus and other dramas. Wrote "Home, Sweet Home."

George P. Morris (1801-1864).—A journalist and poet. Editor of the Home Journal. An excellent writer of songs. Author of My Mother's Bible, Woodman, Spare that Tree, etc.

George D. Prentice (1802-1869).-Editor of the Louisville Journal. Educated at Brown University. Noted for the wit and satire, as well as the power, of his editorials. Author of The Flight of Years and many shorter poems.

Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806-1884).-Both lawyer and poet. Educated at Columbia College. Wrote also prose. Author of Wild Scenes in the Forest and the Prairie and The Vigil of Faith and Other Poems.

William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870).-Novelist, historian, and poet. Practiced law for a time, and then became an editor. Author of The Partisan, The Yemassee, History of South Carolina, Life of Marion, etc.; also Atlantis, Lays of Palmetto, and other poems.

Edgar A. Poe (1809-1849).-A brilliant but erratic genius. A native of Baltimore. Author of the poems The Raven, Annabel Lee, The Bells, and some weird romances: The Fall of the House of Usher, The Gold Bug, The Murders of the Rue Morgue, and others.

Alfred B. Street (1811-1881).-A lawyer at Albany. A descriptive poet. Author of Frontenac, The Gray Forest Eagle, and other poems. Wrote also Forest Pictures in the Adirondacks and other prose works.

Frances S. Osgood, formerly MISS LOCKE (1812-1850).Author of A Wreath of Wild Flowers from New England aud other poems.

John G. Saxe (1816-1887).-A celebrated humorous poet. Educated at Middlebury College. Was a lawyer. Wrote many excellent poems. Author of The Briefless Barrister, The Proud Miss Mac Bride, Pyramus and Thisbe, Rhyme on the Rail, and many similar poems.

Mrs. Amelia B. Welby (1819-1852).-A graceful writer upon themes in domestic life and natural emotions. Author of Poems by Amelia.

Alice Cary (1820-1871).-One of America's best female poets. Author of Thanksgiving, Pictures of Memory, The Bridal Veil, An Order for a Picture, The Poet to the Painter, and other poems, together with several prose works: Married and Mated, Clovernook, Pictures of Country Life, etc.

Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872).—Both a poet and an artist. Spent much of his life in Italy. Wrote The New Pastoral, The Wagoner of the Alleghanies, The House by the Sea, Drifting, Sheridan's Ride, etc.

George H. Boker (1824-1890).-A lyric and dramatic poet. Was United States minister to Turkey and Russia. Wrote Calaynos, Anne Boleyn, and other dramas; also, The Ivory- Carver, The Black Regiment, The Ballad of Sir John Franklin, and other poems.

John T. Trowbridge (1827- -).—A novelist and poet. Very popular in both departments of literature. Author of Neighbor Jackwood, Lawrence's Adventures, Coupon Bonds, etc. Among his most popular poems are The Vagabonds, The Charcoal-Man, and Farmer John.

Paul H. Hayne (1831-1886).—An editor and poet. His works consist mostly of short poems. Wrote The Temptation of Venus, a volume entitled Avolio; also, one entitled Legends and Lyrics.

Phœbe Cary (1825–1871).—Sister of ALICE CARY. Her style was more buoyant than that of her sister. Wrote Poems and Parodies; Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love; Hymns for All Christians, etc.

E. C. Stedman (1833- ·).—Banker, poet, and critic. Wrote The Doorstep, Pan in Wall Street, John Brown of Ossawatomie, Alice of Monmouth, and a volume entitled The Victorian Poets, etc.

Mrs. Celia Thaxter (1835-1894).—An excellent writer of both prose and poetry. Author of The Little Sandpiper, The Wreck of the Pocahontas, Before Sunrise, The Burgomaster Gull, and many other short poems.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-- -).--A lyric poet and nov

elist. Wrote Babie Bell, The Face against the Pane, Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book, and other poems; also, The Story of a Bad Boy, Marjory Daw and Other People, and Prudence Palfrey.

Francis Bret Harte (1839- -).—A writer of both poetry and prose. A journalist. For a time editor of The Overland Monthly. Wrote The Heathen Chinee, The Luck of Roaring Cump, etc.

Richard Henry Stoddard (1825- −).—A poet and magazinewriter. Author of several volumes of poetry and prose. Wrote Burial of Lincoln, The Burden of Unrest, On the Town, etc.

John Hay (1841- −).—Lawyer, editor, and poet. Educated at Brown University. Wrote Pike County Ballads, Castilian Days, etc.

Joaquín Miller (CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER), (1841- -). -A writer of extravagant and unnatural poems. Author of Songs of the Sierras, The Ship in the Desert, Songs of the SunLands, etc.

Lucy Larcom (1826-1893).—An excellent poet. Was a millhand for a time, then a teacher in both Massachusetts and Illinois. Edited Our Young Folks. Author of Similitudes, Breathings of a Better Life, Childhood Songs, Idyl of Work, Roadside Poems, etc.

PROSE-WRITERS.

1. Historians and Biographers:

Jared Sparks (1794-1866).—A biographer. Editor of American Biography, twenty-five volumes, and author of Life of Washington, Life of Franklin, etc.

Charles E. A. Gayarre (1805–1895).—An historian. Educated at New Orleans College. Author of History of Louisiana, Romance of the History of Louisiana, Spanish Domination in Louisiana.

S. Austin Allibone, LL.D. (1816-1889).-An American bibli ographer. Author of Dictionary of Authors, Poetical Quotations, Prose Quotations.

Jacob Abbott (1803-1880).—A popular author of juvenile works. Educated at Bowdoin College. Author of The Rollo Books, The Lucy Books, The Franconian Stories; also, a series of biographies, including Cyrus the Great, Xerxes, Julius Caesar, etc.

John S. C. Abbott (1805-1877).-A Congregational clergyman. Educated at Bowdoin College. Author of History of Napoleon Bonaparte; also, a series of biographies on Josephine, Maria Louisa, Louis Philippe, Nicholas, etc.

James Parton (1822-1891).-Born in England. A writer of great industry. Author of Life of Horace Greeley, Life of Aaron Burr, Life of Andrew Jackson, Life of Thomas Jefferson, etc.

Francis Parkman (1823-1893).—A brilliant historian. Educatel at Harvard. Author of The Conspiracy of Pontiac, The Jesuits in America, The Discovery of the Great West, The Pioneers of France in the New World, etc.

Benson J. Lossing (1813-1891).-An editor and engraver. Author of Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, History of the United States, History of the War of 1812, Pictorial History of the Civil War, etc.

Richard Hildreth (1807-1865).--A lawyer and editor. Educated at Harvard. Author of a History of the United States, six

volumes.

John G. Shea, LL.D. (1824-1892).-Author of The Catholic Church in the United States, Legendary History of Ireland, etc. Also translator and editor of many works.

2. Writers of Fiction:

Mrs. Catharine M. Sedgwick (1789-1867).—Author of Hope Leslie, Redwood, The Poor Rich Man and the Rich Poor Man, and other tales.

John P. Kennedy (1795-1870).-A lawyer. Secretary of the Navy under Fillmore. Became provost of the University of Maryland. Author of Quodlibet, Swallow Barn, Horse-Shoe Robinson, Rob of the Bowl, etc.

Mrs. Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880).-A popular writer of many novels and miscellaneous books. Author of Philothea, The Frugal Housewife, The Mother's Book, Biographies of Good Wives, Life of Madame de Staël, Life of Madame Roland, etc.

Mrs. Emily Judson (1817-1854).—A teacher from the age of fourteen to the age of twenty-three. Wrote under the nom-deplume "Fanny Forester." Author of Alderbrook, The Kathayan Slave, My Two Sisters, etc.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1812-1896).-Daughter of Rev. Lyman