The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-13

Beccner helped Gil mp the volumes with an account Of
what he the Continent add that the work thus
completed issued the joint production OF Professor
Stove and his wife But the Professor had othng what
sver TO DO WITH II TO yris ories note 70 some
Stoves with Mr.. Becer wherever went through
Europe and the invention that the latter contributed his
Journal Of tour tho Continent has Fer its foundation
merely the fact that Mrs Stove illustrates particular
points her letters BY pssssgesmounting aitogehss
to dozen twenty psgcs-fom her brothers diary.
OF the Balou family: M3i
Moves the son Of nose. Bslou, is The author q In1
u.s. SHa ssr he ,ss
The author Of several popanr tales. Anober member Of
raj pamphlets on The pence movements 5ss 5@ Ps
Moses Ralou not son, but aephe'c, OF the lats
Pictorial is brother but son. Of the person.
and bis title to in literary history rot derived
from his hrs Or cI b. t lS. is .
Adm BaiIou does not hslons to the fanily
OF the late wiaiam Ieggett ''The Rife they Soy,
~ sss, 'ss 81
X 81 New IN s y. .aa Sa
yember q ,he came !ear commsneed The Critic weekly
not only s,ra,s sr AL also Get I" pe and droso suI
The whole Il Mr. Lsggstt's "tales Of seA - well q.
lard, not sutli-Sed 10 the volume named; the
naval stokes collected in beck emitted TALES Of
pieces II the ssne description for third volume,
and Was also one Of the writer's Q! the Tales
not Legsett, but Waripg. The preposrerous account
OF his writing the copy setting the type and dis
nibn'iDg to sueciibe1a the worksdeG sheets Of The
The PRIMER has not yet been born who ad set In
type haJ number Of The Critic, "a complete num-
week; Nj. Leggct though be bad astonishing facility
with tho pen, did s,iae the entire enss, nearly
the entire contents any number Of thai paper and
how ridiculous the assertion that young mai q taeuts
ard social erinence who had lately resigned office in
tie navy and within year had become connected BY
marriage with one OF the leading fanatics IN the neigh
sorhood OF the city, performed the mensi service Of
snd ssns e
simple trick Of 'ettng type is very easy to person OF
de1terity and quick inte gence; Mr. co,par could set
type very well; could Mr.. Duponcesu; an1 there s
story which may have hsd foundat on, that Mr..
Ieggett set up portion OF his sna volume Of
contain as many words Is nu nbar Of rhs Critic"
In the ar,lae ii is mentioned tina ". Legget's
New Rochelle THIS ao Is untrue Il cd rot reside
in that place before 1887 Tie Mesrs Duycsnck DO not
appear to have been inormei tina. NJ lsssstt had
any connection with the stage, or toat he Lot unfnh
ed novel, Volume of which passed through the PRESS
The probationary Gees II Jonathan Pndar"-i. $50
George Tucker, III 7sl was never me moor Il Congress
from Virginia. 10 say Do,hiog Of other biog sphics
respecting this gentleman may Be marked
somewhat odd his only works of ernnen.y literary
chsIac Essays Subjects of Taste, Morals, and
Vsy
published in sew York, in 1892 and "a Voyage to
the -. Moon in one voams ia 1877 are not naed
i - not true that Beverly Tucker wrote /" Lac
Commentaries Blackstone" His only wo.ks on the
lsw are'Iectnres Constitutional Ia ~ Govern
pent,' in volnle and Commentaries on the Laws
OF Virginia. in two large octavos Thus not Of the
bp Ks he really did write is mentioned, while work
Which he did not wIite and porhaps never saw attr
buted to bin.
Ledyard a. 324,) could not have been sshorn within
few hundred yards Fort Gsswoid at t,roton Conn in
175l such fort. existed then, afterwards fos
more than quarter ola century.
There Professor st. George q. So in the
Virginia College of William and Mary.
Col. Benton's house. ri. 44) in which they soy hi,
manuscripts rerished, was not in St. Louis, but in
In the nfo Of John sanderson they say
The LIVES sgners Of The Declaration OF Independenoe
s work the composition Of the rs, and second volumes
The Livcs of the Signers' is work in ten volumes
OF which it hero alleged that James 81 sanasrson, tho
particular that autnora Bat toe story is
utterly grounoess. No ''brother OF Mr.. srson wrote
liz Of the work. The later volumes by Robert
Wan, Jr.
Walter Cotton mol brother Of Calvin Cotton, iii.
1862 but son Of his cousin. Rev. Henry I: Choever
had even the slightest acquaintance with him.
Duehe,s "Ist'ers Of T4noc Casripiaa," q: 2ao had
hut only the author himself says, to sabJ.cts liter
airy, moral and Regions" If the Msssrs. Duyckiuek
particularly the volumes his sermons illustrated
ry his friend BENJAMIN West and dedeaed to another
facts Of bis biography which they evidently know
nothing about
George W. Curtis did not write the articles Prescott
and Washington Irving in Homes of American Au-
thors" Ire first Of these articles 10 by George Hill
lard, and the last by H.. {. ruckerman.
Dr.. BENJAMIN Church Il. 228, was not tue 'sson Of
deacon Of The in Dr. Byess church Boston
Dr. Byles was clergyman OF the Episcopal church. and
church., though the Episcopal denomination has an
Greer OF deacons in its priesthood.
Hss, ss e was ss got a. gas a. ,s
lewis and Clarke for the press. That labor was per-
formed BY Nicholas Bidaae
Ga1 ruuir1 Arxfp ~
Crystal Palace Company, ILL 2s2) is na brother but
is nephew of Miss Catherine sodg@ict.
Mr Cooper ill., 112} did ao after his return from Eu-
rope, remove TO his ''resden:s at Utsego He never
had any such residence.
associated with the Louirvilc ea1ays." BE was foS
many one Of the EDITORS Of tho Iouisvl Journal
r. 'ana, Jr Gi Gie) I'D not pass ''into the family
and under the tutorship OF the Rev. Leonard Woods e.
Ani over, now the President Of Bowdoin Iss unquer.
tionaby intended here to state that Dr. Woods aud not
Andoyer became President Of Bowdon Colleges this
Dr. Woods is bachelor, and never had any family
Emily Jndson i Gae was not born at Morrsville bat
'ordered bone by his rhyscians' AMI did not embark
for America" 10 directed undertake short sea
voyage and sailed Tor the Isle Of I'ance.
General Harrison TO the Presidency, "dotermne write
poem on the Insisn wars" in which Harrison hai
portion CT it printed before the election Of Har-
rson.
James Russell Iowers "tinne, III. 500 has nat.
since ls4s, "been occupied in residence abroad' He
has not resided abroad Mt ALL in all these eight years
referred TO has he been absent from Massachusetts,
years.
The Rev seorve Ripley III 5s6) is not the author Of
the work On the latest Form of icde iy" Taat per-
,ormance from the pen Of the late Row Andrews Nor
ton, very different person.
$. J.. Fai field iii. 3;T did not sell his "msgaztne 70
Mr. James Brooks, d Baltimore, bu. to the Rev. Va
than c. Brooks.
irarcis Catherwocd Q 1907 not in 1896, in any
other year. elected delegate to the State Convention
OF New York to the institution" He held
any office whatever in this country.
II. w. Emerson (i 35Jj WAS nol " one of the original
editors of thu DIAL"
"Thoughts the Poets,v published In 1886, a. 5s3)
not the rst Of lr. Tucsorman's collections from
the magazines" Tho first and largest Of all bis col
lectons from the againes" was "Gamblos and Rove
ries" published bak dozen years earlier.
Poe iii. 53s) never wrote story entitled THE Gold
Ring" nor were The Gold Bug" and " The Murders
OF the Rue Mcrgac,' written whiio no was editor Of
Grams Kdgae, nor did he pu oHsh In that periodical
HE deveiopement OF the plot Of BsrnAby isudge."
Mhtu. septon the rcoduc tions regerred TO e u