The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-03-19
FRANK FORESTER.

The life and career Of Henry William
Herbert is melancholy but not uncom-
mon chapter in the history of authorship
the world over. He was born of 4 good
old English family; was educated at Etou
and Cambridge, graduated with honors
and n reputation for high scholarship;
rot into trouble of some sort and came
to America in his 25th year; became Il
Greek and Latin tutor IN classical acad-
envy in New York: started and edited
with friend the american M0nthly Magd-
=iitP, which in Il few years passed into
other hands and expired: wrote largely
in the HnicI erJ0cher, under the manage
ment of Lewis Gaylord Clarke. and in q
sporting magazine edited by William T.
Porter, who is chiefly remembered as
being very tall man; married young
lady of Bangor, who died at the end Of
about seven years, leaving him disconso-
late with son and daughter; wrote in
Graham's Magaziae and edited a weekly
newspaper; built himself cottage on the
hank of the Passaic; became a chronicler
nf sporting matters, for which he had an
inherited taste, and concerning which he
wrote with authority under the pen name
of Frank FORESTER; lived from hand to
mouth, though often earning good pay
or his voluminous contributions to maya
lines and journals; married a second wife
in the person of young lady of Rhode
island, declared beautiful and reported
wealthy; had some unexplained trouble
with her. which resulted in her leaving
aim. as the first Mrs. Milton left her Puri-
tan husband; fell into dependency and
madness, and finally shot himself through
the heart at the Stevens House, in New
York. on the morning of May Il. 1865.
such. in brief, was the life Of Henry Viii
liam Herbert, whose scholarship was I'M
Questioned, whose talents were various
md brilliant. and whose life was stormy
and unhappy.
o, let him pass, he hates him that
Would upon the rack OF this rough world
Stretch him out longer.
The reputation of Henry William Her
bert, which was chiefly confined to the
writings that he produced over his pen
name Of Frank Forester. is not one that
could be made to-day either in this coun-
try Or in England, and. made at any time,
is not one that is of much consequence to
: l,,, r,,1I ot n hos lpna oil TINT
can be done for the adventurous life of
the hunter and the fisher, and the result
is not another Complete Angler, though
his writings in this direction are not with
mt freshness aud the feeling of outdoor
life. They are comprised in four sepa-
rate wolks-The Warwick, Woodlands
QS45), My Shooting Box US46), The
Deerstalkers (1S4O, and the Quordon
Hounds GS52). and are drawn from the
experiences of the writer in the woods
and along the streams of New York and
Canada. Certain characters therein are
believed to have been drawn from his
fellow-sportsmen, the exceptions being
in the story of the Quordon Hounds,
which concerns itself with English Fox
Hunting at Melton, which is described
as it was seen by Henry William Her.
bert before he cxpatriated himself from
the land of his birth. He has done for
sporting life in this country what has
been done for it in England by the author
oi Sponge's Sporting Tour but has done
it in superior way, for whatever may
he said of his choice Of subjects upon
which to write. Henry William Herbert
wrote like Il gentleman. and lovers OF
this kind Of breezy adventurous work
will he rlad to learn that a new edition
of what he wrote as Frank Forester has
Just been published.