The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-31

were rarely if ever wrung. He has c11oz been represented as cxific wAo had onk sck and pleasant wcrdx cf Aafsery for ev ezy one. but such was not the casa H, always had . wcrd cf welcome fns sh'
 tmid beginners whose work possesse1
 mszis, or . psompt reboke for some o3ae
 writer whom continued success had mad careless and negligent. In his work hl was vefy ccnsciennoaA When he saf dcuv l b his duties as critic the book in hnn<
 ssood alone on iss merits or demesits, an< the work of ssranger vas sure to nee
 ~ith as friendly and impartial recspsios
 as woald that of his neares friend.
 Georgr Riplcy was . prodieiouS xoak
 CT and hiS whole life as a man o( letter, can be justly summed up in two words work and study. His mind vas neve, idle and his pen always busy. With hin work was a sacred thing. He believc< that man should give his best energie. to whatever lay before him and he car, iicd out his teachings ,o the letter
 Everything that came from his pen, eves the mercst triAes bore the stamp o thought. care and labor. He never did
 anything by halves all of hls ~ork boEr a finished touch.
 He had happy faculty of touching on all the salient points of book. pauSing on each bu, for an instant. and giving within the compass of an ordinary notice the very cream of a book. Could his contributions 10 the various journals ot note tha, have aourishcd during the las, thirty years, be collected and czrcfufiy edited. the result would be the mos, val uab.e commentary on the writings of the various schools of writers that have achieved note during the last half of the present century. that we could possess.
 With the growth and prosperity of the ! yyi6xse the value of Mir. Ripley's sevi- ecs increased and he was more hb- orally pad for wha, he did. Al frs, his salary was increased to ten dollars a week, then to fifteen. twenty-five, fifty and finally sesenty-hve. though this final re- ward of meri, did not come until after nearly twenty years oi faithful service With the coming of morr prosperous days he adopted more comfortable means of living moved into New York in. dulged his taste for books more Ire quently. and in every way enjoyed the success which he had earned so we'll
 But during all his life his mode of living was signalb temperate and incxpen- Slyc.
 As his reputation as critic. whose 4e- eissons were always woghty and just grew. the demand for his services in- creased. He was employed by the Har- pers, frs, to read only few of the many manuscripts submitted to them for publi. cation soon his labors m this direction grew larger. until he finally became their sole reader for the press. Perhaps no one vas ever better fitted for so deli cate and trying a position than Mir Rip ley. His judgments, never hastily given. were seldom mistaken, and to his keen insight many a mediocre writer owes his consignment 10 oblivion, while to his I emphatic endorsement many popular writer of the present day owes hts first start towards popularity and success.
 When the Applctons decided upon the preparation of their encyclopedia George Ripley and Charles 4. Dana were se- lected as m every way htted to conduc, so difficult an undertaking. Both were qualified by their long training in an ex- acting profession, by their fine scholar ship and by their love of system and method for such work. Though II made the professional duties of each much heavier never was 90 great a task l performed with as much conscientious care, stxsc; attention to accuracy and syS- tenn and to the thousand and one attend ing details as this- Students when they use this great work and admire its accu- rzoy and faultless arrangement. should pause and reflect upon the deep debt oi gratitude which they owe io the scholar ship. wisdom and industry of George Ripley. The success Of the eneyelope- dia was unequaled and the editors were handsomely paid for their labors.
 One can form some estimate of the busy life this man of letters led, and ol his grea, powers for work, by summing up what he did al one time. His writings as the critic of the TSi1sse rarely failed to fill an entire page in the weekly issue of tha, journal his duties as the liar pers' reader-foT-the-press would have been abundant occupation for most men his labors on the encyclopedia were very exa,ilng and conhning. and in addition to all this he was constantly writing for a score of magazines and periodicals. And ali his xork was done carefully. To everything he wrote he gave that inde- soribable finish which belongs to the work of every true literary artist
 In is6i Mrs. Ripley mel wish painful accident, that fev months later resulted n her death. To her husband ii vas an overwhelming blow. For over thirty years they had worked together: had shared success and diversity, joy and sor- row. The love of youth had been strengthened by the flight of years and now the death angel .n separating them foz time, had made her memory hal lowed and sacred. For some months after her death, unwilling that the world should knox of his gnef. Mir. Ripley led the life of reciuse with his books and pen as his only companions. After q time he began once more to take an in- teSess in these around him He weui more in society and moved more freely among men; but not as of old fos sosros had fsft ias chsaening e6ecs1 makias him more subdued ard his disposisien esea sveeser than befose- To these vish whom he v1s asoociSted he said noehinR