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NV esrly newspaper DAYS, ] swspFsed
cor }dences with an associate, "ho had
..,,,e.s more than ephemersi notorlety
- ths interesting and graceful prodac-
tiens 4 his quill With iush Of pI1ae
~ told me that be became an author be
,snss there w2s never = scarcity Of
ao.,ks n his fathers house. Ay literary
srieDd spoke of . period when tie steam
nress 49, regarded 2s = great curiosity,
when the printing Of books ~As yet a
sostly enterprise and when most OF the
volumes, by authors Of established rep0-
.SIion IN our language, were imported
from London on Edinburgh
This incident comes 10 my mind linked
With thoughts Of the boyhOod Of Charles
Dudley Warner. His father Mas known
- a man Intelligent above the average.
He loved 10 read. His choice books.
however. were OF TOO somber character
- amuse or fascin&te a budding Amer
.an humorist of the vintage Of 1929.
There is no doubt that PieEy often reSem-
sles forbearance, and ceases 10 De u vir-
tue. The home library 10 which Charles
Dudley Warner had access, while as
good as any in his native town Of Plain
field, Mas, was, in his juvenile estims-
tion, really good for nothing. He, there
fore, concluded that IL was his mission
70 write better books than those which
his father gave him 10 browse over when
he was a tenderling of four or five years.
What a thoroughly United States sort
of a career his has been! tie has related
something of his early life in Being
Boy" which was published IN 1877.
At the age of % he graduated from
Hamilton college, taking the first prize
for English composition Already he had
contributed TO the old Knickerbocker
and lis now almost forgotten rival, Put
mans Magazine. Ii was in 1853 that he
became one of a surveying party Oh the
prairies Of Missouri. Within a year he
returned 10 New England. Then he de-
cided there was more money in litigation
than in literature-providing you are
counsel for the htigant who has the most
money and the greatest amount of stub
bornness So, in 1856, he graduated from
the law department OF the University of
Pennsy lvania. The four succeeding years
he practiced at the Chicago bar, with
fair prospects Of being elected a judge
before the Twentieth century flickered
and expired.
There was an evening paper here in
Hartford looking for an assistant editor.
He was the fortunate applicant. In
twelve months he had full charge OF The
Press and made it attractive enough to
be respected. About the year 1861 it
was consolidated with The Hartford
Courant, of which Mr.. Warner was ap-
pointed co-editor. In 1869 he went be-
yond seas and travelled extensively in
Europe's beaten paths and alluring by
ways for nearly fourteen months. His
letters of travel, written for The Courant,
were so sparkling that his dream of book
making took business shape.
These are the titles of works that have
made him widely and favorably known:
MY Summer in Garden" OS70);
''Saunterings" (same year.; Backlog
Studies" QS72); THE Gilded Age" in
collaboration with his brother humorist,
Mark Twain QS73): "Baddeck, and That
Sort of Thing" Qs74; my Winter on
the Nile 0S76); "In the Levant" QS70;
I'm the Wilderness" C1S7S); Capt. John
Smith. burlesque biography, written
in 1881; Washington Irving" in the
Men of Letters series (the same year;
Roundabout Journey" 1888; Their
Pilgrimage" 1886: "On Horseback
Through Virginia and North Carolina"
(1SSS). which volume includes his Mex
lean Notes" and his recently published
book containing Studies in the South
and West, with Comments on Canada.
In 1884, Mr.. Warner succeeded the
late William A. Seaver as editor of thst
humorous spice box known TO all readers
of Harpers Magazine as The Drawer"
This connection has brought him closer
than ever 10 the people who greatly ad
mire him for the force and sprightliness
Of his writings His latest novel, en-
titled "A Little Journey in the World"
has Just been completed. 1t was written
as a serial, during 1885, for Harper's
Magazine. More than any of his previ-
GUS works it strongly reflects the genial,
philosophic humanity of Charles Dudley
Warner. His portraiture of the gro
tesque has long been regarded, by those
competent to pass judgment, as being of
the highest order OF literary art. There
is depth as well as breadth in his quaint
fancy. Mr.. Warmers greatest charm il
the undercurrent of tender sympathy
with and for all mankind. He Is a stout
friend of the tOiler His hand is extended
to help; bis words written 10 encourage
and instruct, quite as much as TO tighten
and brighten honest labor.
tie has found time TO interest himself
in social science. His thoughtful essays
on prison discipline have attracted tho
attention OF foreign governments, and
many Of his suggestions have boon put
to trial with happy results. As lecturer
on miscellaneous topics he has won favor
By telling his audiences something that
they liked 70 hear and which was of
benefit to them and to others. Charles
Dudley Warner Is a Samaritan rather
than sermOnizer. He had quite enough
# prosiness, without active Performance,
II MS youth. Born and bred in an a.
mosphere N here It Eas sinful to laugh
between sundown on Saturday and sun
rise or Monday. his bealthfuI mental Sc
tivitv ia a direct result Of travel and a
Keen habit q observation. he is nov
s0 years of age
Mr. Warner wears FOIL beard. a con
tented serious expression. and upon oc-
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