The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-22

it was evident that a new American
writer of distinction had appeared
From this start book after book was
given to the public from his pen; es-
says, travel sketches, papers on import
ant questions of social and political re-
form, novels. etc. In them all Charles
Dudley Warner maintained and steadily
developed the brilliant name he had
made by his first volume.
In 1884 Mr.. Warner made an editorial
connection with Harpers Magazine,
and until 1892 he contributed THE Edi-
tors Drawer" and after that 1.-THE Edi-
tors Study" in which he succeeded
William D. Howells, His last contri-
button to that department appeared in
the number for July, 1898. Some of his
most important work in "Harper's" was
a series of papers beginning with stud
les in the South" followed by "Mexi-
can Papers" and "Studies in the Great
West" In these he discussed the edu-
cational, political and social conditions
! of these regions. Indeed, one of the
most marked features of Mr. Warmers
career was his warm interest in philan-
tnropic, educational, and sociological
questions. He was for many years
member of the state commission on
prisons Of Connecticut and of the Ma
tional Prison association.
He delivered many lectures before
educational and other societies, which
have for the most part been pleas for
higher Individual and national culture,
for an enlargement of our collegiate
courses and for an improvement in
| ~ l.. Il oyIA bn1
ZIONIST during the anti-slavery agitation
and was a republican from the forma-
ton of that party, though not strong
partisan. He was always active in the
municipal and social life of Hartford,
and as a member of the park commits
sion had a large share in developing the
fine park system of that city.
| Mr.. Warner was a great traveller, as
many of his works show, going repeat
eddy to Europe and the East, as well as
journeying extensively in this country.
But he has always kept his beautiful
| home in Hartford.
| The late Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe
| lived next door on one side of his home,
while his brother George lived on the
other, with Mark Twain just around
| the corner. AT the back of the generous
grounds of all these homes is a stream
known to the children of Hartford as
Mark Twain's River" His home is
within easy walking distance of the
Courant office Mr.. Warner loved out
of-door life and spent as much of his
time as he could gain from his duties
about his grounds and is walking in
all seasons and in all kinds of weather.
He used to take prolonged summer va
cations in the Adirondacks and other
mountain resorts and one of the most
delightful books I'm the Wilderness"
was the outcome of such experiences.
Mr.. Warner was fine looking man.
He was tall, square and erect in frame,
with a face indicative of thought and
refinement His head was large, his
forehead high, his eyes clear and kind
ly. He would be marked anywhere as
person of striking appearance.
His wife, whom he married in Octo-
Der, 1866, was Susan Sophia Lee daugh-
ter of the late William Eliot Lee, of
Hartford Mr.. Warner belonged to
many organizations of all kinds. He
was a member of the Players, the Au-
thors, the, University. and the Century
ford, New York or elsewhere ne was a
favorite social figure AS early as 1872
he received the honorary degree of A
M. from Yale, and Dartmouth paid him
the same honor in 1884.
Mr.. Warner was the general editor of
1.-THE American Men of Letters" series,
and in 1895 undertook the managing
editorship of "a Library of the Worlds
Best Literature" now publishing in
thirty volumes. His other writings in
the order of publication are as follows:
MY Summer in a Garden" 1870; "Saun-
terings-Paris, London, the Low Coun-
tries and the Rhineland," 1872; "Back-
log Studies" 1872; "Baddeck and That
Sort of Thing 1874; "Mummies and
Moslems," 1876, this was later ressued
as My Winter on the Nile Among the
Mummies and Moslems;" "In the Lee
want 1877; Being a Boy" 1877; I'm
the Wilderness" 1878; "The American
Newspaper; an Essay" 1881; Captain
John smith," 1881; washington Irv-
ing" 1881, in the American Men of
Letters" series; "a Roundabout Jour
ney" 1888; Their Pilgrimage" 1885,
"On Horseback; a Tour of Virginia,
North Carolina and Tennessee" 1888;
"Studies in the South and West" 1882
"A Little Journey in the World" 1889;
Our Italy, "-Gelates to Southern Cal
ifornia), 1891; "As We We're Saying"
1891; 1.-THE Works of Washington Irv-
ing," 1893; THE Golden House." 1894;
CAS- We Co." 1894; THE Relation of Life
to Literature" 1896; 1.-THE People for
Whom Shakespeare Wrote" 1897. He
also wrote in collaboration with Mark
Twain, 1.-THE Gilded Age" published in
1873. With William Cullen Bryant and
George P. Putnam he published in 1880
STUDIES of Washington Irving
His last work was a novel, THAT For
tune" of which he was revising the
proofs at the time of his fatal illness.