Putnam patriot., 1908-08-28
Henry '. Herbert.
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Henry ". nefesu. more widely known under the neHs-sie pt,tae of aFraak Forester. ws-t -tbe eldest of the four ehildren of the Rev Dr William Iefbeft. bean of hauche.ier, q poet. historian, and philosophical writer of distinction. The family, which was connected wiih the Ear of Canafvon, had iong dweit in the icinity 1 h7H- don, and il was io that city that Henry was born, Tuesday, April ', lsJ7. His mother was Alice Maria. eldest dauzh- Ter of Charles Wyndhan, Earl Of E3ef- mont, a lady Of rare culture and refine menf.
 Young Herbert acquired his early ed- ucalion under care of private tutor, and 1t was moi until he had reached his teens that he xas sent away from home to school. He then spent a year at Brighton and four years at Eton where his father had studied, and final " lie went up to Cambridge where be graduated from the University as an honor man, in is3D.
 Thus far ail his youthful years and they proved to bc nearly one half Of his whole lifeiimej had been happy and prosperous in tbe extreme. He was mol long out of the University. how ever, when his property, amounting to q comfortable estate, was suddenly lost to him through the dishonesty of a trustee, and he was left io sniff for hltn- self. II was this unex peerpd stroke Of misfortune which brought him te Ame- gain livelihood. He had at first but little except his own energy and eduea- ton upon which to depend; but he was determined, nevertheless, to find T place in the best of American society. He was unwilling to apply for citizen ship here, else he might have become n lawyer, Tor which profession he was paftty prepared hefofe be discovered the fact that he would be obliged to renounee his aliesiaHee to Great Bfi. lain before he could gaia admission to the American bHt. lie was fortunate, however in securing. at fife ase of i5, a eooi position as Professor in Greek and Latin in fashionable boarding school iu New York, where he remained eight years. La ihe meantime he hegan lo devote himself ta literature, for which lts family had been celebrated Tor sey- eral generations In is8a he establish cd the American Monthly Magazine, to which, iu the earlier numbers, he contributed large proportion If the material; after time Charles fenne Hoffman was his associate.
 This new enterprise in the magazine world was ventur4ome one: Il pfoba- bly would never had beginning were Il not for the fact that the articles of Herbert, submitted h the "knicker= locker were generally retufned-al- way- sa, when paY WIS demanded for his contributions. This treatment an. moved him, and his fI3 3al magazine WIS pushed info prominence and to success 0s the feeling ef unjust treatment he had received The riHt ct John Hull WIS aroused, and flefherl WIS delers mined te win, and he did, the Amer ten Meafhly fYaliiag everything else of tls kind In the country while he had charge of IL.
 About this tune he assumed the pen. naHe ef Frank tausler' Ills baaks on Field Spoas, American Game, and Hunting Life. ate among the best on ihe subject In eat language \ series of Nature studies. pnblishei ny him iu the American Turf Register un- der Ihe utle efhe Warwick Wood. lands, were immensely popular They combined American and English idea, n Ser4 attractive asnner--lhe sead hands being such as | hunter or naiur. alist might nnd tn thr Cat>kiils of the Berkshire hills, while The locality olh. efNlse was a charming counterpart ol old NarMlekshlh fA Eagland, where Shakespeare loealed his Forest af Af- tien.
 Noticing the faet in thls coantfv, in ls1s, Iel French na9ets, liefnerl made several tran-latious ai the best work et Eugene Sue aud the elder peaas. lte alsa wrote I naabet D, historical uazets, including tae Mulcr of Mar. lieue, .cromWea, erhc Cavaliers oi Fnr iaad ' "rhet hg7nIic'> of France and sfhe ruuMns
 lietheft >peai the la,t yeafs ot hiS | life in a lonely eattase. which heeaited efhe Gedars, on the banks oi the Pas. saie, near RoneSiite. N. hefe he | pas scd his time with no companions but hts books and his dogs. tie com mitteti suicide on May l7th. lSes, at n hotel in New York. He is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. < stone bearing the single word "Inlelieissi- mus, marks the spot.