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In a conventional way Webster would be classed amongst the educated men of the country; he had received his diploma at one of the chief colleges; his occupations were intellectual; his profession was the liberal one of the law. and though he ceased early from manual labor Yet in a more real way he was a farmer's son, his mental affiliations were with the plain people rather than with the intellectual ones. He seized all subjects by their practical side, and his instinct was to apply the rough-and-ready rules of common sense to all questions, whether of politics, theology, or philology.. Such men as Belknap and Hazard looked with disdain upon him; they felt rather than said that Webster was not one of them.

Mr. Buchanan has embellished a fresh Y. Here and then it was that he projected 43 but not very probable theme with many his Grammatical Institute of the English effective scenes and dramatic situations. Language, the first of his considerable list 40 Priscilla's is as lovely a figure as Christian of literary productions, which ended with the Christianson's is heroic. The Fen Farm Dictionary. The moderate and discriminat. 40 landscape is well portrayed. There are sun- ing tone in which Mr. Scudder tells the story shine and beauty in the early interviews of of his rather quaint life may be discerned in Christian and Priscilla. The conflicting the following paragraph: passions which lead to the later tragedy are strongly delineated. The romantic incidents tale, whose authorship carries of the Atlantic voyage, the burning ship, weight, has considerable power of its the horrors of the ice-pack, the desolation own, but cannot exactly be called pleasur- of the island of exile, Christian's struggle able. It is compounded of dark ingredients with himself, his victory, and Orchardson's with a heavy hand. A family feud descend- peaceful death and lonely burial in hope of ing from generation to generation, hatred and a better resurrection, these make up a narthirst for vengeance, the most cruel wrong rative which will pass as a romance. And which a man can do a woman, jealousy made the end we have at the beginning, in what hideous by its ferocity, falsehoods and de- is in some respects the most strongly writception, murder in the heart and murder ten and impressive chapter of all - Chrisalmost by the hand, fire and tempest at sea, tian Christianson sitting old and decrepit in abandonment in the ice-fields of the North, his chair by the fire, Christmas Eve, a stately life on the edge of death in an uninhab- ruin of humanity, stretching forth his hand ited island off Labrador, and a terrible to stay the outbreak of murderous anger behatred between two men slowly melting tween a Christianson and an Orchardson of a under the fires of disaster into pity, mercy, younger generation. It is a finely-conceived forgiveness, love, and all the tender and bet-prologue to an uncommon history. ter sentiments of the renewed human heart;

these are the colors in Mr. Buchanan's pic- NOAH WEBSTER AS AN AMERICAN
ture. "Vengeance is mine; I will repay!
saith the Lord," might well be the inscrip-
tion beneath it. It is dedicated, in fine keep-
ing with its spirit and purpose, probably to
Mr. Swinburne, in these words:

Pure as thy purpose, blameless as thy song,
Sweet as thy spirit may this offering be:
Forget the bitter blame that did thee wrong,
And take the gift from me!

That is a noble spirit. And the same noble spirit is behind this dark and grewsome romance of the fens and the sea. Christian Christianson's fierce hate of Richard Orchardson was born in him. But Richard Orchardson made it more bitter by ruining his sister Kate and at the same time attempting to cheat him out of his sweetheart, Priscilla Sefton. The sum of his wrongs is more than the flesh and blood

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Noah Webster will be known to posterity chiefly, first, by his Dictionary, which he began in 1806 and finished in 1825; and secondly by his Spelling Book, which was one of the sections of his Grammatical Institute, the total sales of which had reached 24,000,000 copies by 1847, and which has circulated about a million of copies annually ever since. But Mr. Scudder shows how it must also be

reckoned to his fame that he was a pioneer in MAN OF LETTERS.* effecting an American system of copyright; EBSTER'S Dictionary is a monument that he first published Winthrop's journal; in one sense, that a man lies buried that when editor of the American Minerva, under it. Whether Noah Webster were a afterwards the New York Commercial Adverlineal descendant of the original Noah of tiser, he invented the since very popular plan the ark, or whether he were a grandfather or of making up a semi-weekly newspaper out a second cousin of Daniel Webster, these, of the columns of a daily; that he was the we doubt not, are questions which have often first of American spelling-reformers; and occurred to the average American citizen. that he was first also of American Bible Such a literary exhumation, therefore, as Revisers, having published a revision of King Mr. Scudder has accomplished in this sec- James's Version of his own at New Haven ond volume of the series of "American in 1833. He also launched an American Men of Letters" is much to be desired, and Magazine; published A Collection of Essays, we venture the opinion that it will surprise thirty in number, on a variety of subjects; most people to know how strong is Noah and in 1806 brought out a preliminary ComWebster's claim to a place in the distin- pendious Dictionary. His versatility was guished company to which Mr. Warner's series admits him.

Noah Webster was born in West Hartford, Conn., October 16, 1758. He died in New Haven, May 28, 1843, having reached

great.

He wrote frequently upon banks and banking; his "Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases" is pronounced by an authority to have great historical value; he was one of the founders of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences; and in the numerous list of his writings one comes upon such oddly assorted subjects as an account of a American Men of Letters. Noah Webster. By Horace tornado in Wethersfield, a cure for cancer, upon

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white-washing, the mental arithmetic of a negro,