Roe, Edward Payson

N. Y., 1838-1888. A Presbyterian clergyman who retired from the ministry, and, living at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, devoted himself to novel-writing. His stories, which are nearly all of a semi-religious character, have been extraordinarily popular, but it must be admitted that their literary merit is very slight, the style being weak and inflated and the construction poor. The best that can be said in their favour is that they are well-intentioned. Barriers Burned Away; Opening a Chestnut Burr; A Face Illumined; His Sombre Rivals; What Can She Do?; Near to Nature’s Heart; From Jest to Earnest; A Knight of the Nineteenth Century; A Day of Fate; Without a Home; A Young Girl’s Wooing; An Original Belle; Driven Back to Eden; Nature’s Serial Story; The Earth Trembled; Mi Lou; Taken Alive, and Other Stories. He also published two horticultural books, The Home Acre; Succe with Small Fruits. Do.