Curtis, George William

R. I., 1824-1892. One of the foremost of American e ayists, and a writer whose influence was as helpful as it was widespread. In boyhood he was one of the members of the famous Brook Farm A ociation at West Roxbury. To Putnam’s Monthly he contributed The Potiphar Papers, a spirited satire upon society; and Prue and I, a story far superior to his more ambitious novel, Trumps. For thirty-five years he filled the Easy Chair department of Harper’s Monthly, and from 1863-92 he was the political editor of Harper’s Weekly. He was zealous in the cause of civil service reform, and by his efforts as writer and lecturer accomplished very much in that direction. Beside the volumes already named, his writings include Nile Notes of a Howadji; Lotus Eating; The Howadji in Syria; James Ru ell Lowell, an Addre ; Eulogy on Wendell Phillips; From the Easy Chair; Speeches, Addre es, ., edited by C. E. Norton, infra; Literary and Social E ays. See Life by E. Cary, 1895; Addre by J. W. Chadwick, supra; Century Magazine, February, 1883; Smalley’s Studies of Men.