Stoddard, Richard Henry

Ms., 1825-1903. A poet, journalist, and critic of New York city, literary editor of The Mail and Expre from 1880. His verse is unequal in merit, but his best work has always won the praise of the discriminating few, though never much heeded by the average reader. He edited the Bric-a-Brac Series and other volumes, while his own writings include, Poems; Adventures in Fairy Land; Footprints; Life of Humboldt; Songs of Summer; The King’s Bell; The Book of the East; Abraham Lincoln: a Horatian Ode; Putnam the Brave; A Century After; Life of Washington Irving; The Lion’s Cub, with Other Verse; Under the Evening Lamp, a collection of e ays on literary topics. See Stedman’s Poets of America; Vedder’s American Writers. Scr.