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An American author and law editor; born in Philadelphia, Feb. 26, 1817; died in Paris, Dec. 16, 1852. In addition to contributing to literary periodicals, he published anonymously a novel, "Stanley; or, The Recollections of a Man of the World" (1838); and edited, in conjunction with Judge Hare, "American Leading Cases in Law" (2 vols., 1847; 3d ed. 1852); Smith's "Leading Cases" (4th American ed. 2 vols., 1852); and White and Tudor's "Leading Cases in Equity" (2d American ed. 3 vols., 1852), all copiously annotated. He helped Rufus W. Griswold in his "Napoleon and the Marshals of the Empire" (2 vols., 1847). "Art and Scenery in Europe, with Other Papers" (1855), and "Literary Criticisms, and Other Papers" (1856), are posthumous publications.