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An American man of letters and historian; born in Boston, Oct. 16, 1838; died at Cambridge, Jan. 11, 1902. He was for some years editor of the Atlantic Monthly. He published: "Seven Little People and their Friends"; "Dream Children"; "Stories from my Attie"; "The Dwellers in Five Sisters' Court"; "Boston Town"; "A History of the United States"; "The Book of Fables"; "The Book of Folk Stories"; "Fables and Folk Stories"; "George Washington: An Historical Biography"; "Men and Letters"; "Childhood in Literature and Art"; "The Bodley Books"; "James Russell Lowell: A Biography" (1901); etc.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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Platidiam
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