The New Student's Reference Work/Scudder, Horace Elisha

2540097The New Student's Reference Work — Scudder, Horace Elisha

Scud′der, Horace Elisha, American man-of-letters, was born at Boston, Mass., Oct. 16, 1838, and graduated at Williams College. After teaching for three years in New York City, he took to writing stories for youth and edited a magazine in their interest. From 1890 to 1898 he edited The Atlantic Monthly, and became a resident of Cambridge, Mass. Here he assiduously pursued a literary life, writing, besides his successful series of The Bodley Books and a brief History of the United States, a monograph on Noah Webster, an historical biography of Washington and a collection of essays and criticisms entitled Men and Letters. He was the editor, also, of the series of volumes of the American Commonwealths and author, jointly with Mrs. Taylor, of the Life of Bayard Taylor. He was one of the writers, moreover, of Bryant and Gay's History of the United States and of Justin Winsor's Memorial History of Boston. Above all, he wrote the classic biography of James Russell Lowell. He died on Jan. 11, 1902,