GOODRICH, SAMUEL GRISWOLD an American author, better known under the pseudonym of "Peter Parley," was born, the son of a Congregational minister, at Ridge field, Connecticut, Aug. He was largely self-educated, but after general mercantile experience became a bookseller and publisher at Hartford and later in Boston. There, beginning in 1828, he published for fifteen years an illustrated annual, the To ken, to which he was a frequent contributor both in prose and verse. The Token contained some of the earliest work of Nathaniel Hawthorne, N. P. Willis, Henry W. Longfellow and Lydia Maria Child. In 1841 he established Merry's Museum, which he con tinued to edit till 1854. In 1827 he began, under the name of "Peter Parley," his series of books for the young, which embraced geography, biography, history, science and miscellaneous tales. Of these he was the sole composer of comparatively few, but in his Recollections of a Lifetime (2 vols., 1856) he wrote that he was "the author and editor of about 17o volumes," of which about seven million copies had been sold, and gave a list both of the works of which he was the author or editor and of the spuri ous works published under his name. He was chosen a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1836, and of the state senate in 1837, and in 1851-53 he was consul at Paris, where he remained till 1855. He led in New York May 9, 186o.