William Crary Brownell

BROWNELL, WILLIAM CRARY Ameri can critic, was born in New York on Aug. 3o, 1851. He was edu cated at Amherst college. From 1879 to 1881 he served on the staff of The Nation, and after 1890 was literary adviser for Charles Scribner's Sons, New York publishers. His first two books, French Traits (1889) and French Art (1892), established a new and diffi cult standard for the American critic, but a standard which Brownell maintained for himself in all his succeeding books : New port (1896), Victorian Prose Masters (190i), American Prose Masters (1909), Criticism (1914), Standards (1917), The Genius of Style (19 24) and Democratic Distinction in America He died at Williamstown, Mass., on July 22, 1928.

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See Stuart P. Sherman's introduction to the "ModBibliography. See Stuart P. Sherman's introduction to the "Mod- ern Students' Library" edition of American Prose Masters; George A. McLean, John Morley and Other Essays (1920) ; Russell Sturgis, "William Crary Brownell as Critic on Fine Art," International Monthly, vol. v. p.