HOLLAND, JostAir GILBERT, b. in 13elehertown, Mass., July 24, 1819. His father, whose character is sketched in " Daniel Gray," was equally willing and unable to help his ambitious son to rise above his own humble lot in life. After many struggles, how ever, he graduated with honor from the Berkshire medical college, in Pittsfield, in 1844. He showed talent for writing at an early age, and in 1847 founded the Bay State Courier, which he gave up at the end of six months, and passed a year in Vicksburg, Miss., as superintendent of public schools. In 1849 he accepted the position of assistant editor on the Springfield Republican, and two years later became one of the proprietors of that paper. It was in the columns of the Republican that his History of Western Massachusetts first appeared. He became widely known as a lecturer. In 1868 he went to Europe for two years, and it was during this trip that he conceived the idea of Scribner's Monthly, which immediately upon his return was carried into effect. In Nov., 1870, the first num
ber appeared, amid many prophecies of failure because there was no room for such a publication. It made room, however, and Hours at Home, Putnam's Magazine and Old and New successively resigned to it their respective subscription lists. Dr. Holland resides in New York city, and spends the summer at his place called "Bonnicastle," on one of the Thousand islands, which he recently purchased. His works, some of which were published under the assumed name of Timothy Titcomb, are: The Bay Path, a novel; Letters to the Young; Bitter Sweet, a poem; Gold Foil; Miss Gilbert's Career, a novel; Lessons in Life; Letters to the Joneses; Plain Talk on Familiar Subjects; Life of Lincoln; Kathrina, a poem; The Marble Prophecy; Arthur Bonnicastle; Garnered Sheaves, a poem; The Mistress of the Manse; Sevenoaks; and Nicholas Mintarn.