WARNER, Charles Dudley, American edi tor and author : b. Plainfield, Hampshire County, Mass., 12 Sept. 1829; d. Hartford, Conn., 20 Oct. 1900. He graduated from Hamil ton College in 1851 and from the law school of the University of Pennsylvania in 1856; he was admitted to the bar in the latter year at Phila delphia and practised his profession at Chicago in 1856-60. In 1860 he became assistant edi tor of the Hartford (Conn.) Evening Press arid in 1861 its editor-in-chief. This news paper was consolidated in 1867 with the Courant, a morning journal, and Warner was a part owner and long assistant vlitor of the latter, though eventually his connection with the paper was largelv that of a literary con tributor. Some letters of travel in America and Europe in 1868-69, printed in the Courant, were widely copied and his articles published in book form in 1870 as 'My Sumnrzr in a Garden,' placed him high in the list of Ameri can humorists. From 1884 to 1891 he was in charge of the "Edit"r's Drawer" department of harper's illaya:ine and in 1892 AS:.16 trans ferred to that of the IzEditor's Stud? in the same magazine. He was particularly success ful in the essay, in which he combined shrewd observation and cultured humor in a manner in many ways resembling that of Washington .Irving. He was a discerning critic as well; and in addition to his literary activities was identified with various philanthropic work.
His further publications include (1892); (As We Go) (1893); (The Golden House: a Novel' (1894); 'The Relation of Literature to Life' (1896) ; 'The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote' (1897). He also edited the 'American Men of Letters' series and 'A Library of the World's Best Litera ture' (1896-98).