WARNER, CHARLES DI'DLEY (1S29-1900). An American author, born in Plainfield, Mass. lle ;graduated at Hamilton College, N. Y., in 1851. After spending a short time in sur veying on the Missouri frontier (1853), he re turned to the East (1854) to take up the study of low. Ile graduated at the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1856, and prac ticed his profession in Chicago until 1860, when lie removed to Hartford. Here he became as sistant editor and later editor-in-chief of the Dartford Press, and in 1867 coeditor of the Hartford Courant, with which he was connected till his death. In 1884 he took charge of the department of Magazine called "The Editor's Drawer," and in 1892 succeeded W. D. Howells in "The Editor's Study" of the same periodical. He made several visits to Europe and the East as correspondent of American news papers and traveled extensively in the United States and Alexico, contributing papers of de scriptive and social life to Harper's Magazine. His separately published work began in 1870 with My Summer in a Carden. a volmne of genial sketches, and was afterwards varied and ex tended. Among his best known books are:
Srcuntcrirogs (1872) : Backlog SturtTrs (1872) ; Baddrck, and That Sort of Thing (1874) ; Mum mies and Jloslems (1876) ; In the Lerant (1877); Being a Boy (1877): Washingtfm Irving (1881); Captain John. Smith. (1881) ; A Round about Journey ( 1883 ) : Their 1'ilgr•iinage (1887) : On horseback (1888) ; Studies in the South and West, with Continents on. Canada (1880) ; A Little Journey in the World (1889), a novel; Our Italy (1891); As We Were Saying (1894) ; and The Golden House (1895), a novel. He was also editor of the American Men of Let ters (1881), a series of biographies, and of the Library of the World's Best Literature (1896 97). In conjunction with S. L. Clemens (`\lark Twain') he wrote The Gilded Age (1873). War ner was greatly interested in nl reform and other philanthropic work, and by his travels and genial personality did much to bring North and South to understand each other. He was sym pathetic with young authors and was a kindly critic, a refined humorist, and a helpful force in American letters.