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Show WE E. jil'I'DIIl. Sketch and Portrait of the New Editor of the Popular Atlantio Monthly. TWENTT:F1TE YEAE3 IN HARNESS. Straw HaU and Overcoats in the Land of Big Trees and Fruit and Flowers, Boston, July 10. Mr. Horace E. Send-tier, Send-tier, who has just succeeded Mr. Al-drich Al-drich a editor of The Atlantic Monthly, has been for a long time one of the most interesting figures in contemporary literary lit-erary life. Many have enjoyed hie work in that choice line of creative criticism in which The Atlantic takes long precedence pre-cedence without haviDg peuetrated the identity of the author, for Mr. Scudder's muse has no affinities for tho market place, and it has been his good fortune, he says, "to escape the glare of publicity." Mr. Scudder has fame, however, although al-though he has hnppily escaped mere notoriety. no-toriety. He is the author of a number of books, of which "Men and Letters" is a collection of choice essays on Long- reilows literary subjects; "Life and Letters of David Coit Scudder;" Scud-der;" the "Noah Webster" of the American statesmen states-men series; a life of George Wash- 4 ington and a number of juve- nilnfl. inolniliTin. the "Bod ley ho rack e. bccdder. Books," "Stories From My Attic," "Ser-en "Ser-en Little People and Their Friends" and a dozen others. Mr. Scudder assisted Mrs. Taylor in editing the life and letters let-ters of her husband, Bayard Taylor, and he was one of the contributors to that monumental work the "Memorial History His-tory of Boston," and to other important undertakings. ' And still, important and wide as has been Mr. Scudder's range of work, the man is greater than the author. The Scudder family dates back to the Massachusetts Bay colony, and one side traces lineal descent from Governor Win-throp Win-throp through the Saltinstalbj and Main-warings Main-warings of Boston. Horace E. Scudder was born in Boston Oct. 10, 1838, the youngest child of Charles and Sarah Lathrop (Coit) Scudder. The father was a business man of inflexible integrity and wide social recognition. Ho was a deacon in the Conjjregational church, and the religious tone pervaded rather than dominated the family life, for it was a sunny household, As business began to encroach on the Temple place home the family removed to Roxbnry, where on Warren avenue they had a large brick house, commanding command-ing a fine view of the harbor, and thirty acres of ground. Once a year the family visited relatives lit "tho Cape," a journey taken by coach and one of inexhaustible joy to the children, Mr. Scudder had two elder brothers, who distinguished themselves each in his own field. Tho elder, David Coit Scudder, was graduated gradu-ated at Williams college, afterward taking tak-ing the theological course at Andover, and devoted himself to tho missionary cause. He died in India in 1881, leaving a widow and danghter, the latter being Miss Vida Scudder, one of the instructors at Wellesley. " Another brother, Mr. Samuel Hubbard Scudder, is the famous naturalist. Mr. Horace E. Scudder, who also graduated from the family alma mater in 1858, inclined to the world of letters with the same decided bent that one brother had shown in the ministry and the other in science. Aiter receiving his bachelor's degree he went to New York, where he supported himself by teaching and entertained en-tertained himself by poetry. Mr. Henry Mills Alden, the present accomplished editor of Harper's Monthly, and Mr. Scudder became intimate friends, "and we discussed theories about homes in Harlem," laughingly said Mr. Scudder, "and we walked Broadway and haunted small back rooms in Fourth avenue." These young men had brilliant visions at that time of, in some way, accumulating a fortune of $100, and retiring on that to the luxuries of the literary life. For some twenty-five years past Mr. Scudder has been in more or less intimate inti-mate relations with publishers. Mr. Scudder was married in 1873, and has made his home in Cambridge for many years. Lillian Whitino. |