Show LATE Mil I HEADLEY WAS ONE OF THE FEW AMERICAN AMERI-CAN IIISTOttlANS emlU reCt ii OIlruIeo at itta Ira teal ot tiuhure uIutbr lierki 10 rtudiu1 Itue oi5atg j lOr 10alnimns tita liro till T IirAI cJ j ley exVeeretory ot Jf stain of Now York y and a historian of somo note died In t that city the other 5 4 J morning While r f walking about his F J r room ho fell strlk VV C o tug his head on the floor Paral ils 1 resulted and a severe and fatal Illness followed Mr llcaillry was 82 years ot ago and was one of the few historian produced pro-duced by America Ills contributions to tbe hlrtorlcil literature of the United Shale have a dIstinct value white his writings on hilt Dry ot other rountrle are among the moit entertaining work In a sometimes uninteresting field lie begin life In Ihn church but after af-ter a ministry of two car he abandoned aband-oned the arduous duties of the pro fesilon and went abroad for lilt health On lila return ho tried writing some sketches ot his profession which were so well thought ol thai ho determined to dctolo hula Ufa to literature Pot n time he nl at tho editorial table In tho Now York Tribune After pending along a-long lIme In thin Adlronadck forhealUi he wrote a book about life In the nnods and mountains which was accepted ac-cepted with n public Kratlludo equal joii T I1EADLIY to that which woe accorded hull first work Ills tint dip Into hlitory wai taken with the production of Napoleon and Ills Manhaln The book wan vigor brXvt > rlllUnt r lnllwr > tta but wai not contlderod hIstory by thus critics who argued that Mr lleadle bad laerlftced accuracy to iplendor of tylo lila neat work of any tonilder shIn Importance Will Washington and lila llencrnls a book that met with great klndncts but which fell unde the Mine ihadow that overclouded the Aral Apart Irom the hpyororltle1 opinion ni to correct detail nnd cau tloua atndy theN woika were ably wrlll < n Condemned b > the irltlcj they were rind larxcly by the public and no far bark an fortyfour tear ago I hli book haul r arhi > d an IIHIIH of 309 000 olunio lie wrutc In all twenty four lionki i |