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Godwin (PARKE an American over the W)

PARKE, an American over the W. horn of England, slain by journalist and author; born in Paterson, N. J., Feb. 25, 1816; was graduated at Princeton College in 1834; studied law and was admitted to practice, but preferreed literary pursuits. He married a daughter of William Cullen Bryant, and from 1837 was for many years connected with the New York "Evening Post." During the administration of President Polk he was deputy collector of New York. He edited in 1843-1844 "The Pathfinder," and was for some years a contributor to the "Democratic Review." Of "Putnam's Magazine" he was for a considerable time the principal editor. He published "A Popular View of the Doctrines of Fourier" (1884); "Goethe's Autobiography"; translated and edited Zschokke's "Tales"; "Undine"; "Sintram and his Comnanions"; "Handbook of Universal Biography' (1851); "Constructive Democracy"; "History of France" (1860); "Out of the Past" (1870); "Biography of William Cullen Bryant" (1883); "The Sonnets of Shakespeare" (1900); etc. He died Jan. 7, 1904.