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HAMILTON WRIGHT, an American editor; born in Cold Spring, Ν.
Y., Dec. 13, 1845. He was graduated at Williams College, practiced law for a time in New York City, and then entered journalism, becoming in 1879 associate editor of the "Christian Union" afterward the "Outlook." He supplemented the written word by much work on the lecture platform. He was also a very acceptable lecturer on literary subjects.
Eddas"; "My Study Fire"; "Under the Trees and Elsewhere"; "Short Studies in Literature"; "Essays in Literary Interpretation"; "Essays on Nature and Culture"; "Essays on Books and Culture"; "Life of the Spirit"; "Shakespeare"; "Backgrounds of Literature" (1904); "American Ideals, Character and Life" (1913); "Japan To-day and To-morrow" (1914). He died in 1916.
He wrote "Norse Stories Retold from the