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Warner (CHARLES DUDLEY an American)

CHARLES DUDLEY, an American editor and author; born in Plainfield, Mass., Sept. 12, 1829; was graduated at Hamilton College in 1851; admitted to the bar in 1856, and practiced in Chicago till 1860, when he removed to Hartford, Conn.; became editor of the "Press" in 1861, and of the "Courant" on its consolidation with the "Press" in 1867. He was connected with "Harper's Monthly Magazine," in charge of an editorial department for many years from 1884. His first book was a compilation for the use of students in schools, called "A Book of Eloquence" (1853).

In 1870 he published "My Summer in a Garden," which was followed by "Saunterings" (1872); "Backlog Studies" (1872); "The Gilded Age" (with S. L.

Clemens, 1873); "Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing" (1874); "In the Levant" (1877); "Being a Boy" (1877); "In the Wilderness" (1878); "Studies of Irving" (with W. C. Bryant and George P. Putnam, 1880); "Life of Washington Irving" (1881); edited "American Men of Letters" (of this series "Washington Irving," 1881, was the initial volume; the thirteenth volume, "George William Curtis," by Edward Cary, appeared in 1894); "The Golden House: A Novel" (1894); "The Relation of Literature to Life" (1896); "The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote" (1897); edited "A Shake Library of the World's Best Literature" (1896-1898). He died in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 20, 1900.