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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) GUSTAV ADOLF vär nek), a German theologian; born in ( ' Naumburg, March 6, 1834. He wrote: "Missions in the Light of the Bible" (1878); "The Relations between Missions and Modern Civilization" (1879); "The Mission in Pictures from its History" (1884); "Sketch of the History of Missions from the Reformation to the Present Time"; "The Ultramontane Art of Fence" (1889); "The Romanism of Today in the Light of its Missions to the Heathen" (1889); "The Evangelical Alliance and its Opponents" (1889); "Pothe Question of Slavery" (1889). He sition of the Evangelical Mission Toward died in 1910.
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Warner
ANNA BARTLETT, pen name AMY LOTHROP, an American author; born in New York, in 1820. In conjunction with her sister, Susan Warner, she published the novels "Say and Seal" (1860); "Wych Hazel" (1876); and "The Gold of Chickaree" (1876). Among her separate works, published under her pen name, are: "Dollars and Cents" (1853); "My Brother's Keeper" (1855); "Stories of Vinegar Hill" (1871); "The Fourth Watch"; "The Blue Flag," etc. (1879); "The Other Shore"; "Three Little Spades," a child's book; "Gardening by Myself"; "Up and Down the House"; "Pond Lily Stories"; "Miss Muff"; etc. She died in 1915.
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Warner (II)
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.
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Warner (III)
SUSAN, pen name ELIZA- BETH WETHERELL, an American novelist; born in New York, July 11, 1819. Her books are: "The Wide, Wide World" (1850); "Queechy" (2 vols. 1852); a theological treatise, "The Law and the Testimony" (1853); "The Hills of the Shatemuc" (1856); "Lyrics from the Wide, Wide World"; "The Golden Ladder" (1862); "The Old Helmet" (1863); "Wych Hazel" (1876); and an essay, "American Female Patriotism." She died in Highland Falls, N. Y., March 17, 1885. WAR OF 1812, the second serious conflict between Great Britain and the United States. It lasted for over two and a half years, years, beginning June 19, 1812, 1812, and ending with the treaty of Ghent, which was signed Dec. 24, 1814, and ratified Feb. 18, 1815. The principal cause of this war was the interference of Great Britain with American vessels, which she caused to be stopped on the high seas and searched for British subjects who were forced into the navy or imprisoned for refusing to serve. Several times American men-of-war were fired on and compelled to give up seamen in their crews. Great Britain also interfered with our commerce by her blockades and Embargo Act, and a bitter feeling was aroused. James Madison, at that time President of the United States, was personally opposed to a war, but was overruled by Congress, which appropriated large sums for the army and navy. See UNITED STATES, HISTORY.
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Warner (OLIN LEVI an American sculptor)
OLIN LEVI, an American sculptor; born in Suffield, Conn., April 9, 1844; early manifested a taste for sculpture; and first studied in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and later was a student in Carpeaux's studio. In 1872 he returned to the United States and opened a studio in New York City. In 1877 Daniel Cottier, an art dealer, invited him to place some of his work on exhibition in his rooms. This brought Mr. Warner's work under the eye of several critics who gave it favorable commendation. In 1877-1878 he modeled "Twilight," a small statue, which established his reputation. His works include "The Dancing Nymph"; "Cupid and Psyche"; reliefs of Joseph and other Indian chiefs; busts of J. Alden Weir, Miss Maude Morgan; and statues of Governor Buckingham of Connecticut, William Lloyd Garrison, General Devens; etc. He died in New York City, Aug. 14, 1896.
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Warner, Charles Dudley
Charles Dudley (1829-1900), an American editor and writer. He was a native of Plainfield, Massachusetts. He was graduated at Hamilton College in 1851 and by the law department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1856. He practiced law in Chicago for a few years. In 1860 he removed to Hartford, Connecticut, where he continued to reside for the rest of his life. Here he lived neighbor to Mark Twain and Mrs. Stowe. He held various editorial positions on the Evening Press and on the Courant, a morning paper in which he held an interest. Letters of travel, printed in the Courant, and a series of articles, afterward published under the title of My Summer in a Garden, brought him into prominence as a cheery, humorous writer. In 1884 he took charge of the Editor's Drawer, a department of Harper's Magazine. Warner's reputation as a man of letters rests on his success as an essayist. A list of his writings gives a score or two of titles. The most noted are perhaps Back-Log Studies, My Summer in a Garden, My Winter on the Nile, The Golden House, a novel, and The Relation of Literature to Life. He was editor-in-chief also of the American Men of Letters Series, and the Library of the World's Best Literature. The single essay by which he is best known to schoolboys is A-Hunting of the Deer.
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