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360 of which first appeared in " Scribner's Monthly." This book is a panegyric of the kindly influences of the fireside circle, and a discussion of current topics of social life, in the peculiar vein of humor that characterizes the writer. His other works in- clude contributions to the magazines on social, artistic, and literary topics ; " Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing" (1874) ; " My Winter on the Nile" (Hartford, 1876) ; " In the Levant " (1877) ; " In the Wilderness " (Boston, 1878) ; " Capt. John Smith " (New York, 1881); "Washington Irving," in the " Men of Letters " series, of which he is editor (Bos- ton, 1881) ; " Roundabout Journey " (1883) ; " Their Pilgrimage," a serial, depicting the exploits of an author and an artist on a tour of the Atlantic coast and inland northern and southern watering-places (New York, 1886) ; and " On Horseback " (1888). He has also published, with Samuel L. Clemens, " The Gilded Age " (1873).

WARNER, Hiram, jurist, b. in Hampshire county, Mass., 29 Oct., 1802 ; d. in Atlanta, Ga., in 1881. He received an academical education, removed to Georgia in 1819, and taught there for three years. He was admitted to the bar in 1825, and began practice in Knoxville, Ga. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1828-'31, was elected in 1833 a judge of the su- perior court of Georgia, re-elected in 1836, and served till 1840. He was appointed in 1845 a judge of the supreme court of the state, served till 1853, when he resigned, and was elected to congress in 1855. He was a member of the Charleston Demo- cratic convention in 1860, and opposed the seces- sion movement there and in the Georgia secession convention of 1861. After the war he sustained the reconstruction acts of congress. On the re- organization of the judiciary of the state, he was appointed a judge of the supreme court, and in 1872 he was appointed chief justice of that court.

WARNER, Seth, soldier, b. in Roxburv, Conn., 17 May, 1743 ; d. there. 26 Dec, 1784. He early became known for his skill in hunting, his energv, sound judgment, and manly bearing. In 1763 he removed with his father, Benjamin Warner, M. D., to Bennington, then in the " New Hamp- shire Grants." During the dispute between New York and the inhabitants of the Grants, over whom that state claimed jurisdiction, Ethan Allen and Seth Warner, who were the leaders of the peo- f)le, were outlawed. At the opening of the Revo- ution, Warner espoused the patriot cause, and, though the New York legislature several times pro- tested against his commission, congress refused to revoke it. As second in command, he assisted in the capture of Ticonderoga, and on the following day took the important post of Crown Point with its garrison and 113 cannon. For this he was given a colonel's commission by congress, dated 27 July, 1775, and joined Gen. Richard Mont- gomery in Canada. He took part in the following September in the siege of St. John's, New Bruns- wick, and defeated Sir Guy Carleton, who at- tempted its relief. His regiment was then dis- charged, and after the death of Gen. Montgomery, on the last day of the year, he raised another body of troops and marched to Quebec. On the night of 4 July, 1777, when Ticonderoga was evacu- ated, the main body of the American army took the road leading through Hubbardton and Castle- ton. At the former place the rear-guard was placed under the command of Warner, who was attacked by Gen. Simon Frazer on 7 July and compelled to retreat after a severe engagement. At the battle of Bennington, Warner's regiment arrived in time to repel the re-enforcement that had been sent to the enemy. He afterward joined the forces of Gen. Horatio Gates at Still- water. He remained with the army until 1782, when his health gave way, and he returned with his family to Roxbury. Warner was more than six feet in height, erect, and well proportioned. See a memoir of him bv Daniel Chipman (Middle- bury, Vt., 1848). In 1787 the state of Vermont granted him 2,000 acres of land in Essex county. — His great-grandnephew, Olin Levi, sculptor, b. in Suffield, Conn., 9 April, 1844, began life as a tele- graph-operator, but subsequently adopted sculp- ture as a profession, studying at the Ecole des beaux arts, Paris, under Francois Jouffroy, dur- ing 1869-'72. His studio is in New York, where he was elected a member of the Society of Ameri- can artists in 1877, and an associate of the Na- tional academy in 1888. His works include the statuettes "May" (1872) and "Twilight" (1878); a colossal medallion of Edwin Forrest, which was exhibited at Philadelphia in 1876 ; " Dancing Nymph " (1879) : a fountain for Portland, Oregon, completed in 1888 ; " Diana " (1888) ; portrait- statues of Gov. William A. Buckingham, which was placed in the capitol in Hartford in 1883, and William Lloyd Garrison (1885) in Boston ; and numerous portrait-busts, among them those of Rutherford B. Hayes, owned bv the Union league club, New York (1876), and the Rev. William F. Morgan, D. D. (1887).

WARNER, Susan, author, b. in New York city, 11 July, 1819; d. in Highland Falls, N. Y„ 17 March, 1885. She was the daughter of Henry W. Warner, a member of the New York bar, who died at his residence on Constitution island, opposite West Point, in 1875. She inherited a talent for writing from her father, who was the author of " An Inquiry into the Moral and Religious Charac- ter of the American Government," and " The Liber- ties of America " (New York, 1853). Under the pen-name of "Elizabeth Wetherell" Miss Warner published her first novel, "The Wide, Wide World," when she was thirty-one years old (New York, 1851). The publisher, George P. Putnam, was advised by his critics to reject it, and was about to do so, when his mother read the manuscript and per- suaded him to put it into print. For months it seemed to have fallen dead, then it suddenly be- gan to be called for, and ultimately a quarter of a million copies were sold. The work was also published in Europe, where it enjoyed almost equal popularity. In 1852 Miss Warner issued " Queechy," which had a large sale, and has constantly been reprinted. The year following she published " The iaw and the Testimony," in which the texts establishing the great doctrines of Christianity are brought together under their appropriate heads. Her next work, " The Hills of the Shatemuc " (1856), "containing descriptions of scenery on Hudson river, was followed by "The Old Helmet" (1863); "Melbourne House ""(1864); "Daisy" (1868); "A Story of Small Beginnings" (1872); "The Sav and Do Series: Stories on the Lord's Supper (1875) ; " The Broken Walls of Jerusalem, and the Rebuilding of Them " (1878) ; and " The Kingdom of Judah " (1878). In collaboration with her sister she wrote " Say and Seal " (New York, 1860) ; " Ellen Montgomery's Book-Shelf" (1863-'9); "Books of Blessing " (1868); and " Wych Hazel " (1876). Some of Miss Warner's works were soon translated into French, German, and Swedish. " The Wide, Wide World " was the most popular novel ever written by an American, with the single exception of Mrs. Stowe's famous story. " It was not," says a critic, " as a picture of life that ' Uncle Tom's Cabin ' ap-