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veying on the Missouri frontier (1853), he returned to the East ( 1854) to take up the study of law. He graduated at the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1850, and practiced his profession in Chicago until 1860, when he removed to Hartford. Here he became assistant editor and later editor-in-chief of the Hartford Press, and in l867 coeditor of the Hartford Courant, with which he was connected till his death. In 1884 he took charge of the department of Harper's Magazine called "The Editor's Drawer," and in 1892 succeeded W. D. Howells in "The Editor's Study" of the same periodical. He made several visits to Europe and the East as correspondent of American newspapers and traveled extensively in the United States and Mexico, contributing papers of descriptive and social life to Harper's Magazine. His separately published work began in 1870 with My Summer in a Garden, a volume of genial sketches, and was afterwards varied and extended. Among his best known books are: Saunterings (1872); Backlog Studies (1872); Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing (1874) ; Mummies and Moslems (1876); In the Levant (1877) ; Being a Boy (1877) ; Washington Irving (1881) ; Captain John Smith (1881) ; A Roundabout Journey (1883); Their Pilgrimage (1887); On Horseback (1888) ; Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada (1889) ; A Little Journey in the World (1889), a novel; Our Italy (1891) ; As We Were Saying (1894) ; and The Golden House (1895), a novel. He was also editor of the American Men of Letters (1881), a series of biographies, and of the Library of the World's Best Literature (1896-97). In conjunction with S. L. Clemens ('Mark Twain') he wrote The Gilded Age (1873). Warner was greatly interested in prison reform and other philanthropic work, and by his travels and genial personality did much to bring North and South to understand each other. He was sympathetic with young authors and was a kindly critic, a refined humorist, and a helpful force in American letters.

WARNER, Olin Levi (1844-96). An American sculptor, born at West Suffield, Conn. In 1869 he went to Paris, working at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, under Jouffroy, Falguière, and Mercier, and afterwards as assistant to Carpeaux. In 1870, on the proclamation of the French Republic, he entered the foreign legion, and did good service during the siege of Paris. On his return to New York he failed to win public recognition, and returned to his father's farm. A commission from Mr. Plant encouraged his return to art, and shortly afterwards he made the friendship of Daniel Cottier, through whose efforts the merit of his work was recognized and his success became established. To the Centennial Exposition of 1876 he sent his bust of President Hayes and the high relief portrait of Edwin Forrest; in 1879 he exhibited his graceful statue "Twilight." His modeling is solid, severe and simple in style, displaying a fine feeling for the yielding elasticity of the flesh. Among other works of importance are the busts of J. Alden Weir (1880) and William Lloyd Garrison (Boston), and the charming head of Maud Morgan, the harpist (1881). One of his most notable productions is the fountain at Portland, Oregon, with its Greek caryatids. In 1893 he designed the souvenir coin for the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, and modeled the colossal medallion heads of Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Raphael, Titian, and Velazquez, in high relief, on the entablature of the Art Building. Among his later works is the colossal head of Mozart (Buffalo, 1892). He died in New York City, August 14, 1896.

WARNER, Seth (1743-84). An American soldier, born at Roxbury, Conn. Removing with his father to Bennington, Vt., in 1763, he there became prominent as a leader of the 'Green Mountain Boys,' opposing New York's claim to the 'New Hampshire Grants' (later Vermont), and being outlawed in consequence by the New York Government, in 1771. In 1775 he led the detachment which on May 12th captured Crown Point, and on July 27th became by election lieutenant-colonel of the Green Mountain Boys, participating as such in General Montgomery's expedition to Canada. On July 5, 1776, he was appointed colonel in one of the Continental regiments, and on July 7, 1777, was in command at the disastrous battle of Hubbardton (q.v. ), subsequently rendering efficient service at the battle of Bennington (q.v.), August 16, 1777. Early in 1782 he was forced by ill health to retire from the army, and returned to Roxbury, where he died. Consult Chipman, Life of Colonel Seth Warner (Middlebury, Vt., 1848).

WARNER, SUSAN (1819-85). An American novelist, born in New York, known also under the pen name of 'Elizabeth Wetherell.' Her first novel, The Wide, Wide World (1851), won much popularity, although it had been almost rejected by its publishers. Queechy (1852) was also popular. She next published The Law and the Testimony (1853), in which under appropriate headings are grouped the biblical texts establishing the cardinal doctrine of Christianity. This was followed by a story full of scenic description, The Hills of the Shatemuc (1856). Of several subsequent stories the more nameworthy are The Old Helmet (1856), Melbourne House (1864), and Daisy (1868). Miss Warner also collaborated with her sister Anna ('Amy Lothrop') in Say and Seal (1860) and several other juvenile books. Several of her works found acceptance in French, German, and Swedish translations, but none approached in merit or popularity The Wide, Wide World, which, next to Uncle Tom's Cabin, is perhaps the most widely circulated story of American authorship.

WARNER, WILLIAM (1558?-1609). An English poet, born in London. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, but left without a degree, and settled in London as an attorney. He died March 9, 1609, at Amwell, in Hertfordshire, and was buried there. Warner is chiefly known for Albion's England (1586), a long poem in fourteen-syllable lines treating of history and legend from Noah to William the Conqueror. Originally in four books, the poem was enlarged in subsequent editions to sixteen books, and the history was brought down into the reign of James I. (1612 ; reprinted in Chalmer's English Poets, vol. iv., London, 1810). Warner also published a translation of the Menæchmi of Plautus (1595) and a collection of tales under the title Pan His Syrinx (1585).