[Illustration] AUTHORS AT HOME _PERSONAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN WRITERS_ EDITED BY J. L. & J. B. GILDER NEW YORK A. WESSELS COMPANY 1902 COPYRIGHT, 1889, BY O. M. DUNHAM. COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY A. WESSELS COMPANY. EDITOR’S NOTE The sketches of authors at home in this book have as their special value the fact that the writer of each article was selected for the purpose by the author himself. The sketches appeared from time to time in _The Critic_, where they attracted particular attention by virtue of their authenticity, as well as for the names of the subjects and the writers. The Canadian border has been crossed in the article on Prof. Goldwin Smith; but with this exception the series treats only of native American writers who make their home on this side of the Atlantic. Since these sketches were written, some of the most distinguished of the authors in the list have died, all of them meeting natural deaths, with one exception, Mr. Paul Leicester Ford. J. L. G. NEW YORK, _June, 1902_. CONTENTS PAGE