Mr. Thompson has published a number of novels: “A Tallahassee Girl” (1882); “His Second Campaign” (1882); “At Love’s Extremes” (1885); “A Banker of Bankersville” (1886); “A Fortnight of Folly” (1888); and “Stories of the Cherokee Hills” (1899), a volume of short tales reminiscent of slave days and the author’s boyhood. “A Tallahassee Girl” is a graceful and pretty story, the scene of which is laid at the South, as is true also of the two tales that immediately followed it. They convey distinct impressions of phases of Southern life in the early post-bellum period, and abound in romantic color. “Alice of Old Vincennes” (1900), is a captivating tale of the French period of Indiana history, closing with the surrender of Vincennes to Clark. The heroine is delightful, and Father Beret is a character worthy of Dumas. The book shows in all ways a marked advance over any previous prose work of this author. He has also written “The Boys’ Book of Sports” (1886); and “Louisiana” (1888), in the Stories of the States series, and “The Ocala Boy” (1885), all for juvenile readers. He has written many essays in which some phase of literature has been observed from the point of view of a nature-lover; and his touch in such instances is always light and his matter bright and stimulating. Two volumes of such papers have been collected, “By-ways and Bird Notes” (1885) and “Sylvan Secrets” (1887). The scientist and the litterateur meet in his discussions of the mind and memory of birds, and the anatomy of bird-song; and his essay on Shakespeare, written within sound of the Gulf of Mexico, to the accompaniment of the songs of mocking-birds, is wholly characteristic of his independence in literary matters. He has been one of the most courageous champions of the romantic as against the analytic and realistic. He delivered at the Hartford Theological Seminary, in 1883, a series of lectures dealing comprehensively with the question of morality in literature, and he embodied these in a volume, “The Ethics of Literary Art” (1883). Mr. Thompson became, in 1889, literary editor of the New York _Independent_, reserving, however, the privilege of continuing his residence at Crawfordsville. His home, “Sherwood Place,” is on a quiet margin of the town, and the house has stood for half a century shielded from the public eye by native beeches and alien pines. Mr. Thompson’s life is wholly devoted to study and writing. His instincts are thoroughly scholarly, and in some directions, as in Greek poetry and Old French literature, where long and loving study have given him special knowledge, he is an authority. He has no complaints of the world’s treatment of him or his work, and he declares that his writings have been received with much more cordiality than they have deserved. He is exceedingly kind to beginners in literature, and his criticisms have been of benefit to many young Western and Southern writers. Wabash College conferred upon