Among the literary men given less to fiction and more to history, sociology, and philosophy who have yielded to the _Sun’s_ columns from their treasure, sometimes anonymously, were Jeremiah Curtin, the translator of Sienkiewicz and Tolstoy and an authority on folk-lore; George Ticknor Curtis, jurist and writer on the Constitution; Goldwin Smith, whose views on the subject of the destiny of Canada coincided with Dana’s, and who contributed to the _Sun_ hundreds of articles from his store of philosophical and political wisdom; Charles Francis Adams, Jr., who wrote on railway management; General Adam Badeau, one of Grant’s biographers; William Elliot Griffis, probably the most authoritative of all American writers upon Japanese affairs; and Francis Lynde Stetson, the distinguished authority on corporation and railway law. [Illustration: PAUL DANA ] Of the more strictly journalistic writers who, although not attached permanently to the _Sun’s_ staff, contributed to its news and editorial columns, the names rise of James S. Pike, of Joseph Pulitzer and his predecessor as editor of the _World_, William Henry Hurlbut; of James F. Shunk and his brother-in-law, Chauncey F. Black, both of Pennsylvania and both humorists; of Edward Spencer, a writer of fiction who displayed splendid imaginative qualities, and of Oliver Dyer, whose range of ability was so great that while one day he wrote for Bonner’s _Ledger_ advice to distressed lovers, the next day would find him penning for the _Sun_ an exhaustive article on the methods employed in building a railroad across the Andes! Dana encouraged the men who wrote exclusively, or almost entirely, for the _Sun_, to write fiction. Edward P. Mitchell, whom Mr. Dana attracted to the _Sun_ from the Lewiston (Maine) _Journal_ in 1875, when Mr. Mitchell was twenty-three years old, wrote for the _Sun_ at least a score of short stories of between two thousand and six thousand words. Two of his tales--“The Ablest Man in the World” and “The Tachypomp,” both scientific fantasies of remarkably ingenious construction, were included in the Scribner collection of “Short Stories by American Authors,” Mr. Mitchell being the only writer doubly represented in those volumes. “The Ablest Man in the World” also has its place in Stedman and Hutchinson’s distinguished “Library of American Literature.”