_LITTLE NOVELS BY FAVOURITE AUTHORS_ Their Child ROBERT HERRICK [Illustration] [Illustration: _Robert Herrick_] Their Child BY ROBERT HERRICK AUTHOR OF “THE WEB OF LIFE,” “THE MAN WHO WINS,” “THE GOSPEL OF FREEDOM,” ETC. [Illustration] New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1903 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up, electrotyped, and published October, 1903. Norwood Press J. B. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood Mass., U.S.A. MR. ROBERT HERRICK, the author of “The Gospel of Freedom,” “The Web of Life,” and “The Real World,” was born in Cambridge, Mass., April 26, 1868. His father was a lawyer, practising in Boston. His people on both sides were of New England stock, the Herricks running back in New England to 1632, and the Emerys, Mannings, Hales, and Peabodys, with whom among others his genealogy is connected, having much the same history. Mr. Herrick was educated at the Cambridge public schools, and at Harvard University, graduating in 1890. His freshman year and part of his sophomore year were spent in travelling in the West Indies, Mexico, California, Alaska, and other regions, in company with his classmate, Philip Stanley Abbot. While in college Mr. Herrick paid special attention to English studies, attending courses of lectures delivered by the late Professor Child, Professor James, and Professor Barrett Wendell, among others. For a year he was one of the editors of the _Harvard Advocate_, and contributed several stories to that magazine. Later he was editor of the _Harvard Monthly_--the purely literary magazine of the University,--contributing frequently to its pages. One of his fellow-editors was Norman Hapgood, the author of “Abraham Lincoln: the Man of the People,” and “George Washington.” After graduation Mr. Herrick began to teach English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under Professor George R. Carpenter (now of Columbia University), and continued to correct themes and to give an occasional course in literature until 1893, when he resigned his position in Boston to accept an instructorship in English at the University of Chicago. In 1895 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Rhetoric in the University, and he has since taught chiefly Rhetoric and English Composition.