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An American author; born in Buffalo, N. Y., July 2, 1847. He graduated from Yale in 1859, became tutor there in 1871, and professor of English literature in 1880. He has published among other works: "A Century of American Literature" (1878); "The Thankless Muse", poems (1886); "From Chaucer to Tennyson" (1890); "Initial Studies in American Letters" (1892); "A Suburban Pastoral, and Other Tales" (1894); "The Ways of Yale" (1895); "Points at Issue" (1904).