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                            Introduction
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Hamilton Wright Mabie, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D. (December 13, 1846 -
December 31, 1916) was an American essayist, editor, critic, and
lecturer.


                             Biography
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Hamilton Wright Mabie was born at Cold Spring, New York on December
13, 1846. He was the youngest child of Sarah Colwell Mabie who was
from a wealthy Scottish-English family and Levi Jeremiah Mabie, whose
ancestors were Scots-Dutch. They were early immigrants to New
Amsterdam, New Netherland about 1647. Due to business opportunities
with the opening of the Erie Canal his family moved to Buffalo, New
York when he was approaching school age.  At the young age of 16 he
passed his college entrance examination, but waited a year before he
attended Williams College (1867) and the Columbia Law School (1869).

While at Williams, Mabie was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity
and would serve as the first president of the North American
Interfraternity Conference (formally known as the National
Interfraternity Conference).

He received honorary degrees from his own alma mater, from Union
College, and from Western Reserve and Washington and Lee universities.
Although he passed his bar exams in 1869 he hated both the study and
practice of law. In 1876 he married Jeanette Trivett. In the summer of
1879 he was hired to work at the weekly magazine, Christian Union
(renamed The Outlook in 1893), an association that lasted until his
death.

In 1884, Mabie was promoted to associate editor of the Christian Union
and then elected to the Author's Club, whose members included such men
of established reputation as George Cary Eggleston, Richard Watson
Gilder, Brander Matthews, and Edmund Clarence Stedman.

In 1890, a small collection of Mabie's essays which reflected upon
life, literature and nature were published as a volume entitled 'My
Study Fire'.

Many of Mabie's books are available at Project Gutenberg.


Mabie was a resident of Summit, New Jersey. He died at his home there
on December 13, 1916, and was buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in New
York.


                             Quotations
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"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy
of love."

"Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not
with the wind."


                           Selected works
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* 'Norse Stories, Retold from the Eddas' (1882)
* 'Nature in New England' (1890)
* 'My Study Fire' (two series, 1890 and 1894)
* 'In the Forest of Arden' (1891)
* 'Short Studies in Literature' (1891)
* 'Under the Trees and Elsewhere' (1891)
* 'Essays in Literary Interpretation' (1892)
* 'Essays on Nature and Culture' (1896)
* 'Essays on Books and Culture' (1897)
* 'Essays on Work and Culture' (1898)
* 'The Life of the Spirit' (1899)
* 'William Shakespeare, Poet, Dramatist, and Man' (1900)
* 'A Child of Nature' (1901) Published by Dodd, Mead and Company
* 'Works and Days' (1902)
* 'Parables of Life' (1902)
* 'In Arcady' (1903) Published by Dodd, Mead and Company
* 'Backgrounds of Literature' (1904)
* 'Introduction to Notable Poems' (1909)
* 'American Ideals, Character, and Life' (1913)
* 'Japan To-Day and To-Morrow' (1914)


Every Child Should Know
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Doubleday, Page & Co. published this anthology series, in which
Mabie edited several early volumes:
* 'Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know' (1905)
* 'Myths That Every Child Should Know' (1905)
* 'Heroes Every Child Should Know' (1906)
* 'Legends That Every Child Should Know' (1906)
* 'Famous Stories Every Child Should Know' (1907)
* 'Essays That Every Child Should Know' (1908)
* 'Heroines That Every Child Should Know' (1908), ed. Mabie and Kate
Stephens
* 'Folk Tales Every Child Should Know' (1910)
*Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern; New York,
R. S. Peale and J. A. Hill, (c.1896-97), co-contributor


                           External links
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* [https://myndir.uvic.ca/HaWrMa01.html MyNDIR (My Norse Digital Image
Repository)]  Illustrations from manuscripts and early print books by
Hamilton Wright Mabie.


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