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pst.000020201265-06	nan	The Dial  v.43 July-Dec	1907		.txt	text/plain	66712	5019	76	Graduated at eighteen from Union College, admitted to the bar a little later, ap- pointed inspector of Sing Sing prison at twenty-eight, holding an editorial position on the New York « Evening Post ” in the important decade (it was a duodecade, how- ever) 1849-61, U. S. Consul at Paris during most of the Civil War, Minister to France from 1864 to 1867, Secretary of State of New York in the middle seventies, friend and biographer of Samuel J. Tilden and co- worker with him in politics, president now of the board of trustees of the New York Public Library, a trustee of the Metropolitan Art Museum, member of the his- torical societies of New York, Massachusetts, and Mary- land, editor of Franklin's works, author of a life of Bryant and of other books, and still so busy with his pen that he was forced to work over-time to acknowledge the birthday tributes he received from his many friends, surely such a man need not wait till he is dead to be accounted happy. The Baby's Opera is even greater on the continent of Europe than was brought out under different auspices ; and at home; and in Germany, Austria, and Italy, this, meeting with marked success, was followed in particular, he is the idol of a considerable by “The Baby's Bouquet, number of the more progressive spirits who Åsop, and, in the course of years, by many Baby's Own regard placid acceptance of traditional views as other picture books to delight grown-up chil- stifling, and hail Mr. Crane as the leader under dren if not wee ones.	cache/pst.000020201265-06.txt	txt/pst.000020201265-06.txt