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Gilder, Richard Watson

journalist, author, poet, was born Feb. 8, 1844, in Bordentown, N. J. He is a writer of New York city well known both as a poet and as the editor of The Century Magazine, of which, with its predecessor, Scribner's Monthly, he has been editor-in-chief since 1881. He is the author of The New Day, The Poet and his Master, Lyrics; The Celestial Passion; Two Worlds; The Great Remembrance, and Other Poems; and Five Books of Song, which include all of his collected poems up to the year 1894.