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Stoddard, Richard Henry

journalist, author, poet, was born July 2, 1825, in Hingham, Mass. He is a critic of New York city, and literary editor of The Mail and Express from 1880. He has edited the Bric-a- Brac Series and other volumes, while his own writings include Poems; Adventures in Fairy Land; Footprints; Life of Humboldt; Songs of Summer; The King's Bell; The Book of the East; Abraham Lincoln: a Horatian Ode; Putnam the Brave; A Century After; Life of Washington Irving; The Lion's Cub, with Other Verse; and Under the Evening Lamp, a collection of essays on literary topics.