gularly pure and stainless character." He also was a lawyer as well as a student and man of letters, and was a " Hudson- Riverite " by virtue of long residence. His grave lies in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, at Tarry- town, a short distance to the north-west of Washington Irving 's plot. For a number of years subsequent to 1847, Mr. Duyckinck conducted The Literary World. There was, however, an intermission of one year in his editorial labours, during which Hoffman was in charge of the paper. The Literary World was established by Duyck- inck and his brother, and was considered by the poet Dana to be the best journal of its kind ever published in America. One of the bibliographer's associates and warm admirers was William Allen Butler, the author of Nothing to Wear, who pronounced an eulogy upon his memory at a meeting of the New York Historical Society in 1879. Mr. Butler, himself a member of the bar, was of a well-known Hudson River family. His father was Benjamin F. Butler of Albany, in whose office Martin Van Buren studied law. The pages of Duyckinck, Griswold, and other edi- tors disclose names once fragrant, but now withered as the handful of pressed rose petals that flutter out, leaving a faint, ghostly impression and a fleeting, musky Digitized by Microsoft® 272 The Hudson River perfume. There, for instance, we find reference to James Gordon Brooks, who was born in 1801, at Claverack, in Columbia County. He studied law at Poughkeepsie. . and passed most of his life at Albany, where he de- voted much of his time to literary labour. It is said of him that, "half a century ago the now-forgotten singer's name was one of the brightest poetical names of the day, and always mentioned along with those of Bryant, Dana, Halleck, Percivale, Pierpont, Pinckney, Sprague, and Woodworth. ' ' Leggett, in his Biographies of American Poets, included Brooks and excluded Dana. Another early poet, once of considerable celebrity, but long since forgotten, was Henry Pickering. He was born in the latter part of the eighteenth century at Newburgh, in the house which is now known as Wash- ington's Headquarters. His own description of that house may be appropriately quoted here : Square and rough-hewn, and solid is the mass, And ancient, if aught ancient here appear. Beside yon rock-ribb'd hills: but many a year Hath into dim oblivion swept, alas! Since bright in arms, the worthies of the land Were here assembled. Let me reverent tread; For now, meseems, the spirits of the dead Are slowly gathering round, while I am fann'd By gales unearthly. Ay, they hover near — Patriots and Heroes — the august and great — The founders of a young and mighty state, Whose grandeur who shall tell? With holy fear, While tears unbidden my dim eyes suffuse, I mark them one by one, and marvelling muse. Digitized by Microsoft® Literary Associations of the Hudson 273 I gaze, but they have vanish'd; and the eye, Free now to roam from where I take my stand. Dwells on the hoary pile, let no rash hand Attempt its desecration : for though I Beneath the sod shall sleep, and memory's sigh Be there for ever stifled in this breast,— Yet all who boast them of a land so blest. Whose pilgrim feet may some day hither hie, — Shall melt, alike, and kindle at the thought That these rude walls have echoed to the sound Of the great Patriot's voice I that even the ground I tread was trodden too by him who fought To make us free; and whose unsullied name, Still, like the sun, illustrious shines the same. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, of Irving 's generation, was a native of the very Dutch town of Albany, though of English ancestry. His books cover a wide field of travel, history, and scientific research, but it was par- ticularly in the field of ethnology that he excelled, and his monumental works relating to the history, mode of life, and traditions of various Indian tribes have given him a permanent place among great American investigators. But we cannot accord to Schoolcraft any prominent place in the literary associations of the Hudson, for his work was mainly the result of thirty years of sojourn and study among the redskins upon the frontier. John Romeyn Brodhead, the patient compiler of the ten great tomes that contain transcripts of all discov- erable documents relating to the early history of New York, was born in Saugerties. He ransacked the lib- raries of The Hague and of London, scenting an old Digitized by Microsoft® 2 74 The Hudson River document with the unerring sense of a true bookworm, and coming home at last laden with wonderful spoil. To his