CHARLES ANDERSON DANA was born at Hinsdale, New Hampshire, August 8th, 1819, and educated at Harvard. As a young man, he joined the Brook Farm Association and was in keen sympathy with the most active idealists and reformers of New England. Later, he became more conservative; but no matter what his opinions were, he knew how to enforce them with clear and vigorous English. From 1847 to 1862 he was managing editor of the New York Tribune. Serving during a greater part of the Civil War as assistant Secretary of State, he returned after the close of the war to journalism, and in 1868 became editor of the New York Sun,—a position he held until his death, October 17th, 1897. He was one of the editors of the “American Cyclopædia,” and a “Book of Household Poetry” edited by him is still a standard. He stands in journalism for the editorial essay, expressing a decided opinion in emphatic language. His editorials are often true essays of a high order of literary merit.