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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 3- GEORGE HENRY BOKER. Dirge for a Soldier, XV. 134. r EORGE HENRY BOKER was bor n in Philadel- ' . VT phia, in 1824. He jww graduated at Princeton College in 1842, and stndied law, but has never practised. His first publication was The Lesson of Life, and other Poems (1847). His first tragedy, Calay- nos, produced soon after, was brought out in London, and jwas successful. His other plays inclnde Anne Boleyn, Leonor de Guzman, and Francesca da Rimini. His Plays and Poems have been published in Boston, in two volumes, to which he has added a volume of Poems of the War, inclnding many patriotic poems written during the war of the Rebellion, the best of which is the Dirge for a Soldier. This poem is in memory of General Philip Kearny, who was born in New York City, June 2, 1815, received a commission in the United States army in 1887, distinguished himself in the Mexican War, losing an arm in the attack on the city of Mexico, and became famous as one of our most brilliant officers during the Rebellion. He fell at the battle of Chantilly, in Virginia, September 1, 1862. Mr. Boker edited Lippincott's Magazine in 1868- 70, was appointed United States minister resident at Constantinople in 1871, and was transferred to St. Petersburg in 1874. chapter{{Section 4BROWN. ? BROWNING. 25 JOHN BROWN, M. D. Rat and his Friends, IV. 7. ? Marjorie Fleming, X. 108. JOHN BROWN was born in Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland, in September, 1810. His father, Rev. John Brown, pastor of the Burgher congregation at 1iiggar, and afterward Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh, was the anthor of several theological works. John the younger was graduated at the University of Edinburgh, stndied medicine, and became a practising physician in Edinburgh. He has been a frequent c...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217507714 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217507719 |
| Weight | 0.57 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.39 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 170 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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