number of stories for children:  “The Tanglewood Tales,” “The
  Snow-Image,” “The Wonder Books,” and some stories of American history. 
  His volumes of short stories charm old and young alike.  His Book, “The
  Scarlet Letter,” has made him famous.  It was while he lived at Lenox,
  Mass., among the Berkshire Hills, that he published “The House of the
  Seven Gables.”  He visited Italy in 1857, where he began “The Marble
  Faun,” which is considered his greatest novel.  He died in 1864, and is
  buried in Concord, Mass.  Hawthorne possessed a delicate and exquisite
  humor, and a marvelous felicity in the use of language.  His style may be
  said to combine almost every excellence—­elegance, simplicity, grace,
  clearness and force.

HAYNE, PAUL HAMILTON, an American poet, was born in South Carolina
  in the year 1831.  In 1854 he published a volume of poems.  His death
  occurred in 1886.  He was a descendant of the American patriot, Isaac
  Hayne, who, at the siege of Charleston in 1780, fell into the hands of
  the British, and was hanged by them because he refused to join their
  ranks and fight against his country.

HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT, a popular American author who wrote under
  the assumed name of Timothy Titcomb, was born in Massachusetts in the
  year 1819.  He began life as a physician, but after a few years of
  practice gave up his profession and went to Vicksburg, Miss., as
  Superintendent of Schools.  He wrote a number of novels and several
  volumes of essays.  In 1870 he became editor of Scribner’s Magazine. He
  died in 1881.

HUNT, LEIGH, editor, essayist, critic, and poet, and an intimate
  friend of Byron, Moore, Keats, and Shelley, was born near London,
  England, in 1784, and died in 1859.

JACKSON, HELEN HUNT, a noted American writer of prose and poetry,
  and known for years by her pen name of “H.H.” (the initials of her
  name), was born in Massachusetts in the year 1831.  She is the author of
  many charming poems, short stories, and novels.  Read her “Bits of Talk”
  and “Bits of Travel.”  She lived some years in Colorado, where her life
  brought to her notice the wrongs done the Indians.  In their defense she
  wrote “A Century of Dishonor,” The last book she wrote is “Ramona,” an
  Indian romance, which she hoped would do for the Indian what “Uncle
  Tom’s Cabin” had done for the slave.  Mrs. Jackson died in California in
  1885.

“MERCEDES” is the pen name of an able, zealous, and devoted Sister
  of one of our great Teaching Communities.  She has written several
  excellent “Plays” for use in Convent Schools which have met the test of
  successful production.  Her “Wild Flowers from the Mountain-side” is a
  volume of Poems and Dramas that exhibit “the heart and soul and faith of
  true poetry.”  A competent critic