never visited a foreign country, and traveled but little in his own.  He
  gave thirty of the best years of his life to the anti-slavery struggle. 
  While other poets traveled in foreign lands or studied in their
  libraries, Whittier worked hard for the freedom of the slave.  Of this he
  wrote—­
         “Forego the dreams of lettered ease,
         Put thou the scholar’s promise by;
         The rights of man are more than these.”

Mr. Whittier died in the year 1892.

WISEMAN, CARDINAL NICHOLAS PATRICK, was born in the year 1802 in
  Seville, Spain, of an Irish family settled there.  His family returned to
  Ireland, where he was educated.  When he was sixteen he entered the
  English College, Rome, and was ordained priest in 1825.  In 1840 he was
  appointed Coadjutor Bishop, and in 1850 the Pope named him Archbishop of
  Westminster, and at the same time created him a Cardinal.  He was a
  profound scholar, an eloquent preacher, and a brilliant writer, and is
  the author of many able works.  He was one of the founders of the Dublin
  Review. He died in 1865.  His “Fabiola or the Church of the Catacombs,”
  from which some selections have been taken for this Reader, is one of
  the classics of our language.  It was written in 1854.

WOODWORTH, SAMUEL, editor and poet, was born in Massachusetts in
  1785, and died in 1842.  With George P. Morris, he founded the New York
  Mirror. “The Old Oaken Bucket” is the best known of his poems.

  For sketches of other authors from whom selections are taken for this
  book, see the Third and the Fourth Reader of the series.

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