Butler jiublished " Lawyer and Client,'' a valuable exi)osition of the relations, rights and duties which ought to exist between the two. In the same year appeared a volume of " Poems," containing the translations from Uhland, "Nothing to Wear," poems of travel and other verses. Other published works of Mr. Butler are " The Bible By Itself," an address be - fore the New York Bible Society, 1860 ; " Martin Van Buren, Lawyer, Statesman and Man," 1862, a comprehensive though brief biography of that eminent statesman.

Mr. Butler has lived in Yonkers nearly a score of years, and his family by their culture and taste, together with the accessory advantage of wealth and liberality in the use of it, have been one of many who have made themselves felt in the city socially and in many varieties of useful work.

Frederic S. Cozzens, author of the "Sparrowgrass Papers," etc., was a resident of Yonkers. He was boi n in New York City, March 5, 1818, and died at Brooklyn, December 23, 1869. Mr. Cozzens' occupation was that of a wine merchant, but he early evinced a taste for literature, and contributed a number of pojv ular sketches to the Knickerbocker and Putnam'x Magazines. In 1853 he published a volume of sketches in prose and verse, entitled " Prismatics, by Richard Hay ward." It was illustrated by Darley, Hensett, Elliott and others. His " Sparrowgrass Papers," describing a cockney's residence in the country, were first written for Ptdnam'.n Monthly, but in 1856 were published in book form. He also published, in connection with his business, a pleasant miscellany, entitled The Wine Press, which he continued to edit for seven years, relinquishing the publication on the breaking out of the Civil War. A collection of essays on gastronomic and kindred topics from its pages was published, in 1867, with the title, "Sayings of Dr.