While others have lived upon one bank or the other of the river, they have spent their lives almost in the midst of it, on an island in the \'ery wonderland of the Highlands. Henry Warner, a member of the New York bar, removed to Constitution Island with his family before the middle of the nineteenth century. An old house, occupied as headc[uarters during the Revolution, was added to and partly rebuilt by him, and is still the residence of his surviving daughter, Miss Anna B. Warner. Susan Warner, to quote the words of Evert Duyckinck, "made a sudden step into eminence as a writer, by the publication, in 1849, of TJie Wide, Wide World, a novel in two volumes. It is a story of American domestic life, WTitten in an easy and somewhat diffuse style." The Wide, Wide World was soon followed by Queechy, and this by a theological work called The Laiv and the Testimony. Her earlier writings were published over the pen name of Elizabeth Wetherell. Duyckinck did not tell the half when he said that Miss Warner made a sudden step into eminence by the publication of her first novel. During the first ten years

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over one hundred thousand copies were sold of the American edition, a record which, bearing in mind the Hmited pubHc of the day, was noteworthy, and it has remained in steady demand during the half century since its first issue. Some hundreds of thousands of copies were sold in European editions, which brought to the writer fame, if not wealth. The sisters frequently worked together. The younger, who had chosen Amy Lathrop as her literary title, made her Ijow to the reading public with a novel called Dollars and Cents; ])ut she was associated with the elder Miss Warner in the production of The Hills of the Shateniuc, the title being one of the Indian names for the Hudson River.