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Excerpt from Literary Criticisms and Other Papers The pieces, it will be perceived, are different in extent and character. Several of them are fragmentary. A few have been printed in an ephemeral and limited form. Of these several were designed as expressions of friendly feeling to literary men of our country who are the subjects of them, and who till now, it is probable, have never known, except as they may have i1i ferred it from internal evidence, the pen from which they came. Some were contributions, spontaneous or solicited, to the enter prises of unfriended merit seeking subsistence in the scanty fields of our native literature: A few have appeared in news papers or other journals, the editors of which, while generally ignorant of their source, were usually impressed by the genius whose stamp they bore: And the residue appear to have been written chiefly in obedience to that law which declares that genius will labor He wrote and thought, said one of the guides and exponents of the best public Opinion in Philadel phiafi'< in speaking of Mr. Wallace after his death, with the most unselfish indifference to the immediate results to his own fame or fortune. To a limited circle of his personal and pro fessional friends and of people who detected his unusual intelli gence even in its retirement, was he known: and it was only after his death, when the admiration of these was expressed along with their grief, that the public at large discovered that a man of extraordinary talents had been born and bred among them. The Art, Scenery and Philosophy already referred to, and the volume now printed, form but a small part of Mr. Wallace's literary productions. Other portions of them, along with parts of his correspondence, may hereafter, it is possible, be communi cated to the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Horace Binney Wallace was born in Philadelphia, Pa. , the son of John Bradford and Susan (Binney) Wallace, and a lineal descendant of John Wallace, who came to Newport, R. I, from Scotland in 1742. His father was a lawyer and a member of the state legislature, and his mother was prominent in Philadelphia society.
His schooling began under a "venerable woman" in Burlington, N. J. , the home of his paternal grandparents and the summer home of his parents. In 1822, his father's land interests took the family to Meadville, on the fringe of the wilderness, where his training was continued by his father and the Rev. William Lucas. Before his fifteenth year, he had revealed an unusual gift for higher mathematics, and when he entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1830, he soon placed himself at the head of his class. After two years, he transferred to the College of New Jersey at Princeton, where he took the degree of A. B. in 1835. His interest in science led him to enter the office of Thomas Harris, M. D. , and to study for one term in the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania, but surgery had no attraction for him and he undertook instead a special course in chemistry under Dr. Robert Hare. He then entered his father's office to study law until the death of the latter in 1837.
He transferred to the office of Charles Chauncey, and was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia in the spring of 1840. He never practised, but devoted his attention to legal and literary commentary. When his mother died on July 9, 1849, he went to Europe for twelve months to study the arts, particularly church architecture. Failing health prompted him to go abroad again on November 13, 1852, and he died suddenly, presumably a suicide, in Paris, where he had gone for medical treatment. He was buried in the cemetery at Montmartre, but was reinterred in St. Peter's churchyard, Philadelphia, on March 4, 1853. While still in college, Wallace began to write anonymously for the periodicals, and presumably published a number of stories and essays which even his contemporaries failed to identify. His modesty led him to withhold his name from his only novel, Stanley, or the Recollections of a Man of the World. After his return from his first trip abroad, he came to the attention of Rufus W. Griswold, editor of Graham's Magazine, who dedicated his Prose Writers of America (1847) to him as the most promising young writer of his acquaintance. Various works attributed to Griswold have been, in part, credited also to Wallace, among which are Napoleon and the Marshals of the Empire and a pamphlet, The Military and Civil Life of George Washington (1849). His legal writings, the only ones which he published under his own name, consist of detailed and critical commentaries on A Selection of Leading Cases in Various Branches of the Law, by John William Smith, and on A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity, by Frederick Thomas White and Owen Davies Tudor. He and his collaborator, J. I. Clark Hare, supplied numerous examples and extended comment on American cases paralleling the English ones cited by the original authors. Together they also published Select Decisions of American Courts, a purely American compilation on the same plan, which was revised in 1857 under the title American Leading Cases. In all this work, Wallace demonstrated an analytical legal mind and a clear style. After his death, his literary miscellanies, most of them unfinished essays of philosophical nature, were collected in two volumes, Art, Scenery, and Philosophy in Europe (1855), and Literary Criticisms and Other Papers (1856), containing some of his best writing. Auguste Comte recognized him as his leading American disciple and compared his mind to that of Jefferson, and Wallace, in an essay in Art, Scenery, and Philosophy, acknowledges his master's discovery that "mental and moral subjects are capable of being embraced and analyzed by science. " His essays on Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael show esthetic as well as scientific perception, two faculties which he clearly distinguished in his own thought. Those on his contemporaries, G. P. Morris, later abridged as a preface to Morris' Poems (1860), and R. W. Griswold, have not the same philosophical detachment.
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Quotations:
"I certainly think that the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book, if it had but a single good thought in it, might be kept alive by it. "
"A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity. "
"Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!"
Horace Wallace was unmarried and had no children.
