“ At an early age he removed with his parents to Detroit, Michigan. He entered the university of Michigan in 1853, but in the next year went to Yale College, from which he graduated A.B. in 1857, and received the degree of A.M. in 1863. ”

“ Most important among his works are his valuable and original History of American Literature during the Colonial Time, 1607-1765 (2 vols., 1878; revised in 1897) , and Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763-1783 (2 vols., 1897) . Supplementary to these two is his Three Men of Letters (1895) , containing biographical and critical chapters on George Berkeley, Timothy Dwight and Joel Barlow. In addition he published The Brawnville Papers (1869) , a series of essays on physical culture; a revision of Henry Morley's Manual of English Literature (1879) ”