Bryant's Wealth

Bryant was the riohest poet America has ever prodnoed. His production s have had a Htendy sale lor half a century, and no library is perfect without Bryant. His " Library of Poetry and Song," issucd by J. B. Ford & Co., is the only unsuceessfnl book eouneoted with his name. It deserved a better fute, being a really admirable eollection; the real editor, howevcr, was Mr. E. H. Knight, of Washington, and Bryant looked over the work, and no poem was inserted without his consent. To this he added im elabórate introduction. The Euening Post has been a remuneraiive journal, and thus, betweenthe combined profits of poetry and journaliam, Bryant had aiquired a property wlioee value