WARNER, Susan, author, born in New York city, 11 July, 1819; died in Highland Falls, New York, 17 March, 1885. She was the daughter of Henry W. Warner, a member of the New York bar, who died at his residence on Constitution island, opposite West Point, in 1875. She inherited a talent for writing from her father, who was the author of "An Inquiry into the Moral and Religious Character of the American Government," and "The Liberties of America" (New York, 1853). Under the pen-name of "Elizabeth Wetherell" Miss Warner published her first novel, "The Wide, Wide World," when she was thirty-one years old (New York, 1851). The publisher, George P. Putnam, was advised by his critics to reject it, and was about to do so, when his mother read the manuscript and persuaded him to put it into print. For months it seemed to have fallen dead, then it suddenly be-Ran to be called for, and ultimately a quarter of a million copies were sold. The work was also published in Europe, where it enjoyed almost equal popularity. In 1852 Miss Warner issued "Queechy," which had a large sale, and has constantly been reprinted. The year following she published "The Law and the Testimony," in which the texts establishing the great doctrines of Christianity are brought together under their appropriate heads. Her next work, "The Hills of the Shatemuc" (1856), containing descriptions of scenery on Hudson river, was followed by "The Old Helmet" (1863); "Melbourne House" (1864); "Daisy" (1868); "A Story of Small Beginnings" (1872) ; "The Say and Do Series: Stories on the Lord's Supper" (1875); "The Broken Walls of Jerusalem, and the Rebuilding of Them" (1878); and "The Kingdom of Judah" (1878). In collaboration with her sister she wrote "Say and Seal" (New York, 1860); "Ellen Montgomery's Book-Shelf" (1863-'9); " Books of Blessing" (1868); and "Wyeh Hazel" (1876). Some of Miss Warner's works were soon translated into French, German, and Swedish. "The Wide, Wide World" was the most popular novel ever written by an American, with the single exception of Mrs. Stowe's famous story. "It was not," says a critic, "as a picture of life that ' Uncle Tom's Cabin' appealed to readers. It was as a contribution of the writer to the discussion of a burning question, and its unexampled popularity was much more than merely literary. The success of ' The Wide, Wide World, ' on the other hand, was purely artistic, so to speak. It owes nothing to the subject and nothing to incidents. There is not a touch of melodrama in its treatment, and it has as little story as if it had been written by Henry James." Taine expressed his astonishment that in America "a three-volume novel is devoted to the history of the moral progress of a girl of thirteen." Miss Warner was buried, by her desire, near the Cadets' monument in the West, Point cemetery, shown in the illustration. Her tombstone bears the inscription: "The author of ' The Wide, Wide World' was born 11 July, 1819, and passed gently into the life that knows no ending, 17 March, 1885. In trust for a few of the friends that loved her, her sister has placed this stone: "Auf Wiedersehen."--Her sister, Anna Bartlett, born in New York in 1820, has published, under the pen-name of " Amy Lothrop," the novels of "Dollars and Cents" (New York, 1853), and "My Brother's Keeper" (1855); also "Stories of Vinegar Hill " (6 vols., 1871), "The Fourth Watch" (18'72), "Gardening by Myself" (1872), " Miss Tiller's Vegetable Garden" (1873), and "The other Shore "(1873).