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WORKS, &o t'1 di«taeteful to hta »''• 'Jslematic work being i|ilh„ son, the SK-™ f"?'™" "<"« noveliBls if the Stt,?tu OohlsmithiiTj't" borhood '"® "ol^le of New YoVk i • i "^ sceneiv in thp «l;-j onT keen ample field powers of irthe od3 ti'es of th"'^ observa^tion fo„W: two of his brothers, Pa^^tner in receivinir n. «L * !.* business vilh nothing ''^*'^' of the work, one ofth« ^-Tif P''^^*^' but doi SlittlTor engage in anything C in erte^titrhir?f,r"'"'"^ that^ii'sho d'd ^«"t to •ntoar. „ a.***?" EurODe. this f.m«. „- ij. -. - ^=»=. i.Tioi; "^^ ^'' rr---' - wii the bankriin*-^,/^* r T" '• P^o^ea, for sev- .u.a.lu„ to Obtain -^-PW^l'l^^e^; ''aTS? 1^,;- t^J^^^ HIP VAN WINKLE. S91 adopt literature aa a professiuu. HIh Sketch Book, the iirst number of which appeared in May 1819, was the tirst product of this new re- solve. He now visited variou!* countries on tlio continent, meeting, as in England, with most of the famous literary men of the time. In 1829, while living in the old Moorish palace of the Alhambrain Syaiu he received from the United States government the appointment of Secretary of Legation at London. This position ho holil for three years, returning to Amefioa in May 1832. The next ten years he passed in his native land. Duiing this period he produced several works; projected, and in part sketolied, a History of tlie Conquest of Mexico, giving it up when he learned that Prescott was engaged on the same theme ; made tours in various directions, one to the west of the Mississippi ; and in general led a happy life, interrupted at times by un- acountable fits of melancholy. His residence at ^annyside, on the cast bank of his loved Hudson nearTarrytown, —the very scene of the adven- tures in Sleepy HoUoio^—w&s the resort of friends and adrnji^ers, and the RK8, &o home of a family of orphan nieces and of an aged brother. In 18.38 he was nominated for mayor of New York, and soon afterward he was offered a seat in the Cabinet at Washington. Both of thetse proffered honors he declined : his sensitive nature shrank from mingling in the bitter personal politics of the time. From 1842 to'184(} he was United States ambassador to the Court of Spain. In the latter year he returned to spend his remaining days at liome, engaging in varied literarv work, in travelling, and in rest at Sunnyside surrounded by those he loved. He died at Sunnyside, November 27, 1859, having '83 After completed bis Life of Washington, his ** crowning work," the previous i upon the April. the bar, he Irving's most important works are: —(S'o^mrt7Mnrf« (1806), a serial in- altogether tended "to instruct the young, reform the old, correct the town, ami > and John- caatigate the age." It was very popular, but lasted only a year. Bistonj n, Shakea- of Nnv York, a burlesque history of the State purporting to have been verywhere found iu manuscript in the chamber of Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old foundation gentleman who had lately disappeared. This is Irving's most original 3 of nature work, abounding in rich humor and good-natured^wit at the expense the neigh- of the descendants of the old Dutch settlers, mingled often with 1 found an keen satire on the customs of society and of governments. The h settlers, Sketch-Book (1819), completed in 1820, a collection of short papers con- • In 1802 taining some of his best writing, humorous, pathetic, descriptive, and 1 a series otherwise. jBrnc^ftrirff/e /^a/^ (1822), similar to the Sketch Book.