"'On the morning of the 19th of February, 1810, it was observed that a change for the worse had taken place. He thought himself dying, and desired to see all his family, and spoke to each in the tenderest and most affectionate manner. He, however, remained in this dying state until the 22d, frequently conversing with his friends, in perfect possession of his faculties to the last.'"
Such was the death of Charles Brockden Brown, at the age of thirty-nine; but even in this short life, he had achieved works whose merits will assuredly tend to perpetuate his name as a distinguished writer of romance.
O. C.
November, 1831.
*** It is the intention of the Proprietors of the "Standard Novels" to include in the series some of the other tales of the present writer.
