The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 4/Obituary

OBITUARY.

The conductors of "The Atlantic" have the painful duty of announcing to their readers the death of Calvin W. Philleo, author of "Akin by Marriage," published in the earlier numbers of this magazine. The plot of the story was sketched at Length, and in the brain of the writer it was complete; but no hand save his own could give it life and form: it must remain an unfinished work. The mind of Mr. Philleo was singularly clear, his observation of nature and character sharp and discriminating, and his feeling for beauty, in its more placid forms, was intense and pervading. His previous work, "Twice Married," and the various sketches of New England life, with which the readers of magazine literature are familiar, are sufficient to give him a high place among novelists. He was warm in his friendships, pure in life, and his early death will be lamented by a wide circle of friends. In pace!