Hutton

ried Grace Lefferts of New York City by whom
he had two children. He died in New York City.

[Trans. Am. Soc. of Mech. Engineers, vol. XL
(1919); Jour. Am. Soc. of Mech. Engineers, June

of Columbia Univ. (1906) ; N. Y. Times, May 15,
1918.3 F.A.T.

HUTTON, LAURENCE (Aug. 8, i843-June
10, 1904), bibliophile, editor, author, was the
son of a New York business man, John Hutton,
and his wife Eliza Ann. He was educated in a
private school in his native city, and, according
to his own report, was dull at mathematics and
indolent in general. The result was that at eigh-
teen he was challenged by his father as to
his fairness in neglecting rather expensive ad-
vantages. He became self-supporting at once,
though there was no estrangement, and for the
next nine years was engaged in a hop business
until the firm with which he was connected
failed.

On his father's death he was left with a mod-
est competence which set him free to range in
literary fields without the necessity of earning
a livelihood. His first consecutive activity as a
writer was as contributor of dramatic criticisms
to the New York Mail in an informal connection
which began about 1872. This led to the com-
pilation of his Plays and Players (1875), Curi-
osities of the American Stage (1891), and, sub-
sequently, to his Edivin Booth (1893), to the
publications of the Dunlap Society, Opening
Addresses (1887), and Occasional Addresses
(1890) with William Carey as collaborator, and
to Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the
United States from the Days of David Garrick
to the Present Time (1886) in collaboration with
Brander Matthews [g.z/.]. Financial independ-
ence and freedom for travel gave him leisure
and material to write his Literary Landmarks
of London (1885), which was followed by sim-
ilar books on Edinburgh (1891), Jerusalem
(1895), Venice (1896), Rome (1897), Flor-
ence (1897), Oxford (1903), and the Scottish
Universities (1904). In the course of events
he became a collector in several fields; rare
books, autographs and autograph letters, extra-
illustrated works, and portrait masks. His inter-'
est in masks resulted in his volume entitled Por-
traits in Plaster (1894); and the miscellany of
his interests and contacts, in the further variety
of his publications, including his collaboration
with Clara Erskine Clement Waters in the writ-
ing of Artists of the Nineteenth Century (1879),
Talks in a Library (1905), recorded by Isabel
Moore, his collection of essays for collectors

Hutton

From the Books of Laurence Hutton (1892),
and his reminiscent volumes, Other Times and
Other Seasons (1895), and A Boy I Knew
(1898, 8th edition 1900). His complete bibli-
ography runs to forty-eight titles.

From 1886 to 1898 he served as literary editor
of Harper's Magazine, conducting the depart-
ment of "Literary Notes/' a combination of book
talk and more specific reviewing. During this
period he received honorary degrees of M.A.,
from Yale in 1892 and from Princeton in 1897.
From 1901 to 1904 he was lecturer in English
literature at the latter university. He was a New
Yorker who inevitably enjoyed membership in
the Century Club, and charter membership in
The Players, the Authors Club and the Ameri-
can Copyright League. In his career as a whole
he represented a vanishing order, the patrons of
literature. His writings are all gossippy, cir-
cumstantial, and superficial. He had no creative
gift and he left no incisive criticism; his literary
knowledge did not reach beyond his own cen-
tury or his own language. On the other hand,
in contrast with many another collector, he
knew what he had acquired and how to enjoy it.
He possessed the social gifts of a Samuel Rog-
ers and a Crabbe Robinson, and the miscellane-
ous literary curiosity of a Disraeli. He was
thoroughly representative of a generation which
was at its height before the turn of the century,
which he survived by only four years. On Apr.
7, 1885, he married Eleanor Varnum Mitchell.

[Very little exact information has been brought to-
gether about Hutton in any one book or article. The
personal information can be culled from his autobio-
graphical A Boy I Knew, and from the series of remi-
niscent articles, "The Literary Life," which appeared
in the Critic, Sept. i904-Mar. 1905. See also Who's
Who in America, 1903-05; Outlook, June 18, 1904;
N. Y. Times, June n, 1904; Daily True American'
(Trenton, N. J,), June u, 1904-] P.H.B—n.

HUTTON, LEVI WILLIAM (Oct. 22,1860-
Nov. 3,1928), mine operator and philanthropist,
was born in Batavia, Iowa, the son of Levi and
Nancy (Holsinger) Hutton and the youngest of
their six children. When he was only three
months old his father died, and at the age of six
he lost his mother. Until he was eighteen, ex-
cept for two weeks when, as a fifteen-year-old
boy, he ran away to fight Indians in the Black
Hills, he lived on a farm with an aunt and
uncle who provided meager opportunities for his
schooling. He then set out for the West After
a year or more in and about Salem, Ore., and
in northern California, he was offered in 1881
the chance to drive a four-horse team from Port-
land to the shores of Lake Pend d'Oreille in
northern Idaho. Here he obtained employment
on a lake steamer. Quitting after about a year

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