Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Eight Selections From the Sketch Book
Washington Irving, one of the earliest and most popular of American writers, was born in New York City in 1783. He received only a common-school education, leaving the schoolroom at sixteen, yet for many years afterward he pursued a systematic course of reading. In his boyhood days he seemed to have a natural talent for writing essays and stories. As he always disliked mathematics, he often wrote composi tions for his schoolmates, and they in turn worked out his problems for him. He studied law for a time, but preferred to employ himself in rambling excursions around Manhattan Island, by which he became famil iar with the beautiful scenery which he afterward made famous by his pen. Thus he acquired that minute knowledge of various historical locations, curious traditions and legends so beautifully made use of in his Sketch Book and History of New York.
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