The most scholarly and accomplished of American journalists, he made the Sun "shine for all," and, during the years of his active management, a most prosperous property.

It happened that whilst I was penny-a-lining in New York I took a piece of space work--not very common in those days--to the Tribune and received a few dollars for it.

Ten years later, meeting Mr.
Dana at dinner, I recalled the circumstance, and thenceforward we became the best of friends.

Twice indeed we had runabouts together in foreign lands.

His house in town, and the island home called Dorsoris, which he had made for himself, might not inaptly be described as very shrines of hospitality and art, the master of the house a virtuoso in music and painting no less than in letters.