MR. ROBERT HERRICK, the author of“The Gospel of Freedom,” “The Web ofLife,” and “The Real World,” was bornin Cambridge, Mass., April 26, 1868.His father was a lawyer, practising inBoston. His people on both sides wereof New England stock, the Herricksrunning back in New England to 1632,and the Emerys, Mannings, Hales, andPeabodys, with whom among others hisgenealogy is connected, having much thesame history. Mr. Herrick was educatedat the Cambridge public schools, and atHarvard University, graduating in 1890.His freshman year and part of his sophomoreyear were spent in travelling inthe West Indies, Mexico, California,Alaska, and other regions, in companywith his classmate, Philip Stanley Abbot.While in college Mr. Herrick paid specialattention to English studies, attendingcourses of lectures delivered by the lateProfessor Child, Professor James, andProfessor Barrett Wendell, among others.

[2]For a year he was one of the editors of theHarvard Advocate, and contributed severalstories to that magazine. Later hewas editor of the Harvard Monthly—thepurely literary magazine of the University,—contributingfrequently to itspages. One of his fellow-editors wasNorman Hapgood, the author of “AbrahamLincoln: the Man of the People,”and “George Washington.”

After graduation Mr. Herrick began to teachEnglish at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, under Professor George R.Carpenter (

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