Hamilton Wright Mabie, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D. (1846-1916) was an American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer, born at Cold Spring, N. Y., educated at Williams College (1867) and the Columbia Law School (1869). American culture is indebted to him for helping to spread, by his lectures as well as his writings, a love of good reading in the United States
