Henry Theodore Tickerman, an American author, born in Boston, April 20, 1813, died in New York, Dec. 17, 1871. In 1833 and again in 1836 he went abroad, residing for some time in Italy and devoting himself to literature and art studies. In 1845 he removed from Boston to New York. He was a regular and frequent contributor to numerous periodicals, in which the bulk of his works originally appeared. He published "The Italian Sketch Book" (1835); "Sicily, a Pilgrimage" (1839); "Rambles and Reveries" (1841); "Thoughts on the Poets" (1846), devoted chiefly to masters of the English school (translated into German by Emil Müiller); " Artist Life, or Sketches of American Painters" (1847); "Characteristics of Literature" (1849; 2d series, 1851); "The Optimist " (1850), a collection of miscellaneous essays; a "Life of Commodore Silas Talbot" (1851); "Poems " (1851); " A Month in England" (1853); "Memorial of Horatio Green-ough" (1853); "Leaves from the Diary of a Dreamer" (1853); "Essays, Biographical and Critical" (1857); "Essay on Washington, with a Paper on the Portraits of Washington" (1859); "America and her Commentators" (1864); "A Sheaf of Verse" (1864); "The Criterion, or the Test of Talk about Familiar Things" (1866); "Maga: Papers about Paris" (1867); "The Book of American Artists" (1867); and "Life of John Pendleton Kennedy" (1871).