Theodore Sedgwick Fay, an American author, born in New York, Feb. 10,1807. He received a liberal education, and was admitted to the bar in 1828, but became soon after one of the editors of the "New York Mirror," and devoted himself to literature. He has published the following works: Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man (1832); The Minute Book," a journal of foreign travel; Norman Leslie,'" a romance (1835);Sydney Clifton" (1839);The Countess Ida" (1840); Ho-boken, a Romance of New York" (1843);Robert Rueful" (1844);Ulric, or the Voices," a poem (1851);Views of Christianity" (1856);Great Outlines of Geography" (1867);First Steps in Geography" (1873); and a series of papers on Shakespeare. He was secretary of the American legation in Berlin from 1837 to 1853, and minister resident in Bern, Switzerland, from 1853 to 1861.