PREFACE
My debt to the subject of this memoir must
on every page be apparent to the reader, but
I wish here to make formal acknowledgment
of it. Without La Farge's aid I could not have
made my study biographical as well as critical.
I have also to thank, for many helpful courte-
sies, Miss Grace Edith Barnes, in the last ten
years of his life his private secretary and ap-
pointed by him the executrix of his estate. He
made her familiar with much in his career, and
the light she has thus been enabled to throw
upon it has been generously shared with me.
I am under obligation to Mr. Henry Adams
for material of great importance, embracing
the letters addressed to him from which I have
quoted, the notable analysis extracted from
his privately printed " Education of Henry
Adams," and some further reflections on his
old friend and fellow-traveller in Japan and
the South Seas. Mr. James Huneker has been
kind enough to lend me a sheaf of La Farge's
letters to him. A note from the late Augustus
Saint-Gaudens is reproduced by the permis-
sion of his son, Homer Saint-Gaudens, and of