The death of the author of The Red Badge of Courage, at Badenweiler, Baden, on June 5, 1900, took from contemporary literature an original and striking figure whose force and insight remain exemplified in his best work as qualities all too rare. His was one of the many cases of a genius which is explicable on no apparent grounds of heredity or environment. The first ' Stephen Crane came to Massachusetts from England in 1635. The third of the name settled in New Jersey, near Newark, and held high office at the time of the Revolution. The family was one of force, and the work of the members was done well in politics, in war, and in the ministry, but there was apparently no distinctly literary influence within the family itself, save such as may have been incidental to the profession of the Rev. J. T. Crane, the father of the novelist.
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