Nathan H. Dole

Nathan Haskell Dole (1852-1935) was an American editor, translator, and author, born at Chelsea, Mass. He attended Phillips Academy, Andover, and graduated at Harvard University in 1874. He was for some time active as a writer and journalist in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. He translated, notably, many of the works of Tolstoi, and books of other Russians; novels of the Spaniard Valdés (1886-90); a variety of works from the French and Italian. His editorial labors, varied and extensive, include:

• Omar Khayyám (1896)
• Tolstoi's Collected Works (20 volumes, 1899)
• Poetical Works of Keats and Shelley (1905)
• Vocations (10 volumes, with William DeWitt Hyde and Carolyn Ticknor, 1909-10)

Among his original writings are:

• A Score of Famous Composers (1891)
• The Hawthorne Tree and other Poems (1895)
• Joseph Jefferson at Home (1898)
• Life of Count Tolstoi (1911)
• The Spell of Switzerland (1913)