Henry William Herbert

Henry William Herbert (7 April 1807 – 17 May 1858), pen name Frank Forester, was an English-born American novelist, poet, historian, illustrator, journalist and writer on sport.

[3][5] Having lost his property through a dishonest agent, he emigrated to the United States in 1831 and for the following eight years taught Latin and Greek at a private school in New York City.

In 1833 he started the American Monthly Magazine, which he edited, in conjunction with A. D. Patterson, until 1835[3] when he withdrew as a result of disagreements with his associate, Charles Fenno Hoffman.

Edgar Allan Poe felt that he was "not unapt to fall into pompous grandiloquence" and sometimes was "woefully turgid", while others saw his novels as "prolix, lacking in imagination and humor.

"[citation needed] Herbert was a man of varied accomplishments, translating many of the novels of Eugène Sue and Alexandre Dumas, père into English.