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Died. Sir William Robertson Nicoll (pen name Claudius Clear), 72, for 37 years editor of The British Weekly, at Hampstead, England. His paper (a Free Church organ) numbered among its contributors John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Besant, Henry Drummond. A friend of Lloyd George, Sir William gave him active editorial support during...
During the present year there have been added, besides numerous recent books, the works of Marryat, Henry Kingsley, George Meredith, Goldsmith, Edward Everett Hale, Hood, Lever, Gaborian, Burke, Chateaubriand, Cowper, Raleigh, Christopher North, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Stirling Maxwell, Besant, DeFoe, and Balzac...
...Walter Besant has written an article for Lippincott's Magazine on his "Impressions of Harvard...
Certain phases of English life in London and elsewhere, he set forward in a most vivid and entertaining manner. One almost felt that he was among the people himself, and was himself noting down their peculiarities of character, manner and custom. He spoke about the trial of Mrs. Besant; of various London Clubs which he visited; of an Oxford commemoration exercise he attended, and of different people he met, always noting the peculiar national traits, which are foreign to our American ideas...
...James Russell Lowell. Mr. Leslie Stevens, the originator of the plan, occupied the chair. The meeting was in the nature of a protest against the rudely expressed objections to placing more tributes to foreigners in Westminster Abbey. Among those present were Sir Frederick Pellock and Messrs. Stevens, Linton, Besant, Gosse, Sidney, Lee, Maccoll and Martineau...