American novelist, born in Liverpool, England, on the 25th of October 1847; went to California with his parents when five years old; was educated in England, and graduated at the University College of San Francisco; mining-engineer from 1867 to 1874; stockbroker in San Francisco from 1874 to 1877. In the meanwhile he had produced several plays; among them, Cuba and Our Reporter, which were brought out in San Francisco. In 1877 he went to New York, and there wrote the play, Two Nights in Rome, produced in New York at the Union Square Theater, August 1889. His first novel, Mr. Barnes of New York, was published in 1887, and had a great success, being translated into several languages. Since then he has written Mr. Potter of Texas; That Frenchman; Miss Nobody of Nowhere; Miss Dividends; and The Ladies’ Juggernaut. He publishes his own works.
