American author, born in Boston, on the 5th of September 1836. From 1850 to 1853 he studied music; was part proprietor and musical and dramatic critic of the Boston Courier (1854–58); dramatic and musical critic on the New York Tribune (1859–70); special correspondent in Japan for the New York Herald (1874–76); professor of English language and literature at the University of Tokyo, Japan, 1871–73. He was influential in securing the return, in 1882, of the indemnity paid by the Japanese government to the United States on account of the Simonoseki affair. He published The Simonoseki Affair (1874); The Japanese Expedition to Formosa (1875); Japanese Episodes (1881); Yone Santo (1888); The Midnight Warning (1893). He died on the 18th of December 1901.
