[Graeme Mercer]. Editor and author, born on the 25th of May 1839, near Edinburgh, Scotland; educated at Portobello and Edinburgh; came to Toronto, Canada, in 1858, as a publisher of books; in 1878 devoted himself to literature; founded the Canada Educational Monthly; editor (1880) of Canadian Monthly, which, with Goldwin Smith, he founded eight years earlier; was in New York for some time as a publisher’s editor in 1876 and 1883; in 1892 made that city his residence; in 1896 removed to Chicago and became editor of the Self Culture magazine; served as major of militia in repelling the Fenian invasion of Ontario in 1866; author or reviser of textbooks on history and language; of Justin McCarthy’s History of Our Own Times; of Scenic America, and People’s History of the United States; author of a history of the Canadian Northwest; Life of Sir John A. Macdonald; Precis of the History of England; with Miss Wetherald, of An Algonquin Maiden, a romance of early Canada; a History of Canadian Literature, and of a score of minor publications.
