English critic and editor, born in 1854; studied at Sydney University and later at St. John’s College, Cambridge. He was philosophical critic of The Athenæum from 1878 to 1888, and contributed to it the necrologies of George Eliot, Browning Newman and Matthew Arnold. He also wrote necrologies of Tennyson and Renan in The Academy. He became editor of Folk-lore, and chairman of the literary committee of the International Folk-lore Congress. See also Æsop’s Fables and The Jews of Angevin England.
