American author, born in New York City on the 8th of August 1843. He was educated in New York and spent part of each year abroad; wrote for the press from an early age, and contributed much to periodicals. He was for some time dramatic critic on the New York Evening Mail, and in 1886 became editor of Literary Notes in Harper’s Magazine. He published Plays and Players (1875); Artists of the Nineteenth Century, with Clara Erskine Clement (1879); Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States, with Brander Matthews (1886); Literary Landmarks of London (1885); Literary Landmarks of Edinburgh (1890); Edwin Booth (1893); Portraits in Plaster (1894); Literary Landmarks of Jerusalem (1895); Other Times and Other Seasons (1895); etc. See also “Master Betty,” “From Uncollected Essays” and “The Life and Writings of Dickens.”
