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Rh from public engagements. His health apparently improving in the spring of 1866, he resolved to undertake a lecturing tour abroad. He reached England in June, 1866, but was too feeble to lecture. In November he made his first appearance, was most warmly welcomed, and achieved a popularity as unexpected as it was gratifying. For three months he continued his lectures with the greatest success, but his health completely failed •early in February, 1867. He went first to the isle of Jersey, and thence to Southampton, intending to return home; but was not strong enough to attempt the voyage. By his will, after providing for his mother and for the education of a lad who had been kind to him in his last sickness, he left his property to found an asylum for printers, and for the education of their orphan children. His published books are as follows: "Artemus Ward, His Book," and "Artemus Ward, His Travels" (New York, 1865); "Artemus Ward in London " (1867); "Artemus Ward's Lecture, as delivered in Egyptian Hall, London," edited by T. W. Robertson and E. P. Hingston (1869);" "Artemus Ward, His Works Complete," with a biographical sketch by Melville D. Landon (1875).

BROWNE, Francis Fisher, editor, b. in South Halifax, Vt., 1 Dec, 1843. His father, William Goldsmith Browne, b. in Vermont in 1812, is the author of the popular song " A Hundred Years to Come," and other poems. Francis was educated at the high school of Chicopee, Mass., which he left to enlist in the 46th Massachusetts volunteers in 1863, serving till its discharge. He studied law in Rochester, N. Y., and at the University of Michigan (1866-'7). He edited the "Lakeside Monthly," Chicago, in 1869-'74; afterward was literary editor of the "Alliance"; and in 1880 became editor of the Chicago "Dial." He has compiled and edited "Golden Poems, by British and American Authors" (Chicago, 1881); "The Golden Treasury of Poetry and Prose " (St. Louis, 1883); and "Bugle Echoes," a collection of poems of the civil war, both national and confederate (New York, 1886). He has written "The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln " (St. Louis, 1886).

BROWNE, Irving, lawyer, b. in Marshall, Oneida co., N. Y., 14 Sept., 1835; d. in Buffalo. 6 Feb., 1899. He was educated in the academies, and was graduated from Albany law-school in 1857. Mr. Browne settled in Troy, and there followed his profession, becoming for two terms president of the school board. In 1879 he removed to Albany, and became editor of the "Albany Law Journal" and the "American Reports." Besides his editorial work, he has published an English metrical translation of "The Suitors," from Racine (New York, 1871); "Humorous Phases of the Law" (San Francisco, 1875); "Our Best Society," a parlor comedy (New York, 1876); "Short Studies of Great Lawyers " (Albany, 1878); "Judicial Interpretation of Common Words and Phrases" (San Francisco, 1883); "Law and Lawyers in Literature" (Boston, 1883); and "Iconoclasm and Whitewash " (New York, 1885).

BROWNE, John Ross, traveller and author, b. in Ireland in 1817: d. in Oakland, Cal., 9 Dec, 1875. While he was a child his father emigrated to the United States and settled in Kentucky. In his eighteenth year the son descended the Ohio and Mississippi, from Louisville to New Orleans. He was employed for two or three years as a short- hand reporter in the senate. His passion for travel then impelled him to embark on a whaler, and on his return, after visiting a great part of the world, he published "Etchings of a Whaling-Cruise, with Notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar" (New York, 1846). He next became private secretary to Robert J. Walker, secretary of the treasury, and in 1849 went to California as a government commissioner, and was employed in reporting the proceedings of the convention for framing the state constitution. In 1851 he went to Europe as a newspaper correspondent. A tour in Sicily and the Holy Land he described in "Yusef, or the Journey of the Fragi: a Crusade in the East" (New York, 1853). After his return to the United States he became an inspector of customs on the northern frontier and the Pacific coast. He wrote numerous magazine articles, one series of which was published in a volume entitled "Adventures in the Apache Country" (1869). In 1861 he went to Europe again, and, leaving his children in Frankfort to be educated, travelled through Algeria, Iceland, Russia. Poland, and other countries. Some of his excursions were described in the volumes entitled "The Land of Thor" (1866), and "Adventures of an American Family in Germany" (1867). His books of travel are illustrated with comical drawings from his own pencil. After his return home he was commissioned by the government to investigate the mineral resources of the region west of the Rocky mountains. His report, descriptive of the mines, climate, agriculture, and commerce of that part of the country, was published under the title "Resources of the Pacific Slope" (1869). He published, also, " Crusoe's Island, with Sketches of Adventures in California and Washoe" (1864). On 11 March, 1868, he was appointed U. S. minister to China, but was recalled on 5 July, 1869. After his return he resided in Oakland.

BROWNE, Samuel J., clergyman, b. in England, 19 March, 1788; d. at Harrison Junction, Ohio, 10 Sept., 1872. He went to Cincinnati in 1798 with his father, Rev. John W. Browne, who was an English Independent minister. He became a minister of the United Brethren, but parted with them on the question of secret societies, and joined the presbytery of Cincinnati about 1868. He accumulated a large fortune by the rise of real estate in that city, and bequeathed $150,000 for the establishment of a university to bear his name, also land whereon to erect the building, and an endowment for professorships. He left other sums for the building of a church and for the establishment of a free school in Cincinnati.

BROWNE, Sara H., author, b. in Sunderland, Mass. She has published "The Book for the Eldest Daughter," "The Borrowed Bible," "Philip Alderton," "Maggie Menealy," and other volumes for the young; also "A Manual of Commerce," and magazine articles in prose and poetry.—Her sister, Maria J. B., b. in Northampton, Mass., became a teacher by profession, devoting herself to the study of Spanish and other languages, and writing extensively for magazines and newspapers. She has published "Margaret." "Laura Huntley," and "Story of a Western Sunday-School," and translated into Spanish "The Borrowed Bible," written by her sister, and two other small volumes. She translated from the Spanish "A History of Granada," by Jose Francisco de Luque.

BROWNE, Thomas, soldier, d. in the island of St. Vincent, 3 Aug., 1825. He was a resident of Augusta, Ga. In 1775 he incurred the enmity of the whigs by ridiculing them in toasts at dinner, and, when warned of popular vengeance, he fled, but was brought back, tarred and feathered, and drawn in a cart exposed to the populace. Removing to Florida, he collected a small force, and made raids as far as the banks of the Savannah. Joined