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WHITE-MARIO— WHITMAN.

also the authoi* of the *' Yankee " letters in the Ix>ndon Hpeclator, 1803-7. For many years he occu- pied an important position in the New York Custom-house, which he resiprned in 1879.

WHITE-MARIO, Jessie Meei- TON, daughter of Mr. T. White, shipbuilder, born at Goapoi-t, Hants, May 9, 1832, was educated at Bir- mingham, and afterwards became a contributor to Eliza Cook*s Journal. She was first brought into contact with Garibaldi, Mazzini, Orsini, and other republican leaders during a tour in Italy in 1854, and on her return to England edited Orsini's Memoirs and Adventures, lectured on Italy, wrote in the Daily News some articles, entitled " Italy for the Italians : " and shortly after- wards was apix)inted correspondent of that pai>er in Genoa. Having been thrown into prison upon a charge of which she was ultunately ac- •piitted, she was married, Dec. 19, 1857, to the late Captain Alberto Mario, aide-de-camp to General aldi. (He died June 2, 1883.) She supported Garibaldi and his party, accompanied that general in liis expeditions against Sicily and Rome, and nursed his wounded sohliers in the hospital. When Garibaldi assumed the command of the Army of the Vosges during the Franco-Prussian war, she resumed her old duties at his head-quarters as superintendent of the ambu- lances and as a correspondent for American and English newspapers.

WHITEING, Richard, born in London, July 27, 18^10. On com- pleting the ordinary course of edu- cation, he was sent to the School of Design, then at Marlborough House, and became a pupil of the late Ben- jamin Wyon, Medallist, and Chief Engraver of Her Majesty's Seals. Having little taste for this calling, he made his first essay in literature at the beginning of the year 18C6 l»y contributing a series of papers to the Evening Star, aft-erwards re- l)ublished as the " Opinions of Mr.

Sprout.*' Thus introduced to jour- nalism, he ha^ ever since main- tained his connection with it, by contributions to some of the lead- ing metropolitan, provincial, and American newspapers. He repre- sented the New York World at Geneva, and the New York Tribune in Spain after the abdication of Amadeus; and he was for some time on the editorial stafif of the JItfanchester Onardian. Since 1875 he has lived in Paris, where he now acts as correspondent of two well- known journals of London and New York. Mr. Whiteing is author of " The Democracy," a novel (1876), and of several other works.

WHITMAN, Walter, poet, was born at West Hills, Long Island, New York, May 31, 1819. His edu- cation was obtained at the Public Schools of Brooklyn and New York City, on completing which he first learned the printing trade and sul>- sequently carpentry. After teach- ing school, he edited for a brief time newspapers in New ^Orleans, and in Huntington, Long Island, making, in the meantime, extended pedestrian tours through the United States and Canada. Diiring the CivU War he volunteered as a nurse, and was in the hospitals in Virginia and Washington. From 1SG5 to 1874 he held clerkships in the United States Government offices at Washington. Since that date he has resided at Camden, New Jersey. He is the author of " Leaves of Grass,*' 1855 ; * ' Drum- Taps," 18G5 ; " Memoranda during the War," 1867 ; " Democratic Vistas," 1870 ; " Passage to India," 1870; "After All, not to Create Only," 1871 ; " As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free," 1872 ; " Two Rivulets," 1873. This last includes the previously published " Demo- cratic Vistas" and "Passage to India." In 1868 a selection of his poems was published in London. An enlarged edition of " Leaves of Grass " appeared in Boston in 1881, but the place of publication was