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 peculiarly beautiful. His published works are: ''Artemns Ward, His Book. Artemus Ward, His'' Travels (1865); Artemus Ward in London (1867); Artemus Ward's Lecture (1869). His complete works were issued in 1875 under the title, Artemus Ward, His Works Complete. He died March 6, 1867.  BROWNE, Francis Fisher, editor and author, was born at South Halifax. Vt., Dec. 1, 1843; son of William Goldsmith Browne, a well-known poet and editor. He learned the printer's trade in his father's office in Chicopee, Mass. In the summer of 1862 he enlisted in the 46th Mass. regi- ment, in which he served for one year in North Carolina and in the Army of the Potomac. In 1866 he entered the law department of the University of Michigan. In 1867 he removed to Chicago, 111., where he devoted himself almost exclusively to literary work. He was editor of The Westeim Monthly and The Lakeside Monthly from 1869 to 1874; afterward was literary editor of Tlte Alliance, and in 1880 founded Hie Dial, wliich he edited, serving meanwhile as literary adviser to a leading publishing house. Besides his ci'itical writings, he wrote many short poems, some of which have found a place in standard literary anthologies. His books include: The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, Bugle Echoes, a collection of Poems of the Civil War, Northern and Southern, Golden Poems by British and American Author.'^, and The Golden Treas- ury of Poetry and Prose. He also edited an ex- tended series of popular poems.

BROWNE, Irving, author, was born in Mar- shall, Oneida count}', N. Y., Sept. 14, 1835. He was educated at academies in New England; admit- ted to the bar in New York, 1857, and practised his profession at Troy, N. Y., until 1879, when he retired froiu the bar to assume editorial charge of the Albany Laic Journal, in which he continued until 1893. In 1892 he removed to Buffalo, N.Y. He lectured on law and compiled many reports and digests of legal decisions. His principal legal treatises are on the domestic relations, criminal law, parol evidence, and sales. He has also written several legal tieatises of a semi-humorous character and of literarj' interest, such as. Humorous Phases of the Laiv, and Judicial Literpr elation of Common Words and Phrases; also Luiv and Lawyers in Literature, and Short Studies of Great Lawyers. Also a volume of critical essays entitled, Iconoclasm and Mliiteivash. He published a rln'mic trans- lation of Racine's corned}-, Les Plaideurs, a satire on law and lawyex-s: and a volume entitled. Reminiscences and Rhyminiscences of Travel. He became widely known to the legal fraternity as associate editor of The Green Bag. He died in Buffalo, N.Y., Feb. 26, 1899.

BROWNE, John Ross, author, was born in Ireland in 1817. His parents emigrated to the United States and settled in Kentucky, where he received a common school education. His passion for travel and adventure led him to leave home in 1835, and make the trip down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers from Louisville to New Orleans. He returned by way of Washington, D.C., where he was a shorthand reporter in the senate. He then shipjied on a whaler bound on a cruise through southern seas. During his voy- age of eighteen months he visited the principal ports of the world, and upon his return pub- lished Etchings of a Whaling Civiise, with notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar (1846) . On returning to the national capital he secured the position of private secretary to Robert J. Walker, secretaiy of the treasury, and in 1849 followed the gold hunters to California. He went to Europe in 1851 as leporter and spent two Aears in travel. On his return to the United States he published Yusef, or the Jour- ney of the Fragi; a Crusade in the East (1853). He made several tours through Europe and America. One series of his magazine articles was published in a separate volume, under the title Adventures in the Apache Country (1869). In 1866 and again in 1868 he was employed by the United States government in preparing reports on the mineral resources of the states and territories west of the Rockies, which were published by order of Congress, and the results of his investigations and observations were embodied in Resources of the Pacific Slope, a volume published in 1S69. In 1868 Presi- dent Johnson appointed him as United States minister to China, and after his recall in July. 1869, he settled in Oakland, Cal.. and devoted himself to promoting the development of the country, and caring for the need}-. In addition to the works already noted, he published: Crusoe's Island, with Sketches of Adventures in California and Washoe (1864); The Land of Thor (1866), and the Adventures of an American Family in Germany (1869). He died in Oakland, Cal.. Dec. 9, 1875.

BROWNE, Junius Henri, journalist, was born at Seneca Falls, N.Y., Oct. 14, 1833. He was educated in Cincinnati. Ohio, where he was graduated at St. Xavier college in 1849, after- wards receiving the degree of A.M. For two years he was with his father, who was a banker in Cincinnati, and then became connected with the newspaper press of that city, and retained his connection until 1861, when he went into the field as war correspondent of the New York Tribune. After two years' service in the south- west, he, with his coadjutor, Albert D. Richard- son, was captured May 3, 1863. while running the 