The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Beckett, Arthur William, à

BECKETT, Arthur William, à, English journalist and novelist: b. Fulham, 25 Oct. 1844; d. London, 14 Jan. 1909. Besides fulfilling other journalistic engagements he was on the staff of Punch 1874-1902, edited the Sunday Times 1891-95, and the Naval and Military Magazine 1896. In addition to several comedies he published &lsquo;Comic Guide to the Royal Academy,&rsquo; with his brother Gilbert (1863-64); &lsquo;Fallen Amongst Thieves&rsquo; (1869); &lsquo;Our Holiday in the Highlands&rsquo; (1874); &lsquo;The Shadow Witness&rsquo; and &lsquo;The Doom of Saint Quirec,&rsquo; with Burnand (1875-76); &lsquo;The Ghost of Grimstone Grange&rsquo; (1877); &lsquo;The Mystery of Mostyn Manor&rsquo; (1878); &lsquo;Traded Out&rsquo;; &lsquo;Hard Luck&rsquo;; &lsquo;Stone Broke&rsquo;; &lsquo;Papers from Pump Handle Court, by a Briefless Barrister&rsquo; (1884); &lsquo;Modern Arabian Nights&rsquo; (1885); &lsquo;The Member for Wrottenborough&rsquo; (1895); &lsquo;Greenroom Recollections&rsquo; (1896); &lsquo;The Modern Adam&rsquo; (1899); &lsquo;London at the End of the Century&rsquo; (1900).