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A famous English newspaper correspondent; born in London, Nov. 24, 1828; died at Brighton, Dec. 8, 1895. During the American Civil War he was correspondent (1863-64) of the London Telegraph, for the same paper in Algiers in 1864 and again in 1875, at the Paris Exposition in 1867, and during the Franco-German War, 1870-71. He published the novels "Quite Alone" and "Captain Dangerous"; "America Revisited" (1882); "London up to Date" (1894); and his own "Life and Adventures" (1895). His celebrated "Cook Book", which sold enormously in London, shows his versatility and knowledge of human "internal affairs".