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An American journalist and miscellaneous writer; born of an English father and a Greek mother, at Santa Maura, Ionian Islands, June 27, 1850. He was educated in England and France, and has since resided in this country and in Japan. He has written: "Some Chinese Ghosts" (1887), six stories exquisitely told; "Two Years in the French West Indies" (1890); "Youma" (1890), the story of a West-Indian slave; "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan", and several other books on Japan, including "Kokovo; Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life"; "Gleanings in Buddha Fields", etc. Died Tokio, Sept. 26, 1904.