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An English editor, poet, and author, son of Sir W. F. Pollock; born in London in 1850. He was admitted to the bar in 1874, has delivered lectures at the Royal Institution, and from 1884 to 1894 acted as editor of the Saturday Review. Among his miscellaneous literary and poetical publications are: "Lectures on French Poets"; "The Picture's Secret", a novel: "Songs and Rhymes, English and French"; a translation of De Musset's "Nights"; "Old and New", verse; "Fencing" in the "Badminton Library"; "Animals That Have Owned Us".