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was for a time much influenced by the leaders in the 

 Oxford movement. The views o't' his father were in 

 opposition to those of his son, but those of the latter 

 prevailed, and the " Times" adopted a more favorable 

 attitude toward the movement than it had done 

 hitherto. To the influence of Mr. Walter may be as- 

 cribed the long connection with the " Times " of the 

 late Thomas Megley. the brother-in-law of Cardinal 

 Newman. Mr. Walter was on several occasions re- 

 turned to Parliament, the last time being in 1880. In 

 politics he defined his position as that of a Liberal 

 ( 'onservative, but he ceased to support Mr. Gladstone 

 after 18St>. He was never prominent in parliamentary 

 debates, his real influence, of course, being exerted 

 through the columns of the " Times." He introduced 

 tin' Walter press into use, and was the designer in 

 great part of the " Times " office in Printing House 

 Square. He was twice married, and though he left a 

 larire family, he had the misfortune to lose the eldest 

 son of each marriage, sorrows which deepened his 

 natural reserve and seriousness. In the management 

 of the "Times" he exercised at all times an import- 

 ant influence, and, wherever necessary, a deciding 

 one. 



Webster, Mrs. Augusta (Davies), an English poet, born 

 at Poole, Dorsetshire, Jan. 30, 1838; died at Kew, 

 Sept. 5, 1894. Mrs. Webster was a daughter of Vice- 

 Actmiral George Davies, and her earliest years were 

 spent on board ship and at Banff Castle. In 1851 

 Admiral Davies removed to Cambridge, and there, 

 in 1863, his daughter Augusta married Thomas Web- 

 ster, a fellow of Trinity College. In 1879 she was 

 elected to a place on" the London School Board, 

 in which she was able to give fuller play to her 

 philanthropic inclinations than hitherto. Her earli- 

 est literary work was published under the pseu- 

 donym ot Cecil Home, but she very soon relin- 

 quished this signature for her own name. The bent 

 of her genius was toward Greek translation about 

 this time, and as a translator she takes a high rank. 

 But it is as an original dramatic poet that she is best 

 known, and by more than one able critic she has been 

 classed in this particular as second only to Robert 

 Browning. That her poetry will ever become very 

 popular is improbable, but its vigor of conception, its 

 careful choice of words, and its beauty of expression 

 will long have a charm for cultivated readers. One 

 of her volumes " Portraits" passed into 3 editions, 

 and this is the one upon which her reputation is 

 mainly based. It contains, among other poems, one 

 entitled " A Castaway," generally considered to be 

 her masterpiece. Mrs. Webster's published works in- 

 clude the following: "Blanche Lisle, and Other 

 Poems " (London, 1860) ; " Lilian Gray : A Poem " 

 (1864); "Lesley's Guardians: A Novel" (1864); 

 u The Prometheus Bound of JEschylus " (translation, 

 1866); "Dramatic Studies" (verse,' 1866) ; " The Me- 

 dea of Euripides, literally translated into English 

 Verse " (1868) ; "A Woman Sold, and Other Poems" 

 (Cambridge, 1867); "Portraits" (1870); "The Aus- 

 picious Day: A Drama" (London, 1872); " Yu-Pe- 

 Ya's Lute : A Chinese Tale in English Verse" (1874) ; 

 "A Housewife's Opinions: Essays" (1878); "Dis- 

 guises: A Drama" (1879); "A Book of Rhyme'" 

 (1881); "In a Day: A Drama" (1882); "Daffodil 

 and the Croiixaxicans : A Romance of History" 

 (1884); "The Sentence: A Drama" (1887). T'he 

 first 3 of these were published under her pseudonym 

 of Cecil Home. 



Yadrinseff, Nicolai, a Russian author, born in Siberia, 

 in ls-4-J; died in ISariiaul, June '_".>, IS'.M. He was ac- 

 cused, when a young man, of cons] >iring to separate 

 Siberia from Russia, and passed several years in exile 

 in Archangel. Returning to Siberia, he served on the 

 staff of Governor-General Kazn&kofr, went with him 

 to St. Petersburg, and published papers on Siberia 

 and a book on " The Russian Commune in Prison and 

 in Exile," dealing with Russian convict life. He 

 traveled over every part of Siberia between 1865 and 

 1875 and published the results of bis explorations, and 

 in 1882 a book on " Siberia as a Colony." His " East- 



ern Review," founded in 1882 in St. Petersburg, and 

 afterward printed in Irkutsk, was devoted to the 

 interests of Siberia and Asiatic Russia. lie had an 

 unrivaled knowledge of the history, archaeology, and 

 ethnology of Asiatic Russia. In 1891-'92 he explored 

 Mongolia, and discovered the ruins of the ancient 

 Tartar capital. 



Yates, Edmund Hodgson, a British journalist, born in 

 Edinburgh, July 3, 1831 ; died in London, May 20, 

 1894. He was sent to Dusseldorf to complete his 

 education, and on his return entered the British civil 

 service as a clerk in the general post office. He passed 

 slowly through the ranks until appointed head of the 

 missing-letter branch. While in this place he wrote 

 criticisms for the " Court Journal," and subsequently 

 for the "Daily News." His first book, "My Haunts 

 and their Frequenters," was published in 1854, and a 

 series of novels, the initial volume of which was 

 " Broken to Harness " followed. Then came " Run- 

 ning the Gantlet," " Black Sheep," " Forlorn Hope," 

 and others. The volume closing this series, " A 

 Silent Witness," was issued in 1875. Previous to this 

 Mr. Yates became inspector of Government telegraphs. 

 From 1861 to 1867 he edited "Temple Bar," and 

 afterward " Tinsley's Magazine." He visited the United 

 States on a lecture tour during 1872-'73, and was 

 special correspondent in Europe for the " New York 

 Herald " in 1873-'75, and afterward a London corre- 

 spondent for the New York " Tribune." He wrote 

 " Mirth and Meter" in conjunction with Frank Smed- 

 ley, numbered Charles Dickens among his friends, 

 and became a contributor to " Household Words " 

 and "All the Year Round." Throughout an un- 

 fortunate quarrel with Thackeray, of whom he had 

 written a character sketch, Yates received the generous 

 support of Dickens. He is recognized as the " father 

 of society journalism." He founded " The W T orld, a 

 Journal for Men and Women," in conjunction with 

 E. C. Grenville-Murray, in 1874, and among the 

 striking features in the prospectus was the following : 

 " The ' World ' will recognize women as a reasonable 

 class of the community, whose interests should, be 

 equitably considered and their errors explained, with- 

 out levity or hysterics." The first number of the paper 

 was issued July 8, 1874, and its personal character 

 was a main feature. It was due to this that Mr. 

 Yates found himself condemned to four months' im- 

 prisonment as a first-class misdemeanant in Holloway 

 Castle for a libel written by some other than he 

 (whose name he refused to divulge) on the Earl of 

 Lonsdale. The fact that he was subsequently ap- 

 pointed county magistrate for Sussex forms a striking 

 contrast to the result of this suit. In 1885 Mr. Yates 

 wrote 2 volumes of reminiscences entitled, " Fifty 

 Years of London Life," which he afterward enlarged. 

 Edmund Yates died in harness. Death warned him 

 of his approaching end as he sat in his stall at the 

 Garrick Theater, London, Saturday, May 19, 1894. 



OHIO, a central Western State, admitted to 

 the Union in 1803: population, according to 

 last census (1890), 3,660,719, it being the fourth 

 in rank of the States; area, according to the 

 United States Geological Survey, 41,060 square 

 miles, of which 40,760 is land surface and 300 

 water surface. Capital, Columbus. 



Government. The government of the State 

 during 1894 was as follows: Governor, William 

 McKinley; Lieutenant-Governor, Andrew L. 

 Harris ; Secretary of State, Samuel L. Taylor ; 

 Auditor, Ebenezer W. Poe ; Treasurer, William 

 T. Cope ; Attorney-General, John K. Richards ; 

 Commissioner of Common Schools, Oscar T. 

 Carson ; Board of Public Works, Frank J. 

 McColloch, Charles E. Groce, Edwin L. Lybar- 

 ger; Judges of the Supreme Court, Franklin J. 

 Dickman, Thaddeus A. Minshall, Jacob F. Bur- 

 ket, William T. Spear, Joseph P. Bradbury. All 

 were Republicans. 



