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The Review of Reviews. 



Snowden Ward. 



Photograph by\ \Riglnald Haines, 



The late Sir George Lewis. 



Head of the firm Lewis and Lewis, who died on December 7tb, 

 aged seventy-eight. 



tcnce, a terror to evildoers, and a joy to those who 

 do well. Few men saw more of the seamy side 

 of human nature ; yet few men preserved to the 

 last a more sunny faith in mankind, and especially 

 in womankind. He was a veritable knight-errant, 

 without plumes or blazoning. He sat in his den at 

 li^ly Place and ministered — often without fee and with- 

 out other reward than that of the gratitude of those 

 whom he had snatched from destruction — to all 

 manner of distressful people. There was in him an 

 inexhaustible fund of human sym]5athy irradiated by 

 a kind of humour which made him one of the most 

 lovable human beings of our time. My own acquaint- 

 ance with him began in curious fashion. When the 

 first number of " The Maiden 'IVibute " appeared, he 

 advised the proprietor of the Fall Afnll Gazette to 

 dismiss me at once, and announce the fact in the 

 next issue. His advice not having been taken, I 

 went to see him. No sooner had I p.\ plained the 

 true inwardness of " The Modern Babylon " articles 

 than he became my stoutest champion and my fastest 

 friend. He was one of the three or four who visited 

 me in Coldbath Fields prison. He revised all the 

 proofs of the " Langworthy Marriage " story. He 

 backed me through thick and thin in all my battles, 

 and always refused to accept a cent. 



Mr. H. Snowden Ward was very 

 suddenly and unexpectedly called 

 aw'ay last month from the scene 

 of his active and useful labours. 

 Mr. Snowden Ward was one of our earliest helpers 

 at Bradford, and from the first days of the Review of 

 Review,s he has always been a sympathetic and use- 

 ful coadjutor of social reform with which the Review 

 OF Reviews has been identified. Mr. Snowden 

 \V'ard edited various photographic papers and devoted 

 much of his time in recent years to the celebration 

 of the Dickens Centenary. He founded the Dickens 

 Fellowship, and lectured both in this country and in 

 America with the object of interesting the great 

 reading community in the movement for doing honour 

 to the great master. It was while on a lecturing tour 

 in America that Mr. Snowden \\'ard was suddenly cut ' 

 down in the midst of his labours. No more cheery, 

 valiant soul ever shone more radiant with the reflected 

 glory of the genius of the great novelist to whos 

 memory he devoted his later years. 



rhctOf^raph hy\ 



\H. Wtttltr Bamett. 



The late Mr. Snowden Ward. 



