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passed in the North and in the South became pro- 

 prietor and editor of the New York Albion in 1848. 

 This journal, which no longer exists, he held and 

 conducted for eighteen years, including the difficult 

 period of the Civil War in the United States. He 

 retired from it in 1866 and has since resided mainly 

 in Paris. Wm. Young is the translator of two hun- 

 dred of Beranger's Songs, of L'Homme Qui Rit, one 

 of Victor Hugo's romances, and the author of sun- 

 dry minor works. He was elected President of the 

 St. George's Society in 1854 and 1855. 



SEPTIMUS CROOKES. 



Mr. Septimus Crookes, the seventeenth President 

 of the Society, was a warm personal friend of the 

 illustrious Charles Edwards, whose memoir already 

 appears in these pages, and who in witnessing Mr. 

 Crookes will testifies that he had known him inti- 

 mately both in England and America for upwards 

 of 30 years. We find no record of the particular 

 line of business in which he was engaged while re- 

 siding in this city. He remained a bachelor all his 

 life and died somewhere about the latter part of 

 the year 1867. 



