HAROLD

FREDERIC (1856-1898)  , Anglo-American novelist, was born on the 19th of August 1856 at Utica, N.Y., was educated there, and took to journalism . He went to live in England as London correspondent of the New York Times in 1884, and was soon recognized for his ability both as a writer and as a talker . He wrote several clever early stories, but it was not till he published Illumination (1896), followed by Gloria Mundi (1898), that his remarkable gifts as a novelist were fully realized . He died in England on the 19th of October 1898 .