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Besant (SIR WALTER bes-ant' an English)

SIR WALTER (bes-ant'), an English novelist, born in Portsmouth, Aug. 14, 1836. After graduation at Cambridge, he went to Mauritius as professor in the Royal College, but returned to London, where he long was secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund. In 1871 he formed a literary partnership with James Rice, which continued until the death of the latter. Among their novels are "Ready Money Mortiboy" (London, 1871); "The Golden Butterfly" (1876); "The Seamy Side" (1881); and BESIKA BAY "The Chaplain of the Fleet" (1881).

Alone he wrote "Studies in Early French Poetry" (1868); "The French Humorists" (1873); "All Sorts and Conditions of Men" (1882), "All in a Garden Fair" (1883); "Dorothy Foster" (1884); "Amorel of Lyonesse" (1890); "St.

Katharine's by the Tower" (1891); "The Ivory Gate" (1892); "Beyond the Dreams of Avarice"; "The Master Craftsman"; "The Pen and the Book"; "The Alabaster Box" (1900); etc. He died June 9, 1901.