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Grosvenor (EDWIN AUGUSTUS an American)

EDWIN AUGUSTUS, an American educator, born at Newburyport, Mass., in 1845. He graduated from Amherst College in 1867, and from 1873 to 1890 he was professor of history at Robert College. He afterward served on the faculty of Amherst College as professor of history and modern government, from 1892. He traveled much in Europe and Asia and was widely known as a lecturer on historic and diplomatic subjects. He contributed many articles to encyclopædias, magazines, and re- GROSVENOR views. He wrote "The Hippodrome of Constantinople and Its Still Existing Monuments" (1899); "Constantinople" (1895); "Contemporary History of the World" (1899). He was the editor of the "Reference History of the World" (1909).