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Lear (EDWARD an English author born)

EDWARD, an English author; born in London, England, May 12, 1812.

In 1835 studied painting, and later was sent by the Earl of Derby to Italy and Greece, where he painted many landscapes in Albania, Athos, the Morea, and the islands of the Ægean. He exhibited at the Royal Academy 1850-1873. His later years were spent in Italy. Lear made himself better known by his illustrated books of travels than by his paintings. Of these the most important were his "Sketches of Rome and its Environs" (1842); "Illustrated Excursions in Italy" (1846); "Journal in Greece and Albania" (1851); Painter in Calabria" (1852); "In Cor- Landscape sica" (1869). The "Book of Nonsense" (1861). "More Nonsense Rhymes" followed in 1871, "Nonsense, Songs, Stories," and "Botany" in 1870, "Laughable Lyrics" in 1876. He died in San Remo, Italy, Jan. 30, 1888. "Journal of a for Great Britain, Japan, M. da emier Venizelos for de Leon for Spain, Belgium, and Signor Sir Eric Drumof the League, was of the business the body had boon althe Supreme Counratively few of the were to be handled actually before it. real business transthe English, Japmembers of the Sarre to designate Lonplace. This, ip ring the succeedasks and impord by the Su-

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