Lucas
EDWARD VERRALL, an English writer on travel and essayist.
Born in 1868 at Brighton and educated in London, he was first employed by the Sussex "Daily News." Later he was associated with the "Globe," the "Academy," and finally with "Punch." Among his works are essays written after the style of Lamb, anthologies of English poetry, bocks for children, and works of biography and travel. Among his best known publications are "Life of Charles Lamb" (2 vols., 1905), "Anne's Terrible Good Nature, and Other Stories for Children" (1908), "The Slow Coach" (1910), "A Wanderer in Venice" (1914).