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Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

GEORGE PAYNE RAINS- FORD, an English novelist; born in Lon HENRY JAMES France and Switzerland and at Harvard Law School. After 1869 he made his home in England. His works include : "Transatlantic Sketches" (1875); " A 66 While still very iderable turn d produced, the Black "Richelieu," success deue fiction writing 60 novels and hison. Among them "Life of Charle- "Henry Master- "Burgundy"; "The of Chivalry" Later ice of British consul, Va., and afterward died in 1860. GE WHARTON, an born in Gainsbor- 27, 1858; devoted es in geology, in California, tern States. He he Lick Observasions and Mission "In and Around (1900); "Indian "Reclaiming the Arid he House Blessing and an American at; born in New York, He was educated in KY JAMES erland and at Harvard er 1869 he made his His works include: ketches" (1876); A Passionate Pilgrim and Other Tales" (1875); "Roderick Hudson" (1876); "The American" (1877); "Watch and Ward" (1878); "French Poets and Novelists" (1878); "Daisy Miller: a Study" (1878); "The Europeans: a Sketch" (1878); "The Madonna of the Future and Other Tales" (1879); "Hawthorne" (1879); "Washington Square" Lady" (1880); "The Portrait of a (1882); "Daisy Miller: Comedy" a (1883); "Portraits of Places" (1883); "Tales of Three Cities" (1884); "The Art of Fiction" (1885), with Walter Besant; "Stories Revived" (2 vols. 1885); "The Author of Beltraffio" (1885); "The Bostonians" (1886); "The Princess Casamassima" (1886); "Partial Portraits" (1888); "The Reverberator" (1888); "A London Life" (1889); "The Tragic Muse" (1890); "The Lesson of the Master" (1892), a volume of stories; "The Real Thing and Other Tales" (1893); "Picture and Text" (1893); "Essays in London and Elsewhere" (1893); "The Wheel of Time" (1894); "Terminations" (1895); "What Maisie Knew" (1897); "In the Cage" (1898); "The Two Magics" (1898); "The Awkward Age" (1899); "The Soft Side" (1900); "The Sacred Fount" (1901); "A Small Boy and Others" (1913). Died Feb. 28, 1916.