The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-05-20

THE SUICIDE OF ''FRANK FoRREsfER."-The New
York papers contain some particulars of the life Of
Henry Hsrbert-"Frank Forrester'-which 80 sud
denly and tragically ended in that city Monday
The Post says:
He was the eldest son of the Rev Wm Herbert,
the Dean of Manchester, England, and throu gh
him inherited the blood of the noble English
houses of Pembroke and Percy. He was born in
1907, and grad6a ed at Cambridge In 1929. In
1881 he came to this country, for reasons which
have never transpired, but which are supposed
to have materially affected the intercourse which
subsisted thereafter between himself and the rest
of his family. He taught Greek in Mr.. Huddarts :
school, in the neighbOrhOod of this city, eight
years, and since then has been fertile contri
butor to magazines, aud the author of several po-
puiar novels and sporting books. His works on
the wild game and field sports of this country
are among the best books of the kind ever pub
lshed. His Treatise on the Horse, published last
winter, is the most elaborate work that he has
left behind him.
Not loag after his arrival in this country he
married very attractive lady in Maine, who has
since died. We see by his letter that he married
again about three months since He was unfor-
innate in his habits and temper, and it is pretty
apparent FROM the letter he has left behind him.
that in the last hours of his life he the vic
tim of both. He resided at place which he
named the "Cedars," near Newark, purchased for
him by his friends in England, aud settled upon
him without the power of alienation.
We knew Mr.. Herbert years ago, when he was
10 the bud and blossom of his literary fame-en-
gagged in editing the American Monthly Magazine,
"a. " and IN the instruction of classes in a
large classical school. lie left England, we heard
it rumored under rather painful circumstances,
but received hundred pounds yearly from his
father for his support. But his extravagant hab-
It's, made that and what he was earning, a
small income for him. His novels at one seized
the public attention and soon gained him an
euviable fame. lie had fine Imagination and
strong powers of conceiving character; his rich
store of learning gave him unusual facility of ex-
preston, and his cultivated taste taught him as
by intuition what was best.
lie waa one of the most profound scholars We
ever had in the country, and writer, pos
sessed genius OF no common order. His last
work was elaborate one on the fish and game
of his couniryr his pursuits and tas Q incliuiDg
him to the life of sportsman aud the study
of natural history. His first wife died some
years since, leaving child, whom was set
tied the country seat where Mr.. Herbert was
married. Latteriy he had suffered much from il
health, which, leading perhaps TO alienation o
mind, may have been the cause of the sad catas
tr0phe.
1t is believed that want OF literary occupation
was one of the causes of his rash act. A new
| story of his, had been refused by several pub
| fishers, at which he was great deal mortified
For his epitaph he left inscribed on letter
sheet: "Henry W. Herbert, aged 81, Infelcissi
| mus"