Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-06-13
SIR Walter B[SANT'| I. DEAD ]
The Famous London Novelist Passes
Away at His Home as a Re-
s suit of Influenza.
HAD BEEN SICK FOR TWO WEEKS.
Was to Have Delivered Toast at At
lantic Union Dinner Monday Night
Robert Williams Buchanan, Poet
and Prose Writer, Also Expires at
British Metropolis.

London, June 11.-Sir Walter Be-
SAINT, the novelist, died at his resi-
dence in Hampstead, after fort
nights illness, from influenza. He was
born in 1886.
Besant was to have attended the
Atlantic Union dinner Monday night
and propose the toast to English
Speaking Communities"
Sketch of Sir Walter Besant.
Sir Walter Besant was born al Ports
mouth, England, in 1888. He was educated
at Kings college, London, and at Cam
bridge university. from which he gradu-
ated with high mathematical honors. He
was Intended for the church, but aban-
sdoned this career for literature. He was
Tor several years professor of the Royal
college of Mauritius, but resigned on ac-
count of Ill health and returned to Eng
land. His first work, Studies in Early
French Poetry" was published in 1868.
In 1873 appeared 1.-THE French Humorists,' -
& In 1877 "Rabelais" and in 1882 Readings
from Rabelais." Meantime his first nov
els. "Coligny'' and "Whittington," had
appeared and the writer had formed a
partnership with James Rice in the pro-
duction of series of novels that bear their
names. The most famous of Mr. Besant' S
own novels is "All Sorts and Conditions
hshment of the Peoples palace in East
London.
Among the authors other books are
children of Gibeon," 1886; 1.-THE World
Went Very Well Then" 1887; For Faith
and Freedom" 1888; 1.-THE Bell of St.
The Rebel Queen" 1898; THE Master
Craftsman" and THE City of Refuge
1886. OF late years Mr.. Besant gave his
time largely to series of illustrated his
torical works on old London, which he han
died in an interesting way.
Mr.. Besant founded the Society of Au-
thors, an organization formed to promote
the well-being of the profession, and he
: was editor of the monthly organ, the
Author.
:" Robert w. Buchanan Dead.
London, June 11.-Robert Williams
Buchanan, poet and prose writer, is
dead. He was born August IS, 1s41.
Robert Williams Buchanan was born in
Staffordshire in 1S41. He was the son of
Robert Buchanan, socialist journalist and
missionary. He was educated at Glasgow
university. His first writing was poetry
"ldylls and Legends of Inverburn' ap-
peared in 1868 and London Poems' in
1856. Several other volumes of verse fol-
lowed. In 1872 appeared THE Fleshly
School of Poetry" a fierce attack upon
Lire pOeIlS VI INOSSelll anu SW1QOurne.
Much of his tier work was written for
the stage. Among his dramas are "A
Mans Shadow" dick Sheridan" and
The Charlatan." His first novel, '"The
Shadow of the Sword" was published in
1876. In 1879 followed "A Child of Nature''
and in 1881 God and the Man." Two hu-
morous stories in verse, "st. Abe and His
i, Seven Wives and white Rose and Red
attained wide popularity. .....-.~ -....
Buchanan was one of Kipling's severest
critics. His attack on the author of Bar
rack Room Ballads" few years AGO
caused sensation. He charged Kipling
with singing 1.-The coarse and soulless pa,
triotlsm of the hour and said he seldom
wrote anything that did not suggest moral
baSeneSS