Monday, January 31, 2011

Alfred Sutro

Alfred Sutro

Alfred Sutro OBE (August 7, 1863, London - 1933) was a British author and dramatist. He was a translator and friend of Maeterlinck. Educated at the City of London School and in Brussels, he began his career with a series of translations of Maeterlinck's works, all of which except the dramas he translated from the French. Afterward turning his attention to the drama, he at first collaborated with Arthur Bourchier in producing The Chili Widow (1896), then wrote in rapid succession The Cave of Illusion (1900), Arethusa (1903), A Marriage Has Been Arranged (1904), and finally made a great success with The Walls of Jericho, produced at the Garrick Theatre, London, on October 21, 1904. Sutro married Esther Stella Isaacs, the sister of the 1st Marquess of Reading, in 1894.



[Five Little Plays]


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Barbara Field

Barbara Field (1935-now)

Barbara Field (born 1935) is a playwright whose work has been seen at theaters across North America and Europe. Currently a resident of Minneapolis, Ms. Field is a co-founder of The Playwrights' Center, and served as playwright-in-residence at the Guthrie Theater for eight years. She has held fellowships from numerous organizations; the Shubert, Bush, McKnight, and Minnesota State Arts Board fellowships are among her many awards.


Al Field's Books:


[Watch Yourself Go By]

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill (1846-1917)

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory, near LeClaire. He was one of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, and mostly famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872.


H Cody's Books:


[Glen Of The High North | Jess Of The Rebel Trail | Rod Of The Lone Patrol | The Fourth Watch | The Frontiersman | The King Arrow]

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Herbert Baxter Adams

Herbert Baxter Adams (1850-1901)

Herbert Baxter Adams (1850-1901) title=

Herbert Baxter Adams (April 16, 1850 July 30, 1901) was an American educator and historian. Adams was born to Henry & Fanny (Maguire) Adams in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. On his father's side, he was a descendant of Thomas Hastings (colonist) who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634. Adams received his early training in the Amherst, Massachusetts public schools and Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated from Amherst College in 1872, and received the degree of Ph.D. at Heidelberg, Germany, in 1876. He was a fellow in history at Johns Hopkins University from 1876 to 1878, associate from 1878 to 1883, and was appointed associate professor in 1883. He is credited with bringing the study of politics into the realm of the social sciences. At Johns Hopkins, in 1880, he began his famous seminar in history, where a large proportion of the next generation of American historians trained. Adams founded the "Johns Hopkins Studies in Historical and Political Science," the first of such series, and brought about the organization in 1884 of the American Historical Association. His historical writings introduced scientific methods of investigation that influenced many historians, including Frederick Jackson Turner and John Spencer Bassett. He authored Life and Writings of Jared Sparks (1893) and many articles and influential reports on the study of the social sciences. He was the secretary of the American Historical Association at its foundation in 1884. In 1873 he went to Europe and devoted three years to travel and study. His principal writings are The Germanic Origin of the New England Towns; Saxon Tithing-Men in America; Norman Constables in America; Village Communities; Methods of Historical Study, and Maryland's Influence upon Land Cessions to the United States. All these papers are published in the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, edited by Prof. Adams, 4 vols. (Baltimore, 1883-'86). Although less known for his contributions to the history of education, Adams was essential to its early development. He edited the circular series titled, "Contributions to American Educational History," which was printed and distributed by the U.S. Bureau of Education. Herbert B. Adams died in 1901.



[Death Of A Viewer | The Chief Witness]


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Alice Mildred Cable

Alice Mildred Cable (1878-1952)

Alice Mildred Cable (21 February 1878-30 April 1952) was born in Guildford, she was a British Protestant Christian missionary in China, serving with the China Inland Mission. Trained as a pharmacist, she joined the China Inland Mission in 1901, meeting Evangeline (Eva) French who was returning to China following her first home leave they were together for the rest of their lives. Stationed in in Huozhou, Shanxi, they travelled constantly in the surrounding area. Eva's younger sister, Francesca, joined them in 1910 (although some sources say 1908) and they became a well-known trio. In the words of Mildred Cable: "From Etzingol to Turpan, from Spring of Wine to Chuguchak, we... spent long years in following trade-routes, tracing faint caravan tracks, searching out innumerable by-paths and exploring the most hidden oases.... Five times we traversed the whole length of the desert, and in the process we had become part of its life" In June 1913, all three set out for Central Asia. Travelling 1500 miles (2,414 km) over the next eight months, evangelizing as they went, they reached Zhangye (then referred to as Kanchow). Zhangye was the last city inside of the Great Wall. A Chinese evangelist was already working there, and at his request they set up a Bible school over the winter. When summer came they were on the road again, this time with some of the Chinese believers that they had trained. This time they went past the Great Wall, all throughout the Gobi Desert, selling Bibles and other Christian literature. They travelled to England via Russian Siberia. After their return to Suchow, they took a year-long journey into Xinjiang (then known as Chinese Turkestan), on the way being detained by a Dongan leader, Ma Zhongying, to tend his wounds. In 1932, they made their first journey into the Gobi, where Cable was badly injured by a kick from a wooden donkey. They returned to Suchow, via the Soviet Union, for the last time in 1933. In August 1936, all foreigners were ordered to leave Suchow and the trio retired to Dorset. During her retirement, Cable was much in demand as a speaker, making several international tours. She and Francesca French continued writing. Mildred Cable served as a Vice President for the British and Foreign Bible Society until her death in Dorset in 1952.


G Cable's Books:


[Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War]

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Helen Johnson

Helen Johnson

Helen Johnson, who was better known as Helene Johnson (19061995) was an African American poet during the Harlem Renaissance. She was also a cousin of author Dorothy West. She spent her early years at her grandfathers house in Boston. The rest of her formative years were spent in Brookline, Massachusetts. Johnson's literary career began when she won first prize in a short story competition sponsored by the Boston Chronicle. She also received an honorable mention in a poetry contest organized by Opportunity, the journal of the National Urban League that was one of the leading showcase for the talents of African-American artists. She reached the height of her popularity in 1927 when her poem "Bottled", a work with unconventional rhythms and innovative slang, was published in the May issue of Vanity Fair. She and Dorothy West moved to Harlem in the 1920s. She attended Columbia University, but did not graduate. Both were a part of the Harlem Renaissance and became friends with such artists as Zora Neale Hurston. In 1935, Johnsons last published poems appeared in Challenge: A Literary Quarterly. She married William Hubbel soon after, and had one child, Abigail. She spent many years composing poems just for herself, continuing to write a poem a day for the rest of her life, though she stopped publishing after 1937. She died in Manhattan at the age of 89.



[Canadian Wild Flowers]

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Frederic H Balfour

Frederic H Balfour

Frederic H Balfour

Frederic Henry Balfour was a British expatriate editor, essayist, author, and sinologist, living in Shanghai during the Victorian era. He is most notable for his translation of the writings known today as the Tao Te Ching. Many of these translations appeared in his 1884 treatise: Taoist Texts: Ethical, Political and Speculative, also known simply as Taoist Texts. Although later discoveries of supplemental manuscripts have somewhat obscured Balfour's early sinology, his work is still used as a primary source for many scholars of the Tao Te Ching.



[Austin And His Friends]


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Arthur Penty

Arthur Penty

Arthur Joseph Penty (17 March 1875 1937) was a British architect, and writer on Guild socialism and distributism. He was first a Fabian socialist, and follower of Victorian thinkers William Morris and John Ruskin. He is generally credited with the formulation of a Christian socialist form of the medieval guild, as an alternative basis for economic life.



[Post Industrialism]


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Monday, January 24, 2011

E F Benson

E F Benson (1867-1940)

E F Benson (1867-1940)

Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 - 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred.



[Miss Mapp]


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George William Curtis

George William Curtis

George William Curtis title=

George William Curtis (February 24, 1824 August 31, 1892) was an American writer and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of old New England stock.



[Ars Recte Vivendi | Early Letters Of George William Curtis | From The Easy Chair Vol 1 | Literary And Social Essays | Prue And I | The Potiphar Papers]


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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Charles Loring Jackson

Charles Loring Jackson

Charles Loring Jackson (1847-1935) was the first significant organic chemist in the United States. He brought organic chemistry to the United States from Germany and educated a generation of American organic chemists.


F Loring's Books:


[The Tomb Of Sarah]

Friday, January 21, 2011

Bill Jordan

Bill Jordan (1911-1997)

Bill Jordan (1911-1997) title=

William Henry "Bill" Jordan (19111997) was an American lawman, United States Marine and author. Born in 1911 in Louisiana, he served for over 30 years with the U.S. Border Patrol, while also serving as a US Marine during World War II and the Korean War. He retired from the Marine Corps Reserve as a Colonel. Jordan is credited with developing the 'Jordan' or 'Border Patrol' style of holster. The Jordan rig is rigid and unmoving, always holding the gunbutt in precisely the same relationship to the gun hand. The revolvers trigger guard is completely exposed, and the gun is held away from the back portion of the holster by a plug of leather, allowing the trigger finger to enter the guard as the draw is commenced. He also collaborated with Walter Roper in the design of wooden grips intended for heavy-calibre double action revolvers, which are now made by Herrett's Stocks as the "Jordan Trooper". Jordan always favored a double action revolver for law enforcement duties. He was largely responsible for convincing Smith & Wesson to adapt its medium K-frame series revolver to accommodate the.357 Magnum cartridge, resulting in the "Combat Magnum". After retiring from the Border Patrol, Jordan served as a Southwestern Field Representative for the National Rifle Association. He was a contemporary of Charles Askins, Elmer Keith, Skeeter Skelton and to a lesser degree, Jack O'Connor. He wrote numerous articles on all aspects of firearms, as well as books such as No Second Place Winner, Mostly Huntin' and Tales of the Rio Grande. Jordan was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan. Using a double action revolver, Bill Jordan was recorded drawing, firing and hitting his target in.27 of a second. He appeared on such television prorams as To Tell the Truth, I've Got a Secret, You Asked for It, and Wide Wide World. Bill Jordan died in 1997.



[Bolshevism A Curse Danger To The Workers]

Alan Parker

Alan Parker (1944-now)

Alan Parker (1944-now) title=

Sir Alan William Parker, CBE (born 14 February 1944) is an English film director, producer, writer and actor. He has been active in both the British film industry and Hollywood and was a founding member of the Director's Guild of Great Britain.


G Parker's Books:


[The March Of The White Guard]

Adelaide Fries

Adelaide Fries

Adelaide Lisetta Fries (12 November 1871-29 November 1949) was the foremost scholar of the history and genealogy of the Moravians in the southern United States. She made important contributions to the field as archivist, translator, author and editor. Fries was born in Salem, North Carolina, the elder of two daughters of John William Fries (1846-1927) and Agnes Sophia (de Schweinitz) Fries (1849-1915). She never married, and lived with her parents in Winston-Salem until their deaths. In 1911, the Provincial Elders' Conference of the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province, appointed Fries as archivist of the Southern Province, and granted her the use of a warehouse in Salem as repository and offices. She immediately began collecting, organizing, translating and publishing records, a work that continued until her death. Fries was never satisfied that the warehouse was a safe repository, and over the years her friends and supporters raised enough money to convert the former office of the Vorsteher (business manager) of the Salem community into a fireproof repository. The archives moved into the new building in 1942. One of Fries' best-known books is The Road To Salem (1944), an account of the life of Anna Catharina (Antes) Ernst (1726-1816). Written in the first person, the book is based on Ernst's autobiography and on the diaries and records kept by leaders of the Moravian Church in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. Another well-known book, The Moravians in Georgia, has entered the public domain and is available online. Forsyth County was revised and updated in 1949, and a further revision and update was issued in 1976 under the oversight of J. Edwin Hendricks of Wake Forest University.



[The Moravians In Georgia | The Moravians In Georgia 1735 1740]

Antonio De Trueba

Antonio De Trueba

Antonio De Trueba

Antonio de Trueba was a Spanish poet, novelist, and folklorist born at Montellana, Biscay, in 1821 (some sources say 1819), where he was privately educated. In 1835 he went to Madrid to learn business; but commerce was not to his taste, and, after a long apprenticeship, he turned to journalism, hoping to make a livelihood by literary pursuits. To earn his daily bread he discharged the duties of a clerk in a small commercial house, but all the while he beguiled his leisure and his moments of regret by writing little poems and tales redolent of the yearnings and sympathies of a Basque transplanted to the busy cosmopolitan center. Won over to him by the charm of his writings, Queen Isabella II made him historiographer of the Biscayan district, and he held this post until her flight in 1868. He was reinstated after the restoration. In 1851 he hit the popular taste with El Cid Campeador and El Libro de los Cantares. His popularity was fixed by the appearance of his first collection of lyrics, the Cantares (Madrid, 1852), and for the next eleven years he was absorbed by journalistic work, the best of his contributions being issued under the titles of Cuentos populares (1862), Cuentos de color de rosa (1864), and Cuentos campesinos (1865). Other collections of his tales, especially charming when they deal with his native region and its people, appeared in 1859, 1860, and 1866. The pleasant simplicity and idyllic sentimentalism of these collections delighted an uncritical public, and de Trueba met the demand by supplying a series of stories conceived in the same ingenious vein. In his more ambitious attempts at writing a novel, as in his work dealing with the Cid of history and legend, he failed signally; he was too conscientiously a recorder of the past and left his imagination no free play. He remains an amiable writer of second rank, but no one can read without sympathy and appreciation his pretty little songs fragrant with love for the landscape of his northern Spanish home. He deserves serious notice among the earlier writers who helped to develop the novel of manners in the Spain of the 19th century. He died at Bilbao. This article incorporates text from the Encyclopdia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.



[Contos Escolhidos De D Antonio De Trueba]


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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Angus Wells

Angus Wells

Angus Wells (1943 - 2006) was a British writer of genre fiction, including fantasy and westerns. Wells wrote under numerous pseudonyms, including Andrew Quiller, James A. Muir, Charles R. Pike, William S. Brady, J. D. Sandon, Charles C. Garrett (with Laurence James), Richard Kirk, J. B. Dancer, and Ian Evans.



[Devil Crystals Of Arret | The Cavern Of The Shining Ones | Zehru Of Xollar]

Alexander M Phillips

Alexander M Phillips (1907-1991)

Alexander Moore Phillips (1907 - 1991) was an American short story writer and novelist. He also worked as a topographical draftsman for a title insurance company. Phillips served in the U. S. Army from April, 1942 spending time in Egypt and Palestine. His short stories appeared in pulp magazines including Amazing Stories, Wonder Stories and Unknown,. His novel, The Mislaid Charm, was published by Prime Press in 1947. He served as President of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society.



[Sweets For Leisure Hours]

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell

Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell (1856-1930)

Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell (March 2, 1856December 13, 1930), commonly known by his pen name Mackenzie Bell, was an English writer, poet and literary critic. He was a writer for many Victorian era publications, most especially the London Academy, and published several volumes of poetry between 1879 and 1893. A noted world traveller, he was acquainted with many literary figures in Victorian Britain and abroad. He was a personal friend of Christina Rossetti and authored her biography, as well as those of fellow English poets Algernon Swinburne and Charles Whitehead, and published critical studies of their literary work. He also contributed biographies to the Dictionary of National Biography. A staunch Liberal Imperialist, Bell was a charter member of W.E. Forster's Imperial Federation Committee, lectured for the Social and Political Education League and on four occasions contested St George Hanover Square on behalf of the Liberal Party. He was also a member of the Athenaeum for many years.



[The Man Of Feeling]

Andreas Aubert

Andreas Aubert

Fredrik Ludvig Andreas Vibe Aubert (28 January 1851 10 May 1913) was a Norwegian art historian. Aubert championed Edvard Munch, Puvis de Chavannes, Arnold Bcklin, Max Klinger, Gabriel von Max, and Vilhelm Hammershi. He described them as "neurasthenics", by which he meant that their art was oriented toward the psychological.


E Aubert's Books:


[Littrature Franaise premire Anne | Litterature Francaise]


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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Richard Wormser

Richard Wormser (1908-1977)

Richard Edward Wormser (1908 - 1977) was a prolific American writer of pulp fiction, detective fiction, screenplays, and Westerns, some of it written using the pseudonym of Ed Friend. He is estimated to have written 300 short stories, 200 novelettes, 12 books, many screenplays and stories turned into screenplays and a cookbook Southwest American Cooking or Home on the Range.



[De Vurige Oven]


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Monday, January 17, 2011

Atticus Green Haygood

Atticus Green Haygood

Atticus Greene Haygood (1839 - 1896) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He was born in Watkinsville, Ga. and graduated at Emory College (Georgia) in 1859. He entered the ministry where he edited the Sunday-school publications of the Southern branch of the church. He edited the Wesleyan Christian Advocate (1878-82), served as president of Emory General Agent of the Slater Fund


Atticus's Books:


[Our Churches And Chapels]


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Andrew Moir

Andrew Moir

Andrew Moir title=

A journalist, scriptwriter, singer songwriter and a current radio show presenter on the community radio station Leith FM. Well known on the Edinburgh airwaves by his distinct sensual voice, colourful introductions and interviewing style on the Leith Tonight show. As a journalist Andrew Moir writes for STV as one of their many online football reporters. He currently is the sites Motherwell man, sharing his views on all aspects of Motherwell Football Club including its team, managers and game plans. His articles are also currently found on the Edinburgh Napier News website. As well as this Andrew Moir also writes under the pseudo name "Infotrace" and his blog can be found on the Wordpress website under this name.


D Moir's Books:


[The Life Of Mansie Wauch]


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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Henry Nevinson

Henry Nevinson

Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856 - 1941) was a British campaigning journalist. He was known for his reporting on the Second Boer War, and slavery in Angola in 1904-1905. He was also a suffragist, being one of the founders in 1907 of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage, and a war correspondent of World War I, being wounded at Gallipoli.



[Ladysmith]

Friday, January 14, 2011

Robert William Seton Watson

Robert William Seton Watson

Robert William Seton-Watson, commonly referred to as R.W. Seton-Watson, and also known by the pseudonym Scotus Viator, was a British political activist and historian who played an active role in encouraging the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the emergence of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia during and after World War I. He was the father of two eminent historians, Hugh, who specialised in nineteenth-century Russian history, and Christopher, who worked on nineteenth-century Italy.



[Cactus Culture For Amateurs | The Poems Of William Watson]

Edward Abbott Parry

Edward Abbott Parry

Edward Abbott Parry title=

Edward Abbott Parry (1863-1943) was an English judge and dramatist. Parry was born in London, the second son of a barrister, John Humphrey Parry. Parry himself studied at the Middle Temple and was called to the bar in 1885. He was Judge of Manchester County Court 1894-1911 and became Judge of Lambeth County Court in 1911. He wrote several plays and books for children.



[The Love Letters Of Dorothy Osborne To Sir William Temple 1652 54]

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Chris Hutchinson

Chris Hutchinson

Chris Hutchinson is a Canadian poet. Born in Montreal on 2 Aug 1972, he is the author of Unfamiliar Weather (2005, The Muses' Company), and more recently, Other People's Lives (2009, Brick Books). He won the Earle Birney Prize for his poem Disclosure. Hutchinson holds a B.F.A. from the University of Victoria Writing Program and an M.F.A. from Arizona State University. He currently teaches at Okanagan College in Kelowna.



[This Freedom]

Siobhan Macgowan

Siobhan Macgowan

Siobhan MacGowan was born in Brighton, England in 1963. She is the sister of Shane MacGowan, lead singer of the Irish group The Pogues.



[Chinese Folk Lore Tales]


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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Alfred Coppel

Alfred Coppel

Alfred Coppel, Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel (November 9, 1921-May 30, 2004) was an American author. Born in Oakland, California, he served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started his career as a writer. He became one of the most prolific pulp authors of the 1950s and 1960s, adopting the pseudonyms Robert Cham Gilman and A.C. Marin and writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later "slick" publishers. Though writing in a variety of genres, including action thrillers, he is of some note for his science fiction stories which comprise both short stories and novels.



[The Hills Of Home | The Invader | The Peacemaker | Turning Point | Turnover Point]


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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey (1880-1932)

Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) title=

Giles Lytton Strachey (1 March 1880 21 January 1932) was a British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His 1921 biography Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.



[Landmarks In French Literature]

Felicia Hemans

Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)

Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)

Felicia Hemans (25 September 1793 - 16 May 1835) was an English poet.



[The Restoration Of The Works Of Art To Italy]


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Monday, January 10, 2011

Charles Macklin

Charles Macklin

Charles Macklin title=

Charles Macklin (26 September 1690 - 11 July 1797), originally Cathal MacLochlainn, was an actor and dramatist born in Culdaff, a village on the scenic Inishowen Peninsula of County Donegal, part of the Province of Ulster in the north of Ireland. He was one of the most distinguished actors of his day, equally in tragedy and comedy. He gained his greatest fame in the role of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.



[The Covent Garden Theatre Or Pasquin Turnd Drawcansir | The Man Of The World 1792]

Frances Fuller Victor

Frances Fuller Victor (1826-1902)

Frances Fuller Victor (1826-1902) title=

Frances Auretta Fuller Victor (May 23, 1826 November 14, 1902) was an American historical novelist. Fuller Victor was born in New York and was raised with her sister Metta Victoria Fuller Victor, also a writer, in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The sisters both published stories and poems in New York's Home Journal, and in 1848 they moved to New York together. Frances moved to St. Clair, Michigan in 1851 to help care for her mother and younger sisters.



[The New Penelope And Other Stories And Poems]

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Alexander Sutherland

Alexander Sutherland (1852-1902)

Alexander Sutherland (26 March 1852 - 9 August 1902) was a Scottish-Australian educator, writer and philosopher.



[History Of Australia And New Zealand]