Henley, WILLIAM ERNEST, LL.D.

Henley, WILLIAM ERNEST, LL.D., poet, playwright, critic, and editor, was born at Gloucester, 23d August 1849. Months of sickness in Edinburgh Infirmary (1873-75) bore fruit in A Book of Verses (1888), which won much attention, and was followed by Views and Reviews (1890), The Song of the Sword (1892), &c. Mr Henley has also been editor of the Magazine of Art, the Scots (or National) Observer, and the New Review, besides editing Burns and Byron. He collaborated with R. L. Stevenson in three plays, Deacon Brodie, Beau Austin, and Admiral Guinea (reprinted 1892).