Sala

Sala, GEORGE AUGUSTUS HENRY, journalist and novelist, and a man of much out-of-the-way learning, was born in London, the son of an Italian and an Englishwoman, 24th Nov. 1828, and, forsaking art for literature, became a contributor to Household Words, the Welcome Guest, Temple Bar (which he founded and edited), the Illustrated London News (to which he from 1860–84 contributed the 'Echoes of the Week'), and Cornhill. As special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph he was in the United States during the civil war, in France during the war of 1870–71, in Russia in 1876, and in Australia in 1885. Twice Round the Clock was published in 1859. Among his best-known novels are The Baddington Peerage (1860), Captain Dangerous (1863), Quite Alone (1864). Wat Tyler, M.P. is a burlesque; and among the popular books of travel are A Journey due North (1859), Dutch Pictures (1861), A Trip to Barbary (1865), From Waterloo to the Peninsula (1866), Rome and Venice (1869), Under the Sun (1872), Paris Herself Again (1881), America Revisited (1882), A Journey due South (1885), Things I have Seen (1894), and his autobiographical Life and Adventures (1895). His last book was on cookery. He died 8th December 1895 in embarrassed circumstances. See his Life and Adventures (1895).