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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Henry Duff Traill (1842–1900)

Traill, Henry Duff. An English journalist and man of letters; born at Blackheath, Aug. 14, 1842; died in London, Feb. 21, 1900. He wrote ‘Lives’ of Strafford (a very original work with a new view), William III., Sterne, Coleridge, and others; also ‘Central Government’ (1881); ‘Recaptured Rhymes’ (1882); ‘The New Lucian’ (1884); ‘Two Proper Prides’; etc. He lately edited ‘Social England: A Record of the Progress of the People,’ in six large volumes; and became (1897) editor of the weekly review Literature.