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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Louis Becke (1855–1913)

Becke, Louis. An Australian author; born in Port Macquarrie, Australia, in 1855; died in 1913. He went to sea at the age of fourteen, and spent his life trading in the South Pacific. His publications are: ‘By Reef and Palm’ (1895); ‘South Sea Stories’ (1896); ‘The Ebbing of the Tide’ (1896); and with W. Jeffrey, ‘A First-Fleet Family’ (1896).