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Show ITEPWOETH DIXON DEAD. Ihs dUb of William Hopworlh Dii'jn, announced in thin morning's Herald, removea from tbo literary world one ol '.U moat active workers. Diiou waa not go much a brilliant writer aj be was an indmitrioua, bard-woikmy bard-woikmy a ad observant aut'inr. V rit-ig rit-ig :i iivt-ict comtdy at tnu ago of fourteen years, hid peu moved incea-eantly incea-eantly from that timo until hie death, and ecme of the moat popular books of the timo were tbo reciul', and nil his writing?, whether In proao or i-ostry, found ninny readers. Like the productions of Charlus Dickens, One really good work would ecU half ft dczon of email merit, P- rhaj bis niont euonedaful volumo w.ih "John Howard, a Memoir," which paeied through many ed't'oua both in England and America. F;on 1853 to 1SC9 he wae oditur of tbo London Aihemeum, and that peculiar literary periodical was novor better edit:d tban by bim. Mr. Dix'jii, uh well a historian and Lritic, waa a grdtt traveler, nnd vieited prot-'y nearly tha whole of the civilized worlc.'. He spent ajuie time in tbie c Xj in 1806, and tbe result of hid visit wad hia "Spiritual "Spiri-tual Wivee," the moat unpopular ol hia many volumes. "New Amer-ica," Amer-ica," a book or which he otUiced tbo nuUarul 1 tiring bis visit to thig country :u 1H0S paeaed through eight editions in England and three in Amt-iica wi'.bin two years, while only two editions of "Spiritual "Wives" were published. Tbe book was a Btvore critioian. on the Mormon faith and practices, and while some por-tiona por-tiona were evidently intended to be fair, Ibowoik waa cbiefly renarkable lor tbe apparent bittorneea of the wri'.er towards tbe Mormoa people. Mr. Dixon's lifo for fihyoight years (ho was born on Jane 30th, 1821) waB one of constant activity, and while history and travel received tbo greater portion of his attention, much of Lub time was sp?nl in pclitics and public life. |