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Show "UHIN MUlllMIIIIl'A" IH.UII. Amiiiu.ii bright light In Kugllsh lllirutuie his go no out. OnlheLMth of Novnuber lost luri Lytton died In I'atli. In the fame of that gnat writer Amorlinns have a jiartlcu-lar jiartlcu-lar Interest. lis- use List knuwii totho world ui "Owen Men-dlth," the author of "l.ucelle," n novel In verse, pub-llihld pub-llihld III 161)0. What renders this pum aud Its author liitehsllug to Amirlcans Is thu fuel Hut most of It was written In the city of Washluglon, where yuung 1-ytbm waa private hi-retary hi-retary to liliuuile, Ihtu lldll.li Mil). liter to thu Unltid Htntes. lird I.jttou was born Xovrmhrr bth, I Sill, so Dint at tho tlinaof his death ho was only some twowti)rH over alxtj lais of itge. 1 1 u as the ami of Iluleir lo Hon thu great novillst Ills mother's nauie was Itoslu Wheeler, and ll.oro who have read Ihe life of Ills father will nm mi.rr Ihe circumstance- tf the unhapfy mar rlage He was rducati-d at Harrow. In 1940 ha ramo to Washington as private secretary to his uncle, Sir II. Ii. Ilulwer, then llrltlsh Mln liter. In 1852 he was transferred to J'lorencr, and later ou from there to the Hague, In IS) ho was appolnlcl first ald attache, to the embassy at Vleuna, Allerwarda ho becime Secretary of Legation nt Cojhsuhsgen, aud liter on at Athena and Lisbon, Whin Disraeli wav I'rline Minister ofj.nghind. lord l.ytton made viceroy ollndls. At the tuna of his death he was English Ambassador to Franco. Ills death Is attributed directly lo heart failure, but he sutler-ad sutler-ad for soma time from cyalllle, which deviloU Into acuta Inflammation tl the bladder. lord l.ylton'a first Iltorary work waa published III ISM under the title of "Clytemoestra and other Minor Pceroi." In I8OT he publlshe.1 "The Wandorer" another colleotlon of oems. lu ISO) he published "Ijucellc," whloh gave htm world-wldo renown aa "Owen Meredith." Ilia latest literary worl. waa a blogra hy of his father. It was to hi in a distasteful task, owing to the unfortunate Uomrallo relatione re-latione of both hie parent!. However, It Is said that he discharged his duly both as son and blograher very creditably. |