The New International Encyclopædia/Traill, Henry Duff

TRAILL, Henry Duff (1842–1900). An English journalist and author, born at Blackheath, near London. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, London, and at Saint John's College, Oxford. In 1869 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, but he soon gave up law for journalism. He edited the Observer from 1880 to 1891, and was the projector and first editor of Literature (established 1897). Traill did much miscellaneous work of good quality, For the "English Men of letters" series he wrote Sterne (1882) and Coleridge (1884); for "English Worthies," Shaftesbury (I886) ; for "English Statesmen," William III. (1888); and for "English Men of Action," Strafford (1889). Other biographies by him are Lord Salisbury (1891), Sir John Franklin (1896), and Lord Cromer (1897). In politics and history are Central Government (1881) ; the exhaustive Social England (1892-96), of which he was editor; From Cairo to the Soudan Frontier (1896); and England, Egypt, and the Soudan (posthumous, 1900). For prose literature may be cited The New Lucian (1884) and The New Fiction and Other Essays (1897). Political verse contributed to various periodicals was collected under the titles, Recaptured Rhymes (1882) and Saturday Songs (from The Saturday Review, 1890).