OBITUARY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13528, 9 November 1911, Page 5

OBITUARY.

CLARK "RUSSELL, AUTHOR. Press -Association .—Telegraph .—Copyright Received November 9. 10 a.m. LONDON, November 8. Obituary.—Clark Bussell, the novelist. William Clarke Russell was born at New York in 1844. He was educated at English schools, and entered the British merchant service at the ago of 13. He remained in the service till he was 21, and, then took up literature. His chief publications were:—“ John Holdsworth, Chief Mate” (1874), “Wreck of the Grosvenor” (1875), . “The Lady Maid” (1876), “A Sailor's Sweetheart” and “The Frozen Pirate’' (1877), “An Ocean Freelance” (1878); “An Ocean Tragedy” (1881), “My Shipmate, Louise” (1882), “The Emigrant Ship” and “The Ship: Her Story” (1894), “What Cheer!” (1895), “Rose Island” and “The Tale of the Ten” (1896), “List, Ye Landsmen,' “The Last Entry,” and “The Two Captains” (1897), “The Romance of a Midshipman” (1898), “The Ship’s Adventures” (1899), “Overdue” (1903), “Abandoned and Overdue” (1904), “His Island Princess” and “The Yarns of Old Harbour Town”' (1905). He has also written several papers on Lord Nelson, “life,” and also “The Life of "Lord’Cbllingwood.”