HENTY, GEORGE ALFRED (1832-1902), English war correspondent and author, was born at Trumpington, near Cam bridge, and educated at Westminster school and Caius college, Cambridge. He served in the Crimea in the Purveyor's depart ment, and after the peace filled various posts in the department in England and Ireland, but he found the routine little to his taste, and drifted into journalism for the London Standard. He volun teered as special correspondent for the Austro-Italian War of 1866, accompanied Garibaldi in his Tirolese campaign, followed Lord Napier through the mountain gorges to Magdala, and Lord Wolseley across bush and swamp to Kumasi. Next he reported the Franco-German War, starved in Paris through the siege of the Commune and then turned south to rough it in the Pyrenees dur ing the Carlist insurrection. He was in Asiatic Russia at the time of the Khiva expedition, and later saw the desperate hand-to-hand fighting of the Turks in the Serbian war. He found his real voca tion in middle life, when he began to write excellent books of ad venture for boys, many of which had a good historical back ground. His first boys' book Out on the Pampas dates from 1868; the last two, posthumously published, were With Kitchener to the Sudan (1903), and With the Allies to Pekin (19o4). There are some 8o of these stories. Henty died on board his yacht in Wey mouth harbour on Nov. 16, 1902.