HAMERTON, PHILIP GILBERT English art critic and man of letters, was born at Laneside, Lancashire, on Sept. 1o, 1834. He married a Frenchwoman, and spent much time in France, where he developed a keen appreciation of French art and literature. His more important works on art are : Etching and Etchers (1866), which became a standard work; Contempo rary French Painters (1867) ; Painting in France after the Decline of Classicism (1868) ; and The Graphic Arts (1882). He died near Paris on Nov. 4,