BRISBANE, ARTHUR (1864-1936), American newspaper editor, was born in Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 12, 1864. After an educa tion in the American public schools and five years spent in France and Germany, he entered the employ of the New York Sun in 1882 or 1883 as a reporter, later becoming its London corres pondent and subsequently editor of the Evening Sun. From 1890 to 1897 he was connected with the New York World, as manag ing editor of different editions, and from 1897 to 1921 he was editor of the New York Evening Journal. He purchased the Washington Times of Washington (D.C.), in 1917, and the Eve ning Wisconsin of Milwaukee (Wis.), in 1918, selling both papers to William Randolph Hearst in 1919. After 1918 he was editor of the Chicago Herald and Examiner. His editorials, which for more than two decades appeared in all the newspapers owned by W. R. Hearst, obtained for Mr. Brisbane a national reputation. Among his publications are Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers (1906) ; Mary Baker G. Eddy (1908) ; and To-day and the Future Day (1925).