CHAMBERLAIN, HOUSTON STEWART German writer, was born at Portsmouth on Sept. 9, 1855, the son of a British admiral. He was educated in Geneva, and at Dresden, where he studied music, aesthetics, and philosophy. In 1908 he settled in Bayreuth, where he became a devotee of Wag ner. He began to write on aesthetic and historical subjects, but the book which made him famous was Die Grundlagen des neun zehnten Jahrhunderts (189o-9I) which went through numerous editions in Germany and was translated into English as Founda tions of the 19th Century (2 vols.) . The book was in praise of German institutions and was strongly anti-British in tone ; it pro voked much controversy as being written in German by an Eng lishman. In 1916 Chamberlain who supported his adopted coun try during the World War became a naturalized German. He died on Jan. 9, 1927. Chamberlain's second wife was Eva Wagner, a daughter of the composer.