DILKE, CHARLES WENTWORTH an English critic and antiquarian, was born on Dec. 8, 1789. After studying at Cambridge, he entered the navy pay office. From 1814 to 1816 he edited Old English Plays (6 vols.), from 183o to 1846 the Athenaeum, and from 1846 to 1849 was manager of the Daily News. He then became a regular contributor to the Athenaeum, his valuable essays for it on Elizabethan drama, on the literary history of the i7th and i8th centuries, and especially on Pope, being collected as Papers of a Critic (2 vols., 187s). Dilke died in Hampshire on Aug. 1o, 1864.