KITTO, Dr. Jolts, a most industrious and respectable writer on biblical subjects, was b. at Plymouth, Dec. 4, 1804. In It's 12th year he lost his power of hearing In conse quence of a fall from a-height of 33 feet. His father's circumstances were at this time so wretched that young Kitto was soon after sent to the workhouse. Here he learned the trade of shoemaking, and was also enabled to indulge that taste for reading which had marked hint from his earliest years. In 1824 be went to Exeter to learn dentistry with a Mr. Grove, who had known him in Plymouth, and who took a warm interest in the unfortunate youth. Mr. Grove encouraged Kitto iu his literary aspirations, and in 1S25 he published Essays and Letters by John 1Citto. In the same year, he was sent by the kindness of various friends, to the missionary college at Islington, to be trained for some useful employment abroad. In May, 1829, be accompanied 3Ir. Grove and family on a tour to the east, visiting in the course of his travels St. Petersburg, Astrakhan, the
Kalmuck Tartars, the Caucasus, Armenia, Persia, and Bagdad. He returned to England in 1833. The rest of his life was spent in the service of the booksellers, chiefly in that of Mr. Charles Knight, by whom he was liberally treated. He died at Cannstadt, in Wtirtemberg, whither he had gone for the benefit of his health, Nov. 25, 1854. His principal lvorks are: The Pictorial Bible (1838; new edition by W. & R. Chambers, 1853); Pictorial History of Palestine (1839-40) • History of Pala The Lost Senses and Blindness (1845); Journal of Sacred Literature (1848-53); and Daily Bible .Illustrations (1849-53). He also edited the Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature (published by A. w C. Black). Kitto's biography has been written by Dr. J. E. Ryland (1856); a later and better biography is that by prof. Emile of Glasgow. In 1844 the university of Giessen conferred on him the title of n.n.