STEPHEN, SIR Leslie, English biographer and essayist: b. London, 28 Nov. 1832; d. there, 22 Feb. 1904. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, and in 1883-84 was Clark lecturer on English literature at Cambridge. He edited The Cornhill Magazine 1871-82, and in the last-named year became editor of
the warm friend of James Russell Lowell, vis iting him more than once in this country, and was an appreciative admirer of the best in American literature and life. At the dose of the Civil War he accomplished a great deal toward clearing away prejudice and misunder standings between America and England in a pamphlet which contained a strong arraignment of the course of the London Times during the four years of war. His first wife, the young est daughter of Thackeray, died in 1875. Stephen's religious attitude was that of the ag nostic, but he was not aggressive. His great est service to his time was in the