VIZETELLY, Frank (Francis) Horace, American lexicographer, author, editor, ency clopedist; b. Kensington, London, 2 April 1864, educated in schools of the Christian Brothers, Saint Servan, Normandy (1870) ; Lycee Baudard (elt)ve couronne), Nogent-sur-Marne, France (1871-75), ai.d Arnold College, East bourne, England (1876-80), Litt.D., Oriental University, Washington, D. C.; LL.D., Saint John's College of the University of Maryland. In the fall of 1882 entered the firm of Vizetelly and Company, publishers, where he served as apprentice under George W. Redway. On the withdrawal of Redway (1883), he assumed management of the wholesale and export de partment —a position he held until February 1891. From 1880 to 1890 he contributed articles on cycling to The Cyclist, Coventry, and Wheeling, London. In 1901 he investigated the conditions prevailing in the detention camps of the Boer prisoners of war, at Ber muda, the only civilian accorded that privilege bv the British authorities, and published his report in the leading American and English newspapers. Owing to the prosecution of his father, and the heavy losses entailed thereby, he left the business in the hands of his elder half-brother, Arthur (diea April 1916), and sailed for New York City, 22 Feb. 1891. He joined the editorial staff of the Funk and Wag nails Company 6 April 1891; assistant editor of the 'Standard Dictionary' (1891-95); associate editor of same, new edition, 1903; managing editor, 1905; managing editor Funk and Wag nail's 'New Standard Dictionary' (1908-13); general editor, 1913-; associate editor of the Home and Country Magazine, 1893-94; one of the editors of Hoyt's 'Cyclopedia ot Practical Quotations' (1895) ; one of the editors of Merck's 1896 (Index of Chenticals and Drugs) (1895); associate editor of the (Standard Dictionary) abridgments, student edition, 1897; Comprehensive, 1898; Concise, 1901, and Vest Pocket, 1906, and supervising editor of the new editions, 1913-18; office editor of more than 100 miscellaneous publications on English public spealcing, medicine, history, social reform, travel, etc.; managing editor 'Columbian Encyclopedia) (40 vols., 1898) ; revising editor of the 'Cyclopeclia of Classified Dates) (1899); contributor to (Appleton's An nual Encyclopedias); (The New International Encyclopedia) (1905) ; secretary of editorial board and manager editorial department of the (Jewish Encyclopedia) (12 vols., 1901-05) ; editor ot 1The Lexicographer's Easy Chair" (The Literary Digest), 1904-09, 1912-, and editor-in-chief of the Standard Reference Bureau, 1913-; also of departments of pro nunciation and typbgraphy on the (New Schaff Herzog Encyclopecua of Religious Knowledge) (12 vols., 1905-11) ; editor of Department of Pronunciation of .(Standard Bible Dictionary' (1908-09). Elected Fellow of the Royal So ciety of Arts, London, 1903; and various other societies. Publications: (The Preparation of Manuscripts for a Printer); (A Desk Book of hrrors in English) ; 'The Development of the Dictionary of the English Language); (Essen tials of Englisfi Speech and Literature); (A Desk Book of 25,000 Words Frequently Mis pronounced); (A Dictionary of Simplified Spelling' ; 'The Soldier's Service Dictionary); (A Desk Book of Satire, Sarcasm, Cynicism and Irony); 'English Idioms and Idiotisms' ; 'A Desk Book of Prefixes, Suffixes, Bases and Stems,' and many miscellaneous articles and reviews to the periodical press.
VIZETELLy, Henry Richard, English newspaper proprietor, editor, publisher and writer: b. London, 30 July 1820; d. Tilford, near Farnham, England, 1 Jan. 1894. He came of a family of printers and stationers, was edu cated at Clapham and at Chislehurst and was later apprenticed to a wood-engraver, an art in which he became proficient, his most notab/e work as an engraver being a series of illus trations drawn by Birket Foster for Long fellow's (Evangeline.) He took a proms nent part in founding The Illustrated London News in 1842, and was one of the founders of the Pictorial Times in 1843, a pioneer enter prise in illustrated journalism; published the first English edition of (Uncle Tom's Cabin) in 1853; established the Illustrated Times in 1855; the Welcome Guest in 1858; and in 1865— 76 wa.s correspondent of the Illustrated Lou don News at Paris and at Berlin. He was appointed representative of the British gov ernment on wines at the Vienna Exposition in 1873 and at Paris in 1878, and for his labors at the former was created by the Austrian anr peror chevalier of the Order of Franz-Joseph of Austria. In 1880, with the aid of his sons Arthur (1881) and Frank (1882), he estab lished a pubhshing house in London and en gaged in issuing translations of the works of foreign authors, chiefly Russian and French, and in 1884 began to publish translations of the works of Emile Zola. The literal translar tions of the works of the novels of the French realist, however, aroused a storm of protest, and in 1888 he was indicted on the charge of publishing obscene libels, and, on the advice of counsel, pleaded guilty and agreed to with draw the edition of Zola's works. Thereupon he was fined 1100 ($500) and required to enter into his own recognizances to be of good be havior for a period of six months. In 1889, in harmony with his understanding of the un dertaking given he decided to issue an expur gated edition of the worIcs of Zola. Notwith standing the deletion of all the passages to which objection had been raised, he was in dicted a second time, and, being then 71 and broken in health, he, following advice of coun sel, again pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment as a first-class misdemeanant. He occupied the time of his detention in writing his reminiscences to the year 1870. His writings include a series of monographs on wines, entitled (Wines of the World) (1875) ; 'Facts about Sherry> (1876); Facts about Champagne) (187'9) ; (Facts about Port and Madeira) (1880) ; (The Story of the Diamond Necklace) (2 vols., 1867) ; 'Berlin under the New Empire) (2 vols., 1879); (Paris in Peril) (3 vols., 1882) ; and two volumes of literary reminiscences; (Glances Back through Seventy Years) (11393), etc.