CORNWALLIS, Kinahan, American law yer, editor, novelist, poet: b. London, England, 24 Dec. 1834. Educated by private tutors for the ministry of the Church of England, also at Col legiate Institution, Liverpool; later he studied at the School of Medicine, Liverpool, and Trin ity College, but was then appointed to a British government post in Australia, and resided two years at Melbourne. He then returned to London and published there 10 volumes of his tmvels, novels and poems; was appointed to a post in British Columbia, resigned his British appointment, and soon afterward went to Washington as correspondent of the New York Herald with the newly arrived first Japanese Embassy to the United States, on an American warship. Then he went to the British provinces, and met the Prince of Wales on his arrival, and as the Herald's correspond ent accompanied him everywhere till his de parture for England in October. In No vember 1860 he published in New York and London his book of the tour in the New World; or The Prince of Wales in America.' He became Charles Reade's agent in America. Mr. Cornwallis on the Herald as financial editor and editorial writer nearly 10 years, and meanwhile bought and edited the old Knickerbocker Magazine. When he left the Herald he also bought and then edited The Albion, a weekly newspaper. In 1880 he established The Wall Street Daily In vestigator, which he thereafter owned and edited for 25 years, at the same time practising law, having been naturalized, and admitted to the New York bar in May 1863. He had
published the following books in London prior to 1860: