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Browne, Francis Fisher

journalist, author, poet, was born Dec. 1, 1843, in Windham county, Vt. He is a son of William Goldsmith Browne, the author of the popular poem, A Hundred Years to Come, and the proprietor of The Journal of Chicopee, Mass. He served through the civil war in the fortysixth regiment Massachusetts volunteers. He studied law; edited The Lakeside Monthly of Chicago during 1869- 74; was afterward literary editor of The Alliance; and in 1880 founded The Dial, of which he is still editor and chief owner. His principal works are Golden Poems by British and American Authors; Bugle Echoes; Laurel Crown; and a volume of his own poems entitled Volunteer Grain. The Everyday Life of Abraham Lincoln, from his pen, is a valuable acquisition to historical literature.