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Curtis, George William

journalist, lecturer, author, was born Feb. 24, 1824, in Providence, R. I. To Putnam's Monthly he contributed The Potiphar Papers, spirited satire upon society; and Prue and I, a story far superior to his more ambitious novel, Trumps. For thirty-five years he filled the Easy Chair department of Harper's Monthly, and from 1863-92 he was the political editor of Harper's Weekly. Besides the volumes already named, his writings include Nile Notes of a Howadji; Lotus Eating; The Howadji in Syria; James Russell Lowell, an Address; Eulogy on Wendell Phillips; From the Easy Chair; and Literary and Social Essays. He died Aug. 31, 1892, on Staten Island, N. Y.