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Grant, Robert

lawyer, jurist, author, was born Jan. 24, 1852, in Boston, Mass. He is a lawyer of Boston well known as a littérateur; from 1893 a judge of probate and insolvency for Suffolk county, Mass. He has written several satirical works, including The Little Tin Gods on Wheels; The Lambs; Yankee Doodle ; and the juvenile tales, Jack Hall; Jack in the Bush. In fiction he has published Confessions of a Frivolous Girl; The Carletons; Mrs. Harold Stagg; An Average Man; The Knave of Hearts; A Romantic Young Lady; Face to Face; The Bachelor's Christmas, and Other Stories; The Opinions of a Philosopher; Reflections of a Married Man. Other works of his are The Art of Living; and The Oldest School in America.

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