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Stillman, William James

littérateur, artist, author, was born June 1, 1828, in Schenectady, N. Y. He is a writer and artist who was consul at Rome in 1861-65, and in Crete in 1865-69. He has lived at Rome from 1886 as the correspondent of The London Times for Italy and Greece.

He is the author of History of the Cretan Insurrection; Poetic Localities of Cambridge; Herzegovina and the Late Uprising; Turkish Rule and Warfare; On the Track of Ulysses; and Manual of Photography.

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