AGED AUTHOR DEAD.
LONDON, February 7. Tlie death is announced of "William Michael Rossctti, the w_U known author, at the age of 89.— (Reuter,) VV. M. Rosetti, brother of the more famous Dante Gabriel Rosetti, was a son of Professor Gabriele Rosetti, of King's College, London. He translated Dante's Inferno in blank verse, and wrote a life of Keats, monograps on the lives of famous British poets, and an interesting .memoir of his brother.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 35, 10 February 1919, Page 5
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74AGED AUTHOR DEAD. Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 35, 10 February 1919, Page 5
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