DEATH OF SEBASTIAN EVANS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 734, 5 February 1910, Page 9

DEATH OF SEBASTIAN EVANS.

Dr. Sebastian Evans, ::poet, ; journalist,', artist, and .politician, died on December 9,at Canterbury,-England,- in his eightieth,, year.- Dr. Evans began his varied career, by'.becoming the secretary; of the India V Reform -. Association,,'. and.; was • the first.person-id. England to'receive intelligence of. the Indian Mutiny. In .1857, on l-esigning. -his; secretaryship, .Evans.;. be-came-the manager,of the artistic depart-; iiient:o£ the celebrated glass works - of Messrs;-.Chanco Bros, andi Co.; at Old-. bury/nearßirmingham. Awhile .with this firm ho. designed a great ■' number of stained; glass windows for ■ cathedrals and -churches., In 1807. Evans 'deserted'lbusi■ness for-journalism and politics,' under"taking the .editorship of the .Birmingham : "Daily,' Gazette:'' Later' he'joined the bar", and for some years practised success-fully,-while continuing -to write articles for ■: London ''papers.''-Prom-.;' 1878yto '1881 lie. was.editor'.of"th'e : "People,"' and ho. .was^tho;-.author-..of■;.several; prose;-.works and.!translutions. ; ■■ ■ ■'.'■■ !.,.'■'■-.•;,.'.■'■•■ :?"By.'many, good, judges,"- : ;says. ."The'i .Times;", "Evans .was regarded ;as:»'•' poet of. no mean; order. .. No one' would deny 'to him', a 'little of ■ the .divine fire, an uniusiial degree of: imagination,''a' great deal' of; curious, an'd. : skilful 'deftness, in dealing \Hthn,ietres; and a rcmark,'ablo. power, of 'translating poetry written in.foreign /languages. '.His .first volume, 'Brother,-Fabian's Manuscript,' was published an 1865, and as .was, said by Mr. ; Joseph Knight, writing in. 'The. Poets and Poetry' of the' Century,'..it.won tho author-'the warm recognition of..'.many, workers in HteraturoAand .art. ; Tho position'.. he ; thus -'gained ;'he ;made \ assured, when he produced,-in 1875, 'In -the Studio: oJDecade of.Poems.' But his.poohcal out-. ,'pourings were only an important .part .of his unusually' full .life, which: overflowed ■'into many... artistic channels with "'rich ■success."./ ■; -;"•'■: .'■;.-.■ '\ --..':■'■'.\ '■■