CABLE NEWS.
[BX ELEOTBIO TELEGBAPII. — COrXBIGHT.] 4 DEATH OF AN AUTHOR. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received November 18, 9.27 a.m.) LONDON, 17th November. Mr. George A. Henty, the author, is dead, at the age of 70. [Mr. Henty left Cambridge before taking his degree, and served in the . Commissariat Department in the Crimean War. Subsequently he resigned his commission and engaged in mining pursuits in Italy and other countries. In 1866 he became special correspondent for the Standard, and went through the AustroItalian, Franco-German, and Turco-Ser-vian wars, and the Abyssinian and Ashanti expeditions. Resides war books and letters, he has written ten or a dozen novels, and about seventy books for boys, with whom his stories of adventure in many lands made him a prime favourite.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 121, 18 November 1902, Page 5
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124CABLE NEWS. Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 121, 18 November 1902, Page 5
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