DEATH OF EDMUND YATES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVI, Issue 2212, 22 May 1894, Page 2

DEATH OF EDMUND YATES.

By Telegraph.— -Press Association. — Copyright. Received May 32. 0.20 a.m. London, May 21. Edmund Yates, proprietor of the World, is dead. The cause of death was apoplexy,

Mr Edmund H. Yates, one of the best known of the litterateurs of to-day, and son of the well-known actor, was born in July, 1831. He was for many years Chief of the Missing Letter Department in Hie Post Office, and while in that position contributed much brilliant work to literature. He has written, says “ Men of the Time,” 11 My Haunts and Their Frequenters,” published in 1854 ; “ After Office Hours,” in 1861; “ Broken to Harness, a Story,” in 1864; “ Business of Pleasure,” “ Pages in Waiting ” and “ Running the Gauntlet, a Novel," in 1865; and “ Kissing the Bod,” and “ Land at Last, a Novel,” in 1866. In conjunction with the lato Mr F. E. Smedley, he wrote " Mirth and Metre, by Two Merry Men.” published in 1854; in conjunction with the late Mr R. B. Brough, edited “ Our Miscellany,” which appeared in 1857-8 ; prepared a condensed edition of “ The Life and Correspondence of C. Mathews the Elder,” published in 1860; and a “ Memoir of Albert Smith and Mont Blanc.” Mr Yates also wrote some dramas, and was the theatrical critic of the Daily News for six years, edited the Temple Bar Magazine, in which his novel “ Broken to Harness ” appeared as a serial in 1864-5; was the first editor of Tinsley’s Magazine; and a constant contributor to All the Tear Round, in which his novel “ Black Sheep ” was the leading aerial story in 1866-7. His later novels are “ Wrecked in Port,” 1869 j “Dr Wainwright’s Patient,” 1871; “ Nobody’s Fortune,” 1871; “ The Yellow Flag,” 1873; and “The Impending Sword," 1874. In May, 1872, Mr Yates retired from the Post Office in order to devote himself exclusively to literature. In the course of that year he went on a lecturing tour in the United States, and in May, 1873, he was appointed London representative of the New York Herald, which post he resigned in July, 1874, when he established The 1 Torld, “a journal for men and women,” which has a wide circulation, and of which he was, up to the time of his death, solo proprietor and editor. In November, 1884, Mr Yates published two volumes of “ Personal Reminiscences and Experiences,” an autobiography, which has gone through four editions. Mr Yates was in 1884 indicted for libel on the Earl of Lonsdale, for which, as editor, ho was responsible; he was sentenced by the Lord Chief Justice to four months’ imprisonment, but was released before two months had expired.