LOUIS BECKE.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13653, 19 February 1913, Page 5

LOUIS BECKE.

(Received Fob. 18, 9.15 p.m.) Sydney, Feb. 18. Louis Becke, the noted novelist, is <3ead.

Mr. George Louis Beck© was born at Port Macquarie, New South Wales, in 1848, being the son of Mr. Frederick Becke, of Northampton, England. For many years he was engaged in trading pursuits throughout the South Sea Islands, serving on many vessels at supercargo. It was while -occupied in this way that he acquired the Wide knowlodge of tho Islands and native customs )'<"• used so largely in his books. Mr. •ke, who Avas a Fellow of the Royal ' Society, had lived latterly

Sydney. Among his best knowii >ls may bo mentioned "By Reef > an** J'.-'u" (1894); "The Ebbing of;tho Ti.i •i" (1896) j " -■' 'Pacific Tales'' 1 and "Wild Life in Southern Seas" (1897); '■•Rodman the Boatsteerer" (1899); '•Tom Wallis" (1900), "Tessa, tho Trader's Wife," and "Yorke, tho Adventurer" (1901); "The Jalasco Brig" (1902); ."Helen Adair" (1903); and "Notes from my South Sea Log" (1905). He also Avrote several books in collaboration with Mt. Walter Jcffery.