William Henry Hurlbert, an American journalist, born in Charleston, S. C, July 3, 1827.

He graduated at Harvard college in 1847, and at the Cambridge divinity school in 1849. After preaching for some time at Salem, he went to Europe in 1849 and attended the lectures of Ritter, Von Raumer, and Ranke at Berlin, and returning to Cambridge in 1851 studied during the two following years in the law school. In 1855 he went to New York, joined the staff of " Putnam's Monthly " magazine, and was dramatic critic of the "Albion." From February, 1857, till after the presidential election of 1860, he was.on the staff of the New York "Times." In 1861 he was a delegate to the peace convention at Albany. In June of that year, having gone on private business to Charleston, he was arrested as a suspected emissary from the north, and without trial was sent to Richmond, where he was imprisoned 14 months, but made his escape through the lines to Washington in September, 1862. In October following he joined the editorial staff of the New York " World," and is still (1874) connected with that journal.

He has been an indefatigable traveller, and in the discharge of his professional duties has visited at different times nearly every part of Europe, has been three times to Mexico, and has made extended tours in Central and South America. In 1867 he attended and reported for the "World" the celebration of the 18th centenary of the martyrdom of St. Peter at Rome, and in the same year the meeting of the emperors of Austria and France at Salzburg; in 1869 he was present at the opening of the Suez canal and the subsequent fetes at Constantinople; in 1869-70 he attended the opening and session of the oecumenical council at Rome; in 1871 he accompanied and reported the proceedings of the United States commission to Santo Domingo; and in 1873 he described in a series of letters the first passage by steam of the higher Andes of Bolivia, and wrote fully concerning the earthquakes of San Salvador. He has written numerous poems, including hymns that hold a place in Unitarian collections; has published " Gan-Eden, or Pictures of Cuba," written during a health trip to that island in 1853 (Boston, 1854, and London, 1855), and " General Mc-Clellan and the Conduct of the War " (New York, 1864); has contributed to numerous periodicals in the United States and Great Britain; and is now (1874) preparing a work on the Pacifio countries of South America.