George Walter Thornbury, an English author, born in London in 1828. In 1845 he published a series of topographical and antiquarian papers in the "Bristol Journal." After 1858 the name George is omitted from his title pages. He has published "Lays and Legends, or Ballads of the New World" (London, 1851); "Monarchs of the Main, or Adventures of the Buccaneers" (1855); "Shakespeare's England," and "Art and Nature at Home and Abroad" (1856); "Legend of the Wandering Jew," and " Songs of the Cavaliers and Roundheads " (1857); "Every Man his Own Trumpeter," a novel founded on Montluc's memoirs (1858); "Life in Spain, Past and Present" (1859); "Turkish Life and Character" (1860); "British Artists from Hogarth to Turner " (2 vols. 8vo, 1860); "Ice-Bound," "Cross Country," and "Life of J. M. W. Turner. R. A." (1861); "True as Steel" (1863); "Wildfire" (1864); "Haunted London," and "Tales for the Marines " (1865); "Greatheart, a Cornish Novel" (1866); " Two Centuries of Song," a collection of vers de societe (1867); "The "Vicar's Court-ship," and "Old Stories Retold" (1869); "A Tour round England" (1870); "Old and New London" (2 vols., 1873-'4); and "Historical and Legendary Ballads and Songs," a collection of his previously published poems (1876).