Henry George Bohn, an English publisher, of German parentage, born in London, Jan. 4, 1796. He commenced in 1845 the republication of rare standard works, selected from all the national literatures of Europe, in the English language, and in a cheap form. For many years he issued in a uniform shape series entitled "Standard Library," "ScientificLibrary," "Illustrated Library," "Library of French Memoirs," Library of Extra Volumes," " Classical Library" (consisting of translations of the Greek and Latin classics), "Antiquarian Library," "Philosophical Library," "Philological Library," "Library of British Classics," "Ecclesiastical Library," "Miniature Library," and "Cheap Series," amounting in all to between 600 and 700 volumes. Mr. Bohn translated for these series some of the works of Schiller, Goethe, and Humboldt, assisted in several of the classical translations, and compiled a "Handbook of Pottery and Porcelain," "Handbook of Proverbs," "Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs," etc. He edited the works of Addison and Lowndes's "Bibliographer's Manual," and prepared for the Philobiblon society a "Life of Shakespeare" and "Dictionary of English Poetical Quotations."