Edmund Hodgson Yates, an English novelist, born in July, 1831. He is the son of an actor, and was for several years employed in the London post office as chief of the missingletter department, retiring in 1872. He has been editor of "Our Miscellany," "Temple Bar," and "Tinsley's" magazines, and now (1876) edits the "World " newspaper. In 1872-'3 he lectured in the United States. He has published "My Haunts and their Frequenters" (1854); "After Office Hours" (1861); "Broken to Harness " (1864); "Pages in Waiting," "Running the Gauntlet"' and "The Business of Pleasure" (1865); "Land at Last" and " Kissing the Rod " (1866); "The Forlorn Hope" and "Black Sheep" (1867); "The Rock Ahead" (1868); "Wrecked in Port" (1869); "Dr. Wainwright's Patient" (1870); " Nobody's Fortune " (1871); and " The Impending Sword " (1874). With F. E. Smedley he wrote " Mirth and Metre, by Two Merry Men" (1854). He has also written some dramas, and was for six years theatrical critic of the " Daily News".