The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . way from the latters•dominant personality he settled at Haifa, in Pales-tine. The fruit of his peculiar religious opinionsafterward appeared in Sympneumata (1886) andScientific Religion (1888), as well as in a novel en-tiltled Masollam (1886). His other writings, be-sides a novel, Altiora Peto (1883) and Episodes inM. Life of Adventure (\ii?>ii), are: The TranscaucasianCampaign under Omar Pasha (1856); Patriots andFilibusters (i860), The Land of Gilead (1881);Traits and Travesties, Social and Political (
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . way from the latters•dominant personality he settled at Haifa, in Pales-tine. The fruit of his peculiar religious opinionsafterward appeared in Sympneumata (1886) andScientific Religion (1888), as well as in a novel en-tiltled Masollam (1886). His other writings, be-sides a novel, Altiora Peto (1883) and Episodes inM. Life of Adventure (\ii?>ii), are: The TranscaucasianCampaign under Omar Pasha (1856); Patriots andFilibusters (i860), The Land of Gilead (1881);Traits and Travesties, Social and Political (1882);The Land of Khemi (1882); and Haifa (1887). Hedied in Twickenham, near London, Dec. 23, , Mrs. Margaret O. (Wilson), aBritish novelist and biographer, and a prolificwriter; born in April, 1828, in Wallyford, near Mus-selburgh, Scotland; died in \Vimbledon, June 25,1897. The first of her numerous works of fiction,*hich abound, in part, in delightful delineations•of Scottish life and character, with other and?varied studies of English domestic and social life,. MRS. OLIPHANT. appeared in 1849, under the title of Passages inthe Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland. This wonfor its author instant suc-cess, and she followed itby a number of otherstories, always written ineasy, unaffected English,and with a scrupulousregard for conventional-ities. The best of herearly novels are AdamGraeme of Mossgray(1852); Magdalen Hep-burn{i 854); Katie Stewart(1856); and The QuietILeart{i8^6). These are characterized by much del-icate and quiet humor, with occasional touches oftender pathos. In 1866 her fame as a novelist wasmuch heightened by the publication, in Black-woods Magazine, of The Chronicles of Carlingford,and its pendant, Salem Chapel, the latter dealingwith English dissent. These were followed by asheaf of novels in a wide range of fiction, in whichMrs. Oliphant interests without descending tosensation or touching forbidden themes. Herlater stories, which were most s
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