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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Laurence Oliphant (1829–1888)

Oliphant, Laurence. An English writer and traveler; born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1829; died at Twickenham, England, Dec. 23, 1888. He published a dozen books, including three novels; several works of a politico-military nature, such as ‘A Narrative of the Earl of Elgin’s Mission to China and Japan’ (1860); and journalistic and philosophic books, like ‘Episodes in a Life of Adventure’ (1887) and ‘Scientific Religion’ (1888).