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

George John Whyte-Melville (1821–1878)

Whyte-Melville, George John. An English novelist; born near St. Andrews, Scotland, 1821; died on Dec. 5, 1878. A captain in the Coldstream Guards, he retired from the army (1849), but served in the Turkish cavalry during the Crimean War. Among his works were: ‘Captain Digby Grand’ (1853); ‘The Gladiators’ (1863); ‘Sarchedon’ (1871); ‘Katerfelto’ (1875); etc. He wrote also a volume of ‘Songs and Verses’ and translated Horace’s ‘Odes.’