STEEVENS, GEORGE WARRING TON (1869-1900)

—Journalist and miscellaneous writer, b. at Sydenham, and ed. at City of London School and Oxf., took to journalism, in which he distinguished himself by his clearne of vision and vivid style. Connected succe ively with the National Observer , the Pall Mall Gazette , and the Daily Mail , he utilised the articles which appeared in these and other publications in various books, such as The Land of the Dollar (America) (1897), With Kitchener to Kartoum , and The Tragedy of Dreyfus . His most striking work, however, was Monologues of the Dead (1895). He went as war correspondent to South Africa in 1900, and d. of enteric fever at Lady smith.