KING

(WILLIAM BENJAMIN), BASIL (1859), author; 6. Charlotte town, Prince Edward Island, Canada. He studied at King’s College, Windsor, Ont., after a primary education in his native town, and later settled in Cambridge, Ma . He became an author, in 1900, and wrote a number of notable novels, which established his repute as a, writer of unusual power in depicting the spiritual vici itudes of life. His earlier works included The Inner Shrine, published anonymously, in 1909, whose long popularity brought him into front rank. Other noteworthy novels are The Side of the Angles, 1916; The High Heart, 1917; The Lifted Veil, 1917; The City of Comrades, and The Abolishing of Death, 1919; The Conquest of Fear, 1921; and chee Discovery of God and Dust Flower,