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CHARLES GRANT (1848-1899).-Scientific writer and novelist, _b._ in Canada, to which his _f._, a clergyman, had emigrated, and _ed._ at Birmingham and Oxford. For a time he was a professor in a college for negroes in Jamaica, but returning to England in 1876 devoted himself to literature. His first books were on scientific subjects, and include _Physiological AEsthetics_ (1877) and _Flowers and Their Pedigrees_. After assisting Sir W.W. Hunter in his _Gazeteer of India_, he turned his attention to fiction, and between 1884 and 1899 produced about 30 novels, among which _The Woman Who Did_ (1895), promulgating certain startling views on marriage and kindred questions, created some sensation. Another work, _The Evolution of the Idea of God_, propounding a theory of religion on heterodox lines, has the disadvantage of endeavouring to explain everything by one theory. His scientific works also included _Colour Sense_, _Evolutionist at Large_, _Colin Clout's Calendar_, and the _Story of the Plants_, and among his novels may be added _Babylon_, _In all Shades_, _Philistia_ (1884), _The Devil's Die_, and _The British Barbarians_ (1896).