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WILLIAM (1841-1898).-Novelist. After studying as a landscape painter, he took to journalism in Glasgow. In 1864 he went to London, and soon after _pub._ his first novel, _James Merle_, which made no impression. In the Austro-Prussian War he acted as a war correspondent. Thereafter he began afresh to write fiction, and was more successful; the publication of _A Daughter of Heth_ (1871) at once established his popularity. He reached his highwater-mark in _A Princess of Thule_ (1873). Many other books were added before his death in 1898, among which may be mentioned _In Silk Attire_ (1869), _The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton_ (1872), _Macleod of Dare_ (1878), _White Wings_ (1880), _Shandon Bells_ (1882), _Yolande_ (1883), _Judith Shakespeare_ (1884), _White Heather_ (1886), _Stand Fast Craig-Royston!_ (1890), _Green Pastures and Piccadilly_, _Three Feathers_, _Wild Eelin_ (1898).