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FRANCIS RICHARD (1834-1902).-_B._ at Philadelphia, was an engraver and journalist. He became well known as a writer of stories for children, and of amusing books of which _Rudder Grange_ (1879) is the best known. _The Lady and the Tiger_ was also highly popular. Others are _Adventures of Captain Horne_, _Mrs. Null_, _Casting Away of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine_, _The Hundredth Man_, _Great Stone of Sardis_, _Captain's Toll-gate_, etc. His work was very unequal in interest.