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"In the Days of My Youth" (1873); "Monsieur Maurice," a novelette (1873). "Miss Carew" (1865) consists of short tales chiefly. Besides the foregoing, Miss Amelia B. Edwards is the author of "An Abridgment of French History," published in Messrs. Routledge's Useful Library; of the biographical letterpress to Messrs. Colnaghi's Photographic Historical Portrait Gallery; of a volume of "Ballads" (1865); and of a record of travel in the then little known Dolomite region, entitled "Untrodden Peaks and unfrequented Valleys" (1873), with illustrations by the author. This was followed at the beginning of 1877 by "A Thousand Miles up the Nile," illustrated with upwards of eighty wood engravings from drawings by the author, made and finished on the spot, in Egypt and Nubia. This work, which occupied Miss Edwards's pen and pencil for more than two years after her return from the East, contains a full account of the remarkable discoveries made at Aboo-Simbel (forty miles below the Second Cataract) by Miss Edwards's party, together with a ground-plan of the temple which they excavated, and facsimiles of the inscriptions found upon its walls. A series of selections from English poets and English prose writers was compiled by Miss Edwards expressly for the Tauchnitz Library.

EDWARDS, Edward, born in London in 1812; after having been for many years employed on the new general catalogue of the printed books in the British Museum, became in 1851 principal librarian of the Free Libraries of the City of Manchester—the first established in this country under the Act of 1850—and held the office until 1858. He edited "The Great Seals of England," 1836: and "The Napoleon Medals," 1837—works which first introduced to the English public the method of metallic engraving, invented in France by M. Achille Collas. He is the author of "Remarks on the Ministerial Plan of a Central University Examining Board," 1836; "A Descriptive Catalogue of a Series of French Medals in the Cabins of the British Museum," 1838; "The Economy of the Fine Arts in England," 1840; "A Letter on the Present State of the Education Question," 1846; and of various publications on the question of Public Libraries in this country and in the United States. Mr. Edwards contributed several biographical and other articles to the eighth edition of the "Encyclopædia Britannica," and wrote "A View of the Various Schemes which have been proposed for the Classification of Human Knowledge," published in the Transactions of the Liverpool Historical Society.

EDWARDS, Henri Milne, naturalist, of Belgian origin, member of the Institute and of the Academy of Medicine, born at Bruges, Oct. 23, 1800, studied medicine at Paris, and obtained his degree of Doctor in July, 1823. After holding the Professorship of Natural History at the Lycée Henri IV., he was appointed in 1841 to a similar position at the Museum of the Faculty of Sciences of which he became Dean, and was made Professor of Zoology to the Museum, in place of M. Isidore Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire, May 28 1862. In 1838 he was admitted a member of the Academy of Science (section of Anatomy and Zoology as successor to M. Cuvier; was elected an associate of the Academy of Medicine in 1854; created an officer of the Legion of Honour in April, 1847, and was promoted to the rank of Commander, Aug. 13, 1861. He is the author of "Recherches Anatomiques sur les Crustacés," 1828, " crowned" by the Academy of Sciences; "Manuel de Matière Médicale," 1832; "Nouveau Formulaire Pratique des Hôpitaux," 1840; "Histoire Naturelle des