Henry Morley, an English author, born in London, Sept. 15, 1822. He was sent to a Moravian school at Neuwied on the Rhine, and graduated at King's college, London, where he established and edited the "King's College Magazine." He practised medicine in Shropshire from 1843 to 1848. Beginning in 1847, he has published numerous papers on public health. From 1851 to 1857 he was Dickens's assistant in editing " Household Words," and from 1856 to 1859 joint editor of the London " Examiner," of which he was sole editor from 1859 to 1864. In 1859 he became professor of English literature in King's college, and in 1865 in University college. He was the most active promoter of the association formed in 1869 for the education of women in connection with the latter institution. His principal publications in book form are: " The Dream of the Lily Bell," tales and poems (1845); "Sunrise in Italy," poems, and "Tracts upon Health, for Cottage Circulation" (1847); "A Defence of Ignorance" (1851); "Life of Bernard Palissy of Saintes " (2 vols., 1852); "Life of Jerome Cardan" (1854); "Life of Henry Cornelius Agrippa" (1856); "Gossip and Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair" (1857); "A History of English Literature " (2 parts published, 1864 and 1867, the first devoted to writers before Chaucer, the second reaching from Chaucer to Dunbar); "Steele and Addison's Spectator, original and corrected texts " (1868); "Tables of English Literature" (1870); "Clement Marot, and other Studies" (1871); and "A First Sketch of English Literature " (3 vols., 1873).