HARE

hare, augustus john cuthbert (1834-1903), english writer and traveller, was born at rome in 1834. he was educated at harrow school and at university college, oxford. his name is familiar as the author of a large number of guide-books to the principal countries and towns of europe, most of which were written to order for john murray. they were made up partly of the author's own notes of travel, partly of quotations from others' books taken with a frankness of appropriation that disarmed criticism. he also wrote _memorials of a quiet life_--that of his aunt by whom he had been adopted when a baby (1872), and a tediously long autobiography in six volumes, _the story of my life_. he died at st leonards-on-sea on the 22nd of january 1903.