SHELDON, George William, author, born in Summerville, South Carolina, 28 January, 1843. He was graduated at Princeton in 1863, and served during 1864 at City Point, Virginia, in charge of the sick and wounded of General Grant's army. In 1865 he was appointed tutor in Latin and belles-lettres in Princeton, and in 1869 he became instructor in the oriental languages at Union theological seminary, New York, where he remained until 1873, after which he studied for two years in the British museum. Mr. Sheldon then devoted himself to journalistic work and was art critic of the New York "Evening Post" in 1876-'82, and dramatic critic and city editor of the New York " Commercial Advertiser" in 1884-'6. He has published " American Painters" (New York, 1879) ; " The Story of the Volunteer Fire Department of the City of New York" (1882) ; "Hours with Art and Artists" (1882) ; "Artistic Homes " (1882) ; "Artistic Country -Seats " (1886); "Selections in Modern Art" (1886) ; and "Recent Ideals of American Art" (1888).