WIKOFF, Henry, author. born in Philadelphia in 1813; died in Brighton, End, land, 2 Nay, 1884. His father, a physician of Philadelphia, was owner of the township of Blockley, on Schuylkill river, and left a large fortune. The son was graduated at Union college in 1831, admitted to the Philadelphia bar, and in 1834 sailed for Europe, where his career was made notable by intimacy with many of the foremost men of his time, and he had the reputation of being better acquainted with important unwritten history than any other man of his day.. In 1837 he was appointed attache to the United States legation at London. He visited Paris soon afterward, and carried back to London to Joseph Bonaparte the jewelry and personal effects of Napoleon I., for which he received one of the first consul's silver drinking-cups. He received the cross of the Legion of honor from Napoleon III., whom he had visited in 1845, when the prince was imprisoned at Ham, and he also rendered valuable service during the days that followed the defeat at Sedan in 1870. Mr. Wikoff's title of "chevalier," by which he was commonly known, belonged to him as a knight-commander of the Spanish order of Ysabel la Catolica, which was conferred by Queen Isabella of Spain. In 1849 he was editor of the "Democratic Review." In 1855 he was employed by Lord Palmerston as a secret agent of the British government in Paris. No man had a brighter diplomatic career before him, and no one ever threw it away so lightly. He last visited this country in 1880 to arrange for the publication of an autobiography, under the title of "Reminiscences of an Idler." He published "Napoleon Louis Bonaparte, First President of France : Biographical and Personal Sketches, including a Visit to the Prince at the Castle of Ham" (New York, 1849); "Life of Alfred, Count d'Orsay" (1849); "My Courtship and its Consequences," which is said to have bean published first in London, and there "suppressed by the foreign office" (1855); "Adventures of a Roving Diplomatist" (1856); "A New-Yorker in the Foreign Office, and his Adventures in Paris" (London, 1858); and " The Four Civilizations" (1870).