SPALDING, James Reed, journalist, born in Montpelier, Vermont, 15 November, 1821 ; died in Dover, New Hampshire, 10 October, 1872. His father was for nearly half of a century a well-known physician in Vermont. The son was graduated at the University of Vermont in 1840, and was a private tutor in Georgia, at the same time studying law. On his return to Montpelier he was admitted to the bar, but his literary tastes led him to give up his profession, and he spent several years in travel through Europe and into Asia as a student of manners, morals, and politics, He was a witness of the events of the French revolution of 1848. His letters to the New York "Courier and Enquirer" during his sojourn abroad won great admiration by their philosophical grasp of events and persons and brilliancy of style. On his return to the United States in the spring of 1850 he became attached to the "Courier and Enquirer" as its leading writer. His reputation led in 1859 to the establishment of the New York " World," and his headship of it. The design of the enterprise was altogether new--that of a model journal conducted throughout on Christian principles, independent of particular sects or political parties. The financial crisis that attended the progress of the civil war so affected the paper that it passed under a new management and editorship. In 1862 Mr. Spalding took a post in the editorial corps of the New York "Times," and many of its patriotic editorials were from his pen. He was stricken with paralysis when in the full vigor of his powers, and died after years of sickness. Richard Grant White, who was associated with him both in the "Courier and Enquirer" and the "World," wrote of Mr. Spalding: "With a theme congenial and an occasion to arouse him, his vigor and elegance have never been excelled by a writer upon the city press." His published addresses are "Spiritual Philosophy and Material Polities" (1854), and "The True Idea of Female Education" (1855).--His brother, George Burley, clergyman, born in Montpelier, Vermont, 11 August, 1835, was graduated at the University of Vermont in 1856, studied law at Tallahassee, Florida, spent two years at Union theological seminary, New York city, and was graduated at Andover seminary in 1861. He was ordained at Vergennes, Vermont, the same year, and after holding Congregational pastorates in Hartford, Connecticut, and Dover and Manchester, New Hampshire, took charge in 1885 of the 1st Presbyterian church in Syracuse, New York, which place he now holds. Dr. Spalding has done much editorial work on the New York "World," the "Times," the "Watchman," Boston, and the "New Hampshire Journal," which was established by him in 1881. He was a member of the Constitutional convention of New Hampshire in 1877, and of the legislature of the same year. He received the degree of D. D. from Dartmouth in 1878. Dr. Spalding has travelled extensively in the Old World. His published sermons and addresses include "Sermon Commemorative of General Samuel P. Strong" (1854); "Scriptural Policy," a political tract (1868); "In Memoriam, John Parker Hale" (1873) ; and "The Idea and Necessity of Normal-School Training" (1878).