WALSH, Robert, author, born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1784; died in Paris, 7 February, 1859. His father, a native of Ireland, was a merchant of Baltimore. He was educated at the Roman Catholic college at Baltimore and at the Jesuit college at Georgetown, D. C., where in 1796 he delivered a poetical address before General Washington, who was then president. He afterward spent a number of years in Europe, and, returning to this country in 1809, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Philadelphia. In consequence of deafness he abandoned law and engaged in journalism. In 1811 he began the publication of the first quarterly that was issued in the United States. " The American Review of History and Politics," which he continued two years, and in 1817-'18 edited the "American Register." In 1819 he established the "National Gazette" at Philadelphia, and remained connected with it till 1836, when he sold it to William Fry. He also edited the "Magazine of Foreign Literature," and resuscitated the "American Review" in March, 1827, which he continued to edit with much ability for ten years. About 1836 he went to reside in "Paris, where he was United States consul in 1845-'51, and remained there till his death. He was at one time a writer for Dennie's "Portfolio," wrote biographical prefaces to an edition of the English poets in fifty small volumes, and biographical sketches for "Delaplaine's Repository" and for the "Encyclopaedia Americana," and while in Europe he corresponded with the "Journal of Commerce" and the "National Intelligencer." He was a member of the American philosophical society and the Royal Spanish academy of history. His " Letter on the Genius and Disposition of the French Government " (Philadelphia, 1810) was republished in England, where it was very popular, and passed through four editions. Mr. Walsh's other books include " Correspondence respecting Russia," with Robert Goodloe Harper (1813) ; "Essay on the Future State of Europe" (1813) ; " Appeal from the Judgment of Great Britain respecting the United States" (1819): " The Museum of Foreign Literature and Science" (1822); and " Didactics: Social, Literary, and Political" (2 vols., 1836). He also issued "The Select Speeches of George Canning" (Philadelphia, 1835) and "Tile Select Speeches of Windham and William Huskisson" (1841), for both of which he wrote biographical sketches.--His grandson, William Shepard, author, born in Paris, France, 1 February, 1854, is the son of Robert N. Walsh, who was secretary of legation in France, and held various other diplomatic posts in Europe and in South America. He spent his boyhood in Italy. In 1867 he came with his family to this country, studied at Georgetown college, D. C., was graduated at the law department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1876, and in the same year accepted a post as reader and critic with, J. B. Lippincott and Co., during which connection he has compiled, edited, or written about twenty juvenile, historical, and scientific books, under various pen-names, chiefly under that of " William Shepard." In 1886 he became editor of "Lippincott's Magazine." He has published under his own name "Faust the Legend and the Poem," a critical commentary (Philadelphia, 1887), and "Paradoxes of a Philistine" (1888).