WITHROW, William Henry, Canadian author, born in Toronto, 6 August, 1839. He was educated at Toronto academy, Victoria college, and Toronto university, and was graduated in 1864. He entered the ministry of the Methodist church in 1864, and was subsequently pastor consecutively at Waterford, Montreal, Hamilton, and Niagara. In 1874 lib was elected editor of the "Canadian Methodist Magazine" at Toronto, which he has since held, and he is also editor of the Sunday-school periodicals of his denomination. He was professor of ethics and metaphysics in Wesleyan ladies' college at Hamilton in 1873-'4 ; was a member of the senate of Toronto university in 1866, and of Wesleyan theological college since 1886; was elected a fellow of the Royal society of Canada in 1884, and in 1882 received the degree of D.D. from Victoria university, Cobourg. He has travelled extensively, and has been identified with the cause of temperance in Canada. He has published " The Catacombs of Rome, and their Testimony relative to Primitive Christianity" (New York, 1874) ; "School History of Canada" (Toronto, 1876) ; "' History of Canada" (Boston, 1878) ; "Worthies of Early Methodism" (Toronto, 1879); "Romance of Missions" (1879); "The King's Messenger, or Lawrence Temple's Probation" (1879); " Barbara Heck" (1880) ; " Great Preachers, Ancient and Modern" (1880) ; "Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher" (1880) ; " A Canadian in Europe" (1881); "Valeria, the Martyr of the Catacombs" (1881); "Men Worth Knowing" (1883); " Life in a Parsonage, or Lights and Shadows of Itinerancy" (1885) ; and "The Dominion of Canada, Picturesque and Descriptive" (1888).