SMALLEY, George Washburn, journalist, born in Franklin, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 2 June, 1833. He was graduated at Yale in 1853, read law with George F. Hoar at Worcester in 1853-'4, and in Harvard law-school in 1854-'5, and in 1856 was admitted to the Boston bar. He practised law in Boston until the opening of the civil war, when, in the service of the New York " Tribune," he accompanied the National troops to Port Royal, afterward going with General John C. Fremont into Virginia. Remaining with the Army of the Potomac, he witnessed the battle of Antietam. Immediately upon its close, Smalley rode thirty miles, found a train, and, going direct to New York, wrote his narrative of the engagement on the cars. This vivid description, with the energy that had been shown in its transmission and publication, gave him rank among the best-known war correspondents. In 1863 he was a member of the editorial staff of the "Tribune." At the sudden beginning of the war between Prussia and Austria in 1866 5{r. Smaller was sent on a day's notice to Europe. At the close of the war he returned for a few months to New York, but was sent to England in May, 1867, by the " Tribune," with instructions to organize a London bureau for that journal. This he did, and the success that has attended the European department of the "Tribune " is largely due to his efforts. In 1870, at the opening of the Franco-German war. the "Tribune" devised a new system of news-gathering. Mr. Smalley, as the agent of this policy showed an energy and foresight which gave him an eminent rank in journalism. The English writer Kinglake, in his " History of the Crimean War," says: "The success of that partnership for the purpose of war news which had been formed between one of our London newspapers and the New York 'Tribune,' was an era in the journalism of Europe." Mr. Smalley's letters from Berlin, in April, 1888, descriptive of the Emperor William's death and burial, were among the most brilliant that appeared on that occasion.