29 APRIL 1882, Page 3

We greatly regret to announce the death on Sunday last

of Mr. W. B. Rands, better known, perhaps, under the sobriquets of Matthew Browne and Henry Holbeach, or as the author of " Lilliput Lev6e," a subtle and charming writer, who for the last twelve months had been a frequent contributor to our own columns. Mr. Rands was a man of something like genius. He was in a great degree self-taught, but had made himself an admirable Spanish scholar, as well as a very acute metaphy- sician. He contributed largely to the Contemporary Review, when it was first established, and amongst his essays, which we may, perhaps, hope to see collected, will be found some of the most humorous, as well as some of the subtlest, of our day.