GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA (1828-1895), a well-known journalist, born in London, of Italian and English parentage; had some training in art before he began writing for Dickens's
Household Words, &c.; lived a busy, rambling life; founded and edited
Temple Bar; acted as war-correspondent for the
Daily Telegraph; author of several popular novels, "Captain Dangerous" and "Quite Alone" among them, and books of travel, "A Trip to Barbary" and "America Revisited".