Emile Gaboriau, a French novelist, born about 1834, died in Paris, Sept. 29, 1873. His literary career began with sketches of theatrical, military, and fashionable life, published in the loser Parisian journals. Collections of these sketches were published under the titles Ruses d'amour, Les comediennes adorees, Ma-riages d'aventure, etc. In 1866 appeared his novel Dossier X' 113, which was followed in rapid succession by Le crime d' Orcival, L'Affaire Lerouge, Les esclaves de Paris, La tie infernale, La corde au cou, and other stories. Ninette Suzor and L'Argent des autres were published posthumously. Most of Gaboriau's works are elaborate detective stories, the gloomy romance of crime. The plots, which have been compared to those of Edgar A. Poe and Wilkie Collins, are wrought out with great skill and dramatic effect. Dossier N0 113 and Le crime d' Orciral are considered the best. Two have been translated and published in the United States, under the titles "The Mystery of Orcival" and "The Widow Lerouge (1873).