Of the group of war artists and correspondents in the battle of Metemmeh, on the Nile, and the Egyptian campaign, he alone escaped unscathed, while J. A. Cameron, of the London _Standard_; St. Leger Herbert, of the London _Morning Post_; Capt. W. H. Gordon, of the Manchester _Guardian_; Col. Fred Burnaby, of the _Morning Post_, and Edward O’Donovan, of the London _Daily News_, were killed outright, and Colonel Burleigh, of the London _Daily Telegraph_, was wounded. Mr. Villiers was the only European war artist in the war between Japan and China. In 1895 he started from New York on a lecture tour through America and Canada, and visited Australasia, lecturing in all the principal towns of Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania. He eventually returned to England via the Cape, lecturing in Cape Colony and the Transvaal, and completing his second tour around the world. In the following year he visited Moscow a second time, for the coronation of the present Emperor, Nicholas II. In 1897 he acted as special correspondent for _The Standard_ with the Greek army, and for that paper and _The Illustrated London News_ during the 1897 Soudan campaign. He has been all through the recent Nile expedition, and was present at the capture of Khartoum in his capacity of correspondent for the _Globe_ and _Illustrated London News_. When the South African War broke out Mr. Villiers was lecturing in Australia, with a tour booked around the world via Japan and across the American continent. He cancelled a long list of engagements from California to New England and went back to the latest war as correspondent for his London papers. He has again returned to England and is now lecturing on the Boer war. Villiers is one of the heroes of the present century. A man of remarkable coolness, he never flinched under fire and was always able to seize a vantage point for his work without undue recklessness. He was the artist and writer at all times in the field, never a volunteer fighter; but always ready to help the wounded, if near, and occasion offered. Perhaps no man in his chosen work was always so ready for departure and so instantly able to compass the best methods of reaching his destination and of getting at work upon arrival. An excellent speaker, simple and straightforward, with much to tell, he goes at his audience just as he works on the scenes before him when on the march or under fire.