Mr. Church wrote a few letters from Europe, but when the Civil War started he hurried home and went with the joint military and naval expedition headed by General T. W. Sherman and Admiral S. F. Dupont. He was present at the capture of Port Royal, and wrote for the _Evening Post_ the first account of it that appeared in the North. Later he acted as a war-correspondent of the _Times_, writing under the pseudonym “Pierrepont.” In October, 1862, he was appointed a captain of volunteers, and toward the close of the war he received the brevets of major and lieutenant-colonel. During the war Mr. Church and his brother, Francis Pharcellus Church, established the _Army and Navy Journal_, and in 1866 they founded that brilliant magazine, the _Galaxy_--later merged with the _Atlantic Monthly_--which printed the early works of Henry James. Colonel Church owned the _Army and Navy Journal_, and was its active editor, until his death, May 23, 1917, at the age of eighty-one. He was the biographer and literary executor of John Ericsson, the inventor, and he wrote also a biography of General Grant. He and his brother Francis were the most distinguished members of a family which, in its various branches, gave no less than seventeen persons to literature. Francis P. Church’s connection with the _Sun_ was longer and more pleasant than William’s. His writings for it ranged over a period of forty years. He was one of the _Sun’s_ greatest editorial writers, and was the author of the most popular editorial article ever written--“Is There a Santa Claus?” But that comes in a later and far more brilliant period than the one in which William C. Church served the _Sun_ all too briefly. At the end of 1861, what with the expense of getting war news, and perhaps with the reluctance of the readers to absorb piety, the _Sun’s_ cash-drawer began to warp from lack of weight, and Mr. Beach, who had never relinquished his rights to all the physical part of the paper, took it back. This is the way he announced his resumption of control on New Year’s morning, 1862: Once more I write myself editor and sole proprietor of the New York _Sun_. My day-dream of rural enjoyment is broken, and I am again prisoner to pen and types. For months I sought to avoid the surrender, but only to find resistance without avail.... But I congratulate myself on my surroundings. Never was prisoner more royally treated. What, then, to the readers of the _Sun_? Nothing save the announcement that I am henceforth its publisher and manager. They require no other prospectus, program, or platform. MOSES S. BEACH.