Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Aïdé, Hamilton

AÏDÉ, HAMILTON (ä-ē-dā´), an English novelist and poet; born in Paris, France, in 1830. He was educated at Bonn, and became an officer in the British army. His poems include "Eleanore and Other Poems" (1856); "The Romance of the Scarlet Leaf, and Other Chronicles and Reminiscences" (1856), a masterly description of Russian family life; "The Childhood of Bragoff, the Grandson" (1858). He died in 1906.