Alfred Henry Miles

Alfred Henry Miles (26 February 1848 – 30 October 1929) was a prolific Victorian-age author, editor, anthologist, journalist, composer and lecturer who published hundreds of works on a wide range of topics, ranging from poetry (''The Poets and the Poetry of the Century'', 10 vols. (London: Hutchinson, 1891)), warfare (''Wars of the Olden Times, Abraham to Cromwell'') to household encyclopaedias with information for every conceivable contingency (''The Household Oracle : A Popular Referee on Subjects of Household Enquiry''), and even advice to the lovelorn (''Wooing: Stories of the Course that Never Did Run Smooth'' by R. E. Francillon and others. Issued as a volume in ''The Idle Hour Series'', London: Hutchinson, [1891]). He was Guardian of the Poor for six years and a member of the London Borough of Lewisham from 1904 to 1906.

He was editor of The Fifty-Two Library, a series of children's adventure stories published by Hutchinson & Co., London in the nineteenth century. He compiled some fifty volumes that appeared at five shillings apiece. Provided by Wikipedia