RICHARD WATSON (1844-1909).-Poet, _b._ at Borderstown, New Jersey, was successively a lawyer, a soldier, and a journalist, in which last capacity he ed. _Scribner's_ (afterwards the _Century_) _Magazine_. He holds a high place among American poets as the author of _The New Day_ (1875), _The Celestial Passion_, _The Great Remembrance_, _Fiv