Tyas. Not identified. The contributor relates a story ["Basque Blood", IX, 364–68. June 3, 1854] of Basque passion and vengeance, told to him while he was travelling in the Pyrenees. Payment made by cheque. Item reprinted in Harper's without acknowledgment to H.W.
      Among writers named Tyas who flourished at the time were Robert Tyas (1811–1879), author of Flowers and Heraldry, Flowers from Foreign Lands, and other works; and George Tyas, author of The Battles of Wakefield, 1854.

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971