If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.

He contributed to The Yellow Book and associated with the Rhymers' Club. The book My Ladies' Sonnets appeared in 1887 and in 1889 be became for a brief time literary secretary to Wilson Barrett. He has been credited with the 1906 translation from the Danish of Peter Nansen's Love's Trilogy; but most sources and the book itself attribute it to Julie.

The American actress Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991) was his daughter by his second marriage.