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in Baden, June 12, 1S65; died in Freiburg, Feb. 23, 

 1888. He was a lieutenant of the Uhlan Guards ;.t 

 Potsdam, and a favorite grandson of the Emperor 

 Wilhelm. Leaving active service to pursue his studies 

 at Freiburg, he was attacked by inflammation of the 

 lunsjs, and died unexpectedly. 



Bagallay, Sir Richard, an English lawyer, born in 

 Stockweli (now a part of London), May 13, 1816; 

 died in Brighton, jNov. 13, ISbts. lie was educated at 

 Oxford, becoming a fellow of Caius College in 1839, 

 and was called to the bar in 1843. He entered Parlia- 

 ment in 1865, was appointed Solicitor-General under 

 Mr. Disraeli in August, 1868, was knighted, and went 

 out of office with his party in December of the same 

 year. When the Conservatives defeated Mr. Glad- 

 stone in 1874, on the issue of the abolition of the in- 

 come-tax, Sir Richard Bagallay resumed the office he 

 had heldj but before the end of the year he succeeded 

 the retiring Attorney-General, Sir John Karslake, 

 and in the autumn of 1875 was appointed a jud_'c <>f 

 the Court of Appeal. He retired in 1885, having for 

 some years taken the lead as senior justice in the 

 chancery division. 



Bargash ben Said, Sultan or Sey vid of Zanzibar, born 

 in 1835 ; died in Zanzibar, March 27, 1888. He suc- 

 ceeded his elder brother, Majid, Oct. 7, 1870. For- 

 merly he administered an extensive range of coast 

 expending northward and southward from the island 

 of Zanzibar, where he had his residence, and main- 

 tained an army to guard the caravan-routes into the 

 interior. Great Britain compelled him to sign a treaty 

 in 1873, pledging himself to suppress the slave-trade 

 in his dominions. A few months before his death 

 Germany obtained a lea<e or cession of the coast-line 

 lying in front of the territory of the East African Com- 

 pany, and England obtained the grant of the coast 

 giving access to her newly acquired possessions, leav- 

 ing the Sultan only a fraction of his former dominion 

 on the mainland. He was succeeded by his brother, 

 who rules under the title of Sey vid Khalifa. 



Bartsch, Karl Friedrich Adolf Conrad, a German phi- 

 lologist, born in Sprottau, Silesia. Feb. 25, 1832 ; died 

 in Heidelberg, Feb. 20, 1888. He practiced poetical 

 composition in German and Latin while at the gym- 

 nasium, and studied Germanic philology at Brcslau 

 and Berlin. Taking his doctor's degree in 1853, he 

 went to Paris to study the poetry of the Troubadours, 

 which he was one of the earliest to introduce to the 

 attention of German students. In 1855 he became 

 librarian of the German Museum in Nuremberg, and 

 in the same year published a reading-book of Pro- 

 venal literature, which was followed by a chrestoma- 

 thy of Troubadour poetry and an edition of the songs of 

 Pierre Vidal. He also edited " Karl," an epic poem by 

 Strieker, an Austrian poet of the Thirteenth century. 

 In 1858 Bartsch was called to the professorship of Mod- 

 ern and German Literature at Eostock, where he estab- 

 lished a Seminary of German Philology. He became 

 editor of " Germania," the periodicardevotcd to Ger- 

 man antiquities, in 1869, and in 1871 went to Heidel- 

 berg as Professor of Early German Literature. His 

 voluminous published works include critical editions 

 of Old and Middle High German poets, many of 

 whose works were first issued in print by him,- and 

 of old French romances, pastorals, and popular songs, 

 poetry of his own, of which a collected edition has 

 been published, and lectures and essays, some of 

 which were republished in 1883. 



Beard Charles, an English divine, born in 1828 ; died 

 at Liverpool, March 9, 1888. He became a minister of 

 the Unitarian church at Hyde, removing subsequent- 

 ly to Liverpool. In 1861 was published his " Port 

 Royal, a Contribution to the History of Religion and 

 Literature in France." He founded' the " Theological 

 Ee view," in 1864. His other important works were, 

 " Outlines of Christian Doctrine " and a translation 

 of M. Renan's " Lectures on the Influence of the In- 

 stitutions, Thought, and Culture of Rome on Chris- 

 tianity " (1880)." In 1883 he delivered the Hil.bert 

 Lectures in London and Oxford, taking for his sub- 



ject " The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in 

 its Relation to Modern Thought and Knowledge.'' 



Bergaigne, Abel, a French Orientalist, died in Paris 

 Aug. 20, 1888. He held the chair of Sanskrit at the 

 Sor bonne. His translation of the gnomic poem, " Le 

 Bhaminivilasa," was published in 1872. In 1879 he 

 published a translation of the Buddhist drama, " .Xa- 

 gananda" with the Sanskrit text, and from 1^78 to 



1883, he issued three volumes entitled " The Vedic 

 Religion, alter the Hymns of the Rig-Veda." He 

 translated into French the drama, ' Sacountala," in 



1884, and during the same year began the is^ue of 

 ''Etudes sur le Lexique du" Rig- Veda," which was 

 still in progress at the time of his death. 



Brand, Sir Johannes Henricns, President of the Orange 

 Free State, born in Cape Town, Deo. 6, 1823 ; died .Ju'iy 

 15, 1888. He was the son of the Speaker of the Cape 

 House of Representatives, studied law in Leyden, and 

 in 1849 began practice in the Supreme Court in Cape 

 Town. In 1863 he became Professor of Law in the 

 South African College, and in 1863 he was elected 

 President of the Orange River Free State, to which 

 post he was re-elected every iive years until bis death. 

 It was owing to his influence that the Free State held 

 aloof from the Transvaal war and has declined to enter 

 into the plans of the Transvaal Republic for a union 

 of the three South African republics, accepting in 

 preference the railroad and tariff proposals of Cape 

 Colony. In recognition of his friendly services to 

 England, the Queen knighted him. 



Cameron, Sir Duncan Alexander, a Scottish, soldier, 

 born in 1808 ; died at Blackheath, June 7, 1888. He 

 entered the army at the age of seventeen ; became a 

 captain in 1833, major in 1839, colonel in 1854, major- 

 general in 1559, and general in 1873. In the Crimean 

 War he was present at the battle of Alina, and com- 

 manded the Highland Brigade at the battle of Bala- 

 klava. He was al<o actively ungased in the siege of 

 Sebastopol, and on the assault on the Redan. He 

 commanded the forces in the New Zealand war of 

 1863-' 65, in the battles of Kalikara, Kohasoa, Tangi- 

 riri, and Gate Pah. From 186^ to 1 S 7~> lie was gov- 

 ernor of the Military College at Sandhurst. In 1878 

 he was retired. 



Oarnot, Lazare Hippolyte, a French statesman, father 

 of the President of the French Republic, born in St. 

 Omer, April 6, 1801; died in Paris, March 16, 1888. 

 He was the son of the War Minister of the Revolu- 

 tion, and at the restoration accompanied his father 

 into exile. Returning to France in 1823, he studied 

 law, and became a supporter of the St. Simon sect, 

 but seceded when Ent'antin introduced the doctrine of 

 free love. He was elected deputy in 1839, and after 

 the revolution of 1848 became Minister of Education, 

 lie was forced to retire from this office in consequence 

 of a circular that he addressed to schoolmasters, en- 

 joining on them activity at elections. He was one of 

 the three Republican deputies that refused to take the 

 oath of allegiance after the coup d'etat, and was un- 

 seated. He entered the Chamber again in 1863, but 

 was defeated by Gambetta in 1869. In 1871 he was 

 again elected deputy, and on the formation of the Sen- 

 ate in 1875 was elected a life member. He published 

 biographies of his father and of Bishop Gregoire, and 

 edited the memoirs of Barere. 



Correnti, Cesare, an Italian statesman, born in 1815 ; 

 died in Meina, Oct. 4, 1888. He took part in the con- 

 flicts for the deliverance and unification of Italy, and 

 was Minister of Education in 1867 and again from 

 1869 till 1872, when he prepared and carried through 

 Parliament the laws for pensioning elementary school- 

 teachers and abolishing the theological faculties in the 

 universities. 



Corti Lnigi, an Italian diplomatist, died in Rome, 

 Feb. 18, 1888. He studied mathematics in Padua, 

 took part in the Revolution of 1848, filling an office in 

 the Sardinian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and after- 

 ward serving in the rar.ks against Austria. In 1850 

 he entered the diplomatic service as secretary of le- 

 gation at London. He rose to be councilor in 1862, 



