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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



G6ricault." Etex was distinguished as a painter, en- 

 graver, and architect, as well as in sculpture. His 

 most important statues are " Leda," " Olympia," 

 " Rossini," " The Cholera," " Blanche de CastDle," 

 " Charlemagne," " St. Augustine," and u Gen. Le- 

 courbe." He executed busts of Emile de Girardin, 

 Delacroix, and M. de Lesseps, and many medallions 

 and portraits. In 1868 he was commissioned with the 

 execution of the monument to Ingres at Montauban. 

 His most famous paintings arc " Christ Preaching,'' 

 " Sappho," " Dante and Beatrice," " Jacob Blessimr 

 the Sons of Joseph," "The -Flight into Egypt," 

 "Romeo and Juliet," and "The Great Men of the 

 United States (for the City Hall, New York). He 

 drew the plans fur a fountain and swimming-schools 

 in the woods of Boulogne and Vincennes and for sev- 

 eral monuments and tombs. He published an " Essay 

 on the Beautiful" (1851) and a volume of art studies 

 on " Pradier and Scheffer " (1850). 



Evereley, Charles Shaw-Lefevre, Viscount, an English 

 statesman, born in London Feb. 22,1794; <1 

 Ileckfield Place, his seat in Hampshire, Dec. 28, 1888. 

 He was graduated at Cambridge in 1815, and in 1819 

 was called to the bar. He married a daughter of Sam- 

 uel Whitbread and niece of Earl Grey in 1817. In 

 1830 he entered Parliament, and in 1881 was returned 

 as a Liberal for his own county, the northern division 

 of which lie represented after the passage of the reform 

 act of 1832. His tact, courtesy j fine presence, and 

 knowledge of business made him the choice of his 

 p.irty and of the country gentlemen for the Speaker's 

 chair when it was vacated in 1839, and on May 27 he 

 was elected by a majority of eighteen over the Tory 

 candidate. The fairness, firmness, readiness, and good 

 temper with which he directed the stormy debatea of 

 the period, with the aid of new forms of procedure of 

 his own suggestion, led to his retention in the chair, 

 on the motion of Sir Robert Peel in 1841. Mr. Shaw- 

 Lefevre governed the proceedings of the House during 

 the embittered contest over free trade, was continued 

 in the chair as a matter of course when a general elec- 

 tion placed Lord John Russell at the head of the Gov- 

 ernment inl847. And when the Tories again came into 

 power in 1852, Mr. Disraeli, as leader of the House, 

 followed the precedent set by Sir Robert Peel, and Mr. 

 Shaw-Lefevre was re-elected by acclamation. He re- 

 signed when the fourth Parliament over which he had 

 E resided was dissolved by Lord Palmerston in 1857, 

 aving served longer than any of his predecessors 

 except Arthur Onslow. He was created Viscount 

 Eversley, of Hcckfield, in the county of'Sputhampton. 

 arid devoted himself to farming and horticulture and 

 to his duties as chairman of quarter sessions, colonel 

 of Yeomanry, Governor of the Isle of Wight, and ec- 

 clesiastical commissioner. 



Feyen-JPerrin, Frangois, a French artist, born in Bey- 

 Bur-S x eillc in 1829, died Oct. 14, ISsS. He studied in 

 the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and relinquished the con- 

 test for the prize of Rome on receiving the commis- 

 sion to paint the curtain for the Theatre des Italiens, 

 which still remains one of the most beautiful designs 

 of its kind. He devoted himself at first to historical 

 painting, which brought him prizes, but only small 

 pecuniary rewards. His best works of this period are 

 " La Barque cle Caron" (1857), " Le Cercle des Vo- 

 luptucux de Dante " (1859), " Fete Venetienne " 

 (1861), "LaMusedeBpulangcr" (186?.), and "Charles 

 le Terne'raire retrouve apres la Battaille de Nancz " 

 (1865). At the time when this last was painted he had 

 already begun to search for a more popular class of 

 subjects. In 1864 he exhibited the "Greve," which 

 was followed by "La Vanneuse," a work that was 

 much admired. A painting representing oyster-dredg- 

 ers returning from fishing hangs in the Luxembourg 

 Palace. Others of his works of the later period 

 arc "Naufrage de 1'Evemng Star" (1868), "Melan- 

 cholic" (1870), "Le Printemps" (1872), and "La 

 Rosde" (1874). He was one of the Society of Ten, 

 the members of which each year exposed their new 

 works at the Hotel Drouot. 



Fleischer, Heinrich Leberecht, a German philologist, 

 born in Schandau, Saxony, Feb. 21, 1801 ; died in 

 Leipsic, Feb. 15. 1888. Pe was a pupil of DC Sacy's, 

 and became the head of a large school of Arabic schol- 

 ars in Germany. He began lecturing on Arabic at 

 Leipsic in 1835. His most important works were 

 editions of Abulfeda's "Historia ante-Islamica" and 

 Beidhawi's " Commentary on the Koran." lie was 

 a foreign member of trie French Institute. 



Galliera, Duchess of, an Italian bcni-t'artn.'ss, born 

 in Paris ; died in Genoa, Dec. 10, 1888. She was the 

 daughter of the Marquis de Briguole-Sall, who repre- 

 sented Peidmont in Paris for many years under Carlo 

 Alberto, and married the Duke de Galliera-Ferran, 

 the wealthiest of Italian speculators, who acquired 

 ducal and princely rank by the purchase of the estate 

 of Galliera, near Bologna, and tnat of Luccdio, in the 

 vicinity of Turin. Alter his death his widow carried 

 out his wish to give 20,000,000 lire toward the harbor 

 improvements of the city of Genoa and 6,000,000 lire 

 for laborers' dwellings. Their son, renouncing the 

 titles and wealth that his father had won by renre- 

 hensible practices, induced a Frenchman to adopt 

 him under the French law, in order that he might 

 take the name De la Renaudiere-Ferrari, and became 

 a Professor of German History at Brussels. The duch- 

 ess gave the Palazzo Rosso, with its library and pict- 

 ure-gallery and a fund for their maintenance, to the 

 city of Genoa, and founded there the San Andrea 

 Hospital, at a cost of 18,000,000 lire, and the Hos- 

 pital delta Corpnata, which cost 5,000,000 lire, besides 

 charitable institutions of lesser importance. She pro- 

 vided a great number of dowerless girls, in all ranks 

 of life, with the means of marriage. In her will she 

 endowed orphan asylums and made bequests for nu- 

 merous charitable institutions. The Galliera proper- 

 ty, valued at 30,000,000 lire, she willed to the Duke 

 de Montpensier. Large legacies that were destined 

 for other members of the Orleans family are said to 

 have been stricken from the will, owing to her dis- 

 satisfaction with the political course of the Comte de 

 Paris. Her palace in Paris, worth 5,000,000 francs, she 

 bequeathed to the Austro-Hungarian Government, on 

 condition that it shall be maintained as the Embassy 

 forever. The residuary estate was left to be divided 

 in equal parts between her son and the Empress 

 Fricdrich of Germany. 



Gleig, George Robert, an English author, born in 

 Stirling, Scotland, April 20. 1796; died near Winch- 

 field, England, July 9, 1888. He was the son of a 

 Scottish bishop, was educated at Glasgow and entered 

 Oxford, but left in 1812 to join the army, and served 

 in the Peninsular campaign, and afterward in the 

 American war. Returning to Balliol College, he 

 took his degree, and was ordained in 1820. lie was 

 rector of a church in Kent, became chaplain of Chel- 

 sea in 1844, and two years later was appointed chap- 

 lain-general of the forces, a post that he held for 

 nearly thirty years. He devised a scheme for the 

 education of soldiers, and was appointed inspector- 

 general of military schools soon alter he became 

 chapLiin- general. -Among his numerous published 

 works are, " The Subaltern" ; " Campaigns at Wash- 

 ington and New Orleans " ; " Lives of Military Com- 

 manders"; " History of India" ; " History of the Bi- 

 ble " ; " The Story of the Battle of Waterloo'" ; " Lives 

 of Lord Clive, Warren, Hastings, and the Duke of Wei - 

 lington " ; " Memoirs of Sir Thomas Monro " ; " Tra- 

 ditions of Chelsea Hospital" ; "Chronicles of Wal- 

 tham" ; " The Country Curate" ; " Military History 

 of Great Britain" ; and " The Great Problem." 



Godin, St. Jean Baptiste Andre", a French philan- 

 thropist, born in 1817 ; died in Guise, Jan. 17, 1888. 

 He was the son of a locksmith, and was a working- 

 man in early life. In 1846 he established an iron- 

 foundry at Guise. He rapidly became wealthy, and 

 in 1859 he erected a famiUstiere. with co-operative 

 shops, a club, a theatre, and other institutions for his 

 workmen. He was elected a deputy in 1871, but 

 withdrew from political life hi 1875. 



