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Godwin, George, an English author, born in London, 

 J, 1615 ; died there. Jan. -J7. 1^-. lie was the 

 .n architect and practiced the same proi 

 but devoted himself also to art journalism and lit- 

 erature. He became editor of the ' Builder" in 1*44. 

 He published a standard t;. 



. -.vhieh w;:s tran>lated into various lan^: 



Churches of London " C2 vols.. 

 ' Buildings and Monuments. Modern and Media-val " 

 : Hi?t<>ry in Ku : " London Shad- 



: Town Swamps ana Social Bn 

 ; Memorials of Workers'' ; and ' Another 

 151<v.v for Lite." His later works dealt with sani- 

 tary and social reforms. He was the designer of St. 

 Mary's Church, West Brompton, and other eccle^ias- 

 tical'and public buildii ... 



Gondinet, Edmond, a French dramatist, born in Lau- 

 riere. March 7. IvJ'j ; died in Paris. Nov. 10, 1888. 

 He was the author of ' Lakme.' "Le Koi 1'a dit," 

 ' Le Panache." " Gavaud.'' " Minard et Comp;i_ 

 " Le Plus Ileureux des Trois," "Le Parisien,'' and 

 other successful comedies. HI* co-operation and ad- 

 vice were .-ought by authors and managers, and made 

 successes of many unpresentable plays, such as " Le 

 Club," which -would never have been performed but 

 :;nce. His works are distinguished for 

 wit and refined humor. 



Gosse, Philip Henry, an English naturalist, born in 

 -ter in 1810; died in^Torquay. Aug. 23, 18S8. 

 In 1 S 27 he went as a merchant's clerk to Newfound- 

 laud, where he spent his leisure in collecting insects 

 and making colored dra wings of them and their trans- 

 formations. He removed to Lower Canada in 

 studied zoology and entomology three years, after- 

 ward traveled in the Unitc-d Stitcs. and passed a year 

 in Alabama in making drawings of insects. He re- 

 turned to England in 1839, and prepared lor publica- 

 e results of his investigations, visited Jamaica 

 in 1-44-' 45. and from that time forward resided in 

 England, and devoted himself chiefly to the micro- 

 scopic study of the Eotifera and to collecting shells for 

 public and private cabinets. He also pursued a series 

 of investigations into the characters of me / 

 Be-ides hi< works on natural history, both scientific 

 and popular, he published several volumes of sacred 

 and ancient, history. Among his books are " The 

 Canadian Natural- Birds of Ja- 



maica" (with an atlas; and " A Naturalist's Sojourn 

 in Jamaica " : Introduction to Zoology " ; " Monu- 

 ments of Egypt " - -red Streams" . . 

 ' History of the Jews " (1851) ; " A-s> 

 " Tiie Aquarium " (1854) ; u Manual of Marine Zool- 

 ls:>5): ' Life in its Lower, Intermediate, and 

 Iliirher For: : " Aetmolo.'ia Britannica : a 

 Hi.-torv of British Sea Anemones and Corals " (1860) ; 

 "The 'Romance of Natural History" (lS>',"-V,-_< : A 

 Year at the Shore" : " Land and v 

 " Wonders of the Great Deep" (Philadelphia. I 

 and " The Mysteries of God : a Series of Expositions 

 of Holy Scripture '' (London, " 



Gregory, P. Ti, an Australian explorer, bora in Eng- 

 land : died in Brisbane, Queensland. Nov. 10, 138_8. 

 He accompanied his father to Western Australia in 

 n the second ship that sailed from England 

 with that destination. V- 'er brother he ex- 



plored the country east and north of Swan river in 

 In 1857 he traced the Murchison river, and in 

 .isted by the Government with an expe- 

 dition from the north wt .:a in search 

 of cotton-lauds, which led to the discovery of the 

 pearl-fisheries of We>tern Australia, of rich pastoral 

 lands, and of Ashburton and Fortcsoue rivers. He 

 made a geological map of Western Australia, and was 

 the first to call attention to the coai-mincs of the col- 

 ony. Settling in Queensland, he became Commis- 

 sioner of Crown Lands and Postmaster-General, and 

 was a member of the Legislative Council. 



Heller, Stephen, a Hungarian musician, born in 

 Pe.th. May 15. 1-15: died in Paris. Jan. 14. 

 He studied in Vienna, and remained for a few years 



_-->burg, but settled in Paris in 1838, and re- 

 ; there during the rest of his life. He was a 

 composer of pieces tor the pianoforte, which are dis- 

 tinguished lor tenderness of sentiment and artistic 

 tinl-h. One of his collections is called " Promenades 

 d'un Solitaire." referrmir to Rousseau, and another is 

 " Blumen, Frueht, und Dornen Stucke," supposed to 

 have been inspired by the works of Richter. He rarely 

 appeared in concerts, ard as a player he was only 

 heard to advantage in the inspiring presence of his 

 pupils and admirer-. 



Hesse, Prince Alexander, of, a general in the Aus- 

 trian army, born in Darmstadt. Germany, July 15, 

 iied near Jugenheim, Dec. 16. 1-^5. He was 

 the third son of the Grand Duke Ludwig. Entering 

 the Hessian service as lieutenant in 1833, he joined the 

 Russian army as colonel, in 1S40, alter his .- 

 marriage to the future Czar Alexander II. rose to be 

 a major-general, and took service in the Austrian 

 army' in ^i 852. a year after his marriage to Julie, 

 daughter of Count' Maurice Haucke. The ability and 

 i! that he displayed on the field of Monte': ello 

 1 led to his promotion to the rank of lieuten- 

 ant field-marshal. He distinguished himself like- 

 wise at Solterino, and was intrusted later with the 

 command of the Seventh Corps. He returned to his 

 horoe in 1863, and devoted himself to the education 

 of his children and the gratification of scientific and 

 artistic tastes till the war of 1866 called him to the 

 head of the Eighth Army Corps of the German Federa- 

 tion. He has shared with Field-Marshal Benedek the 

 blame for the defeat of Austria and the South Ger- 

 man States, although tardy mobilization and incoher- 

 ent organization, sufficiently explained the failure of 

 his corps, made up as it was of six contingents of 

 troops all trained on different systems, commanded 

 by generals who were strangers to him. After the 

 cl'ose of the campaign he returned to bis country-seat, 

 called Heiligenberg, where he spent the rest of h'is life. 

 His eldest son, Prince Alexander of Battenbur<. r , filled 

 for seven years the Bulgarian throne, and his second 

 son, Prince Henry, married in 1S?5 the Princes* 

 Beatrice, daughter of Queen Victoria of England. 



Hesse, Friedrich Wilhelm, Landgrave of, born in Co- 

 penhagen. Oct. 15. 1654 ; died at sea, Oct. 14, 1888. 

 He was traveling in the tropics, and while sailing 

 from Batavia to Singapore he disappeared from his 

 cabin in the night, and is supposed to nave committed 

 suicide. His successor ;;.s chief of the electoral or 

 elder line of the house of Hesse is his brother Alex- 

 ander Friedrich. 



Holl, Frank, an English artist, born in London, July 

 : died there, July 31, 1S8S. He was the son 

 of Francis Holi, the engraver, studied painting in 

 London, and in 1^04 began to exhibit pictures on 

 sentimental subjects in the Royal Academy. A por- 

 trait of Samuel Cousins, the engraver, was so strongly 

 handled that the artist was at once overwhelmed 

 with commissions, and for the last ten years of his 

 life painted nothing but portraits. Amonir his sitters 

 were Lord Spencer, John Bright, Mr. Chamberlain, 

 Sir Frederick Roberts, Lord \Volseley, Mr. Glad- 

 stone, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Cam- 

 bridge. Elis last work was a portrait of Cornelius 

 Vanderbilt. He was made an Academician in 



Houaeau, Jean Charles, a Belgian astronomer, born in 

 Mons, Oct. 7, 18-20 ; died in Scharbeck, July 12. 1888. 

 He succeeded Quetelet as director of the Brussels Ob- 

 servatory, which he thoroughly reorganized and kept 

 up to the requirem .-rn science. His " Ura- 



nometrie Generate," containing all the stars of both 

 hemispheres that are visible to the naked e;- 

 based on observations that he made for several 



-. equator. A second great undertaking was 

 the " Bibliographic Generale de 1' Astronomic," of 

 wliich only two volumes have appeared, containing a 

 methodically arranged catalogue "fall tre:.' 

 and published observations in the field of astronomy, 

 from the invention of printing to the year 1S80. He 

 also published a ' Vademeoom de Al'stronomie." 



