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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



Monselet, Charles, a French author, born in Nantes, 

 April 30, 1825; died in Paris, May 2'J, 1888. \S lien 

 seventeen years old he published " Marie et Ferdi- 

 nand," a poem that was much admired, then wrote 

 several pieces for the stage, and in 146 settled in 

 Paris, where he wrote romances, sketches, and critical 

 articles for newspapers, was dramatic critic lor the 

 "Figaro" for some time, and edited a short-lived 

 weekly called " Le Gourmet." In the long list of his 

 books the most important are " Histohv du Tribunal 

 Revolutionaire" (1850); " Lcs Vignes du Seigneur," 

 a volume of poems (1854) ; " La Lorgnette Litteraire," 

 sketches of contemporary writers (1857); " Les Ou- 

 blies et les Dedai_rnes," portraits from the last century 

 (1857) ; " La Franc-Magonnerie des Femines " (1861 ) ; 

 'Lcs Frercs Chantemesse " (1872 1; "Les Amours 

 des Temps Passe" (1875); "Lettres Gourmandes" 

 (1877); and "Le Petit Paris" (1879). 



Morison, James Cotter, an English author, born in 

 London, April 30, 1831 ; died in London. Feb. 2ii, 

 1888. lie spent several years in France before he en- 

 tered Oxford U in versify. W ith some of his associates, 

 he identified himself with the Positivist Society aft.T 

 settling in London, where he contributed frequently 

 to reviews and magazines. His longest work was 

 "Life and Times of St. Bernard" (ls.;:;>. He pub- 

 lished a pamphlet on "Irish Grievances" in 

 the lives of "Gibbon" and "Macaulay" to the 

 ' English Men of Letters" series: " Madame de 

 Maintenon. an Etude" ("London, 1885 1; and "Serv- 

 ice of Man," a polemical statement of the Positivist 

 arguments against Christianity (1886). Mr. Morison 

 projected a great work on Freneii history, and spent 

 many years in study and preparation, but died before 

 he could carry out his plan. 



Mount-Temple, William Francis Go\q>er-Temple, Baron, 

 an English official, born Due. 13, 1811 ; died at Broad- 

 lands, near Romsey, Oct. 16, 1888. He was the sec- 

 ond son of the firth Earl Cowper. After serving a 

 short time in the army, he becaina secretary to Lord 

 Melbourne, then Prime Minister, wa> elected to Par- 

 liament for Hertford as a Liberal in 1834, and con- 

 tinued to sit for that borough till 18 iS. From 1846 

 till 1852 he was Lord of the Admiralty in Lord John 

 Russell's administration, and in 1853 he resumed that 

 office, which he exchanged in 1855 for that of presi- 

 dent of the Board of Health. In 1857 he became the 

 first vice president of the Committee on Education, 

 and held that office in conjunction with the other till 

 the ministry resigned in the following year. In Au- 

 gust. 1859, he became vice-president of the Board of 

 Trade, and in the following February was appointed 

 Commissioner of Public Works. In this post, which 

 he held until 1866, he carried through the Thames- 

 Embankment bill and made many improvements in 

 public parks and buildings. He was member of Par- 

 liament for South Hampshire from 1868 till 1880, when 

 he was created Lord Mount-Temple, having assumed 

 the additional name of Temple in 1869 on inheriting 

 the estate of Broad lands from his step-father, Lord 

 Palmers ton. 



Musgrave, Sir Anthony, Governor of Queensland, born 

 in Antigua in ls23: died in Brisbane, Oct. 9, 1888. 

 He studied law in London, and returned in 1852 to 

 Antigua to take a clerical appointment under his 

 father, who was colonial treasurer. He became colo- 

 nial secretary in 18">lr. filled a succession of posts in 

 the colonial administrative service, became Governor 

 of Newfoundland in 1804, and of British Columbia in 

 1869, was nominated Lieu tenant- Governor of Natal in 

 1872 and Governor of South Australia in 1ST-"., was 

 thence transferred to Jamaica in 1877, and in March, 

 1883, succeeded Sir A. J. Kennedy as Governor of 

 Queensland. He married in 1870 a daughter of David 

 Dudley Field, of New York, who survives him. 



Oliphant, Laurence, an English author, born in 1829; 

 died in London, Dec. 23, 1888. He was the son of 

 the chief-justice of Ceylon, who sent him home with 

 a tutor at the age of twelve, and five years later set 

 out on a tour through Europe with his son, who was 



moved by his adventurous spirit to participate in the 

 Italian revolutionary uprising, helping to burn the 

 Austrian arms at Rome, and recklessly exposing his 

 life at the bombardment of Messina." Returning to 

 Ceylon as his father's private secretary, he made the 

 acquaintance of Jung Bahadoor, and accompanied 

 him on a journey to Nepaul, which afforded material 

 for a very successful book entitled " Katmandu." He 

 practiced for a short time at the Ceylon bur, but his 

 passion for travel and literary ambition brought him 

 back to Europe. He set out for Lapland, and when 

 the authorities objected to his scheme of exploration, 

 made a journey in the south of Russia, which he de- 

 scribed in " Crimea and the Shores of the Black Sea." 

 He was invited to accompany the British army to the 

 Crimea ; but he yielded to the requests of Lord Elgin 

 to go with him on his special mission to Washington, 

 where his social charms were of service in bring- 

 ing about the Canadian reciprocity treaty that was 

 "floated in a sea of champagne." He then accom- 

 panied Lord Elgin to Canada, and was sent on a dip- 

 lomatic tour among the Red river settlements as civil 

 secretary and commissioner for Indian atlairs, rccord- 

 inghis experiences in " Minnesota and the Far West.'' 

 After his return to England he published a pamphlet 

 on the Crimean campaign, suggesting a diversion in 

 the Caucasus, and ottered to undertake a mission to 

 Schamyl in Dagliestan. Lord Stratford dc Redcliffe, 

 whom he accompanied to Sebastopol, would not coun- 

 tenance so perilous an undertaking- Oliphaut was 

 with Omar Pasha on his Transeaucasian operations, 

 which he reported in a series of letters to the London 

 " Times." When Lord Elgin went out as special am- 

 bassador to China he was accompanied by his former 

 secretary, who was present at the exciting scenes ot 

 the mutiny when the expeditionary force tarried to 

 aid the British in India, and in the Chinese war took 

 an active part in the capture of Canton and other mili- 

 tary operations besides assisting in ti;e diplomatic ne- 

 gotiations. He went to Japan as charge d'affaires in 

 I860, and in the attack on the British embassy was 

 severely wounded. lie published a " Narrative of 

 Lord Elgin's Mission to China and Japan," and re- 

 counted other episodes of his adventurous life, such 

 as his experiences with the filibusters of Central 

 America and with Garibaldi and the Sicilian legion 

 on the expedition to Montenegro, Albania, and the 

 camps of the Polish insurgents, in bis volumes enti- 

 tled "Patriots and Filibusters" and "Incidents of 

 Travel." In 1865 he entered Parliament, but attained 

 no prominence as a legislator, and in 1868 resigned 

 his seat. He was a contributor to " Black wood's Mag- 

 azine " while living in London, and mingled much in 

 society, satirizing its follies and vices in the novel of 

 "Piccadilly." Withdrawing to a peaceful retreat in 

 the United States, he lost himself in spiritual specu- 

 lations, and became a disciple of Thomas Lake Har- 

 ris, submissively yielding to the religious direction of 

 that enthusiast. He acted for some time as an agent 

 and promoter of the Transatlantic Telegraph Com- 

 pany. He was in France during the war of 1870 as a 

 correspondent of the " Times," and remained in Paris 

 in the same capicity ai'ter the peace, until he was sum- 

 moned to America by Harris. Embracing the chance 

 that was opened by the Treaty of Berlin 2 permitting 

 the interposition of Christian powers in Turkish 

 alfairs, for the realization of a cherished scheme for 

 the colonization of Jews in Palestine, especially the 

 impoverished and persecuted Jews of Roumania 

 whom he had materially aided, he visited southern 

 Gilead and the land of Moab, which he described as 

 eminently suited for settlement in " The Land of 

 Gilead." He resided for a lon^r time at Haifa, where 

 he befriended the Druses and dispensed justice as an 

 Oriental magistrate. Among: his later publications 

 are " Traits and Travesties" (1882) ; " Altiora Peto," 

 a novel (1883); "Irene McGillicuddy," a satire on 

 American manners ; " Masullam," a mystical novel 

 (1886) ; and " Scientific Religion," an exposition ot 

 his spiritualistic faith. 



