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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (BOGOLIEPOFF BRIGHT.) 



original genius encouraged him to tare forth on 

 his lonely way, producing works that made the 

 general public laugh. His Roman sketches and 

 memories were metamorphosed in his imagina- 

 tion into an unending series of dream pictures. 

 He produced enormously, struggling with colors, 

 not in the way of the modern painters but like 

 an alchemist delving in ancient lore, growing into 

 a colorist whose power and technique were rec- 

 ognized even by many to whom his paintings 

 repelled as fantastic images of a lunatic brain. 

 Wagner, when the world scorned and ridiculed 

 his art, took up the cudgels in its defense, but 

 Bocklin was a shy and lonely soul, who had no 

 answer to make to ridicule and contempt. An 

 easier life as professor in the Weimar Academy 

 enabled him to develop his powers to maturity. 

 He did not stay long there, but took up his final 

 abode under the blue Italian sky again in Flor- 

 ence, where he reproduced its azure depths and 

 the grim cliffs, the translucent sea, the slim pop- 

 lars, with nymphs, fauns, centaurs in tragic epi- 

 sodes or bucolic scenes, uncertain in drawing, but 

 having qualities of color, line, and composition 

 that impressed and charmed more and more the 

 German lovers of art, but still jarred upon the 

 taste of those schooled in classic forms and mod- 

 ern technique. Less of landscape and more of the 

 grand figure painting characterize his later Italian 

 period, and continued research for the color se- 

 crets of the old masters. Recondite and scientific 

 in his technical experiments and processes, as is 

 apparent in his later more studied and ambi- 

 tious and less exuberant and spontaneous pro- 

 ductions, the imagination which conjured up a 

 living, moving world of pagan myth and the riot- 

 ous, joyous sense of the magic of color are the 

 marks of his genius. 



Bogoliepoff, Nicholas Pavlovich, a Russian 

 statesman, born in Serokhof, in the province of 

 Moscow, in 1846; died in St. Petersburg, March 

 15, 1901. He was the son of a police officer, 

 passed through the law course of Moscow Uni- 

 versity after receiving a medal in the gymna- 

 sium, studied also abroad, became a professor of 

 the university, and was its rector in 1883 and 

 again in 1891, and in 1895 became curator of the 

 educational district. On the death of Count De- 

 lianofT, in 1898, the Czar appointed 'him Minister 

 of Education. He aimed at a reform of interme- 

 diate education in which the study of Russian 

 and modern subjects should supplant the clas- 

 sical languages. The students held him responsi- 

 ble for the new regulations adopted at the Mos- 

 cow and other universities and for the harsh 

 measures adopted to curb and discipline them, 

 and thus he was killed by an assassin's bullet. 



Bornier, Vicomte Henri de, a French poet, 

 born in Lunel, Herault, Dec. 25, 1825; died in 

 Paris, Jan. 21, 1901. He began his literary ca- 

 reer by publishing a collection of verse about 

 1845, followed by a five-act drama, Le Mariage 

 de Luther. Some of his later writings obtained 

 prizes from the Institut, and the Theatre Fran- 

 c.ais accepted, in 1868, his Agamemnon. He wrote 

 the libretto of Victorin Jonciere's Dimitri. His 

 most famous work is Fille de Rolland, presented 

 at the Comedie Franchise in 1875, with Sarah 

 Bernhardt in the principal r61e, in which the qual- 

 ities of human interest, realism, skilful construc- 

 tion, dramatic force, strong situations, and 

 clearly drawn characters were set forth by well- 

 turned polished verse in the classical method. 

 After winning the Jean Reynaud prize with this 

 piece he wrote Les Noces d'Attila, La Moabite, 

 L'Apotre, and Le Fils d'Aretin. all dramas in 

 verse. His Mahomet was not allowed to be pro- 



duced for diplomatic reasons. In 1893 he was- 

 elected to the French Academy as the successor 

 of Xavier Marmier, and he held the post of li- 

 brarian and afterward that of administrator of 

 the arsenal. 



Boyle, George David, a British divine, born 

 in Edinburgh, May 17, 1828; died in Salisbury, 

 March 21, 1901. He was the son of ,an eminent 

 Scottish advocate, afterward Lord Justice-Gen- 

 eral. He was educated at the Edinburgh Acad- 

 emy, the Charterhouse School, and Exeter Col- 

 lege, Oxford, took his degree in 1851, became 

 curate of Kidderminster in 1853, and of Hagley 

 in 1857, and in 1861 perpetual curate of St. 

 Michael, Handsworth. In 1867 he returned to 

 Kidderminster as vicar, was appointed an hon- 

 orary canon of Worcester in 1872, and in 1880 

 was made Dean of Salisbury. He was interested 

 in education, a churchman of moderate views, an 

 entertaining talker, full of anecdote and humor, 

 a scholar of wide reading, and a man of many 

 friends. He published a volume entitled Likes 

 and Dislikes and Characters, and Episodes of the 

 Great Rebellion. 



Brereton, Joseph Lloyd, an English clergy- 

 man, born in Little Massingham in 1822; died 

 there, Aug. 15, 1901. His education was ob- 

 tained at Rugby and at Oxford, where in 1842 

 he won the Newdigate prize for a poem on the 

 battle of the Nile. He was ordained in the Eng- 

 lish Church in 1847 and held curacies in Norwich 

 and London in 1847-'50. In 1852 he became rec- 

 tor of West Buckland, North Devon, where he 

 established the earliest of the county schools, in- 

 stitutions aiming to give a comprehensive edu- 

 cation to children of the middle class, and estab- 

 lished upon a county basis as distinguished from 

 a diocesan one. In 1858 he received a prebend's 

 stall in the cathedral of Exeter, and in 1867 suc- 

 ceeded his father as rector of Little Massingham. 

 Soon after this date he founded the Norfolk 

 County School at Elmhaih, and subsequently he 

 founded Cavendish College, a similar institution, 

 in Cambridgeshire. By the establishment of a 

 graduated county schools association he endeav- 

 ored to call into existence self-supporting schools 

 for women and girls, and thus work out a com- 

 plete system of national education. While resi- 

 dent in Devon he founded the Barnstaple Farm- 

 ers' Club. His published books include The Bat- 

 tle of the Nile (1844); County Education: A 

 Contribution of Experiments, Estimates, and 

 Suggestions (1874); The Higher Life: Attempts 

 at the Apostolic Teaching for English Disciples 

 (1874). 



Bretschneider, E., a Russian sinologist, died 

 in St. Petersburg, May 14, 1901. He was a med- 

 ical man by profession, physician for many years 

 to the Russian legation at Pekin, where he de- 

 voted himself to the study of Chinese archeology, 

 history, language, and geography. He published 

 Fu-sang, or Who Discovered China? The Knowl- 

 edge Possessed by the Ancient Chinese of the 

 Arabs and Arabian Colonies, Chinese Medieval . 

 Travelers to the West, Archeological and-Histor- 

 ical Researches in Pekin, Medieval Researches 

 from Eastern Asiatic Sources, On the Study and 

 Value of Chinese Botanical Works, and History 

 of European Botanical Discoveries in China. He 

 also made one of the best maps of China. 



Bright, William, an English ecclesiastic, 

 born in Doncaster in 1824; died in Oxford, March 

 6, 1901. He was the son of the town clerk, was 

 sent to Rugby school at the age of thirteen, and 

 having been prepared for Oxford under Dr. Ar- 

 nold, entered University College, was graduated 

 with classical honors in 1846, took a theological 



