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scholarship and was elected a fellow of his col- 

 lege in 1847, was ordained deacon in 1848 and 

 priest in 1850, and in 1851 became theological 

 tutor at Trinity College, Glenalmond, in 1851. 

 For eight years he directed the theological train- 

 ing of all candidates for holy orders in the Scot- 

 tish Episcopal Church, and was also lecturer on 

 ecclesiastical history. At the end of that period 

 the Scottish College of Bishops dismissed him 

 because he said in a private letter that in some 

 respects the English Reformation was a mistake. 

 He returned to Oxford, where he was still a tutor 

 in University College, and in 1868 was appointed 

 Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History and a 

 canon of Christ Church. Till that time he had 

 published only a collection of ancient collects 

 from various rituals and a Latin version of the 

 Prayer-Book. He possessed an unrivaled knowl- 

 edge of the ancient councils and patristic litera- 

 ture, and subsequently he prepared editions of 

 Eusebius and Socrates, works on Athanasius, 

 Augustine, and Leo the Great, and two volumes 

 of sacred poetry Hymns and other Verses (1874) 

 and lona and other Verses (1886). 



Broglie, Albert, Due de, a French statesman, 

 born in 1821; died Jan. 19, 1901. He was de- 

 scended from the Italian family Broglia, long 

 naturalized in France, having furnished under the 

 monarchy a series of ministers, marshals, and 

 diplomatists. Prince Albert was trained for di- 

 plomacy, and the fact that his father was a 

 prince of the Holy Roman Empire secured him 

 a good reception at German courts. His career 

 was cut short by the revolution of 1848 just as 

 he had received the appointment from the Gov- 

 ernment of Louis Philippe of secretary of lega- 

 tion. During the second empire he was as an 

 Orleanist condemned to political inactivity ex- 

 cept as an Opposition writer. He wrote for the 

 Revue des Deux Mondes, became a historian, 

 publishing L'Eglise et 1'Empire Romain au IV 

 Siecle in 1856, and was elected to the French 

 Academy in 1862, succeeding to the chair of La- 

 cordaire. Although he detested parliamentarism, 

 he came forward as a candidate for the Chamber 

 when the empire was nearing its end. In 1871 

 he was elected to the National Assembly in the 

 Department of the Eure, where the hereditary 

 seat of the Broglie family was. Thiers kept him 

 away from the Chamber by giving him the ap- 

 pointment of ambassador to London, but he re- 

 turned occasionally to Versailles, and finally re- 

 signed his post in order to engage in active oppo- 

 sition to Thiers and work for the restoration of 

 the monarchy. He was successful in bringing 

 about the resignation of Thiers and the election 

 of MacMahon as President of the French Repub- 

 lic. He was made Premier and Minister, first 

 of Foreign Affairs, then of the Interior. The 

 refusal of the Comte de Chambord to give up the 

 white flag was the first check to his plan to re- 

 store the Bourbon throne. When, after the fall 

 of Jules Simon's ministry, the reactionary Broglie- 

 Fourtou Cabinet was ready to attempt a state 

 stroke^ President MacMahon would not resort to 

 violent illegality, and thus the republic was once 

 more saved from upheaval and civil conflict. The 

 Chamber was dissolved with the approval of the 

 Senate, but in the succeeding elections the Re- 

 publicans triumphed. The Due de Broglie re- 

 signed the premiership on May 16, 1877, and re- 

 tired into private life, discredited and reprobated 

 until the passions he had excited were stilled and 

 he passed into history. His haughty and repel- 

 lent manners, his small, insignificant figure, his 

 shrill voice and awkward gesticulation, and his 

 contempt for oratorical allurements and flour- 



ishes and for all other device-, tor \vm,iin^ popu- 

 larity, would have made Inn: un<l |.j cause oi 

 the monarchy before the public almo.sl <:,,, trnij,- 

 tible and ridiculous when he was matcher.! i-:i.in->t 

 the genial and brilliant Gambe.U i 

 inherent weakness and dissension oi 

 archists, contending with three pretej 

 two flags for a single crown, did not i < 

 cause hopeless under any leader. The Due 

 Broglie was an acute,- energetic, and fe; 

 statesman, the most sincere and courageous <>i 

 the monarchist politicians, whose unattractive 

 personality would not have stood in the way or 

 the restoration of the Bourbons, which he was 

 the most competent to direct, if- France could 

 have lived again under the old regime, though a 

 more popular politician might in his place have 

 overturned the republic and brought to pass a 

 restoration more untimely and unnatural than 

 the one that the allies forced upon France in 1814, 

 but it would not have survived one free election 

 or the first popular uprising. Broglie retained 

 his seat in the Chamber, keeping silence, however, 

 until the law of Jules Ferry, restricting the clergy, 

 brought him to his feet, after which he subsided 

 again, and was not reelected in 1885. After his 

 exit from the political stage the Due de Broglie 

 attended the Thursday meetings of the Academy 

 with the utmost regularity, discoursed on politics 

 with the sympathetic ladies of the Faubourg St. 

 Germain, and returned to his historical studies, 

 the fruits of which were Marie Therese (1888), 

 Histoire et Diplomatic (1889), and Memoires de 

 Talleyrand (1891). He left four sons. 



Brooks, James, an English architect, born in 

 Hatford, England, March 30, 1825; died in Lon- 

 don, Oct. 7, 1901. His early education was ob- 

 tained at the grammar school at Abingdon, and 

 in 1847 he studied at the Royal Academy schools. 

 He began the practise of architecture a few years 

 later, and in 1860 had become a fellow of the 

 Royal Institute of British Architects, and from 

 1892 to 1896 was its vice-president. In 1884 he 

 became a member of the Architectural Associa- 

 tion. He was appointed architect to the diocese 

 of Canterbury and consulting architect to the 

 Incorporated Society for Building Churches. He 

 was mainly a church architect, and by preference 

 a Gothic church architect, but he treated Gothic 

 after a manner of his own, and was aware that 

 medieval designs could be carried out in brick 

 as well as in stone. He depended for effect on 

 mass and composition rather than on ornament, 

 and his churches are uniformly solid and digni- 

 fied, with no trace of sham. Among many im- 

 portant churches erected by him may be named 

 St. Michael's, Shoreditch, 1869; Church of the 

 Annunciation, at Chiselhurst, 1870; Holy Inno- 

 cents, Hammersmith; St. Mary's, Hornsey; All 

 Saints, Southend, Essex; and St. Luke's, Enfield, 

 Middlesex. In 1886 he submitted a design for the 

 proposed Cathedral of Liverpool which exhibited 

 much picturesqueness of treatment in addition to 

 strength and thought in the conception. 



Brozik, Vasclav, a Bohemian painter, born 

 in Pilsen in 1851; died in Paris, April 14, 190L 

 He studied in the Academy of Art at Prague and 

 under Piloty in Munich, went to Paris in 1876, 

 and in 1878 exhibited The Embassy of Ladislas 

 at the Court of Charles VII of France, now in 

 the Berlin Museum, which won a gold medal. 

 Most of his canvases are large compositions. 

 Some of the more famous are The Condemnation 

 of John Huss, bought by the city of Prague; 

 Petrarch and Laura at Avignon; A Feast in the 

 House of Rubens; Christopher Columbus at the 

 Court of Ferdinand and Isabella, presented to 



