OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (BRYDON CAMPOAMOR.) 



the Metropolitan Museum of New York by Mor- 

 ris K. Jesup; and Rudolf II of Austria and the 

 Alchemist, in the Stuart collection of the Lenox 

 Library of New York, where also hangs the 

 smaller picture of Grandmother's Birthday. 



Brydon, John McKean, a Scottish architect, 

 born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1840; died 

 May 28, 1901. He was educated in his native 

 town and began his professional career in Liver- 

 pool at the age of sixteen. He soon went to 

 London and became a fellow of the Royal Insti- 

 tute of British Architects in 1881, and a member 

 of the council of the institute many years. His 

 specialty was the designing of public buildings, 

 and at Bath, where he was employed seven or 

 eight years, he built the municipal buildings, the 

 technical schools, the extension of the pump- 

 room, and the Victoria Art Gallery. Important 

 works of his elsewhere are the Southwest Lon- 

 don Polytechnic, at Chelsea;. Chelsea Vestry 

 Hall; Chelsea Free Library and Victoria Galler- 

 ies; and the London School of Medicine for 

 Women. In 1898 he was one of eight architects 

 recommended to the Government by the Royal 

 Institute for the new public offices, and to him 

 was assigned the block for the Local Government 

 Board and the Board of Education. Like the 

 late Mr. Young, appointed at the same time to 

 execute the War Office block, he died before com- 

 pleting his work. Brydon's work at Bath is 

 thoroughly in harmony with the older architec- 

 ture of that city, and better than any one else 

 he understood the Bath phase of English classic. 

 Buchanan, Robert Williams, English au- 

 thor, born in Caverswall, Staffordshire, England, 

 Aug. 18, 1841; died in London, June 10, 1901. 

 He was the son of a Socialist editor and lecturer, 

 and obtained his 

 education at the 

 high school in Glas- 

 gow and at Glasgow 

 University. In 1860 

 he went to London 

 with his friend Da- 

 vid Gray, the Scot- 

 tish poet, and the 

 two young men lived 

 in a garret together 

 until Gray presently 

 died of consumption. 

 Buchanan, befriend- 

 ed by Sydney Do- 

 bell and Richard 

 Monckton Milnes, 

 soon began to make 

 his way in literature, 

 attaining in the sixties and early seventies consid- 

 erable fame as a poet. In 1871 he secured an unen- 

 viable notoriety by a savage attack upon Swin- 

 burne and Rossetti in the Contemporary Review, 

 in an article entitled The Fleshly School of Poetry. 

 The paper was not without some excuse, so far as 

 certain of its assumptions were concerned, but its 

 value was much impaired by intemperate lan- 

 guage, and it is generally believed that its pub- 

 lication shortened Rossetti's life. Buchanan re- 

 pented of his harshness in later years and dedi- 

 cated his romance God and the Man to the mem- 

 ory of Rossetti. Buchanan showed singularly 

 little appreciation of the work of his contempo- 

 raries, and, although warm-hearted and generous 

 in certain respects, displayed great bitterness in 

 his journalistic writing, and was too much given 

 to violence of expression. His novels are enter- 

 taining, though only of ephemeral interest, and 

 he was a clever playwright, but he is seen at his 

 best in his earlier poems, and it is by them that 



he will be longest remembered. Exclusive of his 

 plays, his writings include Undertones (1863); 

 Idylls and Legends of Inverburn (1865); London 

 Poems (1866); Ballad Stories of the Affections, 

 from the Scandinavian (1866); The North Coast, 

 and Other Poems (1867) ; Life of Audubon, edited 

 (1868); David Gray, and Other Essays (1868); 

 The Book of Orm: A Prelude to the Epic (1870) ; 

 Napoleon Fallen: A Lyrical Drama (1871); The 

 Land of Lome (1871); The Drama of Kings 

 (1871); The Fleshly School of Poetry (1872); 

 Saint Abe and his Seven Wives (1872); Master 

 Spirits, a collection of literary studies (1873); 

 White Rose and Red (1873); Poetical Works (3 

 vols., 1874); The Shadow of the Sword: A Ro- 

 mance (1876); Balder the Beautiful: A Song of 

 Divine Death (1877); A Child of Nature (1881); 

 God and the Man (1881); Ballads of Love, Life, 

 and Humor (1882); The Martyrdom of Madeline 

 (1882); Selected Poems (1882); Love Me For- 

 ever (1883); A Poet's Sketch-Book, selections 

 from his prose (1883); Annan Water (1883); 

 Foxglove Manor (1884); The New Abelard 

 (1884); Poetical Works (1884); The Earthquake, 

 or Six Days and a Sabbath (1885); Matt: A 

 Story of a Caravan (1885); Stormy Waters 

 (1885); The Master of the Mine (1885); That 

 Winter Night (1886); A Look Round Literature 

 (1887); The Heir of Linne (1887); The City of 

 Dreams: An Epic Poem (1888) ; The Coming Ter- 

 ror, and Other Essays (1891) ; The Wedding-Ring 

 (1891); Come Live with Me and be my Love 

 (1892); Rachel Dene (1894); Diana's Hunting 

 (1896); Effie Hetherington (1896); A Marriage 

 by Capture (1896); Lady Kilpatriek (1897); The 

 Reverend Annabel Lee (1898); Andromeda 

 (1900); Father Anthony (1900). Storm-Beaten, 

 by Buchanan and Gibson, was published in 1869, 

 and The Charlatan, the work of Buchanan and 

 H. Murray, appeared in 1895. The more impor- 

 tant of Buchanan's dramas are The Witchfinder, 

 A Nine Days' Queen, Lady Clare, Alone in Lon- 

 don, Joseph's Sweetheart, A Man's Shadow, Dick 

 Sheridan, and Sophia, the last-named an adapta- 

 tion from Fielding's Tom Jones. He gave read- 

 ings from his poems, and he visited the United 

 States in 1884. 



Burr, Mrs. Katherine Douglas (Xing), an 

 English novelist, died in Rushall, Staffordshire, 

 England, Nov. 27, 1901. She was best known as 

 Katherine King, her marriage to the Rev. God- 

 frey Burr, vicar of Rushall, having taken place 

 within a year of her death. Her published books 

 include Petite's Romance (1870); Ethel Mild- 

 may's Follies (1872) ; The Queen of the Regiment 

 (1872); Lost for Gold (1873); Cruel Constancy 

 (1873); Off the Roll (1875); Our Detachment 

 (1875) ; The Bubble Reputation (1878) ; A Fallen 

 Foe (1883); The Law Forbids (1885); Sweet is 

 True Love (1888) ; The Scripture Reader of St. 

 Mark's; A Bitter Vintage; Ursula; and Father 

 Hilarion. The proceeds from several of Mrs. 

 Burr's novels were contributed by her to a hos- 

 pital for children in the East End of London. - 



Campoamor, Ramon de, a Spanish poet, born 

 in Navia, Asturias, in 1818; died in Madrid, Feb. 

 11, 1901. He first intended to enter the Jesuit 

 order, changed his mind and studied medicine in 

 Madrid, was appointed to a political office, and 

 rose to be Governor first of Castell6n de la Plana, 

 then of Alicante, and lastly of Valencia. He was 

 attached to the Moderate party, and became in 

 time a pronounced Conservative. In 1862 he elu- 

 cidated his political opinions in Polemicas con la 

 Democracia. His first poetical publication was 

 a collection of idyllic verses, brought out in 1840 

 under the title of Ternezas y Flores, admirable 



