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ing reprints of Evelina and Cecilia, with notes, 

 and also editing Miss Burney's Early Diaries, 

 Mrs. Ellis wrote Marie, or Glimpses of Life in 

 France (1879); Sylvestra: Studies of Manners in 

 England from 177*0 to 1880 (1880); and Mariette 

 (1884). 



Errazuriz, Federico, President of Chile, born 

 in Santiago in 1850: died in July, 1901. He Ayas 

 educated as a lawyer with a view to political life. 

 Inheriting a large* estate, he gave much study to 

 improvements in agriculture. He sat in Congress 

 as a Deputy from 1876 till 1889, when he was 

 elected Senator for the Province of Maule. Un- 

 der President Balmaceda he was appointed Min- 

 ister of War, and displayed tact as well as energy 

 in that office. In 189riie joined the revolution- 

 ists, and when the congressional party finally won 

 he was foremost in advocating a general amnesty. 

 He was elected President in June, 1896. 



Eyre, Edward John^ an English administra- 

 tor, born in Yorkshire in August, 1815; died in 

 Tavistock, Dec. 21, 1901. He was the son of a 

 clergyman and was educated for the army, but on 

 failing to get a commission emigrated to Austra- 

 lia in 1833 and engaged in raising cattle and 

 sheep. He acquired an estate on Murray river, 

 became an advocate of the rights of the natives, 

 and distinguished himself by explorations which 

 he described in Discoveries in Central Australia 

 (1845). He was then appointed Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor of New Zealand, and in 1853 of St. Vincent, 

 and in 1856 was transferred to Antigua, where 

 he acted for two years as Governor of the Lee- 

 ward Islands. He returned to England with im- 

 paired health, but was sent out in 1862 to act as 

 Governor of Jamaica in the absence of Sir Charles 

 Darling, and in 1864 was appointed Governor. 

 The island was passing through evil days, the 

 civil war in the United States having made food 

 dear. The Governor quarreled with the Legisla- 

 ture, in which the negro element was in the as- 

 cendency, and the colored population attributed 

 their sufferings to the oppression of the whites. 

 On Oct. 11, 1865, a serious riot occurred at Mo- 

 rant Bay. Negroes killed the magistrates of the 

 parish and many volunteer soldiers and civilians 

 who came to their assistance, and then proceeded 

 inland, committing robberies and atrocities. Gov. 

 Eyre proclaimed martial law in the eastern coun- 

 ty where these events occurred, and in a few 

 days the troops had checked the insurrection. 

 George William Gordon, a negro member of the 

 Legislative Assembly, was arrested in Kingston, 

 where martial law was not in force, as an in- 

 stigator of sedition, and was taken to Morant 

 Bay, tried by court-martial, and summarily exe- 

 cuted, and the same punishment was meted out to 

 354 persons in the disturbed district, while 85 

 were shot down without trial, 600 were flogged, 

 and 1,000 houses were burned. The levity and 

 ferocity displayed in these proceedings shocked 

 public opinion in all civilized countries. Commis- 

 sioners were sent from England, who found that 

 the majority of the persons tried were condemned 

 without a semblance of evidence. In England, 

 John Stuart Mill took the lead of an agitation 

 lor the trial of Gov. Eyre as a murderer. Thomas 

 Carlyle wrote in his defense and extolled him 

 as a hero who with British resolution and intre- 

 pidity had rescued a British colony from massacre 

 and the horrors of a negro rebellion. The Gov- 

 ernment recalled Gov. Eyre, appointing as his 

 successor Sir Henry K. Storks, chairman of the 

 royal commission that had pronounced the pun- 

 ishments excessive, the continuance of martial 

 law unnecessary, the hangings unnecessarily fre- 

 quent, the floggings reckless and barbarous, and 



the burning of houses wanton and cruel. John 

 Stuart Mill's Jamaica committee raised funds to 

 prosecute Eyre and his subordinates. Complaints 

 and trials took place, but neither Eyre nor Gen. 

 Nelson, who commanded the troops in Jamaica, 

 nor Lieut. Brand, who presided at the courts- 

 martial, could be convicted. Mr. Eyre retired on 

 a pension. 



Faber du Faur, Otto, a German painter, born 

 in Ludwigsburg in 1828; died in Munich in Au- 

 gust, 1901. He was the son of a Wiirtemburg 

 general who was a good painter of battle scenes, 

 and he too attempted to combine art with a mili- 

 tary career, but gave up the latter, and in 1867 

 resigned his commission and began the serious 

 study of art at Munich with Kotzebue, at Paris 

 with Yvon, and at Munich again with Piloty. 

 He became one of the strongest battle painters in 

 Germany. He began with historical pictures in 

 Piloty's manner, such as the Departure of the 

 Elector Frederick V from Prague, but soon quitted 

 this field and devoted himself to depicting battles 

 of the Napoleonic wars in which his father had 

 borne a part. The Retreat from Moscow furnished 

 him with numerous subjects. His aquarelle rep- 

 resenting the Passage of the Berisina is in the 

 Luxembourg gallery in Paris. The war of 1870 

 gave him material for some of his best paintings, 

 among which are the Battle of Champigny, the 

 Panorama of the Battle of Worth (McMahon's 

 defeat, Aug. 6), now in Hamburg, and the Am- 

 bulance behind a Barricade. 



Farmer, John, English organist and com- 

 poser, born in Nottingham, England, Aug. 16, 

 1835; died in Oxford, July 17, 1901. After pur- 

 suing his education at Nottingham, Leipzig, and 

 Coblentz, he taught music in Zurich in 1856-'61. 

 He was organist at Harrow School from 1882 un : 

 til 1885, when he was appointed organist of Bal- 

 liol College, Oxford, a post which he retained at 

 the time of his death. His work was thorough 

 and scholarly. He published Harrow School 

 Songs; Christ and his Soldiers, an oratorio for 

 children (1878); Cinderella, a fairy opera for 

 children (1882); Requiem, for departed Harrow 

 scholars; Gaudeamus, songs for schools and col- 

 leges (1890); Dulce Domum, songs and rhymes 

 for children ; and Songs for Soldiers and Sailors. 



Fick, Adolf, a German physiologist, born in 

 Cassel in 1829; died in Blankenberge, Aug. 21, 

 1901. He obtained his doctor's degree at Zurich 

 in 1852, became Professor of Physiology there in 

 1856, and left that university in. 1868 to take the 

 same chair at Wiirzburg, retiring in 1901. He 

 was the author of many works. His treatise on 

 medical physics appeared in 1857, a compendium 

 of physiology in 1860, a work on the anatomy and 

 physiology of the organs of sense in 1862, one on 

 mechanical work of muscular action and the pro- 

 duction of heat in 1882, and books on cause and 

 effect and the theory of probabilities in that and 

 the following year. 



Fitzgerald, George Francis, an Irish scien- 

 tist, born in Dublin in 1851; died there, Feb. 2r, 

 1901. He was the son of Dr. Fitzgerald," Anglican 

 Bishop of Cork, and was educated at Trinity 

 College, Dublin, where he won scholarships in 

 mathematics and experimental science and in 

 1877 a fellowship, and in 1881 became Professor 

 of Natural Philosophy. Besides his contributions 

 to the progress of physical science, he gave prac- 

 tical aid to Irish industry by his suggestions on 

 applied science, and took a great interest in the 

 reform of university education, in the higher edu- 

 cation of women, in the proposal for a Roman 

 Catholic university, and in Irish education in 

 general. 



