OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (HEMYING HOHENLOHE-SCHILLINGSFUBST.) 



Weston-super-Mare, England, May 30, 1901. He 

 was of Jewish parentage, and at the rabbinical 

 schools to which he was sent in childhood he was 

 notably proficient. After studying at the Uni- 

 versity of Breslau, where he became interested in 

 Christianity, he went to England in 1841 and was 

 received into the Christian faith. In 1844, after 

 three years spent in the study of theology, he 

 went to Canada, and in 1846 entered the priest- 

 hood of the Anglican Church. For some years 

 he was rector of Sherbrooke, in the province of 

 Quebec, and at the same time Professor of He- 

 brew at Bishops' College, Lenoxville. In 1863 

 Huron College, at London, Ontario, was opened, 

 with Dr. Hellmuth as its president. He founded 

 in 1867 a school for boys at London, called Hell- 

 muth Boys' College, and in 1869 the Hellmuth 

 Ladies' College also, his own large private fortune 

 being unsparingly used in these enterprises. In 

 1871. after he had been successively archdeacon 

 and dean of Huron, he was consecrated Bishop of 

 Huron. Some time later he conceived the idea 

 of founding a Western University in connection 

 with Huron College, and in 1880 he visited Eng- 

 land to solicit funds for that object. The institu- 

 tion was opened the next year. He resigned his 

 bishopric in 1883 to become suffragan to the 

 Bishop of Ripon in England, with the title of 

 Bishop of Hull, but two months after his resig- 

 nation it was discovered that the Act of Henry 

 VIII regarding suffragan bishops was inap- 

 plicable to persons already consecrated as bish- 

 ops. To relieve him in part from his anomalous 

 position he was appointed assistant bishop, or co- 

 adjutor to the Bishop of Ripon, but in 1884, when 

 the Bishop of Ripon died, Bishop Hellmuth's com- 

 mission as bishop coadjutor expired. He was rec- 

 tor of Bridlington, Yorkshire, in 1885-'91; chap- 

 lain of Trinity Church at Pau, France, in 1891- 

 '97 ; and rector of Compton Pauncefoot, Somerset, 

 in 1897-'99. Bishop Hellmuth was a strong evan- 

 gelical throughout his long career, and sympa- 

 thized very little with the newer schools of 

 thought within the Established Church. He pub- 

 lished The Divine Dispensations and their Grad- 

 ual Development (1866); The Genuineness and 

 Authenticity of the Pentateuch (1867); and Bib- 

 lical Thesaurus (1884). 



Hemying, Samuel Bracebridg-e, an English 

 author, born about 1840; died in London in No- 

 vember, 1901. He was called to the bar in 1862, 

 but his time was mainly given to the writing of 

 sensational fiction, and as Jack Harkaway he 

 became widely known. Besides contributing 

 largely to periodicals, he published more than 

 40 volumes, the chief of which are The Castle 

 of Ivinsk (1860) ; The Dark Cloud with a Silver 

 Lining (1861); Gaspar Trenchard (1864); Eton 

 School Days (1864); The Orange Girl (1865); 

 Butler Burke at Eton (1865); Called to the 

 Bar (1867); Secrets of the Dead Letter Office 

 (1868); Contesting the County and Other Tales 

 (1868); Secrets of the Turf (1868); The Danger 

 Signal and Other Tales (1868); The Favorite 

 Scratched (1869); Held in Thrall (1869); The 

 Girl of the Period : Her Fortunes and Misfortunes 

 (1869) ; The Man of the Period (1870) ; The Sea- 

 son at Brighton (1870); Curious Crimes (edited) 



18/1); The Commune in London, or Thirty 

 Years Hence (1871) ; Too Sharp by Half (1871) ; 

 Telegraph Secrets (1877); River Secrets (1880); 

 7?Lj5 e ad ' or the Advent ures of a Cabman 

 (1880); Strange Journeys (1880); In the Force 

 (1880); The Bondage of Brandon (1881)- The 

 Women of London (1884); The Women of'paris 

 (1884); The Stockbroker's Wife and Other Sen- 

 sational Tales (1885); Tried for his Life and 



Other Stories (1885); A Dead Heat (1887); The 

 Demon Jockey (1888); Sharks of Society (1888). 



Herbette, Jules, a French diplomatist, born 

 in 1839; died in Paris, Dec. 18, 1901. He was a 

 consul under the empire, though a Republican, 

 and became secretary to Jules Favre, the first 

 Minister of Foreign Affairs under the republic. 

 He remained at the Foreign Office, becoming 

 chief secretary under M. de Freycinet, and suc- 

 ceeded Baron de Courcel as ambassador at Berlin. 



Hermite, Charles, a French mathematician, 

 born in Dieuze, Lorraine, Dec. 25, 1822; died Jan. 

 14, 1901. He studied at Nancy and Paris, spent 

 his life in mathematical pursuits, and became 

 professor at the Sorbonne of higher algebra and 

 honorary professor at the ficole Polytechnique. 

 His papers in the mathematical journals treat of 

 the theory of numbers, algebraic forms, elliptic 

 functions, and most of the subjects connected 

 with higher mathematics. With Gerrett he made 

 a new edition of the Differential and Integral 

 Calculus of Lacroix (1867). 



Hohenlohe-Scriillingsfurst, Prince Chlodwig 

 von, a German statesman, born in Rothenburg 

 on the Fulda, March 31, 1819; died in Ragaz, 

 Switzerland, July 5, 1901. He studied law in 

 Heidelberg, Gottingen, and Bonn, entered the 

 Prussian judicial service at Ehrenbreitstein in 

 1842, was attached to the courts at Potsdam and 

 Breslau, but in 1846 his fortunes called him back 

 to Bavaria. As a younger son he had looked for- 

 ward only to a life of official routine and small 

 emolument. The death of his eldest brother 

 changed his fate. By a compact with his brother 

 Victor, Duke of Ratibor, he received the domain 

 of Schillingsfurst, making him a Bavarian mag- 

 nate with a seat in the upper house of the Diet. 

 In his friendship toward Prussia he stood alone 

 among the members, who were suspicious of him 

 on that account. In 1849 he was sent as Bavarian 

 envoy to London, but soon returned, and since 

 his liberalism and his belief in German unity 

 under Prussian headship found no echo in the 

 sentiments of the Bavarian aristocracy, he took 

 little part in public affairs, though his political 

 sagacity came to be appreciated gradually. There 

 were a great many adherents among the middle 

 classes of the idea of a democratic Great Germany 

 under a Federal Parliament. In Government cir- 

 cles a dream was entertained of a joint control 

 which Bavaria should share with Austria and 

 Prussia. In the w r ar of 1866, Bavaria refusing 

 the favorable terms that Prussia offered in re- 

 turn for an attitude of benevolent neutrality, 

 took up arms with Austria. After the crushing 

 victory of Koniggratz, the moderate terms of 

 peace imposed by Prussia only a war indemnity 

 of 30,000,000 gulden and an offensive and de- 

 fensive alliance produced a reaction in favor of 

 Prussia, henceforth Bavaria's ally. Prince Hohen- 

 lohe, Prussia's friend, the living bridge over the 

 Main, as he came to be called, was the man of 

 the hour. On Dec. 31, 1866, he was appointed 

 Prime Minister. His policy was to complete a 

 military alliance giving the Prussian "monarch 

 command over all the armed forces of Germany 

 and to form a South German Confederation, in 

 which Bavaria would hold a position of more 

 influence and dignity than if she entered the 

 North German Confederation, which indeed Prus- 

 sia did not desire, as it would alarm France. 

 The Ultramontanes of Bavaria were opposed to 

 the Prussian tendency, and opposed the Zoll- 

 verein. Prince Hohenlohe offended them also by 

 his school-reform projects, and while the Ecu- 

 menical Council was sitting he addressed a circu- 

 lar note to the powers, in which he argued that 



