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the doctrine of papal infallibility would endanger 

 the civil power. The Council of the Vatican cre- 

 ated as much tension in south Germany as the 

 question of German unity. Catholics were di- 

 vided into two parties, and some were ready to 

 secede from the Church. Princes of the Church, 

 like Cardinal Hohenlohe, the minister's brother, 

 strove to prevent the inevitable decision. The 

 minister himself was in association with Cath- 

 olics of the most Liberal stripe, like Dr. Dollinger. 

 His note met with no positive response from the 

 other cabinets. It embittered the Ultramontanes 

 against him. They obtained a small majority in 

 the election of 1869, and a dissolution increased 

 it. The King still desired to retain him, and re- 

 luctantly accepted his resignation on Feb. 15, 

 1870, after a vote of censure had passed both 

 houses. His influence and counsel were still po- 

 tent in the great era of transformation. From 

 his seat in the upper house he impressively advo- 

 cated the participation of the Bavarian army in 

 the war against France, and in 1871 he took the 

 foremost part in securing the adoption by Ba- 

 varia of the Constitution of the German Empire. 

 Being elected to the first German Reichstag from 

 Forchheim, he was chosen vice-president. From 

 this position Prince Bismarck called him in 1874 

 to represent the empire at the capital of France, 

 after the recall and disgrace of Count Harry von 

 Arnim. Von Arnim had closer relations with the 

 aristocracy of the Faubourg St. Germain than 

 with the statesmen of the republic, which he 

 looked upon as ephemeral. He believed it to be 

 in Germany's interest to hasten the restoration of 

 the monarchy. Bismarck intended to pursue the 

 contrary policy, and Prince Hohenlohe, a man 

 belonging to the highest aristocracy, surprised 

 both his acquaintances of the French nobility 

 and the Republican politicians by cultivating so- 

 cial relations with the official world and with 

 the constantly changing ministers of the republic, 

 who were all alike in being sensitive and sus- 

 picious in regard to Germany. His suavity and 

 tact smoothed away many a difficulty, and 

 Frenchmen came to look upon him as a guardian 

 of peace. When he was finally called away from 

 Paris in 1885 to become Statthalter of the Reichs- 

 land much of the bitterness that Manteuffel's 

 regime engendered passed away because French- 

 men felt that the lost provinces were now in ten- 

 der hands. His administration was indeed milder 

 than that of his predecessor, and his conciliatory 

 efforts had such marked success that the pass- 

 port system was abolished, and the hatred of 

 German domination and the dangerous interna- 

 tional friction which it created died out. At the 

 end of October, 1894, on the resignation of Count 

 von Caprivi, the Emperor summoned Prince Ho- 

 henlohe to be the third German Chancellor. His 

 acceptance of the chancellorship of the empire and 

 minister-presidency of Prussia averted a serious 

 internal crisis by appeasing the Agrarians, the 

 Bismarckians, and the Liberals at once, all of 

 whom claimed political affinities to the new 

 Chancellor, and he relieved the anxieties enter- 

 tained abroad that the young Emperor, would 

 plunge into foreign adventures. His chancellor- 

 ship was a period of transition and conflict in in- 

 ternal politics, but the regime of absolutism and 

 reaction and the military ambitions which were 

 threatened before he took office were not heard 

 of again, and his remaining in office was a guar- 

 antee that no' extreme or eccentric policy would 

 be carried out at home or abroad. He could not 

 restrain the jealousies and intrigues among the 

 ministers or check their clashing party alliances 

 that were undermining and disorganizing the ad- 



ministration, and his grasp, aluay-- iimm supple 

 than strong, had grown weakn- with ;i^, ; . Alter 

 a change of ministry, which fail In n Ji<. V c tin 

 situation, hampered, obstructed, ;i ml defied |,\- Dr 

 von Miquel and circumvented by ( nunl I'M ;n!<,\v 

 sky, the aged Chancellor, who had ahvjuh re- 

 signed the conduct of foreign affair- in1<j 

 hands of Count von Bulow, lot the o 

 isters tangle up the public business till he eould 

 neither approve nor explain the Government 

 measures. He wanted to resign, and when Count. 

 von Billow showed qualities indicating that he 

 could fill the office, the Emperor, Oct. 17, 1900, 

 relieved Prince Hohenlohe of the post that he 

 originally accepted after much solicitation for 

 patriotic reasons. 



Hood, Arthur William Acland, Lord, an 

 English naval officer, born in Somersetshire,, July 

 14, 1824; died in Glastonbury, Nov. 15, 1901. He 

 entered the navy, in which several members of his 

 family had gained distinction, in 1836, saw fight- 

 ing in Spain and on the coast of Syria, became 

 a lieutenant in 1846, was promoted commander 

 in 1854 for services with the naval brigade before 

 Sebastopol and captain in 1858 for services in the 

 capture of Canton, was director of naval ord- 

 nance from 1869 till 1874, became rear-admiral 

 in 1876, received a seat in the Admiralty, was 

 first naval lord from 1885 till 1889, and after 

 retiring from active service succeeded by seniority 

 to the rank of vice-admiral in 1880 and admiral 

 in 1886. He was knighted in 1885, and in 1892 

 raised to the peerage with the title of Baron 

 Hood of Avalon. 



Hopkins, Edward John, an English organist, 

 born in London, June 13, 1818; died in February, 

 1901. At the age of eight he was a chorister in 

 the Chapel Royal, and presently he became a 

 pupil of Walmisley, the organist of St. Martin's- 

 in-the-Fields. At sixteen he became organist of 

 Mitcham Church, in Surrey, and at twenty was 

 organist of St. Peter's, Islington. At this period 

 he gained the Gresham gold medal for his anthem 

 God is Gone Up. He was organist of St. Luke's, 

 Berwick Street, in 1841-'43, became organist of 

 the famous Temple Church in London in the year 

 last named, and retained this place till his resig- 

 nation in 1898. Besides composing many an- 

 thems, voluntaries, etc., he was the author of a 

 standard work entitled The Organ: Its History 

 and Construction (1855), and of many articles in 

 Grove's Dictionary of Music. His latest years 

 were devoted to writing An Entirely New and 

 Comprehensive Treatise on the History and Con- 

 struction of the Organ, which at the time of his 

 death was practically completed. His hymn 

 tunes, which have been widely circulated, are de- 

 votional and dignified, and wholly free from sen- 

 timentality. 



Hopkins, William Jeffrey, an English archi- 

 tect, born in 1821; died in Worcester, England, 

 May 28, 1901. He settled in Worcester in early 

 life, and one of his first works was the erection 

 of the Corn Exchange (now the Worcester Public 

 Hall). He restored churches at Norton and else- 

 where in Worcestershire and built many new 

 ones, among which are Holy Trinity, Worcester, 

 to which he adapted the beautiful fourteenth- 

 century roof of the ruined Guesten Hall near the 

 cathedral; Blackheath, near Birmingham; and 

 Hallow, near Worcester. Among country-seats 

 designed by him are Parkfield, Worcester, and 

 Kildangan, County Kildare, Ireland. He was a 

 fellow of the Royal Institute of British Archi- 

 tects, and diocesan architect of Worcester. 



Hoskins, Sir Anthony, an English naval offi- 

 cer, born in 1828; died in Capel, Surrey, June 21. 



