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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (RUMMEL SILVESTRE.) 



o'Clock (1861); No Church (1861); Owen: A 

 Waif (1862); Slaves of the Ring (1862); Female 

 Life in Prison, by a Prison Matron, a very re- 

 markable example of realistic fiction (1862); 

 Jane Cameron (1863): Church and Chapel 

 (1863); Mattie: A Stray (1864); A Woman's 

 Ransom (1864); Carry's Confession (1865); Mr. 

 Stewart's Intentions (1865); Milly's Hero (1866) ; 

 Prison Characters (1866); Beyond the Church 

 (1866); A Fight for Life (1866); No Man's 

 Friend (1867); Ann Judge, Spinster (1867); 

 Poor Humanity (1868); For Her Sake (1869); 

 Stern Necessity (1870); True to Herself (1870); 

 Wrayford's Ward and Other Tales (1872); A 

 Bridge of Glass (1872); Her Face was her For- 

 tune (1873); Little Kate Kirby (1873); Second- 

 Cousin Sarah (1874); As Long as she Lived 

 (1876); The Romance of a Back Street (1878); 

 Coward Conscience (1879) ; Poor Zeph, and Other 

 Tales (1880); Othello the Second (1880); The 

 Black Speck: A Temperance Tale (1881) ; Women 

 are Strange, and Other Stories (1883); The 

 Hands of Justice (1883); The Man she Cared 

 For (1884); Lazarus in London (1885); A Fair 

 Maid (1886); The Courting of Mary Smith 

 (1886); In Bad Hands, and Other Tales (1887); 

 A Dark Secret (1887) ; The Youngest Miss Green 

 (1888); A Very Strange Family (1890); The 

 Keeper of the Keys (1890); Her Love and his 

 Life (1891); The Wrong that was Done (1892); 

 The Fate of Sister Jessica, and Other Tales 

 (1893); Under the Spell (1894); The Secretary 

 (1895); Sweet Nineteen (1896). Many of Rob- 

 inson's novels were reprinted in the United States, 

 where his popularity was at one time equal to 

 the favor he had won at home. 



Hummel, Franz, a German musician, born in 

 1853; died in Berlin, May 3, 1901. He was a 

 pupil of Liszt and a remarkable virtuoso who 

 made many tours in the United States, on one 

 of which, in 1898, he was taken ill and had to 

 give up playing in public. He married the daugh- 

 ter of Prof. Morse, the electrician. 



Salaman, Charles Kensington, an English 

 musical composer, born in London, March 3, 1814; 

 died there, June 23, 1901. He studied in the 

 Royal Academy of Music and with Charles Neate 

 in London and Herz in Paris, gave piano recitals 

 in London till 1837, resided in Rome and other 

 Continental cities, reappeared in London in 1850, 

 began to give musical lectures in 1855, and formed 

 a musical society in 1858. He composed innu- 

 merable songs and pieces for the pianoforte from 

 the age of fourteen. He set songs in Hebrew and 

 Greek as well as in English and other modern 

 languages, and always aimed to convey the nat- 

 ural rhythm and accent of the spoken words. 



Schamdorf, Sophus, a Danish poet, born in 

 1837; died in Ringsted in January, 1901. He 

 published volumes of verse, humorous and pathet- 

 ic, and novels of country life in Denmark, liter- 

 ary studies of Goldoni and Gozzi, and transla- 

 tions of the poetry of Leopardi, Manzoni, and 

 other Italians. 



Schenk, Auguste, a French painter, born in 

 Gliickstadt, Holstein, April 23, 1828; died in 

 Ecouen in January, 1901. He was educated for 

 mercantile life, traveled in England and Portugal, 

 then went to Paris, studied art with L6on Cog- 

 niet, made his mark at the Universal Exposition 

 of 1855, exhibited at every Salon, was made chev- 

 alier of the Legion of Honor in 1855, and at the 

 exposition of 1889 his canvases were still admired, 

 but later he faded from public notice. He painted 

 landscapes with animals, flocks of sheep in the 

 mountains in the midst of storms, and critics 

 have never ceased to recognize his talent. 



Schwarzkopf, Julius Karl von Gross von, 

 a German soldier, born in Magdeburg in 1850; 

 died in Pekin, April 17, 1901. He was the son of 

 Gen. von Schwarzkopf, became an ensign in the 

 Prussian foot-guards just previous to the Franco- 

 German War, in which he was promoted lieuten- 

 ant and won the Iron Cross for bravery. He was 

 Prussian attache at Paris at a critical period, 

 commanded a regiment in 1897, and was sent to 

 the Peace 'Conference at The Hague as German 

 representative. His remarkable speech against 

 the Russian proposal of gradual disarmament had 

 a great effect and won him promotion to the rank 

 of major-general. He commanded a brigade in 

 the expedition to China, and on arriving there 

 was relieved of this command in order to act as 

 chief of staff to Count von Waldersee. He lost 

 his life in trying to rescue the archives of the 

 staff in a fire in the Winter Palace. 



Siemens, Georg von, a German financier, 

 born in Torgau in 1839; died in Berlin, Oct. 23, 

 1901. His father was a lawyer, and the son 

 studied law at Heidelberg and Berlin. He served 

 gallantly in the Austrian and French wars as an 

 infantry officer, winning the Iron Cross for his 

 conduct at Mars la Tour. After returning to civil 

 life he traveled in all parts of the world in con- 

 nection with the business of his cousins, the elec- 

 tricians, and then became a director in the 

 Deutsche Bank of Berlin shortly after it was 

 started, and in the development of that great 

 financial institution he took the foremost part. 

 Its objects were to free German foreign com- 

 merce from its dependence on London for facili- 

 ties of credit and exchange, and to afford to the 

 German markets and industries sufficient support 

 to enable them to bear the stress of commercial 

 crises at home and escape being swamped by 

 crises abroad through the withdrawal of foreign 

 capital. As the bank expanded, branches were 

 established in Bremen and Hamburg, in London 

 and Paris, in the United States, in South America, 

 and later in Shanghai and Yokohama. This was 

 his work. The enormous amount of foreign bills 

 that the bank put out alarmed German mer- 

 chants at first, but when they saw that it not 

 only extended its business with extraordinary 

 rapidity, but passed through commercial crises 

 in which older concerns went down, they came to 

 regard it as the strongest financial institution in 

 Germany, and thus it was able to establish pros- 

 perous agencies in all parts of the empire. In 

 Mexico it cooperated with American financiers in 

 the conversion of the debt and the development 

 of the country. It became the financial agent of 

 the German Government and the instrument by 

 which German enterprise in distant regions and 

 German political policy were linked together. 

 One of the latest and greatest enterprises which 

 Dr. von Siemens carried out was the building of 

 the Anatolian railroads in Asia Minor. 



Silvestre, Paul Armande, French author, 

 born in Paris, April 18, 1837; died in Toulouse, 

 Feb. 21, 1901. He was educated at L'Ecole Poly- 

 technique, in Paris, and for nearly forty years 

 was before the public as journalist, art critic, 

 poet, and dramatist, as well as the extraordinarily 

 prolific author of somewhat Rabelaisian stories. 

 His verse includes Rimes Neuves et Vieilles ( 1866) ; 

 Les Renaissances (1870); La Gloire du Souvenir, 

 a poem of love (1872); La Chanson des Heures, 

 1874-78 (1878); Les Ailes d'Or, 1878-'80 (1880); 

 Le Pays des Roses, 1880-'82 (1882); Le Chemin 

 des Etoiles, 1882-'85 (1885); Roses d'Octobre, 

 1884-'89 (1889); L'Or des Couchants, 1889-'92 

 (1892). The larger number of his collections of 

 stories include Les Malheurs du Commandant 



