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Lariptre (1881) ; Les Forces de mon ami Jacques 

 (1881); Les M6moires d'un Galopin (1881); Le 

 Peche d'Eve (1882); Pour faire rire (1882); Le 

 Fillene du Docteur Trousse cadet (1882) ; Madame 

 Dandin et Mademoiselle Phryne (1883); Les Be- 

 tises de mon Oncle (1883); Contes Grassouillets 

 (1883) ; Chroniques du Temps Passe, le Comte de 

 1'Archer (1883) ; En Pleine Fantasie (1884) ; Con- 

 tes Pantagruelisques et Galants (1884); Le Li- 

 vre des Joyeusetes (1884); Histoires Belles et 

 Honnetes (1884); Le Dessus du Panier (1885); 

 Contes de Derriere les Fagots (1886); Histoires 

 Inconvenantes (1887); Contes Incongrus (1887); 

 Le Livre des Fantasies, Joyeusetes et Melancolies 

 (1887); Gauloiseries Nouvelles (1888); Au pays 

 du rire (1888); Fablaux Gailliards (1888); Con- 

 tes a la Brune (1890) ; Contes Audacieux (1890) ; 

 Histoire Joviales (1890); Contes Sales (1891); 

 Le Celebre Cadet Bitard (1891); Histoires Ex- 

 traVagantes (1892) ; and Pour les Amants (1892). 

 Dramas and operas for which Silvestre furnished 

 the text are Dimitri (with Bernier) (1876) ; Myr- 

 rha (1880); Monsieur (with Burani) (1880); 

 Sapho (1881); Calente Aventure (with Davye) 

 (1882); Aline (with Hennequin) (1883); Henry 

 VIII (with Detroyat) (1883); Pedro de Zamalea 

 (1884); La Tesi (with Maillard) (1887); Jocelyn 

 (1888) ; Le Commandant Laripetre (1891) ; Grisel- 

 dis(withMorand) (1891) ; Les Drames Sacres(with 

 Morand) (1893). Among Silvestre's collections of 

 art criticisms may be named Le Nu au Salon de 

 1888 a 1892; Le Nu au Champ de Mars, Exposition 

 de 1889 (1889); and Le Nu au Louvre (1890). 



Simcox, Edith Jemima, an English literary 

 critic, born in 1844; died in 1901. She was a 

 younger sister of George Augustus Simcox, the 

 poet, and of the late Rev. William Henry Sim- 

 cox, and early in her career came under the in- 

 fluence of George Eliot, for whose genius Miss 

 Simcox had a passionate admiration. She was 

 one of the first contributors to The Academy, 

 and she wrote for the Fortnightly and other peri- 

 odicals, at first under the signature H. Law- 

 renny, but later over her own name. She was 

 a pronounced agnostic. Her writing is able, but 

 suffers much from obscurity, and the point of 

 view is sometimes difficult to grasp, and to this 

 circumstance may be attributed in some degree 

 the comparative neglect into which it has fallen 

 of recent years. Her published books are Natural 

 Law: An Essay in Ethics (1877); Episodes in 

 the Lives of Men, Women, and Lovers, a collec : 

 tion of Stories (1882) ; and Primitive Civilizations, 

 or Outlines of 'the History of Ownership in Ar- 

 chaic Communities (1894). 



Slaveikoff, M., a Bulgarian statesman, born 

 about 1830; died in October, 1901. He was the 

 poet and literary champion of Bulgarian inde- 

 pendence and was elected president of the second 

 National Assembly in 1880. In politics he was an 

 adherent of Karaveloff, the leader of the Liberal 

 party, and was Minister of the Interior in his 

 second ministry, formed after the annexation of 

 Eastern Roumelia. After that he held no minis- 

 terial post until Karaveloff called him into the 

 Cabinet which he formed in March, 1901. 



Smith, Edmund William, an English ar- 

 cheological surveyor of the East Indian North- 

 west Provinces and Oudh, born in 1857; died in 

 Mohinpurwa, Bahraich, India, Nov. 21, 1901. 

 During Mr. Smith's residence in India he had 

 made a detailed examination of the Mogul archi- 

 tecture of Fathpur Sikri, the ruined capital of 

 Akhbar, and conducted extensive and judicious 

 restorations at Lucknow, Fathpur Sikri, at the 

 Taj Mahal in Agra, and at other places. The 

 results of his investigations appear in his pub- 



ii Archi- 

 rchitec- 

 tfolio of 



lished works, which includo The Shanj 

 tecture of Jaunpur (1889); The, Mo^nl 

 ture of Fathpur Sikri (1894- as ) ; nriTl P 

 Indian Architecture: Drawings, 1'art. I 



Smith, George Murray, a British publisher, 

 born in London, March 19, 1824; dk:d in \V< ; y- 

 bridge, April 6, 1901. His father \vas fhi. ; i j.ail- 

 ner in the firm of Smith, Elder & Co., India, 

 merchants and also publishers, and after i\\c son 

 had gone through the Merchant Taylors' school 

 he entered the counting-house, became manager 

 of the publishing department, and after the death 

 of the elder Smith, in 1846, the head and manager 

 of the whole business, which included banking 

 and the general agency of the Overland route to 

 India. He published the works, of Charlotte 

 Bronte, of Ruskin, and of Darwin, became Thack- 

 eray's publisher, founded the Cornhill Magazine 

 in 1859 in order to issue the novels of that author 

 in serial instalments, engaging Thackeray him- 

 self as its editor, and secured for the magazine 

 George Eliot's Romola, for which he paid 7,000, 

 instead of 10,000, the sum agreed upon if the 

 author had extended the story to 16 parts accord- 

 ing to the original agreement, whereas she finished 

 it in 12 instalments. Thackeray retired from 

 the editorship in 1862, and at a later period Les- 

 lie Stephen was editor for a time and James 

 Payn after him. In 1865 Smith founded the 

 Pall Mall Gazette, edited by Frederick Green- 

 wood, and having the most brilliant English litter- 

 ateurs for its contributors. Smith, Elder & Co., 

 whose banking business was transferred to Henry 

 S. King & Co., became Robert Browning's pub- 

 lishers, issuing a collected edition in 1868, fol- 

 lowed by the first edition of The Ring and the 

 Book. Matthew Arnold's prose writings were also 

 printed by this firm, and Queen Victoria's Leaves 

 from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands 

 and Early Years of the Prince Consort, as well 

 as Sir Theodore Martin's Life of the Prince Con- 

 sort, were given to them to publish. In 1882 

 George Smith, in consultation with Leslie Stephen, 

 projected a Dictionary of National Biography, of 

 which the first volume was issued in 1885 and 

 the last in 1900. 



Smith, James Hamblin, an English mathe- 

 matician, born in Rickinghall, Suffolk, Dec. 2, 

 1827; died in Cambridge in July, 1901. He was 

 educated at Cambridge, and was a private tutor 

 there in 1850-'92. He attained a high degree of 

 proficiency as a mathematician, and his text- 

 books are among the most popular works of their 

 kind. Among them are Elementary Algebra 

 (1869) ; Elementary Trigonometry (2d ed., 1870) ; 

 A Key to Algebra (1872); An Introduction to 

 the Study of Conic Sections (1887); and An Ele- 

 mentary Treatise on the Metric System of 

 Weights and Measures (1897). 



Spicer-Jay, Edith Katherine, an English 

 novelist, died in December, 1901. She took a deep 

 interest in the welfare of the soldiers, and for 

 some years, until prevented by failing health, was 

 honorary lady superintendent of the London 

 Soldiers' Home and Guards' Home. Her fictions, 

 which are mainly tales connected with army life, 

 were written over the signature of E. Living- 

 ston Prescott. They were extremely popular in 

 army quarters, and their author was buried with 

 military honors. Her published books include 

 The Apotheosis of Mr. Tyransley (1895); Mask 

 and Martyr (1896); Scarlet and Steel (1897); 

 Rip's Redemption, a Trooper's Story (1897) ; Red- 

 Coat Romances (1898); Dearer than Honor 

 (1898) ; The Measure of a Man (1898) ; A Small, 

 Small Child (1898) ; Helot and Hero (1899); and 

 War and Illusion (1899). 



