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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (WESTCOTT YONGE.) 



of Kronobergslan and a member of the Swedish 

 Parliament. His earliest published compositions 

 were songs which he gave to the world in a col- 

 lection published in 1847, entitled Frihetsaenger, 

 followed by a humorous student duet in 1848 

 called Gluntarne, and by the trio, De Tre, in 

 1850, and Serinade in 1851. Subsequently he de- 

 voted himself to religious music, and composed 

 an oratorio on the Birth of Christ and music 

 for the Psalms of David. He wrote many poems 

 which won for him a seat in the Swedish Acad- 

 emy in 1866, and were collected and issued in 

 1881-'85. 



Westcott, Brooke Foss, an English prelate, 

 born near Birmingham in January, 1825; died at 

 Bishop Auckland, July 27, 1901. He was edu- 

 cated at Cambridge, and was ordained in the 

 English Church in 1851. From 1852 to 1869 he 

 was an assistant master at Harrow School, be- 

 coming a canon of Peterborough in the last-named 

 year and a canon of Westminster in 1883. He 

 was Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, 

 1870-'90, and succeeded the famous biblical schol- 

 ar Lightfoot in the bishopric of Durham in 1890. 

 Bishop Westcott was surpassed in learning by 

 none of his colleagues of the episcopate. He was 

 one of the greatest biblical scholars of his time, 

 his New Testament in the Original Greek, with 

 Introduction and Appendix (1881), prepared with 

 the assistance of the late F. J. A. Hort, being 

 a monument of profound scholarship. The bishop 

 was very popular in his diocese, and was president 

 of the Christian Social Union from its founda- 

 tion until his death. He took the liveliest interest 

 in social problems, and was constantly appealed 

 to for advice in disputes between employers and 

 employed. The list of his published writings is 

 long, and includes, in addition to the work al- 

 ready mentioned, Elements of Gospel Harmony 

 (1851); History of the New Testament Canon 

 (1855); Characteristics of the Gospel Miracles 

 (1859) ; Introduction to the Study of the Gospels 

 (1860); The Bible in the Church (1864); The 

 Gospel of the Resurrection (1866); History of 

 the English Bible (1869) ; On the Religious Office 

 of the Universities (1873); The Paragraph Psal- 

 ter for Choirs (1879); The Revelation of the 

 Risen Lord (1882); The Epistles of Saint John, 

 with Notes and Essays (1883); The Historic 

 Faith (1883); Some Thoughts from the Ordinal 

 (1884); The Revelation of the Faith (1884); 

 Christus Consummator (1886); Social Aspects of 

 Christianity (1887); The Victory of the Cross 

 (1888); Gifts for Ministry (1889); The Epistle 

 to the Hebrews: Greek Text, with Notes and 

 Essays (1890) ; Essays in the History of Religious 

 Thought in the West (1891); Ideals (1891); The 

 Incarnation and Common Life (1893) ; The Gospel 

 of Life (1893) ; Some Lessons of the Revised 

 Version of the New Testament (1897) ; Christian 

 Aspects of Life (1897); and Lessons from Work 

 (1901). Not the least valuable labor of Bishop 

 Westcott's life was that performed in connection 

 with the revision of the Old and New Testa- 

 ments. 



Willoughby, Digby, an English adventurer, 

 died June 4, 1901. He went to Madagascar dur- 

 ing the French operations of 1884, won the con- 

 fidence of the Prime Minister, and was appointed 

 adjutant-general of the Malagasy army and en- 

 trusted with the whole management of military 

 affairs. He raised and trained an army of 20,000 

 men which fought the French for two years. 

 When the war was over he was sent as envoy 

 to obtain the aid of the British Government in 

 resisting the French annexation. He was cor- 

 dially received in London, but not officially in the 



capacity of a diplomatic representative, it being- 

 explained that as a British subject he could not 

 represent a foreign government. After the Mala- 

 gasy Government was finally suppressed he went 

 to Rhodesia and commanded a force in the war 

 with the Matabeles. 



Yonge, Charlotte Mary, an English author,, 

 born in Otterbourne, near Winchester, Aug. 11, 

 1823; died there, March 24, 1901. She came of 

 a good Hampshire 

 family and was 

 educated at home 

 by her parents. 

 She wrote mainly 

 for young people, 

 especially young 

 girls, and although 

 an extremely pro- 

 lific author, she 

 led a very retired 

 life, nearly all of 

 it being spent in 

 the tiny Hamp- 

 shire hamlet where 

 she was born. She 

 was a firm believer 

 in High Church 

 ideas of doctrine 

 and practise, and 

 some of her early 



books are a little narrow. As her literary sense 

 developed, however, she became more just toward 

 representatives of opinions differing from her own,, 

 and in her latest years had unconsciously come 

 to occupy a much more liberal standpoint than 

 formerly. Her readers included those of all com- 

 munions and of none. A controversial tone is 

 traceable in her first books, and some of them, 

 like the famous Heir of Redclyffe, are rather 

 morbid; but her skill in telling a story and re- 

 markable gifts in the delineation of character out- 

 weighed her literary defects, and as her style 

 matured these faults disappeared. The Heir of 

 Redclyffe exercised a deep influence upon William 

 Morris, Burne- Jones, and others of that group, 

 while they were at Oxford, and, as Morris's biog- 

 rapher points out, it was the first book that 

 affected him in any important way, he and his 

 associates endeavoring for a time to pattern their 

 lives after the life of the hero of the tale. The 

 late Canon Dixon, after alluding to this circum- 

 stance, and his own long acquaintance with the 

 book, pronounces the story " one of the finest 

 books in the world." Miss Yonge devoted a large 

 share of the proceeds from the sale of this book 

 to the fitting out of a missionary schooner for 

 the use of Bishop Selwyn of New Zealand, while 

 the 2,000 received from the sale of The Daisy 

 Chain were given by her toward the erection of 

 a missionary college at Auckland. In 1898 Sir 

 Walter Besant suggested that a university schol- 

 arship in the Winchester High School for Girls 

 should be subscribed for by Miss Yonge's ad- 

 mirers and named in her honor. Nearly 2,000 

 were raised in this way, and in the year following 

 the project was carried into effect. In 1893, on 

 the occasion of her seventieth birthday, a bound 

 volume containing 5,000 autographs of persons 

 in all parts of the world who were admirers of 

 her talents was presented to her. For thirty 

 years she edited the Monthly Packet, a magazine 

 primarily intended for young women, during the 

 later years of her editorship sharing the duties 

 with Miss Christabel Coleridge. The late Mrs. 

 Oliphant wrote of Miss Yonge's novels that they 

 " added quite a new world of excellent Church 

 people, good, noble, and true, with all their fads 



