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LEE, EOBEKT E. 



an unceasing admiration of your constancy and de- 

 votion to your country, and a grateful remembrance 

 of your kind and generous consideration of myself, I 

 bid you an affectionate farewell. 



K. E. LEE, General. 



General Lee was called to the presidency of 

 Washington College, Lexington, Va., on the 

 28th of September, 1865. His executive ability, 

 his enlarged views of a liberal culture, his ex- 

 traordinary power in the government of men, 

 his wonderful influence over the minds of the 

 young, and his steady and earnest devotion to 

 duty, made the college spring, as by the touch 

 of magic, from its depression after the war to 

 a condition of permanent and widely-spread- 

 ing usefulness. As president, in his relation to 

 the faculty, he was genial, courteous, and con- 

 siderate. Toward the students he was firm in 

 discipline, yet forbearing, sympathetic, and 

 encouraging to all. During the five years, 

 1865-'70, in the discharge of his official duties 

 as president of the college, which were entered 

 upon under most trying circumstances, and 

 maintained with severe patience and noble de- 

 votion to the end of his life, he exhibited 

 qualities not less illustrious than any which he 

 displayed in his military career, and which, as 

 they were necessary to complete the perfect 

 harmony of his character, connected his fame 

 in a peculiar sense with the history of Wash- 

 ington College. On all occasions he sedulously 

 avoided notoriety, and sought to quiet the as- 

 perities of the people of the South, and to pave 

 the way for a reconciliation between the lately 

 hostile sections, and unquestionably accom- 

 plished much toward so laudable an end. 



General Lee was a man of distinguished per- 

 sonal presence, and, at the commencement of 

 the late war, remarkable for a commanding 

 manly beauty. Conscious, as he undoubtedly 

 was, of the possession of high intellectual 

 abilities as well as of great personal attractive- 

 ness, he was singularly devoid of pretension 

 or conceit. A man of pure morals, and of rare 

 courtesy and refinement, his death was a great 

 loss to the South, and indeed to the whole 

 country, which was, of late, under obligations 

 to him for his efforts to promote harmony and 

 peace. 



LEMON, MARK, a dramatist and editor, 

 born in London, November 30, 1809 ; died in 

 London May 23, 1870. He received his edu- 

 cation at the Grammar-School of Cheam, Sur- 

 rey, and early began to write for the press. 

 Some of his childish productions were well 

 'worthy of preservation. He was for some time 

 engaged as a dramatic writer, and occasionally 

 appeared upon the stage, though his public 

 performances were generally in aid of distressed 

 actors. On the establishment of Punch, a 

 British comic periodical, in 1841, he became 

 assistant editor, and, two years later, upon the 

 retirement of Mr. Mayhew, the chief editor, 

 succeeded that gentleman in the editorial 

 chair, and retained the control of the paper 

 until his death. In addition to his contribu- 



LEOPOLD II., GKAND-DUKE. 



tions to Punch, Mr. Lemon was the author of 

 over sixty dramatic pieces and numerous arti- 

 cles published in London periodicals. He also 

 edited a collection of jests, and wrote about a 

 hundred songs, many of which appeared in the 

 London Illustrated News, of which he was for 

 many years literary editor. In 1849 he pub- 

 lished "The Enchanted Doll;" in 1859, "A 

 Christmas Hamper, a Collection of Stories in 

 Prose and Verse;" in 1863, "Wait for the 

 End;" in 1864, "Legends of Number Nip," 

 and "Loved at Last;" and, in 1866, "Falk- 

 nerLyle," "Story of Two Wives," "Leighton 

 Hall," etc. Mr. Lemon was an assistant of 

 Mr. Dickens in the conduct of Household 

 Words. He was a man whose sympathies with 

 the poor, the unfortunate, and the oppressed, 

 were always broad and hearty ; he had all 

 of Thackeray's hatred of shams and snobbery, 

 and in all the pages of Punch, while he was its 

 editor, there was never any indication of a dis- 

 position to truckle to wealth, power, or title, 

 or to be other than the fearless advocate oftthe 

 right and true ; and these characteristics made 

 its satire so terribly effective. England never 

 lost a manlier man than Mark Lemon. 



LEOPOLD II., JEAN JOSEPH FERDINAND 

 CHARLES, ex-Grand-duke of Tuscany, born in 

 Florence, October 3, 1797; died in Eome, Jan- 

 uary 29, 1870. He was the second son of the 

 Grand-duke Ferdinand III., was educated at 

 Wurzburg, Germany, where he became a bril- 

 liant scholar, particularly in German and Italian 

 literature. In 1814 he returned to Florence, 

 and in 1817 was married to the Princess Marie 

 Anne, daughter of Maximilian of Saxony. 

 Haying succeeded his father, January 17, 1824, 

 he continued the administrative traditions of 

 Leopold I., known as Emperor of Germany 

 under the title of Leopold II., and who had 

 made the duchy of Tuscany one of the most 

 flourishing states of Italy. At the outbreak of 

 the Italian revolution in 1848, the duchy, 

 under the Grand-duke's administration, was 

 the most advanced of all the Italian states in 

 liberty, toleration, and the material ameliora- 

 tion of the condition of its inhabitants, and 

 that prince was one of the first to yield to the 

 exigencies of the time. But the demands of 

 the revolutionists more than kept pace with 

 his concessions. The progress of the demo- 

 cratic party, the pressure for cooperation with 

 Piedmont in the war against Austria, and the 

 bold measures of the republican ministry, com- 

 pelled him to fly from Florence. After the 

 downfall of the revolution, which had not (in 

 Tuscany) any real root in the country, the re- 

 turn of Leopold was hailed with joy by the 

 people. Had he been at this time wise and 

 independent enough to pursue steadily his old 

 plans of progress and education, Tuscany might 

 still have been an independent state and he its 

 ruler to the day of his death. Thus it hap- 

 pened that, when the second revolution came 

 in 1859, he was again compelled to fly. He 

 abdicated in favor of his son, Ferdinand IV., 



