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cles on literary, historical, and philosophical subjects 

 to the " Saturday Review." In 1853 he married and 

 settled down as parson of the country village of W hat- 

 ley, in Somersetshire, which he reluctantly left in 

 1871 to become Dean of St. Paul's, having previously 

 declined the archdeaconry of Wells and other tempt- 

 ing offers, just as afterward, throwing himself into 

 the plan for making St. Paul's a popular religious 

 center, he would not leave it to accept the primacy of 

 the English Church. 



Cope, Charles West, an English painter, born in 

 Leeds in 1811 ; died in Bournemouth, Aug. 21, 1890. 

 He studied art in London, and for two years in Italy. 

 After his return his picture of the u Holy Family " 

 attracted much attention. He began to exhibit in the 

 Royal Academy in 1833. "Hagar and Ishmael," 

 painted in 1836, " The Cronies," Paolo and Fran- 

 cesa," and " The Flemish Mother," executed in 1839, 

 were followed by "Almsgiving," " Poor-Law Guar- 

 dians," " The Schoolmaster," and " The Cotter's Sat- 

 urday Night." He designed frescoes for the House of 

 Lords, and after painting "Edward the Black Prince 

 receiving the Order of the Garter" in 1845, he re-" 

 ceived an order for " The Last Days of Wolsey " 

 from Prince Albert. He was made an associate in the 

 Royal Academy in 1844 and in 1848 an academician. 

 " tfoung Mother " " Girl at Prayer," " Maiden Medi- 

 tation," "King Lear and Cordelia," "Departure of 

 the Pilgrims," " Evening Prayer," " Convalescent," 

 are some of his numerous other works, and while 

 Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy between 

 1867 and 1874 he exhibited " Shylock and Jessica," 

 " Othello," " Domestic Chaplain," " Home Dreams," 

 "Gentle and Simple," "Yes or No," "The Gentle 

 Craft," and other pieces. His plate of the "Life 

 Class " ranks among the strongest of English etchings. 



Cornthwaite Robert, an English Roman Catholic cler- 

 gyman, born in Preston, May 9, 1818 ; died in Leeds, 

 June 16, 1890. He was ed'ucated at St. Cuthbert's 

 College at Ushaw, near Durham, taught in the insti- 

 tution for two years after his graduation in the chair 

 of humanities, then went to Rome to study theology 

 in the English College, and was ordained priest in 

 1845. For five years he performed the duties of his 

 calling in England, and for the next six years he was 

 rector of the English College at Rome, having been 

 appointed to that post by Pope Pius IX in 1851. Re- 

 turning to England in 1857, he became secretary to 

 the Bishop of Hexham, and on Nov. 10, 1861, he \\as 

 consecrated Bishop of Beverley. On the division of 

 the diocese, which embraced the whole County of 

 York till 1878, into the separate sees of Middle- 

 borough and Leeds, Dr. Cornthwaite became Bishop 

 of Leeds on Dec. 20 of that year. 



Cottesloe, Thomas Francis Fremantle, Lord, an English 

 politician, born March 11, 1798; died near Winslow, 

 -Buckinghamshire, Dec. 3, 1890. He was the eldest 

 son of Admiral Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle, was 

 graduated with honor at Oriel College, Oxford, in 

 1819, was elected as a Conservative to Parliament in 

 1826, and attacked the poor-law system. He took of- 

 fice under Sir Robert Peel in 1834, as a Secretary of 

 the Treasury, became Secretary at War in 1844, and 

 in 1845 Chief Secretary for Ireland. At the time of 

 the famine he carried palliatory measures to employ 

 the population of Ireland on public works and to 

 build piers and harbors for extending the fisheries. 

 Sir Thomas Fremantle resigned his seat for Buck- 

 inghamshire in 1846 and was appointed deputy chair- 

 main and afterward chairman of the Board of Public 

 Works, holding this office till 1873. In 1874 he was 

 created Baron Cottesloe. 



Couza, Alexander, the adopted son of Alexander John 

 I, the first Prince of Roumania, born about 1867 ; 

 died in Madrid, April 10, 1890. Although too young 

 yet to enter the Roumanian Chamber, he had begun 

 to take part in political affairs, and was regarded as a 

 pretender to the throne. He was said to have subsi- 

 dized and inspired the anti - dynastic organ called 

 " Adverul," and attracted about' him a group of poli- 

 ticians who set on foot the revolt of the peasantry 



that took place on the fall of Joan Bratiano. The 

 death of Prince Alexander Couza occurred durin" his 

 wedding journey. 



Crawford, William, an English politician, born in 

 Whitley in 1823 ; died in Durham July 1, 1890. He 

 was the son of a miner, and in his childhood and 

 youth worked in the coal mines of Northumberland, 

 lie became a Primitive Methodist preacher, was one 

 of the prominent defenders of trade-unionism, be- 

 came secretary of the miners' society of Northumber- 

 land and Durham in 1862, resigned in 1865 to join in 

 a co-operative enterprise, and in 1870 became secretary 

 of the Durham Miners' Union. In 1885 he was 

 elected to Parliament. He was a member of the 

 parliamentary committee of the Trade Union Con- 

 gress, and was prominently connected with various 

 labor organizations besides the great union of which 

 he was the popular leader. 



Croll, James, an English physicist, born in 1821 ; 

 died Dec. 15, 1890. He had no educational advan- 

 tages, but applied himself to scientific studios, and 

 wrote some works on geological and physical 

 problems that gained him a reputation as an original 

 thinker. His books on " Climate and Time," 

 "Oceanic Circulation," and "Stellar Evolution" 

 were widely read. 



Daru, Count Napole'on, a French statesman, born in 

 Paris in 1807 ; died there, Feb. 20, 1890. He was a 

 son of the quartermaster-general of the army of 

 Napoleon I and historian of the first empire. He 

 followed the military profession till 1847, when lie 

 retired with the rank of captain. Entering the House 

 of Peers on his father's death, in 1832, he supported 

 the Orleans dynasty and gave his attention to econo- 

 mical questions and the subject of railroads, on which 

 he was a recognized authority. After the revolution 

 of 1848 he was elected a Deputy, acted with the 

 Moderate Republicans, and was chosen Vice-President 

 of the Assembly, lie protested against the coup 

 d'etat, and did not re-enter political lite till 1869, 

 when he defeated an official candidate for the Cham- 

 ber, voted with the Moderate Liberals, and joined the 

 ministry of Emile Ollivier as Minister of Foreign 

 Affairs, succeeding La Tour d'Auvergne. The proj- 

 ect of bolstering up the empire by a mock plebucite 

 caused him to retire with Buffet. In 1871 he was 

 elected to the Versailles Assembly at the head of the 

 ticket for the Manche Department. He acted with 

 the Right Center, presided over the inquiry into the 

 events~of 1870, and in 1876 retired into private life. 



Davis, Sir John, an English diplomatist, born July 

 16, 1795 ; died near Bristol, Nov. 13, 1890. He was 

 the son of an official of the East India Company, was 

 appointed a clerk in the factory at Canton at the age 

 of eighteen, and in 1832 rose to be president of the fac- 

 tory. When Lord Napier, who went to China as su- 

 perintendent of trade, died, in 1834, Davis was in- 

 trusted temporarily with the same duties. He was ab- 

 sent from China for some years, returning in 1844 as 

 superintendent of trade and Governor of Hong-Kong. 

 In 1845 he was made a baronet. His action in send- 

 ing a military expedition to avenge an attack on 

 Englishmen at Fatshan was disapproved by his 

 Government, and in 1848 he resigned. He founded 

 scholarships at Oxford for the study of the Chinese 

 language, and was the author of some of the earliest 

 and most interesting works on the literature, customs, 

 people, and history of China. 



Deslandes, Raymond, a French dramatist, born in 

 Yvetot, July 12, 1825 ; died in Paris, March 20, 1890. 

 He was a fertile and ingenious dramatic author and 

 a skilled and successful theatrical manager. The 

 names of pieces that he wrote alone or in collabora- 

 tion with others, make a long catalogue. His earliest 

 was " Un et un font im," produced in 1848. "Lcs 

 Domestiques," the joint production of Deslandes and 

 Eugene Grange" attained great popularity. W ith 

 Labiche he wrote " Un Man que lance sa femme." 

 Among his best is the comic drama, often played, 

 called "L'Amant aux bouquets." His greatest 

 triumph was gained with "Antoinette Rigaud, 



