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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (HoHENLOHB-ScHiLLiNGSFtJEST HUOBES.) 



soon as he was appointed consul general and diplo- 

 ma tic agent at Sofia. lie supported Alexander of 

 Battenberg, under instructions from his Govern- 

 ment, and when the coup d'etat that resulted in 

 the temporary suspension of the Constitution of the 

 principality had been made successful through 

 Russian influence he exacted the submission of 

 Prince Alexander to Russian policy to such a de- 

 gree that friction and estrangement followed. 

 Though M. Hitrovo had been transferred to Bu- 

 charest when Alexander was kidnaped and after- 

 ward forced to abdicate, he was credited with di- 

 recting and controlling all the agitations and in- 

 trigues that disturbed the tranquillity of Bulgaria. 

 When the Russian Government changed its attitude 

 toward Bulgaria he was transferred to Lisbon, and 

 subsequently he was Russian minister to Japan. 



Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst, Prince (iriistaf 

 Adolf, a German prelate, born in Rotenburg, Feb. 

 26,1823; died in Rome, Oct. 30, 1896. His an- 

 cestors were counts and later princes till 1806 of 

 Hohenlohe, now incorporated partly in Bavaria 

 and partly in Wiirtemberg. He attended the gym- 

 nasia of Ansbach and Erfurt, studied law at Bonn 

 and theology at Breslau and Munich, went to Rome 

 in 1846 to complete his studies in the Academia 

 Ecclesiastica, took refuge with the papal courl a I 

 Gaeta during the revolution of 1849. and was there 

 ordained priest by Pius IX, who, after his return 

 to Rome, appointed him chamberlain and sul>se- 

 quently almoner and Bishop of Edessa in partita/*. 

 He was created a cardinal on June 22, 1866, but 

 encountered the hostility of the Jesuits, and, after 

 the Vatican Council, although he did not openly 

 oppose its decrees, he retired to Germany. He re- 

 turned to Rome in 1876, and was made Bishop of 

 Albano in 1879, but resigned in 1884, and contented 

 himself with the post of archpriest of Santa Maria 

 Maggiore. 



Honssaye, Arscne, a French author, born in 

 Bruyeres, March 28, 1815 ; died in Paris, Feb. 26, 

 1896. He enlisted at the age of sixteen and fought 

 in the Antwerp campaign, ran away from home 

 with a troupe of singers to seek his fortune in Paris, 

 and made his living at first by writing street bal- 

 lads. Falling in with Theophile Gautier and Gerard 

 de Nerval, he acquired his literary style from asso- 

 ciation with them and their companions. He wrote 

 with great ease and rapidity in a florid manner and 

 sentimental vein a great number of novels and his- 

 torical biographies. His history of Flemish and 

 Dutch painting won for him the ribbon'of the Le- 

 gion of Honor. In 1843 he purchased a magazine, 

 " L'Artiste," and had Gautier, Murger, and Champ- 

 fleury for contributors. He was an active Repub- 

 lican in the revolution of 1848, and after the coup 

 d'etat composed a famous song, " L'Empire c'est la 

 Paix." As administrator of the Comedie Francaise 

 from 1849 till 1856 he did good service by bringing 

 out Hugo's plays. He made much money by specu- 

 lation, entertained lavishly, and held the sinecure 

 office of inspector of provincial museums, writing 

 copiously at the same time for the reviews and pro- 

 ducing new novels in rapid succession. He founded 

 the "Gazette de Paris" in 1871, but it was unsuc- 

 cessful. In 1875 he accepted the directorship of 

 the Theatre National Lyrique, which he soon re- 

 signed on account of the difficulties that he en- 

 countered. He was himself an unsuccessful ap- 

 plicant for election to the Academy in 1876, and 

 subsequently his son was elected to a chair. His 

 most valuable contribution to literature is his " Con- 

 fessions," containing his recollections of the period 

 from 1830 to 1880. In his " Fauteuil de 1'Academie 

 Francaise (1855) he satirized the Academie for ex- 

 cluding the most eminent Frenchmen from mem- 

 bership. Among his multitudinous works are 



" Philosophes et Comediennes," " Les Fillcs d'Eve," 

 " Sous la Regence et sous la Terreur," " Blanche et 

 Marguerite," " Nos Grandes Dames," " Le Roi Vol- 

 taire," and " Histoire de 1'Art Francaise." 



Hughes, Thomas, an English lawyer and author, 

 born in Uffington, Berkshire, England, Oct. 23, 

 1823 ; died in Brighton, England, March 22, 1896. 

 His grandfather, Thomas Wilkinson, had been vi- 

 car of the parish in which he was born. At the 

 age of seven he was sent to Rugby, where he 

 studied under Dr. 

 Arnold. In 1841 

 he entered Oriel 

 College, Oxford, 

 and in 1845 took 

 his degree of A. B. 

 there. Two years 

 after leaving col- 

 lege he married 

 Miss Anne Fran- 

 cis Ford, daughter 

 of James Kurd. 

 prebendary of Ex- 

 eter. One year 

 later, in 1848, he 

 \vas called to the 

 bar at Lincoln's 

 Inn, and he was 

 made a member of 

 the bar of Chan- 

 cery. He was a member of Parliament for Lambeth 

 from 1865 to 1868. In 1868 he was sent as repre- 

 sentative from the borough of Frome, and he con- 

 tinued to hold the office for six years. He was 

 nominated a candidate for Marylebone, and 294 

 votes were cast for him, but he had withdrawn on the 

 day previous to the election. In 1869 Mr. Hughes 

 was appointed a Queen's counsel, and in 1870 he 

 traveled through the United States and assisted in 

 founding a colony in Tennessee. In 1882 he was 

 made judge of the county court circuit. Mr. 

 Hughes took a special interest in the combina- 

 tions of trades unions and legislation in regard 

 to master and servant, and was prominent during 

 liis political life in debates upon these subjects. 

 Even in his college days he was much absorbed with 

 political problems, and held very advanced liberal 

 views. lie was associated with Kingsley and Mau- 

 rice in their work among the poor of London, and, 

 though zealous for the good of the workingman, he 

 strongly censured the extreme views and measures 

 of certain among the trades-union members. His 

 writings are: "Torn Brown's School Days, by an 

 Old Boy " (1857) ; " The Scouring of the White 

 House " (1858) ; " Tom Brown at Oxford " and " Re- 

 ligio Laici " (1861) ; " The Cause of Freedom : Which 

 is its Champion in America, the North or the 

 South 1 " (1863) ; " Alfred the Great " (1869) ; " Mem- 

 oir of a Brother " (1873); "Prefatory Memoir to 

 Charles Kingsley's ' Alton Locke ' " (1876) ; " The 

 Old Church : What shall we do with it ? " (1878) ; and 

 " A Memoir of Daniel Macmillan " (1882). He edited 

 James Russell Lowell's " Biglow Papers" in 1859; 

 "The Trade Unions of England," by the Comte 

 de Paris, in 1869 ; and F. D. Maurice's treatise on 

 " The Friendship of Books " in 1874. His remain- 

 ing books are : " Rugby, Tennessee " (1881) ; " Gone 

 to Texas : Letters from Our Boys " (1885) ; " Life of 

 Bishop Eraser" (1887); and "Livingstone" (1889). 

 He wrote also a preface for " Whitmore's Poems." 

 Mr. Hughes's first book has had several editions, 

 and M. Levoisin translated it into French, and it 

 was published in Paris in 1875. " Religio Laici " 

 first appeared as one of a series called " Tracts for 

 Priests and People," and was issued later under the 

 title " A Layman's Faith." In his volume upon the 

 Church he opposes its disestablishment. 



