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Hulst. Maiirin* <!'. a French prelate and poli- 

 tician, horn in Paris in 1841 ; died Nov. (i, 18!)(>. 

 Mis father. Cointo (l'II:uitcroclu>. afterward styled 

 Cointf d'llulst, was Deputy for Herault from 18:20 

 till IN'JT. .Maurice d'llulst was a playmate in his 

 childhood of the Comtede Paris. He was ordained 

 in 18i>5, was a pari>h priest in Paris till the Franco- 

 ( id-man War, when he served as chaplain to the 

 pn-ss ambulance, escaped from Sedan, and was in 

 Paris during (ho siege, lie was appointed vicar 

 ral of the diocese of Paris in 1875 and rector 

 of the Catholic Institute when it was established in 

 1S7C). In 1890 he became special preacher at Notre 

 Dame, and in l8'.cJ he succeeded to Bishop Freppel's 

 ;a the French Chamber, lie defended Catho- 

 lic principles with as much ardor and cultivated 

 eloquence as his predecessor, and rather more em- 

 phatically and dogmatically. Mgr. d'HuIst was the 

 author of numerous religious works. 



Hunt. Alfred William, an English artist, born 

 in Liverpool in isiJO; died in London, May 3, 1896. 

 He was the son of Andrew Hunt, a Liverpool artist, 

 and was educated at Liverpool Collegiate School 

 and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, taking his de- 

 m 18.V.2. He had been a pupil in drawing and 

 painting of his father, and in 1854 he sent his first 

 picture to the Koyal Academy, "Styehead Pas-;. 

 Cumberland." " Llyn Idwal," exhibited at the 

 same place in 1856, was much admired by Mr. Rus- 

 kin, as were also his next year's pictures. About 

 this time he became a member of the Hogarth Club, 

 a preraphaelite association. In 1860 he exhibited 

 ".lust before Sunset," "Mist rising after Heavy 

 Rain," and the well-known "Track of an Old World 

 Glacier." works which made much impression and 

 influenced his election in 1862 as an associate of 

 the Society of Painters in Water Colors and a full 

 member two years later. For some seven years he 

 worked only in water colors, but in 1870 he again 

 exhibited at the Academy, and after that date worked 

 both in oil and water colors. He was never elected 

 a member of the Academy, a neglect which was 

 deeply felt by the artist, whose abilities richly de- 

 served such acknowledgment. That he was gen- 

 erally looked upon as a water colorist simply, 

 although he sent some 40 oils to the Academy, 

 only partially explains the action of the acade- 

 micians. Among his best-known pictures are: 

 ' Whitby Churchyard." "Whitby: Morning and 

 Evening," ' Goring Lock," and "Summer Days for 

 me." In 1884 a large collection of his work in oils 

 and water colors was shown at the Fine Art Society's 

 rooms. Hunt was one of the most distinguished 

 followers of Turner, but was not a mere copyist of 

 the style of his great model. A recent critic has 

 said of him : " Xo painter of our epoch had a truer 

 of the gradations of light as it penetrates 

 more or less transparent veils of vapor, taking, or as 

 the case may be, creating lovely hues in its passage 

 through them; no man measured the distance with 

 greater art, immortalized more faithfully the fleet- 

 ing beauty of English landscape, nor translated 

 with more conspicuous skill into permanent forms 

 the poetry of Nature." 



Karl. Lndwig, Archduke, heir presumptive of 

 t he Austrian throne, born in Schonbrunn. July '',(). 

 1833 ; died in Vienna. May 1!), 1896. At the age of 

 twenty he went to Galicia to be initiated into the 

 administration of a province, and two years later 

 he was made Governor of the Tyrol. lie resigned 

 when the Constitution of 1861 was granted, and 

 after that took no interest in political affairs, but 

 was an earnest and indefatigable promoter of works 

 of philanthropy and public utility, interested espe- 

 cially in the development of technical education, a 

 generous patron of struggling artists, and a dis- 

 penser of magnificent hospitalities. His first wife, 



i he Princess Bffargarethe, daughter of King .!<. harm of 



Saxony, died within two years. In |si;-J |, ( . married 

 Princess Annonciade of Bourbon-Sicily, by whom 

 he had four children, the Archdukes Fran/ Ferdi- 

 nand of E>ie. ( MI,,, and Ferdinand Karl, and the. 

 Archduchess Margaret he, married to the Ihike of 

 Wiirtemberg. In 1*71 he lost \n> second wife, and 

 two years later he espoused the young Princess Maria 



Theresa of Mraganza. After the tragic death of the 

 Archduke Rudolph, the succes>ion pa-sed to him 

 and his male heirs. He resigned it in favor of the 

 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Este, who is not 

 likely to survive him long, and is unmarried. The 

 Archduke Otto is next in succession. 



Kekule, Friedrieh August, a German chemist, 

 born in 1829 ; died in Bonn, July 14, 1896. He de- 

 voted his life entirely to chemical investigations, 

 was professor at Ghent from 1858 to 1865, and had 

 since held a chair in the University of Bonn. Or- 

 ganic chemistry especially has been greatly advanced 

 by his indefatigable experiments and discoveries, 

 the most important of which was his demonstration 

 of the quadruple character of the atoms of carbon. 



Knight-Bruce, George Wyndham. an English 

 missionary, born in 1853; died in Newton Abbot, 

 Dec. 16. 1896. He was a grandson of Justice Knight- 

 Bruce, and was educated at Eton and Oxford, took 

 his bachelor's degree in 1876, and went into holy 

 orders. He served as a missionary curate in Liver- 

 pool and the East End of London till 1886, when he 

 was appointed Bishop of Bloemfontein. In South 

 Africa Dr. Knight-Bruce, like all the earnest and 

 energetic Christian missionaries, came into conflict 

 continually with the secular pioneers of British 

 civilization. He penetrated into Matabeleland and 

 Mashonaland, and obtained permission from Loben- 

 gula for the establishment of missions before the 

 charter of the South African Company was granted. 

 In 1891 he became the first Bishop of Mashonaland, 

 and succeeded in a remarkable degree in establishing 

 the influence of the English Church among the na- 

 tives. He condemned the Matabele war, as he did 

 most of the operations of Cecil Rhodes, but when 

 the war began he joined the expedition, refusing, 

 however, to take the post and pay of chaplain, 

 because he held that the Matabele no less than the 

 company's troops were members of his diocese. 

 Broken in health from constant trial and exposure, 

 he resigned the bishopric in 1894, and returned to 

 England, where he was nominated to a Crown living 

 in Devon, and was afterward made Assistant Bishop 

 of Exeter. 



Kolpakovsky, Gen., a Russian soldier, born in 

 Kherson in 1819 ; died in St. Petersburg, May 5, 

 1896. He was the son of an inferior officer, and 

 joined the army as a private at the age of sixteen, 

 winning a commission after six years by his gallantry 

 in the Caucasus, and afterward taking part in the 

 operations in Transylvania, when Russia interfered 

 in the Hungarian civil war. After commanding 

 the penal settlement of Berezof, in Siberia, he was 

 appointed in 1858 commandant of the fort of Uzun 

 A^atch, near Lake Issik Kul, which the Khan of 

 Khokand attacked with 30,000 followers. Collect- 

 ing his force in haste, he pursued and routed the 

 Khan's army, for which he was rewarded with the 

 post of Governor General of Semiretchia. When he 

 befriended the Chinese of the Solon tribe, who were 

 driven out of Knldja by the Mohammedan rebels, 

 he was made a mandarin of the first class by the 

 Emperor of China. In 1871 he received permission 

 to carry out his suggestion of a temporary occupa- 

 tion of Kuldja province in trust for China. After 

 serving as Governor General of Turkestan and of 

 Western Siberia he was called to St. Petersburg in 

 1889, and appointed a member of the Council of 



