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tion of the works of art by the men of his bat- 

 talion. The project proved a success, and the 

 example was followed at other military sta- 

 tions. When subsequently his battalion served 

 in India, he continued to stimulate his men to 

 persevere in the occupations which accorded 

 with their taste. 



June 17. AENOTT, Dr. GEOEGE A. WALKER, 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Glas- 

 gow, died in that city, aged 69 years. He was 

 the author of several important botanical works. 



June 30. BASTIANINI, GIOVANNI, an Italian 

 sculptor. He began his life as a stone-breaker 

 in the quarries, but, evincing a fine artistic 

 taste, was educated by Treglierami, the famous 

 collector of Tuscan antiquities. He worked in 

 the studio of Fedi, producing busts and groups 

 in marble and terra-cotta for the Florentine 

 antiquarian Freppa. In 1865, at the Paris In- 

 dustrial Exposition, a terra-cotta bust, marked 

 in the catalogue as the portrait of Jerome 

 Benivieni, attracted the attention of connois- 

 seurs, who decided unanimously that it was 

 the product of the fifteenth or sixteenth cen- 

 tury. Subsequently it was sold for a large 

 sum to the Imperial Museum, and it was not 

 until toward the close of 1867 discovered to 

 have been the portrait of an old tobacco-roller, 

 who had sat, day after day, to Bastianini. 

 Other works also, among which was a bust of 

 Savonarola, and of a Florentine singer, sup- 

 posed to have been antique, were proved to 

 have been his own. Having sold them him- 

 self for comparatively insignificant sums, his 

 patrons had, unknown to him, profited largely 

 by allowing them to pass as antique specimens. 

 It was just as his dreams of fame were about 

 to be realized that he was carried off by the 

 Florentine plague. 



June . CAPENDTJ, EENEST, a French nov- 

 elist and dramatist, died of softening of the 

 brain, in Paris, aged 40 years. He was the 

 son of a wine-merchant, and born in affluence, 

 but early ran through his property, and in his 

 struggles for a livelihood turned his attention 

 to his pen. He was the author of a popular 

 comedy, "Les Faux Bonhommes," and also of 

 several novels. 



July 10. NAYLOE, Rev. W., an English 

 Wesleyan clergyman, died at his residence, 

 Holyhead Road, aged 86 years. His itinerant 

 labors continued from 1802 until the Confer- 

 ence of 1862 (threescore years), when he be- 

 came a " supernumerary." He was pastor of 

 most of the leading circuits of the connection, 

 and chairman of influential districts. Through 

 more than half a century he was identified 

 with every great movement of Methodism. He 

 was one of the ministers that took part in the 

 formation of the Wesleyan Methodist Mission- 

 ary Society, and was spared to preach one of 

 the sermons at its jubilee. 



July 12. TALON, Yicomte OEETUS, a 

 Frencli soldier and sportsman, died near 

 Aix-la-Ohapelle, of cancer of the stomach. He 

 was a Frenchman by birth, but English in all 



his tastes and pursuits. Though surrounded 

 by the luxuries of wealth and position, when 

 the Crimean War broke out he enlisted in the 

 British service, and proved himself a gallant 

 officer. In sporting circles he became widely 

 known, and was one of the most daring steeple- 

 chase riders in Europe. 



July 13. KIEWAN, Very Rev. ANTONY LA- 

 TOTJCHE, D. D., a clergyman of the Established 

 Church of Ireland, Dean of Limerick since 1849, 

 died in that city. He was son of the celebrated 

 Dean Kirwan of St. Patrick's, Dublin, who was 

 the friend of Burke, Sheridan, and the other 

 great wits and orators of Ireland at the close of 

 the last century. 



July 16. PISAEEF, DIMITET, an eminent 

 Russian philosopher and essayist, died near Re- 

 vel, in Esthonia, aged 28 years. At the early age 

 of sixteen he became a student in the University 

 of St. Petersburg, and, after having greatly dis- 

 tinguished himself there, at the age of nineteen 

 he was intrusted with the direction of the crit- 

 ical department of the journal styled Razsvyet 

 or Dawn. His articles in that paper and in 

 the RussTcoe Slovo, or Russian Word, of which 

 he became in 1861 the chief support, soon at- 

 tracted great attention, especially those on 

 " The Scholastic Philosophy of the Nineteenth 

 Century " and " The Idealism of Plato." For 

 several years he continued to write upon philos- 

 ophy, history, science, and literature, and with 

 such industry that his collected essays fill more 

 than ten volumes. His influence soon became 

 very great, especially with the younger gener- 

 ation of readers. But after a time his writ- 

 ings became obnoxious to the Government. In 

 1862 he was arrested on a charge of political 

 agitation, and, after having been kept two 

 years in confinement, was sentenced to be im- 

 prisoned in a fortress for two years more. It 

 was during his imprisonment that his most 

 brilliant essays were written, for his literary 

 activity was not thereby affected. But when 

 he was released, owing to the amnesty granted 

 on the occasion of the marriage of the Czare- 

 wich, his health was found to be considerably 

 impaired. In the summer of 1868, he was sent 

 by his physicians to a seaside watering-place 

 near Revel, and there was seized with a fit while 

 bathing, and died immediately. 



July 18. COYNE, JOSEPH STIELING, an Irish 

 dramatis!, antiquarian, and author, died in Lon- 

 don, aged 65 years. He was the son of an of- 

 ficer in the Irish commissariat, and was born 

 at Birr, King's County, in 1805 ; was educated 

 at Dungannon School, and studied law, but, 

 finding it distasteful, relinquished it, and in 

 1837 went to England and soon established a 

 reputation as a playwright. Continuing to fur- 

 nish the London theatres with dramas, come- 

 dies, and farces, he found time to write several 

 works of fiction, and a book on the " Scenery 

 and Antiquities of Ireland." Mr. Coyne was 

 associated with Mr. Mark Lemon, Mr. Henry 

 Mayhew, and other litterateurs of the light 

 school, in the establishment of Punch. 



