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plished English traveller and authoress, daugh- 

 ter of the first and sister of the second and 

 third Earls of Auckland; died at Richmond, 

 Surrey, aged 74 years. She had received an 

 excellent education, and possessed fine literary 

 tastes. She accompanied her brother, the 

 second Earl of Auckland, to India, when he 

 went out as Governor-General in 1835, and re- 

 mained there till his return in 1841. Not long 

 after her return she published an interesting 

 volume, "Portraits of the People and Princes 

 of India," and subsequently a volume of her 

 very vivacious and interesting letters home 

 was collected, under the title of "Up the 

 Country." Within the past six or eight years 

 she had published two novels, which were 

 very popular. They bore the somewhat sin- 

 gular titles of "The Semi- Attached Couple," 

 and " The Semi-Detached House." 



Aug. 11. SELWYN, Rt. Hon. Sir CHAELES 

 JASPER, an eminent English jurist; died in 

 London ; aged 56 years. He was a son of the 

 late William Selwyn, Q. 0., and was born in 

 1813 ; educated at Eton and Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, was called to the bar at Lincoln's 

 Inn, 1840 ; made Commissary of the University 

 of Cambridge in 1855, and Queen's Counsel in 

 1856. From 1859 to 1868 he sat in Parliament 

 for Cambridge University, when, having held 

 for a few months the post of Solicitor-General, 

 he was appointed Lord Justice of Appeal, and 

 became a member of the Privy Council. He 

 was knighted in 1867. 



Aug. 12. Di LCCA, FEBDINANDO, an Italian 

 geographer and mathematician ; died in Naples, 

 aged about 60 years. He was the author of a 

 series of excellent geographical text-books, in 

 general use in Italy, and approved by the Min- 

 ister of Public Instruction. He was the editor 

 of the Compendia di Geograjia di Adriano 

 Balbi, to which he had made large and valu- 

 able additions, and had written some excellent 

 treatises on mathematical geography. He had 

 recently published a globe on a new plan, and 

 had brought before the Imperial Geographical 

 Society of Paris, of which he was a correspond- 

 ing member, the narrative of Piaggia's dis- 

 coveries in Central Africa. 



Aug. 12. GEANGE, CONSTANCE CATJMONT LA 

 FOECE, Marquise DE LA, an accomplished and 

 brilliant French lady, of remarkable beauty, the 

 intimate friend of Lamartine and Madame La- 

 martine; died in Paris, aged 63 years. She 

 had been twice married, and was a lady-in- 

 waiting on the dauphine, daughter of Louis 

 XVIII., in 1823. In 1832 she married the 

 Marquess de la Grange, a young officer of the 

 Garde, who was as strongly attached to the 

 Lamartines as his wife. She survived the 

 gifted poet but a few months. 



Aug. 16. ANNE, Louis FEAN^OIS THEODOEE, 

 a French soldier, politician, novelist, and art 

 critic ; died in Paris, aged 72 years. He was 

 an officer in the army of the Restoration from 

 1814 to 1830, but had written in 1820 an his- 

 torical eulogy on the Due de Berri. He wrote 



for some years, either alone or associated with 

 others, numerous dramas, many of which were 

 successful. From 1830 to 1851 he published 

 six or eight historico-political works, always 

 in the interests of the elder Bourbons, to 

 whom he remained faithful. Ho had pro- 

 duced also, between 1832 and 1858, eighteen 

 or twenty volumes of novels, mostly historical, 

 some of which were very popular. When we 

 add that he was editor of La France, art and 

 dramatic critic of L 1 Union, and an assistant 

 editor of the Revue and Gazette des Theatres, 

 it will be seen that his literary life was one of 

 great activity. 



Aug. 17. BAEEOW, EDWAED, an English 

 journalist; died in London, aged 71 years. 

 He had been connected with the London press 

 for about half a century, first on the Mirror 

 of Parliament, of which his brother was edi- 

 tor, and his nephew, Charles Dickens, a re- 

 porter. He was afterward, for nearly forty 

 years, a member of the literary staff of the 

 Morning Herald, and for a part of the time 

 of the Standard, and was universally es- 

 teemed. 



Aug. 26. LETS, Baron JEAN AUGUSTE HEN- 

 EI, an eminent Belgian historical genre painter ; 

 died at Antwerp, aged 54 years. He was born 

 at Anvers, February 18, 1815, and was des- 

 tined to an ecclesiastical career, but his fond- 

 ness for art was so great that, at the age of 

 fifteen, he began to study for an artist. At the 

 age of eighteen he had already exhibited a 

 picture of considerable merit. He completed 

 his studies in France and Holland, and, return- 

 ing to Belgium, found in M. Couteau, a wealthy 

 and generous art connoisseur, a most liberal 

 and discriminating patron. For him Baron 

 Leys executed the greater part of his nu- 

 merous paintings. He was thought to excel 

 in his skill as a colorist, in the spirit and natu- 

 ralness of his compositions, and in the fidelity 

 and originality of his production of the repre- 

 sentative types of the people of the middle 

 ages, which have been the most frequent sub- 

 jects of his pictures. He was decorated with 

 the order of Leopold I. in 1840, raised to the 

 rank of grand officer of that order, and made 

 a baron in 1851, and subsequently promoted 

 to the rank of commander of the order. He 

 was also elected a member of the Royal Acad- 

 emy of Belgium in 1845. 



Aug. 26. PEESIANI, GITJSEPPI, an Italian 

 musical composer, best known as the husband 

 of the celebrated prima donna Madame Persiani 

 (nee Fanny Tacchinardi), but the author of 

 some excellent operas ; died at Paris, aged 68 

 years. He was born at Recanati, in the Papal 

 States, in 1801, educated at the Royal Musical 

 College of Naples, under Tritto, and produced 

 his first opera, "The Generous Enemy," in 

 Florence in 1826. Among his other operas 

 which were successful were, "Attila," "Gas- 

 ton de Foix," " Eufemia di Messina," "Ines de 

 Castro," "L'Orfana Savojerda," and "II Fan- 

 tasma." Most of his operas were written with 



