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Returning to tho United States, ho prrpaivl :i 

 elaborate and valuable work, entitled 

 11 The City of the Great King ; or, Jerusalem 

 as it was, as it is, and as it is to be." In 1868 

 inu-il \vitli liis family to Jerusalem, and 

 I ih, -iv till 170, acting for some time as 

 consul at Jerusalem. One of his sons 

 was for some years U. 8. consul at Beirut, und 

 a son-in-law U. 8. consul at Larnika, Cyprus. 

 sh< >rtly after Dr. Barclay's return to tho United 

 States, he revised very thoroughly his " Map 

 of Jerusalem and its Environs," originally pub- 

 lUh.-d in 1856, and in 1871 accepted an ap- 

 pointment as professor in Bethany College. 



Nor. 25. CAMPBELL, SHERWOOD COAN (the 

 Campbell was a stage name, the real name be- 

 iiiLC shenvood Coan), a distinguished baritone 

 singer ; died in Chicago, aged about 44 years. 

 He was born in New Haven, Conn., about 1880, 

 was apprenticed to the trade of carriage- 

 making, which he left at the age of eighteen, 

 to join the Campbell Minstrels, from whom he 

 borrowed the name by which he was after- 

 wnrd known. He subsequently joined the 

 Christy and Bryant Minstrel companies, and 

 spent some of the best years of his life in the 

 negro minstrel business. But his musical gifts 

 of too high an order to be employed in 

 this pursuit, and he was induced by Mr. L. F. 

 Harrison to become a concert-singer, and soon 

 passed to the English operatic stage, of which 

 he became one of the brightest ornaments in 

 a short time. He sang in the chief cities of 

 America with Fanny Stockton, with Rose Cook, 

 Zelda Harrison, Caroline Richings, and Madame 

 Parepa-Rosa, as leading ladies, and everywhere 

 accompanied by the eminent tenor, William 

 Castle, and wherever he sang he won the admi- 

 ration and regard of the public. He went to 

 England with the Rosas, and there attracted 

 great attention. He had joined Miss Kellogg's 

 English Opera Company, and was to have ap- 

 peared first at Chicago, but was attacked with 

 dropsy, the result of a liver-affection, from 

 which he had suffered for some years. His 

 voice was a magnificent low baritone, sweet, 

 mellow, sympathetic, firm and powerful, and 

 by thorough training was almost faultless. His 

 style was utterly free from affectation, simple, 

 easy, and always pleasing. 



Nov. 26. DENNETT, JOHN RICHARD, an 

 American journalist, publicist, and professor ; 

 died at Westborough, Mass., of consumption, in 

 the 37th year of his age. He was a native of 

 New Brunswick, but had resided in the United 

 States from his boyhood. He graduated from 

 Harvard College with honors in 1862, and was 

 class poet at commencement. Going South, 

 Mr. Dennett became manager of a plantation 

 on the Sea Islands, then under military con- 

 trol, and acted in that capacity till the end of 

 the war, when he traveled through the South- 

 ern States, contributing a seriesof able and in- 

 teresting letters to The Nation on the condi- 

 tion and prospects of that section. Returning 

 from this tour Mr. Dennett entered the office 



of The Nation as one of its editorial staff, and 

 retained that position till his death. Betides 

 being a regular contributor to The Nation, Mr. 

 Dennett was from 1870 to 1872 Assistant I 'P. 

 fessorof Rhetoric to Prof. Child at Harvard, and 

 discharged with great credit the duties of tlmi 

 honorable position, which ill-health caused him 

 ii. II.- wrote ably and forcibly on po- 

 litical and social subjects, but acquired marked 

 distinction in the field of literary criticism by 

 the evidence which his reviews afforded of ex- 

 tensive reading, keenness of judgment, and sub- 

 tile analysis. 



Nov. 27. HERBERT, Mrs. MARY A. (RAN- 

 NEY), an accomplished and successful teacher 

 in Brooklyn, a daughter of the late Lieutenant- 

 Governor Ranney, of Vermont; died in Brook- 

 lyn. She was born in Townshend, Vt., received 

 a very superior education, which, added to her 

 remarkable mental endowments, qualified her 

 eminently for her life-work as a teacher, which 

 she commenced at the early age of sixteen. 

 She was connected with the Brooklyn Heights 

 Seminary until the death of its principal, Prof. 

 Gray, and subsequently with Miss Harrison 

 established a school at Remsen and Clinton 

 Streets, which was very popular. Latterly she 

 had been associated with Miss Newton in Henry 

 Street. She was remarkably successful, and 

 greatly beloved as a teacher. 



Nov 28. ALVOBD, CORYDON A., a well- 

 known and celebrated printer of New York 

 City ; died at his residence in Hartford, Conn., 

 aged 61| years. He was a native of Winches- 

 ter, Litchfield County, Conn., learned the print- 

 er's trade in Hartford, removed to New York 

 City in 1845, and by careful and diligent prac- 

 tice and study acquired a reputation, as a print- 

 er of illustrated books, second to that of no 

 man in America. His establishment in Van- 

 dewater Street was one of the most extensive 

 in the country, and he acquired a handsome 

 fortune there, which was subsequently lost 

 through the misdeeds of others. He retired 

 from business in 1871, and had since resided 

 in Hartford, devoting much attention to the 

 local history of Hartford and Winchester. 



Nov. 28. DODD, Colonel JOSEPH, a former 

 contractor for mail-delivery and transporta- 

 tion, long an attache 1 of the New York Post- 

 Office, and one of the founders of Dodd's Ex- 

 press ; died in Jersey City, aged 84 years. 



Nov. 28. LABOR, GEORGE, a venerable citi- 

 zen of Stroudsbnrg, Pa. ; died there at the 

 well-authenticated age of 113 years. 



Nov. 28. STURQES, JONATHAN, an eminent 

 and leading merchant and philanthropist of 

 New York City, nearly fifty years in business ; 

 died at his residence there, in the 73d year of 

 his age. The best brief sketch of the career 

 of this excellent man is to be found in the 

 following extracts from the minutes entered 

 upon the records of the Chamber of Com- 

 merce, of which he was a distinguished mem- 

 ber. It is from the pen of A. A. Low, Esq., a 

 former president of the Chamber : " Mr. Sturges 



