702 SCHNEIDER, EUGENE. 



SMITH, MRS. GERRIT. 



He studied law in Heidelberg and Berlin, and 

 was employed by the Government from 1819 

 to 1825 in Dantzic and Konigsberg. Having 

 made a trip to Italy in which he gathered a 

 considerable art-knowledge, in 1826 he was 

 appointed Assessor in Konigsberg, three years 

 later Councilor in the Court at Marienwerder, 

 and soon after received an appointment in 

 Dtisseldorf. In this the representative city of 

 German art, he found plenty of opportunities 

 to cultivate his favorite study. Among several 

 trips which he undertook from this city was 

 one to the Netherlands, as the result of which 

 he published the " Niederlandische Briefe " 

 (1834). He also contributed a large number 

 of articles to various art-journals. His prin- 

 cipal work, however, is " Geschichte der bil- 

 denden Kunste " (1843-'64), the second, edi- 

 tion of which he prepared together with Liit- 

 zow and Friederichs (1866-'67). In 1848 he 

 was appointed Obertribunalsrath in Berlin, 

 which position he resigned in 1857, in order to 

 devote himself entirely to art-history. In 1858 

 he founded the Christliche Kunstblatt, which 

 he published for a large number of years 

 with Schnorr von Carolsfeld and von Griin- 

 eisen. 



SCHNEIDER, EUGENE, a French manufac- 

 turer and politician, born in April, 1805 ; died 

 November 27, 1875. He early embraced a 

 commercial career, and in 1830 became direc- 

 tor of the important machine- works at Creu- 

 sot, which now employ not fewer than 10,000 

 workmen. In 1865 M. Schneider, whose am- 

 bition it had been to compete with English 

 labor in iron-works, was much gratified by 

 receiving an order for fourteen railway-engines 

 from England. In 1845 he was elected to the 

 Chamber of Deputies and to the Council-Gen- 

 eral of Saone-et-Loire for the canton of Mont- 

 cenis. In 1851 he became Minister of Com- 

 merce and Agriculture, and after the coup 

 d'etat was elected as a government candidate 

 to the Corps Legislatif, of which he became 

 one of the vice-presidents. In 1865 he re- 

 plaed the Due de Morny on several occasions 

 as president, having been reflected in 1857 

 and 1863 for his department. From 1867 he 

 was always appointed President of the Corps 

 Legislatif. When in 1869 the Emperor pro- 

 moted M. Jer6me David, one of the vice-presi- 

 dents, to be Grand Officer of the Legion of 

 Honor, M. Schneider resigned his post, but re- 

 sumed it upon the declaration of the Emperor 

 disclaiming any intentions ascribed to the nom- 

 ination by M. Schneider. He was created a 

 Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1857, 

 and decorated with the Grand Cross in 1868; 

 was from 1845 a member of the General Coun- 

 cil of Manufacturers, for which he drew up 

 several reports. He had also been a Governor 

 of the Bank of France, and President of the 

 Societe Generate. 



SEIDL, JOHANN GABEIEL, an Austrian poet 

 and archaeologist, born June 21, 1805; died 

 July 16, 1875. He studied law, was appointed 



professor in the gymnasium in Cilli in 1829, 

 and in 1840 went to Vienna as custodian of the 

 coin and antiquarian cabinet. Ilis works, both 

 in prose and poetry, are very numerous. His 

 poems were very popular. He published 

 " Gedichte in niederosterreichischer Mundart " 

 (fourth edition, 1844), "Dichtungen" (3 vols., 

 1826-'28), "Bifolien" (fifth edition, 1855), 

 " Liedertafel" (1840), " Lieder der Nacht" 

 (second edition, 1851), and " Natur und Herz " 

 (third edition, 1859). He also published some 

 plays. The best known of these were "Das 

 erste Veilchen," " Die Unzertrennlichen," 

 "Das letzte Fensterl'n," and "Drei Jahre nach 

 dem letzten Fensterl'n." The two latter pieces 

 were produced with great success. Among his 

 novels, " Pentameron" (1843) is probably best 

 known. 



SELWYN, Rev. WILLIAM, an English minis- 

 ter, born in 1806 ; died April 24, 1875. He was 

 educated at Eton and St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge, where he graduated in 1828. He held 

 in succession the rectory of Branston and the 

 vicarage of Melbourne, was appointed to a can- 

 onry in Ely Chapel in 1833, Margaret Professor 

 of Divinity in the University of Cambridge in 

 1855, and in 1859 chaplain to the Queen. He 

 wrote : " Horse Hebraicee " (1848), " The Prin- 

 ciples of Cathedral Reform" (1848), "Two 

 Charts of Prophecy" (1848), "Notes on the 

 Revision of the Authorized Version of the Bi- 

 ble" (1856), "Critical Notes on the Septu- 

 agint" (1856), and "Thoughts on Holy Scrip- 

 ture " (1864). 



SMITH, Mrs. GERRIT, died at Peterborough, 

 N. Y., on the 6th of March. She was the daugh- 

 ter of Mr. William Fitzhugh, of Hagerstown, 

 Md., where she was born January 11, 1805. 

 She was married to Mr. Smith when only 17 

 years old. She heartily cooperated with her 

 husband in his political and charitable views 

 and exertions. For half a century she presided 

 over the indiscriminate and ceaseless hospitali- 

 ties of the Smith Mansion at Peterborough. She 

 was equally attentive to the fugutive slave and 

 distinguished guest. Some of the borrowers 

 and beggars who were naturally attracted to 

 Peterborough by the large wealth of Mr. Smith, 

 upon his refusal to aid them, learned to appeal to 

 Mrs. Smith, who did not often send anybody 

 empty away. The home charities were left 

 pretty much to herself, while Mr. Smith gave 

 much of his attention to the distant objects of 

 his bounty. For miles around the village the 

 poor and needy, whether worthy or unworthy, 

 were supplied annually under her direction with 

 loads of flour, beef, poultry, blankets, garments, 

 and a good deal of money. Highly cultivated, 

 excelling in recitations from the poets, and skill- 

 ful in music and song, she yet loved to steal out 

 with her knitting-work in hand and take tea 

 with humble neighbors, in order to find out and 

 supply their wants. Mrs. Smith was greatly 

 beloved by the people of Madison County. She 

 left two children, Colonel Green Smith and Mrs. 

 Elizabeth Smith Miller. 



