known corporation lawyers in the country. He was especially active in the management of 

 railroad properties, and was receiver for the Metropolitan Street Railway Co. of New York 

 after 1907. For some time he was a trustee of Princeton University. He was an ardent 

 collector of autographs, and wrote Meditations of an Autograph Collector (1902); Diversions 

 of a Book Lover (1903); At the Library Table (1909) and Edgehill Essays (iQio). 



James OtisKaler, writer of juveniles under the pen-name "James Otis," died in Portland. 

 Maine, December n, 1912. He was born in Winterport, Maine, March 19, 1848, and after 

 1865 was in newspaper work, first on the Boston Journal and then on the New York Sun, 

 until he was employed (1870) on Leslies' Boys and Girls. In 1877 he wrote Toby Tyler 

 as a serial in Harper's Young People and then devoted himself to books for children, notably 

 the " Minute-Boy Series," writing nearly 150 volumes, including serials for St. Nicholas. 



John Steinfort Kedney, professor of divinity in Seabury Divinity School, 1871-1908, 

 died at Salem, New Jersey, March 8, 1911; he was senior priest of the American Episcopal 

 Church. He was born in Essex county, New Jersey, February 12, 1819, graduated at Union 

 College in 1838, and at the Union Theological Seminary in 1841, and was ordained priest in 

 1843. He was rector of several churches and lectured in the Concord School of Philosophy 

 and in the Cambridge Episcopal Theological School. He wrote The Beautiful and the Sub- 

 lime (1884), Hegel's Aesthetics (1886), and Problems in Ethics (1899). 



John Mills Kendrick, Protestant Episcopal bishop (since January 1889) of Arizona and 

 New Mexico, died in 1912. He was born in Gambier, Ohio, graduated at Marietta College 

 in 1856, was admitted to the New York bar in 1858, served two years in the Civil War, and 

 in 1865 was ordained to the priesthood. He was rector of churches in Fort Scott and Leaven- 

 worth, Kansas, and in Columbus, Ohio, and in 1878-89 was general missionary of the diocese 

 of Southern Ohio. 



Frederick Keppel, art-dealer, died in New York City on March 5, 1912. He was born 

 at Tullow, Co. Carlow, Ireland, on March 22, 1845 and was educated at Wesley College, 

 Dublin, and in England. In New York City he became a bookseller and then a print dealer 

 and importer of pictures. He was an art critic of ability, and lectured on art at the Metro- 

 politan Museum of Fine Arts and in Yale, Columbia, and Harvard universities. He pub- 

 lished The Golden Age of Engraving, A Day with Whistler, and many articles in periodicals, 

 especially in The Print- Collector's Quarterly. 



Vaughan Kester, novelist, died July 4, 1911. He was born in New Brunswick, N. Jf., 

 September 12, 1869, and was reared in Ohio. He portrayed types characteristic of the South 

 and Middle West. Among his books are: The Manager of the B. and A. (1901); John 

 o' Jamestown (1907); The Prodigal Judge (1911), and The Just and the Unjust (1912.) 



Herman Knapp, physician, died May i, 1911. He was born at Dauborn, Prussia, May 

 17, 1832, and practised as an eye-and-ear specialist in New York after 1868. He taught in 

 the medical school of New York and Columbia universities, and founded the New York 

 Ophthalmic and Aural Institute. He wrote a book on intraocular tumours, many papers 

 on eye-and-ear surgery, and excellent text-books, and founded the valuable Archives of 

 Ophthalmology and Otology. 



James Proctor Knott, lawyer and legislator, died June 18, 1911. He was born in Kentucky, 

 August 29, 1830, and was educated at home. He practised law in Missouri and after 1863 

 in Kentucky, was a member of the Missouri state legislature in 1858 and state attorney- 

 general in 1858-61. He was a Democratic representative in Congress from Kentucky in 

 1867-71 and 1875-83, and governor in 1883-87. Between 1892 and 1901 he taught eco- 

 nomics and law at Centre College (now part of Central University), Danville, Kentucky. 



George William Knox, theologian, Union Seminary lecturer on Christianity in the Far 

 East, died at Seoul, Korea, April 26, 1912. He was born at Rome, N. Y., August n, 1853, 

 graduated at Auburn Theological Seminary in 1877, and was ordained in the Presbyterian 

 ministry in the same year. The first years of his professional life were spent in missionary 

 work and teaching in Japan, where he was, for a time, professor of philosophy and ethics in 

 the Imperial University, Tokio, and where he received the Order of the Rising Sun. In 

 1897 he became a lecturer on apologetics in Union Theological Seminary, New York, and 

 after 1899, was professor of the philosophy and history of religion there. He wrote many 

 books, mostly on religious subjects, both in Japanese and English including The Direct and 

 Fundamental Proofs of the Christian Religion (1903; N. W. Taylor Lectures at Yale), The 

 Spirit of the Orient (1906), The Development of Religion in Japan (1907) and The Religion of 

 Jesus (1909), and contributed the article "Christianity" to the nth ed. of the Ency. Brit. 



William Mershon Lanning, judge of the U.S. District Court, for New Jersey, since June 

 1904, died February 16, 1912. He was born in Ewing township, Mercer county, New Jersey, 

 January I, 1849, studied at Lawrenceville, and was admitted to the bar in 1880. He was 

 city solicitor of Trenton, 1883-87, judge of city district court, 1887-91, and (Republican) 

 representative in Congress, 1903-04. He was a trustee of the General Assembly of the 

 Presbyterian Church (North) and of Lawrenceville School, and a director of Princeton 

 Theological Seminary. 



Homer Lea, author, died at Los Angeles, November i, 1912. He was born in Denver, 

 November 17, 1876, and was educated in California, at Occidental College, the University 

 of the Pacific and Leland Stanford Jr. University. Stories of his holding high rank in the 



