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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



Schiller, Rauch, Schinkel, and the Humboldts, 

 spread his fame. He executed a number of 

 monumental works in Berlin and other cities, 

 among them two statues of Friedrich Wilhelm 

 IV ; an equestrian statue of the present Em- 

 peror, in Cologne; the groups on the Castle 

 Bridge, in Berlin; the gigantic Victoria, on the 

 triumphal column, at Berlin ; and many others, 

 besides a long catalogue of minor pieces. 



DUCROT, AUGUST ALEXANDRE, one of the 

 most distinguished officers of the French army, 

 who was second to none in the energy and abil- 

 ity with which he resisted the German invasion 

 of 1870-'71, died at Versailles, August 16th. 

 He commanded the First Corps, and, after the 

 wounding of MacMahon, was provisionally in 

 command of the entire army, until relieved by 

 his senior, General Wimpffen. Escaping from 

 the Germans after being taken prisoner at Se- 

 dan, he made resolute and ingenious attempts 

 to break the lines of the army which invested 

 Paris. In the sortie of the Second Army of 

 Paris on the southeast of Champigny, and in the 

 last " supreme effort," at Montretout-Buzenval, 

 on the east, the success of Ducrot was not equal 

 to his merit. It was not through lack of bravery 

 or devotion that his oath to return either dead 

 or victorious from Champigny was not fulfilled. 

 General Ducrot was born February 27, 1817, 

 at Nevers, passed through the academy at St. 

 Cyr, and received a commission in 1840. In 

 the course of eighteen years he mounted to the 

 grade of brigadier-general. He fought with 

 distinction in the war of 1859 on the plains of 

 Loinbardy. He served in Africa as general of 

 division, and at the outbreak of the Prussian 

 War was commandant in Strasburg. General 

 Ducrot was falsely accused of breaking his pa- 

 role and taking up arms after the capitulation 

 of Sedan. 



DUPRE, GIOVANNI, the chief of Italian sculp- 

 tors, died at Florence, January 8th. He was 

 born March 1, 1817. His father, a wood-carver, 

 was the son of a family which came with fallen 

 fortunes from Lorraine. Giovanni learned the 

 same trade. He practiced modeling in the stu- 

 dio of a benevolent sculptor, and found patrons 

 who enabled him to execute his first works. 

 Dupre was a realist, but nobler in his concep- 

 tions than any other modern follower of this 

 tendency in sculpture. Among the best of his 

 numerous productions are a " Pietd " in Sienna, 

 a " Statue of Giotto " in the Uffizi at Florence, 

 the " Triumph of the Cross " in the Church of 

 Santa Croce, etc. 



GREY, Sir GEORGE, English statesman, died 

 September 9th. His father, the first baronet, 

 was the brother of Earl Grey, the Reform Min- 

 ister. Sir George succeeded to the title in 

 1828. He was born at Gibraltar, May 11, 1799, 

 took high honors at Oxford, and was called to 

 the bar in 1826. He entered Parliament in 

 1832, and was made Under-Secretary for the 

 Colonies in 1834, Judge- Advocate in 1839, and 

 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1841. 

 He advocated arbitrary measures in the Irish, 



Canadian, and Jamaican difficulties, but ad- 

 vanced liberal views on certain Irish questions 

 when in opposition. In the Cabinet of Lord 

 John Russell he was Home Secretary, and in- 

 troduced the harsh repressive measures adopt- 

 ed during the Chartist and Irish agitations of 

 1848. In the Palmerston Government he again 

 received the position of Home Secretary, and in 

 1866 the habeas corpus act was again suspended 

 in Ireland at his proposal. He held no office 

 during Gladstone's first ministry, and after its 

 defeat retired from public life. 



KAUFMANN, CONSTANTINE, Russian general, 

 died May 14th. He was born in 1818. He rose 

 rapidly in the army, and attained distinction 

 in the Crimean War. After the war he was 

 commissioned to arrange a plan, conjointly 

 with General Miliutin, for the reorganization 

 of the Russian army. He occupied the post of 

 Governor of Lithuania for ten years, and was 

 then appointed Governor of Turkistan. In 

 Asia he extended the dominion of Russia, an- 

 nexing successively Bokhara and Khiva, then 

 Khokand in 1875, and was preparing to estab- 

 lish quietly a Russian protectorate in Afghan- 

 istan, when the resistance of the English, who 

 made war upon his ally, Shere Ali, and the 

 change in the political situation, led the Rus- 

 sian Government to abandon their designs, 

 and eventually recall the able and energetic 

 general who had done so much to extend the 

 power of the White Czar in Central Asia. 



LANZA, Signer, Italian statesman, died at 

 Rome, March 9th. He was born in Piedmont 

 in 1819. In 1848 he was chosen President of 

 the Sardinian Chamber. He had been Minister 

 many times in Italy, usually presiding over the 

 Finance Department, but sometimes over that 

 of Public Instruction. In 1866 he resigned his 

 portfolio, and was chosen President of the 

 Chamber in 1867. In 1870 he undertook to 

 form a ministry, and being unable, took office 

 under Sella, as Minister of the Interior. He 

 retired in 1873, but continued to sit in the 

 Chamber. 



LESLIE, THOMAS EDWARD CLIFFE, British 

 political economist, died January 27th, aged 

 fifty-five years. He was born in Ireland, the 

 son of a clergyman of Scotch extraction, and 

 was called to the English bar after studying at 

 Trinity College, Dublin, and at LincolnVInn, 

 London; but, turning his attention to litera- 

 ture, he became a contributor to the quarter- 

 lies, and received the appointment of Professor 

 of Jurisprudence and Political Economy in the 

 Queen's College, Belfast, a position which he 

 filled for twenty-five years. Cliffe Leslie was 

 the pioneer in England of the historical or 

 inductive method as applied to political econ- 

 omy. His criticisms call in question the uni- 

 versality and value of the current maxims of 

 the theoretical economists. Among his chief 

 works are "Land Systems and Industrial 

 Economy of Ireland, England, and Continent- 

 al Countries" (1870), and a volume of essays 

 on "Political and Moral Philosophy" (1879). 



