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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



ones was "My Grandfather's Clock." Mr. 

 Work was also an inventor, and patented a 

 knitting-machine, a walking doll, and a rotary 

 engine. He went abroad in 1863, and on his 

 return invested the fortune that his songs had 

 brought him in a fruit-raisiug enterprise at 

 Vineland, N. J. The failure of this was fol- 

 lowed by domestic sorrows, and for several 

 years he was in retirement. In 1875 he be- 

 came connected, as composer, with Mr. Cady, 

 the music publisher, whose house had been the 

 publisher of Work's songs till the plates were 

 destroyed in the great Chicago fire of 1871. 

 After that his residence was in New York city. 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. Alexander, Prince of 

 Orange, the last male heir to the throne of Hol- 

 land, born Aug. 25, 1851 ; died June 21, 1884. 

 Always weak in health, gentle in disposition, 

 and scholarly in his tastes, unlike his dissipated 

 elder brother, who died before him, he avoid- 

 ed all society, living among his books and or- 

 nithological collections in the historical house 

 of De Witt, which Motley occupied, at the 

 Hague. The quarrel between his father and 

 mother, which drove his brother into reckless 

 excesses and a determined purpose to disgrace 

 his royal station, plunged him into melancholy 

 and gave him an aversion to marriage. After 

 the death of his mother and brother, he became 

 more of a recluse than before. In two pam- 

 phlets he explained the reasons for his way of 

 life. The remarriage of King William com- 

 pleted the breach between father and son. 

 Prince Alexander was the last descendant on 

 the male side of the great house of Orange. 



Alexander, Rev. William Lindsay, a Scottish 

 clergyman, born in Edinburgh, Aug. 24, 1808 ; 

 died at Pinkieburn, near Edinburgh, Dec. 

 21, 1808. He completed his studies at the 

 University of St. Andrews, in his native city, 

 and became minister of a Congregational church 

 in Edinburgh in 1835. He was made Profess- 

 or of Theology to the Congregationalists of 

 Scotland in 1854, Examiner in Philosophy of 

 St. Andrews University in 1861, and a mem- 

 ber of the Old Testament Revision Committee 

 in 1870. His writings include " Congregational 

 Lectures for 1840 on the Connection and Har- 

 mony of the Old and New Testament " (2d ed. 

 1853) ; " Anglo-Catholicism not Apostolical " 

 (1843) ; " Christ and Christianity " (1854) ; 

 " Life of Dr. Wardlaw " (1856) ; " Christian 

 Thought and Work " (1862) ; and "St. Paul at 

 Athens " (1865). He brought out the third 

 edition of Kitto's " Biblical Cyclopaedia," and 

 was a frequent contributor to periodical lit- 

 erature. In 1876, when Dr. Alexander com- 

 pleted the fortieth year of his ministry, he was 

 presented by his congregation and other friends 

 with a princely testimonial. He had lived in 

 retirement for the last three years. 



Ampthill, Odo Rnssel, Baron, an English diplo- 

 matist, born in Florence, Feb. 20, 1829 ; died in 

 Berlin, Aug. 25, 1884. He was sent to Eng- 

 land by his father, Maj.-Gen. Lord George 

 William Russel, for his education, and he be- 



gan his diplomatic career as soon as he left 

 Oxford, at the age of twenty. He served one 

 year in Berlin, two in the Foreign Office in 

 London, was sent by Lord Derby to Paris in 

 1853, and in 154 to Constantinople, where 

 he was left in charge during the absence of 

 Lord Stratford de Redcliffe in the Crimea. 

 In 1857 he was attached to the legation in 

 Washington, and in 1858 was sent to Naples 

 and on a special mission to the Pope, whence 

 he was recalled to become Under-Secretary in 



1870. The same year he was sent as Envoy 

 Extraordinary to the German headquarters in 

 Versailles, and upon the recall of Lord Loft us 

 was appointed ambassador to Berlin, Oct. 16, 



1871, in which post he remained until his 

 death, a favorite of the royal family, particu- 

 larly of the Crown Prince, and a congenial host 

 to the aristocratic and the literary circles of 

 Berlin. For his services as a representative 

 of Great Britain at the Berlin Congress, he was 

 created a peer in 1881. 



Bebm, E., a German geographer, died in Go- 

 tha, March 15, 1884. He edited a geograph- 

 ical annual, prepared the statistics for the 

 " Gotha Almanac," published a periodical ab- 

 stract of statistics on the population of the 

 globe, and, after the death of Dr. Petermanu, 

 edited the " Mitteilungen." 



Bickerstetb, Robert, Bishop of Ripon, born in 

 Acton, in Suffolk, England, Aug. 24, 1816 ; died 

 in Ripon, Yorkshire, April 15, 1884. He was 

 graduated at Cambridge, with high honors, in 

 1841, and was ordained to his father's curacy 

 at Sapcote, Leicestershire. After acting as 

 rector of several parishes, he was in 1854 ap- 

 pointed Canon Residentiary of Salisbury, and 

 in 1856 was promoted to the See of Ripon. 

 He was a member of a family whose name and 

 praise are in all the churches. He belonged to 

 the party that is loyal to English Protestant- 

 ism. Zealous in good works, tolerant in his 

 opinions, gentle in temperament, and kindly in 

 his dealings with all men, he was eminently 

 suited for the position that he so successfully 

 filled for so many years. He published " Bible 

 Landmarks'* (1850); "Lent Lectures" (1851); 

 "Sermons" (1866), and numerous single ser- 

 mons and lectures on various subjects. 



Blnnt, John Henry, an English author, born 

 in Chelsea in 1823; died at his rectory of 

 Beverstone, in Gloucestershire, April 11, 1884. 

 Among other works on ecclesiastical history 

 and doctrine, he wrote the "Directorium Pas- 

 torale," the "Annotated Bible" and "Book 

 of Common Prayer," and a " History of the 

 Reformation." 



Bohn, Henry George, an English publisher, 

 born in 1795 ; died in London, in August, 1884. 

 He was engaged in the book-trade from 1815, 

 when he was German traveler for his father, 

 a German bookseller established in London, 

 until he sold out his large business and retired 

 in 1865. He became widely known by the 

 "Guinea Catalogue," issued in 1841. In his 

 classical, antiquarian, ecclesiastical, scientific, 



