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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



Lord Cowley displayed diplomatic tact and 

 skill of the highest order. The rejection of 

 Napoleon's proposals for a congress in 1863 

 rests chiefly with Earl Russel. The Danish 

 War, the Mexican Expedition, and the Austro- 

 Prussian War of 1866, imposed new tasks on 

 the British representative in Paris. He re- 

 tired from the French embassy in 1867, and 

 took no further part in public life, 



Droysen, Jokanii Gustav, a German historian, 

 born in Treptow, in Pomerania, July 6, 1808 ; 

 died at Berlin, June 19, 1884. He was the son 

 of a clergyman, and became a tutor in Berlin 

 in 1883, made translations from ./Eschylus and 

 Aristophanes, wrote a history of Alexander 

 the Great and one of Greek civilization, be- 

 came a professor at Kiel in 1840, and there 

 took a prominent part in the agitation for the 

 union of the Danish duchies with Germany. 

 He was a member of the Frankfort Parliament, 

 and reporter of the Committee on the Constitu- 

 tion. His patriotism led him to take up mod- 

 ern German history, and in 1846 he published 

 lectures on the War of Deliverance. He was 

 called to Jena in 1851, and about 1859 to 

 Berlin. Besides numerous other treatises, he 

 wrote a great work on the u Political History 

 of Prussia," which he only brought down to 

 the middle of Frederick the Great's reign. 



Fleury, Emile Felix, a French general, born in 

 Paris, Dec. 23, 1815 ; died Dec. 11, 1884. Aft- 

 er squandering his patrimony, he gained rapid 

 promotion in the Algerian corps of Spahis, 

 and, returning to France in 1848, became an 

 ardent Bonapartist. He took part in the Ka- 

 byle expedition of 1851, and during the coup 

 d'etat received a wound in the head. He was 

 the efficient director of the imperial stud, was 

 nominated a Senator in 1865, was sent on a 

 confidential mission to King Victor Emamiel 

 in 1866, and in 1869 and until the fall of the 

 empire was ambassador at St. Petersburg. 



Hayward, Abraham, an English author, born 

 in Lyme Regis, Oct. 31, 1802; died in London, 

 Feb. 2, 1884. He was the son of a gentleman 

 that was known as a writer on agriculture and 

 horticulture. He began life as a solicitor, but 

 in 1832 was called to the bar. He published 

 a translation of the first part of " Faust " in 

 1833 (completed in 1847), and thenceforth 

 devoted himself more to literature than to 

 law. He was especially noted for his brilliant 

 essays. His works include : " Statutes founded 

 on the Common Law Reports " (1832) ; a trans- 

 lation of Savigny's " Vocation of our Age for 

 Legislation and Jurisprudence " (1839) ; " Law 

 regarding Marriage with the Sister of a De- 

 ceased Wife" (1846); "Juridical Tracts" 

 (1856); "Biographical and Critical Essays" 

 (2 vols., 1858-'73); " Autobiography, Letters, 

 and Remains of Mrs. Piozzi" (2 vols., 1861); 

 " Selections from the Diary of a Lady of Quali- 

 ty, from 1797 to 1844" (1864); and "More 

 about Junius" (1868). 



Hillcbrand, Karl, a German author, born in 

 Gieasen, Sept. 17, 1829; died in Florence, Oct. 



19, 1884. He was a son of "the philosopher 

 Joseph Hillebrand, and studied law in Heidel- 

 berg and Giessen. He was condemned to death 

 by a court-martial for participation in the 

 insurrection in Baden in 1849, but escaped to 

 France, passed through all the degrees in the 

 Paris University, and became a teacher of Ger- 

 man at St. Cyr in 1863 and at Douai in 1866. 

 He wrote in French " On Good Comedy" (1863), 

 "Contemporary Prussia" (1867), "Italian 

 Studies" (1867), and "On the Reform of 

 Higher Education" (1868). Driven out of 

 France as a German on the outbreak of the 

 war, he went to Italy as correspondent of the 

 " Times," and settled in Florence, writing for 

 newspapers and reviews in French, English, 

 and German. His German essays were col- 

 lected in two volumes, entitled " Italia," and 

 "Times, Nations, -and People." 



Hochstetter, Ferdinand von, a German geologist, 

 born in Esslingen, in 1829; died July 18, 1884, 

 in Ober-Dobling, near Vienna. He was the 

 son of a clergyman, and was educated for the 

 same profession, but abandoned it for the natu- 

 ral sciences, receiving employment in the geo- 

 logical survey of Bohemia in 1852. He was 

 geologist on the Novara expedition, and, after 

 his return in 1860, Professor of Mineralogy and 

 Geology in the Vienna Polytechnic School. In 

 1881 he took charge of the Royal Museum of 

 Natural History. His explorations in eastern 

 Europe, and his discoveries of prehistoric re- 

 mains, are described in a series of works, some 

 of which have been translated into English. 



Home, Richard Hengist, an English author, 

 born in London, in 1803 ; died March 13, 1884. 

 He was educated at the military college of 

 Sandhurst, and served as an officer in the 

 Mexican navy till the close of the War of In- 

 dependence. He traveled in the United States, 

 visiting many of the Indian tribes, and had 

 two ribs broken by an accident under Niagara. 

 He was wrecked in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 and afterward sailed on a ship that suffered 

 from mutiny and fire. On his return to Eng- 

 land, he devoted himself to literature. His 

 most celebrated work was "Orion" (1843), 

 an epic poem ; of this he published three edi- 

 tions, at the price of one farthing, partly as a 

 satire on the low estimation in which poetry 

 was held. It has since gone through ten edi- 

 tions. In 1852 he went to Australia with 

 William Howitt, where he held several offices, 

 such as Commissioner of Gold Fields, and 

 Mining Registrar. He was the champion 

 swimmer of Australia, and won several prizes 

 in swimming contests there. On one of these 

 occasions he was bound hand and foot. He 

 also surpassed in athletic games. He founded 

 the Melbourne Garrick Club, and established 

 there a large company for the manufacture of 

 wine. In 1870 he returned to England. His 

 published works, which are very numerous, 

 include "The Adventures of a London Doll," 

 "The Good-natured Bear," "An Exposition 

 of the False Medium, and Barriers excluding 



