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trose," and " Viel Feind' viel Ehr." As a 

 theatrical manager he displayed executive en- 

 ergy, fine discernment, invention, and enter- 

 prise. He left the Royal Theatre in 1867 to 

 found a new theatre with liberal tendencies 

 and aims. The handsome Stadttheater which 

 lie built was destroyed by the tmgic fire in 

 which many Vienna people lost their lives. 



Leopold, George Duncan Albert, Prince, Duke of 

 Albany, youngest son of Qneen Victoria of 

 England, born April 7, 1853; died in Cannes, 

 March 27, 1884. He was weak from his 

 birth, and incapable of vigorous physical ex- 

 ercise or intense application to study, yet he 

 possessed an active mind, a lively fancy, a re- 

 markable memory, and a strong love of knowl- 

 edge. With these qualities he acquired from 

 men and books a large fund of information, a 

 special acquaintance with history, and an easy 

 familiarity with modern languages. His early 

 education was conducted in German as much 

 as in English. As a student at Oxford and in 

 his residence at Boyton Manor, and later at 

 Claremont Castle, he was agreeable and hos- 

 pitable. He traveled much on the Continent, 

 and (the year before he was called to the House 

 of Lords as Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, 

 and Baron Wicklow) in Canada and the United 

 States. He often presided at the laying of 

 corner-stones and the opening of schools, hos- 

 pitals, and other charitable institutions, and 

 hoped to be active like his father in the en- 

 couragement of art, education, and social re- 

 form. He wished in his last years to play a 

 political role as Canadian Viceroy or Governor 

 of Victoria, but the objections of the Govern- 

 ment and the anxiety of his mother for his 

 health obliged him to give up such hopes. He 

 married, April 27, 1882, Princess Helen of 

 Waldeck. He was ordered to Cannes by his 

 physician in March, 1884, where, entering too 

 eagerly into the social pleasures of the place, 

 he died of a stroke of apoplexy. 



Lepage, Bastien, a French painter, born in 

 Damvilliers, Nov. 1, 1848; died Dec. 10, 1884. 

 He entered the public service, but left it to de- 

 vote himself to art. He was a pupil of Cabanel, 

 and began exhibiting in 1871 the rustic scenes 

 for which he became famous. Among his 

 works are "In the Spring," exhibited in 1873, 

 " The Song of Spring," " Portrait of my Grand- 

 father," and many life-like portraits in the im- 

 pressionist manner. 



Lepsius, Karl Richard, a German Egyptologist, 

 born in Naumburg, Dec. 23, 1810; died in Ber- 

 lin, July 10, 1884. He became absorbed in 

 Egyptian studies at the Berlin University, and 

 in 1842 was appointed to conduct a scientific 

 expedition to Egypt, where he was engaged in 

 deciphering inscriptions and collecting art-re- 

 mains for the Berlin Museum until 1846. After 

 his return he became a professor in the Berlin 

 University and Director of the Egyptian Mu- 

 seum, which he founded. No scholar has done 

 more than Lepsius for the reconstruction of the 

 Egyptian language. 



Maria Anna, Empress of Austria, born Sept. 

 19, 1803; died May 5, 1884. She was the 

 daughter of King Victor Emanuel I of Sardinia, 

 and the last descendant of the elder line of the 

 house of Savoy. Her marriage to the Arch- 

 duke Ferdinand took place in Vienna, Feb. 27, 

 1831. He succeeded to the throne March 2, 

 1835. After his abdication, Dec. 2, 1848, they 

 took up their residence in Prague, where the 

 ex-Emperor died June 29, 1875. The Empress 

 Maria Anna was a devout Catholic, of an ear- 

 nest and retiring disposition, and a rigid ob- 

 server of etiquette. On account of her less 

 congenial nature, her ignorance of the German 

 language, and the fact that she was childless, 

 she possessed less influence at court than the 

 Archduchess Sophie, the mother of the present 

 Emperor. Metternich arranged her marriage 

 with the Crown Prince, in the delusive hope 

 of strengthening the hold of the Hapshurgs on 

 their Italian possessions. In her retirement 

 the ex-Empress devoted herself to works of 

 charity, and especially to encouraging in Bo- 

 hemia female orders for the care of the sick 

 and the education of girls. 



Markevitch, Bolcslas, a Russian novelist, born in 

 1825; died in St. Petersburg, Nov. 30, 1884. 

 He was at first a writer of reviews and of so- 

 ciety verses, and published in the last ten years 

 of his life a series of powerful novels dealing 

 with the political conditions of Russian society 

 in the successive periods since the reign of 

 Nicholas, written in an easy style, after French 

 models, and liberal but not revolutionary in 

 tendency. They are entitled " A Forgotten 

 Question," " A Quarter of a Century ago," 

 "The Crisis." "The Abyss," portraying the 

 rise of Nihilism, was left unfinished. 



Midbat Pasha, a Turkish statesman, born in 

 Constantinople in 1822 ; died in the autumn of 

 1884. He was the son of a civil judge. After 

 serving as secretary to a commission for amel- 

 iorating the Konieh district in 1845, he was ap- 

 pointed director of confidential reports. He 

 was dispatched to the Asiatic provinces to 

 investigate the collection of taxes, but was 

 recalled to suppress brigandage in Roumelia, 

 which he did with an iron hand. He was then 

 appointed to the Supreme Council, and was 

 made Governor of Bulgaria. Visiting Euro- 

 pean capitals to study constitutional forms, he 

 introduced reforms in various districts, and in 

 1860 induced the Sultan to extend them to the 

 whole empire. He was appointed Governor 

 of the Vilayet of the Danube in 1864, and con- 

 structed public works, and hoped to reconcile 

 the Bulgarians to Turkish rule. In 1866 he 

 was recalled to preside over the Council of 

 State. Sent to suppress a revolt in Bulgaria 

 and then to quell a disturbance at Bagdad, he 

 succeeded by resolute and severe means. Re- 

 turning to Constantinople, he warned Abdul 

 Aziz of an attempt to change the succession. 

 Mahmoud Nedim and his colleagues were dis- 

 missed, and Midhat was appointed Grand 

 Vizier. But he was soon disgraced. He was 





