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then a contributor to the " Nation " newspa- 

 per, of which, in 1855, he became editor and 

 proprietor, after the retirement of Sir Charles 

 Gavan Duffy, in consequence of the troubles of 

 1848. In 1876 he removed to London to prac- 

 tice law and engage in literary pursuits. He 

 was an eloquent and impassioned speaker, as 

 well as a vigorous writer ; ardent in his con- 

 victions and fearless in their expression; suf- 

 fering imprisonment for his advocacy of the 

 nationalist cause, yet bringing upon himself 

 the hostility and suspicions of the Irish revo- 

 lutionists. He sat in Parliament from 1874 to 

 18S2, when he retired from active political life. 

 In 1857 he traveled in America, and published 

 " A Visit to the Valley of Wyoming." In 1868 

 he was convicted of sedition, and imprisoned. 

 He published " New Ireland," a series of po- 

 litical sketches, in 1877. 



Tagliimi, Maria, Countess de Voisins, a dancer, 

 born in Stockholm, Sweden, March 18, 1804; 

 died in Marseilles, France, April 24, 1884. She 

 was the daughter of Philip Taglioni, an Italian 

 ballet-master, and made her debut at Cassel 

 when she was nine years old. When, in 1818, 

 she first appeared as premiere danseuse at Vien- 

 na, her style was quite new, and afterward, in 

 Paris, it was known as the " Ideal," in opposi- 

 tion to the old-fashioned sensuous style taught 

 by Gardel and Vestris, and known as the 

 "Realistic." Her father taught her decorous- 

 ness of gesture and expression. "Not a look 

 or movement of hers," he said, "should fail in 

 modesty. Mothers shall bring their young 

 daughters to see her without being shocked." 

 In the exquisite, airy style of her performance, 

 dancing might truly be said to be " the poetry 

 of motion." She appeared in all the capitals 

 of Europe, winning fame and fortune. On her 

 marriage, in 1847, to Count Gilbert de Voisins, 

 she left the stage. " You are the real queens," 

 said the Duchess de Berry ; " you have no in- 

 surrection to fear, and no exile." Taglioui 

 spoke of ill health and old age as things that 

 the artist had to dread. " No doubt," said the 

 Duches=>, " health and youth do not last for- 

 ever; but by the time they go you will have 

 your diamonds and your chateaux ; you will 

 be rich." The dancer, like so many other 

 stars, was improvident, and her wealth dis- 

 appeared, and, like her compatriot and friend 

 Mario, she ended her days in poverty and 

 obscurity. 



Tissot, Charles Joseph, a French diplomatist, 

 born in -Paris, Aug. 29, 1828 ; died there, in 

 1884. He was educated for the diplomatic 

 service, and was consul at various cities in 

 Turkey, and then secretary of the embassy 

 in London. Remaining in the service under 

 the republic, he was appointed minister to 

 Tangier in 1871, to Athens in 1876, ambassa- 

 dor to the Porte in 1878, where he displeased 

 the Roman Catholics of the East, and to Lon- 

 don in 1881, where he proved unacceptable to 

 the English Government. M. Tissot, during his 

 residence in the East, pursued archaeological 



researches, and wrote many essays on ancient 

 geography and architecture. 



I'lrk'i, Hermann, a German philosopher and 

 critic, born March 28, 1806 ; died Jan. 14, 1884. 

 He studied law, but turned to the more con- 

 genial pursuit of literature, writing on the an- 

 cient historians and Greek poetry, and then a 

 philosophical analysis of Shakespeare's plays. 

 In the first edition (1839) he attributed to the 

 dramatist a deep religious and ethical purpose ; 

 in the last (1868) it was as a microcosm of 

 human life and passion that the poet's dramas 

 were conceived, each one being given its due 

 place in a cycle covering the whole range of 

 human feeling. In all his writings on litera- 

 ture and art, Shakespeare was glorified as the 

 inspired poet of humanity. Ulrici published a 

 critique on Hegel's philosophy in 1841, a com- 

 prehensive work on the fundamental principle 

 of philosophy in 1845 and 1846, a " System of 

 Logic," a work entitled "Faith and Knowl- 

 edge "in 1858, and subsequently "God and 

 Nature " and " God and Man." The aim of his 

 philosophical studies was to establish an ideal- 

 istic and theological basis for positive science. 

 In 1876 he published a collection of essays on 

 the history of art. Ulrici was called from 

 Berlin to Halle as an extraordinary professor 

 in 1834, and thirty years later was appointed 

 Professor of Philosophy and Art History. 



Vara, Giovanni Battista, an Italian statesman, 

 born in Venice, in 1817; died April 20, 1884. 

 He labored with Daniel Manin in preparing 

 the revolution at Venice in 1848, and, after 

 the downfall of the Venetian Government, 

 continued the agitation against Austria from 

 Switzerland, until he was expelled in 1851. 

 Returning later to Piedmont, he practiced law. 

 On the liberation of the Venetian provinces in 

 1866, he was elected to Parliament. In July, 

 1879, he was appointed Minister of Grace and 

 Justice in the second Cairoli ministry. 



Watts, Henry, an English chemist, born in 

 London, Jan. 20, 1815 ; died there June 30, 

 1884. He was educated first at a private school 

 in London, where he received excellent ele- 

 mentary instruction in physics and chemistry, 

 a circumstance unusual at that time. He be- 

 came a teacher, and attended lectures at Uni- 

 versity College, London, and in 1841 was 

 graduated as Bachelor of Arts. In 1846 he 

 entered the Birkbeck Laboratory of Chemistry, 

 then recently established at University College, 

 as assistant to the late Prof. Fownes, and in 

 that capacity directed the work of the stu- 

 dents. He was unable to obtain a professorship, 

 on account of his being incapacitated for lect- 

 uring by an incurable impediment in his speech, 

 and for this reason he was ultimately induced 

 to devote himself entirely to the literature of 

 chemistry. In 1848 he was engaged by the 

 Cavendish Society to prepare a translation, 

 with additions, of the great " Handbuch der 

 Chemie " of Leopold Gmelin, a work that ex- 

 tended to eighteen volumes, and occupied a 

 portion of his time for twenty years. The first 



