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other Austrian princes, the Schiller statue in 

 Mannheim, "Theseus," the "Dying Achilles," 

 "Hector," "Cassandra," "Psyche," "Brun- 

 hild," " Bathing Nymphs," " The Witch," etc. 

 A colossal head of Christ in marble, painted 

 and adorned with gold, designed for the tri- 

 umphal arch at Bucharest, created a sensation. 

 He treated in the same way " A Nymph," " Cu- 

 pid," and figures copied from the frieze of the 

 Parthenon. Later works were " The Fount- 

 ain," "Fisher-Maiden," and " Hector's Parting 

 from Wife and Child." His last production 

 was a statue of President Garfield. 



Conrbet, Vice-Admiral, commander of the 

 French naval forces in the China seas, born in 

 Abbeville, Somme, June 28, 1827 ; died on his 

 flag-ship "Bayard," at Makung, the Pescadores 

 Islands, June 11, 1885. He was a brilliant 

 student in the Polytechnic School, and was 

 given a commission as ensign in 1852. He 

 distinguished himself as a lieutenant by his 

 scientific work on the gunnery school-ship 

 " Suffren." As acting captain he was brigade- 

 major of the squadron of the north, and then 

 commanded a vessel in the West Indies. He 

 received the full rank of captain in 1873. He 

 commanded the " Savoie " in the squadron of 

 evolution, and was for a time director of the tor- 

 pedo-school at Boyardville, where he remained 

 until appointed Governor of New Caledonia. 

 He was made a rear-admiral in 1880. In 1882 

 he returned to France, and in 1883 was placed 

 in command of the naval division at Cherbourg, 

 and had direction of a series of experiments to 

 test the value of the new types of war-ships. 

 When the Tonquin troubles began, Admiral 

 Courbet was placed in command of the naval 

 fo/ces on the coast of Annam. Immediately 

 upon his arrival he began operations against 

 Hue, bombarded the forts at Thouan-An, and 

 brought about the peace of Hue three days 

 later. When, in consequence of disputes be- 

 tween Gen. Bouet and the civil commission- 

 er, the military commander was recalled, Ad- 

 miral Courbet was intrusted with the entire 

 direction of the campaign. After the arrival 

 of re-enforcements he advanced upon Sontai. 

 After capturing this, the strongest of the Ton- 

 quinese fortresses, he was preparing to con- 

 tinue his victorious campaign, when he was 

 superseded in the military command by Gen. 

 Millot. For his services in Tonquin he was 

 advanced to the rank of vice-admiral and made 

 a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor. Aft- 

 er the rupture that followed the collision at 

 Bac Ninh, Admiral Courbet was ordered to 

 concentrate his forces in the Eastern waters 

 and make reprisals on China. Obtaining by 

 strategy an entrance into the river Min, he 

 bombarded the naval arsenal of Foochow and 

 sank the Chinese fleet in the harbor. He next 

 bombarded Kehmg and temporarily occupied 

 the town, and then undertook the difficult 

 task of blockading the Formosan ports. In 

 February, 1885, he sank with torpedoes two 

 men-of-war at Sheipon (see CHIXA). By bom- 



barding the batteries in the Bay of Dome and 

 obtaining control of the Pescadores Islands, 

 Admiral Courbet brought to a close the Franco- 

 Chinese hostilities. His return was eagerly 

 looked forward to by his countrymen, when 

 his death occurred, caused by a bilious attack. 



Curt ins, Georg, a German philologist, born in 

 Ltibeck, April 16, 1820; died Aug. 16, 1885, at 

 Hermsdorf. He studied at Bonn and Berlin, 

 and in 1845 accepted a tutorship in the Univer- 

 sity of New York. Four years later he went 

 to Prague as Professor of Classical Philology. 

 Since 1862 he had resided at Leipsic as Profess- 

 or of Classical Philology and co-Director of the 

 Philological Seminary. He wrote treatises on 

 " Comparative Philology, in its Relations to 

 the Classical Languages," " Principles of Greek 

 Etymology," and the " Greek Verb." 



Demidoff, Paul Pavlovieh, Prince of San Donato, 

 born Oct. 21, 1839 ; died in Italy, Jan. 27, 1885. 

 He filled several diplomatic and political posts 

 in the Russian service, but was best known as 

 the possessor of iron and gold mines in the 

 Ural, and as a liberal dispenser of charity. 



Dennis, John Stougliton, Lieutenant-Colonel, for- 

 merly Deputy Minister of Interior in Canada, 

 born in Buttonwood in 1820; died July 7, 

 1885, in Kingsrnere, near Quebec. He was 

 commissioned Surveyor of Public Lands for 

 Upper Canada in 1842, was active in the vol- 

 unteer movement of 1855, and was appointed 

 to survey the lands in Manitoba when that dis- 

 trict was acquired from the Hudson Bay Com- 

 pany, but was recalled because the natives re- 

 sisted. In 1871 he was appointed Surveyor- 

 General and Deputy Minister of the Interior, 

 and directed the administration of the Domin- 

 ion lands in Manitoba and the Northwest. 



Duprat, Pierre Pascal, a French author, born 

 in Hagetman, Landes, March 24, 1815; died in 

 August at sea. He was educated in the Uni- 

 versity of Paris. He became a Professor of 

 History in Algiers in 1840, and returning to 

 Paris in 1845 engaged in political writing. He 

 was active in the Revolution of 1848, was the 

 associate of Lamennais in the publication of 

 the "Peuple constituant" newspaper, was 

 elected a deputy from Landes, acted on the 

 Committees on Public Works and on the Con- 

 stitution, and vigorously opposed the Prince 

 President. Exiled after the coup d'etat, he 

 founded at Brussels a review called " La Libre 

 recherche," and published a book on " The 

 Victims of the Coup d'Etat." He subse- 

 quently resided in Switzerland, and then in 

 Florence and Madrid. In 1869 he returned to 

 France, and under the Government of Nation- 

 al Defense published a newspaper, "Le Peu- 

 ple souverain." He was elected deputy for 

 Landes in 1871, and became an influential 

 member of the Extreme Left. He was an 

 earnest advocate of free trade, and opposed 

 the concession of further monopolies to rail- 

 road companies. He was elected a deputy for 

 Paris in 1876 and re-elected in 1877. Among 

 his published works are "The Ancient and 



