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principal works are: "The Adhesion of the 

 Elector Maximilian to the Catholic League in 

 1609," " Seni before the Dead Body of Wallen- 

 stein," "The Battle of the White Mountain 

 near Prague," "The Death of W alien stein," 

 " Nero Dancing over the Destruction of 

 Rome," " Galileo in Prison," and " The Dis- 

 covery of America." 



Pirn, Bedford, rear-admiral in the English 

 Navy, born June 12, 1826 ; died Oct. 1, 1886. 

 He entered the navy in 1842, and, after taking 

 part in extensive surveys on the Pacific coast 

 of Central America, joined the Franklin search 

 expedition under Sir E. Belcher, which sailed 

 on board the "Resolute" in 1852, and was in- 

 strumental in rescuing the officers and crew of 

 the "Investigator," who had been frozen in 

 for three years. During the Crimean War he 

 commanded the gunboat "Magpie" in the 

 Baltic Sea. He protected Nicaragua against 

 the filibusters in 1860. After other important 

 services he was retired in 1870, after which he 

 studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 



1873. In February, 1874, he was returned as 

 member of Parliament for Gravesend. 



Ponchielli, Amilcari, an Italian composer, born 

 near Cremona, Aug. 31, 1834; died at Milan, 

 Jan. 16, 1886. He entered the Milan Conser- 

 vatorium at the age of eleven, and studied 

 under Angelini Rossi and Mazzucato. His first 

 success was achieved by " I Promessi Sposi," an 

 opera, which was produced at Milan in 1872. 

 In 1873 his ballet, "LeGemelle," was produced 

 at La Scala, in Milan. "La Gioconda," his 

 masterpiece, a tragic opera, was produced in 



1874, and in it his style is seen in its maturest 

 development. In 1880 "In Figluol Prodigo " 

 was produced at La Scala with great success. 



Prior, Thomas Abiel, an English line-engraver, 

 born on Nov. 5, 1809: died at Calais, Nov. 8, 

 1886. He was the engraver of the " Heidel- 

 berg," " Zurich," " Apollo and Sibyl," " The 

 Fighting T6meraire," and other famous plates 

 from the works of Turner. 



Redesdale, John Thomas Freeman Mitford, Earl 

 of, born in Ireland, Sept. 9, 1805; died in 

 London, May 2, 1886. He was educated at 

 Eton, and at New College, Oxford, from which 

 he was graduated in 1825. He succeeded his fa- 

 ther as Baron Redesdale, in 1830. _ In 1851 he 

 was appointed chairman of committees in the 

 House of Lords. He was strongly opposed to 

 the Divorce Bill, and published his views on 

 the subject in a pamphlet entitled " The Law 

 of Scripture against Divorce " (1856). He pub- 

 lished works on doctrinal subjects, and in 1875 

 he entered into a prolonged controversy with 

 Cardinal Manning on the subject of commun- 

 ion of both kinds. The correspondence was 

 afterward published under the title of " The 

 Infallible Church and the Holy Communion." 

 He strenuously opposed Mr. Gladstone's pro- 

 posals for the disestablishment and disendow- 

 ment of the Irish Church, also the Irish Church 

 Suspension Bill of 1868, and the Disestablish- 

 ment Bill of 1869. 



Roberts, Arthur, an English author, born in 

 1800; died in London, England, Sept. 4, 1886. 

 He was graduated at Oriel College, Oxford, 

 entered the ministry, and was rector of Wood- 

 rising for fifty-five years. He published 

 " Church Memorials and Characteristics," 

 " Church History of the First Six Centuries," 

 "The Life, Letters, and Opinions of William 

 Roberts," "An Analysis of Martin Bucer's Re- 

 vision of the Prayer-Book," " Labors of Han- 

 nah and Martha More," " The Correspondence 

 of Hannah More and Zachary Macaulay," and 

 other works. 



Rothschild, Baron, Mayer Carl Ton, a German 

 banker, born in 1820; died at Frankfort-on- 

 the-Main, Oct. 17, 1886. He was elected to 

 represent Frankfort as a Conservative in the 

 North-German Parliament in 1867. After the 

 war with Austria, when Frankfort was an- 

 nexed by Prussia, King Wilhelm gave him a 

 seat in the Herrenhaus, the first instance of a 

 Jew being admitted to that assembly. 



Saint-Yallier, Comte d?, a French Senator, 

 born in 1838 ; died in Paris, Feb. 4, 1886. He 

 entered the diplomatic service when quite 

 young, and the skill he displayed while charge 

 d'affaires at Constantinople, won for him the 

 appointment of Under-Secretary of State. In 

 1869 he was sent as envoy to Stuttgart, and 

 thence to Copenhagen, and after the Franco- 

 Prussian War he became diplomatic agent to 

 Field-Marshal von Manteuffd, commander of 

 the army of occupation. He was elected Sena- 

 tor for the Department of the Aisne in 1876, 

 and in 1877 he became ambassador at Berlin, 

 and was the second plenipotentiary of France 

 at the Congress of Berlin. 



Scherer, Wilhelmj, a German philologist, born 

 in 1841 ; died Aug. 6, 1886. He enjoyed a 

 wide reputation as a lecturer on the German 

 language and literature at Vienna, then in the 

 new University of Strasburg, and in the last 

 years of his life in Berlin. He aided Mullenhoff 

 in a profusely annotated collection of u Monu- 

 ments of German Poetry and Prose," published 

 researches relating to the eleventh and twelfth 

 centuries, and a great work on the " History 

 of the German Language " ; also a " Sketch of 

 Jacob Grimm." 



Scherr, Johannes, a German author, born in 

 Hohenrechberg, Swabia, Oct. 3, 1817; died 

 Nov. S2, 1886. He was the son of a teacher, 

 and became a teacher himself, settled in Stutt- 

 gart in 1843, and became a leader among the 

 Democrats. In 1848 he was elected to the As- 

 sembly, and after the suppression of the revolu- 

 tion in 1849 fled to Zurich. He became Pro- 

 fessor of History and Literature in the univer- 

 sity there in 1860. He was a prolific poet and 

 prose-writer, and is best known by his " Uni- 

 versal History of Literature," " Schiller and his 

 Times" (1859), "Life of Blucher," and "Ger- 

 mania," a history of German life and manners. 



Schmidt, Jnlian, a Germnn critic and historian, 

 died in Berlin, March 28, 1886. He was in 

 the earlier part of his career a controversial 



