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tion of the "Monumenta Germanise Historica." 

 His principal works are : " History of the Ger- 

 man Constitution" (1843-78); "History of 

 Schleswig and Holstein " (1851-'54) ; " Lubeck 

 under Wullenwever" (1856); "Life and Doc- 

 trines of Ulfilas " ; " German Emperors from 

 Charles the Great to Maximilian," and numer- 

 ous short contributions to German history. 



Webster, Thomas, an English artist, born at 

 Pimlico, March 20, 1800; died Sept. 22, 1886. 

 He entered the Royal Academy as a student 

 in 1820, and was first brought into public 

 notice by a picture entited "Rebels Shoot- 

 ing a Prisoner," a scene of boy mischief, ex- 

 hibited in 1825. One of the most character- 

 istic of his pictures, " Anticipation " (1839), 

 represents a baker's boy bringing home a pie, 

 which a hungry-looking lad at the door eyes 

 with expectant satisfaction. In 1846 he was 

 elected a full member of the Academy. His 

 drawing was easy and unaffected, his coloring 

 harmonious, and his composition simple. He 

 exhibited many paintings, among which are 

 "The Gunpowder Plot" (1828), "The Sick 

 Child," "The Card-Players," "The Love-Let- 

 ter," "The Smugglers," " The Lantern," "A 

 Village School," "Late at School," " Bird- 

 Catchers," "The Rat-Trap." "Foot-Ball," re- 

 garded as his best effort prior to 1840, " Punch " 

 (1840), " The Smile " and " The Frown " (1841), 

 "The Boy with Many Friends" (1841), "The 

 Wanderer" (1842), "The Grandmother," "Con- 

 trary Winds " (1844) " The Dame's School " 

 (1845), "Good-Night" (1847), "A Rubber" 

 (1848), "Attraction" (1851), "The Race" 

 (1855), " Hide and Seek " (1856), " Autumn 

 and Winter" (1860), " A Game of Draughts" 

 (1864), "Volunteers at Artillery Practice" 

 (1871), "The Prompter "(1874), "Youth and 

 Age" (1876, "The Letter " (1877). 



Willkomm, Ernst Adolf, a German novelist, 

 born in Herwigsdorf, Saxony, Feb. 10, 1810; 

 died there, May 26, 1886. He was educated 

 at the Gymnasium of Zittau and the Univer- 

 sity of Leipsic. At the university he engaged 

 in the study of law, but soon turned his at- 

 tention to literature, and while still a student 

 wrote his first works, "Bernhard, Duke of 

 Weimar," a drama (Leipsic, 1833), and " Eric 

 XIV, King of Sweden" (3 vols., Leipsic, 

 1834). During the years 1837-'39 he edited 

 "Jahrbucher filr Drama, Dramaturgic und 

 Theater " (Dramatic Art Annuals), and. pub- 

 lished " Novels of Civilization," " The Europe- 

 Weary," and "Lord Byron: a Poet's Life." 

 In 1845 and the following years he traveled 

 in Southern Europe, and he took part in the 

 war in Italy in 1849. Eleven of his books 

 came from the press in the years 1840-'48. 

 Of these, " The White Slaves " (5 vols., Leip- 

 sic, 1845), and "Borderers, Fools, and Pilots" 

 (3 vols., Leipsic, 1842), are perhaps the best 

 known. He was for some time editor of the 

 " Lubecker Zeitung," but withdrew from that 

 post in 1852 on account of failing health, and 

 removed to Hamburg, where he established a 



boarding-school for young girls, worked edi- 

 torially on the " Jahreszeiten," and "Ham- 

 burger Correspondent," and wrote numerous 

 romances, including " The Family Ammer " (3 

 vols., Frankfort, 1855) ; "Peter Pommermg " 

 (2 vols., Prague and Leipsic, 1856); "Ship- 

 Owner and Sailor " (2 vols., Frankfort-ori-the- 

 Main," 1857), and " Banco " (2 vols., Gotha, 

 1857). A few years ago Dr. Willkomm re- 

 turned to spend his remaining days in his 

 native place. His last work of importance 

 was "Bruised Hearts" (3 vols., Berlin, 1874). 

 He belonged to the aesthetic school of romance- 

 writers, and is admired for naturalness, vigor, 

 and inventive talent. Besides the works al- 

 ready mentioned, his publications include "The 

 Interpreter of Dreams " (3 vols., Stuttgart, 

 1840) ; " Traditions and Tides of Upper Lusa- 

 tia"(2vols., Hanover, 1843) ; " Wallenstein" 

 (4 vols., Leipsic, 1844); "Poet and Apostle" 

 (2 vols., Frankfort-on the- Main, 1859) ; "Wan-- 

 dering Souls " (3 vols., Jena, 1866) ; " A Step- 

 Child of Fortune" (3 vols., Leipsic, 1867); 

 "Modern Sins" (3 vols., Nordhausen, 1861); 

 and many others. 



Zaleski, Bohdan, a Polish patriot and poet, 

 born in 1801 ; died at Villeprieux, near Paris, 

 April 1, 1886. He was a scion of the noble 

 family of Ukraine, but was orphaned at an 

 early age. He devoted himself to study of the 

 history and legends of his race, and wrote 

 poems on these themes. In 1825 he went to 

 Warsaw, and took part in the movement that 

 led to the revolt of 1830-'31. He was present 

 at the battle of Grochow, and in 1831 was re- 

 turned as a deputy to the Polish Diet. After 

 the fall of Warsaw he removed to Paris and 

 contracted an intimate friendship with Prof. 

 Mickiewicz, of the College of France. For 

 some years before his death he was totally 

 blind, and he survived all his relatives. 



Znnz, Leopold, Hebrew educator, born in Det- 

 mold, Germany, in 1794; died in Berlin, March 

 19, 1886. He entered the University of Berlin 

 in 1816. In 1818 he published "Etwas uber 

 die Rabbinischer Literatur," and in 1820 was 

 appointed preacher to the new synagogue in 

 Berlin, but had to resign on account of the un- 

 usual frankness of his sermons. He was an 

 intimate friend of Heinrich Heine, in whom he 

 inspired the poems of the " Rabbi von Bacha- 

 rach." In 1824 he became an editor on the 

 " Spener Gazette," and after 1831 devoted 

 himself to his great work on the liturgy of the 

 Jews. In 1835 he was appointed the first Ger- 

 man preacher in Prague, but soon returned to 

 Berlin, where in 1839 he was appointed direct- 

 or of the Teachers' Seminary, a post that he 

 held for eleven years. In 1845 he wrote his 

 important fragment on " The History of the 

 Middle Ages," and in 1848 published a Liberal 

 pamphlet on the events of that year, for which 

 he was affectionately nicknamed " Vater Zunz" 

 by the populace of Berlin. In 1855 he pub- 

 lished his " Synagogue Poetry of the Middle 

 Ages," containing^ the celebrated section on 



