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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



He was the author of works on the Rouman- 

 ian language, among them "Elements of the 

 Rouman Tongue " (1854), and a " Roumanian 

 Grammar " (1877) ; also " Elements of Poetry " 

 (1860), and "Elements of Philosophy " (1863). 



Clam-Martinitz, Count Heinrich, a Bohemian 

 politician, born in 1826 ; died in Prague, Bo- 

 hemia, June 5, 1887. He was the representa- 

 tive of a German feudal family in Bohemia, 

 and while the Liberal German Party was domi- 

 nant in Austrian politics he was a prominent 

 figure in the Clerical Opposition. After the 

 Franco-German War the Czech party under 

 Count Clam's leadership attained to a position 

 of power and influence in the affairs of the 

 empire, and, although in more recent times 

 the national movement has become dissociated 

 from the interests of the aristocratic and Ultra- 

 montane section of the party, he was still the 

 acknowledged leader of the Czechs at the time 

 of his death. Count Clam entered the Reichs- 

 rath with the other Czechs when Count Taafe 

 became Austrian prime minister, and was the 

 chief of the Czech Club and the most influen- 

 tial member of the committee or caucus of the 

 Government party until 1885, when severe ill- 

 ness compelled him to be less active. 



Comber, T. J., an English missionary, born 

 about 1844; died at sea in June, 1887. He 

 was one of the most courageous and energetic 

 of the Baptist missionaries on the Congo. Af- 

 ter having lived for many years in Africa, he 

 was seized with malarial fever about the mid- 

 dle of June at Matadi, and died on board a 

 German steamer while on the route to Europe. 

 Not long before his sister and his brother had 

 died from the effects of the African climate 

 while engaged in mission work. 



Conrey, Roussel de, a French general, born in 

 Orleans in 1827; died in Paris, France, Nov. 

 9, 1887. He served, in the Crimea, Italy, and 

 Mexico, was with the Metz garrison which was 

 surrendered in 1870, and fought against the 

 Paris Communards. He was a general of rec- 

 ognized ability, and, after the fall of the Ferry 

 Cabinet in 1885, he was sent out to take com- 

 mand of the French forces in Tonquin. There 

 he came into conflict with the civil authorities, 

 and in a few months was called upon to resign. 

 In 1886 General Boulanger intrusted him with 

 a secret mission to the German frontier. 



CuvHIier-Fleury, Alfred Angnste, a French jour- 

 nalist, born in 1802; died in Paris, Oct. 18, 

 1887. He was a student in the College of 

 Louis-le-Grand, and won in 1819 the annual 

 prize for a Latin essay open to the competition 

 of all the schools of Paris. For two years he 

 was Secretary to Louis Bonaparte, King of 

 Holland, and shared with him his exile at 

 Rome and Florence. In 1827 Louis Philippe 

 intrusted him with the education of his son, 

 the Due d'Aumala, with whom he afterward 

 remained as secretary. He became one of the 

 editors of the "Journal desDebats" in 1834. 

 He was chief editor of that paper until the fall 

 of the empire, and devoted his literary talents 



to upholding in politics the doomed cause of 

 Orleanism, and in literature the losing side of 

 the Classicists against the Romantic school. 

 While remaining a stanch Orleanist, he offend- 

 ed the Due d'Aumale in 1872 by publishing a 

 letter in which he deprecated the efforts of the 

 deputies of the right to constrain President 

 Thiers to declare for the monarchy. The bio- 

 graphical and critical essays which make up 

 his published works are reprints of articles that 

 were written for the "Journal des Debats." 

 In 1866 he was chosen a member of the French 

 Academy. He published " Political and Revo- 

 lutionary Portraits " (Paris, 1851) ; " Historic 

 and Literary Studies " (1854) ; " Voyages and 

 Voyagers " (1854) ; and " Illustrious Poets and 

 Romancers" (1863). 



Dancer, John Benjamin, an English optician, 

 born in London in 1812 ; died in Manchester, 

 Dec. 6, 1887. He settled in Manchester in 

 1835, and soon made his mark in scientific cir- 

 cles. His services in connection with electric- 

 ity and photography were important, and he 

 was the first to suggest the application of pho- 

 tography in connection with the magic lan- 

 tern. He made the first thermometer in Eng- 

 land with any pretensions to accuracy. During 

 the later years of his life he was totally blind. 



Dnpin, Jean Henri, a French dramatist, born 

 in Paris, France, Sept. 1, 1791 ; died there, 

 April 8, 1887. He produced his first play, " Le 

 Voyage ii Chambord," in 1808. He wrote 

 about fifty pieces in collaboration with Scribe, 

 as many more with Armand Dartois, a large 

 number with other playwrights, and some 

 twenty that were produced under his own 

 name. Among these the most successful were 

 " La fete de famille " (1831) ; " L' Amour vient 

 apres" (1838); "Le chat noir" (1839); and 

 "L'orphelin de la Chine " (1867). 



Durny, Albert, a French journalist, born in 

 1844; died in Paris, Aug. 12, 1887. He was 

 the son of Victor Duruy, the historian who 

 was Louis Napoleon's Minister of Education in 

 1863. In 1869 he began writing for "Le Peu- 

 ple Francais" under the pen-name of "Albert 

 Villeneuve," and for "La Liberte" under his 

 own name. He served in the Franco-Prussian 

 War and was wounded at Sedan. In 1875 he 

 wrote a Bonapartist pamphlet entitled " Com- 

 ment lea Empires revieunent," which created 

 considerable stir. In 1876 he established "La 

 Nation," which was soon absorbed in " Le 

 Petit Caporal." 



Dnval, Raonl, a French politician, horn in 

 1883; died in Monte Carlo, Feb. 10, 1887. 

 He was an active and eloquent member of the 

 French Chamber, in which he first sat with the 

 Moderate Republicans, but became one of the 

 foremost champions of Bonapartism, and after- 

 ward of the united Conservative party. In 

 1886 he endeavored to effect an alliance be- 

 tween Moderate Conservatives who were pre- 

 pared to accept the republic and the sections 

 of the Republican party, who were equally op- 

 posed to the Radical programme. He was a 



