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grandson of Jean Baptiste Say, and remained 

 steadfast to free trade when his political asso- 

 ciates supported the duties on grain. 



Paris, Ahmed, Effendi, an Arab scholar and 

 Turkish publicist, died Sept. 23, 1887. He 

 was a member of a Maronite family which em- 

 braced Protestantism in consequence of what 

 they deemed the perversion of Mohammedan- 

 ism. To escape imprisonment he fled to Egypt 

 where he became a teacher in the Christain 

 schools at Cairo, studied Arabic under the 

 sheikhs of the Yamant Aghar, and translated 

 the Bible into Arabic. Reverting to Moham- 

 medanism, he became secretary to the Bey of 

 Tunis, and in 1860 went to reside at Constan- 

 tinople, where he started the newspaper " El 

 Jewaib," through which he exerted a wide in- 

 fluence throughout Islam. 



Farre, Arthur, an English surgeon, born in 

 London, England, March 6, 1811 ; d. there, 

 Dec. 17, 1887. He was a pupil at the Charter- 

 house School in London, and was graduated 

 from Caius College, Cambridge, in 1833, stud- 

 ied medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 

 and received his degree of M. D. in 1841. He 

 lectured on comparative anatomy at St. Bar- 

 tholomew's Hospital in 1836-'37 and on foren- 

 sic medicine from 1838 to 1840. From 1841 

 to 1862 he was Professor of Obstetric Medicine 

 at King's College, as well as physician accouch- 

 eur to King's College Hospital, and was rec- 

 ognized as the head of the profession in ob- 

 stetric science and surgery. He was at differ- 

 ent times censor, examiner, and councilor in 

 the Royal College of Physicians, and was for 

 twenty-four years examiner in midwifery in 

 the Royal College of Surgeons. He had a 

 large obstetrical practice, numbering among 

 his clients the Princess of Wales and other 

 members of the royal family. He was the au- 

 thor of " The Uterus and its Appendages," 

 and also of numerous physiological papers. 



Fiiustle, Johann, a Bavarian minister of jus- 

 tice, born in Augsburg, Bavaria, in 1828 ; died 

 in Munich, Bavaria, April 18, 1887. He was 

 the son of a school-teacher, rose rapidly to high 

 posts in the judiciary, entered the ministry 

 about 1865, and took a prominent part in legis- 

 lation. In 1871 he was appointed Minister of 

 Justice in the Cabinet of Count Hegnenberg- 

 Dux, although a Liberal, and was retained in 

 office till his death. He secured the King's 

 signature in 1873 to the law accepting the 

 jurisdiction of the imperial courts, and was in- 

 strumental in effecting changes in the munici- 

 pal law in order to bring it into conformity 

 with the code of the empire. 



Fontes, Periera de Mello, A. M. de, a Portuguese 

 statesman, died in Lisbon, Portugal, Jan. 23, 

 1887. He was a soldier by profession, holding 

 the rank of general in the army, and was for 

 many years the chief of the Conservative party 

 in Portugal. First becoming Prime Minister in 

 1872, he kept his party and himself in power 

 by the use of patronage and of official pressure 

 in elections until the country was almost ripe 



for revolution, when the King in 1886 insisted 

 on calling a ministry from the Monarchical 

 Liberals. 



Gallait, Louis, a Belgian painter, born in Tour- 

 nay, Belgium, May 10, 1810; died in Brussels, 

 Belgium, Nov. 20, 1887. He was one of the 

 foremost representatives of the modern Dutch 

 school. Among his noted paintings are " Mon- 

 taigne visiting Tasso in Prison " (1836) ; " Bat- 

 tle of Cassel," painted for the Versailles gal- 

 lery; "Temptation of St. Anthony" (1848); 

 " Last Moments of Count Egmont," exhibited 

 at the World's Fair of 1862 and purchased for 

 the Berlin Museum ; " Queen Joanna and her 

 Dead Husband"; "The Taking of Anti- 

 och " ; " Counts Egmont and Horn listening to 

 their Death Sentence " ; and " Count Baldwin 

 crowned at Jerusalem." His most important 

 work is " The Plague in Turnay." 



Ganetsky, Johann StephanoYlteh, a Russian sol- 

 dier, died in St. Petersburg, Russia, May 7, 1887. 

 He was one of the heroes of the last Russo- 

 Turkish War, in which he commanded the 

 corps of grenadiers before Plevna, and victo- 

 riously repulsed the last desperate sortie of 

 Osman Pasha. At the time of his death he 

 was governor of the fortress of St. Petersburg. 



Genast, Wilhelm, a German politician and au- 

 thor, born in Leipsic, Saxony, July 30, 1822 ; 

 died in January, 1887. He studied jurispru- 

 dence at Jena and Heidelberg, entered on the 

 practice of law, and in 1848 first appeared in 

 the political arena as a champion of constitu- 

 tionalism. He was one of the most active 

 members of the Weimar Diet and a favorite 

 speaker in the North German Parliament and 

 afterward in the German Reichstag, where he 

 acted with the National Liberals. Genast ad- 

 vanced in his profession to high official posts, 

 and was instrumental in legal reforms. He 

 was the author of romances entitled "Der 

 Kohlergraf" and "Im hohen Hause," and of 

 the dramas, " Bernhard von Weimar " and 

 "Florian Geyer." 



Goldsehmidt, Meyer Aaron, a Danish journalist, 

 born in Vordinborg, in the Island of Jutland, 

 Oct. 26, 1819 ; died Aug. 15, 1887. He was 

 of Israelitish origin, and was educated at the 

 University of Copenhagen. In 1840 he found- 

 ed the u Corsair," a weekly satirical journal, 

 and in 1843 was sentenced to a term of im- 

 prisonment for his attacks on the ministry. In 

 1848 he took control of a periodical entitled 

 "North and South." He was the author of 

 " The Jew," a romance which was translated 

 into German and English ; " The Heir " which 

 was also translated into English ; and " The 

 History of Love in Divers Countries." He 

 also published several poems and dramas. 



Gozzadini, Count Giovanni, an Italian archaeolo- 

 gist, born in 1810; died in Bologna, Italy, 

 Sept. 14, 1887. In early life he was a soldier 

 in the Italian army. He began the pursuit of 

 archaeology by making a collection of weapons, 

 which he afterward presented to the city of 

 Bologna. In 1871 he was elected to preside 



