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at the International Congress of Prehistoric 

 Anthropology and Archaeology, the proceed- 

 ings of which he opened with an address on 

 Etruscan remains. He was the author of a 

 large number of works, among which are " La 

 vita di Armanciotto de Ramazzatti" (1835); 

 " Memorie per la vita di Giovanni II. Benti- 

 vogli" (1839); "Di ulteriori scorperte nella 

 Necropoli a Marzabotto " (1870) ; " 11 conte 

 Giovanni Pepoli e Sixto V " (1878). 



Grant, James, a Scottish novelist, born in Edin- 

 burgh, Scotland, Aug. 1, 1822 ; died in London, 

 England, May 5, 1887. He was the son of a 

 captain in the British army. After spending 

 seven years with his father in British America, 

 he returned to England in 1839, and was com- 

 missioned as ensign, but in 1843 he resigned, 

 and devoted himself to literature. Many of 

 his novels treat of modern military life, with 

 which his early barrack experiences made him 

 familiar, others are the fruit of studies in Scot- 

 ish history and antiquities. In 1875 Mr. Grantt 

 embraced the Roman Catholic faith. His first 

 work, " The Romance of War, or the High- 

 landers in Spain," was published in 1846, and 

 in the next year the companion volume, " The 

 Highlanders in Belgium." Among his numer- 

 ous works are the following : " The Adven- 

 tures of an Aide-de-camp" (London, 1848); 

 "Memoirs of Kirkcaldy of Grange" (1849); 

 "Walter Fenton " (1850); "Edinburgh Cas- 

 tle " (1850) ; " Bothwell, or the Days of Mary 

 Queen of Scotts " (1851); "Memoirs of Sir 

 John Hepburn, Marshal of France and Colonel 

 of the Scots Brigade " (1851) ; " Jane Seton " 

 (1853); "Philip Rollo " (1854) ; "Frank Hil- 

 son, or the Queen's Own" (1855); "The Yel- 

 low Frigate " (1855) ; " The Phantom Regi- 

 ment " (1856) ; " Harry Ogilvie " (1856) ; 

 "Laura Everingham" (1857); "Memoirs of 

 the Marquis of Montrose " (1858) ; " Arthur 

 Blane" (1858); "The Cavaliers of Fortune" 

 (1858); "Lucy Arden" (1859); "Legends of 

 the Black Watch " (1859) ; " Mary of Loraine " 

 (1860); "Olliver Ellis" (1861); "Dick Rod- 

 ney" (1861); "The Captain of the Guard" 

 (1862) ; " The Adventures of Rob Roy " 

 (1863); "Letty Hyde's Lovers "(1853); "Sec- 

 ond to None " (1864) ; " The King's Own Bor- 

 derers" (1865) ; "The Constable of France" 

 (1866) ; " The White Cockade " (1867) ; " First 

 Love and Last Love" (1868); "The Secret 

 Dispatch" (1868); "The Girl He Married" 

 (1869) ; " Jack Manly, his Adventures " (1870) ; 

 "Lady Wedderburn's Wish" (1870); "Only 

 an Ensign " (1871) ; " Under the Red Dragon " 

 (1871); "British Battles on Land and Sea" 

 (1873-'75) ; " Shall I Win Her ? " (1874) ; 

 "Fairer than a Fairy" (1874); "One of the 

 Six Hundred" (1876); " Morley Ashton " 

 (1876); "Old and New Edinburgh" (1880- 

 '83); "Lady Glendonwynd" (1882); "Jack 

 Chaloner" (1883); "Miss Cheyne of Essil- 

 mont" (1883); "The Master of Aberfeldie " 

 (1884) ; and " History of the War in the Sou- 

 dan " (1885). 



Greig, Samuel Alexeivieh, a Russian statesman, 

 born in 1827; died in Berlin, Germany, March 

 22, 1887. His father and grandfather were 

 well-known Russian admirals of Scotch extrac- 

 tion. He was educated for the army, served 

 in the guards, rose to the rank of general, and 

 was wounded at Sebastopol. His first civil 

 post was in the Ministry of Marine. He held 

 for seven years the second place in the Ministry 

 of Finance, was for the next four years Comp- 

 troller-General, and in 1878 became Minister 

 of Finance. He had to settle the expenses of 

 the Turkish War, and concluded two internal 

 loans of 300,000,000 rubles each. In 1880 he 

 contracted a metallic loan without resorting to 

 the assistance of foreign syndicates. He devised 

 five new taxes yielding 21,000, 000 annually, and 

 was pursuing fiscal reform and retrenchment 

 when a court intrigue deprived him of office. 

 His last six years were passed in retirement. 



Hadji, Loja, a Bosnian chieftain, died in Mecca, 

 Aug. 16, 1887. Taking advantage of the inter- 

 regnum between the retirement of the Turks 

 from Serajevo, and the entry of the Austrians, 

 he placed himself at the head of the National 

 party, organized a guerilla insurrection, and 

 harassed the Austrian army of occupation for 

 several months. At last he was taken prisoner, 

 tried by court-martial, and sentenced to five 

 years' imprisonment in the Bohemian fortress 

 of Theresienstadt. On being pardoned and 

 granted a small pension on condition that he 

 would never return to Bosnia, he took up his 

 residence in the holy city of Islam and spent 

 the rest of his life in religious contemplation. 



Mauser, Miska, a Hungarian violinist and com- 

 poser, born in Pressburg, Hungary, in 1822; 

 died Dec. 17, 1887. At an early age he mani- 

 fested a remarkable taste for music, and was 

 taught the violin by Conradin Kreutzer. He 

 first appeared in public at the age of eleven. 

 He studied at the Vienna Conservator ium un- 

 der Mayseder and Sechter, and then made a 

 musical tour through nearly all of the civilized 

 countries of the world. The notes of his tour 

 were published as "Traveling Diary of an 

 Austrian Virtuoso " (Leipsic, 1859). Some of 

 his " Lieder ohne Worte " and his arrangements 

 of Schubert's "Lieder" are still popular. 



Henneqnin, Alfred Nieocles, a French dramatist, 

 born in Li6ge, Belgium, Jan. 13, 1842; died in 

 St. Mand6, France, Aug. 6, 1887. He was 

 originally a railroad engineer, but on attaining 

 a success with a play that was brought out at 

 Brussels in 1869, was encouraged to write 

 others. His reputation was made with "Le 

 Proce's Veauradieux," which was produced in 

 1875. This was followed by "Les Dominoa 

 Roses " and other pieces, most of them written 

 in conjunction with other dramatists. 



Herrmann, Herr, a German juggler, born in 

 Hanover in 1815 ; died in Carlsbad, Jan. 8, 1887. 

 He exhibited his performances of sleight-of- 

 hand through all the countries of Europe and 

 America, and gained a large fortune, of which 

 he made a generous use. His performances were 



