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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



Interior, voted in favor of holding the conclave 

 for the election of a new Pope in 1878 within 

 the city of Rome. 



Phillips, John Arthur, a British mining engi- 

 neer, horn in Cornwall in 1823 ; died in Ken- 

 sington, London, Jan. 4, 1887. He received 

 his technical education at the Ecole des Mines 

 in Paris, where he acquired a fondness for in- 

 vestigation which never deserted him and which 

 for the most part had reference to the applica- 

 tion of chemistry to mineralogical and petro- 

 logical questions. The results of his investiga- 

 tions were published in the proceedings of the 

 Chemical or Geological societies of which he 

 was a fellow or in the " Philosophical Maga- 

 zine." Mr. Phillips was also a Fellow of the 

 Royal Society and a member of the Institute of 

 Civil Engineers. Besides the article " Metal- 

 lurgy " in the " Encyclopaedia Metropolitan a," 

 he was the author of " The Mining and Metal- 

 lurgy of Gold and Silver " (1867) ; " Elements 

 of Metallurgy" (1874); "A Treatise on Ore 

 Deposits " (1884), and at the time of his death 

 was, with Prof. H. Bauerman, preparing a new 

 edition of his " Metallurgy." 



Pott, August Friedrieh, a German philologist, 

 born in Nettelrede, Hanover, Nov. 14, 1802; 

 died in Halle, Prussia, July 12, 1887. He was, 

 with Grimm and Bopp, an originator of the 

 study of comparative philology, and made im- 

 portant discoveries in that science. For many 

 years he filled a professorship at Halle. He 

 was the author of "Die Zigeuner in Europa" 

 (1844) ; " Die quinare und vigesimale Zahl- 

 tnethode by Volkern aller Welttheile" (1847) ; 

 " Die Ungleichheit der menschlichen Rassen " 

 (1856) ; " Etymologische Forschungen auf dem 

 Gebiete der Indogermanischen Sprachen " (2d 

 ed., 1867-'70); and "Die Sprachverschieden- 

 heiten in Europa an den Zahlwortern nachge- 

 wiesen " (1868). 



Bamee, Daniel, a French architect, born in 

 1806; died in Hamburg, Germany, Oct. 15, 

 1887. Among his most important works were 

 the restoration of the Palais de Justice at Beau- 

 vais and the churches at Noyon, Abbeville, and 

 Senlis. He was the author of a " Histoire 

 g6n6rale del' architecture," " Monumens anciens 

 et modernes," " Dictionnaire g6ne>al de termes 

 d'architecture en quatre langues," and numer- 

 ous essays on architecture. 



Bandi, Lorenzo, an Italian prelate, bom in 

 1817; died in Rome, Italy, Dec. 30, 1887. He 

 was the Minister of Police to Pope Pius IX, 

 and during the last few years of the temporal 

 power of the papacy his name was a source ot 

 terror. He persecuted Liberal politicians, ex- 

 ercised the most rigorous censorship over the 

 press, and organized a spy system so complete 

 that no native or stranger dared utter an opin- 

 ion without fear of arrest. He was made a 

 cardinal in 1875, and during his last years was 

 prefect of the congregation of the Propaganda. 



Rousseau, Philippe, a French painter, born in 

 Paris in 1816 ; died at Acquigny, Dec. 4, 1887. 

 He early displayed a genius for art, and studied 



under Gros, Bertin, and the marine painter 

 Hippolyte Garneray. His first appearance at 

 the Salon was in 1831 with a landscape from 

 Auvergne. This was followed each year till 

 1838 by similar works. He then occupied him- 

 self for several years with painting panoramas. 

 In 1845 he exhibited in the Salon " The City 

 Rat and the Field Rat," which won a medal. 

 Among his other works are : " The Cat and the 

 Old Rat " (1846) ; " The Mole and the Rabbit " 

 (1847); "Interior of a Farm-House" (1850); 

 " Recreation " (1857) ; " The Gala Day " (1859) ; 

 " Home of Walter Scott " (1868) ; " Spring " 

 and "Autumn" (1869); "The First Plums 

 and the Last Cherries" (1870); and "The 

 "Wolf and the Lamb " (1875). 



Saint-Hilaire, fonile Marco de, a French author, 

 born in Versailles, France, in 1793 ; died Nov. 

 3, 1887. He was a page to Napoleon I, and 

 after the fall of the First Empire began writ- 

 ing little books on such trivialities as the art 

 of adjusting cravats, and the art of succeeding 

 in love. When, after 1830, works in defense 

 of the Empire were in vogue, he published 

 "Memoires d'un page de la cour imperiale," 

 and similar Napoleonic works. Napoleon III 

 gave him a librarianship at Strassburg, which 

 he held until 1870. 



Sayn-Wittgenstein, Caroline, Princess von, a 

 Russian author, born in Poland in 1819; died 

 in Rome, Italy, March 9, 1887. She was the 

 daughter of a Prince Ivanoffska, a wealthy 

 Polish landowner, and in 1836 married, at the 

 command of the Emperor Nicholas, the Ger- 

 man Prince Nicholas von Sayn-Wittgenstein, 

 who was in the military service of Russia. 

 She left Russia in 1848, and for twelve years 

 lived at Weimar in the closest intimacy with 

 Franz Liszt, chapel-master there, with whom 

 she had first become acquainted in St. Peters- 

 burg in 1847. The Czar granted her a di- 

 vorce from her husband in 1855, but this had 

 no validity in the Roman Catholic Church, to 

 which she belonged, and in which she could 

 not obtain the annulment of her marriage in 

 order to wed Liszt without illegitimating her 

 daughter. The Czar commanded the princess 

 to resume her residence in Russia, and when 

 she refused to obey confiscated her estates, 

 which he afterward restored to her daughter, 

 who married the Prince of Hohenlohe-Schil- 

 lingsfilrst. In 1860 the Princess Wittgenstein 

 took up her residence in Rome, to be followed 

 a year later by Liszt, who in 1865 took holy 

 orders in the Catholic Church. When the com- 

 poser died in 1886 he made the princess his 

 heiress, and intrusted to her the task of arrang- 

 ing for publication his artistic remains, which 

 she was unable to complete. Her life in Rome 

 was mainly devoted to literary composition. 

 The books that were issued under her name 

 treat for the most part of religious and theo- 

 logical subjects. The more important ones are 

 " Christianisme et Buddhisme" and " Religion 

 et monde." She also wrote anonymously on 

 controversial themes. 



