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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (POUYER-QUERTIER RAO.) 



short time, and in his later life he spent a great part 

 of hi.s income providing young scientific explorers to 

 visit Persia. 



Ponyer-Quertier, A. T., a French statesman, born in 

 1820; died in Rouen, April 2, 1891. A firm believer 

 in Bonapartism, he was elected deputy to the Corps 

 Legislatif from the Seine-Infe"rieure in 1857, having 

 previously held various municipal and provincial 

 offices. 'He was as strong a Protectionist as he was 

 an Imperialist, and therefore after the conclusion of 

 the treaties of commerce on a free-trade basis in 1862 

 he entered the lists against the Emperor's commercial 

 policy, and was one of the most eloquent and most 

 dangerous adversaries of the Government on economi- 

 cal questions. For this reason he lost his seat in 

 1869. On Feb. 8, 1871, he was elected to the National 

 Assembly from his old district by an overwhelming 

 majority, and on Feb. 25 was intrusted with the port- 

 folio of'Finance and with the duty of taking part in 

 the decision as to the terms of peace. The Germans 

 in Berlin treated him with special consideration, and 

 through him they secured a rapid settlement of the 

 terms of the treaty of peace. The tendency toward a 

 protectionist policy in France was observed, as soon as 

 he took charge of the Ministry of Finance, by Prince 

 Bismarck, who willingly agreed to the clause of the 

 Frankfort treaty proposed" by Pouyer-Quertier by 

 which each government accords to the other most- 

 favored-nation treatment. By this stipulation Pouyer- 

 Quertier falsely hoped that France would recover 

 through the channels of trade the war-fine of 5,000,000,- 

 000 francs. When Germany recently endeavored to 

 form a central European Zollverein, he boasted that by 

 his foresight the arrangement had been rendered nuga- 

 tory, while the Germans are equally satisfied in being 

 able to claim under his clause the reduced schedules in 

 the new French tariff. After his return to France in 

 1871 he had the' good fortune to have the loan of 2,- 

 500,000,000 francs subscribed twice over in France 

 alone, and to secure the adoption of all the proposed 

 new duties, with the exception of certain raw ma- 

 terials. Confidence in him was disturbed, however, 

 by his attempt to defend the irregular financial meth- 

 ods of M. de la Motte, prefect of the Eure Depart- 

 ment, and on March 5, 1872, he gave in his resignation. 

 Since then he has filled no ministerial post, but he 

 has taken an active part in the discussion of financial 

 questions, at first in the Chamber and afterward in 

 the Senate. He lost his seat in the Senate to a Re- 

 publican in the elections of February, 1891. 



Praeger, Ferdinand, a German musician, born in 

 Leipsic, Jan. 22, 1815; died in London, Sept. 2, 1891. 

 He was a son of Heinrich Aloysius Praeger, a noted 

 violinist and composer, and, though intended for a 

 Protestant clergyman, he learned the violoncello and 

 piano ; went to Holland and taught music before he 

 was sixteen, and in 1834 made his way to London, 

 where he gave lessons for a living and composed 

 sonatas and other pieces for the piano-forte and the 

 orchestra. Of his published pieces, mostly written 

 in his early life, forty-eight of the best are contained 

 in the " Praeger Album." He engaged also in musi- 

 cal journalism, lectured, and published a translation 

 of Emil Naumann's " History of Music," a work on 

 composition, and " Wagner as I knew him." 



Pressense, Edmond Dehault de, a French Protestant 

 clergyman, born in 1824; died in Paris, April 8, 1891. 

 In the time of the empire he made a great name for 

 himself as a preacher. A strong Republican from the 

 time of the revolution of 1848, he affirmed his politi- 

 cal doctrines under all circumstances. He occupied 

 himself also with social problems, and took a bold 

 position in discussions in the various social sci- 

 ence congresses held in Belgium and Switzerland be- 

 tween 1860 and 1870. On the re-establishment of the 

 republic he became a member of the National As- 

 sembly, and was afterward a Senator. He wrote 

 several '.works on theological subjects, among them 

 " Etudes\Evangcliques," " Vie de Jesus," a reply to 

 Eenan's book, and the"Histoire de 1'Eglise et de la 

 Revolution." 



Quick, Kobert Herbert, an English educator, born in 

 1831 ; died at Redhill about March 20, 1891. He was 

 graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge; was for 

 some years a master at Harrow School, and subse- 

 quently vicar of Seclbergh in Yorkshire. When a 

 course for the instruction of teachers was introduced 

 at Cambridge he was appointed a lecturer, and deliv- 

 ered a series of lectures on the " History of Educa- 

 tion." He contributed papers on educational prob- 

 lems to pedagogic journals, and was the author of 

 " Essays on Educational Reformers," a work highlv 

 esteemed by students of educational methods, which 

 was first published in 1868 and was undergoing a re- 

 vision at the time of his death. 



Qninton, James Wallace, an Anglo-Indian adminis- 

 trator, born in Ireland about 1835; died in Manipur, 

 March 25, 1891. He was graduated at Trinity College. 

 Dublin, passed the examination for the Bengal civil 

 service, and went out to India in November, 1856. He 

 spent eight years as a district officer in the Northwest 

 Provinces ; was sent in 1865 as deputy commissioner 

 to the newly annexed province of Oude, became 

 officiating commissioner there, and in 1875-'77 was a 

 judicial commissioner in British Burmah. Return- 

 ing to the Northwest Provinces, he was a magistrate, 

 collector, and judge of sessions in Allahabad, com- 

 missioner for different divisions in 1880-'85, and mem- 

 ber of the Viceroy's Council for the Northwest Prov- 

 inces. In 1889 he was selected, on account of his practi- 

 cal judgment and experience, to be chief commis- 

 sioner of Assam. In this capacity he went to Mani- 

 pur, where he attempted to carry out the decision of 

 the Indian Government regarding the Senaputty, and 

 was killed with his companions. 



Bao, Sir Madhava. an Indian statesman, died in 

 Madras, March 28, 1891. After the transfer of the 

 Government of India from the Council of the East 

 India Company to the British Crown the policy of an- 

 nexing the territories of troublesome native rulers 

 was to a great extent given up in favor of the plan of 

 deposing the prince, placing a child on the throne, 

 and during the minority of the new prince placing 

 the state under British administration. It was found 

 that the administration of British officers had the 

 serious disadvantage of throwing the machinery of 

 native government out of order ; and therefore a de- 

 mand arose for thoroughlv loyal and subservient na- 

 tive statesmen, who could be'intrusted with the gov- 

 ernment of native states that were to be thus disci- 

 plined. One of the ablest and most successful of this 

 school of native administrators was Sir Madhava 

 Rao. He was trained to official business in the British 

 service ; and when the Gaikwar of Baroda was de- 

 posed in 1875 on a charge of attempting to poison 

 the British resident, and the child of a humble fam- 

 ily remotely related to the dynasty was declared 

 prince in his place, the Madhava Rao, who was a 

 Hindu patriot and a leading member of the Brahman- 

 ical community of Madras as well as an Indian offi- 

 cial of high rank, was made joint regent and practi- 

 cal ruler of the state with the title of Rajah, when, 

 in 1883, he handed over the government to the young 

 Gaikwar, who had been carefully educated by Eng- 

 lish tutors, the native system of administration had 

 been preserved, and yet he had brought Baroda up to 

 the condition of a model feudatory state. He retired 

 to the seclusion of a hermit's life, following the prac- 

 tice of Brahmans who have been prominent in pub- 

 lic affairs, at the same time discharging his duties as 

 a member of the Madras Legislative Council, and 

 speaking out plainly and with immense influence 

 over the Hindu community on all the public ques- 

 tions of the time. He was convinced of the useless- 

 ness and evil results of any movement for the over- 

 throw of British rule, but believed that the progress 

 of. education had brought about a necessity for the 

 co-operation in the government of the intellectual 

 and influential classes of natives; advising, however, 

 the slow and gradual adoption of native participa- 

 tion, with due regard to tne traditions and require- 

 ments of the less advanced sections, not the hasty in- 



