OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (WiNoriELD-YoBHiDA KYOJURI.) 



. he was elected to tin- North Ci-rman Parlia- 

 .. ml t> tin- PrusMnn lloii-i- ,.r Dcputicn an n-p- 



.tivc of tin- district o|' Mcppcn, uii'l in both 



In- displayed untiring activity a* leader of the 

 Catholic or Center party. It was largely his |*ilitical 



. his tenacity of purpose, supple adaptability, 

 ICSB of resource, power <>f management, saga 

 eious insight, force of character, moral ascendancy 

 o\cr othcr>. diplomatic tact, tactical skill, urn! un- 

 rivali-il dialectical and oratorical talent* tliut created 

 and held together the great Center party, which was 

 an iiiMrunieiit in his hands tor the nehieveineiit of 



M\S that were reniarkalile, measured by the dif- 

 lletilties uiuler which they were accomplished. H c 

 was the leader mid the autocrat of the I'ltramon 

 tane party from the opening of the first (ierman 

 Kciehstog in March, 1871. For sixteen years lie eon 

 ducted the ( 'ulturkaiiipf against tlie May laws of 

 and held together the Center party, narmoni/- 

 ing the conflicting factions and interests* and invent- 

 ing, always nt the riirht moment, the war cry thut 

 rallied the electors to the party standard, and at 

 length lie triumphed over the dominant tendencies 

 of the age and compelled Prince Bismarck to sue for 

 peace, of all the debaters in the Reichstag he was 

 the one whom Bismarck fcurcd and respected most, 

 the only one who almost ill variably carried of! the 

 honors of the battle in an oratorical duel. The ( 'leri- 

 cals were the most numerous faction in the Reichs- 

 tag and next to the strongest in the Prussian I. anil- 

 tog. With their natural allies, the Guclpli, Polish, 

 and Alsatian Purticulurists, who usually followed 

 Windthorst's dictation, they were led by him into 

 temporary combinations with Conservatives, or Pro- 

 gressists, or Socialists against Bismarck, or supported 

 nis measures against the Opposition, always exacting 

 a concession for their aid, until little was left of the 

 Falk laws in May, 1889, when the Chancellor com- 



the 

 rup- 



pleted his pilgrimage to "Canossa" by repealing 

 remnant. Between 1881 and 1887, after the dis 

 tion of the National Liberals, which he had helped 

 to bring about by supporting Bismarck's protective 

 policy in 1879, Wmdtiiorst often found himself at the 

 head of a majority of the Reichstag. The " Pearl of 

 Meppen," as he was nicknamed, was diminutive in 

 stature, as was indicated by the other facetious epi- 

 thet, "his little Excellency," and his face was exceed- 

 ingly homely except when brightened in the anima- 

 tion of speaking. His speeches were smooth and 

 diplomatic, his manner insinuating and conciliatory, 

 his expressions always cautious and guarded, his 

 statements of fact infallibly exact, and his incisive 

 wit and fine irony were never unkind and left no 

 rankling wound. It was only when vaunting the 

 greatness and glory of the Catholic Church, and be- 

 wailing: its wrongs, that he allowed his imagination 

 free play and rose to passionate eloquence. 



Wingfleld, Lewis, an English author, born in 1842 ; 

 died in London. Nov. 12, 1891. He was a brother of 

 the present Lord Powcrscourt. He received his edu- 

 cation at Eton College and the University of Bonn, 

 and passed an active and adventurous life, being at 

 various periods an artist, an actor, an author, a critic. 

 a surgeon, an explorer, and a war correspondent He 

 traveled extensively in the East, became familiar 

 with Oriental life, and was one of the earliest for- 

 eigners to obtain permission to visit the interior prov- 

 inces of China. During the Franco-Prussian War 

 and in the operations against the Commune in Paris 

 he labored in the ambulance department. Recently 

 he has utilized his antiquarian knowledge in arranir- 

 iii'_r costumes and scenery for the presentation of 

 Shakespearean plays. His most popular books are 

 " Lady ( Jri/ell " ami the " Globe-Trotter." 



Wolff, Albert, a French journalist, bom near Cologne, 

 Germany, .Ian. 1, Isi'T; died in Paris, Dec. 2:.', 1MU. 

 He was educated in Germany, studying philosophy 

 at Honn and painting in Dfisseldorf, Degan news- 

 paper work there, and published a volume of stories 

 and a humorous book on the Rhine voyage, illustrated 

 by himself. Soon after his arrival in Paris in 1857, 

 VOL. xxxi. 44 A 



whither he went t* correspondent of the Augittujiy 



" Allgcmeine y.eituni.',' but W OK din. hur fc 'i d li" 



second letter, he adapted himiiflf Ui French U*U: and 

 ways, yet it wait long In- fore, he wo* able to obtain 

 living. Ho wa* patronized by Alexander l>uina. 

 who made him his Kc-erctary. M. Villcliicsnalit, thi- 

 editor i >f the Figaro." rejected many of hi* article* 

 lidore he wan acceiiU-d a* a regular contributor. 

 During the Franco Prussian War he retired to Hd 

 giiim, being a Prussian citizen. Afterward 

 turned and was naturalized. In bin writing* he wu 

 intensely hostile to Germany. When the first Bay- 

 reutli festival occurred he re|>ortcd it. and covered 

 the Wagncrian music with ridicule. His caustic 

 comments and epigrammatic criticism* on art, liu-rm- 

 ture, music, drama, were read with keen intc rent ? and 

 he formed a st\ le both in criticism and in j-olitieuJ 

 writing that has found many imitators. \\\i,-n M. 

 Villemcssant died he left the " Figaro " by will to M. 

 Wolft and three other journalists, lit was one of the 

 first to introduce into journalism the daily review or 

 chronicle, which was in fashion in the time of the 

 empire. Six volumes of his " < 'hroni<jucs " in the 

 " Figaro" hav;e been printed : " Voyages a invent la 

 Monde, 1 ' " I.'Kcume dc Paris," " La Haute Nocc," La 

 Capitalc d'Art," "La Gloriole," and "La Gloire dc 

 I 'aris." The third of these is a collection of his com- 

 ments on painters and sculptors, and what he has 

 published in recent years has been chiefly confined 

 to criticisms on exhibitions of paintings. He was a 

 nephew of Jacques Offenbach, the composer. 



Wyllie. Sir William) an English soldier, bora in 1802; 

 died in London, Mav 2C, 1891. He entered the British 

 army in 1818 ; sailed for India in the following year, 

 and at the age of twenty commanded a detachment of 

 three hundred native soldiers sent against the rebel 

 Roop Singh in the Mahratta country. He command- 

 ed a detachment in Gujerrat in 1823, and in 162"' dis- 

 tinguished himself as adjutant of his regiment in on 

 attack on the heights of Jerun in C'utch. As major 

 of brigade to the Malwa field force in 1827, he showed 

 such ability that he was selected to perform the same 

 duties in the Afghan expedition of 1838. He was the 

 first British officer to land on the banks of the Indus, 

 and took a prominent part in the capture of Ghuznee 

 and the occupation of Cabul. On returning to India 

 he was engaged in the storming of Khclat. In 1840 

 he was adjutant-general of the force sent to relieve Sir 

 William Nott at Condahar, and was present at the 

 storming of the Hykulzye heights and tneforcing of the 

 Khojak pass. He next served in Sir Charles NapierHj 

 campaign for the conquest of Sind as assistant-adju- 

 tant-general, and was badly wounded at the battle of 

 Men nee. In 1844-'45 he commanded the force sent to 

 suppress a rebellion in the southern Mahratta country, 

 and subsequently he commanded the brigade at 

 Ahmednuggur. He was colonel of a line regiment 

 after the amalgamation of the East India Company's 

 forces with the British army until he retired. 



Yoshida Kyonari, Viscount, a Japanese diplomatist, 

 born in Sutsuma in 1844; died in Tokio, Aug. 17, 

 1891. He was the son of an impoverished family of 

 the Satsumo aristocracy, and in his youth was clerk 

 in the local public bureau till he entered the English 

 school at Xagoshima at the age of seventeen, where he 

 made such rapid progress that he was selected by tin- 

 Prince of Satsuma to be educated abroad. He studied 

 in I'nivenuty College, London, and afterward i 

 years in American colleges, returning to Japan in 18t>8 

 alter the revolution. He was employed at first in the 

 finance department of the new Government. In \^~'2 

 he was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affaire, 

 heiiiLT appointed on the commission then eon-titutcd 

 for the purpose of devising a scheme for the revision 

 of the treaties. In 1S74 he was sent as minister 

 plenipotentiary to Washington, when- he nmaiaed 



until in IsTS lie concluded a treaty coiice.ling all that 

 Japan contended for in regard to consular ji:- 

 tion and the ri-:ht to tix import duties, with a provino 

 that the treaty should not go into force until the 

 other powers hod agreed to accord the same right*. 



