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i of Sir Frederick Wold. It foil to him t<> 

 :, ;i n:i!ii : .:i -\-tein\vhich .should supply the 

 ..n previously afforded l>y British troops, for 

 tin- I'.ritish Government had decided t<> leave the 

 cni.iiiv to it* own military resources. In 1*74 ho took 

 .iidcr Sir Julius Vogel, whom in 1876 ho re- 

 placed :is Premier mid Colonial Treasurer. lu 1879 

 n occupied tin- post >)' Colonial Treasurer, and 

 became 1'remier. In 1884 ho retired on Aug. 

 ..n Aug. 2S came back when the Vogel min- 

 istry had received a re bull', but two days later was 

 1, in turn, on a vote of confidence. In 1887 he 

 lice again as Premier and Colonial Treasurer. 

 In i-:' he retired from active work on account of 

 bud health, but did not resign the premiership until 

 his party sustained a defeat in the elections or Jauu- 

 urv, lv/1, having previously nominated himself Presi- 

 dent of the Legislative Council. 



Bailly, Antoine Nicolas, a French architect, born in 

 Paris, June 6, 1810: died there, Jan. 1, 1892. His 

 tastes manifesting themselves early, he entered the 

 Kcole des P.eaux Arts, and in 1829 became the pupil 

 if IMiban. lie was made architect surveyor of Paris 

 in lv;t. and Government architect in 1844. He was 

 decorated with the Legion of Honor in 1853, and in 

 1868 was made officer of the Legion of Honor, and in 

 1881 commander. In 1875 he was elected a member 

 of the Academy des Beaux Arts in place of Labroustc, 

 and on the occasion of the Vienna Exposition of 1878 

 the Aii-triaii Government conferred on him the order 

 of the Iron Crown. After his becoming Government 

 architect ho was placed in charge of the works in 

 the dioceses of Bourges, Valence, and Digne. At 

 Hour-res he completely restored the cathedral and the 

 hoiiM- of Jacques Coaur, now the Palais de Justice; at 

 Valence he rebuilt the tower of the cathedral in 1862; 

 at Digne he almost rebuilt the cathedral, remodeling 

 the facade and directing the interior decorations. 

 While some of these works were in progress he was 

 made architect in chief of the third and sixth di- 

 visi.ins of public works of the city of Paris, and in 

 this capacity he built the Tribunal of Commerce, his 

 most noted work, the mairie of the Fourth Arrondisso- 

 ment, and reconstructed the Lyc6e St. Louis. Among 

 other works of note by him are the Hotel Schneider, 

 the chateau of M. Lagorette at Choisy-le-Roi, and 

 the restoration of the chateaux of Cany and Theuville 

 in the Department of Loire Infe'rieure. He was one 

 of the foremost architects of his time. 



Baragnon, Louis Nnma, a French politician, horn in 

 Mimes in 1835; died there, May 19,1892. He was 

 educated as a lawyer and practiced his profession, 

 becoming also a journalist. In September, 1870, he 

 signed an address as municipal councilor welcoming 

 the republic, and a month afterward entered the 

 Chamber as a Royalist, becoming a zealous supporter 

 of the Comtc de Chambord. lie helped to over- 

 throw Thiers in 1873, and was made Under Secretary 

 of the Interior, and subsequently of Justice. He lost 

 his seat in 1876, and when he was returned in 1877 

 the election was annulled on the ground of undue in- 

 fluence. Baragnon was notoriously impetuous and 

 passionate in his manner of debating, and constantly 

 interrupted the Republican speakers in tho Chamber. 

 In 1878 he was elected a life Senator. 



Barbedienne, Ferdinand, a French bronze founder, 

 horn in Saint-Martin de Fresnoy, Calvados, in 1810; 

 died ilk Paris, March 22, 1892. He founded tho great 

 establishment forthe commercial production of artistic 

 bron/.es in 1838, in company with Achille Collas, and 

 from the beginning he gave employment to not less 

 than :;00 artists and workmen. In 1874, after tho 

 Vienna Exposition, he was made a commander of the 

 LCT'IOH of Honor. 



Baron, Vincent Alfred, a French sculptor and actor, 

 born in Meximieux, Ain, in 1820; dieu in Paris, May 

 7, 1892. He was tho son of a painter of panoramas, 

 and at the age of fifteen he went up to Paris, where 

 he attended the Conservatoire ana tho Ecole dcs 

 Beaux Arts simultaneously. He played at tho Od^on, 

 the Ambigu, the Gaietd, and the Portc-St-Martin 



theatres, creating the role* of Courriol, in the " Cour- 

 rior de Lyon," Ascanio, in "Benvenuto Cellini," and 

 others. At the same time he exhibited portraits and 

 medallions that were highly esteemed, among them 

 portraits of Rachel and Deburau. 



Baross de Bellas, Gabriel von, a Hungarian statesman, 

 bom in Pruszina, June G, 1848; died in Huda-Pesth, 

 May 9, 1892. He was a scion of a family belonging to 

 the small nobility, and was educated for tho civil serv- 

 ice, studying law in tho university at Buda-Penth. 

 While a court officer in his native county of Trencsin 

 he founded a newspaper for the advocacy of the Mag- 

 yarization of Transylvania, and in 1875 was elected 

 a member of Parliament. He took an active part in 

 the debates, was reporter in 1877 of the committee 

 which considered the tariff union with Austria, which 

 lie had at first opposed, and was for several years a 

 member of the Hungarian Delegation, in which he 

 was reporter of the army budget. Becoming Secre- 

 tary of the Ministry of Communications in 1883, he 

 labored for the development of the svstein of State 

 railroads, and in 1886 was selected by "t. isza to succeed 

 Baron Kemenyi as Minister of Communications, In- 

 dustry, and Commerce. Count Szapary, who BUC- 

 ceede'd Tisza as Prime Minister in March, 1890, re- 

 tained him in this post. 



Battaglini, Francesco, an Italian prelate, born in 1823 ; 

 died July 8, 1892. He was Archbishop of Bologna, 

 and in 1885 was made a cardinal. 



Behnke, Emil, a German voice culturist, born in Stet- 

 tin in 1836; died in Ostend, Sept. 17, 1892. He went 

 to England when a young man, began to lecture on 

 the mechanism of the voice at the age of thirty, and 

 applied scientific principles to the practical work of 

 the teaching of singing and the restoration of voices 

 impaired by false training with such successful re- 

 sults, that he was accepted as the leading specialist in 

 all matters relating to the voice. He wrote, with Mr. 

 Lenox, " Voice, Song, and Speech" (London, 1883), 

 which went through a dozen editions, and was trans- 

 lated into French and Spanish. His " Vocal Training 

 Exercises" was still more successful. 



Bleibtreu, Georg, a German painter, born in Xanten, 

 March 27, 1828 ; died in Berlin, Oct. 16, 1892. He be- 

 gan to study painting in Dusseldorf at the age of fif- 

 teen, and afterward was a pupil of Theodor Hilde- 

 brandt. He accompanied the staff of the Crown 

 Prince in the campaign of 1870-'71, and at Versailles 

 he painted a scries of pictures representing battles 

 that had taken place, and other scenes of the war, 

 among them one representing the entry of the Crown 

 Prince into Freschweiler after the battle of Worth, 

 and one representing Count Reille presenting King 

 Wilhelm with the sword of Napoleon III. 



Bodenstedt, Friedrich Martin von, a German author, 

 born in Hanover, April 22, 1819; died in Wiesbaden, 

 April 19, 1892. At the age of twenty-one he became 

 tutor to the Prince of Galitzin, at Moscow, and later 

 traveled through Armenia, Caucasia, the Crimea, 

 Turkey, Asia Minor, and the Ionian Islands. It was 

 by these travels that he gained such exceptional 

 knowledge of the Slav and Oriental poetry. During 

 this period he wrote " One Thousand and One Days 

 in the Orient," which first established his fame. In 

 1853 ho took up his residence with the Duke of Go- 

 tha, and in 1858 was appointed to the chair of Slav 

 Language and Literature at the University of Munich. 

 The most brilliant of his numerous poetical works i 

 " Lieder des Mir/a Schaffy," which has been translated 

 into almost every European language. He devoted 

 much attention to English literature of the Eliza- 

 bethan period, which is evidenced by his "Shake- 

 speare's Contemporaries and their Works," while his 

 "Shakespeare's Diary "and "Shakespeare's Female 

 Characters" show his intimate knowledge of the 

 English poet's works, his translation of Shakespeare 

 into German being regarded as the best Germany 

 ever had. At various periods he was connected with 

 the political press as managing editor and writer, 

 and in 1850 he represented Schleswig-Holstein at the 

 Peace Congress in Frankfurt 



