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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (CREMIEUX ERDMANN.) 



His father was high sheriff of Essex, and at one time 

 a governor of the Bank of England. The sou won a 

 scholarship at Eton, and took high honors at Oxford 

 in Christ Church College. He was called to the bar 

 in 1846, soon acquired a good practice, became a 

 Queen's counsel in 1866, was made standing counsel 

 to the Bank of England, conducted important cases 

 in the Court of Chancery, and in 1877 was made a 

 lord justice of the Court of Appeal, in which he dealt 

 with equity cases. He retired in October, 1890. 



Cremieux, Hector, a French dramatist, born JN'ov. 10, 

 1828 ; uieu m i'ans, Sept. 30, 1892. His first dramatic 

 work was a five-act, tragedy, written in conjunction 

 with his brother, Emiie Cremieux, in 1852. His 

 libretto for Offenbach's ll Orphee aux Enters," pro- 

 duced in 1856, established his reputation, and from 

 that time he wrote a succession of light comedies and 

 operettas, varied in his earlier years by two or three 

 serious dramas. The " Orphee aux Enters" and " La 

 Jolie Parfumeuse " were his most famous works. He 

 made a successful dramatization of llalevy's " L'Abb6 

 Constantin " with Pierre Decourcelle not long before 

 his death, though latterly he wrote little for the stage, 

 as he acted as secretary for a financial company, 

 which failed. He committed suicide, having been 

 made melancholy by the loss of his wife. 



Gsillag, Eosa, a Hungarian singer, born in 1835; 

 died in v'lemia, Feb. 20, 1892. She began a brilliant 

 career at the age of fourteen in the Berlin Opera 

 House. For ten years she was a prima donna of the 

 Vienna, drawing a salary of 17,000 florins, and sang 

 in the capitals of Europe with the highest success, 

 until her voice gave out, in 1863. A marriage with 

 the magician Hermann was speedily dissolved. She 

 essayed teaching music when she could sing no more, 

 but could earn but little, and in her last days she 

 sank into a condition of wretched poverty. 



Decouroelle, Adrien, a French dramatist, born in Paris 

 in 1824 ; died there, Aug. 12, 1892. He made a hit in 

 1845 with his first piece, a dramatic sketch entitled 

 " Une Soiree a la Bastille." In collaboration with 

 Thiboust, Barriere, Marc Fournier, and others, he 

 produced many popular plays, such as " Le Joie de la 

 Maison," " Le Bal des Prisoniers," "Diviser pour 

 Regner," " Je dine chez ma Mere," " Un Monsieur 

 ui suit les Bonne," "Tambour Vattant," "La Bete 



u bon Dieu," and " Jenny 1'Ouvriere." He was 

 also a contributor to the " Figaro," and was reader of 

 new plays for the Come'die Francaise. 



De Keck, Paul Henri, a French dramatist and novel- 

 ist, born in Paris, in 1821 ; died in Limay, near Mantes, 

 April .18, 1892. He was the son of Paul De Kock, and 

 a feuilletonist of note, and the author or joint author 

 of many successful plays. 



De Vit, an Italian pliilologist, born in 1810 ; died at 

 the end of A ugust, 1892. He was educated at the Sem- 

 inary, Padua, where he afterward became professor. 

 Between 1858 and 1879 he published his great Latin 

 dictionary, and for thirty-six years before his death he 

 had been compiling his " Onomasticon," a work em- 

 bracing all proper names down to the end of the fifth 

 century, which he had completed as far as the letter P. 

 He was likewise the author of the enlarged edition of 

 Forcellini's "Lexicon Totius Latinitatis" and other 

 works in history, archaeology, and philology. In 

 1888, on the occasion of the jubilee of his literary 

 labors, he received from Pope Leo XIII a large gold 

 medal in recognition of his services to philology. 



Dnbray, Vital Gabriel, a French sculptor, born in 

 1818 ; died in Paris, Oct. 5, 1892. He studied under 

 Ramey, the younger, was employed on the memorial 

 of Joan of Arc at Orleans, and executed statues of 

 numerous celebrated Frenchmen, including Sully, 

 Lannes, and Napoleon Bonaparte. 



Dnprato, Jules, a French composer, born in Nimes in 

 1827 ; died in Paris, May 19, 1892. He' won the Roman 

 prize in 1848, composed the opera of" Les Trovatelles 

 Paquerette," which was brought out in 1856, and was 

 followed by " Salvator Rosa," in three acts, which was 

 played at the Opera Comique. His one-act piece 

 called " La Fiancee de Corinthe" " was produced at the 



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Opera. He became Professor of Harmony at the Con- 

 servatoire in 1866. 



Duveyrier, Henri, a French explorer, born in ParLs 

 in 1840 ; died in Sevres, April 25, 1892. He was the 

 son of Charles Duveyrier, the dramatic author. Be- 

 fore he was twenty he undertook a series of expe- 

 ditions in Algeria by which he gained considerable 

 renown. In 1859 he penetrated as far as El Goleah, 

 where no European had been before him. A little later 

 he made a reconnoissance of the south of the prov- 

 ince of Constantine and the adjacent Sahara. In 1860 

 the Government charged him with a mission to the 

 Tuareg country, and by his treaty with Ikheiioukhen, 

 the head of the Ardjer Tuareg confederation, the 

 routes of the Soudan were opened to French com- 

 merce. In 1874 he explored the chotts of southern 

 Tunis, and in 1876 he went on a mission to Morocco. 

 After that he confined himself to geographical studies 

 at home. He was President of the Geographical So- 

 ciety of France and an oificer of the Legion of Honor. 

 For a long time before his decease he was afflicted 

 with some nervous malady that made him despond- 

 ent, and at last impelled him to take his own life. 



Edwards, Amelia Blandford, an English novelist, born 

 in 1831 ; died in London, April 15, 1892. Her father 

 was an officer who fought in the Peninsular War. She 

 began to compose stories and poems almost as soon as 

 she learned to write, and one of her poems, entitled 

 " The Knights of Old," appeared in print when she 

 was only seven years old. She showed cuch talent 

 for drawing also, that George Cruikshank, on seeing 

 caricatures that she had scribbled on the back of the 

 leaves of a manuscript sent to him as editor of a maga- 

 zine, ottered to take her as an articled pupil when she 

 was fourteen years old. For some years after this she 

 applied herself to music, becoming an expert per- 

 former. Devoting herself subsequently to literature 

 and to archaeological studies, she produced novels that 

 were read as much for their learning as for their ro- 

 mantic interest. " Lord Bracken bury," first published 

 as an illustrated serial in the London "Graphic," 

 went through 20 editions, and was translated into 

 German, French, and Russian. " Barbara's History," 

 one of her early works, was especially popular. Others 

 are "Debenham's Vow," "Half a Million of Money," 

 "My Brother's Wife," "Miss Carew,""In the Days 

 of my Youth," " Monsieur Maurice," and " Hand in 

 Glove." Her descriptions of travel were not less suc- 

 cessful, particularly " A Thousand Miles up the Nile," 

 which was illustrated from her own sketches, and 

 embodies a large amount of digested knowledge of 

 the antiquities of Egypt. Miss Edwards lectured in 

 the United States in 1889 and subsequent years. 



Ekert, G-ustav, a German penologist, born in 1824; 

 died in Freiburg, Baden, in June, 1892. He entered 

 the public service in 1849, and after spending eighteen 

 years in the police department was made governor of 

 the cellular prison at Bruchsal, whence he was called 

 to take charge of the larger one at Freiburg. He took 

 a leading part in the establishment in 1864 of a Ger- 



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 ence," and contributed to the investigation and com- 

 parison of facts relating to crime and punishment. 



Ellena, Vittorio, an Italian statesman, died in Rome, 

 July 19, 1892. He enjoyed a high reputation as a 

 politician of sincere convictions and of knowledge 

 and sound judgment, especially on all questions con- 

 nected with commercial relations and finance. He 

 was Minister of Finance for a short time. 



Erdmann, Johann Eduard, a German philosopher, born 

 in Wolmar, Livonia, in 1805; died in Halle, in June, 

 1892. He studied theology, and was pastor in his 

 native parish for some time, resigning for the purpose 

 of devoting himself altogether to philosophy. In 183: 

 he began to lecture in the University of Berlin, and 

 was one of the most brilliant of the disciples of Hegel. 

 He was called to Halle as extraordinary professor, and 

 in time was made regular professor. His lecture room 

 was always filled with students. Erdmann was al- 



