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t>ire" (I860) j "La Marine d'Autrefois " (1865); "La 

 Marine d'Aujourd'hui" (1872) ; " Les MaririsduQuin- 

 zieme ct du Seizieme Siecle " (1879) ; " La Marine des 

 Ancicns " (1880) ; " Les Campagnes d'Alexandre " 

 (1883); "La Marine des Ptolemees et la Marine des 

 Remains " (1884) ; " Les derniers Jours de la Marine a 

 Voiles " (1885) ; " Doria et Barberousse " (1886) ; " Les 

 Chevaliers de Malte et la Marine de Philippe II" 

 (1887) ; "Les Corsaires Barbaresques et la Marine de 

 Soliman le Grand" (1888); and "L'Amiral Rous- 

 8in"(1889). 



Gregory, Sir William Henry, an English politician, 

 born in County Galway, Ireland, in 1817; died in 

 London, March 6, 1892. He was educated at Harrow 

 and at Christ Church College, Oxford, and in 1842 he 

 entered Parliament as a Conservative member for 

 Dublin city. He sat till 1847, and was not again 

 elected till 1857, when he went back to Parliament 

 as a Liberal Conservative for Galway, which he con- 

 tinued to represent till 1872. He was much liked as 

 a speaker, and often opened important debates, es- 

 pecially in reference to the civil war in the United 

 States and the Eastern question. He endeavored to 

 get Parliament to recognize the Southern Confeder- 

 acy and forcibly raise the blockade, and was support- 

 ed by Lord Robert Cecil, while W. E. Forster made 

 one of his first important speeches against the motion. 

 Later he_ was the eloquent advocate of the claims of 

 the Servians for protection against Turkish rule and 

 interference. When the Egyptian army under Arabi 

 Pasha rose against the Khedive and the British Gov- 

 ernment interfered in order to crush the new Govern- 

 ment, Sir William Gregory again came out in his 

 character of champion of the weak against the strong. 

 On the home-rule question, on the other hand, he de- 

 clared against the claims of his countrymen for self- 

 government, deserting the Liberal party in 1866, for 

 which he was rewarded in 1872. with the post of Gov- 

 ernor of Ceylon, where he remained five years, prov- 

 ing an excellent administrator and making himself 

 very popular. After his return he made himself use- 

 ful 'as a trustee of the National Gallery. 



Grosser, Peter Apollonowitsh, a Russian soldier, born in 

 St. Petersburg, in 1833 ; died May 11, 1892. Educated 

 in the cadet corps he entered the army in 1850, and 

 took part in the Crimean War. Subsequently he at- 

 tracted the attention of Prince Dondoukotf-Korsakoff, 

 and when the latter was appointed Imperial Commis- 

 sary in Bulgaria, after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877- 

 '78, he filled the post of the Minister of the Interior 

 under his administration for two years. Returned 

 from Bulgaria, he occupied several important adminis- 

 trative posts in Russia, and, having distinguished 

 himself as a Master of Police in Kieff, he was ap- 

 pointed Master of Police and Prefect in St. Petersburg, 

 in 1883. His position here was one of great responsi- 

 bility, as he was directly responsible to the Czar for 

 the safety and tranquillity of the capital. He did 

 not confine himself to police duties in the narrow 

 sense of the tefm, but, by untiring energy, rendered 

 St. Petersburg a tolerably clean and orderly city., 



GreVin, Alfred, a Frencli caricaturist, born in Epi- 

 neuil, Yonne, in January, 1827 ; died in St. Maur, in 

 May, 1892. He was employed as a draughtsman in 

 the office of the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean 

 Railroad, when he began to send designs to the " Jour- 

 nal Amusant" which were soon remarked. He was 

 the most original and happy of the delineators of 

 Parisian types and traits, and was an indefatigable 

 producer. Besides an incalculable number of draw- 

 ings that appeared in the " Journal Amusant" and 

 " Petit Journal pour Riri," " Charivari," and other 

 comic journals, the costumes and grouping in many 

 famous, feeries were designed by him, and he planned 

 the the'atrical dresses for Judic and other actresses. 

 The most striking of his theatrical creations were re- 

 produced in wax for the museum named after him. 

 With Ernest d'Hervilly, he made a drama, " Le Bon- 

 homme Misere," in 1877. 



Guiraud, Ernest, a Franco-American composer, born 

 in New Orleans, June 23, 1837 ; died in Paris, May 7, 



1892. His father was established in New Orleans as 

 a professor of music. The son when only fifteen years 

 old composed " Le Roi David," and a little later went 

 to Paris to follow Halevy's course of composition, 

 supporting himself while studying by playing the 

 kettledrum in an orchestra. He won'the first' prize 

 of Rome in 1859, and sent from Italy several pieces 

 that were admired. His " Sylvie," performed at the 



the Opera Comique in 1870 just as the war broke 

 out; an orchestral suite executed in 1872; " Le 

 Forgeron de Gretna Green," a ballet (1873) ; and 

 "Piccolino" (1876). This last had the greatest suc- 

 cess. The last work that he completed was " Galante 

 A venture," which was played in 1882, but was damned 

 in spite of excellent musical qualities. He com- 

 pleted Offenbach's " Contes d'Hoffmann," and wrote 

 the last part of the score of " Kassia," which was left 

 incomplete by his friend L6o Delibes. He worked a 

 long time on a grand opera, " Le Feu," the subject of 

 which was taken from the myths of the Persian 

 fire worshipers. 



Hachette, Jean George, a French publisher, born in 

 Paris in 1838 ; died there, Dec. 16, 1892. He became 

 a partner in the publishing house of which his father 

 was the head, and gave his special attention to the 

 publication of geographical works and atlases. 



Henriquel, Hyphen Dnpont, best known as Henriqnel, a 

 French engraver, born in Paris, in 1798; died there, 

 Feb. 1, 1892. He studied under Guerin and Berwick, 

 and achieved such a reputation at once that he opened 

 a school at the age of twenty. He engraved many of 

 the portraits painted by Ingres and Delaroche, ivj>r<>- 

 duced with remarkable feeling and fidelity Raphael's 

 madonnas, and engraved numerous works of Cor- 

 reggio, Paolo Veronese, and Gerard. He did not drop 

 the burin till he had passed his eighty-sixth year. 

 For many years he was Professor of Engraving in the 

 Central School of Art in Paris. 



Herbst, Eduard, an Austrian statesman, born in 

 Vienna, Dec. 9, 1820 ; died there, June 26, 1892, 

 He studied law in the Vienna University, and, 

 after serving for some time in a public office, 

 began to lecture at the university, and in 1847 

 became ordinary professor in Lemberg. In 1858 he 

 went to Prague, where he had the reputation of be- 

 ing one of the best instructors in criminal law of 

 all Austria. His " Handbuch des cistesreichischen 

 Strafrechts " (1 855) and " Einleitung in das osterreich- 

 ische Strafprocessrecht " are regarded as standard 

 works on the subject. In 1861, after the Constitu- 

 tion had entered into operation, he was elected to the 

 Bohemian Diet, and was delegated by the Diet and 

 afterward chosen by direct election to sit in the 

 Austrian House of Deputies. His oratorical talent 

 and keen, critical mind, and his astonishing fund 

 of information on all subjects connected with public 

 affairs, placed him at once at the head of the German 

 party in Bohemia, whose leader he was till 1807, dur- 

 ing all the period when Bohemian affairs engrossed a 

 great part of the attention of the Austrian Govern- 

 ment and were the pivot of its policy. His electoral 

 addresses were the oracles of his party. After the 

 suspension of the imperial Constitution he led the at- 

 tack against the Belcredi ministry, and when the 

 war of 1866 had proved a deathblow to reaction, he 

 entered the Cabinet of the so-called Burger ministry on 

 Dec. 30, 1867, as Minister of Justice, resigning control 

 of party matters in Bohemia into the hands of Dr. 

 Schmeykal. He held this post till the ministry was 

 ousted, on April 12, 1870, and during this period he 

 accomplished the abolition of imprisonment for debt, 

 the introduction of trial by jury for press offens-es, the 

 organization of district courts, the suppression of public 

 executions, the reform of the laws of bankruptcy, and 

 he took the lead of the Opposition against the Potoeki, 

 and then against the Hohenwart ministry, and at 

 that period reached the zenith of his political renown. 

 But the very powers that made him dominant in his 



