OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (LRMOINNK LOWK.) 



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Uiblishinu' <'hristiun school-, a> III.- best means of 



S'hri*tianit\ in Mohammedan countries, 

 ifl atl'Tward French auditor at. tin- Vatican, 

 and \\a> iii.- <>t' tin- private prelates of tin- Pope. In 

 i eoiiM-erutcd bishop, succcedini: Mon- 

 nii;nor Durboy lit Nancy. In IsiiT In- became Arch- 

 bishop of Algeria. His missionary propaganda dis 



i Marshal MacMahoii, the (ice, criior, who feared 

 tluit it would incoriM' the Arabs, \vlin.>i- religion hud 



lopted as olio of Ulo state ehurelie.s lor Algo 

 ria, and therefore ought to be protected iiirainst. pn 

 eMi.Mii. Luvigerio supported papal infallibility in 



th /eal. In 1871 be offered himself as a can- 

 didate tor tin; chamber in the Department of the Pyr- 



.uul in tiie l.andes, and was defeated in both 

 place:-, lie founded the Sahara and Soudan Mission 

 in 1874, sending out missionaries to Tunis, Tripoli, 

 Fast Africa, and the Congo. On the establishment 

 of u French protectorate over Tunis he revived the 

 bishopric of Carthage, and founded there u college in 

 which divcks, Protestants, .lews, and Mohamme- 

 dans, us well us Catholics, are educated. In 1882 lie was 

 made a cardinal. His income he spent entirely on his 

 missionary enterprises, and when the French Cham- 

 ber withdrew the extra stipend allowed to cardinuls 

 iiiul the 100,000 francs for Algerian missions, he went 

 over to France and raised the amount by private sub- 

 scription. He addressed the British und Foreign 

 Antisluvery Society in London, in 1888, on the sub- 

 ject of the suppression of the slave trade, and created 

 then-, and on the Continent, an interest in the matter 

 which resulted in the Brussels Antislavery Cpn- 



i ' ISS 1 .). lie also organized a lay order which 

 had for its object to spread Christianity and restore 

 tht! Sahara to fertility. This society was not success- 

 ful, and in IS'.L' it was dissolved. Cardinal Lavigerie 

 was a favorite of the Empress Eugenie under the em- 

 pire, and under the republic an adherent of the Cpmte 

 dc < hainbord, whom he endeavored to rouse to vigor- 

 ous action. After the death of the Legitimist pre- 

 tender, he saw little hope for the restoration of the 

 monarch v by the Orleunists, and in 1890 he publicly 

 renounced royalism, and visited Rome to advise the 

 Pope in regard to the reconciliation of the Church 

 with the republic and the reformation of the repub- 

 lic on a Christian basis. 



Lemoinne, John, a French journalist, born in Lon- 

 don, K i inland, of French parents, Oct. 17, 1815; died 

 in Paris, Dee. 14, 1892. His education, begun at an 

 Knglish school, was completed in France. In 1840 he 

 began his contributions to the "Journal des D6bats," 

 Mid remained on the staff of that paper for fifty-two 

 fears, up to 1871 writing articles on English and oth- 

 er forciu'ii questions. Few French men have under- 

 stood English ulluirs better than he, and under the 

 empire he often contrasted English institutions with 

 French, directing the keenest and most polished sar- 

 casms against the imperial rule. Under the republic 

 foreign atlairs became of less importance to trench 

 readers, and his criticism of England wits marked b\ 

 the same sarcasm that had distinguished his former 

 Judgments of French atfairs. His nuture was essen- 

 tially critical and demanded a target, and when he was 

 no longer in the ranks of the Opposition in France, he 

 was obliged to look elsewhere for a mark for his 

 shafts. In polities ho was a moderate .Republican, 

 and as such became, in 1880, a life member of the 

 Senate. His eminence as a journalist secured his en- 

 trance into the Academy in 1875, upon the death of 

 Jules .l.iiiin. lie was .it all times a brilliant writer, 

 but his latest work was inured with a bitterness of 

 tone not apparent in earlier life, lie was a frequent 

 contributor to the "Rdvue des Deu\ Mondes," and 

 was the author of several historical and political 

 works published in the early portion of his career. 



Lunnander de Nieuwenhove, Huron Armand Marie Oruis- 

 lain, a Belgian composer, born in Client. May _!:{, 1814; 

 died in Paris, Aug. !',, ly.fj. He was a pnpil of pen- 

 Lumbilotte. his preceptor at the college ot Freiburir. 

 but w;is considered at first only an amateur, although 

 he devoted himself entirely to music and displayed 



marked talent. He wrote " Le Bolero" and other 

 choruses in correct counterpoint, and also religious 

 .uid chamber music. When fairly launched in 

 his profession In- went to Paris. In l s i.'> parts of hi.-. 

 "Druides" were executed at the ( 'onsorvutoire. In 

 IM'.i his Montenegrins" was produced at tin 

 Comiquc with a success that was repeated iii all the 

 opera houses of Kurope. His " ( 'bateau de la Barbe 

 Bleu" was produced m Dec. 1, ls,">l, the night of the 

 coup (Fetat, and was not listened to amid the political 

 preoccupations of the audience, whose thought 

 concentrated on the < 'onite de Morny . itting with an 

 atlected air of careless dandyism till the curtain fell. 

 His "Maximilian ou le Maitn- < 'hauteur," triveii in 

 1856, had no great success, and it was remodeled and 

 presented again in 1S77 ut the Monnuie in Brussels. 

 "Yvonne" was produced in 185'J, and was well re- 

 ceived. His conventional music of the old school was 

 already put of date, and as he hail not the desire to 

 break with the traditions, lie attempted no new orig- 

 inal work, spending the remainder of his life on 1m 

 estate at Moignanville und in (.he capital. 



Lorencez, Charles Latrille, Comte de, a French soldier, 

 born in Paris, in 1814 ; died in Beam, April 25, 1892. 

 He was on his mother's side a grandson of Marshal 

 Oudinot, Due de Reggio. He entered St. Cyr in 1830, 

 and in the war in Africa, and especially the siege of 

 Zaatcha, had early opportunities to win distinction, 

 becoming chief of battalion in 1847 and colonel in 

 1852. For his gallant conduct in the assault of the 

 Malakoff tower in the Crimea he was made general 

 of brigade in 1855. He was military commander of 

 the expeditionary force that was sent to Mexico, and 

 \\as advanced to general of division. He conducted 

 his troops to Cordova during the pourparlers, and, 

 when they failed, marched upon Mexico, gaining 

 some successes, notably at Orizaba. When the attack 

 on Puebla failed he was compelled to retreat He 

 was an ardent Bonapartist. In the war of 1870 he 

 was commandant of tne garrison of Toulouse at first, 

 and afterward led the 3d division- of the 4th Corps in 

 the operations at Metz. After his return from cap- 

 tivity he retired into private life, living in his chateau 

 of Laus, neur Beam. 



Lowe, Robert, Viscount Sherbrooke, an English states- 

 man, born in Bingham, Nottinghamshire, in 1811 ; 

 died in London, July 27, 1892. He was a son of the 

 rector of Bingham, was educated at Winchester, 

 graduated at Oxford with high honors in 1833, and 

 was made a fellow in 1835. He gave up the fellow- 

 ship in order to marry in the following year, but 

 remained in Oxford as a tutor, and gained a nigh 

 reputation as a classical scholar. Afterward he 

 studied law, was called to the bar in Lincoln's Inn in 

 1842, and went out to New South Wales, where he 

 practiced his profession with great success, was nom- 

 inated a member of the Legislative Council, and was 

 the author or the furtherer of various reforms of the 

 land laws, legal procedure, and education. He re- 

 turned to England in 1851, plunged into politics, 

 joiniiiL' the Liu '-ul party, was elected to Parliament 

 in 1852 from Kidderminster, and at once took high 

 rank as a debater by his vigorous onslaught upon Mr. 

 I YM raeli's financial policy. Lord Aberdeen made him 

 one of the secretaries of the Board of Control. Under 

 Lord Pahnerston he was Vice- President of the Board 

 of Trade, and afterward Paymaster-* Jeiierul. In 1859 

 he became President of the Board of Health, and later 

 he was appointed Vice- President of the Education 

 Department, and drew up a scheme of reforms which 

 the House of Commons condemned in IMU as too lib- 

 eral, lie abandoned Mr. Gladstone in 18t!f>, and be- 

 came the louder of the " Adullamitcs.'' who joined the 

 Tories in opposing the parliamentary reform bill in- 

 tended to enfranchise a class characterized by Robert 

 Lowe as "residuum" and "dreg* <>f society.' 1 His 

 bitterness against the " lower classes " hud its origin, 

 perhaps, in his rejection by the voters of Kiddermin- 

 ster in 1 S.v.i. When his " cave of Adulhun " succeeded 

 in defeating Mr. Gladstone's electoral bill, he did not 

 venture to oiler himself again to a popular constitu- 



