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fought with Diaz again in 1876, and by his tiim 1 y 

 urrivul with .'!,<>(> cuvnlry won tin- battle of Lomas 

 ilr Tceoac, which made Diaz President, lie became 

 Minister of War, and in June, 1880, succeeded Dia/., 

 who was not eligible for a second term. The dis- 

 astrous financial experiments that marked his admin- 

 istration and his attempt to settle the English debt 

 him so uniHipular that he resigned the presi- 

 n favor ot Diaz on Nov. 80, 1884. 

 , J. E. H., English electrician, <licd in Lon- 

 don, Fel.. .".. IV'H. He contriluiteil papers to the 

 "Philosophical Transactions" on electricity, lec- 

 tured <>n that and other branches of physical science 

 in university extension courses, and became subse- 

 quently an 'active electrical engineer, lie \vus the 

 author of " A Physical Treatise on Electricity and 

 Magnetism " (ISMh. 



Hamley, Sir Edwud B., English general and mili- 

 tary writer, lx>rn in \*-24; died in London, Aug. 12, 

 1893. He served as a captain in the Crimean War. 

 In the campaign in Egypt against Arubi Pasha, in 

 1882, he commanded a division with which he broke 

 through the center of the enemy at the battle of Tel-el- 

 Kebir. He gained a high reputation as Professor of 

 Military History. As British commissioner for the 

 demarcation of the Turkish boundary after the treaty 

 of Berlin he was not successful. Sir Ed ward llaui 

 ley was the author of a work on the military opera- 

 tions and career of Wellington and an account of the 

 siege of Sebastopol, also of two romances and some 

 books of literary biography. He was a Conservative 

 member of Parliament lor Birkenhead, and wrote 

 much against Irish home rule. 



Hefele, Earl Josef. German ecclesiastical historian, 

 born in 1809 ; died in Rottenburg, June 5, 1893. Dr. 

 Hefele became Professor of Church History in the 

 Komon Catholic faculty of Tubingen in 1840. He 

 wrote a life of Cardinal Ximines, published in 1844. 

 In 1855 appeared the first volume of his " History of 

 the Councils of the Church," which has been trans- 

 lated into English and French. He was made Bishop 

 of Rottenburg in 1869, and in the (Ecumenical Coun- 

 cil of 1870 stood out resolutely against the dogma of 

 papal infallibility, yielding only after the promulga- 

 tion of the decree. 



Higinbotham. George, Australian statesman and jurist, 

 born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1827 ; died in Melbourne, 

 Victoria, Jan. 1, 1893. He was educated in Trinity 

 College, Dublin ; was called to the bar in London in 

 1858; went to Victoria in 1854; and, before he built 

 up a successful law practice, wrote political articles 

 for the " Argus," having been trained to newspaper 

 work as law reporter for the London " Morning 

 Chronicle." He discussed the problems of govern- 

 ment that arose, and in 1860 entered the Legislative 

 Assembly, where he distinguished himself as a bold 

 and original political thinker who cherished high 

 hopes for the future of Australia. He was Attorney- 

 General in 1868-'68, when the Home Government 

 persisted in vetoing the protective tariff, but at lost 

 gave way and recalled the Governor. In 1880 he was 

 appointed a judge, and in 1886 Chief Justice. 



Hoist, Hans Peter, Danish poet, born in Copenhagen, 

 Oct 22, 1811 ; died there, June 2, 1893. He studied at 

 the University of Copenhagen, became a teacher at 

 the Academy of Cadets, and first became known as 

 a poet in 1839 through an elegy on Frederick VI. 

 Most of his subsequent lyric and dramatic works 

 celebrated events connected with the history of his 

 country or its sovereigns. He laid down his profess- 

 orship in 1861 to edit the " Berlingske Tidende," and 

 in 1875 he was appointed the official dramatic poet ot 

 the court theater. Besides poetry and plays he wrote 

 novels after the model of Andersen. His best produc 

 ti> ins were his ballads. 



Jennings, Louis John, English author and politician, 

 born in London, in 1836 ; died there, Feb. 9, 1898. 

 He was editor for a time of the New York " Times," 

 in 1863-'68, and after his return to England was em- 

 ployed as reader for the publishing house of Murray 

 and as the representative of the New York " Herald. 1 " 



From 1885 till his death he represented Stock port in 

 Parliament as a Conservative. He edited the Croker 

 Papers," and wrote " Field Paths." " Ramble* among 

 the Hills," and " Eighty Yeare of Republican Govern- 

 ment in the I'nited States." 



Jowett, Benjamin, English Greek scholar, bom in 

 London, in 1H17 ; died in Oxford, Oct. 1, 1893. He 

 studied at Balliol College, Oxford, was graduated 

 with honor, became a tutor of Greek, and attained a 

 high reputation. He performed iinjx>rtant services on 

 the commission presided over by Maeaulay, which 

 determined the intellectual standards for udmi.-i-ion 

 into the Kiust India service. From 1855 he was Pro- 

 fessor of < I n-ek at Oxford, and in 1870 he was elected 

 master at Balliol. Soon after he was appointed pro- 

 fessor his views on the inspiration of the Scriptures 

 gave rise to a lively controversy ; and in consequence 

 ne was finally excluded from the university pulpit. 

 Prof. Jowett published a commentary on St. Paul's 

 epistle to the Thessalonians, several theological trea- 

 tises, and translations of the u Dialogues " of Plato 

 and of some of the writings of Aristotle and Thucy- 

 dides. He introduced the earnest study of Plato 

 into Oxford University,.and was accustomed to say, 

 " Aristotle is dead, but Plato lives." 



Kemble, Frances Anne, English actress, born in No- 

 vember. 1809; died in London, Jan. 15, 1893. She 

 was the daughter of Charles Kemble, a graceful 

 comedian, and a niece of John Philip Kenible and 



Mrs. Siddons. Her father would not train his daugh- 

 ter for the stage, but when his management of Covent 

 Garden Theater, in 1829, had brought him to bank- 

 ruptcy he called for her services and those of her 

 mother, who had retired long before. She played 

 Juliet, and afterward Belvidera in "Venice pre- 

 seived," and Kuphrasia in the "Grecian Daughter," 

 electrifying the London audiences and being greeted 

 as a second Mre. Siddons. In 1830 and 1881 she 

 added thn roles of Ludy Macbeth, Calista in the 

 " Fair Penitent," Lady Tpwnley in the " Provoked 

 Husband," Mrs. Haller in "The Stranger," Mrs. 

 Beverley in "The Gamester," and Juliana in "The 

 Honeymoon." In 1832 she won admiration in the 

 origin*) parts of Julia in Sheridan Knowles's u Hunch- 

 bu.-k.'' and the Duchess de Guise in on adaptation of 

 the " Henri III " of Alexandre Dumas, and produced 

 a tragedy of her own called " Francis I," which was 

 not well received. In the autumn of that year she 

 went to the United States with her father, making her 

 Jt'fiuf in the Park Theater, New York, as Bianca in 

 " Fazio," and entrancing the people of that city and 

 those of Boston and Philadelphia still more. In 1884 

 Fanny Kemble retired from the stage for a long pe- 

 riod, having become the wife of Pierce Butler, a 



