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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (LACRESSONNIERE MARSHALL.) 



Southern planter. Her married life was not happy, 

 and eventually she obtained a divorce and reappeared 

 in London in 1847 at the Princess's Theater, only to 

 discover that her prestige and her powers were gone ; 

 nor had she much better success at first in Shakes- 

 pearian readings. From that time she lived most of 

 the time in the United States, engaged in literary 

 composition, and occasionally appearing in public as 

 a reader. She was the author of " A Journal of a 

 Residence in America," " The Star of Seville," " A 

 Year of Consolation," translations of Schiller's " Ma- 

 rie Stuart," and Dumas's " Mademoiselle de Belle 

 Isle," " Residence on a Georgia Plantation in 1838- 

 '39," " Notes on Some of Shakespeare's Plays," and 

 three remarkable autobiographical works entitled 

 "Records of a Girlhood," "Records of Later Life," 

 and " Further Records." 



Lacressonniere, the stage name of Louis Lesot de la 

 Penneterie, French actor, born in 1819 ; died in Paris, 

 June 10, 1893. He was trained for a commercial ca- 

 reer, which he abandoned for the theatre, spending a 

 year at the Conservatoire after acting for a few 

 months at the Gaiete". lie performed various roles in 

 the provinces, achieved a success at the Ambigu, 

 acted at the Theatre Ilistorique, and soon was in- 

 trusted with the principal parts in most of the new 

 plays of Alexandre Dumus and Francois Soulie". He 

 appeared later at the Porte Saint-Martin and the other 

 chief theaters. 



Le Gendre, L6pnce, French painter, born in 1830; 

 died in Tournai, July 10, 1893. He produced many 

 remarkable paintings, which were acquired by Roths- 

 child and other French collectors. At the' time of 

 his death he was director of the Academy of Design 

 at Tournai. 



Leinster, Gerald Fitzgerald, Duke of, born Aug. 16, 

 1851 ; died in London, Dee. 1, 1893. He was de- 

 scended from a Florentine adventurer, one of the 

 famous Gherardini family who accompanied the 

 Normans to England. Maurice Fitz Gerald in the 

 next century established the English rule in Ireland. 

 The Fitz Geralds were made Earls of Kildare in 1316, 

 and Dukes of Leinster in 1766. The late duke suc- 

 ceeded his father in 1887, and is succeeded by 

 Maurice, Marquis of Kildare, born March 1, 1887, the 

 eldest son of his rflarriage with Lady Hermione Dun- 

 combe, a celebrated beauty. 



Locker, Arthur, English journalist, born in Green- 

 wich, July 2. 1828 ; died in London, June 23, 1893. 

 He was the son of a civil commissioner of Greenwich 

 Hospital, was educated at Charterhouse and at Pem- 

 broke College, Oxford, where he was graduated in 

 1851, was engaged for a short time in a mercantile 

 employment at Liverpool, emigrated to Australia, 

 where he wrote for the press, and after various ad- 

 ventures there and in India returned to England in 

 1861, and contributed reviews to the "Times" from 

 1865 till 1870, when the " Graphic " was founded and he 

 became its editor, in which post he remained till fail- 

 ing health compelled him to resign, in 1891. He was 

 the author of " Stephen Scudamore," " On a Coral 

 Reefi" and other works of fiction. 



Lonlay, Dick de, the pseudonym of Georges Hardonin, 

 French soldier, author, and artist, born in St. Malo, in 

 1845 ; died in Moscow, Oct. 1, 1893. He served in the 

 imperial guard in France, afterward took service in 

 a regiment of the Don Cossacks, and returning to 

 France took part in the Tunisian campaign. He 

 published many narratives of modern feats of arms, 

 illustrating his own books. In 1883 he was editor of 

 the " Drapeau," the organ of the League of Patriots. 

 A critic of his book " Francais et Allemands " accused 

 him of compiling his works, upon which he brought 

 suit in 1889, and after losing his case he went back 

 to Russia. 



Lttbke, Wilhelm Ton, German art critic, born in Dort- 

 mund, Jan. 17,1826; died in Carlsruhe, April 5, 1893. 

 He was the son of a teacher of exceptional attain- 

 ments, and he himself showed remarkable and versa- 

 tile talents in his boyhood, playing the most difficult 

 pieces on the organ, and carrying on anonymously a 



religious controversy in the newspaper with the par- 

 ish priest. He studied philology in Bonn and Berlin, 

 became a writer for art journals, having given up 

 his place as a teacher in the gymnasium to follow 

 aesthetics as a profession, eked out his living by giv- 

 ing lessons on the piano and in singing, obtained 

 commissions to draw and describe churches for atlases 

 of architecture, and printed in 1852 a short intro- 

 duction to the study of mediaeval church architecture, 

 and in the following year his work on mediaeval art 

 in Westphalia gave him a high standing among 

 writers on art. In 1855 he published a handbook of 

 architecture, the first illustrated book of the kind, 

 and the first one that was intended for popular read- 

 ers. It had a great sale, although it was free from all 

 the literary embellishments and artifices that are used 

 in popularizing technical subjects. In 1857, after hav- 

 ing begun his " Denkmaler der Kunst," he was ap- 

 pointed tutor in the Berlin Academy of Architecture. 

 In 1860 appeared his ' Grundriss der Kunstgeschich- 

 te," of which ten large editions have been sold. It was 

 followed by a work on the history of architecture, and 

 in 1863 by one on the history of sculpture. In 1860 

 he went as professor to Zurich, returning in 1866 to 

 Germany to lecture in the technical high school at 

 Stuttgart. In 1868 appeared his treatise on the his- 

 tory of the Renaissance in France, and in 1873 that on 

 the history of the Renaissance in Germany. In 1878 

 he published a work on the history of painting in 

 Italy. In 1885 he left Stuttgart to accept the pro- 

 fessorship of the History of Art in Carlsruhe. 



McCall, B. W., English missionary, born in 1821 ; 

 died in Paris, May 12, 1893. He was the son of an 

 Independent minister and theologian, and was & min- 

 ister nimself at Sunderlarid and other places, until he 

 visited Paris in 1871, and was encouraged to return 

 and devote himself to the propagation of evangelical 

 religion by seeing the general revolt against the 

 Catholic Church among the working people, and their 

 tendency toward atheism. In this work he was sup- 

 ported b'y subscriptions from Great Britain and Amer- 

 ica. He established 43 missions in Paris, 89 in other 

 French towns, and 6 in Algeria and Tunis. His be- 

 nevolent and educational work among the debased 

 population commanded general approbation, and won 

 for him the ribbon of the Legion of Honor. 



Maopherson, William, Scottish jurist, born in Aber- 

 deen, in 1813 ; died in London, April 20, 1893. He was 

 educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, was called to the bar in 1837, and in 1841 pub- 

 lished a learned treatise on the law of infants. He 

 went to India in 1846, prepared while acting as mas- 

 ter in chancery a standard work on Indian civil pro- 

 cedure, returned to Europe at the end of twelve years, 

 and was invited by John Murray to take the eclitor- 

 ship of the " Quarterly Review," which he held for 

 six years, resigning then in order to devote his atten- 

 tion wholly to his duties as secretary of the Indian 

 Law Commission. Subsequently he practiced law, 

 writing a standard work on the practice of the Judicial 

 Committee, and later was legal adviser and then 

 judicial secretary to the India Office. 



Madrid, Marguerite, Princess of Bourbon-Parma and 

 Duchess of, wife of Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, 

 born in Lucca, Jan. 1, 1847; died in Viareggio, Italy, 

 Jan. 29, 1893. She was the daughter of the Duke of 

 Parma, who was assassinated in 1854, by Princess 

 Louise of France, the sister of the Comte de Cham- 

 bord, by whom her four children were adopted. In 

 1867 she married Don Carlos, head of the Spanish 

 Bourbons, who was the nephew of the Comtesse de 

 Chambord. After the collapse of the Carlist insurrec- 

 tion of 1873 she lived with her husband in France 

 until he was expelled, in 1881. After the death of the 

 Comtesse de Chambord she became the owner of 

 Frohsdorf, where she spent her summers with her 

 five children. 



Marshall, Arthur Milnes, educator, born June 8, 1852 ; 

 died in Cumberlandshire, England, Dec. 31, 1893. He 

 was graduated at St. John's College, Cambridge, in 

 1874; studied at Dr. Dohrn's zoological station in 



