OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



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Naples in lsT. r >; in that year and 1876 assisted the 

 late I'rof. Hal four at Cambridge in organizing the 

 das.-e> in comparative morphology ; entered at St. 

 Bartholomew's Hospital in 1H77; was appointed l'r 

 trsMir of /oology iii Owens College, Manchester. He 

 retan.and afterward I'liairinan, of tlic (Jenerul 

 Hoard of Studies, in organizinir the courses of study 

 lor tin- Victoria I'niviTsity. lit- was the author of 

 several papcix in scientific journal* dealing with tin- 

 curly stage* of development of tin- m-rvous system of 

 a l>ook on the fro.;, uii'l, jointly with Mr. Hunt, of a 

 work on praetieal /ooloiry. 1'assing the Christmas 

 holidays at NVcstdale Head, Cumberland, he sutlercd 

 u fatal fall in climbing the peak of Scafell. 



Martos, Ohristino. Spanish staU-sman, born in 1832; 

 lied in Madrid, Jan. 18, 1693. He became a Repub- 

 lican journalist at an early age, was condemned to 

 death for participation in the rebellion of 1866, and 

 escaped to France; returned in 1868 after the dethrone- 

 ment of (^ucen Isabella, and took u prominent part in 

 jM.lities till the restoration in 1876, when he retired to 

 devote himself to the practice of law, in which he was 

 very successful. In 1879 he returned to the Cortee, 

 declared for the monarchy of King Alfonso, and at- 

 tached himself to Sajrasta's party. He was a powerful, 

 original, and independent speaker, not a docile par- 

 tisan, but yet was intrusted with the portfolios of 

 Justice and Foreign Affairs, and several times was 

 elected President of the Chamber. 



Hasina, Hermann, German author and educator, born 

 in Trebnitz, Jan. 7, 1818; died in Leipzig, May 22, 

 1893. He studied theology in Halle, became a country 

 teacher, and wrote u book called u Naturstudien," in 

 which he described with tine literary art the plants 

 and animals of his country, and the scenes of nature 

 in a picturesque, imaginative, and highly poetical 

 style. He became director of the high school for girls 

 in Halberstadt, and exhibited such power and skill to 

 stimulate, interest, and instruct, and had given so 

 much study to the art of teaching, that he was called 

 to the University of Leipzig as Professor of Pedagogics. 

 His principal other works, besides text-books of zool- 

 ogy and reading, are " Bunte Blatter " and " Deutecher 

 Wald und Hain." 



Manpaasant, Guy de, French novelist, born in 1850; 

 died in Paris, July 6, 18!)3. He was a descendant of 

 an old Norman noble family, and when a clerk in 

 the Ministry of Edu- 

 cation showed his at- 

 tempts in prose and 

 poetry to Flaubert, 

 who told him to 

 work hard and train 

 himself for fiction. 

 He went back to Nor- 

 mandy and practiced 

 for seven years be- 

 fore his master al- 

 lowed him to come 

 before the public 

 with "BouledeSoif," 

 the best story in 

 a collection called 

 " Lea Soire'eB de Me- 

 dan," written entire- 

 ly by young disciples 

 of the naturalistic 

 school, and pub- 

 lished in 1880 under 

 the auspices of Zola. 

 This was followed 

 by a volume of coarse 

 nnd cynical naturalistic poetry, " Des Vers " (1880), 

 elaborated with exquisite art. In the next eleven 

 years he turned out short stories and novels with 

 astonishing rapidity, 30 volumes altogether, all ripe 

 and finished products. In his later ana longer stories 

 he departed from the trivial and ignoble subjects 

 and the graphic and dramatic treatment of the 

 naturalistic school, to deal more analytically with 

 deeper problems of human nature. Maupassant was 



one of the masters of modern French style, free 

 from every artifice or mannerism, prodiie'mi/ din 

 descriptive Hid dramatic ctl'ccts with familiar words 

 and phrases as simple and lucid ax the language of 

 koiicuu or Voltaire. The best of his other works 

 are : La Mai-oi, Tellier" nl ) ; " Mile. Fifi " 

 "Coi,t,-s de la Becasse " (1888) ; "Une Vie" - 

 "Claire de Lune " (1888); "Lcs Soturs Rondoli " 

 (1884); " Monsieur Parent" (1886) ; " Mont-Oriol " 

 (1887); "La I'etitc Koque" (1888); "Bel-Ami": 

 "Pierre et Jean" (1888): "Fort comme la mort" 

 (1889); "L'Inutile Beaute" (1890); "Notre Ci-ur" 

 (1890). Incessant strenuous mental exertion resulting 

 in nervous exhaustion, Maupassant resorted to drugs 

 to stimulate his flagging brain until his mind gave 

 way, and for the last two years of his life he was eon 

 fined in an insane asylum'. His comedy "La Paix du 

 Manage " was produced a few weeks before his death. 



Maus, Henri, Belgian engineer, born in Namur, Oct. 

 22, 1808 ; died in Ixelles, July 18, 1898. He was em- 

 ployed in most of the great works of engineering exe- 

 cuted during his active life in Belgium, and his in- 

 vention and resources were' sought often in aid of 

 novel projects undertaken in other countries, such as 

 the piercing of the railroad tunnels in Switzerland, for 

 which he invented valuable appliances and machinery. 



Mazade, Charles de, French author, born in Tarn-et- 

 Garonnc in 1820; died in Paris, April 27, 1898. He 

 was the son of a judge and the grandson of a member 

 of the Convention of 1792. Going to Paris after 

 studying law at Toulouse, he wrote for u La Presse " 

 and the "Revue de Paris," and afterward for the 

 "Revue des deux mondes," to which he contributed 

 the political chronicle from 1852 to 1858 and from 

 1869 till the time of his death. He published a his- 

 tory of the Franco- Prussian War and a biography of 

 Th'iers. He was elected to the Academy in 1862. 



Merivale, Charles, English historian, born in Devon- 

 shire, in 1808; died Dec. 27, 1893. He was educated 

 at Harrow and Haileybury, and at St. John's Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, where he was graduated in 1880 

 with high honors, became a fellow and tutor, and 

 in 1838-'40 was university preacher. He was Hul- 

 sean lecturer in 1861 and Boyle lecturer in 1865, 

 chaplain of the House of Commons from 1868 till 

 1869, and in the latter year was appointed Dean of 

 Ely. Dean Merivale was the author of "Fall of the 

 Roman Republic" (1853); "Historv of the Romans 

 under the Empire" (1850-'62); "Conversion of the 

 Roman Empire " (1864) ; " Conversion of the North- 

 ern Nations" (1865); a translation of the "Iliad" 

 (1869); and "A General History of Rome" (1875). 



Minto, William, British educator and author, born in 

 1845 ; died in Aberdeen, in March, 1893. As professor 

 of Logic and English in the University of Aberdeen 

 In- had a wide reputation, and he was also the author 

 of numerous works, including several novels. 



Hiribel. Marie Francois, French general, born in 

 Montbonnet, Isore, in 1881; died in Paris, Sept 12, 

 1898. He studied at the Polytechnic School in Paris 

 and the Artillery School in Metz, was commissioned 

 a lieutenant of a'rtillery in 1855, and departed for the 

 Crimea, In the Italian war of 1859 he served in the 

 horse artillery and was severely wounded at Solfe- 

 rino. He went with Bazainc to Mexico as a captain 

 and received a disabling wound in the assault of 

 Pueblo, in consequence of which he was assigned to 

 bureau dutv in the War Office. Later he was mili- 

 tary attach/ of the embassy at St. Petersburg. When 

 the Franco-German War broke out, Miribel, who held 

 the rank of lieutenant-colonel, applied for an assign- 

 ment to active service. His desire was not gratified 

 till after the fall of the empire, when the Govern- 

 ment of National Defense gave him a command. He 

 was prominent in the defense of Paris, especially in 

 the battles of Malmaisoa, Champigny, and Buzenval, 

 and aided in the suppression of the Commune, after 

 which he was made a colonel, and in 1875 a general. 

 In November, issi, w hen the Gambetta ministry was 

 formed, he was selected to be chief of the newly or- 

 ganized general staff. This post he held till his death. 



