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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (UzES YVON.) 



harmony and counterpoint under Zarenba and com- 

 position under Anton Rubinstein. Taking his di- 

 ploma in 1865, and a medal for his cantata on Schiller's 

 ode " An die Freude," he was called by Nicholas 

 Rubinstein to the nevr Conservatory of Moscow, 

 where he was Professor of Harmony, Composition, 

 and the History of Music from 1866 till 1878, after 

 which he devoted himself entirely to composition, liv- 

 ing in St Petersburg, Italy, Switzerland, and Kieff. 

 His music is strikingly Slavonic in spirit and character, 

 reproducing in an elaborate and gorgeous orchestra- 

 tion the melody and rhythm of popular songs and 

 dances and the harmonic sequences of the old Rus- 

 sian Church music. Tschaikowsky died of cholera. 

 His compositions include " Opritchnik," " Vakula," 

 the " Enchantress," and six other operas and ballets, 

 six symphonies, and numerous symphonic poems, 

 concertos, suites, and other orchestral works. 



Uzes. Jacques Marie Geraud de Crussol. Due d', French 

 explorer, born in Paris, Nov. 19, 1868 ; died in Cabin- 

 da, Portuguese Congo, June 20, 1893. He went to 

 Africa with a well-equipped expedition, which he in- 

 tended to lead across the continent. Ascending the 

 Congo as far as Brazzaville, he found he could not 

 proceed to the lakes on account of the Arab uprising. 

 Hearing of the troubles of Liotard on the Ubangi, he 

 placed his men and supplies at the disposal of the 

 French authorities, joined the forces of Liotard, helped 

 to chastise the aggressive tribes, and on Feb. 19 set 

 out for the coast, suffering from fever and exhaustion, 

 of which many of his party had died, but he also ex- 

 pired before he could embark. 



Van Bysselberghe, Francois, Belgian electrician, born 

 in Ghent, Aug. 25, 1846 ; died in Antwerp, Jan. 7, 

 1893. He was appointed a professor in the school of 

 navigation at Ostend when scarcely seventeen years 

 old, and taught physics iu the industrial school of 

 that place. At nineteen he obtained the diploma of 

 hydrographic engineer, and already his inventive 

 genius manifested itself in a meteorograph and other 

 instruments that were immediately adopted and ren- 

 dered important services to navigation. His original 

 inventions attracted the notice of men of science, and 

 he was attached to the Royal Observatory at Brussels. 

 Thenceforth he occupied himself solely with elec- 

 tricity. His most famous invention was a system for 

 telephoning to long distances over telegraph wires 

 without interruption of the telegraphic service, which 

 was first applied on Sept. 26, 1884, in the line between 

 Antwerp and Brussels. His last was a hydro-electric 

 system for lighting and distribution of power. 



Vizetelly, Henry Richard, English publisher, born in 

 London, England, June 30, 1820; died at Tilford, 

 near Farnham, Jan. 1, 1894. He was the first to in- 

 troduce the works of Edgar Allan Poe to English 

 readers, and was also the original publisher in Eng- 

 land of Mrs. Stowe's " Tin^io T/->m\j noi-,; in i CMQ 

 he founded the 



; Uncle Tom's 



In 1843 



e " Pictorial Times," the pioneer journal 

 of the British pictorial press, and afterward he be- 

 came editor of the " Illustrated Times," in which 

 capacity he opposed the newspaper stamp duty and 

 ventured to publish his paper without the excise 

 stamp (1855). It was largely through his efforts that 

 this tax was abolished. Some years later (1858) he 

 became secretary of the movement for abolition of 

 the duty on paper, which was opposed as a tax on 

 knowledge, and this was finally repealed (1861). In 

 1867 he published his " Story of the Diamond Neck- 

 lace, told chiefly by the Aid of Original Letters." 

 This work comprised a sketch of the life of the 

 Countess De La Motte, and reached its third edition 

 in 1880. Prior to the Franco-German War he became 

 a contributor to the " Times " and the " Pall Mall Ga- 

 zette," and also translated Topin's "Man with the 

 Iron Mask." He was appointed special correspond- 

 ent of the " Illustrated London News " at Paris in 

 1866, and held this place for ten years. He experi- 

 enced all the horrors and privations of the siege of 

 Paris. At the close of the war he turned his atten- 

 tion to the study of wines, and during the next seven 

 years published several monographs on this subject. 



He was appointed representative of Great Britain at 

 the Vienna (1873) and Paris (1878) expositions, and 

 acted on the jury for wine exhibits. For his services 

 in Vienna he was created Chevalier of the Order of 

 Francis Josef I, of Austria. In 1879 he published two 

 volumes entitled " Berlin under the New Empire," the 

 result of a prolonged stay in Germany. Subsequently 

 he told the story of the siege of Paris in his work, 

 " Paris in Peril " (2 vols.), and an exhaustive " History 

 of Champagne " followed (1882). On his return from 

 the Continent Mr. Vizetelly resumed publishing, and 

 issued for the first time to English readers the novels 

 of Count Leo Tolstoi, the Russian romanticist, and 

 translations from eminent French authors. He also 

 issued George Augustus Sala's and E. C. Grenville 

 Murray's books, after which came the " Mermaid Se- 

 ries " of unexpurgated best plays by the old drama- 

 tists, those 01 Christopher Marlowe forming the in- 

 itial volume. In 1883 he boldly ventured to nlace 

 on the English market the realistic novels of Emile 

 Zola, which he continued to publish uninterruptedly 

 for seven years, when he experienced a systematic 

 persecution that culminated in his imprisonment in 

 Holloway Castle as a first-class misdemeanant. While 

 there incarcerated Mr. Vizetelly began his reminis- 

 cences, "Glances back through Seventy Years" (2 

 vols., 1893), in which he records with a free hand the 

 vicissitudes of his career. 



Wachtel, Tlieodor. German tenor singer, born in 

 Hamburg, in 1823 ; died in Berlin. He oegan life as 

 a groom. When he was seventeen years old some 

 one connected with the theater who heard him sing 

 persuaded him to take lessons. In a few years he 

 was one of the foremost German opera singers. He 

 came to the United States in 1871, and again in 1875. 



Waldeok-Pyrmont, George Victor, Prince of, born in 

 Arolsen, Jan. 13. 1831 ; died in Marienbad, Bohemia, 

 May 12, 1893. His father having died when he was 

 thirteen years old, his mother became Regent. He. 

 married, in 1853, a niece of the Duke of Nassau, by 

 whom he had two daughters, one of whom is the 

 Queen Regent of the Netherlands and one the widow 

 of the Duke of Albany, and a son, Friedrich Adolf, who 

 succeeds him. He gave up his substantial sovereign 

 rights to Prussia in 1867, retaining the Crown do- 

 mains, which Prince Bismarck tried afterward to in- 

 duce him to relinquish. 



Warnots, Henry, Belgian singer, born in Saint-Trond, 

 in 1829; died in Brussels, March 12,1893. He. won 

 prizes at the Brussels Conservatory for singing, har- 

 mony, and the piano, went upon the lyric stage, and 

 won success in France, not by the strength of his 

 voice, but by the science of his diction and modu- 

 lation and the warmth of his dramatic interpre- 

 tations. Returning to Brussels he became first tenor 

 in the Flemish opera, Professor of Singing in the 

 Conservatory, and director of choral societies. In 

 training a chorus he was excelled by none. 



Westwood, John Obadiah, English entomologist and 

 archaeologist, born in Sheffield, Dec. 22, 1805; died 

 in Oxford, Jan. 2, 1893. He was trained as a solicitor 

 and became a member of a London firm, but gave his 

 mind up to science and literature. Having a high 

 reputation as an entomologist, he was called to Ox- 

 ford in 1858 to be curator of the collections which he 

 and Hope had made, and in 1861 he was appointed a 

 professor. He was an expert in the archseoiogy and 

 palaeography of art, and wrote upon the illumination 

 of Irisn and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, ancient illus- 

 trations in sacred books, inscriptions on stones in 

 Wales, carved ivories, etc. 



WMpple, G. M., English astronomer, born in 1843 ; 

 died in Richmond, Feb. 8, 1893. He was director of 

 the observatory at Kew, and author of numerous 

 treatises on solar physics. 



Yvon, Adolphe, French painter, born in Eschwiller, 

 Moselle, in 1817 ; died in Passy, in September, 1893. 

 He was a pupil of Paul Delaroche, acquired a reputa- 

 tion as a painter of historical subjects and military 

 portraits, was sent by the Government to the Crimea 

 m 1855, and there painted the " Capture of the Mala- 



