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coast, Cameron continued his explorations in the in- called "Etoile"; the comic opera u Koi malgre Lui"; 

 terior, circumnavigating Lake Tanganyika, finding in "Gwendoline," which was played many times in 



the Lukuga what he supposed was an outlet of the 

 lake into the Lualaba, journeying down the Lomame, 

 and continuing his march across the continent, reach- 

 ing Katombela, on the Atlantic coast, north of Ben- 

 guela, on Nov. 7, 1875. His was the first journey 

 across Africa from east to west, and was distinguished 

 by the multitude of observations of geographical 

 position and altitude rather than by striking discov- 

 eries. He published a narrative under the title 

 "Across Africa" (1877). He made a trip through 

 Asia Minor and Persia to India in 1878, and puo- 

 lished a book to prove that the Euphrates valley was 

 a good route for a railroad to India, under the title 

 u Our Future Highway." In 1882 he and Sir Richard 

 Burton went to West Africa to study the gold- mining 

 prospects, and together they published "To the Gold 

 Coast for Gold" (1883). Capt. Cameron was the au- 

 thor of some romances of ocean and African adven- 

 tures. He was interested in a company that acquired 

 trading rights in the Zambesi region from the Portu- 

 guese Government that conflict with the claims of 

 the South Africa Company in British Central Africa. 

 His death was caused by a fall from his horse when 

 lu- was following the hounds. 



Camp, Maximo du, a French author, born in Paris, 

 Feb. 8, 1822; died there, Feb. 9, 1894. He was the 

 son of an eminent physician, and was educated at the 

 College de France. He traveled in the East in 1844- 

 '45, and on his return published a volume of sketches 

 of Turkey. The new art of photography engaged 

 his attention for some years. In 1848 he served in 

 the National Guard, and was wounded in the June 

 riots, receiving the cross of the Legion of Honor for 

 bravery, and in the following year a commission to 



played many times in 



Germany before being produced at the Paris Opera ; 

 and a lyric drama called "Briseis," left unfinished. 



Coleridge, John Duke, Baron, an English jurist, 

 boVn in Ottery St. Mary, Dec. 3, 1820 ; died in Lon- 

 don, June 1, 1894. He' was the son of an eminent 

 judge, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, nephew of the poet, 

 was educated at Eton, taking an open scholarship at 

 Balliol when only seventeen years old. He took a 

 prominent part at the university in the theological 

 controversies then going on among the undergradu- 

 ates. He was graduated in 1842, obtaining a first- 

 class, was elected a fellow of Exeter College in 1843, 

 and was called to the bar in 1847. He was an elo- 

 quent and ingenious pleader, and had a brilliant 

 career at the bar before he was elevated to the 

 bench. He was also distinguished as an elegant and 

 forcible writer and a scholar of varied learning. He 

 was a frequent contributor to the " Guardian " and to 

 the " Quarterly " and the " Edinburgh Review." lie 

 was recorder of Portsmouth in 1855, and in 1861 was 

 made a Queen's counsel. From 1865 till 1873 lie was 

 member of Parliament for Exeter. As Solicitor-Gen- 

 eral in the first Gladstone Government he pushed 

 through the judicature act of 1870. In 1871 he was 

 appointed Attorney-General. In November, 1873, he 

 was made Chief Justice of Common Pleas, and in 

 December of that year was raised to the peerage as 

 Baron Coleridge of Ottery St. Mary. In November, 

 1880, on the death of Sir Alexander Cockburu, Lord 

 Coleridge became Lord Chief Justice of England. In 

 1883 he visited the United States with Lord Haunen, 

 Lord Bowen, and Lord Russell, on the invitation of 

 the New York Bar Association. Although he was 

 one of the most gifted and scholarly of English 



make archaeological explorations in Egypt and Asia judges, broad and liberal in most of his views, his 



Minor. He took photographic views of the monu- 

 ments that he found, and published a collection of 

 the pictures in 1851 after his return. He was one of 

 Garibaldi's legion in Sicily, and wrote an admirable 

 narrative of the expedition. He was one of the 

 founders of the " Kevue de Paris," a critic on the 

 " Eevue des Deux Mondes " and " Moniteur Univer- 

 sel," and a popular lecturer and versatile newspaper 

 writer. lie published volumes on the annual Salons 

 and on the exhibitions of tine arts at the Expositions 

 of 1855 and 1867, also several novels and books of 

 verse. His principal works are " Paris, its Organs, 

 Functions, and Life " and a history of the Paris Com- 

 mune entitled " Convulsions de Paris " that earned 

 for him election to the French Academy in 1880. He 

 left memoirs that are not to be published till long 

 after his death. 



Capern, Edward, an English poet, born at Tiverton, 

 Jan. 29, 1819 ; died at Braunton, June 5, 1894. He 

 began life as a letter-carrier at Bideford, and is usu*- 

 ally spoken of as the Postman Poet. His work, which 

 shows freshness and melody, attracted attention and 

 procured him a pension. He was the author of 

 " Poems : By the Bideford Eural Postman " (London, 

 1856; 3d edition, 1859) ; " Ballads and Songs" (Lon- 



decisions have not been free from the uncertainty 

 natural to his temperament, which was impulsive, 

 imaginative, and averse to patient drudgery. The 

 first famous cases in which he was engaged as counsel 

 was the trial, in 1859, of Thomas Pooley for blas- 

 phemy, in relation to which Henry Thomas Buckle 

 scored him as prosecuting attorney and his father as 

 judge in a magazine article, drawing from him an 

 equally caustic reply. In the case of Miss Saurin 

 against the lady superior of a convent of the Sisters 

 01 Mercy he obtained a sensational verdict for the 

 defendant. When Attorney-General he was retained 

 against the Tichborne claimant, whom he cross- 

 examined for twenty-one days, and at the close he 

 made the longest speech ever delivered in a court of 

 justice. In the early part of his judicial career he 

 took pains with his judgments. In the case of Brad- 

 laugh vs. Newdegate he declared that the defend- 

 ant was liable for maintenance. In the trial of Dud- 

 ley and Stephen he dealt with a charge of murder 

 against sailors who had eaten a boy under stress of 

 famine. In the trial of Romsey and Foote he laid 

 down the law of blasphemy more in accordance with 

 the tolerant spirit of the time than precedents war- 

 ranted. When he was Chief Justice he was himself 



don, 1858) ; " Wayside Warbles " (London"l865 ; 2d the defendant in_ a suit for libel arising out of 



edition, 1870) ; " Sun Gleams and Shadow Pearls 

 ^London, 1881); and "The Devonshire Melodist." 

 The latter volume includes the author's own music 

 to some of his songs. 



Cavalier, Pierre Jules, a French sculptor, born in 

 Pans, in 1814; died there, Jan. 28, 1894. He was a 

 pupil of Paul Delaroche and of David D'Angers. In 

 1842 he carried off the grand prize for sculpture, 

 borne of his works are " Truth," " Penelope," and 

 statues of Napoleon, Corneille, and Gluck. In 1891 

 he executed an allegorical figure of " Sculpture." 



Chabrier, Emmanuel, a French musical composer, 

 born in Ambert, in January, 1841 ; died in Paris, 

 Sept. 13, 1894. He was the son of a lawyer, and was 

 educated for the public service. After working as a 

 clerk in the Ministry of the Interior for sixteen years 



family quarrel. Lord Coleridge was a famous wit 

 and story-teller. 



Curteis, George Herbert, an English clergyman, born 

 in England about 1824 ; died" at Lichfield, Oct. 9, 

 1894. He was graduated at University College, Ox- 

 ford, in 1846, was ordained deacon in 1848, and priest 

 in 1849. The year after his consecration he was 

 appointed a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and 

 held the fellowship until 1863. He was curate at 

 Minster, in the Isle of Thanet, for three years, and 

 after being connected with St. Augustine's College, at 

 Canterbury, was principal of the Lichfield Theo- 

 logical College from 1857 to 1880. From 1858 to 1873 

 he held a prebend's stall at Lichfield, and for the last 

 three years of this period he was vicar of Turweston 

 in Buckinghamshire. He became a canon of Lich- 



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he became leader of the chorus in the concerts of field in 1873, and was precentor at the cathedral at the 



