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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (MIDDENDORF MUNDY.) 



that he called tin 1 National party, and beat the 

 u Rope" party in the next elections. To please his 

 Clerical allies, after he became. Premier, on Jan. 27, 

 INS;, he carried through a hill granting 80,000 to 

 the Catholic Chureli in compensation tor lands once 

 confiscated from the .Jesuit society. .Jobbery and 

 corruption in his own party and att'eetiiiLr his own 

 reputation, especially in connection with the Haie des 

 Chaleurs Railway, led Lieutcnant-Governor A Hirers 

 to dismiss the Cabinet in 1891, and in the succeeding 

 elections the Conservatives came in with a strong 

 majority. He vigorously rebutted all imputations 

 airainst' his honor; yet he was not forgiven for per- 

 mitting extravagance and even jobbery as gross as 

 that which he formerly inveighed against. 



Middendorf. Alexander 'Theodor von, a Russian explorer, 

 born in St. Petersburg, in 1815; died in March, 1894. 

 He was educated iii a irvmnasium in St. Petersburg, 

 studied medicine at Dorpat University, graduating 

 in Is:i7, and continued his studies in Berlin, Breslau, 

 Erlantrcn, and Vienna. On his return to Russia he- 

 was appointed a professor at Kiev University, but 

 immediately began his career as a geographical ex- 

 plorer, accompanying Karl Bar's expedition to Lap- 

 land. He was sent out by the Academy of Sciences 

 in 1843 to explore northern Siberia, and there he took 

 valuable observations of the temperature of the earth 

 at different depths. He was engaged many years in 

 working out the scientific results of his expedition, 

 and published his memoirs, dealing with the geogra- 

 phy, botany, zoology, and anthropology of Siberia, in 

 both German and Russian. Later he gave his atten- 

 tion to agriculture, and made a trip to Turkestan to 

 observe the tillage practiced by the Usbegs. Among 

 liis published works are treatises on " Mammoths of 

 Siberia,'' ''Hares," "Remains of Labyrinthodonts," 

 " Problems of Hippology," and ".Northern Branches 

 of the Gulf Stream." 



Morley, Henry, English author, born in London, 

 Sept. 15, 1822 ; died in Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, 

 May 14, ]s;i4. He was educated at the Moravian 

 School at Neuwied, Germany, and et King's College, 

 London, of which college he afterward oecame an 

 honorary fellow. He practiced medicine for several 

 years at'.Madeley, in Shropshire, and afterward taught 

 school in Manchester and Liverpool, and from 1857 

 to 1885 was lecturer on English literature at King's 

 College, where he directed the evening classes of the 

 English department. His method of teaching school 

 is described by himself in No. 200 of "Household 

 Words." He was afterward Professor of English Lit- 

 erature at University and Queen's Colleges, and from 

 1^ to IMMJ was principal of University Tlall, Gordon 

 Square, London. He was for some time, immediately 

 after his removal to London, associated with Charles 

 Dickens in the editorship of" Household Words," and 

 later he became editor in chief of the "Examiner." 

 < >n his retirement from the professorship in Univer- 

 sity College he was made professor emeritus, and 

 thereafter he resided at Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight. 

 He was an industrious author and editor, but his chief 

 work, bcirun in its present form in 1887 and continued 

 till his death, is his " English Writers: An Attempt 

 toward a History of Knglish Literature." Ilehadcom- 

 , 10 volumes at the time of his death, and the 

 narrative was brought, down to the period of Shakes- 

 p-are. Hi> work was popular and has a recognized 

 value, but he was a better literary historian than 

 critic. Ili> publi.-shed works comprise the following : 

 "A Dream of the Lily Bell: Tales and Poems" 

 Sunrise in Italy: Reveries " (1848) ; 

 "How to make Home Unhealthy "(I860): "A De- 

 fense of Ignorance " (1 *:>].); " The Life of Bernard 

 Palissy of Salutes" a volumes. 1852); " The, Life 

 .f Jerome Cardan" (1854) ;" The Life of Henry Cor- 

 nelius Agrippa von Nettesheim" ( 1 s.V.) ; " (iossip," 

 a collection of essays that first appeared in u House- 

 hold Words" (1857); "Memoirs of Bartholomew 

 Fair " (1858) ; " Fables and Fairy Tales " (2 volumes, 

 1859); "Oberon's Horn: A Book of Fairy Tales" 

 (1860); "English Writers: Vol. I, Writers before 



Chaucer" (1804); Vol. II, "From Chaucer to Dun- 

 bar" (1867); "Sketches of Russian Life" (edited, 

 1866) : " Journal of a London Playgoer from 1857 to 

 1866" (1866); "Tales of English Literature, Part 1" 

 (1868) ; " King and Commons : Cavalier and Puritan 

 Songs " (1868) ; " Clement Marot, and Other Studies " 

 (1871) ; "First Sketch of English Literature" (1873) ; 

 " Shorter English Poems" (edited, 1876) ; " Illustra- 

 tions 4>f English Religion" (edited, 1877); " Chicken 

 Market, and Other Fairy Tales" (1877); "Shorter 

 Works in English Prose" (edited, 1880) ; " Sketches 

 of Longer Works in English Verse and Prose " (1881) ; 

 " Library of English Literature " (edited, 1881, Vols. 

 I-IV) ; "English Literature in the Reign of Vic- 

 toria" (Leipsie, 1881); " English Writers : An Attempt 

 toward a History of English Literature" (London, 

 1887-'94, 10 volumes). In addition to these works 

 he edited " Morley 's Universal Library" (63 vol- 

 umes); "Cassell's "National Library "(214 volumes, 

 each book with an introduction by him) ; " Library of 

 English Literature" (1875-'81, 5 volumes); "The 

 Carisbrooke Library " (1889-'91, 14 volumes) ; and 

 " Morley 's Companion Poets" (1891-'92, 9 volumes). 

 His wonderful literary activity and rapidity of work- 

 manship may be comprehended when it is mentioned 

 that, besides the long list of works here enumerated, 

 he brought out an edition of Steele and Addison's 

 " Spectator," with notes, in 1868, and " Florio's Mon- 

 taigne " and " Boswell's Life of Johnson " in 1886. 



Morris, Bichard, an English philologist, born at Ber- 

 mondsey, in 1833; died at Harold Wood, Essex, May 

 12, 1-S 94. He was educated at the Battersea Training 

 College, took orders in the English Church in 1871, 

 and was head master of the Royal Masonic Institution 

 for Boys from 1875 to 1891. In 1874 he was made 

 President of the Philological Society. He was one 

 of the most thorough and scholarly philologists of his 

 day, and won equal fame by his labors in early 

 English and Pali, the sacred language of Buddhism. 

 His earliest work was " The Etymology of Local 

 Names" (London, 1857), which clearly "showed the 

 bent of his mind. Exclusive of the works that he 

 edited, which are many and important, he published 

 the following books subsequently to 1857 : " Lectures 

 on the Excellency of the Bible" (London, 1858); 

 "Specimens of Early English, A. D. 1250-1400" 

 (1866-'72) ; " Historical Outlines of English Acci- 

 dence : Chapters on the History and Development of 

 the Language and on Word Formation" (1872); 

 ' Elementary Lessons in English Grammar" (1874); 

 "Primer of English Grammar" (1875); "On the 

 Survival of Early English Words in our Present 

 Dialects " (English Dialect Society, 1876) ; "_Report 

 on Pali Literature " (1880) ; " Pugtrala Pannatti " 

 (1883); "Dathavamsa" (1884); "Pali Notes and 

 Queries " (1884) ; " Folk Tales of India " (1884 



Muley Hassan, Sultan of Morocco, born in 1831 ; 

 died June 7, 1894. He was a man of fine presence, of 

 commanding will, and of keen intellect and ready wit. 

 He succeeded his father, Sidi Mohammed, on Sept. 25, 

 1873, through the influence of his uncle, Muley Azziz, 

 then Governor of Fez. Before ascending the throne 

 he was a man of austere religious habits, the hus- 

 band of one wife, and diligent in affairs. He was a 

 hard-working sovereign, who early in his reign was 

 willing to introduce modern improvements into the 

 country and establish more cordial commercial and 

 diplomatic relations with Europe. His eyes having 

 been opened to the dangers of such a course, he re- 

 turned to the old policy of exclusion and isolation, and 

 with astute diplomacy and clever prevarication played 

 otf one jealous power against another. 



Mundy, Baron Jaromir, an Australian physician and 

 philanthropist, born in Eichhorn, Moravia, in 1822; 

 died in Vienna, Aug. 23, 1894. His father having 

 placed him in the army against his inclination, in ls">f>, 

 he resigned his commission to study medicine in Wurz- 

 burg. He made a specialty of insanity, and after serv- 

 ing as a volunteer hospital surgeon with the army dur- 

 ing the Italian campaign of 1859, he pursued his studies 

 of alienism in foreign countries. During the war of 



