OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



at Cabul Rawlinaon turned all the Afghans out of the 

 city and prepared -for the siege that followed. I In* 

 jfifrrnrft 1 "" of the- artillery saved the city from U ing 

 by avaault when the Afghans burned 



' ..-..t V I I I 



born 



with the 



raeidaaf 



. >nul at 

 Badad, where he remained from 1 

 he returned to England, waa elected to Parlia.. 

 1887, advocated the transfer 



and when the bill waa Mated in 1868 waa made a 

 sMmberofUM ne 1" Council In 1869 he waa 

 Mat to Panda aa minister plonipot 



o sat in Parliament and 

 linstthv Russian advance 



a year. Aner hie 

 mUdthecryofwi 

 to Asia. He waa made a 



ning 



member of the India 

 After the Russians annexed Khiva 

 he published England and Ku 

 (1875). His earliest archaeological notes are found in 

 a narrative of a tnur through Susiana and Klimais in 

 18J7. which he supplemented with a description of 

 Kebatana that earned for him the gold medal 



He began to copy the cunci- 

 in 183.'). On hisap- 

 he Htudied the re- 



fe BMferit 



excavated by Botu at Khprsabad,and through 

 his familiarity with tho old Persian characters mi the 

 rock tableta at Bchutun he was able to dccinlur. in 

 IS44-'4&, the ancient Persian translations in which the 

 Aasyrian legends and history were preserved. In 

 1644 he pabUahed his first work on the cuneiform in- 



In 1847 he obtained complete copies of all 

 the 'inscriptions, the moat important of which wen 

 (bond in a dixsy location on a precipitous rock. These 

 copies he took to England in 1S49. He read during 

 his visit the famous paper on the cuneiform inscrip- 



MO* paper on the cuneiform insert p- 

 * of Assyria and Babylonia containing a trn>la- 

 i of the inscription of the black obelisk. 11, de 

 i an inscription brought homo by Layard con- 

 a chronicle of the war between Hoxekiah and 

 In 1861 the British Museum granted 

 *JOOO for excavations in Mesopotamia, for which Sir 

 lleory Rawlinson employed Hormuxd Rassam. He 

 i knighted on his return from Bagdad in 1866, and 

 lea baronet in 1891. 



, Haarj.an English historian, born in Norwich 

 in 18U: died in Christ Church, Hampshire, Oct. 21, 

 as educated at the Academy of Geneva, 

 From 18*7 to 1887 he waa Registrar of 

 th Privy Council, and in 1866 be became editor of tho 

 Edinburgh Review." In 18S6 he published a trans- 

 'atfcMi of IM T '" ' " " ~ 



Tooqueville^a - Democracy in America, 



which paaaad through many editions, and in 1866 a 

 translation of Da TocquevilU* 'France before the 

 fcUrolotioo of 1789." lie waa also the author of a 

 of Guixot'. - Washington" (1840). His 

 " (Jraphidw; or, Characteriatica 

 U w (18t );-BoyaTand Republican Prance" 

 aod PWrarch/ in the aeries of -Foreign 



Italian prelate, bom in Paler- 

 d in Rome, May 29, 18'.' 

 rained wit and artistic taste, 

 qualities Leo XIII made him 



anpalaoa. ! 



of thTsIstine Chapel and of 



oftbeV 



- * Isii. an English author, born in 

 ^T f lt7dtadthe5March9,189.V He 

 ted to a poat in the Public Record Office, 

 *^w#l hie retirement in 189S. He 



M**4 Unpublished Papers relating to 



(1870). 



Saint -Hilaiw. Julci Barthclemy de. a Frcnoli statesman. 

 orn in 1'ans. Aug. I 1 .'. 1 *""; died t 

 He held a post in the Ministry -! !;: 

 Charles X was king, and became a friend 

 and a contributor to the " Globe" and oth. 

 He signed tin- protect against the ordinances* 

 gnac with which tin- n-\olution of ls.".n .. 

 rated. \\ h.-n the Orleans Government was 

 lished he found tliat his ideas of g..vi rnn.i -i.- 

 radically tt.>m th<<- ,,f 'I'liit-rs an.; 

 the constitutional monarchy. He protested 

 ously against the new order of tiling- in ne\\ 



iajL tlu-n \\ithdn-w from po|':!i.-> aiM 

 himself to translating 18 II. 



called from the as- 



irc in the I'oUtechnic Sehool t 



. and Latin PhUoaOphj in the Coll.-^r d< 

 and in the following vear was rewarded witl. 

 in the Academy of Moral and 1'oliti 



u made him his first ansistant in 

 1'iiblic K.lu.-ation, but he soon retired to i: 

 si-lf for e'urht years in his \\ 

 writings and in the stu rit literatiu. 



>!uti<>n of 1H48 waa accomplished hewn 

 cd to the Assembly, and for a short time was l^^H 

 ary secretary to the Provisional G.. \en:! 

 the election of Louis Napoleon as Prcsid. 

 for certain repressive laws, but lit r.tus.d to recog- 

 nize the coup d'etat or to take the oath of a 

 to the Emperor. Nevertheless he was requesti 

 tain hit* professorship in the College de Frai 

 de.-lined and went to Kjjypt with L->M-I 

 latter was working out iiis Sui-/. < 'anal pi 

 \\ n>tc a series of letters to a Paris newspap. r. On his 

 return he produced further installn 

 lation of Aristotle, and treatises on Buddhism, the 

 Vcdas, tho Koran, and Mohammed. He resumed his 

 intimacy with Thiers. wlio made him M 

 cral of his Cabinet in 1^71. This JK.SI he li; 

 1873. In 1880 he hU.-.-er.b-d Frry.-in.-t as Miti. 

 Foreign Atl'airs in the Cabinet of, 

 was a Conservative Republican and an 

 conciliation, having no sympathy with the aggressive 

 radicalism that prevailed in the- Chamber. Tho re- 

 mainder of his life was passed auietly in lit." 

 cupations and attending to his duties* in the Semite, 

 of which he was a life member. He published a 



"Lite of Com 



Bahv George Augriitui Henry, an Knirlish jour- 

 born in London in ]K-JS ; di,.,l in IJriu'hton. i 

 1895. His father, an Italian, married a popuh.- 

 li-h si nj,rer. and the son was brought up \sith 

 pectation that he would become un ar' 

 Sala, however, early became a contributor to M House- 

 hold Words," as well as a close copvi.-t of the tTW I 

 of Mr. Dickens. He founded tho "Tern) 

 Magazine," of which he wait the t, :.d in 



the earlier portion of his career wrote much i 

 riodicals. In 1868 he visited the (nitc 

 correspondent of the London lt Dai; 

 in 18*14 visited Algeria in the same < 

 the Franco- Prussian War Mr. Sala was th. wa 

 respondent to the "Daily Telegra]>h, M and he was 

 dispatched by that journal to varmu, 

 world on other important occa> 



be conducted a weekly paper entitled ' Sala's Jour- 

 nal," and having published in its coluinr. 

 attack on a labor organization know n as t 

 tic Servants' Union" was subsequently mol 

 Hyde Park. He made large? sums in joun 

 but was recklessly extravagant and fin. 

 bankrupt The cJot>e of his life 

 failing health and broken fortui 

 u Daily Telegraph " granted him a 

 a year. A month b< ton- his death : 

 man Catholic. He was brilliant ar. 

 work was all ephemeral, and much of it is If^^^^l 

 forgotten. His many writings include : 

 Alliance" (1856); M A Journey due Nor 

 "Twice Round the Clock" (1869): "U 

 field's Letters to her Daughters" (I860;; u Dutch 



