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became a partner in the Royal Porcelain Works, 

 at Worcester, in 1851, and under his management 

 a much improved grade of porcelain was manu- 

 factured and the fame of the Worcester china 

 greatly extended. He published A Century of 

 Potting in the City of Worcester: A History of 

 the Royal Porcelain Works (2d ed., 1877) ; and 

 Worcester China : A Record of the Work of Forty- 

 five Years, 1852-1897 (1897). 



Blackmore, Richard Doddridge, an English 

 novelist, born in Longworth, Berkshire, June 9, 

 1825; died near London, Jan. 20, 1900. On the 

 maternal side he was descended from Philip Dodd- 

 ridge, the well-known divine of the eighteenth cen- 

 tury. He was educated at Blundell School, at Tiv- 

 crton, familiar to all readers of Lorna Doone, and 

 at Exeter College, Oxford. He was called to the 

 bar of the Middle Temple in 1852, and for some 

 time practiced as a conveyancer. He subsequently 

 engaged in the business of market gardening at 

 Teddington, a few miles out of London, near 

 Hampton Court, and had several acres under culti- 

 ation. His earliest literary efforts were in verse, 

 nd attracted no particular attention. He then 

 turned to fiction, but had published two novels 

 fore the issue of Lorna Doone (1SC9) made him 

 uickly famous. Blackmore's disposition was ex- 

 tremely retiring, and he allowed no details of his 

 private life to appear in print. His published 

 books comprise Poems by Melanter (London, 

 1854); Epullia, and Other Poems (1855); The 

 Bugle of the Black Sea (1855); The Fate of 

 Franklin (1860); The Farm and Fruit of All: a 

 ranslation in verse of the First and Second 

 eorgics of Virgil, by a Market Gardener (1862) ; 

 'lara Vaughan: A Novel (1864) ; Cradock Nowell: 

 A Tale of the New Forest (1866) ; Lorna Doone: 

 Romance of Exmoor (1869) ; The Georgics of 

 Virgil, a translation (1871); The Maid of Sker 

 (1872) ; Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs 

 (1875); Cripps the Carrier: A Woodland Tale 

 (1876) ; Erema, or My Father's Sin (1877) ; Mary 

 Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale (1880); Christowell: 

 A Dartmoor Tale (1882) ; The Remarkable History 

 of Sir Thomas Upmore (1884); Springhaven: A 

 Tale of the Great War (1887); Kit and Kitty 

 (1889); Perlycross (1894); Fringilla, or Tales in 

 Verse (1895); Tales from the Telling House 

 (1896); and Dariel (1897). The fame of Lorna 

 Doone has in a measure overshadowed his other 

 romances, but such books as The Maid of Sker 

 and Cripps the Carrier do not fall far behind his 

 masterpiece, while none of his stories can be styled 

 unworthy of his literary reputation. In all ap- 

 pears a rich vein of humor, full of quaint turns 

 and individuality, but never exaggerated, while 

 pathos, appearing more rarely, is at no time over- 

 strained. Blackmore's strength can not be said 

 to lie in his plots, which are usually very much 

 involved, the progress toward the event being 

 hesitating and uneven. The complication of the 

 plot is explained with perfect clearness, it is true, 

 yet the solution of the mystery is apt to be a little 

 confusing. It must be admitted, too, that several 

 of his narratives suffer from a plethora of incident, 

 and that the canvas displays too many characters. 

 But the impetuosity of his narrative carries the 

 cader along so swiftly that minor defects affect 

 is enjoyment slightly, if at all. Although ex- 

 elling in rapid, animated narration, he was 

 qually successful with descriptive passages of a 

 |iiiet, peaceful nature, as any one familiar with 

 his books needs not to be told. His imagination 

 was fertile, and his insight into character and 

 motive very keen. His stories possess an abiding 

 charm, and Lorna Doone and The Maid of Sker 

 seem destined to endure. 

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Brohan, Emilie Madeleine (Mme. Pio 

 Uchard), a French actress, born in Paris, Oct. 22, 

 1833; died there, Feb. 25, 1900. She was a sister 

 of Josephine Brohan and a daughter of Suzanne 

 Brohan, famous actresses of the French theater. 

 She entered the Conservatoire in 1848, and \\;iv 

 graduated with the first prize for comedy, July 25, 

 1850. Her first appearance was made at the 

 Theatre Franc.ais, Oct. 13, 1850, as Marguerite in 

 Les Contes de la Reine de Navarre, a drama 

 written by Scribe and Legouve. Her success was 

 instantaneous. She married Mario Uchard, 1854, 

 but their union was not happy, and after a few 

 months she withdrew from the Theatre Frangais 

 and went to Russia. Uchard wrote a play called 

 La Fiammina, supposed to present a picture of 

 their unfortunate domestic relations, and it was 

 pi'oduced with some success at the Frangais in 

 1857. In the same year Madeleine returned to 

 Paris, and was re-engaged with the Comedie Fran- 

 c,aise, with which she remained as an employee 

 and socivtaire till her retirement in 1885. During 

 this long career she retained her great popularity 

 with the public of Paris and played all the rflles 

 in comedy that belong to the famous repertory 

 of France's national theater. Her most notable 

 creations, in addition to her first part, were Mari- 

 anne in Les Caprices de Marianne of Alfred de 

 Musset; the title role of Mademoiselle de la 

 Seigliere, by Jules Sandeau; Mme. de Briac in 

 Une Journee d'Agrippa d'AubignS, by Edouard 

 Foussier; the leading part in Par Droit de Con- 

 quete, by Ernest Legouve; that of Les Deux 

 Veuves, by Felicien Mallefille; Hel&ne de Lesne- 

 veu in Les Doigts dc Fee of Scribe; Jeanne Dali- 

 bon in Reves d'Amour, by Scribe; and Bieville, 

 the leading role in Loge d'Opra, by Jules Le- 

 comte; and those of Une Amie and Le Lion 

 Amoureux, by Ponsard. One of her finest per- 

 formances was the part of Elmire in Tartufe. 



Burton, Sir Frederic William, an Irish artist, 

 born near Limerick, in 1816; died in London, 

 March 16, 1900. He was educated in Dublin, and 

 studied drawing under the brothers Brocas, mak- 

 ing such rapid progress that the Dublin Society 

 exhibited works by him in 1834, and elected him 

 an associate in 1837 and a full member in 1839. 

 In 1842 he exhibited at the London Academy The 

 Arran Fisherman's Drowned Child and A Con- 

 naught Toilet. In 1851 he went to Munich, and 

 his later work showed in consequence the influence 

 of German methods. In 1855 he became an asso- 

 ciate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water 

 Colors, and in 1856 a full member, his headquar- 

 ters being in London henceforth. From 1874 to 

 1894 he was director of the National Gallery, and 

 was chiefly responsible for the large and important 

 additions within that time. From 1863 Burton 

 was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and in 

 1884 was knighted. Owing to a malformation of 

 his right hand, Burton painted with his left. 



Bute, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, Mar- 

 quis of, a British nobleman, born Sept. 12, 1847; 

 died in Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Oct. 9, 1900. He 

 succeeded his father, who was the second Marquis 

 of Bute, but of ancient and royal ancestry, in the 

 first year of his life, and was brought up as an 

 Anglican by his mother, though his father had 

 been royal commissioner to the Church of Scot- 

 land, and was sent to Harrow and to Christ 

 Church, Oxford, after a contest in the courts be- 

 tween his English and Scottish guardians. Before 

 he could take his degree, however, he was received 

 into the Roman Catholic Church by Monsignor 

 Capel. He was a scholar of retiring temperament, 

 author of several books on ecclesiastical and anti- 

 quarian subjects, an authority on Byzantine art 



