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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (DORNTON FAED.) 



Camille. She was also the principal actress in 

 Louise de Nanteuil, La Vie en Rose, Madame 

 Lovelace, and Penelope Normande. In 1859 she 

 created Hose Bernard at the Ambigu, and after- 

 \\aril she played successively at the Gaiete. and 

 the Porte St. Martin. She retired many years ago. 

 Dornton, Charles (Charles Dornton Duff), an 

 English actor, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Oct. 



24, 1837; died in Edgebaston, England, May 11, 

 1900. He made his first appearance in King John 

 as a page, in his native town, in 1849. He occu- 

 pied subordinate places in the stock companies 

 of Aberdeen, Belfast, and Jersey successively. In 

 tlii-- last theater he was the original Hardress 

 Cregan in Boucicault's Colleen Bawn. Here he 

 met his first wife, a sister of Tom Robertson and 

 Mrs. W. H. Kendal. He was then at Nottingham, 

 Glasgow, and Bradford. In this last-named 

 theater in 1808 he was associated with Madge 

 Robertson (Mrs. Kendal), Charles Matthews, and 

 E. A. Sothern. His next engagement was at the 

 Prince of Wales's Theater, Liverpool, where he 

 remained as leading man for several years. In 

 1S72 lie played the leading parts with Mrs. Scott- 

 Siddons for a tour, and in 1873 held a like place 

 with John S. Clarke. In 1875 he began a long 

 and profitable connection with the play The Two 

 Orphans, in which he played Pierre more than 

 three thousand times. He also made very success- 

 ful tours with The Silver King and Michael 

 Strogoff. March 21, 1891, he became lessee of the 

 Theater Royal, Birmingham, and retired from 

 work as an actor. He married as his second wife 

 Miss Amy Balfour. 



. Dowson, Ernest Christopher, an English 

 man of letters, born in Lee, Kent, Aug. 2, 1867 ; 

 died in Catford, Kent, Feb. 23, 1900. He studied 

 at Oxford, and after several years' residence in 

 London spent much time in Paris and Brittany. 

 His health had been failing for some time, and 

 he returned to England in 1899 only to die. Be- 

 sides publishing translations from the French he 

 wrote two novels with Arthur Moore, A Comedy 

 of Masks (1893) and Adrian Rome (1899). His 

 reputation rests mainly upon his small volume of 

 Verses, issued in 1896, which contained poems of 

 great beauty. Still other works by him are 

 The Pierrot of the Minute, a dramatic fantasy 

 in one act (1897); and Decorations, a collection 

 of prose and verse (1900). 



Ecea de Queiroz, Jose Maria, a Portuguese 

 novelist, born in Povoa do Varzim, Portugal, Nov. 



25, 1845; died in Neuilly, France, in September, 

 1900. He was educated at the University of Coim- 

 bra, and after being editor of a political journal 

 at Evora, was successively consul at Havana, New- 

 castle, and Bristol, and at the time of his death 

 was consul general for Portugal at Paris. He was 

 the most eminent Portuguese novelist of his time, 

 and was the principal exponent in his country of 

 the realistic school of fiction. His romances were 

 translated into Spanish, German, French, and Eng- 

 lish. He possessed great powers of observation 

 and description, and was very severe in his por- 

 trayal of the failings of Portuguese society. His 

 works include () Crinio de Padre Amaro (The 

 Crime of Father Amaro) (1874): () Mandarin 

 (18SD); Sconas da Vida Devota (1880); O Primo 

 l.asilio, his greatest work, which appeared in 

 French as Cousin Hasilo. in German as Fine wie 

 Tan-cud, and in Fnirlish MS Tin- Dvn iron's Teeth 

 (1885); A Iteliquia '(A llclie) (1886); Os Mains. 

 or Bpisodias da Vida Komnnlica, a spirited satire 

 upon fashionable Portuguese life. With Kamalho- 

 Ortk'ao hi- wrote a noteworthy stnrv of adventure 

 entitled The Mystery of Cinira Strict. lie was 

 a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. 



Edwards, Alphonse Milne, a French natural- 

 ist, born in Paris in 1835; died there April 27, 

 1900. He was the son of Henri Milne Edwards, 

 an eminent zoologist, and grandson of Bryan Ed- 

 wards, a West Indian planter, ex-member of the 

 British Parliament, and historian, who settled in 

 Bruges. Graduating in medicine in 1859, he be- 

 came professor in the School of Pharmacy in 

 1865, and in 1876 acted as his father's deputy as 

 Professor of Zoology at the Jardin des Plantea. 

 He was the colleague of Edmond Perrier in deep- 

 sea explorations on the Travailleur and the Talis- 

 man. In 1877 he succeeded Gervais in the Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, and in 1885 was elected to the 

 Academy of Medicine. In 1891 he was appointed 

 Professor of Zoology and director of the Jardin 

 des Plantes. He published researches on the fossil 

 birds of France (1866-'72), researches on the ex- 

 tinct birds of Madagascar (1866-74), an element- 

 ary treatise on the natural history of animals 

 (1881-'82),an account of his deep-sea explorations 

 in 1881 '82 and 1888, and the chapters on mam- 

 mals and birds in Grandidier's historical and geo- 

 graphical work on Madagascar. 



Elton, Charles Isaac, an English lawyer, born 

 in 1839; died at Chard, Somerset, England, April 

 23, 1900. His education was obtained at Oxford, 

 and in 1865 he was called to the bar. He rapidly 

 acquired a large practice, and in February, 1884, 

 was returned to Parliament. He failed of re- 

 election the next year, but was returned again 

 in 1886, and sat six years. He published Norway, 

 the Road and the Fell (1864); The Tenures of 

 Kent (1867); Common and Waste Lands (1868); 

 Copyholds and Customary Tenures (1874); Cus- 

 tom and Tenant Right (1882) ; Origins of Eng- 

 lish History (1882); The Career of Columbus 

 (1892); The Great Book Collectors (1893). 



Faed, Thomas, a British painter, born in Kirk- 

 cudbright in 1826; died in London, Aug. 17, 1900. 

 He was an engineer and the younger (brother of 

 John Faed, whose success as an artist inspired 

 him with a like ambition. He entered the School 

 of Design in Edinburgh and acquired under the 

 tuition of Sir William Allan a thorough training 

 in draughtsmanship and the elementary principles 

 of painting. When he began to paint he at oner 

 struck a vein that appealed to the multitude and 

 won for him a wider appreciation and a greater 

 measure of popular and pecuniary success than the 

 greatest of British artists have attained. He chose 

 the field of domestic genre, and in this a class of 

 subjects that appeal to the emotions and sympa- 

 thies sad scenes of domestic life or anecdotes con- 

 veying moral lessons or stirring religious feelinir>. 

 The Mitherless Bairn, The First Break in the Fam- 

 ily, and the rest had no technical qualities to com- 

 mend them except good drawing and conscientious 

 workmanship, but in exhibitions their homely, 

 thetic sentiment made them the center of attrac- 

 tion. To artists of the younger schools they served 

 as a warning and an example to deter them from 

 seeking the adventitious aid of pathos and story 

 so obviously and crudely set forth. Faed went 10 

 London in 1852, became an associate of the Roynl 

 Academy in 1859, a full member in 1864, and for 

 ten years longer continued to turn out pictures 

 that were readily sold for high prices, e\<n t!ie 

 copyrights of the more effective ones liein.-.' " 

 valuable properly. About the time that 1 i* 

 facility and his industry began to decline t ir 

 critics condemned his work as of slight arti-'ic 

 value, and his influence as deleterious to the de\ -I 

 opnient of sound art, though he has never lacked 

 partisans and admirers. His ideal portrait of 

 Longfellow's Kvangeline. engraved, has been v< ry 

 popular in the United States. 



