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each maneuver, of the dispositions of each battle, 

 a graphic account of the fighting and of salient or 

 picturesque details of the march, the camp, the 

 recpnnoissance, the skirmish, the strategical plans 

 as far as they were disclosed or could be divined, 

 the life and sentiments of the soldiers, were all 

 interpreted in attractive, stirring newspaper lan- 

 guage, lucid, and eloquent. Where he set the 

 example for future correspondents in a still more 

 important matter was in the speed with which 

 he got his copy to London, so that the public 

 could read his details of operations on the day 

 after they had happened. He was the first to use 

 the telegraph so extensively for newspaper corre- 

 spondence. His enterprise, energy, ingenuity, and 

 courage enabled him to see enough of every battle 

 to give a graphic and discriminating account of 

 the operation, and then he rode with the utmost 

 speed, no matter how long the way, to where he 

 could telegraph his letter to London. When the 

 Prince of Wales visited India in 1875, Forbes went 

 out to report in his picturesque style the incidents 

 of the tour, and then was sent to the Balkan penin- 

 sula to watch the course of events in Servia and 

 describe the war with Turkey. When Russia in- 

 tervened he accompanied the Russian army and 

 added to his reputation by being present at all 

 the important engagements at Shipka Pass, at 

 Plevna, and elsewhere and describing them with 

 a military acumen that had grown keener with 

 practice. \Vhen he returned to England he lec- 

 tured upon the events and incidents of the war 

 and its political bearings and results. He went as 

 a correspondent to Cyprus when Lord Beaconsfield 

 acquired that island for British occupation, and 

 when the Afghan War began he went to India. 

 The Zulu War took him to South Africa. After 

 the battle of Ulundi he rode 120 miles through an 

 unknown region, reached the telegraph station, and 

 telegraphed the news to London and also to Sir 

 Garnet Wolseley, the commander in chief, and to 

 Sir Bartle Frere, the High Commissioner, who sent 

 the dispatch to the British Government, and it 

 was read in both houses of Pailiament before a 

 line had been received from the official staff. That 

 was the last campaign that Forbes reported. The 

 fatigues and privations of war had sapped his 

 great strength, and he chose a more restful life. 

 He revised his correspondence and recast it into 

 a historical narrative of the various campaigns 

 that he had seen, making a large number of books, 

 and he gave lectures in Great Britain, Australia, 

 and America. His wife was a daughter of Gen. 

 Meigs, of Washington. The intelligence and au- 

 thority with which he was able to describe the 

 greater operations of war, to learn all that was 

 going on, and to be present at the key of the 

 position and at the critical moment of every en- 

 gagement was because he was the first army corre- 

 spondent who was able to treat with military com- 

 manders on equal terms, to exact respect and con- 

 sideration as a representative of the press, and thus 

 to -compel them to yield information that there 

 was no military reason for longer retaining. They 

 respected him and feared him somewhat as a mili- 

 tary critic who judged the operations of war from 

 a purely military standpoint, betraying no sympa- 

 thy or political bias in his writings, and in his 

 review of a movement frank and ready to point 

 out the errors on whichever side they were com- 

 mitted, without pretension to strategical ability 

 or technical learning, but with a practical insight 

 and an intuitive appreciation of a military situ- 

 ation that seldom led him astrr.y. 



Oouthe-Soulard, Archbishop, born in Saint- 

 Jean-la-VGtre, Loire, Sept. 1. 1820; died Sept. 9, 

 1900. He studied for the priesthood in the grand 



seminary of Lyons, took the degree of doctor in 

 theology in 1854, and became vicar general of 

 Lyons and cure of the important parish of Vaise 

 in 1877. Premier Goblet, contrary to the uni- 

 versal practice of selecting metropolitans from 

 among the bishops, nominated him Archbishop 

 of Aix, and he was consecrated on July 25, 188U. 

 When in 1891, in consequence of an agitation pro- 

 voked in Rome by French pilgrims, M. Fallieres 

 requested the bishops to suspend the pilgrimages 

 that they had arranged, Mousignor Gouthe-Sou- 

 lard responded in a letter, for which he was con- 

 demned by the Paris Court of Appeals on the 

 charge of insulting the Government. He pub- 

 lished thereupon Mon Proces, mes Avocats, in 

 which were collected the encomiums he had re- 

 ceived from the French clergy for his attitude. 

 His resistance led to parliamentary incidents that 

 resulted in the fall of the Fallieres ministry. This 

 was the beginning of several contests with the 

 Government, in the course of which he was de- 

 prived of his allowance. In June, 1892, the Arch- 

 bishop of Aix was condemned for an electoral 

 abuse in publishing a catechism for voters. 



Gregory, Benjamin, an English clergyman, 

 born in 1820; died Aug. 24, 1900. He became a 

 Wesleyan preacher in 1840, and was long a con- 

 spicuous figure in his denomination. He was the 

 author of Memoir of Emma Tatham (London. 

 1859); The Thorough Business Man: Memoirs of 

 Walter Powell, Merchant (1871); The Holy 

 Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints 

 (1873); Sermons, Addresses, and Pastoral Let- 

 ters (1881); The Life of F. J. Jobson (1884); 

 Consecrated Culture (1885); Handbook of Scrip- 

 tural Church Principles of Weslevan Methodist 

 Polity and History (1888); Sidelights on the 

 Conflicts of Methodism, which revealed the author 

 as not so strictly conservative as he had usually 

 been considered (1898). 



Grimaux, ^idouard, a French chemist, born in 

 Rochefort in 1835; died May 2, 1900. He studied 

 medicine and was surgeon on a naval vessel be- 

 fore he studied chemistry under Wurtz in Paris, 

 and was appointed assistant in the Polytechnic 

 School in 1874, becoming professor in succession 

 to Cahours, and also holding a professorship in 

 the Agronomic Institute. He was elected to the 

 Academy of Sciences in 1894. He lost his chair 

 in the Polytechnic School because he publicly de- 

 clared his belief in the innocence of Dreyfus dur- 

 ing the Zola trial, and subsequently he became a 

 vice-president of the Rights of Man League. Ho 

 published a treatise on hasheesh in 1865, one on 

 equivalents, atoms, and molecules in 1866, organic 

 chemistry in 1872, elementary inorganic chcini- 

 try in 1874, chemical theories and notations in 

 1884, and a study of Lavoisier in 1888. 



Grove, Sir George, an English musical critic, 

 born in London, Aug. 13, 1820; died there. May 

 28, 1900. He was articled to an engineer after 

 leaving Clapham Grammar School, worked for 

 two years in a factory near Glasgow, was em- 

 ployed in building the lighthouse on Morant 

 Point in Jamaica in 1841. and that on Gibb's 

 Hill in Bermuda in 1845, and after his return to 

 England in the construction of the Britannia 

 bridge. He became secretary of the Society <>t 

 Arts in 1840, became one of the managers of the 

 Crystal Palnce. and had a part in organizing the 

 concerts which began in 1855, and thenceforth hi* 

 name was associated with musical matters rattier 

 than with the profession in which he hnd first 

 made his mark, although in music he hnd only 

 the training of an amateur. He wrote notes and 

 analyses of the Crystal Palace concerts for the 

 programmes that served to impart to friends of 





