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music among the general public something of his 

 own enthusiasm lor the higher delights of music 



ish birth, but early in life became a Roman 

 Catholic. He published an essay on the Republic 



to which people of popular tastes had not awak- of Plato in 1850, conducted the Revue Critique et 



ened, and which they could not have caught from Bibliographique in 1864, and was for many years 



the technical criticisms of a writer professionally Professor of Rhetoric at the Lyc6e Louis-le-Grand. 



educated. From 1808 to 1883 he edited Macmil- With the late Arsene Darmesteter he edited Mor- 



lan's Magazine and labored .on the Dictionary ceaux Choisis des Principaux 1'Fjcrivains du XVI e 



of Music and Musicians, begun in 1808 and com- SiOcle, a very popular work (1870); La Seizieme 



pleted in 1889. When the Royal College of Music Siecle en France (1878); and the important Die- 

 was founded in 1882 he was made its first direc- tionnaire General de la Langue Franoaise. which 



He published 



tor, retiring in 1894 from the post. 

 analyses of Beethoven's symphonies in 1890, hav- 

 ing given to that composer and to Mendelssohn 



Langue Franoaise, which 



occupied nearly thirty years in preparation, the 

 work being completed just in time to receive the 

 Grand Prix at the Paris Exposition of 1900. 



and Schubert a degree of attention in his diction- With Georges Meunier he published Les Critiques 



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ary that was somewhat out of proportion to the 

 geography and antiquities, of which he wrote an 

 account for Smith's Dictionary of. the Bible. He 

 was knighted in 1882. 



Haller, Johann. an Austrian prelate, born 

 April 30, 1825; died in Salzburg in April, 1900. 

 He was Prince Archbishop of Salzburg, and was 

 created a cardinal on Nov. 29, 1895. 



Halvorsen, Jens Braage, a Norwegian lexi- 

 cographer, born in Bergen, March 7, 1845; died at 

 Christiania, Norway. Feb. 22, 1900. He was head 

 librarian at the Royal Library of Christiania, and 

 editor for Norway of Salmonsen's Danish-Nor- 

 wegian Conversations-Lexicon. He was a man 

 of great erudition, and was the leading bibliog- 

 rapher of the three Scandinavian countries. His 

 monumental work, a Dictionary of Norwegian 

 Writers, 1814-1880, in many volumes, was nearly 

 completed at the time of his death. 



Harper, Henry Andrew, an English artist 

 and author, born about 1835; died Nov. 3, 1900. 

 His work, both as painter and as writer, was 

 mainly concerned with the Holy Land, and for a 

 quarter of a century he was on the executive com- 

 mittee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Be- 

 sides painting the popular picture Mount Sinai, 

 he published Illustrated Letters to my Children 

 from the Holy Land (1880); Walks in Palestine 

 (1888); The Bible and Modern Discoveries 

 (1889); From Abraham to David: The Story of 

 their Country and their Times (1892). 



Harrowby, Dudley Francis Stuart Ryder, 

 Earl of, born in 1831; died in Sandon Hall, Staf- 

 fordshire, March 20, 1900. He was the son of the 

 second Earl of Harrowby, and was educated at 

 Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, where he 

 took his degree in 1853. As Viscount Sandon he 

 entered Parliament in 1856 as a Liberal Conserva- 

 tive, and sat without a contest for Litchfield till 



Litteraires du XIX e Siecle. He was also the au- 

 thor of a work upon St. Augustine. 



Hawkins, Frederick, an English author, born 

 in 1849; died June 30, 1900. He became con- 

 nected with the London Times in 1863, his father 

 being then employed upon it, and from 1876 to 

 1894 was on the editorial staff of that paper. He 

 was always greatly interested in matters pertain- 

 ing to the stage, and was editor of The Theater 

 1877-79 and 1895-'98, the paper ceasing to exist 

 in the last-named year. He published a Life of 

 Edmund Kean (1869); Annals of the French 

 Stage to the Death of Racine, a work of perma- 

 nent value (1884); and The French Stage in the 

 Eighteenth Century (1888). 



Heyden, Karel van den, a Dutch soldier, born 

 in Batavia, Jan. 12, 1826; died in Bronbeck, near 

 Arnhem, Jan. 26, 1900. He \vas taken as a child 

 to Holland and was educated there, enlisted as 

 a common soldier in the Dutch East Indian army 

 at the age of fifteen, won his epaulettes on the 

 battlefield, and rose through all the grades to the 

 highest in the Dutch army, that of lieutenant 

 general, which he attained in 1881. He was in the 

 Bali, Palembang, and Borneo campaigns, and 

 from 1874 till 1880 was commander in chief of the 

 troops in Acheen. In the battle of Samalangan 

 he was shot in the eye. No commander before 

 him had met with such success against the rebels 

 of Sumatra. At the stage when they seemed 

 ready to surrender the Government policy 

 changed, and he was removed from his post as 

 Military Governor of Acheen and replaced by a 

 civil official. He returned to Holland in 1881, 

 was retired from active service in the following 

 year, and passed the remainder of his life as 

 governor of the military asylum at Bronbeck. 



Holm, Adolf, a German historian, born in 

 1830; died in Freiburg, June 9, 1900. He was edu- 



1859. In 1860 he unsuccessfully contested Staf- cated in German universities, went to Italy to de- 



ford as a Conservative. In 1868 he was elected as 



tone of the members for Liverpool, which he con- 

 tinued to represent till he succeeded to the peer- 

 age in 1882. He held a subordinate post in Lord 

 Beaconsfield's ministry in 1874, that of vice-presi- 

 dent of the Committee of the Council on Educa- 

 tion, and in 1878 he was admitted to the Cabinet 

 as President of the Board of Trade, having twice 

 refused the chief secretaryship for Ireland. In 

 Lord Salisbury's Government, formed in June, 

 1885, he was Lord Privy Seal. He was interested 

 in education and was elected to the London 

 School Board in 1873, and in 1886 he served on 

 the royal Commission on Education. He was in- 

 timately associated, as his father had been, with 

 the evangelical party in the English Church, and 

 consequently when Lord Shaftesbury died he was 



vote himself to the study of classic antiquities, 

 was called to the chair of Ancient History in 

 the University of Palermo, and after several years 

 of residence there took the same chair in Naples, 

 holding it till he retired and returned to his na- 

 tive country a year before his death. He pub- 

 lished the first volume of his important historical 

 work on the ancient history of Sicily in 1870, and 

 completed it in 1898. He wrote also a history -of 

 Greece, which has been translated into English. 

 Horner, Ann Susan, an English artist and 

 author; died Dec. 2, 1900. She was the daughter 

 of Leonard Horner, an eminent naturalist, and a 

 niece of Francis Horner. From an early age she 

 devoted herself to painting and sculpture, attain- 

 ing proficiency in both arts, although she never 

 followed either of them as a profession. For 



elected as the latter's successor in the presidency many years her home was in Florence, and after- 





of various Protestant societies, and became the 

 chief adviser of the Earl of Beaconsfield in the 

 selection of candidates for ecclesiastical offices. 



Hatzfeld, Adolphe, a French scholar, born in 

 Paris in 1824; died Oct. 6, 1900. He was of Jew- 



ward in Paris, but her latest years were passed 

 in London. Her writings include Hungary and 

 its Revolutions from the Earliest Period to the 

 Nineteenth Century (1854); A Translation of 

 Colleta's History of Naples, with supplement 



