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party itself underwent a change. It became tem- 

 perate and more considerate of interests dominat- 

 ing the practical conditions of politics in propor- 

 tion as the Government became mild and concili- 

 atory. Liebknecht himself no longer laid stress 

 on internationalism as an element in German pol- 

 itics, and some of the Socialist leaders were willing 

 to accept the Prussian military system as tem- 

 porarily necessary in Germany. They showed 

 themselves sometimes more in accord with current 

 patriotic and imperialistic sentiments than the 

 Radicals, whom the Socialists now overshadowed. 

 In many questions of foreign and domestic policy 

 the Socialists took similar grounds with the Rad- 

 icals, and Liebknecht advised forming electoral 



Lumley, Balph Bobert, an English dramatist, 

 born in London in 1865; died there, May 27, 1900. 

 He was editor of the Court Journal, a place which 

 his father and grandfather had held before him. 

 He was a barrister of the Middle Temple, but 

 never practiced. He wrote a comedietta called 

 Palmistry, produced in London, April 13, 1888. 

 His next work was a collaboration with Horace 

 Ledger, called The Deputy Registrar, produced 

 likewise in 1888. The success of this production 

 brought him a commission from Mrs. John Wood, 

 for whom he wrote Aunt Jack, produced by her 

 with great success July 13, 1890. He then wrote 

 The Volcano, produced March 14, 1891. Mr. Toole 

 produced Mr. Lumley 's three-act farce, The Best 



alliances with the Radicals to help them with votes Man, March 6, 1894, and Thoroughbred, Feb. 13, 



n districts where Socialist candidates had no 

 chance in return for Radical support in districts 

 where Socialists were numerous. Thus it canje 

 that Liebknecht, the stanch upholder of pure 

 Socialist theories, was accused of parliamentary 

 opportunism, of compromising the cause by co- 

 perating with the bourgeois parties. A proposal 

 was even made at the Socialist Congress to expel 

 im from the party. Later other leaders of the 

 arty were inclined to go farther than he approved 

 n the direction of moderation and compromise. 

 He took a prominent part always in the inter- 

 national congresses of Socialists and in trade-union 

 congresses, and his influence was felt, his author- 

 ity acknowledged, by the labor parties of all coun- 

 tries. He retained his seat in the Reichstag until 

 his death. After the expiration of the anti- 

 Socialist law of Prussia in 1890 he resided in Ber- 

 in and edited Vorwiirts, the central organ of the 

 erman Social-Democrats. 



Loch, Henry, Baron, a British colonial admin- 

 trator, born May 23, 1827; died in London, June 

 1900. He went into the British navy as a 

 idshipman at the age of fifteen, left it when 

 \vo years older to join the Bengal cavalry, took 

 rt in the Sutlej campaign, became aid-de-camp 

 Lord Gough, and saw considerable service in 

 ndia. In 1854 he did special service in Bulgaria 

 the organization of the Turkish troops for the 

 Crimean War, crossed with the army from Varna 

 to the Crimea, and served through the campaign. 

 In 1856 he went to China with the military expe- 

 dition sent out after the Arrow incident to en- 

 force the demand for reparation for the insult to 

 the British flag. He remained in China, explored 

 the Peiho river, and when Lord Elgin became 

 minister to China a second time in 1860 accom- 

 panied him as private secretary. In association 

 with Harry Parkes he negotiated the surrender of 

 Pehtang and the Taku forts to the Anglo-French 

 expedition. In negotiating for the admission of 

 the embassies to Pekin they were seized and 

 thrown into prison. Peace was not made by the 

 British until the prisoners were released and the 

 summer palace was burned in retaliation for the 

 treachery of the Chinese. Loch returned to Eng- 

 land with the convention of Pekin and the ratift- 

 ations of the treaty of Tientsin. He became secre- 

 ry to Sir George Grey in 1861, and from 1863 

 ill 1881 was lieutenant governor of the Isle of 

 an, receiving the honor of knighthood in 1880. 

 n 1882 he was appointed Commissioner of Woods. 

 "Wests, and Land Revenues. In 1884 he was ap- 

 intod Governor of Victoria, where he remained 

 ill 1889, when he was transferred to Cape Colony 

 succeed Sir Hercules Robinson as Governor and 

 igh Commissioner. The Australian colony had 

 ever had a more popular and satisfactory gov- 

 rnor than Sir Henry Loch, but in South Africa 

 ' pleased neither imperialists nor Afrikanders, 

 e retired in 1895 and was created a peer. 



1895. His last production was Belle Belair, a 

 drama in four acts, with Mrs. John Wood in the 

 leading role, May 19, 1897. 



Mcllwraith, Sir Thomas, an Australian states- 

 man, born in Ayrshire in 1835; died in London, 

 July 17, 1900. He was educated at Glasgow Uni- 

 versity, went to Victoria at the age of nineteen, 

 and was employed as an engineer in the construc- 

 tion of the Government railroads. He became in- 

 terested in land in Queensland in 1861, settled in 

 that colony in 1870, after having been elected to 

 represent Maranoa in the Legislative Assembly, 

 joined the Macalister Cabinet as Minister of Pub- 

 lic Works and Mines in January, 1874, resigning 

 in the following October, was elected for Mulgrave 

 in 1878, and when the Douglas ministry was de- 

 feated in January, 1879, he became Premier and 

 Colonial Treasurer, his administration lasting till 

 November, 1883. His annexation of New Guinea 

 on April 4, 1883, was not approved by Lord Derby, 

 then Colonial Minister in England, whose veto 

 led to the intercolonial convention held in Sydney 

 in November of that year, which formulated the 

 basis on which the Federal Council of Australia 

 was afterward established. He retired from pol- 

 itics in 1886. but returned in 1888, when he was 

 elected for North Brisbane by a large majority 

 over the Premier, Sir Samuel Griffith. When Par- 

 liament met he became Premier. He engaged in a 

 dispute with the Governor, Sir Antony Musgrave, 

 over the power of pardon, which the Governor con- 

 sidered a part of the royal prerogative, but which 

 Sir Thomas Mcllwraith, whose view was sustained 

 by the Colonial Office, contended could not be 

 constitutionally exercised except on advice of the 

 ministers. On the death of Sir Antony Musgrave, 

 in 1888, the Queensland Premier claimed that his 

 Government ought to be consulted regarding the 

 choice of a successor, but this the Imperial Gov- 

 ernment, in which Lord Knutsford was Secretary 

 for the Colonies, would not concede. When Sir 

 Henry Blake was appointed, Sir Thomas Mcll- 

 wraith protested, and a deadlock ensued which was 

 only broken by the voluntary retirement of Sir 

 Henry Blake. In November, 1888, Sir Thomas 

 Mcllwraith resigned the premiership on the ground 

 of ill health. In 1890 he joined with Sir Samuel 

 Griffith in overturning the Government, and be- 

 came Treasurer in the Cabinet formed by the latter. 

 In 1892 he headed an administration himself, and 

 in 1893 he finally retired from public life. 



McLeay, Franklin, an English actor, born in 

 Watford, Canada,' June 28, 1867 ; died in London, 

 England, July 6, 1900. He was educated at 

 Toronto University, and for three years was asso- 

 ciated with James E. Murdoch in the latter's 

 School of Oratory, Boston, as a lecturer on the 

 Shakespearean drama. In 1894 he attracted the 

 attention of Wilson Barrett and accepted a place 

 in that actor's company. His first appearance at 

 the Shakespeare Theater, Liverpool, in the autumn 



