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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (MAZZELLA MORRIS.) 



his life work was happily suggested to him an 

 edition of the Rig- Veda with a commentary. In- 

 tending to study and examine manuscripts in the 

 Bodleian Library and East India Company's 

 house, he went to England in 1846, and two years 

 afterward took up his residence in Oxford. After 

 holding several posts of honor in the university, 



he was appointed 

 Professor of Com- 

 parative Philology 

 in 1868, resigning 

 in 1875. As a lec- 

 turer he was very 

 successful. He pos- 

 sessed a clear and 

 at times even bril- 

 liant style, and the 

 dullest theme be- 

 came of interest 

 when handled by 

 him. His scholar- 

 ship, however, was 

 not of a progressive 

 type, and the ad- 

 verse criticisms that 

 have been made 

 regarding various 

 conclusions of his 

 by contemporary philologists in Germany and 

 America are no doubt due to this circumstance, 

 while specialists in general were disposed to con- 

 sider that he overestimated' the influence of lan- 

 guage. His more important writings include The 

 Hitopadesa, a collection of Indian fables (Leipsic, 

 1844); Meghaddta, an Indian Elegy (trans.) 

 (Konigsberg, 1847); a translation of the Rig- 

 Veda (Oxford, 1848-74) ; Essay on Bengali 

 (1847) ; Essay on Indian Logic (1853) ; Proposals 

 for a Uniform Missionary Alphabet (1854); Let- 

 ter to Chevalier Bunsen on the Classification of 

 the Turanian Languages (1854); The Survey of 

 Languages (1855); The Hymns of the Rig- Veda 

 in German and translation of the Pratisakhya 

 (1857) ; Buddhism and Buddhist Pilgrims (1857) ; 

 The German Classics from the Fourth to the 

 Nineteenth Centuries (1858); Essay on Compara- 

 tive Mythology (1858); History of Ancient San- 

 skrit Literature (1859); Lectures on the Science 

 of Language (1861-'64; revised 1891) ; A Sanskrit 

 Grammar for Beginners (1866); Chips from a 

 German Workshop, a collection of essays (1867- 

 75); On the Stratification of Languages (1868); 

 Rig- Veda Hymns to the Maruts or Storm Gods 

 (trans.) (1869); Introduction to the Science of 

 Religion (1878); Two Texts of the Rig- Veda 

 (1873); The Origin and Growth of Religion 

 (1878); The Upanishads (trans.) (1879-'84); Se- 

 lected Essays on Languages, Mythology, and Re- 

 ligion (1884) ; a translation of Kant's Critique of 

 Pure Reason (1882); India: What can it Teach 

 Us? (1883) ; Biographical Essays (1884) ; The Sci- 

 ence of Thought (1887); The Dhammapada and 

 the Sutta Nipflta (trans.) (1881); The Laws of 

 Manu (trans.) (1887); The Vedic Ceremonies, 

 Part I (1887); Biographies of Words and the 

 Hume of the Aryas (1888); Natural Religion 

 (1SK9); Physical Religion (1891); Anthropologi- 

 cal Religion (1892); Theosophy, or Psychological 

 Religion (1893); Three Lectures on the Vedanta 

 Philosophy (1894) ; Contributions to the Science 

 of Mythology (1897); Itfiini.ki islma: His Life 

 and Sayings (is'.is) : Anld Lang Syne (1898-'!)! : 

 The Six Systems of India's Philosophy (1899). 

 At the time of his resignation of his Oxford pro- 

 rship he was intending to return to Ger- 

 many; but the university requested him to re- 

 main at Oxford and undertake the editorship of 



a series of translations of the Sacred Books of 

 the East, at the same time appointing a deputy 

 professor. In 1888 and in 1891 he was appointed 

 Gifford lecturer on natural religion at Glasgow 

 University. 



Mazzeila. Camillo, an Italian prelate, born in 

 Vitulano, Feb. 10, 1833; died in Rome, March 26, 

 1900. He was a member of the Society of Jesus 

 and its chief representative in the Sacred College, 

 having been created a cardinal on June 7, 1886, 

 and consecrated as Bishop of Palestrina on April 

 19, 1897. On all theological questions he was the 

 trusted adviser of Pope Leo Xlll. 



Momerie, Alfred Williams, an English 

 clergyman, born in London, March 22, 1848; died 

 there Dec. 6, 1900. He was the son of a Con- 

 gregational minister, arid after being educated for 

 that ministry at the University of Edinburgh, 

 went to Cambridge. In 1879 he was ordained 

 deacon in the Established Church, and priest in 

 1879. He was appointed Professor of Logic and 

 Metaphysics at King's College, London, and in 

 1883 was elected to the morning preachership at 

 the Foundling Hospital. He was an extreme 

 Broad Churchman, and as his liberal views created 

 dissatisfaction in the governing boards of the i\\<> 

 institutions w r ith which he was connected, his 

 relations with them terminated in 1891. He pos- 

 sessed a brilliant style, and his preaching at- 

 tracted large numbers to hear him. His published 

 works, which had % wide circulation, include 

 Personality (1879) : The Origin of Evil and Other 

 Sermons (1879); The Basis of Religion (1883); 

 Defects of Modern Christianity and Other Ser- 

 mons (1883); Agnosticism (1884); The Corrup- 

 tion of the Church ; The English Church and 

 the Romish Schism; Belief in God (1886) ; Preach- 

 ing and Hearing (1886); Inspiration and Other 

 Sermons (1889); Church and Creed (1890); The 

 Religion of the Future and Other Essays (1898). 



Morris, Felix, an English actor, born in Lon- 

 don, April 25, 1850; died in New York city, Jan. 

 13. 1900. He was the son of an English sea cap- 

 tain, and was educated in Switzerland. He 

 studied medicine and was graduated in 1871, but 

 resolved to become an actor, and removed to the 

 United States. His first appearance was in Al- 

 bany, N. Y., a few weeks after his arrival, and 

 while engaged in the business office of the Divi- 

 sion Street Theater. He was so affected by stage 

 fright that his desire to act was smothered for 

 several months, during which he was a drug clerk 

 in Boston, a laborer in a foundry, and for a short 

 time a sailor. Finally he obtained, in 1872. a 

 place in the Capitol Theater, Albany, as captain 

 of the supernumeraries, and spoke his first linr- 

 Aug. 19, 1872, in A Heart of Gold. Here he re- 

 mained, playing unimportant parts, until IS?.'). 

 when he went to Canada with a company playing 

 Boucicault's Shaughraun. The only beneficial re- 

 sult of this tour was an engagement for the sea 

 son of 1876-77 at the Academy of Music, Mont- 

 real, where Morris quickly won great popularity 

 as a representative of comedy and character 

 parts. He was especially successful in Toiicli 

 stone, with Miss Adelaide Neilson. In 1S77. in 

 association with Neil Warner, he assumed tin 

 management of the Academy of Music, Montreal 

 but was bankrupted at the end of the year, and 

 went to New York, where he secured an engage 

 incut at the Fifth Avenue Theater. During tin 

 engagement he played comedy roles with Mar\ 

 Anderson and Madame Modjeska, and became 

 associated with Jamea Lewis. The summer p 

 1878 he spent in a very successful engagement in 

 Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he first met the lady 

 who subsequently became his wife, Miss Florem 



