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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (RUSSELL SAINT AMAND.) 



Theater, and renewed his earlier triumphs. As 

 a ballad singer he was wonderfully popular. His 

 rendering of Tom Bowling was unequaled by any 

 in sweetness, pathos, and dramatic skill. As a 

 recognition of his services to English music, Mr. 

 Reeves was, in the last months of his life, placed 

 on the pension roll of the civil list. 



Russell, Charles, Baron of Killowen, an Eng- 

 lish jurist, born in Newry, County Down, Ireland, 

 Nov. 10, 1832; died in London, Aug. 10, 1900. He 

 studied at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was 

 more known as an athlete than a student, left to 

 enter a solicitor's office, practiced in Belfast for 

 some time, then entered as a student at Lincoln's 

 Inn, was called to the bar in 1859, and began his 

 career as an advocate in Liverpool, making his 

 \\;iy rapidly notwithstanding his hasty temper 

 and some lack of ease and fluency. He became a 

 (Queen's counsel in 1872, and came to be recog- 

 nized as the head of the English bar, who was 

 engaged in almost every important case. His 

 crowning triumph was in the Parnell Commis- 

 sion. He was a parliamentary candidate at Dun- 

 dalk in 1808, and again in 1874, but was defeated, 

 being a Catholic and an Irishman, though neither 

 an avowed home ruler nor yet a Conservative. 

 In 1880 lie was elected as an independent sup- 

 porter of Mr. Gladstone, and his speeches in sup- 

 port of the compensation for disturbance bill and 

 the land act of 1881, and against the crimes act 

 of Mr. Foster and Sir William Harcourt's more 

 stringent one of 1882, were of great advantage 

 to the Irish party, in the obstructive tactics of 

 which he would have no part, and therefore held 

 himself aloof. He declined a puisne judgeship in 

 1882, was returned for South Hackney in 1885, 

 supported Mr. Gladstone's home rule policy with 

 powerful effect, and was made Attorney-General 

 in February, 1886, and received the honor of 

 knighthood. In Opposition he made important 

 speeches on the report of the Parnell Commission 

 and other Irish matters, and when Mr. Gladstone 

 formed a Cabinet again in 1892 he became At- 

 torney-General once more. In 1894 he entered 

 the House of Lords as a life peer, and on the 

 death of Lord Coleridge he became Lord Chief 

 Justice of England on July 3 of the same year. 

 He sat as an arbitrator of the Venezuela bound- 

 ary, and delivered later an address on arbitration 

 before the American Bar Association. In the 

 Bering Sea arbitration and in several others he 

 was counsel for the British Government. 



Russell. Henry, an English vocalist and song 

 writer, born at Sheerness, England, Dec. 24, 1813; 

 died in London, Dec. 6, 1900. He was the son of 

 a Hebrew merchant, and in his infancy appeared 

 in Christmas pantomimes. He left England in 

 1S-J5, and was for a time an outdoor pupil at the 

 r.ologna Conservatoire. He afterward settled in 

 Rochester, N. Y., taught piano playing there, and 

 soon became widely known as a composer and 

 singer. He traveled extensively in America, giv- 

 ing monologue entertainments, and returning to 

 England at length, repeated his . success there. 

 He retired from the concert stage more than 

 forty years before his death, and opened a money- 

 lending office in London. His songs were ex- 

 tremely popular, and yielded him a large income. 

 They are all wholesome, without any flavor of 

 sickly sentimentality, and have been favorites 

 for two generations. Among the best known are 

 The Ivy Green; The Old Armchair; A Life on the 

 <)<--an Wave; Cheer. Hoys, Cheer; and Woodman, 

 Spare that Tree. His voice was a heavy bari- 

 tone of limited compass, but very effective. He 

 published Part Songs, Dramatic Scenes, Cantatas, 

 etc., with Memoir (London, 1840); One Hundred 



Songs, Music and Words; Copyright Song* 

 (1800); Treatise on Singing; Cheer, Boys, Cheer, 

 a volume of reminiscences. One of his sons is the 

 well-known novelist William Clark Russell. 



Ryle, John Charles, an English clergyman, 

 born in Macclesfield, England, May 16, 1816; died 

 in Lowestoft, June 10, 1900. He was employed 

 for a time in his father's bank, and was a captain 

 in the Cheshire Yeomanry. He was educated at 

 Oxford, and was admitted to orders in 1841. 

 After serving as curate of Exbury in the New 

 Forest, he was successively rector of St. Thomas's 

 Parish, Winchester, 1843; rector of Helmingham, 

 Suffolk, 1841-'61 ; and vicar of Stradbrooke, Suf- 

 folk, from 1861. He was appointed rural clean 

 of Hoxne in 1869, and honorary canon of Nor- 

 wich in 1871. While dean designate of Salisbury 

 in 1880, he was appointed bishop of the newly 

 created diocese of Liverpool. He had long been 

 known as one of the leaders of the evangelical 

 party in the English Church, but he did not 

 bring about such a complete Low Church triumph 

 as was looked for in some quarters, nor did he 

 especially favor the erection of a cathedral for the 

 new diocese. He considered that the diocese 

 stood in more need of churches and mission rooms 

 than of a cathedral, and while he did nothing to 

 prevent the carrying out of the cathedral scheme, 

 he refrained from actively furthering it. Bishop 

 Ryle published more than 200 tracts, of notable 

 excellence for their terse, epigrammatic expression, 

 which were translated into many European lan- 

 guages as well as into Chinese and Hindustani. 

 His more formal works include Assurance (LS.~>0) : 

 Home Truths, Series 1-9 (1850-'59) ; The Young 

 Man's Christian Year (1853) ; Startling Quest ions 

 (1853) ; The Priest, the Puritan, and the Preacher 

 (1855); Plain Speaking, Series One and Two 

 (1855); Expository Thoughts on the Gospel- 

 (1856-'59); Only One Way of Salvation (1870): 

 Spiritual Songs (1861) ; Hymns for the Church on 

 Earth; Coming Events and Present Duties 

 (1867); The Bishops and Clergy of Other Day- 

 (1868); The Christian Leaders of the Last Cen- 

 tury (1868); Expository Thoughts on St. John 

 (1869); Shall we Know One Another in Heaven': 

 (1870); Home Truths, Eighth Series (1872): 

 Knots Untied (1874); Hymn Book for Public 

 Worship (1875); Holiness and Other Subjects: 

 Old Paths (1877); Bible Inspiration: Its Reality 

 and its Nature (1877): Practical Religion (1S7S: 

 Church Principles and Church Comprehensiveness 

 (1879); Boys and Girls Playing and Other Ad- 

 dresses to Children (1880); Facts and Men 

 (1882); Thoughts on Immortality (1883); Prin- 

 ciples for Churchmen (1884) ; Thoughts and ( t >iie-- 

 tions about Holiness (1884) ; Thoughts on I'- 

 tism (1884); Thoughts on Sickness (18S4): Tin- 

 Thing as it is: Questions and Answers about tin- 

 Lord's Supper (1885): Thoughts on Prayer 

 (1885); Thoughts for Young Men from Many 

 Points of View (1886) ; The Upper Room I 1 - 

 Christ and His People (with W. H. Fn-mantlc) 

 (1888); Is All Scripture Inspired? (2d ed.. IS'tsi. 



Saint Amand, Baron Imbert de, a French his- 

 torian, born in Paris in 1834; died there. June _!- 

 1900. He entered the French Ministry of Foreign 

 Affairs in 1855, and rose in the diplomatic >er\i<-e 

 to be a plenipotentiary of the first class in ISSL'. 

 In 1875 he published a work descriptive of life at 

 the court of Louis XVI, full of interesting detail- 

 derived from contemporary documents and of 

 glowing sympathetic studies of the royal tie- ami 

 their companions and courtiers. It was entitled 

 Les Femmes de Versailles, and was followed by 

 Les Femmes des Tuilcries, dealing with the per 

 sonages of Napoleon's court with the >aine 



