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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (SULLIVAN TARBE DES SABLONS.) 



succeeding was at St. Paul's, Hoggeston, in the 

 Ka~t Knd of London, as curate 1870-75, and as 

 rector for the remaining period. From 1890 until 

 his death he was rector of Allhallows, London 

 Wall, where in his latest years he practiced a 

 singular but very helpful experiment. Having ob- 

 served that hundreds of working women came up 

 to London on the early trains for workingmen, 

 in order to take advantage of the cheaper fare, 

 and were in consequence obliged to walk about 

 the streets until the hour for opening the fac- 

 tories, he caused Allhallows Church to be opened 

 very early every week day for their accommoda- 

 tion while waiting. The opportunity was taken 

 advantage of by a very large number who other- 

 \\ise would have been forced to wait in the open 

 air in all weathers. He published Lyra Fidelium 

 (1866); The Knight of Intercession (1872; 7th 

 ed. l.S!2i : Sonnets of the Sacred Year (1895) ; and 

 Lays of lona (1898). He will probably be longest 

 remembered by his familiar hymn, The Church's 

 One Foundation. 



Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour, an English 

 composer, born in London, May 13, 1842; died 

 there, Nov. 21, 1900. He was a son of Thomas 

 Sullivan, bandmaster in the Royal Military Col- 

 lege, Sandhurst. By his mother he was of Italian 

 Jewish descent. His youth \vas spent under the 

 instruction of his father until at twelve years of 

 age he became a member of the boy choir in the 

 Chapel Royal at St. James's. He published his 

 first composition at the age of thirteen, an ar- 

 rangement of the anthem Teach Me, O Lord, the 

 Way of Thy Statutes. In the following year he 

 won the Mendelssohn scholarship at the Royal 

 Academy of Music. He went in 1858 to the Leip- 

 sic Conservatory, and remained there until 1861. 

 While in Leipsic he composed his Feast of Roses 

 and music to Shakespeare's Tempest. This last 

 was produced on his return to England at the 

 Crystal Palace, April 5, 1862. From that date he 

 was a recognized master among English musicians. 

 His next work was Kenilworth, a cantata sung at 

 the Birmingham festival in 1864. Then followed 

 L'Isle Enchant6e, played at Covent Garden in 

 1864; In Memoriam, an overture, played at the 

 Norwich festival in 1866; The Prodigal Son, an 

 oratorio (1869) ; Overture de Ballo (1870) ; On Sea 

 and Shore, a cantata with words by Tom Taylor 

 (1871) ; a Te Deum on the recovery of the Prince 

 of Wales (1872); The Light of the World, an 

 oratorio, at the Birmingham festival (1873); The 

 Martyr of Antioch, an oratorio sung at the Leeds 

 festival (1880) ; and The Golden Legend, a cantata 

 sung at the Leeds festival (1886). Besides these, 

 Sullivan's serious work includes the music of On- 

 ward, Christian Soldiers, and The Lost Chord, 

 both world known. Sullivan's work on what came 

 to be a national school of comic opera began in 

 1 still, \\hen in collaboration with Francis C. 

 I'.ninand he wrote the operetta Box and Cox, pro- 

 duced at the Adelphi, London. From its success 

 he began to devote his abilities to dramatic work, 

 and in 1871 entered into the famous association 

 with William S. Gilbert. Their first effort was 

 Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old, a burlesque, 

 produced at the Gaiety Theater, London, Dec. 26, 

 1871. with .John L. Toole and Nellie Farren in the 

 principal rCles. A little known work which fol- 

 lowed Box and Cox in 1867 was The Contra- 

 bandists, produced in New York under the name 

 of The Chieftain. In 1875 they wrote Trial by 

 Jury, a one-act operetta, for D'Oyly Carte, man- 

 ager of the Royalty Theater. This' sketch writ- 

 ten, rehearsed, *and produced (March 25, 1875) in 

 three weeks was enormously successful. For 

 nearly twenty years from that time Gilbert and 



Sullivan worked together toward the highest dis- 

 tinction in comedy and its music. Their w r orks, 

 nearly all of which were first produced by D'Oyly 

 Carte at the Opera Comique and Strand Theaters, 

 in London, were not only wonderfully popular in 

 England, but speedily passed to equal renown in 

 all civilized countries and languages. The names 

 and dates of these are: The Sorcerer, Nov. 17, 

 1877; H. M. S. Pinafore, May 25, 1878 (ran two 

 years); The Pirates of Penzance, April 3, 1880; 

 Patience, April 25, 1881; lolanthe, Nov. 25, 18S2; 

 Princess Ida, Jan. 5, 1884; The Mikado, March 14, 

 1885; Ruddigore, Jan. 27, 1887; The Yeoman of 

 the Guard, Oct. 3, 1888; and the Gondoliers, Dec. 

 7, 1890. Sullivan and Gilbert separated in 1890 

 on account of a quarrel between Mr. Gilbert and 

 D'Oyly Carte. Sullivan's grand opera Ivanhoe 

 was produced by the latter at his new opera house. 

 Jan. 31, 1891, and ran for one hundred nights. 

 Sydney Grundy wrote the libretto of Haddon Hall, 

 which was produced with Sullivan's music in Sep- 

 tember, 1892. Sullivan and Gilbert came together 

 again, and Utopia Limited, their united work, was 

 played Oct. 7, 1893. Their next opera was The 

 Grand Duke, March 7, 1896. Pinero and Comyns 

 Carr wrote the libretto of Sullivan's romantic 

 opera The Beauty Stone, May 28, 1898: Captain 

 Basil Hood that of The Rose of Persia, first played 

 Nov. 29, 1899. Sir Arthur composed a national 

 ballet entitled Victoria and Merrie England, in 

 honor of the Queen's sixtieth year, produced May 

 25, 1897. He recently composed music for Kip- 

 ling's poem The Absent-minded Beggar, and had 

 completed a new opera, to be called The Emerald 

 Isle, in collaboration with Capt. Basil Hood. He 

 was knighted in 1883, and was made a chevalier 

 of the Legion of Honor of France in the same 

 year. He received the degree of doctor of music 

 from Oxford and Cambridge. 



Symons, Georg-e James, an English meteor 

 ologist, born in London in August, 1838; died 

 there, March 10, 1900. He was educated at 

 Peter's Collegiate School, and at the age of six- 

 teen offered his services to James Glaisher, found- 

 er of the Meteorological Society, who discour- 

 aged his scientific aspirations as leading to a life 

 of poverty. He persisted. how r ever, and in 1 s.">7 

 became one of the meteorological reporters for tin- 

 registrar general. He assisted Admiral Fitzroy 

 to organize the British system of storm warnings. 

 and independently began to collect records of 

 rainfall, publishing his first annual report in IsiiO. 

 having found volunteers to furnish the records 

 168 stations. For forty years he persisted in 

 ganizing voluntary observers, and in 1898 he " 

 records from 3,404 stations. In 1866 he 

 his Monthly Meteorological Maga/inc. 



Tarbe des Sahlons, Edmond Joseph Lo\ 

 a French dramatist, born in Paris, Feb. 20. 

 died there, Dec. 15, 1900. He was first edu. 

 for the law, but took up journalism in early life. 

 After some years of successful work in Paris, he 

 founded, in association with Henri de IV-ne. the 

 Parisian journal Gaulois, in 1868. In 1877 he de- 

 voted himself to novel writing, in which he became 

 very popular. He wrote, in association with 

 Adolphe d'Fnnery, a drama in five ads called 

 Martyre, produced March 4, 1886. His next pic, 

 was Monsieur de Morat, a comedy in five acts 

 first played March 16, 1887. With 'Pierre Deeoiir- 

 celle he wrote Gigolette, a drama in live ad-. 

 first played Nov. 25. 1893. La Maitresse de I'Eeol'! 

 and L'Histoire d'AngMe Valoy were also from hi- 

 pen. His published novels wore l.cs Dranie* 

 Parisiens (1884): Monsieur de Morat ilssii): La 

 Roman d'un Crime (1887); and L'Histoire 

 gele Valoy. 



