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Tarleton, Ernest (Ernest Thompson), an Eng- 

 lish actor, bom in London in 1869; died in To- 

 ronto, Canada, March 20, 1900. He was a son of 

 Alfred Thompson, an English artist. His first 

 appearance was in London in the company of John 

 Hare, and within a few months thereafter he was 

 engaged for the first stock company of the Lyceum 

 Theater, New York city. He was continuously 



ad actively a member of this organization until 



ansferred to the support of Mr. E. H. Sothern, 

 with whom he was playing the part of D'Arta- 

 gnan's valet in The King's Musketeers at the time 



if his fatal illness. 

 Teck, Francis, Duke of, born in Vienna, Aug. 



7, 1837; died in Richmond, England, Jan. 21, 

 1900. He was the only son of Duke Alexander of 

 Wiirtemberg and his morganatic wife, Countess 

 Claudine de Rhedey, who received the title 

 Countess of Hohenstein. He studied in the Aus- 

 trian Academy of Engineers from 1849 to 1853, 

 was commissioned a lieutenant of lancers in 1854, 

 later as a captain of hussars, and in the Italian 

 campaign of 1859 he served with gallantry at Sol- 

 ferino as orderly officer to Field-Marshal Count 

 Wimpfen. After the campaign of 1866 he left the 

 Austrian army, having married on June 12 Mary 

 Adelaide, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 the youngest sister of the Duke of Cambridge. 

 The first years of their married life were passed 

 in Kensington Palace, where the allowance of 

 5,000 a year granted to the duchess by Parlia- 

 ment proved insufficient. In 1883 they left Eng- 

 land, raising money by selling valuables of the 

 duchess at auction, and lived for a time in the 

 Tyrol, afterward at Florence, returning ulti- 

 mately and taking up their residence at White 

 Lodge, Richmond, the gift of Queen Victoria. In 

 1882 the duke served on Sir Garnet Wolseley's 

 staff in Egypt, and was present at Tel-el-Mahuta 

 and Tel-el-Kebir. He was made a colonel in the 

 British army on his return, and promoted major 

 general in 1893. He held the honorary rank of 

 lieutenant general in the German army. The 

 Duchess of Teck died on Oct. 27, 1897, and the 

 duke, whose health was shattered, lived in com- 

 plete seclusion from that time. Of their four 

 children Princess Mary, born May 26, 1867, mar- 

 ried George, the Duke of York, on July 6, 1893; 

 Prince Adolphus, born Aug. 13, 1868, married the 

 third daughter of the Duke of Westminster in 

 1894, and served in the Boer war as a captain in 

 the Life Guards; Prince Francis, born Jan. 9, 

 1870, was educated at Sandhurst, became a captain 

 in 1894, served with the Egyptian army in the 

 Soudan, and saw active service in the war in 

 South Africa; and Prince Alexander, born April 

 14, 1874, was educated at Sandhurst also, and 

 commissioned a lieutenant of hussars. 



Tirebuck, William Edwards, an English nov- 

 elist, born in Liverpool ; died there, Jan. 22. 1900. 

 He was educated in his native city, and after 

 some commercial experience was subeditor of the 

 Liverpool Mail, and subsequently was for six years 

 subeditor of the Yorkshire Post. Afterward he 

 was entirely devoted to authorship. He possessed 

 extensive art knowledge, and his work in fiction 

 wns conscientious. His published works comprise 

 William Daniels: Artist (1879); Dante Gabriel 

 Rossetti: His Work and Influence (1882); Great 

 Minds in Art (1888); The Discontented Maidens, 

 a dramatic cantata (1887); and the following 

 novels: Saint Margaret (1888); Dorrie (1891); 

 Sweetheart Gwen (1893); The Little Widow and 

 Other Episodes (1894); Miss Grace of All Souls 



(1895); Jenny Jones and Other Tales from the 

 Welsh Hills '(1896); Meg of the Scarlet Foot 

 ; and The White Woman (1899). 



Traill, Henry Duff, an English man of letters, 

 born in Blackheath, Kent, Aug. 14, 1842; died 

 Feb. 21, 1900. He was educated at Oxford, and in 

 I stiS was called to the bar. Three years later he 

 engaged in journalism, and he was on the staff 

 of the Pall Mall Gazette in 1873-'80; the St. James 

 Gazette, 1880-'82; the Telegraph, 1882-'96; and 

 the Saturday Review, 1883-'94; and he was editor 

 of the Observer in 1889-'91, and of Literature in 

 1898-1900. Traill was a sound critic, a man of 

 wide attainments, and the possessor of an excellent 

 style. He edited the six volumes of Social Eng- 

 land (1892-'96), and contributed to the English 

 Citizen Series, Central Government (1882) ; to the 

 English Men of Letters Series, Sterne (1882) and 

 Coleridge (1884) ; to the English Worthies Series, 

 Shaftesbury (1886) ; to the Twelve English States- 

 men Series, William the Third (1888); to the 

 English Men of Action Series, Stratford (1889); 

 and to the Queen's Prime Ministers Series, Lord 

 Salisbury (1891). His other works are: Recap- 

 tured Rhymes (1882) ; The New Lucian, his finest 

 bit of writing (1884; revised and enlarged, 1900) ; 

 Saturday Songs, a collection of clever satirical 

 verse (1890;; Number Twenty (1892); The Life 

 of Sir John Franklin (1896); From Cairo to the 

 Soudan Frontier (1896); Barbarous Britishers, a 

 novel (1896); Life of Lord Cromer (1897); and 

 The New Fiction and Other Essays on Literary 

 Subjects (1897). 



Tuer, Andrew White, an English publisher, 

 born in Sunderland in 1839; died in London, 

 March 24, 1900. Soon after coming of age he en- 

 tered a London firm of stationers and printers as 

 a partner, and, after his invention of " Stick- 

 phast " paste, founded and edited the Paper and 

 Printing Trades' Journal. A little later he en- 

 gaged in book publishing and became an author 

 himself, his tastes inclining toward antiquarian 

 research. His writings include Luxurious Bath- 

 ing (London, 1880); Bartolozzi and his Works, 

 a carefully written monograph (1881); London 

 Cries (1883); John Bull's Womankind (1884); 

 Old London Street Cries and the Cries of To-day 

 (1885); Follies and Fashions of Our Grand- 

 fathers (1887) ; The First Year of a Silken Reign, 

 1837-'38, with C. E. Fagan (1887); and History 

 of the Hornbook (1896). 



Valfrey, M., a French journalist, born in 1838; 

 died in Paris, Nov. 23, 1900. He wrote articles 

 on foreign policy and events for the Figaro under 

 the signature of Whist, was called into the diplo- 

 matic service by the Due Decazes and placed on 

 the Committee of Archives^ with the rank of a 

 minister plenipotentiary. He lost his office when 

 the Conservative ministry was driven out in 1877, 

 but was employed by subsequent ministries, first 

 on a mission sent to Portugal to arrange financial 

 matters, and several times afterward to adjust 

 international debts in the interest of French 

 creditors, developing much ability in the negotia- 

 tion of financial settlements. He became for a 

 while the editor of the Moniteur, an Orleanist 

 organ, and then joined the staff of the Figaro to 

 write the daily article on foreign affairs. In times 

 of popular excitement over international ques- 

 tions his articles had a moderating influence. 



Vicaire, Louis Gabriel Charles, a French 

 poet, born in Belfort, Jan. 24, 1848; died in Paris. 

 Sept. 24, 1900. His earlier years were passed at 

 Bresse and Bugey, but he studied law at a later 

 period and became an advocate. He published 

 in 1884 Emaux Bressans, a successful book, which 

 constitutes his best title to inclusion among the 

 French poets of his day. This was followed by 

 L'Heure Enchantee: Les Deliquescences d' Adore 

 Floupette (1885); La Legende de Saint Nicolas 



