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olU'lTARIES, 



BlRNATO.) 



When the law banishing the Orleans prince* was at 



last repealed h- .nu-.-.-n .ii.: . -. 1^:1. 



and on Dec. 19 he took his seat in tl 



Assembly. Two weeks later he wa- mcm- 



'fademy to succeed Montalera- 



II.- was mad.- '!" 



amir of France on March 1' ted as 



:eni of tin- military tribunal U'fore which 



Marshal Bazaine was arraigned. As t !..- m. -st Ulut- 



is of the Orleam-t pnn . he was considered 



by many as a candidate for tin- throat preferable 



to ), Paris. Whet the 



latter acknowledged the prior claims ofthtOomtc 

 and recognize<l tin- latter a- the 



head of tin- hou-e of ItotirlNtn. In- d 



part of his confiscat i han- 



was restored to the duke ll ;. .!.-.-lin-.l 



u candidate for the Assembly in February. 



1878. in tnler that In- might give hi- undivided at- 



tention to his milita ^:i IK- and 



; too de ci, : the Due 



were retired from active service in ac- 



cordance with the act carried through b\ 



.udin. then Minister <.f War. removing from 



and memU-rs of families that had once reigned 



in France. In 1886 Gen. Boulanger struck his 



from the army list, an act against which he 



addressed a forcible and toochiog appeal U)P 



.. In eon- f this letter the Cabi- 



roiioiinccd a decree of banishment, and the 

 duke retired to Hru !-. He retorted by making 

 a free gift to the Institir- e of Chantilly. 



with its woods, inad.>w-. ornamental waters, build- 

 ing*, and' the trophies, historioa] relics, and 

 ares of art : in them, to be preserved for- 



ever by that learned liody as a complete and varied 

 .iient of French art in all its branches. This 

 gift t<> the nation he intended to make on hi- death. 

 and he reserved the right to u-- the place a- ; 



while he remained alive. The Institute of 

 France accepted the trust amid popular enthn- 

 and petitioned the Government to revoke tl, 

 cree of banishment, which was finally done after 

 the downfall and flight of Boolajurar. Of the Dm- 

 d'Aumalc's twi. I'hilippc, Priii 



.died of typhoid fever in Australia in 

 at the age of twenty, and Francois. Due de Q 

 died in 1 - " 



JLJTM lleim..! 1 , \,-' r.ilian statesman, born 



-lied in Adelaide. .lime 11. jyi?. 



Kmigrating to South Australia in 1*40. he studied 

 and practiced law, became secretary of the Hurra 

 Hurra mit I, was elected a member of the 



Legislative Council i for thirty-six years 



represented Adelaide in the South Australia! 

 liam- years he was president of the 



Legislative Council after having Mid a Cabinet 

 office several times. He was eleven times a m* m- 

 ' the Cabinet and seven times Premier. II. 

 was knighted in 

 Bank- Mrs, Isabella (Varley). ;. 



lanchester. Mar ! ; died in 



May5,1897. When but eighteen years old 

 the head of a long-established school 

 in Manchester f.-r v.,ung ladies. whir-h -he nnu 

 successfully several vears. On Dec. 27, 184*. 

 was married to Mr. (;..,ru'e Linna-n 

 Chester journalist and IKK-I. to whom she \ 



great assistance in his literary work. A da-. 



of Mr. and Mrs, Banks became the wife of William 



Black, the well 



book was entitled "Ity Leaves: A Collection of 



Poems'* (1844), and her second , after 



her marriage, was a M 1^- 



Work 



after a number of vears wa followed by " Light 

 i for Leisure Hours." Her fame as a i. 



b\ the a; PrOVi- 



: first i-lTort in 

 tietj. : il continues popular. ll<-r - 



luent works indiidi ' 



and I \\ilh her hn-l>an<l (Loinlon. U 



" Stung to th. i - N ltd Conn 1 



Manch.-ter M;> 



< 'aleb 



(lire no\e| (London. : 



I I. - Mild I'. , book of !ldo||. 



: NN'iiuiei . 



ion, issoi : M,.,-, than ' 

 ter. lss], : -Thr..iii;h the Ni-ht: TaK- of SI,:, 



iddell to \\ ,,1" <L..IMlo|). 



. "The Watehmak* .md ni|,,. r 



Tale> '-ilia ami other Tales" (] 



- In \n^ own Hand " i London. lss:,, : 

 nllivant's Folly" <lssr,,. A numlx ga by 



nd .Mr-. I'.anks were set to music and were 

 widely t.opular. 



lianlonv \ French statesman. bon in Boom 

 KW: died i :. L8W, B 



-on of the tax collector of Hougcs. and studied and 

 practiced law at < 'lennoiil. where he defended 

 publican editor who was prosecuted by the (i. 

 meiit of Napoleon III. After the fall of the ei 

 ho was elected mayor of the commune, and in \^',\ 

 was ele.-ted at the head of the poll a Deputy for the 

 I'uy de Dome. In the National As- einbly he di- 

 tinguished himself in debate and took a j-n-mim-nt. 

 part in committee and in the meetings of the Left 

 Center. He was aj> pointed under-. f the 



Mini;try of Justice in 1*7.">. but iv-igned when the 



: iiinent proii'.ii! -t \\n>xrriifiii // 



He was returned forClernioiit ted against 



all Radical motions for the abolition of ; 

 dat. took a leading part in the ci 

 when the Hnnrlic Cabinet iv-igncd he was appointed 

 Minister of Education in the Cabinet formed b\ M. 

 Dufaure on Dec. ll. ]^;f,. I',, ing ],.j| out of" the 



ding mini-try, formed by M. Waddington. he 

 continued t-- advockte temtin <!< //>/ \\ith 

 betta. He was defeated in the elect ions of 1881. and 

 in the following year was made a life Senator. In 



3 liate he -poke often < >|| ed 1 1CM t io|ial I lie- ' 



He was the author of several hi-torical \\..rks, and 

 in 1890 was elected a member of tin- Academy of 

 Moral Sci. 

 Harnato Uarne\ I . Ei rlishspecalator.boni 



in London in is.VJ : committed -uicide at -ca..lune 



1 I. l v !7. He WSI- the .-ill Of .le\\i-!. 



Isaacs, which name he ch, When 



twenty-three years old lie was at Cape Town when 



:iamond fields began to attract advent 

 He went to Kimberley with a traveling circus as 

 <nld man. and for some time played tin- clown. 

 HeiiiL' left penniless here, lie became a diamond 

 peddler and afterward a small jobber in shares. 

 Three year- later he was buying mine-, and b 

 he bad become owner of four valuable claim-, which 

 he sold to a company in I im-i im- 



portant tran-action aUmt thi- time wa- the sale of 

 the Kimberley mine, of which he was chief proprie- 

 tor, for $27,800.000. MIC he wa- the prin- 

 cipal rival of Cecil ,'h Africa, but 

 the consolidation of the D MIJ. any and tin; 

 Kimberley mine terminated the rivalry. I'.arnato 

 next turned li: the Hand. He pro- 

 moted the Primrose. (Jleneairn. New CltesOS, and 

 ;.ort cr.mj.anie-. and became inten-'ed in the 



.foha: -'ock Bxcbange, Johannes] 



Company, and other coi,. d wa- the. 



copf;.. :red by hi- indu-try that in one dav 



.ribed for slian- in one of his 



: iset, Bis I K-cess as a speculator led him to 



London. Although hi- reputation as a daring 



operator had preceded him, he was looked on with 



