

ni;nTAi;il>. FOREIGN ''\NOVAS DEL CASTILLO DRUMMOND.) 



pleted short Iv before his death a ; Life of David 

 Hume" for tl, 



(unovas del tiMiiio \ntunio k Spanish 

 statesman, born in Malaga in IKiU: died m - 

 Agueda, Aug. 8, 1897. His family, which wa 



ato him for HI 



but he turned with avidity to literary >; 

 di-.pl;; irkable talent and a.'tivit - 



he acquired a local reputation for lean. 

 he was sixteen, and had already publi- 



of poems and was the editor of a lu-wj-j 

 ng Malaga." He went to Madrid in 1845. and 

 through the influence of hi* uncle, Serafln Kste- 

 bane. a Senator and a well-known \\ 



found employment in a railroad office, an easy 

 he could follow literature concur- 

 rently with his naid duties. In the course of four 

 published a history of the decadence of 

 and an historical novel, besides many 

 .nd newspajH>r articles. In 

 he embraced the journalistic profession. 

 becoming the editor of La Patria," a journal of 

 the Opposition, whose conductor was necessarily 

 involved in dangerous political conspiracies against 

 dace favorites then in po\\. r. Ib sided with 

 Military party in the struggle that ended in 

 of 1854. I Miring the rising he re- 

 mained in Madrid, " -it of 

 volntionary junta, he exhibited political tact 

 and a fearless spirit that attracted the regard of 

 O'Donnell. the head of the revolution. He was 

 ;>uty for Malaga. Canovas allied himself 

 to the faction "of Kspartcro, and was then< . f. ; 

 constantly in office, first as Governor of Cadi/, in 

 1855. As minister to Rome, in 1856, he drew up 

 an hi- >ndunion the relations of Spain 

 to the Holy S-e tha - -i- fr the 

 cone-. ViS to 1861 he wa- I'nder- 

 Ury the .Mini-try of the Interior, and in 

 1864 was called int.. the Cabinet, In is;r> he be- 

 came Minister of Finance and Minister of th 

 onies under n'honnell. and in the latter capacity 

 drew up the law for the abolition of slavery, nil 

 ^'18 he stood up" in the 

 Cortes for the application - t' Liberal prineip' 



...narc-hy. When the Republicans triumphed 

 he was banished He devoted himself to the res- 

 toration of the Bourbons, and was the chief of the 

 movement that placed Alfonso XII upon the 

 throne. As leader of the Alfmisists the partv that 

 had upheld the claims of the legitimate and con- 

 stitutional monarchy, he was called to the premier- 

 ship in 1*?4. after the pronunciamento of (Jen. 

 Martin*/ Campos but in the following year retired 

 inconsequence ,,f d in his party. After 



three months the division was healed, and he 

 was recalled to the head of the Government. 

 which he directed with tact aixl discretion till the 

 return front Cuba of Gen. ' 'ampos h 



rnier for the third time after ten 

 months of Liln-ral administration under Martin./ 



< >-:'.- ministrj irtj ovwthioi n 



ind he was succeeded by 



Sagasta. In January, 1884, the fusionists. under 

 Sagasta. were defeated in the Cortes, and Canovas 

 again formed a mini-try, which was upheld in the 

 general election that followed. In the crisis of 

 November, 1885, he was defeated by Sagasta once 

 more and compelled to resign. Canovas b< 

 President of the ministry again in July, 1890. after 

 the fall of the Sagasta mir : was confirmed 



bv an overwh. 1 ry in" the general el 



He entered upon the office for the last time on 



1897, he offere 



resipi Ucir.-nt. but was persuaded 



to remain in office. He met his death at the baths 

 of Santa Agueda, where an Italian anarchist named 



(b.lli. trust ing toavenge the cruelties practiced upon 



his Barcelona comrades in pri-on. la\ in wait f.r 



several days, and finally approached tin- Premier in 



tilery of the btthiog establishment and lire.l 



-hot's ffot: .,f \\hich took effect 



in the forehead and one pien-ed his breast 



4 imilcascllc l.iot.inni It.itli-la an Italian 

 art i, in l^'.'d ; diet | in 



Rome early in N ; II. >tudied art in 



the acadei 1 in turn paini- 



unlil he 



^ir .l.-rph ( 'r\\e. with wh..m 

 reil into a literary part ner-hi|i. I 

 interru|>ted his laU.rs t-- thmw himself into the 

 p.'liti.-al national movement. Caught 1 

 trians at Cremona, he was condemned to death, but 

 made his BKMM an-i 



fought under the triumvirate. When tho Pope re- 

 lurned to the papa: a>elle v.a- ban- 



ished and rctireil t<> London, wh.-r. he c.,l)ab< 

 wiih Crowe, then Knu r li>h commercial uttai ' 



II the l-'lelliisll school of 



paint inu'. 1 1 ' iv| urn. d to Ital y a f' years, 



and then t...,k up his abode in Leipsjr in ,,r. 

 bring out tb^ celebrated M History of Italian Paint- 

 ing, of which like\\i-e ( 'r..we was part author. 

 SuDSequently hecstabli^hed himself m Italy, b. 

 an adherent of the royal ( Jovernmeiit after 1^711, an ,l 

 was appointed director p-n. -nil of line arts 



\\ illi.im l.cuis. ; jurist 



born in De-bnrou^h, Knirland. .Inly ::. is:!','; died 



ill, Sept. ; lie was edilca' 



Oxfonl, was called to the bar. and by his I 

 acumen and his knowledge won early a hiu'h place 

 at the bar, though he had no gift of eloqiienc. 

 was blunt and direct in hi- -p.-ech. He edid-d 

 "A.ldison on Contracts" and other text -books, was 

 for some time i . f Lincoln, gained an inti- 



h now l.-il'_ r c of criminal law as editor 

 wn case- had an unrivaled knowl- 



ifce an<l rating: iju->tioiis and of 

 some <lepartmei)ts of commercial law, and \v 

 tainetl in almost all important cases years before 

 he was made a Queen '> coim-el. in is?."). In issi 

 as appointed a jud.i:' of the (Queen's b-nch. 

 Hi- deci-ions were fearless, if somet im< - overconfi- 

 dent, and were always given in language unmistak- 

 ably clear. He was e-pecially sound in criminal 

 law, differing often from Lord Coleridge. When 

 the new bankruptcy law came into operation he 

 settled many questions of practice and helj 

 reconcile the legal and mercantile communities to 

 it- novelt 



haucs \\ illiani Ki -h architect, born in 



(iloiicester in 1840; died Feb. 1. ivi?. II. 

 ticed his j.roft ion in Manchester, where he built 

 several scnools, but tot he <_ r cneral public was k 



I writer under the name of Klijer 

 Hi- fir-t book. "Klijer <...ff: Hi- Travels, 

 Trubble-. and other Anioo/,. m .-iii-." was- pub 

 in Ixmdoti in ls?-J. and was fo||owel by " Klijer 

 Gofl; Ih- Christma- 

 Kroniklc of a i\ 



re and Pigskin Papers" 



I'.llster. etc." (IHSfJ, ; 



(1886). 

 Dmnraond, Henry, a - theologian, born 



in Stirling. Scotland, in ls.")| : died in Tunbridge 

 Wells Kngland. March 1 !i- father 



tSUl !in-_ r . The son was edu- 

 cated at t i :mburgh and Tiibin- 

 became a mini-ter of the Free Church of 

 md, and, after a short -tay in Maltaasamis- 

 as appoin* YTl lecturer on science 

 at the" Free Church College in Glasgow. Ii 

 he was raised to the rank of proie-sor. Ib aceom- 

 1 sir Archibald Geikie on geological expedi- 



