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Opera House in 1861 his design was accepted unani- 

 mously. This building, his greatest work, was 

 formally opened for performances on Jan. 5, 1875. 

 His other important works include the Theatre de 

 la Terrasse at Monte Carlo, the Maison de Jeux at 

 Monaco, the Observatoire at Nice, the Cercle de la 

 Libraire on the Boulevard St. Germain, Paris, and 

 at the Exhibition of 1889 a notable series of recon- 

 structions of human habitations of various epochs, 

 which occupied the whole front of the Champ de 

 Mars. He wrote much and well upon architectural 

 topics, and was honorary and corresponding mem- 

 ber of 17 foreign academies. 



Gee, Thomas, a Welsh politician, born in Den- 

 bigh in 1815; died there, Sept, 28, 1898. He was 

 educated at Wrexham, entered his father's publish- 

 ing business, and became the editor of the " Ban- 

 ner," the chief organ of the Welsh democracy, and 

 a popular and effective public speaker on political 

 .and religious subjects. He was ordained a minister 

 of the Calvinist Methodist denomination, but still 

 devoted himself chiefly to his journalistic and po- 

 litical work. He was the accepted champion of the 

 educational, religious, economical, and political in- 

 terests of the Welsh. Besides some literary works 

 in the Welsh language, he published " The Myrfy- 

 rian Archaeology of Wales." 



Gehrt, Karl, a German artist, born in Hamburg, 

 May 11, 1853; died in Endenich, near Bonn, July 

 17, 1898. He was the son of a decorative artist, and 

 .after passing through the art school of his native 

 city he went to Weimar in 1871, where he studied 

 under Karl Gussow and Albert Baur. With the 

 latter he settled in Dtisseldorf in 1876. He made in- 

 numerable drawings illustrating " Reinecke Fuchs," 

 " Tannhauser," " Thomas a Kempis," and other 

 works, humorous sketches for the " Fliegende Blat- 

 ter," and artistic picture books, such as " Jagdleben 

 der Gnomen," "Amor bei Jung und Alt." and "Ein 

 Hochzeitsmiirchen." His representations of gnomes, 

 dwarfs, and elfs are peculiar, and charm art lovers 

 and children equally. His water colors, such as 

 " Petruchio's Wedding," "'The Pirate Claus Storte- 

 beck," etc., are admirable in technical execution as 

 well as in composition, but his few oil paintings 

 fall below them. His great work was the wall dec- 

 oration of the stairway to the art gallery in Dus- 

 seldorf, depicting the history of art. This occupied 

 ten years. When he died he was at work on draw- 

 ings for the Rathhaus in Hamburg. 



Gliolam, Hyder Khan, an Afghan soldier, died 

 in March, 1898. He was an Orakzai chief, the son 

 of Sikunder Khan, with whom he suppressed in 1887 

 the revolt of the Ghilzais. In the following year 

 he alone, at the head of the Ameer's army, saved the 

 throne for Abdurrahman by dispersing the forces 

 of the pretender Ishak Khan. He had a large share 

 in the reorganization of the Afghan army, directed 

 all the annexation campaigns in the mountainous 

 regions of western Afghanistan, subjugated Kafir- 

 istan, and during the recent rising of the .Afridis 

 against the British he faithfully observed the injunc- 

 tion of the Ameer to keep his tribesmen from active- 

 ly aiding their brothers. 



Gilbert, Sir John Thomas, an Irish historian, 

 born in Dublin in 1829 ; died in London, May 23, 

 1898. He was educated in Dublin and in England, 

 and received the appointment in 1867 of Secretary 

 " the Irish Public Record Office, after having de- 

 ed himself to researches in the literary and his- 



rical antiquities of his native land. In 1875 he 

 became inspector of Irish manuscripts. He gave an 

 : ~petus to Celtic studies by editing the most im- 

 ant of the old Irish manuscripts. His principal 



rks are : " History of Dublin " (1854-'59) ; "His- 

 y of the Viceroys of Ireland " (1865) ; " Historical 



d Municipal Documents of Ireland " (1870) ; Na- 

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tional Manuscripts" ; " History of Affairs in Ireland, 

 1641-'52 " (1879-'81) ; and " History of the Irish Con- 

 federation " (1882). 



Goodeiiough, Sir William Howley, an English 

 soldier, born in 1833 ; died in Cape Town, Oct. 24, 

 1898. He was a%on of the Dean of Wells, was edu- 

 cated at Westminster School and the Woolwich 

 Military Academy, and entered the Royal Artillery 

 as second lieutenant at the age of sixteen. As a 

 captain he fought gallantly in the Indian mutiny, 

 and as major he filled important staff offices in 

 England and served as military attache in Vienna. 

 In the Egyptian expedition of 1882 he commanded 

 the Royal Artillery with the rank of brigadier gen- 

 eral. As major general he commanded various dis- 

 tricts in Great Britain, promoting the volunteer 

 movement, especially the artillery association. He 

 became a lieutenant general in 1891, and in 1894 

 was placed in command of the British forces in 

 South Africa. 



Grey, Sir George, a British administrator, born 

 in Lisbon in 1812 ; died in London, Sept. 19, 1898. 

 He'was the son of an officer who fell at the storming 

 of Badajoz before his birth, and was educated for 

 the military profession at Sandhurst, went into the 

 service at the age of eighteen, and while stationed 

 in the west of Ireland saw so much misery that he 

 determined to escape to the roomy regions of Aus- 

 tralia, whither he sailed on an exploring mission for 

 the Geographical Society. He landed in Hanover 

 Bay, and passed through privations and suffering 

 and had many hairbreadth escapes while exploring 

 the waterless regions of northwestern Australia. 

 The Governor of Western Australia appointed him 

 resident at King George's Sound, and there he 

 studied the nature of the Australian blacks until 

 he was obliged to return to his regiment when his 

 two years' leave expired. In England he published 

 a book narrating his experiences which was much 

 read and which impelled Lord John Russell, then 

 Colonial Secretary, to select the young office? for 

 the post of Governor of South Australia, an infant 

 colony which was then falling into a state of anar- 

 chy. He arrived in 1841, and in four years, by re- 

 trenchment and reorganization, rescued the treasury 

 from bankruptcy, and by aiding impoverished col- 

 onists from his own purse and promoting industry 

 and winning the confidence of the common people 

 by checking the monopoly of town sites by specu- 

 lators and of fertile tracts by squatters, he brought 

 the colony out of its difficulties and set it in the 

 path of orderly development, although the squatter 

 aristocracy and the speculative capitalists com- 



Slained bitterly of his democratic innovations. Lord 

 ohn Russell was well enough satisfied with his 

 work to send him in 1845 to be Governor of New 

 Zealand, which was in still more desperate straits, 

 for the insurgent Maoris were then preparing to 

 exterminate the British settlers. He collected troops 

 and munitions at Adelaide, and two months after 

 his arrival he ended the war by a treaty satisfactory 

 not only to the whites but to the natives also, who 

 had learned to trust his justice, firmness, and good 

 faith. He reformed the financial administration of 

 this colony also and introduced economy and effi- 

 ciency. In order to understand thoroughly the 

 native question he set to work to learn the Maori 

 language without grammar or dictionary, and be- 

 came deeply interested in the myths and customs of 

 the New Zealand aborigines, collecting the materials 

 for a great work on the subject, which were lost by 

 fire. Pie began his labor over again, and published 

 some years afterward his " Polynesian Mythology." 

 He was so bent on preserving all the islands of the 

 Southern Seas for a future great colonial empire of 

 Great Britain that he importunately urged the 

 home Government to prevent the French annexa- 



