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Stephen in the editorship of the "Cornhill 

 lagazine." Besides contributing to various peri- 

 licals, he furnished from 1888 the page of 

 ; Weekly Notes " so long familiar to the readers of 

 the " Illustrated London News." He was an ex- 

 tremely hard-working man, as the long list of his 

 published works will testify, and after the issue of 

 Sir Massingberd," in 1864, was very popular 

 3th in England and in the United States. He 

 lad a wide acquaintance with men of letters, and 

 lis cheery, generous nature made him everywhere 

 beloved. It has been well said of him that " he in- 

 aired friendship, and he repaid it a hundredfold." 

 was wholly without professional jealousy, and 

 lany popular writers of to-day owe to him in his 

 litorial capacity the earliest recognition of the 

 lerits of their work. In his later years he was 

 jnfined to his home, but his long suffering was 

 3rne with quiet courage. " Stories from Boccaccio " 

 (London, 1852) was his earliest work, and it was suc- 

 eeded by a volume of " Poems " (1853). His subse- 

 uent works are : " Stories and Sketches " (1857) ; 



The Poster Brothers " (1859) ; " Leaves from Lake- 

 j,nd " ; " The Bateman Household " (1860) ; " Richard 

 Lrbour" (1861). his earliest distinct success, re- 

 published in 1869 as "The Family Scapegrace"; 



Melibceus in London " (1862) ; " Furniss Abbey 

 id Neighborhood " (1863) ; " Lost Sir Massing- 

 srd " (1864), perhaps his best-known novel ; " Mar- 

 ried Beneath Him " (1865) ; " People, Places, and 



hings " (1865) : " The Clyffards of Clyffe " (1866) ; 

 Mirk Abbey" (1866); "Lights and Shadows of 

 jondon Life " (1867) ; " The Lakes in Sunshine " 

 (1867) ; " Carlyon's Year " (1868) ; " Blondel Parva" 

 (1868) ; " Bentinck's Tutor " (1868), originally pub- 

 ished as " One of the Family " ; " Found Dead ". 

 1869) ; "A County Family" (1869); " Maxims by a 

 Ian of the World " (1869) ; " A Perfect Treasure " 

 (1869); "Gwendoline's Harvest" (1870); "Like 

 Father, like Son " (1870) ; " Won not Wooed " 

 (1871) ; " Cecil's Tryst " (1872) ; " A Woman's Venge- 

 .ance" (1872); "Murphy's Master" (1873); "The 

 Best of Husbands " (1874) ; " At her Mercy " (1874) ; 

 " Walter's Word " (1875) ; " Halves " (1876) : " Fallen 

 Fortunes" (1876); "What he Cost her" (1877); 

 " By Proxy " (1878) ; " Less Black than we're Paint- 

 ed" (1878); "High Spirits" (1879); "Two Hun- 

 dred Pounds Reward " (1879) ; " Under One Roof " 

 (1879) ; " A Marine Resident " (1879) ; " A Confi- 

 dential Agent " (1880) ; "From Exile" (1881); "A 

 Grape from a Thorn " (1881) ; " Some Private Views : 

 A Collection of Essays " (1882) ; " For Cash Only " 

 .(1882): "Kit: A Memory " (1883); "Thicker than 

 Water " (1883) ; " Some Literary Recollections " 

 (1884) ; " The Canon's Ward " (1884) ; " In Peril and 

 Privation " (1885) ; " The Talk of the Town " (1885) ; 

 "The Luck of the Darrells " (1885) ; "The Heir 

 of the Ages" (1886); "Glow- Worm Tales" (1887); 

 " Holiday Tasks " (1887) ; " A Prince of the Blood " 

 (1887); "The Eavesdropper "(1888); "The Mystery 

 of Mirbridge (1888) ; "The Burnt Million " (1890) ; 

 " Notes from the News " (1890) ; " The Word and 

 the Will" (1890); "Sunny Stories and Some Shady 

 ")nes" (1891); "A Modern Dick Whittington 5> 

 (1892) ; " A Stumble on the Threshold " (1892) ; "A 

 rying Patient" (1893); "Gleams of Memory" 

 (1894); "In Market Overt" (1895); "The Disap- 

 earance of George Driffield " (1896) ; " Another's 

 Jurdens " (1897). 



Pitt, Henry Mader, actor, born in Albany, 



f. Y., Sept. 16, 1850, while his father and mother 



were acting in the United States ; died in New York 



ty, March 7, 1898. He was a son of the English 



tor Charles Dibden Pitt, and first appeared upon 



the stage at his mother's theater, the Theater Royal, 



hefiield, England, in a farce called "Under the 



ose," in April, 1864. His father, who had been 



manager of the theater, having died, young Pitt 

 became his mother's assistant in the management, 

 and on her relinquishment of the theater in 1868 

 he became stage manager in different theaters in 

 succession, wrote successful plays, and introduced 

 the Volkes family to the public in a pantomime 

 framed by him on of the story " The Forty Thieves." 

 In 1872 he was stage manager of the Queen's Thea- 

 ter, Manchester, and in 1873 he became a member 

 of Robertson's company, playing "Caste." In asso- 

 ciation with James Albery he managed a company 

 in the latter's plays, and in 1876 organized the Pitt 

 and Hamilton company, which played successfully 

 three years. In all these companies Mr. Pitt was 

 leading actor as well as manager. On Sept. 29, 

 1880, he first, appeared in the United States, play- 

 ing Orlando in a revival of " As You Like It " at 

 Wallack's Theater, New York city, as a leading 

 member of the company. For the next two seasons 

 he was a member of Augustin Daly's company, and 

 in August, 1883, he assumed a similar place with 

 the first Madison Square Theater company, playing 

 the title role in "The Rajah." For two seasons 

 Mr. Pitt played this part in the principal cities of 

 the United States. A period of desultory playing 

 followed, and in November, 1887, he originated the 

 part of Louis Percival in " Jim the Penman " at 

 the Madison Square Theater, which part he played 

 several hundred times successively. During follow- 

 ing years he seldom appeared on the stage. 



Plimsoll, Samuel, an English philanthropist, 

 born in Bristol in 1824; died in Folkestone, June 3, 

 1898. He entered Parliament in 1868 after a pros- 

 perous career as a coal merchant, and took up the 

 cause of the seamen. Before that he had published 

 pamphlets on the coal trade and on the rights of 

 labor, but had not identified himself in any way 

 with the objects to which he devoted his public life. 

 In 1870 he introduced in the House of Commons a 

 resolution respecting loss of life and property at 

 sea, in which he advocated a compulsory load line, 

 and in 1871 he embodied this principle in a bill, 

 which was withdrawn. In 1873, in " Our Seamen," 

 he attacked the shipowners with such scathing in- 

 vective that the public caught up the ciy, and a 

 royal commission was appointed. In 1874 he 

 brought in another bill to establish a fixed load line, 

 which was rejected by a majority of only three votes. 

 When, in the following year, the Government with- 

 drew its merchant shipping bill because it had been 

 altered by amendments, transported with passion, 

 he denounced shipowners as speculative scoundrels 

 who send people to their death, and charged those 

 of them who were members of the House of Com- 

 mons with conspiring to obstruct a bill that would 

 check their murderous tendencies. This outbreak, 

 for which he apologized when threatened with a 

 reprimand, brought the question to an issue. The 

 Government was compelled to introduced a bill em- 

 bodying some of his demands, though not all, but 

 especially the load line, " Plimsoll's line," which 

 has since been marked on every British ship. He 

 gave up his seat for Derby to Sir William Harcourt 

 in 1880, and was unable afterward to get another. 

 As the seaman's friend and champion he was chosen 

 president of the National Amalgamated Sailors' 

 and Firemen's Union, but was not responsible for 

 the disputes in which it engird. 



Plot/. Berthold von, a German politician, born 

 Aug. 9, 1844 ; died in Dpllingen, July 25, 1898. He 

 was educated in the military cadet school at Pots- 

 dam, served as an officer in the foot guards from 

 1862 to 1864, and as adjutant of a Landwehr bat- 

 talion in the Austrian and French wars, retiring as 

 captain, after which he devoted himself to agricul- 

 ture on his estate at Dollingen. lie was elected to 

 the Prussian Chamber in 1892 and to the Reichstag 



