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died in Brussels, Belgium, July 21, 1898. He 

 idied law at the University of Lausanne and in 

 erlin, and from 1863 to 1867 was a professor in 

 University of Berne. Since 1868 he had been 

 afessor at the University of Brussels. lie was a 

 igh authority on matters of international law and 

 pas the editor-in-chief of the " Revue de Droit 

 International" and of the first six volumes of the 

 "Annuaire de 1'Institut de Droit International." 

 The most important of his original works are " In- 

 troduction Historique au Droit Remain" (1872); 

 " Traite Elemental re des Successions & Cause de 

 Mort en Droit Rornain " (1878) ; " Revue Litteraire 

 et Historique des Systemes et Theories du Droit 

 des Gens Depuis Grotius " (1885). 



Hops. F61icien, a Belgian artist, born in Namur 

 in 1833 ; died in Corbeil, France, Aug. 23, 1898. He 

 was of Hungarian parentage. Having studied art 

 in Belgmm, he contributed greatly to the success of 

 the humorous journal " Ulenspiegel " by fanciful 

 sketches of his friends and contemporaries. He 

 produced also caricatures of the art exhibitions in 

 pen drawings and lithographs, the intense drollery 

 of which reflected the soundest principles of art 

 criticism. He was ambitious as a painter, but, 

 except in some aquarelles, the pictures betrayed 

 processes of his own branch by their dark, smoky 

 coloring. When he took up the lithographer's 

 crayon or the needle of the aquafortist he marked 

 his slightest prints with an accent distinct and 

 original. He was not a moralist, as innumerable 

 erotic skits show, yet his " Absinthe Drinker," a 

 marvel of observation and frank realism, was a ser- 

 mon that many took to heart. As an illustrator 

 also Rops was a master. He enriched with engrav- 

 ings as exquisite for their interpretation as for their 

 drawing the works of the Belgian authors De Coster, 

 Ilannon, and De Holder, and, among French writers, 

 those of Gautier, Baudelaire, Barbey, and Mendes. 

 His later life was passed in France. 



Rossi, Cesare, an Italian actor, born in Fano, in 

 the Marches of Ancona, Italy, in 1828 ; died in 

 Bari, Italy, Nov. 2, 1898. He was as celebrated and 



Eopular as a comedian in his own country as was 

 is brother Ernesto Rossi as a tragedian. Against 

 the wishes of his family he became an actor in his 

 twentieth year and was continuously engaged 

 therein for some time as a member of local stock 

 companies, but for more than thirty years as the 

 principal actor and director of his own company, 

 traveling in Italy and Sicily. His work was con- 

 fined to comic and eccentric roles, and therein he 

 was regarded as the best representative of the plays 

 of Goldoni and other standard comedies of his 

 country. As a member of his company the famous 

 EleanoraDuse first obtained an opportunity to show 

 her ability. The love and respect in which he was 

 held by his comrades and the public is testified by 

 the fact that tokens of condolence were sent on the 

 occasion of his funeral from all parts of Italy, and 

 a representative of the state attended his body to 

 the grave. 



Staiisfeld, Sir James, an English statesman, 

 born in Halifax, March 5, 1820 ; died in Rother- 

 ield, Sussex, Feb. 17, 1898. He was graduated at 

 andon University in 1840, and called to the bar 

 1 1849. Through his father-in-law, William Henry 

 shurst, he became a friend of Mazzini and an 

 dent advocate of the liberation of Italy, as well as 

 the enfranchisement of women, the co-operative 

 lovement, the abolition of American slavery, and 

 lical principles in British politics. He was 

 lected to Parliament in 1859 and represented Hal- 

 fax till 1895. lie acted with the Nonconformist 

 licals, and wrote and lectured in defense of the 

 ilian national movement. In 1863 Lord Palmer- 

 3n appointed him a Junior Lord of the Admiralty. 



This office he resigned when attacked for allow- 

 ing Italian conspirators to address Mazzini at his 

 house, as appeared from evidence given in the 

 French courts in relation to a conspiracy against 

 the life of Napoleon III. In 1866 Lord John 

 Russell made him Under Secretary for War, and 

 in 1868 he was made a Lord of the Treasury in 

 Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet. He was made a member 

 of the Privy Council in 1869. In March, 1871, he 

 entered the Cabinet as President of the Poor Law 

 Board, and in August of that year, when his office 

 was absorbed in the Local Government Board, he 

 became its first president and displayed much abil- 

 ity in organizing the new department. After the 

 retirement of the Liberal Cabinet in January, 1874. 

 he risked his political future by taking the lead in 

 the movement for the repeal of the contagious 

 diseases acts. He was not included in the Glad- 

 stone Government of 1880. After many rebuffs, he 

 ultimately witnessed the triumph of the cause he 

 had fathered when in 1886 his motion for the re- 

 peal of the obnoxious acts was carried, and a bill 

 framed on it was passed with out serious opposition. 

 He eagerly and heartily accepted the policy of 

 home rule for Ireland, and when Joseph Chamber- 

 lain left the Cabinet in 1886 on the production of 

 Mr. Gladstone's Irish bills, Stansfeld succeeded him 

 as president of the Local Government Board. He 

 was one of the most ardent Liberal Home Rulers 

 during the six years' opposition, but was not in- 

 cluded in Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet of 1892. He was 

 knighted in 1895, when he had retired 



Stirling, Arthur, an English actor, born in 

 London in 1827; died there, Dec. 3, 1898. He 

 made his first appearance on the stage at Plymouth, 

 England, in 1846, and after a short season of subor- 

 dinate work became a member of the stock com- 

 pany of the Theater Royal, Edinburgh. He was 

 very successful in Scotland, and in 1848-'49 was 

 engaged as stage manager and heavy man for the 

 Queen's Theater, Dublin, then managed by Henry 

 Webb. While Stirling was at the Queen's Theater 

 a strong and life-enduring friendship began between 

 him and Charles Wyndham. who was at the same 

 time a student of medicine in Trinity College, Dub- 

 lin. Mr. Stirling soon left Dublin to become the 

 principal actor of the Bristol Theater. He was as- 

 sociated there with Madge Robertson (Mrs. Kendal), 

 Henrietta Hodson (Mrs. Labouchere), and George 

 and William Rignold. On Nov. 10, 1852, he made 

 his first appearance in London in a melodrama 

 called " The Surgeon of Paris ; or, The Massacre of 

 St. Bartholomew," which was produced at Maryle- 

 bone Theater. When his season at this theater was 

 ended he became the principal actor in the support 

 of William Creswick, the popular Shakespearean 

 actor, at the Surrey Theater, Southwark. He was 

 greatly liked by Mr. Creswick and by the audiences 

 of the theater, and filled the arduous place of lead- 

 ing man in the legitimate drama at this theater 

 with great distinction for many years. On Jan. 

 3, 1863, he entered upon his first engagement 

 at a London west side theater, appearing at St. 

 James's Theater as Philip Austin in " The Dark 

 Cloud," in support of Miss Herbert. After that 

 season he was stage manager for a time of the 

 Adelphi Theater, London, which was then being 

 managed by Benjamin Webster. He married about 

 this time, and retired from the stage for several 

 years. On the death of his wife he returned to the 

 drama, and on May 29, 1865, appeared at the 

 Adelphi as Dick Thornton in an adaptation by 

 Wilkie Collins and Charles Fechter of " Black and 

 White." He also played Robert Audley in the 

 original production of the dramatization of Miss 

 Braddon's novel " Lady Audley's Secret." On 

 March 29, 1869, he married the widow of Charles 



