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IV 



South worth ; the capitalists John I. Blair, Koswell P. Flower, Henry Hilton, Henry 

 U. Plant, and Cornelius Yanderbilt; the clergymen Charles D. W. Bridgman, Alex- 

 an.ler 111 Clupp, Moses D. Hodge, Samuel H. Kellogg, Dwight L. Moody, John P. 

 Newman, Charles S. "Robinson, Thomas J. Sawyer, and John Williams ; the educators 

 Kdtniind Cliadwick, Ilezekiah R. Geiger, Ezra O. Kendall, Henry H. Lockwood, 

 .lames <>. Murniv. Andrew J. Rickoif, and Eli Thayer ; the inventors Ottmar Mer- 

 genthaler, .Marvin C. Stone, and John P. Thompson; the jurists Nathaniel H. Clem- 

 ent, Charles P. Daly, George F. Danforth, Stephen J. Field, David L. Follett, and 

 lames liarlan ; the lawyers Robert G. Ingersoll, William Porcher Miles, and Gideon 

 .1. Tucker; the naval officers Peirce Crosby, Philip V. Lansdale, Theodorus B. M. 

 Mason, George II. Perkins, and Henry F. Picking; the philanthropists James W. 

 Klwell, Moses G. Leonard, Lewis Miller, Martha B. Stevens, and Elizabeth Thomp- 

 son : the publishers William H. Appleton, Robert Bonner, Moses W. Dodd, Robert 

 Clarke, Daniel 8. Ford, and Effingham Maynard ; the scientists Daniel G. Brinton, 

 Hamilton Y. Castner, Elliott Coues, Othniel C. Marsh, and Edward Orton ; the 

 statesmen Robert P. Bland, Kelson Dingley, Augustus H. Garland, Garret A. Hobart, 

 and Francis II. Pierpont ; and the soldiers Edward Ferrero, George S. Greene, Alex- 

 ander L. Hawkins, Guy V. Henry, Henry Heth, Guy Howard, Henry W. Lawton, 

 Joseph I. Reynolds, John M. Stotsenberg, William Winthrop, and Horatio G.Wright. 

 We also lost George R. Davis, the director of the great Columbian Exposition, and 

 George Gem tinder, the famous violin maker. Sketches of all these and many more 

 are included under the title " Obituaries, American." The foreign necrology also 

 exhibits many serious losses. These include, besides several eminent dramatists and 

 actors of the second grade, the actresses Mary Anne Keeley (almost as old as the 

 century), Sarah Lane, Rose Leclercq, Mademoiselle Rhea, Charlotte Saunders, Sarah 

 Thome, and Emma Waller. The artists lose Harry Bates, Rosa Bonheur, Sir Arthur 

 Blomfield, Francis Dollman, and Birket Foster; the authors, Grant Allen, Prof. 

 William G. Blaikie, A. K. H. Boyd (the "Country Parson"), Moritz Busch, Victor 

 Cherbuliez, Emil Erckmann, Archibald Lampman, Emma Marshall, Florence Marryat 

 (Mrs. Lean), Monier Williams, Elise Polko, and Johann Strauss, the famous com- 

 poser; the naval officers, Sir Alexander Armstrong and Howard Colomb ; the scien- 

 tists, Robert Bunsen, John William Dawson, Sir William Flower, Sir Edward Frank- 

 land, and Henry Nicholson ; the statesmen, Antonio Guzman (ex-President of Vene- 

 zuela), Felix Faure (President of France), Count Caprivi, Ernilio Castelar, Ulises 

 Ilenreaux (President of Santo Domingo), John Mackenzie, Peter Mitchell, Nubar 

 Pasha, Jovan Ristich, and Emil Welti. Among the eminent dead that are not 

 included in any of these classes are Father Chiniquy (well known to a past generation 

 as a popular agitator) ; Joseph Chitty, jurist ; Oskar Bauman, explorer ; and William 

 . Metford, inventor of a famous rifle. Great Britain lost many good soldiers in 

 South Afrieo, hut only one general, Andrew Wauchope. The careers of all these> 

 and scores of others, are recorded under " Obituaries, Foreign." 



Our three full-page portraits this year are of Gen. Henry W. Lawton, the gal- 

 lant American soldier who was killed in the Philippines; President Kruger, of the 

 South African Republic ; and Smile Loubet, the new President of France. 



The colored illustrations are a map of China (of interest because of the impending 

 ion of that empire), a map of South Africa, and a map showing the growth of 



United States by accretions of territory from 1783 to the present day. 



The book closes with an index that covers the four volumes of the series. 



NEW YORK. May W, 1900. 



