OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (ALFRED BAMKR<KK.) 



distinction as a young officer in Morocco, and in 

 consequence became aid-de-camp to Man-dial 

 Serrano, and one of his most devoted political 

 friends. He was Captain General of Aragon 

 when he was sent to Cuba, toward the close of 

 the last insurrection, as second in command to 

 Gen. Weyler. After his return to Spain he re- 

 ceived his former appointment again. As a poli- 

 tician he was deputy for Ubeda in the early days 

 of the Restoration. 



Alfred, Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, born in 

 Buckingham Palace, London, Oct. 15, 1874; died 

 in Meran, Feb. 6, 1899. He was the only son of 

 the Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Prince 

 Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Queen Victoria of 

 England, who succeeded to the throne of Saxe- 

 Coburg on the death of his uncle, Ernst II. 



Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie (commonly 

 called Grant Allen), English author, born in 

 Kingston, Canada, Feb. 24, 1848; died in London, 

 England, Oct. 25, 1899. He was educated at King 

 Edward's School, Birmingham, and at Oxford, 

 where he was graduated in 1871. For a few 

 years after his graduation he was Professor of 

 Logic and Philosophy at Queen's College, Spanish 

 Town, Jamaica, but during the greater part of 

 his career he resided in England. He was a pro- 

 lific writer. He was widely known as a scientist 

 in several departments, his aim being to popu- 

 larize science, and his brilliant style contributed 

 much to his success in this respect. As a novel- 

 ist, too, he achieved a very considerable measure 

 of popularity, but the greater part of his work 

 in fiction, although entertaining, is ephemeral. A 

 not wholly complete list of his fictions, the 

 earliest of which appeared over the pseudonym 

 Cecil Power includes Philistia (1884); Baby- 

 lon (1885); For Maimie's Sake (1886); In All 

 Shades (1886); The Beckoning Hand, and Other 

 Stories (1887); A Terrible Inheritance (1887); 

 The Devil's Die (1888) ; This Mortal Coil (1888) ; 

 White Man's Foot (1888); The Tents of Shem 

 (1889); Dr. Palliser's Patient; Dumarescq's 

 Daughter; The Great Taboo (1890) ; The Duchess 

 of Powysland (1891); Blood Royal (1892); The 

 Scallawag (1893); Michael's Crag (1893); The 

 Woman Who Did (1895); The British Barba- 

 rians (1895); Miss Cayley's Adventures (1899). 

 The larger number of his other works comprises 

 Physiological ^Esthetics (London, 1877); The 

 Color Sense (1879); Vignettes from Nature 

 (1881); The Evolutionist at Large (1881); An- 

 glo-Saxon Britain (1881); Colin Clout's Calen- 

 dar: A Record of a Summer (1882) ; The Color of 

 Flowers (1882); Flowers and their Pedigrees 

 (1883); Biographies of Workingmen (1884); 

 Strange Stories (1884); Charles Darwin (1885);" 

 Common Sense Science (Boston, 1887) ; Force and 

 Energy: A Theory of Dynamics (1888); Falling 

 in Love, with Other Essays (1889); Science in 

 Arcady (1892) ; The Attis of Catullus, in English 

 verse (1892); The Lowest Slopes, a collection of 

 verses (1894); Postprandial Philosophy (New 

 York, 1894); The Story of the Plants (1896); 

 The Evolution of the Idea of God (1897); His- 

 torical Guides of Paris, Florence, Belgium, and 

 Venice (1897); Flashlights on Nature (1898); 

 The European Tour (New York, 1899). Since 

 Mr. Allen's death it has been ascertained that he 

 was the author of two novels not before attrib- 

 uted to him The Typewriter Girl and Rosalba 

 which appeared under the pseudonym Olive 

 Pratt Rayner. In the opinion of some critics the 

 latter was his most effective work in fiction. He 

 was an outspoken agnostic. 



Annenkoff, Michael Nikolaivich, Russian 

 soldier, born in 1835; died in St. Petersburg, Jan. 



22, 1899. lie wa.s educated in the corps of pages, 

 became senior adjutant of tin- general Ht.:ifl at 

 St. Petersburg, was sent to I'obmd during the 

 revolution of 18(53, and tin-re ^ained ;i reputation 

 for ability and energy as assistant to the SUJHM- 

 intendent of police. He made u study of military 

 railroads, and in consequence of his writings and 

 reports on the subject was made chief director 

 of military transport by railroads and by boats 

 in 1867. In 1877, having risen to the grade of 

 a general, he directed the movements of the rear 

 guard or reserve troops of the Army of the Dan 

 ube. In 1880, while attached to the Akkal Tekke 

 expedition of Gen. Skobeleff, he began the con 

 struction of the Transcaspian Railroad line, which 

 in subsequent years he carried through the desert 

 to Samarcand. After completing this great work 

 he lived in St. Petersburg, where he was a mem- 

 ber of the military council. 



Apponyi, Count George, Hungarian states- 

 man, born in 1808; died March, 1899. He was the 

 sole leader of the Conservative party in the Hun- 

 garian Diet from 1840 to 1860. Later he was 

 Chancellor of the Royal Cabinet, but since 1870 

 he has lived in retirement at Eberhardt. 



Armstrong, Sir Alexander, British naval of- 

 ficer, born in Ireland about 1818; died in Sutton- 

 Bonnington near Loughborough, England, July 

 4, 1899. He was educated at Trinity College, 

 Dublin, and at the University of Edinburgh, and 

 entered the medical department of the royal 

 navy in 1842. He served in nearly all parts of 

 the world, including five years continuously in 

 the arctic regions in the search for Sir John 

 Franklin. He held many important posts, among 

 them that of director general of the medical de- 

 partment of the navy, 1869-'80. He was created 

 K. C. B. in 1871, and received the Arctic, Baltic, 

 and Jubilee medals. He was the author of A 

 Personal Narrative of the Discovery of the North- 

 west Passage (London, 1857) and Observations 

 on Naval Hygiene, particularly in Connection 

 with Polar Service (1858). 



Bamberger, Ludwig, German politician, born 

 in Mainz, June 22, 1823; died in Berlin in March, 

 1899. He studied law, took part in 1849 in the 

 revolutionary uprising in the Palatinate, and 

 after this was repressed by Prussian troops he 

 took refuge in Switzerland, "and being condemned 

 to death by a Bavarian tribunal settled in Paris, 

 where he established a banking business, which 

 he carried on with success until his return to 

 Mainz in 1866. In the same year he was elected 

 a deputy to the parliament of the Zollverein. 

 He represented the same constituency in the 

 Reichstag. He was a free trader of strong con- 

 victions and an advanced Liberal, and became 

 one of the keenest and most vigorous debaters 

 in the Reichstag, and in the course of time found 

 himself at the head of the Opposition. In his 

 contests with Bismarck he displayed remarkable 

 strength of character and civic courage. When 

 the National Liberal party divided finally on the 

 question of Prince Bismarck's protectionist pol- 

 icy he Avent over to the Progressists, the party 

 of Eugen Richter, but soon after this he retired 

 from public life. He published books on Liberty 

 of the Press, Results of the Insurrection in the 

 Palatinate, Monsieur de Bismarck, Natural His- 

 tory of the French War, The Right of Assembly, 

 Germany and Socialism, and Journalism and Ju- 

 daism. He was a journalist and pamphleteer 

 who employed irony and ridicule with more 

 biting effect than any political writer since Heine. 

 His skill as a writer and his knowledge of French 

 affairs led to his being summoned to Versailles 

 in 1871 to defend the cause of German union and 



