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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN". (GROSART HEUREAUX.) 



leading writer of lyrics for musical comedy in 

 London, and was the author of those of The 

 Gaiety Girl, An Artist's Model, A Runaway Girl, 

 A Greek Slave, and San Toy, which last work 

 was not produced until after his death. He wrote 

 also some pleasing songs for the successful play 

 Monte Carlo. 



Grosart, Alexander Balloch, English clergy- 

 man, born in Stirling, Scotland, June 18, 1822; 

 died in Dublin in March, 1890. He held succes- 

 sive livings at Liverpool and Blackburn, but for 

 several years resided at Dublin, editing the works 

 of English authors of the sixteenth and seven- 

 teenth centuries. His original writings include 

 Small Sins (1803); Mighty to Save (1803); The 

 Lambs all Safe (1804); The Prince of Light and 

 the Prince of Darkness in Conflict (1804); Join- 

 ing the Church (1805); Representative Noncon- 

 formists (1870), and some of lesser note. His 

 industry was prodigious, but his accuracy has 

 not always gone unquestioned. 



Groth,' Klaus, German poet, born in Holstein, 

 April 24, 1810: died in June, 1899. He studied 

 philology at Bonn, and began to publish in the 

 1'lattdeiitsch dialect poetry that soon attracted 

 attention in Germany by its strength, sincerity, 

 and conciseness. Afterward he wrote a long series 

 of novels and tales devoted to the life, manners, 

 and traditions of his native province. He was a 

 zealous hunter of folklore, and was so attached to 

 the Low German dialect that he wrote several 

 philological treatises to prove its superiority to 

 High German. In 1800 he was called to the pro- 

 fessorship of the History of German Literature in 

 the University of Kiel. " Some of his most popular 

 stories are Meister Lamp und sin Dochder, Vet- 

 terln, Baer de Goern, and Ut min Jungspara- 

 dies. 



Hamilton, Walter, English author, born in 

 London, Jan. 12, 1844; died Feb. 1, 1899. He 

 \yas educated at the College de Dieppe. His ear- 

 liest publication was A Memoir of George Cruik- 

 shank (London, 1878). Other works by him are 

 The Origin of the Office of Poet Laureate (1879) ; 

 History of the Poets Laureate of England (1879) ; 

 The ^Esthetic Movement in England (1882); 

 French Bookplates; Dated Bookplates; Odd Vol- 

 umes and their Bookplates (1898). He was the 

 editor of Poems and Parodyes in Prayse of To- 

 bacco, and of an important work, in six volumes, 

 entitled Parodies of the Works of British and 

 American Authors (1884-'89). 



Hay, John, British admiral, born in Perth- 

 shire. Scotland, in 1805; died in Edinburgh, Jan. 

 14, 1899. He entered the navy in 1819, and took 

 part in the capture of Morea Castle in 1828. Dur- 

 ing the China war of 1840 and 1841 he served 

 with distinction as lieutenant on the Pylades. 

 He became commander in 1841 and captain in 

 1849, and was retired as rear admiral in 1800, 

 receiving the rank of vice-admiral in 1873 and 

 admiral in 1878. 



Hennell, Sara Sophia, English author, born 

 in England in 1813; died in Coventry, March 7, 



199. She was an early friend of George Eliot's, 

 and appears to have exercised considerable in- 

 fluence in causing the latter to forsake the Meth- 

 odism that she once professed. Miss HennelFs 

 Skeptical Tendency of Butler's Analogy (London, 

 1859) made much stir at the time of its publica- 

 tion. Her other works are Christianity and In- 

 fidelity: An Exposition of the Arguments on Both 

 Sides (1857); The Early Christian Anticipation 

 >f an Approaching End of the World (1800)- 

 Thoughts in Aid of Faith (1800); and Present 



ehgion as a Faith owning Fellowship with 

 Thought (1805-'87). 



Herschell, Lord, English jurist, born in 1837; 

 died in Washington, March 1, 1899. He was 

 Attorney-General and afterward Lord Chancellor 

 in Liberal cabinets. As Sir Farer Herschell he 

 was one of the most active and distinguished of 

 the legal members of his party, and when ap- 

 pointed Lord Chancellor in the Gladstone Cabinet 

 of 1880 he was elevated to the peerage. He was ' 

 sent to Washington in 1899 as chief of the Brit- 

 ish commissioners for the settlement of disputes 

 between Canada and the United States. 



Herve, douard, French journalist, born in 

 St. Denis, Reunion, in 1835; died in Paris, Jan. 

 4, 1899. He was the son of a Professor of Mathe- 

 matics, studied in the College Napoleon, in Paris, 

 took the first prize in philosophy in 1854, and 

 entered the Ecole Normale, but withdrew after 

 gaining distinction in literature in order to de- 

 vote himself to journalism. He wrote on politics 

 in the Revue de ITnstruction Publique and the 

 Revue Contemporaine, became editor of the Jour- 

 nal de Dimanche in 1803, wrote for the Temps 

 and the Epoque, and sent to the Journal de Ge- 

 neve articles that could not be printed in France. 

 In 1807 he founded, with M. J. Weiss, the Jour- 

 nal de Paris, in which appeared the boldest criti- 

 cisms of the Imperial Government. He was an 

 unsuccessful candidate for the Chamber in 1809. 

 As editor of Le Soleil, which he established in 

 1873, he exercised a notable influence in public 

 affairs. His articles on the visit of the Comte 

 de Paris to Frohsdorff led to a duel, in which 

 he wounded Edmond About. He upheld the pol- 

 icy of the Broglie, Cissey, and Buffet cabinets, 

 and defended the reactionary measures in 1877; 

 but after the elections had destroyed all hope of 

 a restoration of the monarchy he warned the 

 Republicans against attempts to effect it by vio- 

 lence. He attacked Jules Ferry's educational 

 proposals in 1879 with energy and vigor. After 

 the death of the Comte de Chambord he was the 

 first to advocate a union of the Royalists and to 

 hail the Orleans prince as the head of the house 

 of France. He was elected to the French Acad- 

 emy in 1886. 



Heureaux, Ulises, President of Santo Do- 

 mingo, born in Puerto Plata in 1853; died in , 

 Moca, July 26, 1899. He was the son of a Hay- 

 tian mulatto and a negress from St. Thomas, en- 

 tered the Dominican army as a private, and rose 

 through successive grades to that of major gen- 

 eral, having distinguished himself in the wars 

 against the Spaniards. He was Government dele- 

 gate in Cibao in 1878, and in 1880 delegate of 

 the provisional government for the southern 

 provinces. During the administration of Merino 

 he was Minister of the Interior and Prime Minis- 

 ter. He was elected President of the republic 

 in 1882, serving till 1884. In 1887 he Avas elected 

 again, and retained the reins of Government and 

 scarcely disputed control of the electorate till his 

 death by assassination. But for his vigilance 

 and courage he would have been assassinated 

 long before, for he did not himself spaje the lives 

 of his enemies. He was as unscrupulous as he 

 was despotic and cruel, but always affable and 

 dignified in his demeanor. His friends he per- 

 mitted to enrich themselves by monopolies and 

 concessions. Putting away his wife, he kept up 

 luxurious establishments for women in various 

 towns, and they were of service to him in watch- 

 ing the constantly hatching conspiracies. He 

 employed a host of spies of both sexes, belonging 

 mostly to the lower classes. Speaking their own 

 patois to the country people and scattering lavish 

 alms amonw them, he maintained his popularity 

 among the ignorant. He drank only water, and 





