OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (KIKI-KKT LKATHLKY.) 



Troy. Since that time she had appeared only oc- 

 casionally, for the benefits of old friends. She 

 and her husband had acquired a modest com- 

 petence, and had been blessed with good children, 

 and so they went calmly and gracefully into 

 private life. Mr. Keeley died in 18(59, and his 

 wife remained in stricter seclusion thereafter. On 

 Nov. 22, 1895, her ninetieth birthday was cele- 

 brated by a grand reception in her honor at the 

 Lyceum Theater, London, at which all England 

 paid her the homage due to a good woman and 

 gifted artist. 



Kiepert, Heinrich, German geographer, born 

 in Berlin, July 31, 1818; died there, April 21, 

 1899. He was a pupil of Karl Ritter, and for 

 many years he directed the geographical insti- 

 tute at Weimar. In 1859 he was called to a 

 professorship in the University of Berlin, and sub- 

 sequently he held a post in the Government sta- 

 tistical bureau. His atlases and maps are cele- 

 brated, and he was the author of a masterly 

 treatise on ancient geography. 



Krementz, Philippus, German prelate, born 

 in Coblenz in 1819; died in Cologne, May 6, 1899. 

 He was the son of a butcher, studied theology 

 in Bonn and Munich, and for many years had a 

 charge in his native city, where he acquired great 

 reputation as a preacher and a theologian. In 

 1867 he was made Bishop of Ermeland, West 

 Prussia. He opposed the dogmas enunciated by 

 Pope Pius IX at the Vatican Council, but ac- 

 cepted the doctrine of papal infallibility after its 

 adoption and rigidly enforced the penalties 

 against the clergy of his diocese who refused to 

 conform. The Prussian Government and the 

 bishops first came into open conflict in 1871 in 

 consequence of his action in excommunicating a 

 professor in the Braunsberg gymnasium. His 

 revenues were withheld, but he was not deposed, 

 as some of his colleagues were later. He recov- 

 ered the confidence of the Government to such 

 an extent that he was elevated in 1885, by offi- 

 cial request, to the archbishopric of Cologne. 

 In 1895 he was made a cardinal. He was one 

 of the early Christian Socialists, and also the 

 friend and adviser of the organizers of the Center 

 party in Germany. 



Lampman, Archibald, Canadian poet, born 

 in Morpeth, Canada, Nov. 17, 1861; died in Ot- 

 tawa, Feb. 10, 1899. His father, who was a cler- 

 gyman of the Church of England, removed to 

 Port Hope in 1866, and to Gore's Landing, on 

 Rice lake, in 1867. During the seven years' resi- 

 dence of the family on this lake young Lampman 

 showed an intense love of Nature and remarkable 

 powers of observation. While living in an un- 

 suitable house in Gore's Landing he was stricken 

 with rheumatic fever, which undermined his deli- 

 cate constitution and was probably the ultimate 

 cause of his early death. He was prepared for col- 

 lege at a private school, at the Collegiate Institute 

 in Cobourg, and at Trinity College school in Port 

 Hope. He entered Trinity College, Canada, in 

 1879. During his college course his time was 

 largely devoted to reading and to the editing of 

 two college papers. Nevertheless he was gradu- 

 ated with second honors in 1882. He taught 

 school in Orangeville a year, but this proved un- 

 congenial, and he was appointed to a place in 

 the Canadian civil service in Ottawa, which he 

 held until his death. His first contributions to 

 public journals (1884) were the poems The Com- 

 ing of Winter and Three Flower Petals. His 

 first poem in a magazine was Bird Voices, which 

 appeared in The Century for May, 1885. The 

 greater part of his contributions to periodical 

 literature appeared in this magazine. In 1888 he 



published a volume of his poems entitled Among 

 the Millet, and in 1H!W another entitled Lyrics 

 of Earth. During his last illness he was correct- 

 ing proofs of still another, Alcyone, but he did 

 not live to see it finished. All his works have 

 now been collected in a larger volume, edited, with 

 a memoir, by his friend' Duncan Campbell Scott. 

 Mr. Lampman was elected a fellow of the Royal 

 Society of Canada in 1895. While he was dis- 

 tinctively a poet of Nature, yet he did not with- 

 draw himself from men. He mingled freely with 

 all, had a sympathetic word for every one, 1*:- 

 lieved in the doctrine of socialism, and predicted 

 the ultimate political independence of Canada. 



Lane, Mrs. Sara, English actress and drama- 

 tist, born in London, Sept. 22, 1822; died there, 

 Aug. 16, 1899. She was known in her early days 

 on the stage as Miss Sarah Wilton. Her dthut 

 was made at the Ironmonger-row Saloon in 1838 

 in small parts in melodrama. In 1843 she was 

 engaged by Mr. Lane, proprietor of the Britan- 

 nia Saloon (afterward the famous Britannia 

 Theater), as a member of his company. In 1845 

 she married Mr. Lane, and thereafter was known 

 by his name. She became the leading lady of 

 this theater, and entered upon a career as unique 

 and popular as ever fell to the fortune of an 

 actress. All her life she remained identified with 

 this one London theater, playing all the heroines 

 of popular melodrama, of Shakespeare's plays, 

 and of most of the farces of her time the idol 

 of the people of eastern London, and after her 

 husband's death (August, 1872) the sole man- 

 ager of the favorite old theater of the shop people. 

 Mr. Lane established the Britannia as a first-class 

 theater in 1846, and in 1850 he rebuilt it in its 

 present proportions, and of those who were at 

 different times members of his company are some 

 of the most distinguished names in the history 

 of the English stage. It was an iron rule of the 

 house, maintained until Mrs. Lane's death, that 

 no stars should be entertained. It was a pure 

 stock company, never broken by the intrusion 

 of extraordinary attractions. The people were 

 loyal to it and it was always loyal to its people, 

 not making false pretense or greater promise 

 than it could fulfill. In 1852 the celebrated 

 American colored tragedian Ira Aldridge was a 

 member of the company. For the fourteen or fif- 

 teen years preceding her death Mrs. Lane prac- 

 tically abandoned the old melodramatic tradi- 

 tions of the house and devoted her time and tal- 

 ent to careful and finely acted repetitions of the 

 best successes of the West End theaters. A tra- 

 ditional characteristic of the Britannia is its 

 merry, original, and magnificent pantomimes pro- 

 duced at Christmas time. In these as well as in 

 the plays, burlesques, and dramas Mrs. Lane al- 

 ways assumed an important part, and for nearly 

 sixty years she was one of London's institutions. 

 She was a generous caretaker of the poor of her 

 poor part of the city, and she is said to have given 

 away from 1,000 to 3,000 a year in small 

 sums to the needy, and if any especial case of 

 distress came up she at once organized a benefit 

 for relief. Thus it came that the name by which 

 she was best known w r as " the good lady of the 

 Brit." Her last public appearance was about 

 three months before her death. On the occasion 

 of her funeral the procession of mourning seemed 

 to include all East London. 



Leathley, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Southwell 

 (Dudley), English author, born in 1817; died in 

 Hastings, Dec. 22, 1899. She was the daughter 

 of a Quaker of Clonmel, Ireland, but became a 

 Roman Catholic in 1847. She married the same 

 year William Henry Leathley, a barrister. She 



