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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (MONIER-WILLIAMS NOVARA.) 



Fisheries for the Atlantic Provinces. He pub- 

 lished A Review of President Grant's Recent Mes- 

 sage to the United States Congress relative to 

 Canadian Fisheries and the Navigation of the St. 

 Lawrence River (1870) and Notes of a Holiday 

 Trip (1880). 



Monier-Williams, Sir Monier, English phi- 

 lologist, born in Bombay, Nov. 12, 1819; died m 

 Cannes, France, April 11, 1899. He was a son 

 of the surveyor general of Bombay, and pre- 

 pared for the Indian civil service, coming out 

 first in his class at Haileybury, then gave up that 

 career in obedience to the wish of his widowed 

 mother after his twin brother had been killed in 

 a border war. Having already studied at Ox- 

 ford, he returned in 1838, and applied himself to 

 linguistic studies, for which he had shown an 

 early aptitude. He took the scholarship in San- 

 skrit in 1843, and from 1844 till 1857 was Pro- 

 fessor of Sanskrit, Bengali, and Telugu at Hailey- 

 bury College. In 1800 he was elected Boden Pro- 

 fessor of Sanskrit at Oxford. He desired to estab- 

 lish an Indian institute there, and in 1875 and 

 again in 1870 he went to India to seek support 

 for his project, which was finally carried out in 

 1883. He made another trip to India in that year, 

 having been appointed curator of the institute, to 

 which he presented later his own collection of 

 Oriental books and manuscripts. He published 

 the Lost Ring, a translation of the Sanskrit 

 drama Sakuntala; an English-Sanskrit diction- 

 ary and a Sanskrit-English one that cost him 

 twenty years' work; Indian Epic Poetry (1803); 

 Hinduism (1877); Modern India and Indians 

 (1878); Religious Thought and Life in India 

 (1883) ; The Holy Bible and the Sacred Books of 

 the East (1880); Buddhism (1890); Brahman- 

 ism (1891) ; and Indian Wisdom (1893). He was 

 knighted in 1886. 



Moore, Daniel, English clergyman, born in 

 Coventry, June 23, 1809; died in London, May 

 15, 1899. He was educated at Cambridge, and 

 was ordained in the English Church in 1841. 

 From 1841 to 1844 he was in charge of Christ 

 Chapel, Maida Hill, and from 1844 to 1866 was 

 incumbent of Camden Church, Camberwell. In 

 1806 he became vicar of Paddington, which office 

 he held until 1895. He had been chaplain ordi- 

 nary to the Queen from 1870, and a prebendary 

 of St. Paul's from 1880. He was one of the most 

 respected of the clergy in London, in which al- 

 most his entire life was passed. He was the au- 

 thor of Daily Devotion (1847); The Christian 

 System Vindicated (2d edition, 1844); Sermons 

 before Cambridge University (1845); Christian 

 Consolation (1848); Discourses on the Lord's 

 Prayer (1852); Family Duties (1856); Golden 

 Lectures (1857-'61); Thoughts on Preaching 

 (1801) ; The Divine Authority of the Pentateuch 

 Vindicated (1803); The Age and the Gospel 

 (1864); Aids to Prayer (1808); Sermons on Spe- 

 cial Occasions (1871); Christ and his Church 

 (1875); Sunday Meditations (1876); Tempta- 

 tion: Its Nature and Limits (1870); The Chris- 

 tian in his Relation to the Church (1880) ; Medi- 

 tations for Advent (1884); Christ in All Ages 

 (1880); Thoughts for Church Seasons (1888)- 

 The Faithful Departed. 



Nicholson, Henry Alleyne, English scientist, 

 born in Penrith, Cumberland, Sept. 11, 1844; died 

 in Aberdeen, Scotland, Jan. 19, 1899. He was edu- 

 cated at the Universities of Gottingen and Edin- 

 burgh, and in 1809 was appointed lecturer on 

 natural history in Edinburgh Medical School. In 

 1871 he became Professor of Natural History and 

 Botany in the University of Toronto, in 1874 

 Professor of Biology and Natural History in the 



College of Physical Science, Durham University, 

 and in 1875 Professor of Natural History in the 

 University of St. Andrew's. In 1877 he was ap- 

 pointed lecturer on geology to the British Mu- 

 seum, and in 1882 became Professor of Natural 

 History at the University of Aberdeen, occupy- 

 ing that chair till his death. His works comprise 

 Essay on the Geology of Cumberland and West- 

 moreland (1808); A Manual of Zoology (1870); 

 Syllabus of Lectures on Zoology, Geology, and 

 Palaeontology (1870); Advanced Text-book of 

 Zoology (1870); Introductory Text-book of 

 Zoology (1871); Introduction to the Study of 

 Biology (1872); Text-book of Geology (1872); 

 Examinations in Natural History (1872); Mono- 

 graph of the British Graptolitidae (1872); A 

 Manual of Palaeontology (1872); Outlines of 

 Natural History for Beginners (1873); Report 

 on the Palaeontology of the Province of Ontario 

 (1874-75); Report on the Fossil Coals, Sponges, 

 and Polyzoa of the Silurian and Devonian Rocks 

 of Ohio (1875); The Nature of. Life (1875); The 

 Ancient Life History of the Earth (1877) ; Struc- 

 ture and Affinities of the Tabulate Corals of the 

 Palaeozoic Period (1879); Structure and Affinities 

 of the Genus Monteculipora and its Sub-Genera 

 (1881) ; Synopsis of the Classification of the Ani- 

 mal Kingdom (1882); Natural History: Its Rise 

 and Progress in Britain (1886); Bibliography of 

 North American Invertebrate Palaeontology, with. 

 C. A. While (1878); and Silurian Fossils of the 

 Girvan District with R. Etheridge (1879). 



Nisbet, John Ferguson, Scottish dramatic 

 critic, born in Lanarkshire, Oct. 28, 1851; died in 

 New Southgate, March 31, 1899. He was for 

 nearly twenty years a writer of special articles 

 for the London Times, and in 1882 succeeded 

 Mowbray Morris as dramatic critic on the Times 

 staff. He was widely read in dramatic literature, 

 possessed sound judgment, and was the author of 

 plays and a treatise on The Insanity of Genius. 



Northumberland, Alg-ernon George Percy, 

 Duke of, English statesman, born May 2, 1810; 

 died at Alnwick Castle, Jan. 2, 1899. He was 

 educated at Eton and Cambridge, and was elected 

 to Parliament at the age of twenty-one from a 

 family borough, which was abolished a year later. 

 He served as lieutenant and captain in the guards, 

 and re-entered Parliament after twenty years as 

 Conservative member for the northern division 

 of Northumberland, which he represented till 

 1805. He impressed the House by his business 

 ability, and became a lord of the Admiralty in 

 1858, and vice-president of the Board of Trade 

 in 1859. When his father became duke, in 1805, 

 he exchanged his title of Lord Lovaine for that of 

 Earl Percy, and in 1867 he succeeded to the duke- 

 dom. He accepted the office of Lord Privy Seal 

 in 1878, and held it till the Government went out 

 in 1880. He was president of the National Insti- 

 tution arid of the National Lifeboat Association. 



Novara, Signer Franco (Francis Naish), Eng- 

 lish singer, born in Wiltshire in 1859; died in 

 London, Jan. 7, 1899. When a boy he was a chor- 

 ister in Salisbury Cathedral, and, having 'attracted 

 attention on account of his fine voice, was sent 

 to Italy for a musical education. For several 

 years he sang with opera companies in Italy, and 

 in 1880 was engaged by Mr. Mapleson as the prin- 

 cipal basso of the Italian opera in London. His 

 first appearance with this company was as Me- 

 phistofele in Bolto's Faust at the Academy of 

 Music, New York. He was very successful, and 

 remained with Mapleson, singing the basso r6les 

 in the various engagements of the company in 

 the United States, for two seasons. He then 

 joined the Carl Rosa company in England. He 



