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in the following season he produced in Stockton 

 his original Irish drama The Gommoch, in which 

 he played a droll and interesting Irishman of 

 the Handy Andy sort. He continued playing 

 this part two years, and was regarded as the 

 best representative of such characters on the 

 stage. He played a long starring engagement in 

 Dublin in 1880, during which he produced be- 

 sides his own play several old favorites. For a 

 year he played in the principal towns of Ireland 

 with much profit. In 1881 he produced his own 

 play, entitled Eviction, at the Princess's Theater, 

 Glasgow, with which he had an uninterrupted 

 success for five years, at the end of which time 

 he took his company and scenery to Canada and 

 the United States. On his return to Ireland his 

 play Eviction was interdicted by the Govern- 

 ment, to the great increase of his favor with the 

 Irish people. He then produced his second great 

 success, Emigration, in Glasgow, and played it 

 two years. Famine he produced in Dublin, and 

 played four years in the chief cities of Great 

 Britain without the loss of a single night. His 

 next play was The Fenian, which equaled the 

 others in popularity. By this time he had three 

 companies besides his own playing these dramas 

 on the road with great financial support. In 1890 

 he visited Australia and presented his plays be- 

 fore enthusiastic houses nine months. He then 

 spent a year in travel, and in 1893 produced at 

 the Queen's Theater, Manchester, The Priest 

 Hunter, in which he created a character new to 

 the stage. This drama he played two years, when 

 having acquired a fortune he retired in 1890 with 

 the reputation of the best player of Irish charac- 

 ter since Boucicault. During his retirement he 

 wrote another play, A Fast Life, and for a time 

 returned to the stage to play the leading part. 



Pailleron, Edouard J. H., French dramatist, 

 born in Paris, Sept. 17, 1834; died there, April 20, 

 1899. He was a notary's clerk until he began 

 writing for the theater. His short comedy in 

 verse, entitled Les Parasites, was produced at the 

 Odeon in 1860. In 1861 he wrote Le Mur Mi- 

 toyen, a comedy that was very successful. Le 

 Monde ou Ton s'amuse, performed at the Gym- 

 nase in 1868, was written in a vein of gay satire 

 that appealed to the taste of the Parisian public. 

 It was followed by Les Faux Menages, L'Autre 

 Motif, Helene, Petite Pluie, L'Etincelle, and 

 L'Age Ingrat. In 1881 he made a great hit with 

 Le Monde ou Fon s'ennuie, wittily satirizing the 

 ladies of the fashionable world who had taken to 

 philosophy and flocked to hear the lectures of 

 Prof. Caro at the Sorbonne. The play was taken 

 into the repertory of the Come'die Franchise, and 

 in 1884 its author was elected to the French 

 Academy. La Souris was also very successful. 

 His last play of importance was Cabotins, pro- 

 duced at the Theatre Franchise in 1894, a satire 

 on the Bohemian tendencies of society. His 

 Amours et Haines, a collection of verse, appeared 

 in 1888. 



Pennington, Arthur Robert, English clergy- 

 man, born in 1814; died at Utterby, July 19, 

 1899. He was graduated at Cambridge in 1838, 

 and was ordained in the English Church in the 

 same year. After serving as curate at St. Peter's, 

 Colchester; St. James's, Walthamstow; and St. 

 Dunstan's-in-the-East, London, he became vicar 

 of Utterby, near Louth, in 1845, and held this 

 living until his death. From 1882 he was a preb- 

 endary of Lincoln Cathedral. He was the author 

 of Carisbrooke Castle (London, 1853), a book of 

 verse; Henri Arnaud: A Poem (1862); The 

 Agency of God in the History of the Reforma- 

 tion (1869); The Life and Character of Eras- 



mus (1874), a scholarly, painstaking work; 

 Epochs of the Papacy to the Death of Pius IX 

 (1881); John Wyclif: His Life, Times, and 

 Teaching (1884); Preludes to the Reformation: 

 From Dawn to Dark in Europe (1886); Recollec- 

 tions of Persons and Events (1895); The Papal 

 Conclaves (1897); and The Counter- Reformation 

 in Europe (1899). 



Penzance, James Plaisted Wilde, Lord, 

 English jurist, born in London, July 12, 1816; 

 died in Godalming, Dec. 9, 1899. He was edu- 

 cated at Cambridge, was called to the bar in 1839, 

 and obtained a good practice. He became a 

 Queen's counsel in 1855, was appointed counsel 

 for the duchy of Lancaster in 1859, and in 1860 

 was made a judge of the Court of Exchequer. 

 In 1863 Sir James Wilde succeeded Sir Cresswell 

 Cresswell as judge of the Court of Probate and 

 Divorce, but he resigned in 1872 under the ex- 

 cessive strain of his duties, having been raised to 

 the peerage in 1869. After the passage of the 

 public worship regulation act Lord Penzance was 

 appointed judge to administer it, and also dean 

 of arches and judge of the courts of Canterbury 

 and York. The case of the Rev. Mr. Mackonocui 

 was brought before him, and that of the Rev. 

 Arthur Tooth he entertained until inhibited for 

 want of jurisdiction. In the Ridsdale, Dale, En- 

 raght, and Green cases his decisions were ap- 

 proved bv the Privy Council of the House of 

 Ixmls. His suspension of Mr. Mackonochie from 

 ecclesiastical functions for contumacy in continu- 

 ing ritualistic observances in defiance of judicial 

 injunctions was sustained by the House of Lords, 

 and the attempt of Chief-Justice Cockburn to 

 arrogate to the Queen's Bench the power of over- 

 ruling the ecclesiastical court was disapproved. 



Piccolomini, Maria, Italian singer, born in 

 Sienna in 1834; died in Florence, Dec. 25, ISJMK 

 She was a descendant of the famous Tuscan fam- 

 ily. She studied under Ma/./an-lli and Pietro II<> 

 mani in Florence, and made her dtbvt at La Per- 

 gola as Lucrezia Borgia in 1852. She was the 

 original Violetta in l^a Traviata in Turin and 

 Paris. Her ability as an actress more than as a 

 singer made her a great favorite with Italian. 

 French, and English audiences. Her London d6- 

 but was at Her Majesty's Theater as Violet t a, 

 May 24, 1856. In 1860 she came to New York 

 and repeated her European triumphs at the old 

 Academy of Music. She was for two years the 

 most popular prima donna of the Italian opera 

 in this country. She returned to London in 1860, 

 where after a series of successes she married the 

 Marquis Gaetani della Forgia in the same year 

 and retired from public life. Her best rflles were 

 Violetta, Norma, Maria in La Figlia del Rcgi- 

 mento, Adina in The Elixir of Love, and Zerlina, 

 She returned to the stage in 1863 for four per- 

 formances in London, and made her last appear- 

 ance in April of that year as Almina in a new 

 opera of that name. 



Polko, Elise, German novelist, born in 1822; 

 died May 15, 1899. She was the daughter of an 

 eminent "educator and sister of Eduard Vogel, the 

 African explorer. In her youth she was well 

 known as a public singer, but after her marriage 

 she retired from the stage and devoted herself to 

 writing novels and sketches in which music and 

 musicians are usually prominent. Her Musi k a 

 lische Marchen, printed in 1852, was translated 

 into English, as were several of her later works. 



Ponisi, Madame (Elizabeth Ponisi Wallis), 

 English actress, born in Huddersfield, England, 

 Dec. 18, 1818; died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 13, 

 1899. She made her first appearance in 1838 at 

 Barnard Castle, England, in a farce called Mr. 



