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Philosophy of Descartes (1892). 

 English scholar, a graceful public 



published The 

 He was a fine 



speaker, had a gift of quiet humor, and invariably 

 won the love of his pupils by his serene temper 

 and sympathetic instruction. The periodical pub- 

 lished by the undergraduates of the university 

 says of him: " He wore his learning and his hon- 

 ors so modestly; he was so gracious and cordial, 

 without losing the dignity which was natural to 

 him; his personality in all ways was so attractive 

 and inspiring, that his going from among us be- 

 gets no ordinary sense of loss. His ripe and 

 accurate scholarship, his power of logical analy- 

 sis and construc- 

 tion, his courtesy 

 in discussion, his 

 wisdom in coun- 

 sel, the serene 

 poise of his whole 

 character, mental 

 and moral, gave 

 him a standing 

 among us which 

 would be claimed 

 for no other mem- 

 ber of the teach- 

 ing staff, and 

 made us all fac- 

 ulty and students 

 proud of our 

 ranking professor, 

 and glad to work 

 with and under 

 him. Everybody 



appreciated the transparent and strong, yet al- 

 ways graceful, English in which his thoughts 

 were clothed, and not less the quiet humor whose 

 lambent gleams were seldom intermitted for long." 

 Urso, Camilla, violinist, born in Nantes, 

 France, June 13, 1842; died in New York, Jan. 

 20, 1902. She was the daughter of Salvator 

 Urso, a Sicilian flautist and organist of - con- 

 siderable renown, and early showed her inherited 

 love of music. When she was six years old she 

 expressed a wish to learn to play the violin, and 

 a year later she made her first appearance as a 

 soloist at a concert. Her success was instan- 

 taneous, and she was hailed as a prodigy. She 

 entered the Paris Conservatoire, where she stud- 

 ied three years, practising ten hours a day. After 

 leaving the Conservatoire, she played in con- 

 certs in Paris at the Salle Herz, and before the 

 Societe Polytechnique and the Association of 

 Musical Artists. She was then eleven years old, 

 and her remarkable performances aroused the 

 greatest admiration and curiosity among musi- 

 cians and critics and the public in general. In 

 1852 the young virtuosa came to this country 

 and appeared under the auspices of the Germania 

 Society, creating a great sensation in musical 

 circles. The next season she played in six of 

 Mme. Alboni's concerts, and in December, 1853, 

 she became the violin soloist of Mme. Sontag's 

 concert company. Camilla Urso married Fred- 

 eric Luere before she was twenty years old, and 

 for several years did not appear in public. In 

 1863 she played at a Philharmonic concert in New 

 York, and so enthusiastic was the greeting she 

 received that she decided to continue her profes- 

 sional career. She made a tour of the world, 

 winning admiration and exciting wonder wher- 

 ever she appeared, and was considered the most 

 wonderful woman violinist that ever had been 

 heard. At her funeral the famous violin of the 

 great artist was placed upon the coffin. 



Victor, Mrs. Frances Auretta (Fuller) (Bar- 

 rett), poet and historical writer, born in Rome, 

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N. Y., May 23, 1826; died in Portland, Ore., in 

 November, 1902. She began to write for the 

 newspapers at the age of fourteen, and Her latest 

 publication, a volume of poems, was issued in 

 1900. She was educated at a seminary in Woos- 

 ter, Ohio, and with her younger sister, Metta 

 Victoria, published in 1851 Poems of Sentiment 

 and Imagination, with Dramatic and Descriptive 

 Pieces. She married Judson Barrett, of Michigan, 

 in 1853, who died a few years later, and in 1862 

 she married Henry Victor, an engineer in the 

 United States navy, a brother of her sister's 

 husband. After this second marriage Mrs. Victor 

 removed to the Pacific coast. Her pen had been 

 laid aside for several years prior to this event, 

 but she now resumed it, contributing to the 

 newspapers of San Franscico and Sacramento, as 

 well as to the Overland Monthly from its start. 

 Mrs. Victor was the author of The River of the 

 West (1865); Life and Adventures in the Rocky 

 Mountains and Oregon (1870); All over Oregon 

 and Washington (1870); The New Penelope and 

 Other Stories (1877) ; and chapters on Oregon and 

 other States to Bancroft's Pacific Coast Histories. 



Wallace, Martin Reuben Merritt, jurist, 

 born in Urbana, Ohio, Sept. 29, 1829; died in 

 Chicago, 111., March 6, 1902. He was graduated 

 at Rock River Seminary, studied law, and was 

 admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1859, when he re- 

 moved to Chicago to practise. In 1861 he was 

 commissioned major of the 4th Illinois Cavalry, 

 was promoted lieutenant-colonel and colonel, 

 served at Forts Henry and Donelson and at 

 Shiloh and Corinth, and at the close of the war 

 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. 

 In the war he was offered a bribe of $100,000 

 " to take his men on a scout," which meant per- 

 mitting the bringing into the Union lines of a 

 quantity of cotton for speculators. The sugges- 

 tion was denounced with characteristic vehe- 

 mence. After the war he returned to Chicago and 

 was appointed assessor of internal revenue. 

 While he held this office the whisky men offered 

 him $20,000 a month, to be paid privately to his 

 wife, " as long as he would keep his eyes shut." 

 When his most intimate friend was made ac- 

 quainted with the intended corruption and asked 

 him what course he intended to take, he replied, 

 " I am going to look." In 1868 he was elected 

 county judge, and he held that post eight years; 

 later he became attorney for the county board, 

 and was United States jury commissioner forty 

 years, and police magistrate thirteen years. 



Ward, John Elliott, diplomatist, born in 

 Sunbury, Ga., Oct. 2, 1814; died in Dorchester, 

 Ga., Nov. 30, 1902. He entered Amherst College 

 in 1831, but left on account of the indignation 

 there manifested against Virginians after the im- 

 prisonment of two Cherokee missionaries. He 

 then studied law and was admitted to the bar 

 in Savannah. He was solicitor-general of the 

 Eastern District of Georgia in 1836-'38; United 

 States district attorney for Georgia in 1838; 

 member of the Georgia Legislature in 1839, 1845, 

 and 1853, being speaker in the latter year; mayor 

 of Savannah in 1854; president of the National 

 Democratic Convention that met in Cincinnati 

 in 1856; Lieutenant-Governor of the State and 

 president of the State Senate in 1857: and United 

 States minister to China in 1858-'61. In the latter 

 year he resigned in consequence of the adoption 

 by Georgia of the ordinance of secession, although 

 he was strongly opposed to that measure. In 

 January. 18(56. IIP removed to New York city. 



Warden, David Adams, musician, born in 

 the Tower of London. England, in 1815; died in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 4, 1902. In his early years 



