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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (ANGUS BAILEY.) 



nouncing the suzerainty of Turkey over Tunis, 

 which had been in existence since 1575, though 

 not effectively exercised in recent times. When 

 the French invaded Tunis AH Bey, who was then 

 commander-in-chief of his brother's troops, of- 

 fered no serious resistance, and was one of the 

 first to accept the protectorate, using all his in- 

 fluence to obtain the willing submission of the 

 tribes and employing his troops to force the re- 

 bellious to submfssion. Coming to the throne at 

 the beginning of the French regime, he loyally 

 yielded up all political and financial control and 

 used his great influence and royal authority to 

 prevent any check to the innovations of civiliza- 

 tion and foreign government. The French on 

 their part left the relations between Mussulmans 

 entirely in his hands, so that he was still a Mo- 

 hammedan monarch, dispensing justice and char- 

 ity and governing the people in their social and 

 religious life according to the laws of Islam. In 

 his palace he fed over 700 persons. His physical 

 and mental vigor declined in his later years. Sidi 

 Mohammed, his son and successor, who was 

 forty-six years of age when his father died, has 

 often sojourned in Paris, and is the first Bey able 

 to speak French. 



Angus, Joseph, English clergyman, born in 

 Bolan, Northumberland, England, Jan. 16, 1816; 

 died in Hampstead, England, Aug. 28, 1902. 

 He was educated at King's College and Stepney 

 College, London, and at Edinburgh University, 

 and studied for the Baptist ministry. At the 

 age of twenty-four he became secretary of the 

 Baptist Missionary Society, and in 1849 president 

 of Stepney College for the education of non-con- 

 formist ministers, and in 1856 of the College of 

 Regent's Park, to which the Stepney institute was 

 then removed. For more than forty years he 

 continued in this office, and under his manage- 

 ment the usefulness of the institution was greatly 

 extended. He was a man of extremely broad 

 sympathies, and his interests were manifested in 

 many directions. He served on the London School 

 Board ten years, and he was one of the revisers 

 of the New Testament. His published works 

 comprise Essay on the Voluntary System (1839) ; 

 Bible Handbook (1854) ; Bishop Butler's Analogy, 

 also Fifteen Sermons, with Life, Analysis, and 

 Notes, usually considered the best edition of the 

 Analogy (1855); Christ our Life (1855); Hand- 

 book of the English Tongue (1861); Christian 

 Churches and Christian History (1862); Hand- 

 book of English Literature (1865); and Hand- 

 book of Specimens of English Literature (1866). 



Arnold, Sir Arthur, English author, born in 

 Framfield, Sussex, England, May 28, 1833; died 

 in London, May 20, 1902. He was the son of 

 Robert Coles Arnold, and a younger brother of 

 Sir Edwin Arnold. He was educated privately, 

 and was assistant commissioner of public works 

 in Lancashire in 1863-'64. Later he became 

 known as a traveler, and from 1880 to 1883 he 

 represented Sal ford in the House of Commons. He 

 was an ardent Liberal and took an active interest 

 in politics, and was for some time president of 

 the Free Land League. He was also chairman 

 of the London County Council, 1895-'97. His wri- 

 tings include History of the Cotton Famine 

 (1865) ; From the Levant (1868) ; Through Persia 

 by Caravan (1876); Free Land (1880); and 

 Social Politics (1881). 



Arnold, George Benjamin, English organist 

 and composer, born in Petworth, Sussex, Eng- 

 land, Dec. 22, 1822; died in Winchester, Jan. 31, 

 1902. In 1849 he became assistant organist at 

 Winchester Cathedral. He was subsequently 

 organist at St. Columba's College, near Dublin, 



Ireland ; of St. Mary's Church, Torquay ; and from 

 1860 to 1865 was organist of New College, Oxford. 

 In the year last named he was appointed organist 

 of Winchester Cathedral. He ranked among the 

 first English players of his time, and he won dis- 

 tinction also as a composer. His oratorio 

 Ahab was brought out in 1864, and his cantata 

 Sennacherib was produced at the Gloucester Festi- 

 val of 1883. In 1893 he composed the cantata 

 The Song of the Redeemed, for St. James's Church, 

 New York city; and for the King Alfred Mil- 

 lenary in 1901 he wrote an orchestral introduc- 

 tion and a chorus of praise. He also composed 

 works for the piano and a large number of an- 

 thems, the best known of which is the familiar 

 The Lord is my Shepherd. 



Ashmead-Bartlett, Sir Ellis, English politi- 

 cian, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1849; died in 

 London, Jan. 19, 1902. His education was re- 

 ceived at Torquay, Devonshire, and at Oxford. 

 He was called to the bar of the Inner Temple 

 in 1876, was examiner in the Education Depart- 

 ment in 1874-'80, and sat in the House of Com- 

 mons from 1880 till his death. He was a civil 

 lord of the Admiralty in 1885-'92, and was 

 knighted in the latter year. He was a favorite 

 with the Sultan of Turkey, who bestowed upon 

 him the " Grand Cordon of the Medijeh." In 1900 

 he served in the English army in South Africa. 

 He was a brilliant orator, his chosen theme being 

 the imperial strength and majesty of England, 

 and he was accounted the most outspoken ex- 

 ponent of what is termed " jingo sentiment " in 

 Parliament. His only published book was The 

 Battle-Fields of Thessaly (1897). 



Bailey, Philip James, English poet, born in 

 Nottingham, England, April 22, 1816; died there 

 Sept. 6, 1902. He was educated at Glasgow Uni- 

 versity, and after studying law at Lincoln's Inn 

 was admitted to the bar 

 in 1840, but did not 

 practise. In his twen- 

 tieth year he began to 

 write Festus, a lyric 

 drama on the Faust 

 legend, which appeared 

 in 1839 and speed- 

 ily made its author 

 famous, 11 editions of 

 the work being pub- 

 lished in England and 

 30 in the United States. 

 The poem was extrava- 

 gantly praised at the 

 time of its appearance, 

 but has long been neg- 

 lected by the general 

 reader, though still 



prized by a few. While by no means worthy of 

 the laudations it first received, it does not deserve 

 the neglect into which it has fallen, for it exhibits 

 a wealth of noble and sustained imagery, and the 

 blank verse, though wanting in the sonorous 

 quality, and not especially sweet, is well suited 

 to the subject and is often genuinely poetic. It 

 was the theme rather than the form that gained 

 the poet the attention he received, and certain 

 lines from Festus are still quoted. None of his 

 other works attracted much notice, and the poet's 

 later life was passed in strict retirement. He was 

 married twice, the first time very unhappily, and 

 was a resident of Jersey from 1864 to 1876, but 

 afterward lived in Nottingham. His income from 

 his writings was but slender, and he not only 

 applied several times for relief from the Royal 

 Literary fund, but was for many years in receipt 

 of a pension from the Civil List" of 100. Be- 



