OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (BOTHA BUTLER.) 





to Jones, in which play she also appeared in New 

 York in 1900. Later in that year she went with 

 Charles Arnold's company to Australia, where she 

 was playing at the time of her death from the 

 bubonic plague, which swept that country. 



Botha, Christian, Boer soldier, born in ihe 

 Transvaal; died in Kokstad, Griqualand West, 

 Oct. 8, 1902. He led a commando into Natal at 

 the beginning of the Transvaal war, and bore a 

 prominent part in the investment of Ladysmith 

 and the defense of the Tugela crossing. When 

 ;he line was forced at last and Ladysmith re- 

 ieved, he helped to hold the Biggarsburg, and re- 

 :reated afterward with the rest of the Trans- 

 vaalers to Laing's Nek, where his brother Louis 

 Botha, the commandant-general, left him in com- 

 mand of the Boer forces on the Natal border on 

 departing to defend the approaches of Pretoria 

 against Lord Roberts. Chris Botha delayed Gen. 

 Buller's advance several days by opening nego- 

 tiations with him. After the fall of Pretoria he 

 was assigned to the command of all the Boer 

 forces in the southeastern part of the Transvaal, 

 and by his raids into Zululand he created a di- 

 version that enabled his brother and De Wet to 

 prolong the conflict. 



Bousfield, Henry Brougham, English prelate, 

 born in 1832; died in South Africa, Feb. 10, 1902. 

 He studied at Cambridge, and after taking or- 

 ders in the Church of England in 1855 was curate 

 of All Saints' Parish, Braishfield, Hampshire, 

 1855-'61 ; rector of St. Maurice's, Winchester, 

 1861-70; and vicar of Andover, Hampshire, 1870- 

 '78. In February of the last-named year he was 

 consecrated Bishop of Pretoria, South Africa. 

 During all the troublous years of his episcopate 

 Bishop Bousfield kept aloof from politics, and after 

 the outbreak of the South African War in 1899 he 

 rendered many timely services to the English ref- 

 ugees. He published Six Years in the Transvaal 

 (1886). 



Brames, John, English philologist, died in 

 Clevedon, Somerset, England, May 25, 1902, at the 

 age of sixty-five. He was educated for the Indian 

 colonial service at Haileybury College, and after 

 being employed many years in the Punjab and 

 Bengal, was appointed magistrate in the latter in 

 1867. In 1881 he became commissioner of the 

 Bardwan division, and subsequently he had charge 

 of the Bhagalpur and presidency divisions. He 

 was president of the Police Revision Committee 

 in 1890, and in 1893 he retired from the colonial 

 service and returned to England. He was the 

 author of Outlines of Indian Philology (1867) ; 

 Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan 

 Languages of India (1872-79) ; and Grammar of 

 the Bengali Language (1891). 



Brandt, Kaethe, German actress, born in 

 Berlin in 1878 ; died in New York, Jan. 12, 1902. 

 She was connected with the stage from childhood, 

 as her father was for many years stage director 

 of the Hof Theater, Berlin. In the season of 

 1900-'01 she was a member of the stock com- 

 pany at the Hof Theater, Wiesbaden, where she 

 achieved such success in efnotional rdles that 

 she was engaged to come to the United States 

 for the season of 1901-'02. She made her Ameri- 

 can dtbut at Irving Place Theater, New York 

 (devoted to the German drama), Oct. 1, 1901, in 

 The Veiled Image of Sais, and immediately be- 

 came a popular favorite. During the season she 

 appeared in Magda, The Night of St. Bartholomew, 

 Dolly, and The Clemenceau Case. She appeared 

 for the last time in The Marriage Market, on the 

 evening of Dec. 31, 1901, when she was suddenly 

 taken ill. Miss Brandt was a grandniece of 

 ichard Wagner, and at the time of her death 



was betrothed to Albert Reiss, a German tenor of 

 the Maurice Grau Grand Opera Company. 



Brown, George Douglas, English, novelist, 

 born in Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1869; 

 died in London, Aug. 28, 1902. He was edu- 

 cated at the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford, 

 and was first employed as a reporter for a London 

 paper, and subsequently secured a place as liter- 

 ary adviser to a publishing house. His novel of 

 Scottish Life, The House with the Green Shut- 

 ters, published in 1902, attracted attention both 

 in England and the United States, and displayed 

 much ability. 



Burton, *Edmond Francis, English soldier, 

 born in 1820; died near Cheltenham, England, 

 May 23, 1902. He entered the East Indian army 

 as ensign in the Madras native infantry, becom- 

 ing lieutenant in 1842, captain in 1848, and ma- 

 jor in 1861. He subsequently commanded in suc- 

 cession the Northern District of the Madras army, 

 the Malabar and Canara Brigade (1878), the ceded 

 districts (1880), and the British Banim Division 

 (1882). In 1865 he was promoted to lieuten- 

 ant-colonel, becoming colonel in 1870, and major- 

 general in 1881. He retired in 1882, and after 

 being placed on the unemployed supernumerary 

 list, was appointed lieutenant-general in 1887 and 

 general in 1891. Gen. Burton was the author of 

 Reminiscences of Sport in India (1885); An In- 

 dian Olio (1888) ; and Trouting in Norway (1891). 



Butler, Samuel, English author and composer, 

 born in Langar, England, Dec. 4, 1835; died in 

 London, June 19, 1902. His education was ob- 

 tained at Shrewsbury School and at Cambridge. 

 With Henry Festing Jones, Butler composed the 

 cantata of Narcissus and many gavottes, fugues, 

 and pianoforte numbers; but to the world in gen- 

 eral he is better known as a brilliant and origi- 

 nal writer in several fields. His published books 

 include A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 

 (1863) ; Erewhon, or Over the Range (1872) ; The 

 Fair Haven, a purported defense of Christianity 

 (1873); Life and Habit (1877); Evolution, Old 

 and New (1879); Unconscious Memory (1880); 

 Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Can- 

 to.n Ticino (1881) ; Luck, or Cunning as the Main 

 Means of Organic Modification? (1886); Ex 

 Voto : An Account of the Sacro Monto or New Je- 

 rusalem at Varello-Sesia (1888); Life of Dr. 

 Samuel Butler, of Shrewsbury, and Bishop of 

 Lichfield (1896); The Authoress of the Odyssey 

 (1897) ; The Iliad of Homer, rendered into Eng- 

 lish Prose (1898); Shakespeare's Sonnets Recon- 

 sidered (1899); The Odyssey of Homer, rendered 

 into English Prose (1900), and Erewhon Revisited 

 (1901). Butler was an artist of some merit, and 

 exhibited for several years at the Royal Academy. 

 One of his most noted pictures was entitled Mr. 

 Heatherley's Holiday, representing the manager 

 of an art school employing a holiday in repairing 

 the school skeleton. As a master of irony Butler 

 had few superiors, and his Erewhon approaches 

 Gulliver in this respect more nearly than any 

 other writing since Swift. Erewhon Revisited, in 

 effect a vigorous attack upon revealed religion, has 

 more coherence in the story than its predecessor, 

 and the satire is much graver. Fair Haven is a 

 masterly satire upon religious narrowness, but is 

 accepted by many as an earnest defense of big- 

 otry. Regarding Homeric authorship he held sev- 

 eral amazing theories, apparently having intended 

 a hoax in the first place, and ending by becoming 

 converted to his own argument. He was nat- 

 urally combative, and from the circumstance of 

 his grandfather having had a wordy controversy 

 with Darwin's grandfather, and his father hav- 

 ing similarly engaged with the father of Dar- 



