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in Walruer, England, Feb. 9, 1902. He was the 

 son of an English army officer in India, and was 

 educated at Oxford. After studying for the Angli- 

 can ministry he was admitted to the priesthood in 

 1851. After holding the curacy of Salcombe Re- 

 gis, Devon, 1850-'51, and that of St. Paul's 

 Church, Exeter, 1854-'57, he was an assistant 

 master in Cheltenham College, 1860-'61. He was 

 subsequently literary adviser to the London pub- 

 lishing house of Longmans, 1861-'85; vicar of 

 Bekesbourne, Kent, 1881; rector of Scrayingham, 

 in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1881-'97. For 

 more than twenty years he was a frequent con- 

 tributor to the Edinburgh Review, the Saturday 

 Review, and other periodicals, and while joint 

 editor with Prof. Brande of the Dictionary of Sci- 

 ence, Literature, and Art he made many contribu- 

 tions to that work. On the death of an uncle in 

 1877 he succeeded to the baronetcy, but there was 

 another claimant of the title. His histories, pre- 

 pared to meet the needs of special occasions, prob- 

 ably have only ephemeral value, but they served 

 well an immediate purpose and are accurate as 

 well as readable. His life of Bishop Colenso is 

 perhaps his most important piece of literary 

 work. Its avowed purpose is to lay before the 

 world a complete vindication of Colenso's words 

 and acts, and to record that the bishop's method 

 and conclusions find justifications in the series of 

 judgments pronounced in the courts of the Es- 

 tablished Church. Personally the biographer 

 was in full sympathy with the opinions of the 

 Bishop of Natal. He resigned the living of 

 Scrayingham on account of failing health. His 

 published books comprise Poems Legendary and 

 Historical (with the historian Freeman) (1850); 

 Life of St. Boniface (1853); Tales from Greek 

 Mythology (1861); The Tale of the Great Per- 

 sian War, from Herodotus (1861); Tales of the 

 Gods and Heroes (1862) ; Tales of Thebes and Ar- 

 gos (1864); A Manual of Mythology (1867); 

 Tales of Ancient Greece (1868)"; The Mythology 

 of the Aryan Nations (1870) ; Latin and Teutonic 

 Christendom (1870) ; Popular Romances of the 

 Middle Ages (with E. H. Jones) (1871) ; Tales of 

 the Teutonic Lands (with E. H. Jones) (1872) ; A 

 History of Greece (1874); The Crusades (1874); 

 The Greeks and Persians (1876); The Athenian 

 Empire, issued in the Epochs of Modern History 

 series, as were the two preceding volumes (1876) ; 

 A General History of Greece, an enlargement of 

 the earlier work (1876) ; History of the Establish- 

 ment of British Rule in India (1881) ; The Little 

 Cyclopaedia of Common Things (1881); An In- 

 troduction to the Science of Comparative Mythol- 

 ogy and Folk-Lore (1881) ; Short Historical Anec- 

 dotes (1882); Lives of Greek Statesmen: Solon, 

 Themistokles (1885) ; Concise History of England 

 and the English People (1886); Lives of Greek 

 Statesmen, Second Series: Ephialtes, Hermokrates 

 (1886) ; The Life of John William Colenso, Bishop 

 of Natal (1888) ; The Church of England and the 

 Teaching of Bishop Colenso (1888). His Little 

 Cyclopaedia of Common Things was simply a bold 

 appropriation, bodily, of the Young Folks' Cyclo- 

 paedia of Common Things, which was devised and 

 written by John D. Champlin, and was published 

 in New York in 1880. 



Croke, Thomas William, Irish Roman Catho- 

 lic prelate, born in Mallow, County Cork, May 

 19, 1824; died in Thurles, July 22, 1902. He was 

 the son of a prosperous farmer, and although his 

 mother was a Protestant, his uncle, who took 

 charge of his education and destined him for the 

 priesthood, sent him to the Irish College at Paris 

 in 1838, where he remained till he was twenty, 

 after which he spent a year in the seminary at 



Menim, in Belgium, and finished his ecclesiastical 

 training with three years of study in the Irish 

 College at Rome, where he took the degree of doc- 

 tor of divinity in 1848 and was ordained priest. 

 Returning to Ireland, he was Professor of Rhet- 

 oric in the diocesan college at Carlow, which 

 he left to take the chair of Theology in the 

 Irish college at Paris, from which he went 

 back to his native diocese as a missionary 

 priest. He was assigned to the presidency of St. 

 Colman's College, at Fermoy, in 1858, and filled 

 that position till 1865, when he resumed pastoral 

 work as parish priest of Doneraile. In 1870 he 

 was appointed Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand, 

 and in 1875 he was recalled to Ireland to be Arch- 

 bishop of Cashel and Emly. The parish priests 

 of the see, whose own three nominations had all 

 been disregarded by the Holy See by advice of 

 Cardinal Cullen, had no welcome for their cos- 

 mopolitan and unknown metropolitan until he 

 won the hearts of the people and the name of the 

 patriot archbishop by a rousing Irish speech at 

 the O'Connell centennial celebration in 1875. Dr. 

 Croke had once taken an interest in Irish politics, 

 while he was a curate in the Cloyne diocese, enter- 

 ing into Gavan Duffy's agitation for fixity of ten- 

 ure, fair rents, and free sale, and when that brief 

 movement was destroyed by jealousy and chi- 

 canery he declared that he would never engage in 

 another agitation for national independence or 

 land reform. In 1879 he was induced by Charles 

 Stewart Parnell to give his support to the Land 

 League, and became the most earnest and active 

 Land Leaguer in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. 

 He condemned the no-rent manifesto, thinking 

 a refusal to pay taxes to the Government, not the 

 refusal to pay rent to landlords, the proper answer 

 to the proscription of the Land League. Still he 

 clung to the cause and advocated a national tes- 

 timonial to Parnell, unmoved by a papal rebuke. 

 When a scandal in Parnell's private life was dis- 

 closed in the courts Dr. Croke drew up an address 

 to the Irish people declaring that Mr. Parnell was 

 unfit to be their leader, and all the members of 

 the hierarchy signed it simultaneously with Mr. 

 Gladstone's demand for the deposition of the head 

 of the home-rule party for his immorality. After 

 that Dr. Croke withdrew from politics and de- 

 clined every appeal to him to try to settle the 

 differences between Parnellites and anti-Parnell- 

 ites and between O'Brienites and Healyites. Dr. 

 Croke, a man of great stature and powerful build, 

 who in his young days w r as a champion jumper 

 and noted in hurling and football, took a keen 

 interest in the national sports and pastimes of 

 the Irish people, and in 1885 accepted the presi- 

 dency of the Gaelic Association for the revival of 

 old Irish games. Despite his scholastic training, 

 he had a contempt for pedantry and little taste 

 for dry learning. He was a man of action, en- 

 grossed in the life of the present and the develop- 

 ment of the future, and was exceedingly hospi- 

 table and companionable, with a fund of Irish 

 humor. 



Dalou, Jules, French sculptor, born in Paris 

 in 1838; died there, April 15, 1902. He studied 

 under Abel de Pujol, Duret, and Carpeaux, having 

 entered the cole des Beaux-Arts in 1853. In 

 1861 he exhibited the Dame Romnine jouant aux 

 Osselets. He joined the Commune, and was in- 

 strumental with Barbet de Jouy in saving the art 

 collections of Paris. When the Versailles Gov- 

 ernment triumphed he fled to London. In 1873 

 he returned and exhibited once more at the Salon. 

 One of his famous works is a bas-relief in the 

 Palais Bourbon representing Mirabeau replying 

 to M. de Dreux-Breze. Another is the Trioinphe 





