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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (DALZIEL DOEL.) 



de la Republique, erected in the Place de la Re- 

 publique in 1899. A bronze group entitled Tri- 

 omphe de Silene is placed in the Luxembourg 

 gardens. He made a statue of Victor Noir that 

 was greatly admired, and just before his death 

 he completed one of Gambetta. 



Dalziel, George, English wood-engraver, born 

 in Northumberland in 1816; died in Hampstead, 

 Aug. 7, 1902. He was the son of an artist and 

 was a master of his branch when he established 

 himself in London, where he was joined by his 

 two brothers, whom he took into partnership. 

 The Dalziels led in the movement for illustrated 

 books, engaging the ablest artists in England 

 to draw the blocks for them to engrave. These 

 books and pictures exemplifying the highest 

 achievement of the art of illustration and wood- 

 engraving in Great Britain are now sought by 

 art collectors. Birket Foster's Pictures of Eng- 

 lish Landscape they printed in 1863, and in 1864 

 Parables of Our Lord, with drawings by Millais. 

 In 1865 they published the Arabian Nights with 

 a multitude of illustrations drawn by Boyd, 

 Houghton, Millais, Tenniel, Pinwell, and Thomas 

 Dalziel. The last of the famous books on which 

 artists and engravers worked in harmonious co- 

 operation was the Bible Gallery, printed in 1881, 

 to which Ford Madox Brown, Frederick Leighton, 

 Frederick Sandys, Edward Poynter, Edward 

 Burne-Jones, and Simeon Solomon contributed. 

 Many of their engravings appeared in Good 

 Words, Once a Week, and other magazines. 



Damour, M., French mineralogist, born in 

 Paris, July 19, 1806; died there, Sept. 21, 1902. 

 He early became a director in the Department 

 of Foreign Affairs, but in 1854 resigned his office 

 to devote his time to scientific research. He 

 made many voyages for the purpose of scientific 

 exploration to Central America and to the An- 

 tilles. He left an unusually extensive and rich 

 collection of instruments of the stone age. He 

 was named a correspondent of the French Acad- 

 emy of Sciences in 1862, and a membre libre in 

 1878. He had been an officer of the Legion of 

 Honor since 1854. One of his most important 

 memoirs was that on the Composition des haches 

 en pierre trouvees dans les tombeaux celtiques 

 et chez les tribes sauvages. 



Davidson, Andrew Bruce, Scottish scholar, 

 born in Ellon, Scotland, in 1840; died Jan. 26, 

 1902. He was educated at Marischal College, 

 Aberdeen,, and after studying for the ministry 

 of the Free Church of Scotland, was ordained in 

 1863. In the same year he became Professor of 

 Hebrew, and he held that office at the time of 

 his death. He had long been accounted in the 

 first rank of Hebrew scholars, and was a member 

 of the Old Testament Revision Committee. He 

 published a Commentary on the Book of Job 

 (1862) ; Introductory Hebrew' Grammar, a stand- 

 ard authority (1874) ; and Hebrew Syntax. 



Dearden, Henry Woodhouse, English clergy- 

 man, born about 1829; died in Cambridge, Eng- 

 land, Feb. 24, 1902. He was educated at Trinity 

 College, Dublin, and was ordained to the priest- 

 hood in 1854. He was curate of Platts, Kent, in 

 1853-'55, and of Loose, near Maidstone, in the 

 same shire, 1855-'60. From 1860 to 1877 he was 

 vicar of St. Paul's parish, at Maidstone; incum- 

 bent of St. John's, Upper Holloway, 1877-'87; and 

 from 1887 to 1893 he held a living in Southbor- 

 ough, Kent. He retired from active duties in 

 the year last named, but in more recent years 

 assisted as curate in the Church of St. Sepulcher, 

 Cambridge. He was a strong evangelical in 

 his sympathies, and his Church Teaching (1896) 

 has been widely circulated among Low Church- 



men. He was also the author of a book entitled 

 Modern Romanism. 



Desboutin, Marcellin. French engraver, born 

 in 1823; died in Nice, Feb. 18, 1902. He was edu- 

 cated for the law and obtained his university 

 degree, but instead of following that profession 

 he entered the studio of Couture in 1847, and 

 when he left that master he went to Italy and 

 remained eighteen years. On his return to Paris 

 he painted portraits in a most effective manner, 

 one of himself being in the Luxembourg. His 

 chief fame, however, rests on his engravings, no- 

 tably dry-paint portraits of many celebrated art- 

 ists and writers, and his reproduction of the 

 Fragonards of Grasse. He was also a dramatic 

 poet, author with Jules Amigues of Maurice de 

 Saxe, produced in 1870, a drama in verse. His. 

 Cardinal Dubois and Madame Roland have not 

 yet been acted. 



De Vere, Aubrey Thcmas, Irish poet, born 

 in Limerick, Ireland, Jan. 10, 1814; died there, 

 Jan. 21, 1902. He was the third son of Sir 

 Aubrey De Vere, a distinguished poet, and re- 

 ceived his education at Trinity College, Dublin. 

 He was trained in the Protestant faith, but in 

 1851 became a Roman Catholic. De Vere's poetry 

 was much admired by the poets of the elder 

 generation who were his contemporaries, and it 

 has also won the praise of the more scholarly and 

 thoughtful poets of to-day; but it makes no 

 strong appeal to the average reader. As a prose 

 writer he was both animated and suggestive, and 

 his essays, whether political or purely literary, 

 are worthy of careful reading. His work in verse 

 includes The Waldenses (1842) ; The Search after 

 Proserpine, a classical masque, and Other Poems 

 (1843); Poems: Miscellaneous and Sacred 

 (1853); May Carols, or Ancilla Domini (1857- 

 '81) ; The Sisters, Innisfail, and Other Poems 

 (1861); The Infant's Bridal, and Other Poems 

 (1864); Irish Odes, and Other Poems (1869); 

 Legends of St. Patrick (1872); Alexander the 

 Great: A Dramatic Poem, often compared to 

 Henry Taylor's Philip Van Artevelde (1874); St. 

 Thomas of Canterbury: A Dramatic Poem (1876) ; 

 Antar and Zara (1877); Legends of the Saxon 

 Saints (1879); St. Peter's Chains, or Rome and 

 the Italian Revolution (1880); The Foray of 

 Queen Meave and Other Legends of Ireland's 

 Heroic Age (1882); Legends and Records of the 

 Church and the Empire (1887). In prose De Vere 

 published the following volumes: English Mis- 

 rule and Irish Misdeeds (1848); Picturesque 

 Sketches of Greece and Turkey (1850); Ireland's 

 Church Property and the Right Use of It (1867) ; 

 Pleas for Secularization (1867); The Church Es- 

 tablishment of Ireland (1867); The Church Set- 

 tlement of Ireland, or Hiberna Pacanda (1868); 

 Proteus and Antaeus: A Correspondence (edited) 

 (1878); Constitutional and Unconstitutional Po- 

 litical Action (1881); Ireland and Proportional 

 Representation (1885) ; Essays, Chiefly on Poetry 

 (1887); Essays, Chiefly Literary and Ethical 

 (1889); and Recollections (1897). 



Doel, James, English actor, born in Maiden 

 Bradley, England, in 1804; died in Plymouth, 

 England, Aug. 29, 1902, being then the oldest 

 actor of the English-speaking stage. He made 

 his theatrical cMbut at the Adelphi Theater, Lon- 

 don, in 1820, and his last appearance was at a 

 performance for his benefit in London, in 1S!)2. 

 He was a contemporary of Edmund Kean, of Mac- 

 ready, and of Phelps, and in many of the famous 

 old English stock companies he appeared in sup- 

 port of nearly all the celebrated actors of the last 

 century. He acted the First Gravedigger to Ed- 

 mund Kean's Hamlet, and was the First Witch in 



