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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (Liu-Kun-Yi MACLEAR.) 



When Dr. Windhorst died.in 1891, and when Count 

 von Ballestrem and Baron Hiine failed to induce 

 the party to accept their compromise with Count 

 Caprivi on the military bill of 1893, Dr. Lieber, 

 who headed the uncompromising resistance to the 

 increase in the army, assumed henceforth the lead- 

 ership. He had not the authority and the in- 

 fluence over all sections that Dr. Windhorst 

 wielded, but yet he was able to keep the Center 

 together and maintain party discipline. 



Liu-Kun-Yi, Chinese statesman, born in Hu- 

 nan, about 1820; died in Nanking, Oct. 6, 1902. 

 Coming from the province that furnishes the Chi- 

 nese army with its best material, he was a soldier 

 by education, and as such he made his way up- 

 ward in the official hierarchy without literary 

 attainments and speaking only the dialect of his 

 province. In 1860, at the head of one of the 

 armies raised to fight the Taiping rebels, he turned 

 back the tide of revolt in Kiangsi by a series of 

 successful operations. He was Viceroy of Nan- 

 king when the Boxer outbreak occurred in Shan- 

 tung and Pechili, when antiforeign agitators 

 raised the cry of China for the Chinese in the 

 Yangtse valley, and when the Imperial Govern- 

 ment called for* troops to defend the capital against 

 the invaders and ordered the expulsion of Euro- 

 peans Liu-Kun-Yi, acting in concert with Wang- 

 C'hih-Tung, Viceroy of Wuchang, refused to join 

 in the movement and used his authority 

 and the foreign-drilled troops at his command to 

 repress every demonstration against foreigners. 

 The Yangtse viceroys kept the Boxer movement 

 and the war confined to the northern provinces, 

 and in the arrangement of peace and the negotia- 

 tion of a new commercial treaty they were able 

 to protect Chinese interests and facilitate a set- 

 tlement. 



Macaulay, James, Scottish novelist, born in 

 Edinburgh, Scotland, May 22, 1817; died there, 

 June 20, 1902. He was educated at the university 

 of his native city, and was for thirty-five years 

 editor in chief of the Religious Tract Society. He 

 was joint editor of the Literary Gazette in 1851- 

 '57, and in 1858 became editor of the Leisure Hour 

 Sunday at Home. He founded the popular pe- 

 riodicals The Boy's Own Paper and The Girl's 

 Own Paper. His published works comprise Across 

 the Ferry; First Impressions of America and its 

 People (1871); Memory Helps in British History 

 (1873); Ireland in 1872: A Tour of Observation 

 (1873); A Plea for Mercy to Animals, which at- 

 tracted general attention (1875); All True: Rec- 

 ords of Adventure (1879) ; Gray Hawk: Life and 

 Adventures among the Red Indians (1883); Lu- 

 ther Anecdotes (1883) ; True Tales of Travel and 

 Adventure, Valor and Virtue (1884); Sea Pic- 

 tures drawn with Pen and Pencil, new edition 

 (1884); Stirring Stories of Peace and War by 

 Land and Sea (1885); Gordon Anecdotes (1885); 

 Livingstone Anecdotes (1886); Thrilling Tales of 

 Enterprise and Peril, Adventure and Heroism 

 (1886); Whitefield Anecdotes (1886); Wonderful 

 Stories of Daring, Peril and Adventure (1887); 

 Victoria, her Life and Reign (1887); and From 

 Middy to Admiral of the Fleet. 



MacEvilly, John, Irish Roman Catholic prel- 

 ate, born in Louisburgh, County Mayo, Ireland, 

 in April, 1817; died in Tuam, Ireland, Nov. 26, 

 1902. His education was received at Maynooth 

 College, and he was ordained priest in 1840. In 

 1842 he was appointed Professor of Scripture in 

 Saint Jarlath's College, Tuam, and subsequently 

 he was president of that institution several years. 

 He was appointed Bishop of Galway in 1857, and 

 in 1866 Apostolical Administrator of Kilmacdugh 

 and Kilnefora, continuing, however, as Bishop of 



Galway. Appointed bishop-coadjutor of the 

 archbishopric of Tuam in 1878, he succeeded Arch- 

 bishop McHale as Archbishop of Tuam in 1881. 

 He was the author of an English Commentary on 

 all the New Testament except the Apocalypse. 



MacGibbon, David, Scottish architect, born in 

 Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1831 ; died there, Feb. 23, 

 1902. He received his education at Edinburgh 

 University, and prepared for his profession in his 

 native city and in London, spending much time 

 also in architectural investigations in Italy, 

 France, and Spain. With Thomas Ross he en- 

 tered upon the practise of architecture in Edin- 

 burgh, and the firm executed many important 

 works in that city and its vicinity. Shortly be- 

 fore his death the firm had undertaken the res- 

 toration of lona Cathedral. In 1888 Mr. Mac- 

 Gibbon published a readable volume on The Archi- 

 tecture of Provence and the Riviera, and with 

 Mr. Ross he was author of The Castellated and 

 Domestic Architecture of Scotland from the 

 Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century, a work of 

 great value (1886-'92); The Ecclesiastical Archi- 

 tecture of Scotland from the Earliest Christian 

 Times to the Seventeenth Century (1896) ; and 

 The Five Great Churches of Galloway (1899). 



Mackay, Alexander, Scottish educational 

 writer, born in Bonar Bridge, Sutherlandshire, 

 Scotland, in 1833; died in Edinburgh, Dec. 4, 1902. 

 He was educated at the University of St. An- 

 drews, and was a member of the Edinburgh 

 School Board from 1897, and editor of the Educa- 

 tional News. His published works include A 

 Manual of Modern Geography (1861) ; Outlines of 

 Modern Geography (1865); Facts and Dates 

 (1869); First Steps in Geography (1869); Phys- 

 ical Geography (1869) ; Riming Geography (1874) ; 

 Intermediate Geography (1874) ; Foreign Systems 

 of Education; Esthetics in Schools"; A History of 

 Scotland; A Plea for Our Private Schools; and 

 Free Trade in Teaching. 



Maclear, George Frederick, English clergy- 

 man, born in Bedford, England, Feb. 3, 1833 ; died 

 in Canterbury, Oct. 17, 1902. He was educated at 

 Cambridge, distinguishing himself by excellence 

 in theological studies and winning several prizes. 

 He was ordered priest in the Established Church 

 in 1857, and after some years passed as assistant 

 minister in London churches was head master of 

 King's College School from 1866 to 1880. He had 

 in the interim been assistant preacher at the Tem- 

 ple in 1865-70, examiner for the Lightfoot Schol- 

 arship at Cambridge in 1876-77, and Boyle lec- 

 turer at Cambridge in 1880. From 1880 till his 

 death he was warden of St. Augustine's College, 

 Canterbury, and was made honorary canon of 

 Canterbury Cathedral in 1885. Under his war- 

 denship the college at Canterbury increased very 

 greatly in efficiency, while his influence as a theo- 

 logical writer, particularly in the earlier portion 

 of his career, was extensive, his Old and New Tes- 

 tament handbooks attaining a wonderful popu- 

 larity and holding it for a long time. Canon 

 Maclear's published writings include Incentives to 

 Virtue, Natural and Revealed (1857); The ( 

 and the Nation (1857) : The Christian Statesman 

 and Our Indian Empire (1859); Class Book of 

 Old and New Testament History (1861) : The Wit- 

 ness of the Eucharist (1863) ; 'A History of Mis- 

 sions during the Middle Ages (1863) ; A Shilling 

 Book of New Testament History (1867) ; The Apos- 

 tles of Medieval Europe (1869) ; The Hour of Sor- 

 rows (1875) : The Conversion of the Celts, the Eng- 

 lish, the Northmen, and the Slavs (1878-79) ; The 

 Gradual Conversion of Europe (1879) ; Evidential 

 Value of the Holy Eucharist (1880); Saint Au- 

 gustine's, Canterbury: Its Rise, Ruin, and Res- 



