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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (MicmE MUHFELD.) 



central executive during the latter part of the 

 war when Schalk Burger acted as President. Jn 

 the final peace negotiations he played a conspicu- 

 ous part, and when the war was over he went to 

 Europe with other leaders to interest the 

 friends of the Boers in the economical restoration 

 of the conquered republics. 



Michie, Alexander, British explorer, born in 

 Earl Ferry, Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1833; died in 

 London, Aug. 8, 1902. He received a commercial 

 training, was sent to Hong-Kong at the age 'of 

 nineteen, became the Shanghai representative and 

 partner in the firm at the age of twenty-four, and 

 rendered services to Admiral Sir James Hope in 

 operations against the Taiping rebels. He also 

 had much to do with opening treaty ports in 

 northern China. In 1863 he returned to Europe 

 overland, and published The Siberian Route from 

 Pekin to Petersburg through Mongolia and Tar- 

 tary. On returning to Shanghai he was sent on 

 a mission to western China, and made a report on 

 Szechuan and other provinces. He returned 

 again to Europe, but went to China again in 1883 

 and settled in Tientsin. In 1900 he published An 

 Englishman in China, a biography of Sir Ruther- 

 ford Alcock. 



Montepin, Count Aymon Xavier de, French 

 novelist and playwright, born in Apremont (Haute 

 SaOne), France, . March 18, 1824; died in Passy, 

 May 1, 1902. In 1848 he founded the journal Le 

 Carnard, and was conspicuous for his antirevolu- 

 tionist sympathies. He soon forsook journalism 

 for fiction, and for more than forty years poured 

 forth a stream of novels and romances, each work 

 in several volumes. His separate works number 

 more than 350, and many of them were extremely 

 popular. The following is a partial list of Count 

 Montepin's novels: Les Chevaliers du Lansque- 

 net (1847); Les Viveurs d'Autrefois (1848); Les 

 Amours d'un Fou (1849); Le Brelan de Dames 

 (1849) ; Les Confessions d'un Boheme (1849-'50) ; 

 Le Loup Noir (1851); Mignonne (1851); Le Vi- 

 comte Raphael; La Reine de Saba; L'Epee du 

 Commandeur; Mademoiselle Lucifer; Genevifive 

 Gailliot; Un Roi de la Mode; Le Club des Hiron- 

 delles; Les Fils de Familie; Le Fil d'Ariane; Les 

 Oiseaux de Nuit ; Les Valets de Cceur ; L'Auberge 

 du Soleil d'Or (1852-'55) ; Un Gentilhomme de 

 Grand Chemin (1854) ; Les Amours de V6nus; La 

 Perle du Palais Royal; Les Filles de Platre 

 (1855) ; Les Viveurs de Paris (1852-'56) ; L'Officier 

 de Fortune (1857) ; Souvenirs intimes d'un Garde 

 du Corps (1857); La Maison Rose (1858); Les 

 Viveurs de Province (1859-' 60); La Gitane 

 (I860); Le Compete Leroux (1860); Un Amour 

 Maudit (1861); Les Marionettes du Diable 

 (1861); Les Compagnons de la Torche (1862); 

 La Reine de la Nuit (1863); Les Pirates de la 

 Seine (1864); Les Enfers de Paris (1865); La 

 Ferme des Oliviers (1865); La Fille Meurtnier 

 (1866) ; Maison Maudite (1867) ; Le Moulin Rouge 

 (1867); La Voyante (1873); Les Drames de 

 I'Adult&re (1873) ; La Femme de Paillasse (1874) ; 

 Les Tragedies de Paris (1874); La Vicomtesse 

 Germaine (1874-75); Le Secret de la Comtesse 

 (1876) ; La Sorciere Rouge (1876) ; Le Ventriloque 

 (1876); Sa Majeste 1'Argent (1877); La Batarcle 

 (1877); Un Debutante (1877); La Traite des 

 Blanches (1877); Deux Amies de Saint-Denis 

 (1878); La Marquise Castella (1878); La Morte 

 Vivante (1878) ; Les Drames du Manage (1878) ; 

 Le Medicin des Folles (1879); Le Chalet des Li- 

 las (1879) ; Une Dame de Pique (1879) ; Le Der- 

 nier des Courtenay (1880); Les Filles de Bronze 

 (1880); Le Fiacre (1880); Jean Jmli, Justice! 

 (1880) ; Sceur Suzanne (1880) ; Henriette de Vau- 

 vert (1880); La Baladine (1881); Les Amours 



d'Olivier (1881); La Maitresse Masquee (1881) j 

 Son Altresse 1'Amour (1881); La Fille de Mar- 

 guerite (1881-'82); Le Pantins de Mme. le Dia- 

 ble (1882); Mme. de Freres (1882); Le Secret de 

 Titan (1883) ; Simone et Marie (1883) ; Le Dernier 

 du d'Hallili (1883); Les Amours de Province 

 (1884); La Demoiselle de Compagnie (1884); La 

 Porteuse de Pain (1884-'85) ; Le Crime d'Asnieres 

 (1885); Deux Amours: Hermine, Odille (1885); 

 P. L. M. la Belle Angele (1885); Rigolo (1880); 

 Les Yeux d'Emma Rose (1886); Les Filles du 

 Saltrimbanque (1886); Les Dessons de Paris: Le 

 Marchand de Diamants (1887); Un Familie Pa- 

 risienne (1887); Le Roman de la Misfire (1887); 

 Fille de Courtisane (1887); Les Debuts d'une 

 Etoile (1888); Le Gros Lot (1888); La Fe des 

 Saules (1888); Le Mariage de Lascar (1889); 

 Maretre (1890) ; La Tireuse de Cartes (1890) ; La 

 Fille de Fou (1890) ; Trois Millions de Dot (1891) ; 

 La Dame aux Emeraudes (1891). His plays, pro- 

 duced by him singly or in collaboration, include 

 Les Trois Baisers (1846) ; Le Connetable de Bour- 

 bon (1849) ; Les Fleurs Animees; Le Rossignol des 

 Salons (1850); Les Etoiles (1850); Le Vol a la 

 Duchesse (1857); Pauline (with Dumas); Les 

 Chevaliers du Lansquenet ; Les Fr&res Corses ; I/a 

 Tour Saint- Jacques la Boucherie (with Dumas] ; 

 Les Viveurs de Paris (1857) ; La Nuit du 20 Se> 

 tembre (1858); La Sirfine ' de Paris (1860 ; 

 L'Homme aux Figures de Cire (with Dornay) 

 (1865) ; Lantara (1865) ; Bas de Cuir (with Dor- 

 nay) (1866); L'tle des Sirenes (1866); La Magi- 

 cienne du Palais Royal (1866); Le Medicin des 

 Pauvres (1866); Tabarin (with Grange) (1873); 

 Le Bearnais (1876); La Porteuse de Pain (with 

 Dornay) (1889). Montepin was emphatically a 

 novelist for the people, and he would have dis- 

 claimed pretensions to literary style. His novels 

 bear a strong resemblance to each other, and the 

 same is true of his dramas. He was for a long 

 time identified with Le Petit Journal, in every 

 issue of which an instalment of a story of his ap- 

 peared as a feuilleton. 



Moraes, Jose Prudente de, ex-President of 

 Brazil, born in Sao Paulo; died there, Nov. 30, 

 1902. He was one of the early republicans of 

 Brazil, the leader of the Liberal movement that 

 began in his own province under his direction, 

 and in the end sapped the throne of Dom Pedro 

 II and eventuated in the revolution of 1889. He 

 was a Deputy in the provincial Legislature, after- 

 Avard sat in the National Assembly, was Govern- 

 or of his State after the proclamation of the ro- 

 public, presided over the Constituent Assembly, 

 became a Federal Senator and Vice-President of 

 the Senate, and, when the military dictatorship 

 of Marshal Floriano Peixoto came to an end after 

 the revolt of the fleet, he was elected the first civil 

 President of Brazil in 1894. During his four years 

 of oflicc he had great difficulties to overcome, and 

 in 1897 he barely escaped assassination. He suc- 

 ceeded nevertheless in pacifying the country. Ro- 

 tiring to his plantation after his administration ex- 

 pired, he led the Opposition party in Silo Paulo and 

 placed himself at the head of an abortive move- 

 ment for the revision of the Federal Constitution. 



Muhfeld, Lucien, French novelist and critic 1 , 

 born Aug. 4, 1870; died in November, 1902. He 

 was sublibrarian of the Sorbonne, 1890-'95, an I 

 successively thereafter dramatic critic of the Ro 

 vue de 1'Art Dramatique, Revue Blanche, and the 

 Echo de Paris. He was one of the most brilliant 

 of recent French writers, and his novel L'Associ?o, 

 appearing in book form but a month before his 

 death, at once ran through twenty editions. Hia 

 other novels are Le Mauvais D<5sir (1898); and 

 Carrifire d'Andre Tourette (1900). 



