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Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth, Irish schol- 

 ar, born in 1829; died in Galway, Ireland, Jan. 

 26, 1902. For more than forty years he was Pro- 

 fessor of Greek in Queen's College, Galway. He 

 was the author of A Latin Grammar for Ele- 

 mentary Classes (1857); Ancient Leaves (1862); 

 History and Philosophy of Story-Telling (1863); 

 On History and Progress (1863) ; Day Dreams of a 

 Philosopher (1864) ; Nursery Nonsense, or Khymes 

 without Reason (1864); Fun and Earnest, or 

 Rhymes with Reason (1865) ; The Wit and Wis- 

 dom of the Athenian Drama (1867); and Way- 

 side Thoughts (1868). 



Tiele, Cornells Petrus, a Dutch theologian, 

 born in Leyden, Holland, Dec. 16, 1830; died there, 

 Jan. 14, 1902. He was educated for the ministry 

 at the Remonstrant Seminary in Amsterdam, and 

 after being pastor of the Remonstrant Church at 

 Moordrecht from 1853 to 1856 became pastor of a 

 similar church in Rotterdam. Here he soon at- 

 tracted attention as a preacher and scholar, and 

 when the Remonstrant Seminary was transferred 

 to Leyden in 1873 he was appointed a professor. 

 In 1877 he accepted the chair of History of Relig- 

 ion, in the University of Leyden, while retaining 

 his post at the seminary. Prof. Tiele published 

 History of the Religions of Zarathustra (1864); 

 Comparative History of the Religions of Egypt 

 and Mesopotamia (1869-72), which was quickly 

 translated into French, German, and English; 

 Outlines of the History of Religion (1876); Ele- 

 ments of the Science of Religion (1897-'99; and 

 History of Religions (1901). 



Tissot, James, French painter, born in Nantes, 

 Oct. 15, 1836; died at the Abbey of Buillon, Aug. 

 8, 1902. He was a pupil of Ingres in the cole 

 des Beaux-Arts, studied under Lamothe, and, in 



London, under 

 Seymour Haden, 

 became a finished 

 drafts ma n , but 

 rather feeble col- 

 orist of French 

 classic traditions. 

 In his earlierwork 

 his favorite sub- 

 jects were types 

 of female beauty, 

 treated in a frivo- 

 lous manner, that 

 were striking and 

 attractive. He ex- 

 hibited A Prome- 

 nade in the Snow 

 in 1859, and The 

 Return of Faust 

 and Marguerite in 

 1861, which is in the Luxembourg. In 1863 

 he sent to the Salon The Prodigal; in 1864, 

 Two Sisters; in 1865, Spring; in 1866, A Girl at 

 Church; in 1867, Confidence; in 1868, the water- 

 color Melancholy; in 1869, A Widow; in 1870, 

 A Girl in a Boat. He produced etchings of Eng- 

 lish scenes and a series on Parisian Women, and 

 illustrated a novel by De Goncourt and other 

 books. Under the impulse of a sudden bereave- 

 ment he went to Palestine and devoted six years 

 to studying the scenery and places, atmosphere, 

 skies, architecture, plants, animals, utensils, cos- 

 tumes, the daily life, customs, and manners, and 

 the Semitic types to be found there. His purpose 

 was to illustrate in pictures all the recorded inci- 

 dents in the life of Jesus Christ. This he accom- 

 plished, retiring to the ruins of the old abbey 

 in the Doubs in 1896 after he returned to 

 France w y ith innumerable sketches and studies, in 

 350 water-colors and an immense number of small- 



er sketches and drawings. As the paintings were 

 intended for reproduction, the freedom of artistic 

 treatment was somewhat restrained, yet they con- 

 stitute collectively a marvelous and original work 

 of art in which the Biblical scenes are depi<-t<-<! 

 with force and feeling, with an entire absence of 

 the conventions and traditional sentiment of re- 

 ligious art, in their true environment. His exact 

 and faithful impressions of Oriental life are real- 

 istic without loss of dignity and minute in ethno- 

 logical and historical details without a lowering of 

 artistic quality, while the action of the sacred story 

 is powerfully rendered and the actors throughout 

 the series consistently interpret his conception of 

 their character and individuality. The paintiii'." 

 were reproduced by Lemercier in Paris under the 

 title of La Vie de notre Seigneur, Jesus-Christ. 

 Tissot was still working at Buillon when he died, 

 painting the scenes and incidents of the Old Testa- 

 ment. His water-colors and pen-and-ink drawings 

 of the life of Christ, 540 works in all, are in the gal- 

 lery of the Brooklyn Institute of Art, having been 

 purchased for $60,000, the price set by the artist, who 

 refused to allow the paintings to be sold separately. 

 Tisza, Koloman, Hungarian statesman, born 

 in Grosswardein, Dec. 16, 1830; died in Budapest, 

 March 23, 1902. He belonged to the noble Prot- 

 estant family of Borosjeno in the county of Bi- 

 harar, studied law, and obtained a post in the 

 Ministry of Education in 1848, which he resigned 

 as soon as the revolutionary storm burst, but did 

 not identify himself with the revolution. He 

 went abroad to study, returned to his father's 

 place in Geszt, his part of the inheritance, and 

 first took part in public affairs as the champion of 

 Protestant autonomy in opposition to Count Leo 

 Thun's patent of Sept. 1, 1859, for the regulation 

 of the Protestant communions. This interference 

 of the Austrian Government in a branch of Hun- 

 garian affairs that the Hungarians had always 

 settled among themselves gave a fresh impetus to 

 the constitutional idea and brought Koloman 

 Tisza to the front as its advocate. When the 

 prefect called to examine the correspondence that 

 Tisza was holding with the proscribed agitators 

 and asked him to show a specimen of the incen- 

 diary documents he handed out the imperial pat- 

 ent as the only one he possessed. When in Octo- 

 ber, 1860, absolute government in the Austrian 

 Empire was relinquished in a decree recognizing 

 constitutional and representative rights in the va- 

 rious historical states existing, the Magyar Lib- 

 erals were inclined to accept for Hungary the 

 liberties offered, as they exceeded the constitution- 

 al rights that practical politicians then hoped to 

 obtain for Hungary. Tisza induced them to re- 

 ject the whole scheme of provincial self-govern- 

 ment and to stand firmly for the historical rights 

 of Hungary as an independent state. Henceforth 

 he was the acknowledged leader of the movement 

 for the restoration of the Hungarian Constitution. 

 When Parliament was reconvoked in 1861 he \\:i< 

 elected to the House of Deputies from the town 

 of Debreczin and succeeded Count Ladislaus Tele- 

 ky in the leadership of the Left Center, the con- 

 stitutional party which opposed Francis Deak's 

 conciliatory proposal to petition the Austrian Em- 

 peror for the restoration of the ancient liberties, 

 holding it unsuitable to address the monarch un- 

 til he should become the crowned constitutional 

 King of Hungary. When Deak's petition was 

 summarily rejected by the Vienna Government 

 its author drew up a fresh address which presented 

 the Hungarian demands so fully and unequivocal- 

 ly that Tisza accepted it as an adequate expression 

 of the Magyar aspirations. This memorial voi- 

 cing the unanimous opinion of the nation was an- 



