468 LANSDOWNE, MARQUIS OF. 



LASKER, EDUARD. 



given time. It is claimed also that the fabric 

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 of texture. Almost any kind of "backing" 

 can be put on (all in one motion of the ma- 



chine), from a smooth, hard one, to that of the 

 heaviest, shaggy overcoating. Its productions 

 include stockinet, ladies' cloakings, overcoat- 

 ings, cheviots, astrakhans, and suitings. 



LMSDOWNE, Henry Charles Keith Petty Fitz- 

 manriee, Marquis of, Governor- General of Can- 

 ada, born in England, Jan. 14, 1845. He re- 

 ceived his education at Eton, and at Balliol 

 College, Oxford, and became a captain in the 

 Yeoman cavalry of Wiltshire. His father, the 

 fourth marquis, died July 5, 1866, and he suc- 

 ceeded to the titles and estates. His minor 

 titles are: in the peerage of Great Britain 

 Earl of Wycombe, of Chipping Wycombe, 

 county Bucks; Viscount Cain and Calnstone, 

 county Wilts ; and Lord Wycombe, Baron of 

 Chipping Wycombe, county Bucks ; in the 

 peerage of Ireland Earl of Kerry and Earl 

 of Shelburne ; Viscount Clanmaurice and Fitz- 



MAKQUIS OF LANBDOWNE. 



maurice; Baron of Kerry, Lixnaw, and Dun- 

 kerron. His mother is Baroness Nairne in her 

 own right; holding the title once held by the 

 Scottish poetess who wrote " The Land o' the 

 Leal," though she is not her descendant. 



The Marquis was one of the Lords of the 

 Treasury from 1868 to 1872, and then became 

 Under- Secretary for War, which office he held 

 two years. He was appointed Under-Secre- 

 tary for India when Mr. Gladstone became 

 Premier in 1880, but retired at the end of two 

 months, because he disagreed with the Gov- 

 ernment's Irish policy. In October, 1883, he 

 succeeded the Marquis of Lome as Governor- 



General of Canada. He married, in November, 

 1869, the youngest daughter of the Duke of 

 Abercorn, and has two sons and two daugh- 

 ters. 



LASKER, Ednard, a German statesman, born 

 in Jaroczin, Posen, Oct. 14, 1829 ; died in New 

 .York, Jan. 5, 1884. He was the son of a Jew- 

 ish merchant, was admitted to the bar in Ber- 

 lin, and passed three years in travel. On re- 

 turning, he took a place in the Berlin City 

 Court in 1856, and in 1858 became associate 

 justice. He resigned this post in 1870, to 

 practice as an attorney. Later he accepted 

 the post of syndic in the mortgage registry 

 office of Berlin. He was elected deputy in the 

 Prussian Chamber in March, 1865, and re- 

 elected in July, 1866. In 1866 he left the Pro- 

 gressive party and became, in association with 

 Karl Twesten, the founder of the National- 

 Liberal party. From 1868 to 1873 he repre- 

 sented Magdeburg in the House of Deputies. 

 From 1875 to 1879 he was member for Frank- 

 fort-on-the-Main. From 1866 till his death he 

 was a member of the Reichstag. 



During the nineteen years of Lasker's par- 

 liamentary activity there was no important 

 legislative work in which he did not take part, 

 and which does not bear the impress of bis 

 knowledge and acumen. His activity centered 

 in the Reichstag. The unification of the Ger- 

 man Empire on a representative basis was the 

 aim of his life. In the civil consolidation of 

 the empire he bore as conspicuous a part as 

 Count Bismarck in the sphere of dynastic and 

 international politics. The great National- 

 Liberal party, of which he was the chief 

 founder and parliamentary leader, united the 

 liberal thought and hopes of the country in 

 favor of the policy of Bismarck, until the time 

 when by its support the latter had overcome 

 the particularist elements and was able after 

 the French war to repudiate the constitutional 

 doctrines which he had temporarily professed. 

 A great part of Lasker's work was inconspicu- 

 ous. He was regularly placed on the com- 

 mittees, in the Reichstag and the Prussian 

 Landtag, which were appointed for the elabo- 

 ration of legislative projects, and was almost 

 invariably intrusted with the preparation of 

 the report. In taking so prominent a part in 

 the practical work of legislation, however, he 

 became the most frequent speaker and propo- 

 nent of motions in the legislative halls, and 

 thus was a familiar figure before the public. 

 Next to the ideal of German unity, the cause 

 of legality and the abolition of arbitrary police 

 powers was nearest to his heart. In this sense 

 the Prussian local administrative regulations 



