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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



lished a novitiate for the order of St. Dominic. 

 Here he became famous for eloquence and skill 

 as a public speaker. Father Burke went to 

 Rome again, and was made Superior of St. 

 Clement's. He remained in Rome till 1854, 

 when he made his way back again to Dublin. 

 In 1871 he visited the United States in the 

 capacity of Visitor-General of the Dominican 

 Order. He delivered lectures almost daily, 

 with great power and effect. In November, 

 1872, he lectured in New York, on J. A. 

 Froude's views of the relations between Eng- 

 land and Ireland, which resulted in an ani- 

 mated controversy. Father Burke also pub- 

 lished " Lectures and Sermons " in 1873. 



Bnrsian, Conrad, a German philologist, died in 

 Munich in September, 1883, at the age of 52. 

 He was born in Saxony, and studied at Leip- 

 sic under Haupt and O. Jahns. After gradua- 

 tion he made a classical tour in Southern Eu- 

 rope, became extraordinary professor at Leip- 

 sic, was ordinary professor at Tubingen at the 

 age of thirty-one, was professor at Jena and 

 Zurich, and from 1874 at Munich. Besides 

 an exhaustive geography of Greece and nu- 

 merous editions of classical works, he pub- 

 lished an annual review of the progress of the 

 science of classical antiquity, and recently com- 

 pleted a " History of Philology." 



Carl, Prince, of Prussia, the last surviving 

 brother of the German Emperor, died in Ber- 

 lin, Jan. 21, 1883. He was born in 1801, and 

 married a sister of the present Empress, a Prin- 

 cess of Saxe-Weimar. He passed through the 

 grades of military promotion to the rank of 

 field -marshal, and as chief of artillery intro- 

 duced improved ordnance ; yet unlike his son, 

 Prince Friedrich Carl, he never conducted any 

 military operations. 



Castellani, Alessandro, an Italian antiquary, died 

 June 8, 1883. His father was a picture- 

 dealer and jeweler, the reviver of the granu- 

 lated goldsmith's work of the Etruscans and 

 the classical styles of jewelry, which have been 

 further developed by his other son Agosto, and 

 by Giuliano, in London. Alessandro was an 

 ardent republican. In consequence of the 

 Revolution of 1848, he was confined in the cas- 

 tle of St. Angelo, from which he escaped by 

 feigning insanity. He settled at Naples as a 

 collector and dealer in antiquities. His knowl- 

 edge, taste, and business tact enabled him to 

 lay hands, on all the finest discoveries of Etru- 

 ria and Southern Italy, and to dispose of them 

 at profitable prices to the European museums. 

 Two large collections were bought by the Brit- 

 ish Museum. A third, compo>ed of gems, gold 

 ornaments, and bronzes, was offered at the 

 Centennial Exhibition to any American mnse- 

 um ; but, as the price was not obtained, it was 

 disposed of in Europe. 



Charles II, Duke of Parma, died in Nice. He 

 was born in 1799, and succeeded his mother in 

 the duchy of Lucca in 1824. This land was 

 ceded to Tuscany in 1847. In that year he 

 succeeded Marie Louise, widow of Napoleon, 



in the duchy of Partna. By the Revolution of 

 1848 he was driven out, and in Saxony signed 

 an abdication in favor of his son, who died in 

 1854. The son of the latter was dispossessed 

 in 1859. Duke Charles married in 1820 the 

 daughter of Victor Emanuel I of Sardinia. In 

 later life he resided at Nice, under the title of 

 Count of Villafrauca. 



Clesinger, Jean Baptist? AugHste, a French sculpt- 

 or, died in Paris, Jan. 6, 1883. He was born 

 at Besancon in 1814, and studied sculpture 

 under his father and then in Italy. He gained 

 his first reputation with a bust of Scribe, 

 and executed several others. In 1846 he ex- 

 hibited a faun and a statue of "Melancholy," 

 and in 1847 four pieces, one of which, a statue 

 of a girl bitten by a serpent, was greatly ad- 

 mired. In 1848 he presented the Provisional 

 Government with a colossal bust of " Liberty," 

 and executed a statue of " Fraternity," statues 

 of Rachel as "Phsedra " and "Lesbia," statues 

 of "Tragedy," "Sappho," "Cornelia and her 

 Children" (1861), "Cleopatra "(1869), eques- 

 trian statues of Francis I (1856) and the pres- 

 ent Austrian Emperor (1873) ; and portraits of 

 George Sand, whose daughter he married, Gen. 

 .Cissey, and others were among his numerous 

 works. He followed Canova in using color and 

 picturesque effects, but carried this classical re- 

 vival to the extreme of effeminacy. 



Collier, John Payne, an English Shakspearean 

 critic, died Sept. 18, 1883. He was born in 

 1789. His father, John Collier, was a writer 

 and publisher. The son, after studying law, 

 became a parliamentary reporter and a writer 

 of essays and reviews. As editor of the " Even- 

 ing Chronicle," he began to write about Eliza- 

 bethan literature, and he soon after devoted 

 himself more completely to literature, and was 

 the most efficient seconder of the efforts of 

 Lamb and Hazlitt to revive an interest in the 

 minor poets of Shakespeare's time. He pub- 

 lished " The Poetical Decameron," brought out 

 a new edition of Dodsley's "Old Plays," pre- 

 pared a " Bibliographical and Critical Cata- 

 logue," and, with the facilities of the libraries 

 of Lord Egerton and the Duke of Devonshire at 

 his command, published "New Facts regard- 

 ing the Life ,of Shakespeare." He published 

 Shakespeare's plays, and wrote a " Life of 

 Shakespeare." and many other works. A dis- 

 covery of a folio of Shakespeare with marginal 

 notes gave rise to a controversy in 1859-'60, 

 and imputations against his literary honesty. 



Conscience, Hendrik, a Flemish novelist, died 

 Sept. 10, 1883, He was born Dec. 3, 1812, 

 at Antwerp, where his father, a Frenchman 

 from Besancon, was settled as a merchant. 

 He enlisted in the Belgian army in 1830, at the 

 time of the Revolution, and, during his four 

 years' service, wrote numerous martial and 

 patriotic songs in the manner of B6ranger, 

 most of them in Flemish. When he was dis- 

 charged, in 1836, his father gave him the 

 choice of pursuing a mercantile career and giv- 

 ing up writing, or of shifting for himself. He 



