the Bonnie Brier Bush, etc. 358 pp. 12mo. Illustrated. $1.50. New York: Dodd, Meade & Co.

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NECROLOGY.

ABBEY, HENRY E., theatrical manager; born in Akron, O., June 27, 1846; died in New York city October 17. His first occupation was as a clerk in his father's jewelry store; in 1873 he succeeded to the business. His first theatrical experience was as manager of the Akron theatre in 1869. His association with John B. Schoeffel began in 1876, in connection with the Academy of Music in Buffalo, N. Y.; but later they secured the Park theatre, New York, then Booth's theatre, and the Park theatre, Philadelphia, Penn. Mme. Adelina Patti appeared at the Academy under Mr. Abbey's management; and on November 28, 1881, the Metropolitan Casino was opened by the Abbey Comic Opera Company. It was also at about this time that Mr. Abbey became the manager of the Grand opera house, in New York, and the Park theatre in Boston.

It was at Booth's theatre, on November 8, 1880, that Mr. Abbey first introduced Sarah Bernhardt to the American public, in Adrienne Lecouvreur. From that time the direction in this country of important foreign attractions was an important part of the work of Mr. Abbey and his partners. Besides Mme. Bernhardt, they managed Henry Irving, Mme. Patti, Mme. Gerster, Josef Hofman, the child

pianist; Sarasati, D'Albert, M. Coquelin, Mme. Jane Hading, M. Mounet-Sully, and others.

The Metropolitan opera house was opened October 22, 1883, being managed during its first season by Abbey and Schoeffel, with Maurice Grau as business manager. Mr. Grau was later admitted as a partner; and under their management at different times the Metropolitan opera house became a recognized centre of educative influence for the development of a taste for the higher phases of operatic and dramatic art in America. It was burned on August 27, 1892 (Vol. 2, p. 316), but was restored the following year (Vol. 3, pp. 177, 863). During the World's Fair at Chicago, the firm managed the spectacle, America. Abbey's theatre, at Broadway and 38th street, New York city, was built in 1893, and opened in the autumn by Henry Irving and Ellen Terry in Becket. The failure and reorganization of the firm of Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau in May last, have already been noted in this volume (p. 471). Mr. Abbey in 1876 married Kate Kingsley of Northampton, Mass., who died in 1883. In 1886 he married Florence Gerard, an actress; but the wife was successful in a suit for separation brought early in the present year.

BEAL, GENERAL GEORGE L.; born in Norway, Me., May 21, 1825; died there Dec. 11. During the Civil War, his regiment covered the famous retreat of General Banks from Winchester to Williamsport, and participated in the battles of Cedar Mountain and Antietam. He was severely wounded at Antietam. He afterwards participated in the battles of the Red River and in the Shenandoah Valley campaign in 1864. At the battle of Sabine Crossroads, La., he rendered gallant service, and won his general's stars. His brigade was the first to advance and break the enemy's lines at Cedar Creek after Sheridan's ride from Winchester. He was a delegate to the republican national convention which nominated General Grant for president in 1868, and was elector at-large on the republican ticket that year. He was the first department commander of the G. A. R. in Maine. From 1880 to 1885 he was adjutant-general of Maine, and was state treasurer from 1888 to 1894.

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BERGIN, DR. DARBY, conservative M. P. for Cornwall and Stormont, Ont.; born in Toronto, Ont., Sep. 7, 1826; died Oct. 22 from paralysis resulting from the shock of a fall down stairs on September He was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, and McGill University, Montreal. He organized a medical department during the Northwest rebellion of 1885, receiving the rank of surgeon-general. His parliamentary life began with his election as M. P. for Cornwall in 1872; was defeated in 1874; re-elected in 1878. In 1882 he was chosen to represent the new constituency of Cornwall and Stormont in the commons, and was re-elected in 1887, 1891, and 1896. In the house his chief efforts were in the line of factory legislation. He was the principal promoter of the Ontario & Pacific railway.

BLAISDELL, J. J., professor of rhetoric and English literature in Beloit College, Wisconsin; died in Kenosha, Wis., Oct. 10.

BOWEN, SAYLES JENKS, ex-mayor of Washington, D. C.; born in Cayuga co., N. Y., Oct. 7, 1813; died in Washington Dec. 16. In 1845 he was made a clerk in the treasury department, but was removed for having aided in distributing literature favoring the "Wilmot Proviso" of 1847. As a prosecutor of claims against the government he had relations with many influential men of the South, but always remained loyal to the Union. In 1861 Mr. Lincoln made him commissioner of police for the District of Columbia. The same

year he was made disbursing officer for the United States senate, and in 1862 was appointed collector of internal revenue for the District of Columbia, which office he held until he was appointed postmaster of Washington in 1863. In 1868 he was elected mayor. It was he who first suggested public schools for the colored children of Washington, and he drew the bills later enacted into law. He was also the first executive officer of the district who bestowed offices of trust and honor on colored men.

CAMERON, HECTOR, Q. C., president of the Coburg, Northumberland & Pacific railway, formerly M. P.; died in Coburg, Ont., N 2, aged 64.

CATLIN, GEORGE L., ex-United States consul to Zurich; born on Staten Island, N. Y., Feb. 13, 1840; died Dec. 14. Was graduated at Yale in 1860; served through the war; and then joined the editorial staff of the New York Commercial Advertiser. He held office as consul at La Rochelle and Limoges, France; Stuttgart, Bavaria; and lastly at Zurich, Switzerland. His book entitled Bietigheim first drew attention of the German government to the strategic value of the place of that name. Another work, The Presidential Campaign of 1896, written in 1888, contained some remarkable predictions.

CRAWFORD, REV. DR. MORRIS D'C., Methodist Episcopal divine; born in Albany, N. Y., Feb. 19, 1819; died in New York city Nov 24. He entered the ministry in his twenty-first year, and was at different times presiding elder of the districts of New York, Poughkeepsie, and Newburg. At the time of his death Dr. Crawford was president of the New York City Church Extension and Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, vice-president of the board of managers of the Missionary Society, president of the board of directors of the New York Deaconesses' Home and Training School, president of the board of trustees of the New York conference, president of the Historical Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the City of New York, and a trustee of the Wesleyan University, of Drew Theological Seminary, and of Drew Ladies' Seminary.

CRISP, HON. CHARLES FREDERICK, ex-speaker of the United States house of representatives; born in Sheffield, Eng., Jan., 9, 1845; died in Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 23. For a biographical sketch of Mr. Crisp, see Volume 3, page 500. Mr. Crisp was re-elected to the 54th congress in 1894, but gave way as speaker to Thomas B. Reed of Maine, and became leader of the democratic minority on the floor of the house. He was a pronounced advocate of a low tariff and the free coinage of silver. At the time of his death he was democratic candidate for the seat in the United States senate to be vacated by Senator Gordon in 1897. A portrait of Mr. Crisp appears on page 40 of Volume 4.

DELANO, COLUMBUS, ex-secretary of the interior; born at Shoreham, Vt., in 1809; died at Mount Vernon, O., Oct. 23. Was admitted to the bar in 1831, and for a time held office as prosecuting attorney. Was elected to the 29th congress as a whig. About 1848 he removed to New York city and became partner in a banking firm; in 1856 returned to Ohio to engage in agriculture; in 1860 was a delegate to the republican national convention; and in 1861 commissary-general of Ohio; in 1863 was a member of the Ohio legislature. Was elected to the 39th congress as a republican, being chairman of the committee on claims; also served on the foreign affairs committee in the 40th congress. In Mar., 1869, President Grant appointed him commis

sioner of internal revenue; and in Nov., 1870, secretary of the interior. He retired from the post in Oct., 1875.

FABRE, MGR. EDOUARD CHARLES, Roman Catholic archbishop of Montreal, Que.; born in Montreal Feb. 28, 1827; died there Dec. 30. He was educated at the College of St. Hyacinthe, and in France, where he assumed the cassock. He was ordained priest in 1850, and in May, 1876, succeeded Bishop Bourget as bishop of Montreal. In 1886, at the time of the elevation of Mgr. Taschereau to the rank of cardinal, Mgr. Fabre was made archbishop and placed at the head of the ecclesiastical province of Montreal. During the whole of his career he strove to promote harmony and goodwill among all classes and creeds. After many years of difficulties he finally succeeded in bringing to an amicable arrangement the university troubles in Montreal, and the erection of a quasi-independent university attached to Laval of Quebec. At many critical periods in the city's history he stood up for its best interest, notably at the time of the Northwest rebellion of 1885 and in the smallpox epidemic. He was devoted to the cause of temperance.

FELLOWS, COLONEL JOHN R., district attorney for New York; born in Troy, N. Y., in 1832; died in New York city Dec. 7. He was educated by an uncle in Camden, Ark., and was admitted to the bar in that state at the age of twenty-three. He vigorously opposed secession, but, on the outbreak of the war, enlisted in the rebel army. He fought in Virginia in 1861, and in 1862 under General Albert Sidney Johnston until after the battle of Shiloh and the siege of Corinth, Miss. He attained a colonelcy, and was attached to the staff of General Beale of the department of East Mississippi. He later was assistant inspector-general at Port Hudson, La., and, after the fall of Vicksburg, July 4, 1863, negotiated for the surrender of Port Hudson. As a prisoner of war, he was detained on Johnson's island in Lake Erie until early in 1865. He resumed the practice of law in Arkansas; in 1866 became a state senator; and in 1868 was a delegate to the democratic national convention in New York, later removing to that city, becoming assistant district attorney. Was district attorney 1887-90, opposed to Tammany; in 1890 entered congress. elected to congress in 1892, but resigned in 1893, and again became district attorney, this time as a Tammany candidate. Charges of neglect of duty preferred by a committe of Good Government club men during the upheaval of 1894, were dismissed after investigation, by Governor Flower. Colonel Fellows was a Tammany delegate to the Chicago convention of 1896, and opposed the adoption of a freesilver plank. He "bolted" the Chicago platform and ticket, and was a delegate to the national democratic convention in Indianapolis, Ind. For portrait of Col. Fellows, see Volume 4, page 841.

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FERRIS, GEORGE W. G., inventor and builder of the famous Ferris Wheel at the World's Fair of 1893; born at Galesburg, Ill.; died at Pittsburg, Penn., Nov. 22. He was a graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. The Ferris Wheel was constructed in Pittsburg, and put up under the inventor's supervision. Its capacity was 1,440 passengers, and it brought Mr. Ferris a fortune. After the Fair was over, he sold out his interest in the wheel.

FERRY, THOMAS W., ex-United States senator; born in Mackinac, Mich., June 1, 1827; died in Grand Haven, Mich., Oct. 14. He served in the state legislature from 1850 to 1856, and in 1865 was elected to congress, serving until 1871, when he was elected to the United States senate. He was a member of the special committee of the senate

that framed the resumption act of Jan. 14, 1875, and in that year he was chosen president pro tempore of the senate. On the death of Vice-President Wilson, he became acting vice-president, serving in that capacity until March 4, 1877. While acting as vice-president he delivered the address and presided at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Penn., on July 4, 1876. He also presided at the impeachment trial of Secretary Belknap and over the sixteen joint meetings of the congress during the electoral count of 1876-7. He was re-elected to the senate in 1877, and was a candidate for re-election in 1883, but was defeated by Thomas W. Palmer after a bitter struggle. FOSTER, JOHN Y., for twenty-five years secretary of the republican state committee of New Jersey; born in Clinton, N. J., June 19, 1831; died in Newark Nov. 13. He attained distinction as a journalist, and at the time of his death had been for years connected with the Frank Leslie publications.

FULLER, LEVI K.. ex-governor of Vermont; born in Westmoreland, N. H., Feb. 24, 1841; died at Brattleboro, Vt., Oct. 10. He was for over twenty years vice-president of the organ-building firm of Estey & Company. He declined an appointment offered by President Grant in 1873, as commissioner to the Vienna Exposition. He organized the Fuller Light Battery of the Vermont national guard, attaining the brevet rank of colonel in 1887. After service in the state senate, he was elected lieutenant-governor as a republican in 1886, and in 1892 was chosen governor.

GAMBLE, WILLIAM M., commander, United States navy, retired; born in Philadelphia, Penn., Mar. 22, 1825; died in Morristown, N. J., Oct. 19. Was graduated at Annapolis in 1842, and won distinction in the Civil War as executive officer of the New Ironsides during the blockade of Charleston (S. C.) harbor, and later as lieutenant-commander of the monitor Osage of Admiral Farragut's fleet. He was retired in 1867.

GIBSON, REV. DR. WILLIAM T., Protestant Episcopal divine; died in Utica, N. Y., Nov. 23, aged seventy-four. For years he was editor of The Gospel Messenger and The Church Eclectic; for twenty-five years he was chaplain of the state hospital in Utica; from 1870 to 1872 he was trustee of the General Theological Seminary; and he was a delegate to the general conventions of 1886 and 1889.

GOULD, PROFESSOR BENJAMIN APTHORP, astronomer; born in Boston, Mass., Sep. 27, 1824; died in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 26. He was graduated at Harvard at nineteen years of age, and taught for a year as master of Roxbury Latin School, when he went to Europe to study. On his return he was employed to determine astronomically the various geodetic stations of the United States Coast Survey. He was among the first to use electricity for the purpose of determining the differences of longitude and recording by telegraph the exchange of signals and stellar observations. Hardly was the transatlantic cable laid before Dr. Gould started for Valentia, Ireland, and there established the station from which the difference of longitude between Europe and America was determined, and connected the two continents by the most precise observations. Dr. Gould was one of the founders of the school of American astronomy. The first astronomical journal ever published in the United States was founded and published at his expense. Between 1855 and 1858

he organized the Dudley Observatory at Albany, N. Y.; and it was there that the normal clock, protected from atmospheric variations