published works, 'A Chapter from Aristotle,' issued in 1864, and 'Problems of Life and Mind - First Series: the Foundation of a

and the

Creed,' two volumes brought out in 1875." He was "" one of the founders of that very clever but most unsuccessful weekly the Leader, The Leader of which he was the literary editor from its Fortnightly. commencement, in 1849, till July, 1854. Eleven years later he helped to usher into the world the Fortnightly Review, assuming the editorship and retaining it till he was succeeded by Mr. John Morley. However, he always remained a contributor, and it was for the Fortnightly that he wrote the last paper which appeared publicly under his name. It is the first article in the June number of the present year, entitled 'The Dread and Dislike of Science.'......Mr. Lewes often told his friends His death. that the most desirable end of a well-spent life was a painless death. The end came to him after a very short illness at his house, the Priory, North Bank, Regent's Park, where he had spent many years-years, he declared himself, of great happiness."

Melville.

On the 14th of December Mr. Hawley Smart renders tribute to Major Whyte Melville, the Major Whyte "Laureate of fox-hunting," who was killed by a fall from his horse in the hunting field on the 5th. He was born in 1831, entered the

'Digby Grand.

The Princess
Alice.

Coldstream Guards in 1839, and, after serving for ten years as captain, retired, but on the outbreak of the war with Russia returned to military life and joined the cavalry of the Turkish contingent. Mr. Hawley Smart says: "In that vivid picture of a guardsman travelling the road to ruin,' 'Digby Grand,' there is a dash of pathos which must always appeal to the soldier. I mean where the hero, compelled by his difficulties to sell out, realizes that the sentry is carrying arms to him for the last time-a salute that he is even then no longer entitled to-when for the last time he touches his hat to the colours he had carried so proudly for the first time three years before."

On the 14th of December intelligence was received of the sad death of the Princess Alice, and the Athenæum on the following Saturday makes reference to the great kindness she showed to many eminent literary men in Germany. The translation of Miss Octavia Hill's work on the London poor was executed at Her Royal Highness's instigation : 'Octavia Hill : aus der Londoner Armenpflege (Homes of the London Poor) uebersetzt im Auftrage Ihrer Königlichen Hoheit, der Grossherzogin von Darmstadt, Wiesbaden, 1878.' The Princess wrote a preface to this translation. She had been

much struck by the effect of such work as Miss Hill's on the homes of the people and their relation to the rich, exclaiming, 'It is beautiful! it is like what one has among tenants in the country in England.'"

The obituary of 1878 included Canon Mozley, best known by his 'Eight Lectures on Miracles,' which formed the Bampton Lectures for 1865; Sir William Stirling - Maxwell, whose second wife was the Hon. Mrs. Norton; Mr. W. Browning Smith, who, besides taking an important part in the sub-editorial work of the 'Encyclopædia Britannica,' contributed a very considerable number of original articles, mostly biographical, including the lives of Robert Chambers, Chatham, and Cranmer ; Sir E. Cust, author of 'Annals of the Wars of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries'; Sir E. Creasy, who in the palmy days of Bentley's Miscellany took a share, with Mr. Sheehan and Dr. Gordon Latham, in the Tipperary Hall papers; Mr. C. W. Goodwin, once the editor of the Parthenon, and author of the article on The Mosaic Cosmogony,' which formed a portion of Essays and Reviews'; Mr. H. T. Prinsep, author of various works connected with Indian history and finance; Dr. Duff; Mr. Jacob de Liefde, one of the Daily News war correspondents in

Obituary,

1878.

1870-71; Mr. Joseph Bonomi, for many years the Curator of the Soane Museum, and the first hieroglyphic draughtsman of his day; Mr. J. Hain Friswell, author of 'The Gentle Life'; Mr. H. T. Riley, who edited the 'Memorials of London in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries,' printed in 1868, and was for several years a contributor to the Athenæum; Lord John Russell-" the old familiar name, more likely to remain attached to his memory than the later 'earl""; Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, Deputy Keeper of the Public Records; Sir George Back, a link between the Arctic exploration of the past and present generation, who served with Franklin in the Trent in 1818, and on his return from an Arctic expedition in 1833-5 "received the exceptional honour (which the king, William the Fourth, and he alone enjoyed) of being promoted to the rank of Captain by a special order in Council"; Dr. Abraham Benisch, author of Judaism - Surveyed,' who was for a number of years editor of the Jewish Chronicle; the Rev. George Gilfillan, author of 'A Gallery of Literary Portraits' and 'Bards of the Bible,' and under whose superintendence Mr. Nichol, of Edinburgh, published his wellknown octavo edition of the British poets; Dr. R. Willis, who published lives both of

Spinoza and Servetus; Sir Richard John Griffith, Bart., the eminent geologist and engineer; Mr. Thomas Belt, the well-known traveller, naturalist, and geologist, who died at Denver, Colorado; Mr. David Laing, "who for a large portion of the century has been known for his extensive knowledge of historical and antiquarian matters connected with Scotland"; Canon Raines, the antiquary, who bequeathed fifty folio volumes of Lancashire MSS. to the Chetham Library; and Dr. Blakey.