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TABLET — DETMOLD ment of Refuse Destructor Plants, London, 1899, which is a compre- 1895, the year of his death. The genuine interest with hensive work of reference dealing fully with details of construction which these volumes were welcomed did much to lighten and results of practical experience. See also the Proceedings of the Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers, the last years of a somewhat sombre and solitary life. vols. xiii. p. 216, xxii. p. 211, xxiv. p. 214, and xxv. p. 138 ; His posthumous poems were collected in 1902. The also the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, vos. characteristics of De Tabley’s poetry are pre-eminently cxxii. p. 443, cxxiv. p. 469, cxxxi. p. 413, cxxxviii. p. 508, of style, derived from close study of Milton, cxxix. p. 434, cxxx. pp. 213 and 347, cxxiii. pp. 369 and 498, magnificence sonority, dignity, weight, and colour. His passion for cxxviii. p. 293, and cxxxv. p. 300. (w. H. Ma.) detail was both a strength and a weakness: it lent a lovDe Tabley, John Byrne Leicester ing fidelity to his description of natural objects, but it Warren, 3rd Baron (1835-1895), English poet, was sometimes involved him in a loss of simple effect from born at Tabley House, Cheshire, 26th April 1835. He was over-elaboration of treatment. He was always a student educated at Eton and Christ Church, where he took his of the classic poets, and drew much of his inspiration degree in 1856 with second classes in Classics and in Law directly from them. He was a true and a whole-hearted and Modern History. In the autumn of 1858 he went to artist, who, as a brother-poet well said, “ still climbed the Turkey as unpaid attache to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, clear cold altitudes of song.” His ambition was always and two years later was called to the bar. He became an for the heights, a region naturally ice-bound at periods, officer in the Cheshire Yeomanry, and unsuccessfully con- but always a country of clear atmosphere and bright, vivid tested Mid-Cheshire in 1868 as a Liberal. After his father’s outlines. (a. Wa.) second marriage in 1871 he removed to London, where Detaille, Jean Baptiste Edouard (1848he became a close friend of Tennyson for several years. French painter, was born in Paris, 5th October 1848. From 1877 till his succession to the title in 1887 he was After),working a pupil of Meissonier’s, he first exhibited, lost to his friends, assuming the life of a recluse. It was in the Salon ofas1867, picture representing “A Corner of not till 1892 that he returned to London life, and enjoyed Meissonier’s Studio.” aMilitary life was from the first a a sort of renaissance of reputation and friendship. During principal attraction to the young painter, and he gained his the later years of his life Lord De Tabley made many new reputation by depicting the scenes of a soldier’s life with friends, besides reopening old associations, and he almost every detail truthfully rendered. He exhibited “A Halt” seemed to be gathering around him a small literary com“Soldiers at rest, during the Manoeuvres at the pany when his health broke, and he died 22nd November (1868); Camp of Saint Maur” (1869); “Engagement between 1895 at Hyde, in his sixty-first year. He was buried Cossacks and the Imperial Guard, 1814” (1870). The at Little Peover in Cheshire. Although his reputation war of 1870-71 furnished him with a series of subjects will live almost exclusively as that of a poet, De Tabley which gained him repeated successes. Among his more was a man of many studious tastes. He was at one time important pictures may be named “ The Conquerors ” an authority on numismatics; he wrote two novels; pub- (1872); “The Retreat” (1873); “The Charge of the lished A Guide to the Study of Booh Plates (1889); and 9th Regiment of Cuirassiers in the Village of Morsbronn, the fruit of his careful researches in botany was printed *6th August 1870” (1874); “The Marching Regiment, posthumously in his elaborate Flora of Cheshire (1899). Paris, December 1874” (1875); “A Reconnaissance” Poetry, however, was his first and last passion, and to (1876) ; “ Hail to the Wounded ! ” (1877) ; “ Bonaparte in that he devoted the best energies of his life. De Tabley’s Egypt” (1878); the “Inauguration of the New Opera first impulse towards poetry came from his friend George House ”—a water-colour; the “ Defence of Champigny by Fortescue, with whom he shared a close companionship Faron’s Division ” (1879). He also worked with Alphonse during his Oxford days, and whom he lost, as Tennyson de Neuville on the Panorama of Rezonville. In 1884 lost Hallam, within a few years of their taking their he exhibited at the Salon the “Evening at Rezonville,” degrees. Fortescue was killed by falling from the mast of a panoramic study, and “ The Dream ” (1888), now in the Lord Drogheda’s yacht in November 1859, and this gloomy Luxemburg Gallery (see Plate). Detaille has recorded other event plunged De Tabley into deep depression. Between events in the military history of his country: the “ Sortie 1859 and 1862 De Tabley issued four little volumes of of the Garrison of Huningue,” the “Vincendon Brigade,” pseudonymous verse (by G. F. Preston), in the produc- and “ Bizerte,” reminiscences of the expedition to Tunis. tion of which he had been greatly stimulated by the After a visit to Russia, Detaille exhibited “ The Cossacks sympathy of Fortescue. Once more he assumed a of the Ataman ” and “ The Hereditary Grand Duke at the pseudonym — his Praeterita (1863) bearing the name Head of the Hussars of the Guard.” Other important of William Lancaster. In the next year he pub- works are : “ Victims to Duty,” “ The Prince of Wales lished Eclogues and Monodramas, followed in 1865 by and the Duke of Connaught,” and “Pasteur’s Funeral.” Studies in Verse. These volumes all displayed technical In his picture of “CMlons, 9th October 1896,” exhibited grace and much natural beauty; but it was not till in the Salon, 1898, Detaille has painted the Emperor and the publication of Philoctetes in 1867 that De Tabley Empress of Russia at a review, with M. Felix Faure. met with any wide recognition. Philoctetes bore the Detaille has been a member of the French Institute since initials “ M. A.,” which, to the author’s dismay, were in- 1898, and has been awarded many medals and other terpreted as meaning Matthew Arnold. He at once honours. disclosed his identity, and received the congratulations of See Marius Vachon. Detaille. Paris, 1898.—Frederic his friends, among whom were Tennyson, Browning, and Masson. Edouard Detaille and his Work. Paris and London, Gladstone. In 1868 he published Orestes, in 1870 1891.—J. Claretie. Peintres et sculpteurs contemporaires. Rehearsals, and in 1873 Searching the Net. These last Paris, 1876.—G. Goetschy. Les jeunes Peintres Militaircs. two bore his own name, John Leicester Warren. He was Paris, 1878. somewhat disappointed by their lukewarm reception, and Detmold, a town of Germany, capital of the prinwhen in 1876 The Soldier of Fortune, a drama on which cipality of Lippe Detmold, beautifully situated on the he had bestowed much careful labour, proved a complete east slope of the Teutoburger Wald, 25 miles south of failure, he retired altogether from the literary arena. It Minden, on the Herford Altenbeken line of the Prussian was not until 1893 that he was persuaded to return, and state railways. The residential castle of the princes of the immediate success in that year of his Poems, Dramatic Lippe Detmold (1550), in the Renaissance style, is an and Lyrical, encouraged him to publish a second series in imposing building, lying with its pretty gardens nearly in