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Rh opportunity for removing the dead from the field of battle at Buzenval. At the general Sections of Feb. 8, 1871, he stood as a candidate in the department of Haute-Vienne, in the republican interest; but, being unsuccessful, he resumed his journalistic and literary pursuits. Among his works are, "Une Drolesse," 1862; " Piérille," 1868; "Les Ornières de la Vie," 1864; "Les Victimes de Paris," 1864; "Les Contemporains onbliés: Elisa Mercœur, Georges Farcy, Alphonse Robbe," 1864; "Voyages d'un Parisien," 1865; "Petrus Borel le Lycanthrope, sa vie et ses œuvres," 1865; " L'Assassin," 1866, afterwards republished under the title of "Robert Burat;" "Mademoiselle Cachemire," 1867; "La Libre Parole," a collection of lectures, 1868; "Madeleine Bertin," 1868, a political novel, which was a great success; "Histoire de la Révolution de 1870-71," which first appeared in parts with illustrations (2 vols. 4to), and was republished in 5 vols. 8to. (1875-76); "Les Derniers Montagnards," "Molière et see œuvres;" "La Vie Moderne au Théâtre," "Les Prussiens chez eux," "La Guerre Nationale, 1870-71," "Ruines et Fantômes," 1873; "Peintres et Sculpteurs Contemporains," 1878; "Les Muscadins," a novel, 1874; "Camille Desmoulins, Lucile Desmoulins, Étude sur les Dantonistes," 1875; "J. B. Carpeaux," 1875; "Portraits Contemporains," 2 vols., 1876; "Le Beau Solignac," 2 vols., 1876; "Le Renégat," a novel, 1876; "Cinq Ans après, l'Alsace et la Lorraine depuis l'Annexion," 1876; "Le Train, no. 7," 1877; "La Maison vide," 1878; "Le Troisième Dessous," a novel, 1878; and "Monsieur le Ministre," a novel, 1881. M. Jules Claretie has also written several pieces for the stage. His play "Les Mirabeau" was brought out at the Théâtre des Nations, Oct. 81, 1879; tad "Monsieur le Ministre," founded upon the novel with that title, was produced at the Gymnase Feb. 2. 1883.

CLARK,, M.D., born on Oct. 28, 1826, was educated first at Aberdeen, and afterwards at Edinburgh. In the extra-academical Medical School of this city he gained the first medals in anatomy, physiology, chemistry, botany, materia medica, surgery, pathology, and practice of physic. For two years he assisted Dr. Hughes Bennett in the pathological department of the Royal Infirmary, and was demonstrator of anatomy to Dr. Robert Knox in the final course of lectures delivered by that celebrated anatomist. For four years Dr. Clarke had charge of the pathological department of the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar, where he delivered lectures on the use of the microscope in practical medicine. In 1854 he took his degree of M.D. at the University of Aberdeen, settled in the metropolis, became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London, and was elected cm the staff of the London Hospital. In 1858 Dr. Clark was made a Fellow of the College of Physicians, in which he has held the offices of Croonian Lecturer, Councillor, and Examiner in Medicine. He has been also Lettsomian Lecturer and President of the Medical Society of London. Dr. Clark originally intended to devote himself exclusively to the cultivation of pathology; but turned by the force of circumstances from the course on which he had entered, he has been now long occupied in the work of a practical physician. He is the author of numerous essays, lectures, and reviews, the professional portion of which refers for the most part to diseases of the respiratory and digestive organs. He is at present Senior Physician and Lecturer on Clinical Medicine to the London Hospital, President of the Metropolitan Counties Branch of the British Medical Association,