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' 1837-41; "Lemons 8ur >gie et rAnatomie com- Elomme et des Animaux," and other works. M. aperintended the publi- new edition of Lamarck's re Natorelle des non- " 1838-1845; and has d to various scientific ictionaries, and periodi- honorary degree of M.D. red upon him by the uni- Leyden in Feb. 1875. In ing of Portugal conferred le Grand Cross of the hrist.

IDS, Henbt Sutheb- II in 1828, was educated the branch schools of Uege, London, and in lere he lived many years. e visited Eussia, on the r the coronation of Alez- , and, remaining some i Moscow, studied the jiguage. He published, collection of " Sketches es" (contributed origi- i magazine), under uie e " Russians at Home." followed, in 1862, by a of the Opera." In that Idwards went to Poland, nsurrection seemed to be and to Bussia, where rere being taken for the ion of the serfs, as special lent of the Times; and, m to England, published Bh Captivity." In 1863, ly after the rising in e was again sent out by He took part in and some of the principal B from GaUcia into the >f Poland; went, at the he insurrection, to War- soon after his arrival, d to quit the city within X hours. Allowed to route, he proceeded to Bburg, and thence to id the South of Bussia, to G^alicia through Elieff rnia. In 1864 he pub-

lished the "Private History of a Polish Insurrection;" was special coirespondent of the Times at Luxemburg, when, in 1867, the " Luxemburg Question " threatened to produce war ; and in July, 1870, when war between France and Prus- sia actually broke out, was appointed one of the special correspondents of the Times on the German side. In that capacity he followed the King's head-quarters from Saarbrdck to the neighbourhood of Beaumont ; went through the battle of Beau- mont with a Bavarian Infantry Beffiment; after Beaumont and Sedan, joined General von Werder before Strasburg, and on the fall of Strasbiu^, traversed the occupied country m>m Alsace to Normandy, remaining at Bouen and Amiens, with the Army of the North, until the end of the war. He has written a few novels, and many pieces for the stage. His latest novel is "Malvina," 3 vols., 1871. He has since published a translation of the " Statistics of All Countries " com- piled by Dr. Otto Httbner, the Di- rector of the Prussian Statistical Archives, 1872 ; and " The Germans in France," 1874. In 1879 he deli- vered in public at Steinway Hall a lecture on *' The Opera."

EDWABDS,Mi8s Matilda Bab- BABA Bktham, born at Westerfield, Suffolk, in 1836, on the maternal side, of a good old north-country family, the De Bethams of Betham, near Kendal, Westmoreland. From the Bethams, this lady inherited literary tastes; her grandfather, the Bev. W. Betham, Hector of Stonham Aspall, Suffolk, her uncle. Sir William Betham, Ulster King- at-Arms, and her aunt, Matilda Betham, having all won for them- selves an honourable place in lite- rature. On her father's side. Miss Betham Edwards came of a highly respectable Suffolk family, the elder branches having been landed pro- prietors for many generations. Her first effort in fiction, a story, ** The White House by the Sea,*' pub-