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shows Sophia her image in the glass as a pledge of his future constancy/' and " Sophia Western at the Inn fire ; " in 1876, another scene from the " Vicar of Wakefield," a scene from Moli^re's "L* Amour Medecin," Doge's Palace, Venice, 1460;" and in 1878 a series of five pictures en- titled "The Eoad to Ruin;" in 1880, "Tenby Fishwoman," and "Prawn-seller, Tenby;" in 1881, "For better, for worse," and "Swift and Vanessa;" in 1883, " The Private View, 1881," " Honey- mooning in Switzerland," "Kate Kearney," and " A Guitar Player." Mr. Frith was elected an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts at Vienna in March, 1869, a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium in August, 1871, and a member of the Royal Academy of Sweden in Dec., 1873.
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FROEBEL, JuLros, a German writer, traveller, and politician, born atGrie8heim,near Stadtilm, in 1806, is the son of a clergyman, and a nephew of the late Friedrich Froe- bel, the founder of the Kinder- garten " system of schools for chil- dren, who died in 1852. After studying at Rudolstadt, Keilhau, Stuttgart, Mimich, Weimar, and BerUn, he was appointed in 1833 to the chair of Philosophy and Natural History at Zurich. Subsequently he officiated in the high school of that town as Professor of Mine- ralogy, to which science he made an important contribution by his "Grundziige eines Systemes der Krystallogie, oder der Naturge- Bchichte der unorganischen Indivi- duen," 8vo, Zurich, 1813; 2nd edit. 1 847 . Having become a naturalized citizen of Switzerland in 1826, he took part in politics, in the interest of the extreme Radical party, and edited Der Sweizerischc Republi' kandcr. He also founded a publish- ing house at Zurich and Winterthur, under the name of " Literarisches Comptoir," and, devoting himself exclusively to this establishment.

he relinquished his professorship

1844, and issued several scienti

works and many political pamphle'

which found a large circle of readei

Many of them, however, were sc

pressed by the Government. Ha

ing returned to Germany, H<

Froebel was expelled from t

Prussian territory, and took up 1

abode in Dresden until the revo'

tion of 1848, when he became

popular leader of the Democra

party, and a member of the Germ

Parliament at Frankfort-on-tl

Maine. He accompanied Rob

Blum to Vienna, and was arrest

but acquitted by the same con

martial which pronounced the »

tence of death upon his unf ortuni

friend. On the dissolution of 1

Parliament he repaired to Switz

land, and afterwards to the Unii

States. He lectured in New Y<

on German politics, engaged

commercial pursuits there, went

1850 to Nicaragua, and afterwa]

engaged in one or two commerc

expeditions to Santa F^ and Chihi

hua. In 1855 he edited a joun

at San Francisco, and in 1857, af

his return to Germany, he was

pelled from Frankfort, since wh

period lie has resided in this coi

try. Among his works, which

elude many on geography «

politics, are : " System der socia

PoHtik," 2 vols., Mannheim, 18

" Die Republikander," an histori

drama in five acts, Leipsic, 18-

and "Aus Amerika, Erfahrung

Reisen, und Studien," 2 vols., Ja

sic, 1857-58, translated into "Eiigh

under the title of " Seven lei

Travel in Central America, Noi

em Mexico, and the Far West

the United States," London, 18S

FROST, Thomas, born in U

at Croydon, was formerly in bi

ness there as a printer, but reti

in 1848, and adopted the liter

profession. He participated acti'v

in the Chartist agitation, and

one of the delegates to the Ref<

Conference at St. Martin's Hal

1852. He was a contributor