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" Painting in France after the decline of Classicism." In 1869 Mr. Hamerton ventured into fiction with " Wenderholme, a Storv of Lancashire and Yorkshire,* in three volumes, afterwards condensed in the second edition (1870) into one. During the year 1809 he planned a new art periodical, the Portfolio, which is distinguished by careful writing and artistic illustration, chiefly in the form of etchings by the best masters in Europe. Some of Mr. Hamerton's more recent literary works have first appeared in the pages of the Portfolio. Of these may be men- tioned : " The Unknown River, an Etcher's Voyage of Discovery," with thirty-seven etchings by the author, 1871 ; *' Chapters on Ani- mals," 1874 ; " The Sylvan Year," partly illustrated by the author, 1876 ; and " The Life of Turner," 1878. One of the most widely known of this author's works, " The Intellectual Life," appeared in 1873. In 1876 was published " Round my House," an account of the author's personal observations of rural life and character in Prance. In 1878 Mr. Hamerton published anonymously " Marmome," a novel, which was successful in England, France, and the United States, and appeared in the Tauchnitz reprints. " Modern Frenchmen " ( 1878) contains various studies of remark- able Frenchmen. In 1882 appeared '*The Graphic Arts, a treatise on the varieties of Drawing, Painting, and Engraving in comparison with each other ana with Nature." Mr. Hamerton's works have been fre- quently reprinted in America, and a collected edition in ten volumes was published at Boston in 1882. In recognition of his standing as a writer on art, he has been elected an honorary member of the Bur- lington Club, memhre protect eur of the Belgian Etching Club, and a member of the Council of the Society of Painter-Etchers. In 1882 the French Government conferred upon

him the University decoration of an Officier d'AcadAnie.

HAMILTON, The Rioht Hon. Lord George Francis, M.P., is the third son of the Duke of Aber- com, by Lady Louisa, second daugh- ter of John, sixth Duke of Bedford. He was born at Brighton in Dec. 1815, and received his education at Harrow. In 1864, he was appointed an ensign in the Rifle Brigade, and in 1868 was transferred to the Coldstream Guards. At the general election of Dec, 1868, he contested the county of Middlesex in the Conservative interest, and was re- turned at the head of the poll, the numbers being as follows : — Lord G. Hamilton, 7,850 ; Viscount Enfield, 6,507 j#Mr. Henry Labouchere, 6,397. This decisive Conservative victory occasioned great surprise in political circles, as Middlesex had previously been reg^arded as one of the most impregnable strongholds of the Liberal party. At the general election of Feb., 1874, Lord George Hamilton again came in at the head of the poll, receiving 10,343 votes, against 5,192 recorded for Viscount Enfield, the most popular of the Liberal candidates. On the forma- tion of Mr. Disraeli's Administration in Feb., 1874, his lordship was nominated to the post of Parlia- mentary Under-Secretary of State for India; and he was appointed Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, April 4, 1878, in succession to Viscount Sandon. On the latter occasion he was sworn of the Privy Council. He went out of office with his party in April, 1880. His lordship mar- ried in 1871, Lady Maud Caroline, youngest daughter of the third Earl of Hare wood.

HAMILTON, Sir Robert North Collie, Bart., K.C.B, eldest son of the late Sir Frederick Hamilton, Bart., of Silverton, county Lanark, bom April 7, 1802. Having received his education at Haileyburjr, he entered the Bengal Civil Service in 1819, and after holding several