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 KEMBLE KEMENY 785 father to the United States, and met with an enthusiastic reception in the chief cities. In 1834 she was married to Mr. Pierce Butler of Philadelphia, and at the same time retired de- finitively from the stage. Incompatibility of tastes and temperament having rendered the union an unhappy one, a separation took place at the end of a few years, and Mrs. Butler sub- sequently fixed her residence in Lenox, Berk- shire co., Mass. Previous to this she had pub- lished her first work in prose, " A Journal of a Residence in America" (2 vols., London, 1835), chiefly devoted to a description of her tour through the United States. It was followed in 1837 by a drama entitled "The Star of Se- ville," which was acted with success ; and in 1844 she published a collection of her poems, a portion of which only had previously appeared. In 1846 she visited Europe, extending her trav- els as far as Italy, where her sister, Mrs. Sarto- ris, resided, and in 1847 published an account of her tour under the title of " A Year of Conso- lation." Shortly afterward steps were taken to procure a divorce from her husband, which was granted by the legislature of Pennsylvania in 1849, after which she resumed the name of Kemble. In the winter of 1848-'9 she com- menced in Boston a series of Shakespearian readings, which drew crowded audiences ; and during the next two years she repeated the course in some of the principal American cities. In 1851 she returned to England, reap- peared for a brief period on the stage, and after giving readings in London and other parts of the United Kingdom, made another long continental tour. In 1856 she returned to the United States, and continued at intervals to give readings in Boston and elsewhere, till February, 1860. She then returned to Eng- land, and while residing there in 1863 she pub- lished " Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-'9," in which she gives from personal observation her impressions of the system of slavery. In 1866 she returned to her former residence in Lenox, Mass., in 1868 gave pub- lic readings in various places, and in 1869 went to Europe. She returned in 1873, and has since resided near Philadelphia. VII. Adelaide, younger sister of the preceding, horn in Lon- don about 1820, made a brilliant debut at Covent Garden as an opera singer ; but upon being married in 1843 to Mr. Edward Sartoris, she retired from the stage. In 1867 she pub- lished " A Week in a French Country House." Her son, Algernon Charles Sartoris, was mar- ried at Washington in May, 1874, to the daugh- ter of President Grant. KEMBLE, John Mitchell, an English historian, eldest son of Charles Kemble, born in London in 1807, died in Dublin, March 26, 1857. He was educated by Dr. Richardson, author of the " English Dictionary," and afterward at Bury St. Edmund's grammar school, and Trinity col- lege, Cambridge. In 1820 he visited Germany, and at this time commenced his study of the Anglo-Saxon and kindred Teutonic dialects. He became acquainted with Thiersch, the bro- thers Grimm, and other leading philologists and antiquaries of Germany. In 1830 he vis- ited Spain in order to cooperate with the Span- ish liberals against the government of King Ferdinand. Returning to England, he began to explore everywhere, in the British museum and in cathedral and collegiate libraries, for manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon period, which he deciphered with remarkable skill. His first public effort was his lectures at Cambridge on the Anglo-Saxon literature and language in 1834'5. About this time he published "The Anglo-Saxon Poems of Beowulf, the Travel- ler's Song, and the Battle of Finnesburgh, with a Glossary and Historical Preface," to the sec- ond edition of which he added a translation of Beowulf with a glossary and notes. From 1835 to 1844 he edited the " British and For- eign Review," to which he contributed many valuable anonymous articles, as he did also to the Archaologia, the " Cambridge Philological Museum," the " Foreign Quarterly," and lat- terly to " Fraser's Magazine." The article on " Jakel's Comparative Philology " in the " For- eign Quarterly " is the best known of his con- tributions to periodical literature. In 1839 he commenced the publication of his collection of Anglo-Saxon charters, the Codex Diploma- ticus ^Evi Saxonici. For some years he su- perintended the publication of several of the archaeological works of the ^Elfric and Cam- den societies. In 1849 appeared his " Saxons in England," a work which caused Jakob Grimm to say that Kemble was the first of his disciples. From July, 1849, to May, 1855, he resided in the north of Germany, where he prosecuted his studies, and, as he wrote Ger- man with as much facility as his native lan- guage, contributed many essays to the " Trans- actions " of the archaeological society of Han- over. In 1854 he was employed by the an- tiquarian society of Hanover to excavate the sepulchral barrows of pagan times on the heath of Luneburg, resulting in large acces- sions to the Hanoverian museum. In 1857 ap- peared his last work, " State Papers and Cor- respondence illustrative of the Social and Po- litical State of Europe from the Revolution (1688) to the Accession of the House of Han- over." At the time of his death he was en- gaged by the managers of the Manchester ex- hibition to form a department of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon art. His unexpected demise caused the abandonment of this design. hKMKNV Zsigmond, baron, a Hungarian au- thor, born in Transylvania in 1816. He was a liberal member of the upper house of the Tran- sylvanian diet, and in 1848 a representative in the diet of Pesth. After editing several other journals, he became in 1855 the editor of the Pesti Naptt, which since the restoration of the Hungarian constitution has been the leading organ of the Deak party. Among his princi- pal novels are Qyulai Pdl ("Paul Gyulai," 5 vols., Pesth, 1846) and Zord idS ("Rough