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Show H-LUsTlu0LS vtxv- T"KCrejt.nr-, fctaaJ collector col-lector of Grtti uauiB-. ' Hdnrlcli Schli,. died a few i ago. HevUie a cf " LutUrau Osavm hoh" on Win, while tery young, the l-eauty and tny of "'-poetry. "'-poetry. TI,e lwai, of iIonler formed his espcchi ,cdy. At thirteen yeajjor age, oltS to the lorerty cf u,e &nii!y, SouaS Sthliemanwentio vroik InaKro-cery InaKro-cery ttoru lu i ,0,o of Fursten-burg, Fursten-burg, whtre he HrTei lUejears. Afu.r.vards, wl,i!eoasea voyage the vessel v, wrrcS"1. a"J llB turned up at Aoj-teab01- J lie succeeded I" COm" mirce. H auc.d a f"rtune and-in addition unie nUiUr ancient and modem Gw-" wt'U as of several Uu-ioS. indaJIS Arabic. In lSn I aide a t0jr around the vcrlj Ho then seiuej la lr' a,B,a made the archickyftf Creewihw sjh.-cial study. Willi religi(i.-S-ssy-uaUsnl ,le undertook to UUcovir the site of a:i-cicntTroy. a:i-cicntTroy. At firfbls etTorU were lauRhul 'at, but he persisted in Ills endeavor, aua the hle Oernian grocer's boy his dw'1"3'0 for tuc classic lore of anefcot Greece than all the universities fciEsir0!"0 . Alvarf. SiathioHh, in the ew York Si, says that he met Dr. SchlIemauIllAtiwlu,5'2 Doctor was theu'tasaE6--1 in un" t-arlhlng the atOflVka otclasie Greece. lle-tatreiriy-n'll;,a a inamu-crii t wo of hb I1"" to the London 7ini "J wa3 ,e: turned to hint with Uio e-litortal comment that it sU wotk of ,a silly enthusiast. The Doctor fill wofully downcast luls UuJ .of want of apprecidJa cf his work. ,Mr. South worth tiea cxamii.c-1 the 'manuscript and ! that though wrilUn in alntft unintellisibie i:uglls!i it ' somstliing that would aisssJ the literary world. Hoforwrieithe work to Dr. Hosmer, U loadon editor of thu Xev.- Vork ffira who ,u turn fonvarded it t,Ke Vorlsforioib-Ilcatlon. Vorlsforioib-Ilcatlon. Tho5YorSc!n,or,1,d not deem it worth publication, auu pigeoniioled luMr. OhiJstone, it appeared, wasVsaUint of the history his-tory or the mamrfriptan.1, meeting Mr. llennett InkraJou, asked him wliy rfclillemaai iritings were not publlshcxi. Mr. Benattt telegraphed toXewTrorkt-sSthe mauuscrir was hunted ujlul published. It aroused librarj'Europs. Meanwhile Mean-while Scblicnaa prosecuted liN work an J succSeJ in disccrerlng thcSiieof Andtat Troy, and demonstrating dem-onstrating that the subjects of the Homeric jioemsxre aQt "1J"""'- He was about ti years of age at thetimeofhisiittlsi. An incident In his life lifcttry will show the I depth of his enthusiasm. During his residence in Athens he made the acquaintance of c young Greek Inly. She toanasan enthusiast In searching for Hires of her countryV anclcnfglotles. TEeDjctor at thL; lime was a widower, ami both became be-came betrclhej. The T) jctor w ould not liavo the marriage ceremony frformed until she could recite from memory the twenty-four books of Homer's Mad. A great literary celebrity ha3 also passed away within a few days Alexander William Kinglake, tho famous nuthcraad barrister, of England. Eng-land. He was born in Taunton, in 1S02. He was called to the Kuglish bar in 152. Later on in life lie trarcled extensively in the list, and wrote several brilliant sketches ofhistrarelsia theOrient. Aflir-wards Aflir-wards ho collected and revised his letter", letting them inbookforn, but could not find a ubli-her who would risk publishing It. Finally hegaro tlio manuscript to a jub-lisher jub-lisher In Tall Mall, London. With many misgivings the work was given to the public, under the title of "Kothea" or "Traces cf Travel in the East." From the first "Kothen" was a success. It is universally conceded that It is the best book of travels in the EnglUi language. It is populir anting all the English speaking races. 15ut it is by his history of tlie Crimeau War tint he was bl known to the general public, lib description of the charge cf the gal lant"oOO"lstoprcse what Tenny-sjoii'a Tenny-sjoii'a poem "TheSix Hundred" is to poetry. He passed away at the ripe age of SSj ears, full of honors and of fame. Franco is alio called upon to mourn the death of one of her greatest great-est sons, Octive Feuiilot, wlu uihI a fe,r days ago In his 79Ji year. He-is He-is best known as the author of "The Itomauceofa Poor Young Man." He published his first work in IS! j, and ever sluce has been a most prolific writer. His last work, "The Honorofan Artist," was published during the pat year. He was a moral writer, a rare thing aaicfng French novelists. Perhaps this was the reason for his jopuiarity fwltli English readers. In 1552 ,hu was elected to the chair ma-isyacaut by Eugene Scrbejjn fcFrench Academy of mado iSBWcer of lliu IKlou of Honor In J3. Under Napoleon III. he acted fits Librarian of the Im perlalIle4jeD.ces. His best kuiwn works nro)iTho Urn," "Poor Young Man," 'frhe Hermitage and the Village," and tho "ri'ory of Sibylle." All of these are translated trans-lated into most of thu modern languages. lan-guages. His rlaJ3 aro "Tl'e Terriide Night," "The Fairy," "Itcderup-tion," "Itcderup-tion," "The Sphinx," etc Many of his plays hare been adapted for English and American audiences. |