lish literary men, Sir Walter Besant and Robert W. Buchanan, passed away early in June. Each of these writers had visited the United States, but the American public is probably more familiar with the work of Sir Walter Besant, especially his famous story, All Sorts and Conditions of Men," than with the poems and criticisms of Mr. Buchanan. In recent years, Sir Walter had been more actively occupied with his great work of studying and recording the history of London, section by section, than in the writing of fiction. On the day when the Bismarck statue was being unveiled occurred the funeral of Count William von Bismarck, the second son of the Iron Chancellor, in the fiftieth year of his age. The Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Tuttle, who died at Crawfordsville, Ind., in his eighty-third year, had in his day been one of the most influential and useful educators of the Mississippi Valley, and was for thirty years

Pingree was born and grew up in Maine, and served through the Civil War, after which he removed to the West and made his home in Detroit. For a time he worked at his trade in a shoe factory, and soon became a shoe manufacturer on his own account, building up a very large business. As a man of rugged energy and great independence of character, his entry into politics as a candidate for the mayoralty of Detroit marked an era in the history of the State. He served four successive terms as mayor and two as governor, and, quite apart from specific achievements, he lifted public life out of mere party ruts and gave a forcible example of the influence that a successful business man may wield in public office. Ex-Representative Boutelle, of Maine, had been for several years incapacitated by illness for service in Congress, and, in fact, had never taken his seat in the Fifty-seventh Congress, to which he had been elected. Mr. Boutelle's record at Washington had been a long and honorable one. Mr. Edward Moran, the artist, and Mr. James A. Herne, the actor and playwright, had won distinction in their respective professions, and were still in active life. Two well-known Eng

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president of Wabash College. The Hon. Hiram Price, of Iowa, who lived to be eighty-seven years old, and who had served many years in Congress and as a commissioner of Indian affairs, was au excellent type of the useful citizen and honorable man of affairs.