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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 3

Obituary

Obituary.

An English telegram of the 29th November records the death, at the age of 79, of Martin Farquhar Tupper.

On the 12th December, at Venice, died Robert Browning, one of the greatest poets of the century, aged 77.

Mr Percival Leigh, one of the earliest and most assiduous contributors to Punch, author of « Mr Pips, his Diary, » &c, died on the 24th October, in his 76th year.

An English telegram records the death of the genial and popular writer « Cuthbert Bede » (the Rev. Edward Bradley) at the age of 62. He was the author of a good many tales and sketches, the best-known of which is the evergreen « Verdant Green, » the first part of which (An Oxford Freshman), appeared in 1853, and still maintains its popularity.

Home papers announce the death of Dr Colborne, organist of Hereford Cathedral. Dr Colborne's musical career has been principally associated with the musical services of the Anglican church. He was the composer of several part songs and pianoforte pieces. He also wrote « Samuel, » a church oratorio, and several services and anthems.

Another English musician who has recently passed away is Grattan Cooke, son of Tom Cooke, the well-known vocalist and conductor, who was the teacher of Sims Reeves. The deceased gentleman had a European reputation as an oboe player, and was at one time bandmaster of the 2nd Life Guards.

An English telegram of 27th December records the death at the age of 75 of Dr Charles Mackay, l.l.d., a well-known and accomplished poet and author. « Tubal-Cain, » « Far, far upon the Sea, » « Cheer, boys, cheer, » were among his songs, which, set to stirring music by Henry Russell, attained wide popularity. His first book of poems was published in 1834 at the age of twenty. Among his works we may note « Lost Beauties of the English Language » (1874), and « Forty Years' Recollectionsn » (1876). He was a native of Perth.

Bernhard Rudolph Giesecke, of the firm of Schelter & Giesecke, Leipzig, died on the 25th July, in his sixty-third year, from a stroke of paralysis. The typefoundry was started in 1819, by the father of deceased, in conjunction with Johan Gottfried Schelter, who retired in 1841. Nine years afterwards Giesecke senior died, and his two sons—Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand and Bernhard Rudolph—succeeded to the business. Under their management, the increase of the business was remarkable. George, son of Bernhard Rudolph, who was born in 1853, is now in charge of the technical departments,

William Allingham, a writer of simple and graceful verse, whose gifts were appreciated in literary circles, but who never attained any great measure of popular fame, died on the 18th November, in his 66th year. He was a contributor to the Athenæum, Household Words, and Fraser's Magazine, becoming editor of the latter in 1874. In the same year he married Miss Helen Paterson, a water-color artist of high repute. In l877 a collection of his earlier poems appeared under the title of Songs, Ballads, and Phantasies, and a complete edition of his works is now in band, and will shortly be published by Reeves & Turner.