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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 3

Obituary

Obituary.

A London telegram of the 18th inst. records the death of Lady Arnold, wife of Sir Edwin Arnold, editor of the Daily Telegraph.

Hr. Raymund Härtel, head of the great printing and publishing firm of Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipzig, died on the 10th November, aged 78.

A London telegram of 19th March records the death, in his 89th year, of Samuel Carter Hall, f.s.a., barrister-at-law, a well-known author, founder and for many years editor of the Art Journal.

Mr Thomas Stevens, of Coventry, whose beautiful silk-woven bookmarkers and similar goods are known throughout the world, died in December, in his 66th year. He was born in humble circumstances, but by industry, ingenuity, and energy, built up a magnificent business. For the past ten years he had lived in London.

The death of Percy B. St. John, the author of some well-written novels, is reported in an English telegram dated 19th March. Mr St. John's books are chiefly tales of adventure in eastern lands, and were written from personal knowledge of the localities and people. Less wild and sensational than Haggard's, they are of decidedly higher quality, and fifteen or twenty years ago enjoyed a wide popularity.

An English telegram of the 27th inst. records the death, in his 78th year, of the Right Hon. John Bright. The deceased statesman in his time was connected with journalism as well as with politics, having been closely associated with the Evening Star, at one time a flourishing and influential newspaper. At the time of the American civil war, the prejudice in England in favor of the Confederate States was strong enough to kill the Star, which strongly supported the Unionists. Popular opinion has since completely changed, and justified the stand taken by Mr Bright.