Obituary.

An English telegram of the 8th May, reports the death of the celebrated statistician, Professor Leone Levi, at the age of 67.

Mr George Toulmin, an able and conscientious journalist, for many years proprietor of the Preston Guardian and other papers, died on the 17th February, in his 75th year.

Oscar Pletsch, the unrivalled German artist of child-life, has recently died, in his 37th year. His drawings have been a feature of all the children's magazines for the past fifteen or sixteen years.