Obituary.

Charavay.—On 26th May, aged 34, at Paris, M. Eugène Charavay, managing editor of L'Imprimerie. He was the son of Gabriel Charavay, the founder of the journal. The cause of death was heart disease.

Macgregor.—A home telegram of 20th July records the death, in his 68th year, of Mr John Macgregor, a noted traveller, whose delightful Rob Roy canoe log-books have maintained their popularity for more than twenty years. In 1845, Mr Macgregor was a literary and artistic contributor to Punch.

Cooper.—A Press telegram of 17th July records the death, at the age of 87, of Thomas Cooper, the literary shoemaker, schoolmaster, chartist, freethinker, and latterly, lecturer on the Christian evidences. Mr Cooper was self-educated, and obtained considerable literary reputation. His best-known work, The Purgatory of Suicides, was written in Stafford jail in 1842-4. In 1872 he published a very interesting autobiography; and his last work, his collected poems, appeared in 1878.

Cameron. — On 28th May, at Chicago, Andrew Carr Cameron, proprietor and editor of the Artist Printer, in his 56th year. Few men were better known or more highly respected in the Craft than Mr Cameron. He was born in Berwick-upon-Tweed, had a good education, and entered the office of his father, who was a corporation printer. In 1851 the family emigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago, where young Cameron early began his journalistic career. From 1865 to 1879 he conducted the Working Man's Advocate, but first became widely known to the Craft outside the States from the able manner in which he edited the Inland Printer almost from its foundation until little more than a year ago. He was not a man to be long idle; and he purchased the Artist Printer—unfortunately on the « down grade » financially—and there is little doubt that his efforts to work up the paper, in which he was in a great measure successful, helped to break down his health. The cause of death was hæmorrhage on the brain, following on influenza. The number of public associations with which he was associated would fill a long list. For some years he was president of the Trades and Labor Assembly of Chicago, and of the State Eight-hour League, and was a prominent member of the Chicago Press Club. He will, however, be chiefly remembered by his lifelong efforts to raise the status of the Craft and to elevate the tone of its trade literature. He was a man of firm will and indomitable energy, and devoted his powers to good and noble ends. Mr Cameron leaves a widow and a grown-up family of four.