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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 7

Obituary

Obituary.

Archer.—In August, aged 62, Mr T. Archer, author and journalist—a well-known figure in Fleet-street, London.

Birch.—On 18th October, at London, aged 61, Charles Bell Birch, the eminent English sculptor. Among his best-known works are « Lady Godiva » and « The Wounded Trumpeter. »

Bird.—The death is reported of Mr Bird, well known to readers of the sporting press in New Zealand and Australia as « Sir Launcelot. » He began his career as a sporting writer almost in his schooldays, and contributed to the Canterbury Times until 1883, when he left New Zealand, and joined the Melbourne Sportsman. Disliking Australia, he only remained a year, and on returning to New Zealand he became part proprietor of the Referee, which he edited for seven years, when it was merged in the Press. He then joined the Press staff, which he left last year, when he went to Auckland to edit the Sporting Review. He died of consumption, after an illness of three months' duration, leaving a wife and three children.

Brown.—On the 7th October, Ford Madox Brown, historical painter, aged 72. He was educated on the Continent, and at the age of 23 sent two cartoons to Westminster Hall. They were unsuccessful, but received unqualified commendation from Haydon. He then visited Italy, but his stay was shortened on account of the illness of his first wife, who died on the honeward journey in 1847. Four years later he exhibited « Wyclif reading his Translation of the Scriptures, » and in the the following year (1849), « King Lear. » His well-known painting, « The Last of England, » (1885), represents himself and his second wife, with their firstborn infant. Numerous works of importance followed, one being the great oil-painting « Wyclif on trial in Old St. Paul's, » containing more than a hundred figures. For about thirteen years he has been engaged on a series of historical frescoes, now just completed, in the Manchester Town Hall. He was known not only as a painter, but as a writer and lecturer on art.

Buehring.—It is with great regret that we read in our American exchanges of the death of Frederick Buehring, one of the best-known lithographers in the United States. He died on 28th August, after an illness of eleven months, of one of the most painful of disorders—cancer in the stomach. He was born in Altona on 24th Feb., 1840, and began to learn the lithographic trade at eight years of age. He was an enthusiast in the art, of which his knowledge was thorough and extensive. In 1883 he started the American Lithographer and Printer, a technical paper of great practical value, which was discontinued in in 1890. He also published the « Lithographers' and Photographers' Directory, » and was the inventor of an enlarging and reducing machine, now in general use in the United States.

Butcher.—On 3rd October, at Greytown, Mr R. A. Butcher, proprietor of the Liberal. Mr Butcher had for several years been connected in various capacities with the Wairarapa press.

Faber.—In August, at the age of 40, Baron Wilhelm von Faber, son of the head of the house of A. W. Faber. His father, aged 76, survives him. The deceased baron married his cousin, daughter of Eberhard Faber, of New York, by whom he had five children, three of whom are living.

Heywood.—On 19th August, at Bowden, Cheshire, Mr Abel Heywood, printer and publisher, in his 89th year. He had been in business since 1830. To Mr Heywood was largely due the credit of having the oppressive newspaper tax removed. In 1832 he was committed to prison for four months for selling unstamped literature. He is therefore entitled to a prominent place among those who have assisted to secure the freedom of the press. He was twice mayor of Manchester.

Jowett.—A telegram of 2nd inst. records the death of Professor Jowett, Master of Balliol College, Oxford. He was born in 1817; became tutor of Balliol in 1842, and was appointed to the Regius Professorship of Greek. In 1870 he became Master of the College, which position he retained to his death. He was as remarkable for his eccentricities as for his learning, and has been the subject of anecdotes and epigrams innumerable. Among his works are are a commentary on the Epistles of Paul, and annotated translations of Thucydides, the Dialogues of Plato, and the Politics of Aristotle.

Phillips.—The Stationery World records the death, on 22nd July, in his 56th year, of Mr Charles Motteram Phillips, well known in the stationery and newspaper world, both in the United Kingdom and the United States. He was, at the time of his death, an active member of the staff of our comtemporary; and the present conductor and chief of the paper is his son.

Starey.—On 7th August at New York, Mr Alfred B. Starey, for eight years editor of Harper's Young People. Mr Starey was an Englishman and a graduate of Oxford University.

Wallen.—No colonial writer was more widely known some fifteen or sixteen years ago than « Ægles » of the Australasian. His weekly column was always one of the brightest and most interesting pieces of literary work in the press, and was extensively quoted. The writer, Mr Robert Wallen, retired from the staff some years ago, on the death of his wife, a blow which he seems never to have quite recovered. We now regret to read of his death, at the age of 63, which took place on board the steamer Wairarapa. He had left Sydney for Auckland for the benefit of his health, but was seized with paralysis, and died the following day. He was the first editor of the Banking and Insurance Record.