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    Feb. i, 1883 The Publishers' [ Circular ...

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    Obituary.

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    Alfred Kempe , a distinguished quary , ' s incomp memoirs lete This work received on the hi Monumental h commendation Effig from ies of Sir Great Walter Britai Scott n , ' and and in Southey 1823 published and led his to

    an intimate . friendship witli g the latter . About this time , while on a visit to , Devonshire , ¦ | she ^ h h ^ r ^ made ^ L ^^^ A ^^ 9 ^^™ ^^ the ^^ became ^^ ^^ ^^^ acquaintance ^^ ^^ 1 ^ his ^ — ife ^— of —^ the — Rev . Edward ^— discovere ^^ Atk ^^^^ yn / ¦ ^^ d ^^ 3 interest ¦ Bray ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ , vicnr ^ and ^ h » ^^^ " of — ' ^^ T ^^^^ ^ ^ ^ vistook » ^^ w- ^ - ^ - ^^ - ^^ ^»^ n in , ^ m and ^ the ^ p ^ ^^ ^^^^^

    a legendary fterwards lore and regies w of . an Mrs unknown . Bray soon antiquity with which Devonshire emp abounds loyment , and in

    ram ™ local mhloa bles traditions with with . lier her Before n husband us Dana , however sne she coJlected collected , she entered materials materials on this tor for new many manv path w w , orks orks she or of had nction fiction in 1826 ffounded ounded published upon uoon < < Da De Foix Foix ' a a rom romance ance illustrati illustrative ve ot of tne the Habits habits and and manners manners oi of the the 14 14 : th tn century centurv ; : m in lo 1828 ^ o .

    , , nobles * The White and citizens Hoods of , ' Flanders a novel descri a few ptive months of the later troublous 'The Protestan times of t' civil a tale war of between the rei the of ; gn

    ta fal Queen le « was was Mary her her novel novel and su or of bse "' q Fi JMtz uen tz tl or of y ' Fitzford J The ^ itzrord Talba / ' which which ; or the was was , Moor followed tollowed of Portugal bv by * ' Warleierh , W / arlei Her gh firs ; : t or or Devonshire the the fFatal atal

    Borders Oak , ' and of ' the TreJawny Tamar of and Trelawne the Tavy , ' both ' a work legends which of Devon originated . In in 1836 a suggestion she published by Robert 'The

    , of Southey Switzerland . Next ' came ' Henry a serie De 3 Pomeroy of tales called ' ' Courtenay * Trials of of the Walreddon Heart / the ' ' an Mountains edition of and 'Fables Lakes

    and Poems - » - » by i Mary - , »« " Colling f + il' , ' ' Trials m ' i of , Domestic -w-v i » Dife t-v , ' and -i / ' The wr %% Life t , ^ of Thomas rrt i Stothard t ~ 4 i . 1 ^ , R . A . ' In 1857 she aga n became a widow , and thenceforward settled in London . Her works

    a ' fter Hartland that time Forest were , ' 'Joan ' The of Good Arc St and . Louis the Times and his of Times Cliarles , ' ' The VL 1 . Revolt , King of of the France Cevenues / and / 1 Roseteague f / a Cornish tale . It 4 pi may be *^ pp * worth adding to the br notice db that Mrs pi ¦ v . Bray i ¦ has ¦ w left

    ^^^ ^ ^^^ V ^^ ^^ p ^ pv ^ p * ^^^¦ " M ^ h ^ r ^* ^^^ ^ H ^ " ^^^ ^^ " ^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ w ^^ ^^ ^^ v ^ p'w ^ w ^^^ ^ ^^ ^ r ^*> ^^ ^ B ^^*^ p w ^^ T T v ^ ^^ M ^¦ ' ^ M ^^ V ^ bP ^ V ^ iv ^^ ^ vp ^^ v *^ v - ^ B V ^^ k y ^^^ ^^ ^ K ^¦ p' ^^^ ^ r ^ F *¦* ^^ p ^ ^^^ ^ f ^ m ^^^^ kp ^^ ^ pp ^^ p ^^ ^^^^ p ^^ ^ ^^^ ^^ p > ^»~^ r ^ pv ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ v ^ w - ^ v to for the his British ' Monumental Museum Effi the gies beautif of Great ul collection Britain . ' of Mr . C . Stothard ' s original drawings for

    was The the editor death of is a announced number of of school the books Rev . Dr which . James attained Melville a most McC extensive ulloch , of sal G e reenoc throug k , hout who Scotlandhis ' Course fc of kP English bB Reading PHPi l ' , being especially popular . He was V also the author F ¦

    of a work , on ^ P >^ V « w **^ p- ' The - ^^ P- » V V ^ Literary ^ P- rm ^ ^ p ^ ^ 1 ^ W ^^ P ^ H ^ p ^^ P Characteristics * ^ J ^* ' ¦^ p ' . ^^ B . ^^ V ^ ^ pT ^ p ^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ V ^ ^ J of *^^^ ^ the V ^ ^* ^ ' ^ ' ^ ^ ^^ D Scri ^ ktfP ^^ B * JL W *^^ ptures ^* ^ M * 7 V ^*>^ V ^ P' ^ P >«^ P > •/ , ' .- L o ^^ f VaH ^ a ^* "V ^^ pamp ^ BP ^^^ V hlet V ^ P >«^^» - ^ pP on * P V ' ^ V ' Mi ^ ^ ™ ' ^ sconcep ^ ^ pr — ^» ^ V ^^ tions ~ v p ~^ P * ^^ regarding ^ p > w ^ pjpK — ^ - ^ pi h ¦¦ ¦¦¦ —¦¦¦ ^ Education ™^*^» - ^ f *^^ ¦ - ^ p » ¦ ^ ^ p ^ ^» ip- ^^ f ^^ , « ' o ' ^ P ^ ^ f m ^ a v ^^ pT vo ^ ^ i ^> ^ l ^ ume ^ p ^ KAMk ^ B ^ p ^ o ^^ p" ^ f ^ » serm ^ pF ^ tr ^ Um ~ ^ ^ ons ^^^ ^»^^^ BpT ^ a fc *^ nd ^^ B > ^ pp ^ V oth ^ p' ^ W ^ B > ^ b er ^ p ^ ^ mm wor ¦ W '^^ ^ b k ^ " ^» ¦ s * ' ¦ ¦ an ^^ ^ B ^» d - *^^» comp ^^ ^ p ^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^ ilations ^^^^ ' ^ - ^ w ' ^ f- ^ b ^ h v « i . ^ When - » ^—^^ -w ——^— ' ^ in ^ - ^— - ^—

    his Gustave 80 th year Dore , he % issued the celebrated a little volume French , entitled artist and ' Curiosities book illustrator of Eng , lish died Ety at Paris mology , on . ' the 23 rd ult ' ., ^ in ^ his ^^ ^^^ 52 ^^^ ^^^ nd ^^ ^^ ^^^^ year F ^^^ ^> r ^ PT 4 B > . V ¦¦>¦ In * ¦ ^ B 1 B > 1848 « B 1 B ^ ^^ b ^ b ^ b * ^^ p ** ^ he Bi ^ Bb ^^ p bega BB ^ p * ^ b ^ ^ B' ^ h VVV n ""^ BV to VJT ^^^ dra ^ B ^ Bbi BBh ^ pr ^ B > w V V for BBBi ^^ pr «^ BB M * ^ B ^ pv . V ^ Bertall B ^ B ^ P "" ^ Hp ^ ^ Bb ^ P Bbf ^ T ^ P ^^ Bh « illustrations B » ^^ BB ^^^ ^^ ^ ¦ P ^^ V ~^ V ^^ ^ IP ** ^^ . for ^ ^ ^^ the ^ T ^ P > ^ V " ^^ J « B ^ ourna ^ " ^~^ ^ — — ' - ^ — l' —'

    pour rire . In the same year he exhibited some pen-and-ink sketches at the Salon , and had some Wild Pines success ii ' and with The albums bb Day which after the he also Storm produced ' Aline . scenes At subsequent ' The Two exhibitions Mothers BtaBfc / ' he The . ¦¦> - had Prairie * The /

    & A c . ' ; and «» . «* 1 sent *» W » b ^^ to . . ¦ the ^ B » ^^ - ^ Great ^ ^^ * " ¦ ¦ ^ . T * . * ' Exhibition " ^ B ^ Jfc •¦ ^ » BV ¦ a I "* - ** */^ -- ^ of -fc * s * , % 1855 ^ ^ * - * . bm kp f . ~^ ~ ' ^* The ar ^^ *^ ^ '' Xb ¦ » Battle - ¦ -W v ^ i' . . ; . ^ b *> of A-a ¦* ^ -n 1 the . " V » - » » ' ^ Alma bVI --.- «^ vsaw . ' * In TT «^ ¦ the V . »• ^* Sal / " * * •» V on » — ^ — ^ of ^ 4 * 1857 w he had - - ~ w » -w in - ^ - ^ 'The Baa ¦¦¦¦> -m ^ Battle aaBB >^ B _ w BBi ¦ ^ Bi ¦ ^ . F for ¦ A of >— ¦ <>' . ^ Inkerman the ¦ | T . ^ Tt W ^ T illustration »» _ " ~ ^ ^_ !*/ . , A ' ¦ . as arW ^ we of » * ^ bbT ll ^ different ^ - »• / as « M pVN « nine ^^ ^* . . iB * k ^ standard ¦ landscapes A ^ bjb ^ ¦ ^ f * k ¦ ^ 1 p' - ^^ f » »• work ¦ ^^ » . *^ V * ^ H ^~ " ~ and is " ¦ •¦• ' 111 powers --- he -- • has — — - — - as ¦^ successivel - — — -- a n ¦— ar *__ ti st

    illustrated Rabelais were early , Balzac ' The requisition ' s Wandering ' Contes Drolati Jew , ' q D ues ante , ' T , Mil y ton son , ' s ' D Id ylls Q of uixote the , King ' s the , , ' Bible ' Fontain , the e' Works s Fables of y / Colerid ' s * Ancient Mariner lllvi / and the ' Orlando CvAlvtv / Furioso // ' His paintings MM-f WllJfcW of ' Christ Leaving i b # i

    ¦ exhibited the for ^ - Jud —••• * 4 *^* ' ¦^ ge p gment ^ ¦^ » in lit London J ^ M JlAVlViA \ Hall SM . M . KJt . \ J / . I . for IVi ' XTXiVl The . . CH a Christi consid VU 11 OXU CwXJLVA » erable an ^ X Cw tL _ 11 Martyrs ^ AVJ V / period ^ L ^^ /\ ^ i . XVfVA J / . . and His JLJLIO JL V many 4 i IV illustrations IIIUOUI OV * . f others UKIVII A AA * J , are of v ^* , books k we ^ x ^ v ^ ll . m . » j k were nown w > vr *** , remarkable » «*> w * and v . » v » »» ^ were B ^ w v » w »« j ^

    of adorning the restoration copie ^ s of of standard the custom work , which s with had plates fallen _ of into _ large desuetude dimensions earl . y in With the present regard to century these , innumerable innumerable illustrations series to to tne the

    illustrations , it it would would be be difficult difficult to to select select an anv y one one series as as superior superior invested others He them imported with irresisti into , his bl work drollery a rare while fancy when , and he when treated lie dealt of Dante with 's comic ' Inferno subjects he

    whe showed re the how leopard on ' horror s and ' s lionesses head horrors e are stealthil accumulate ; y mov . ' ing His up illustration the steps of of his the Palace Egyptian , may darkness be noted ' ,

    with as an a fertile idence imagination of the powers he of careful grim concep where tion possible . Thoug to h b , g accurat ifted , as ean may d no be one und wh erst oo h d ,

    t seen # 1861 that * . ** . _ the ~ the ll .-. w wi artis aspect vio t u must lliUSll . ^ of PP * XlOt have Spain V V , been UCCU can wa in 111 look * Arago XXlttgUll at n the _ , and M 1 illustrations ___ U . Catalonia VavaiUJlia - to , and IVJXVA ' Don IBM -. among C » l-UVJI Quixote J . B . Jt ¦ g the « l * v , S _ ' panish j- without » u »»»« *_ . o *» sierras mvtiwu _ admitting " ¦ i . * * In

    labours he on was canvas deco , rated M . Gustave with the Dore Cross ' had begun of the to Leg cultivat ion of e the Honour sister . art Not of scul content pture with , and his in Ab I - 8 — sent ~^ mm . v jlam into . v \ J the OJltJ X Paris ttliO Exhibition JEiJUllVkhLIJll a U colossal UvlUHoal vas ViWJO e whi WJia « ch - < ll he ilC had XltAKA _ Jix modelled \/ v * ^_ & am 4 ^ ^ ^^^^ a v ^ k » . and cwavi ^ p ^ P ^ b ^ ^ adorned uvAviiivv ^ Bk ^ P * ^^ A ^ B with , » *«» - .

    which a hundred represen ^^ and ts fifty a youthfu figures . l hero He also dying modelled with the a kiss fine of group Glory , entitled on his li ps _ The . . Prize of Glory . , ' and Mr a writer . William for the A . Weekl Seaver , and for the many Bazaar years died editor in his of seventieth the * Drawer' of at Ha his rpe home r ' s Magazine at w »« Mount ,

    ¦ - V emon , New > v » * a \ jx York VJAC 7 rr U . S KtKVlf . y on iXlllX the lil 113 7 th ult U , < Cllll . , U 1 « 7 V 1 . Xll ilia OCVUJlHttii y jrvear *** , , w « *»»» **^ . ^« x * . * v «» . v Mward Another J . Hale name senior , has member been , added of the to publishing the necrology -house of of the E . J . American Hale & Son book , of trade New . York Mr . ,

    ai UIOU « d on ( Yn January I nY-i v *« vw _ - , 3 , aged 80 O / " \ years . It Ta is * understood J 3 A . J that J-l- X the il . « firm C _ -- >^ . will vw »« ll continue / tnniiviiin under i > n ^ ni > the ^ na old ^\ 1 / 1 I

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 1, 1883, page 97, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01021883/page/9/