control of their property were rejected, but another Socialist amendment was adopted, fixing twenty-one as the limit of age beyond which parental consent is not necessary for marriage. Articles allowing legal compensation for damage done to crops by hares were stricken out. Civil marriage was made compulsory. The Catholics succeeded in eliminating from the code clause inaking incurable men a tal disease a legal cause for divorce. This party, one of whose members, Baron von Buol-Berenburg, was the president of the Reichstag, sacrificed religious scruples in order to bring a great national work to completion. The Radicals accepted the code as a uniform system for the whole of Germany in spite of what they considered serious defects. The Anti-Semites criticised it because it was based more on Roman than on Germanic law. The Socialists combated it to the end, denouncing it as a lump of class legislation designed to facilitate the exploitation of the proletariat. A mass meeting of women from all parts of Germany was convened in Berlin to protest against the clauses relating to marriage and the family. The new code will not go into effect until Jan. 1, 1900. The code, which contains 2,359 sections, deals with private law only, excluding not only all subjects that are clearly within the domain of public law, but such as are determined to a great extent from the point of public policy, although they regulate private rights. Aside from such subjects, it does not embrace the whole of private law, for mercantile law has been codified separately, and the results are being revised by a new commission, with the intention of bringing the rules of commercial law into force at the same time as the civil code. The Reichstag gave its final vote on July 1, when the whole code was adopted by a majority of 174. Under the new code the principles of equity find a wider application than the former codes allowed. For example, a landlord can not now enforce exact compliance with the lease when the tenant finds the premises he has hired for a dwelling to be unfit for habitation. Considerable advance, too, has been made in regard to the right to evict and distrain for rent, The article ordaining compulsory civil marriage merely renders obligatory a practice that has already come to be generally observed since Prince Bismarck carried the law sanctioning the civil form in the beginning of his conflict with the Roman.curia. It has not, however, supplanted the religious ceremony, but is observed as a safeguard against legal complications. As a compensation to the Catholics for their acquiescence in this article, divorce, is rendered more difficult than it has been hitherto in Prussia and other states where incompatibility of temper has been recognized as a sufficient cause. Even a judicial separation is difficult to obtain under the new code, and divorce from the bonds of matrimony may be granted only in cases of proved infidelity or incurable insanity. Court Reaction against Social Reform.When the young Emperor inaugurated the policy of conciliating the working classes by remedial legislation, and heralded a period of social peace and reform by calling the International Labor Conference of 1890, Prince Bismarck, unwilling to approve the scheme of imperial socialism, resigned the Prussian Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and Baron von Berlepsch, who in addition to technical qualifi of labor statistics that he had organized, continued to draw up schemes for the amelioration of the conditions of labor, such as the compulsory closing of shops at 8 o'clock, a maximum working day for bakers, the compulsory organization of trade guilds, and the state regulation of chambers of commerce. All these measures encountered so much opposition that they had to be abandoned. The Emperor Wilhelm left no doubt of his altered sentiments when, in reference to Pastor Stöcker, he sent a message, and allowed it to be made public, saying that "Christian Socialism is nonsense and leads to arrogance and intolerance." His characterization of political divines as "monstrosities" evoked from the evangelical ministers who met in a social congress a vote of praise and thanks to Dr. Stöcker for his political agitation. In June Baron von Berlepsch resigned his place in the Prussian Cabinet, and the King appointed Herr Brefeld in his stead. The reactionary tendency in influential quarters was reflected in Saxony in a new electoral law for the Diet introducing the Prussian system of indirect election, which requires voters to possess an income of 2,800 marks, except in the lowest class, which must therefore invariably be outvoted in the final polls by the representatives of the small minorities qualified to vote in the two higher classes. The avowed object of the change is to keep the Social Democrats out of the Saxon Diet, where they now hold 14 of the 82 seats. Socialist Trial.---The Berlin police, acting under the orders of Herr von Köller, then Prussian Minister of the Interior, on Nov. 25, 1895, raided the office of the Socialist newspaper "Vorwärts" and entered the houses of leading Socialists, where they seized all kinds of documents. A few days later a police order was issued dissolving the chief committees and associations connected with the central organization of the Social Democratic party in Berlin, on the ground that they had transgressed the Prussian law of 1850 regulating the right of association and assembly by communicating with each other by means of committees, correspondence, pecuniary support, etc. The dissolution of the associations was confirmed by the courts in December, 1895, and on May 15 the accused, numbering 47 persons, among them the Deputies Auer, Bebel, Singer, and Gerish, were called up for trial in Berlin. They denied the police accusation that they maintained a secret organization, and pointed out that in the employment of agents for various legitimate purposes the Socialist party did not differ from the other political parties in the country. The result of the trial was a moral defeat for the police. Of the accused, 32 were acquitted, and the rest were fined from 30 to 75 marks, while the ordinance of dissolution was confirmed only for the chief committee and 4 of the 6 electoral associations of the capital. Berlin Industrial Exhibition. - An exhibition of German products and industries more extensive and complete than the exhibition of 1879 was opened at Berlin on May 1, 1896. The site was the park at Treptow, embracing 271 acres and containing 2 or 3 large sheets of water that were employed for various exhibits and spectacles, such as îminiature naval engagements. The exhibits were divided into the following 23 groups: 1, Clothing; 2, textile wares; 3, machinery; 4, porcelain and glass ; 7, sport; 8, electricity; 9, woodwork; 10, leather; 11, fancy goods; 12, metal work; 13, scientific apparatus; 14, photography; 15, paper; 16, chemicals; 17, musical instruments; 18, gas; 19, health and sanitation; 20, education; 21, gardening; 22, colonial; 23, articles of food. Scientific, fishery, sporting, and food exhibits were contained in a cations was thoroughly in sympathy with the Em-5, engineering and architecture; 6, fishery peror's ideas, was appointed to the place. When in spite of the Emperor's promises and good intentions Social Democracy still spread among the workingmen, when these even grumbled because the Government failed to fulfill all its promises, the reform movement came to an end with all except Baron von Berlepsch, who, with the help of the commission series of buildings along the bank of the Spree, where also a full-sized model of a North German Lloyd mail steamer was erected, and there was a panorama of Alpine scenery. The science hall contained, besides the space allotted to individual exhibitors, a large auditorium in which a comprehensive series of lectures was given throughout the season. In front of the sport building stood an equestrian statue of the Emperor, the only one that had ever been executed. The interior was decorated with mural paintings representing the national sports. The main grounds, containing the great exhibition building in which 14 of the groups were housed, was encircled by an electric railroad, with 10 stations at the chief points of interest. Distinct from the exhibition proper was the colonial exhibition. German travelers and the authorities in Africa contributed to make this exhibition as far as possible a faithful representation of indigenous life and customs in the new German colonies. Natives from the various spheres of influence were brought to Berlin with their household goods and accustomed implements and weapons in order to display their habits and occupations and give an idea of the variety and extent of the colonial empire of Germany. Old Berlin was a reproduction of a quarter of the city as it was in the seventeenth century, with its narrow streets and archways, and quaint, small, irregular houses. There was also a realistic imitation of a part of Cairo, with the tombs of the khalifs, mosques, a great pyramid, hotels, houses, and bazaars, where a collection of arms and other articles lent by the Khedive was displayed and a numerous colony of Arabs plied their usual trades and furnished much amusement to the visitors. The Miners' Congress. -The International Miners' Congress, which would have met in Belgium if the Belgian Government had been willing to rescind its decree of expulsion against Deputies Basly and Lamendin, the two leading French representatives, held its annual meeting in Germany, near the Belgian frontier, at Aix-la-Chapelle. Mr. Burt, the English labor representative in Parliament, was made president. The Northumberland and Durham miners were present in double their usual numbers to oppose the legal eight-hour day, which was advocated by the British Miners' Federation, seconded by the French and Belgian delegates, and was finally approved by a large majority. A resolution in favor of a minimum wage adapted to the conditions of life and industry in each country, which should serve as a base for further agitation to secure higher wages, was carried by the votes of delegates representing 961,000 miners, the Northumberland delegates, who represent 36,000, voting against it, and the Durham delegates abstaining. A resolution demanding the prohibition of all overtime tending to increase production was carried by the votes of all except the British National Union, and one to limit the production of coal in all countries according to the requirements so as to prevent overproduction was adopted unanimously. A resolution in favor of the nationalization of mines was carried by the votes of the French, the Belgian, the Welsh, and a part of the English delegation; the German delegates abstained from voting, on the ground that the German Empire was not yet sufficiently democratic to be intrusted with the ownership of mines, while the German states were still less so, as was evidenced by the recent abolition of universal suffrage in Saxony. By votes representing 911,000 miners against 126,000, the congress approved a resolution to the effect that the employer should be held entirely responsible in case of accident unless he can prove that it was not due to his fault. A resolution in favor of prohibiting VOL. XXXVI.-21 A women from working in and about mines was carried unanimously. The Germans proposed to hold congresses biennially, but all others voted in favor of meeting every year. London was chosen as the place for the congress of 1897, to which Russian and American representatives were invited. GIFTS AND BEQUESTS. The following list comprises the most notable gifts and bequests for public purposes, of $5,000 each and upward in amount or value, that were made, became operative, or were completed in the United States during 1896. It excludes the ordinary denominational contributions for educational and benevolent purposes, and all State and municipal appropriations to public and sectarian institutions. The known value of the gifts and bequests enumerated exceeds $27,000,000. Adriance, John P., Poughkeepsie, N. Y., children of, gift to the city of a public library; cost, $50,000. Ames, Oliver, Easton, Mass. (died Oct. 22, 1895), gift to the town of Easton, a public high-school building; cost, $60,000, exclusive of land and foundation; begun before his death, completed in 1896. Amherst College, Mass., gifts from friends for enlargement of Hitchcock Hall, $15,500. Ancient Order of Hibernians, gift from members throughout the United States to the Catholic University of America, for a chair of Celtic literature, $50,000. Anderson, Mrs. A. A., New York, gift to Barnard College, a building; cost, $170,000. Armenian Relief Committee, Boston, subscriptions aggregating $38,500. Armenian Residents in the United States, gifts through the American Board for their suffering friends in Turkey, nearly $100,000. Armstrong, Thomas, bequest to Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., $150,000. Artz, Victorine Thomas, Chicago, Ill., gift to the Boston Public Library for a Longfellow memorial collection, $10,000. Aspinwall, Mrs. Anna R., Pittsburg, bequest to the hospital of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, her entire estate; estimated value, $3,000,000. Astor, William Waldorf, New York and London, gift to the Children's Aid Society of New York city, for a school building, $50,000, and for the sufferers by the famine in India, $10,000. Baldwin, Franklin, North Grafton, Mass., bequests, available on the death of his widow, to Wellesley College, $50,000; Smith College, $12,000; Wellesle University of Vermont, $10,000; Dartmouth College, $6,000; Home for Aged Men, Worcester, $10,000; First Universalist Church, Worcester, $6,000; and all but $1,000 of the residue of his estate to Clark University. Barber, Mrs. Phineas M., Philadelphia, gift to the Presbyterian Board of Missions for Freedmen, a seminary building for girls in Anniston, Ala. ; cost, $40,000. Barnard College, New York, gifts from two anonymous friends, each $10,000; also from friends to pay remainder of cost of new site. $160,000. Beck, Charles Bathgate, New York (see GIFTS AND BEQUESTS in "Annual Cyclopædia" for 1894). In an action before the Supreme Court to determine whether the Society for the Prevention of Crime (the "Parkhurst" society) or the Society for the Suppression of Vice (the "Comstock" society) was entitled to the bequest, Judge Truax decided in favor of the first-named society, Nov. 8, 1896. This decision gives Dr. Parkhurst's society a fifth part of the residue of the estate, and this part was estimated at $200,000 to $700,000. Beckwith, Abby G., bequest to Brown University, $5,000. Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn., gift from friends, a library building; cost, $20,000; presented Nov. 18, 1896. Bertram, Susan H., Boston, bequest to the Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity, Providence, R. I., the annual income of $50,000; Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity, Fond du Lac, Wis., $5,000; St. Luke's Home for Convalescents, Roxbury, Mass., the reversion of $10,000; Homœopathic Hospital, Boston, the reversion of $10,000; and the Home for Aged and Indigent Women, Salem, St. Margaret's Hospital, Boston, and the Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity, Providence (the last two for special purposes), each $5,000. Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kan., friends of, gift of an organ; cost, $5,000. Blackstone, Timothy, Chicago, gift to Branford, Conn., of a public library; cost, $300,000. Blaine, Mrs. Emmons, Richfield Springs, N. Y., gift to the Presbyterian Church there, an organ; cost. $15,000. Blair, John I., Blairstown, N. J., gift to Princeton University, for a Gothic dormitory, $150,000. Bliss, George. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. Bloomingdale, J. B., New York, gift to Barnard College, $5,000. Botta, Vincenzo and Anne C. L., New York city, executor of, settlement of bequests to the University of the City of New York, $10,000 and their library and art collections. Bourne, Miss, New Bedford, Mass., gifts to the town of Bourne, a public library; cost, $10,000, and a collection of valuable books. Bowen, Henry Chandler. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. Bradley, Mrs. Julia, Peoria, Ill., gift to the University of Chicago, her entire fortune, estimated at $2,200,000. The condition is that the university shall erect and maintain in Peoria an institution to be called the Bradley Polytechnic Institute, and that two of its seven directors shall be connected with the university. Bradley, Miss M. F., Fryeburg, Me., bequests to local educational and missionary institutions, $8,600. Brimmer, Martin. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. Brinckerhoff, Mrs. Van Wyck, New York, gift to Barnard College, a hall building, cost $130,000. Brown, Harriet L., Boston, bequests to charitable and educational institutions, available at once, $23,000; available on death of annuitants, $10,000. Buckland, Samuel C., Arlington, Mass., bequests to the town and to local churches and institutions, improved real estate and $7,200. Bull, Mrs. Mary Putnam, Irvington, N. Y., bequests to churches and charitable institutions in New York and Connecticut, $30,000. Burns, Mrs. Rose, New York city, bequests to Roman Catholic institutions, $6,500. in Bush, John L., Spencer, Mass., bequests to Congregational associations, the Children's dren's Hospital Boston, and local institutions, $17,000. Christian Alliance, friends of, gifts missions aggregating $101,500. for foreign Christian, Mrs. Hans S., Brooklyn, N. Y., gifts to Brooklyn Kindergarten Association, $10,000 and a building. Clay, Mrs. Susan, East Jaffrey, N. H., bequest to the town, a public library. Cochran, William F., Yonkers, N. Y., gift to the Hollywood Inn (workingmen's club), a new building and equipments, cost $125,000. Colby, Charles L., New York city, bequests to Brown University, $20,000; Baptist missionary societies, $30,000; and local charities, $10,000. Collamore, John Hoffman. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. Colt, Mrs. Samuel, Hartford, Conn., gift to the Protestant Episcopal Church, parish building in Hartford, cost $200,000. Conselyea, Dr. Lawrence W., Brooklyn, N. Y., bequests to the Seney Hospital, $25,000; Brooklyn Home for Aged Men, $5,000; and Brooklyn Home for Aged Women, $5,000. Cooper, Eliza, New York, bequests to Baptist churches in New York city and Nanuet, N. Y., $6,000. Corning, John B., Hartford, Conn., bequest to the city hospital, $5,000. Cotton, Margaret, Brooklyn, N. Y., bequest to the Masonic Asylum at Utica. N. Y., $25,000. Crane, Angelina, New York, bequest to the city for a fountain, $50,000. Culver, Miss Helen, Chicago, Ill., gift to the University of Chicago, $25,000 (supplementing a previous gift of $1,000,000), for biological department. Dalton, Charles M., Boston, Mass., bequest to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for a scholarship in chemistry, $5,000. Damon, Harriet Wheeler, Worcester, Mass., bequests to institutions, $17,100; and to four educational and missionary societies, the residue of her estate. Darling, Alfred B., New York, bequests for construction or endowment of a hospital at Hanover, N. H., $10,000; the Congregational Society of East Burke, Vt., the land it now occupies and $10,000; St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Academy, $10,000; and Lyndon (Vt.) Literary and Biblical Institute, $2.500. Davenport, John I., bequest to Amherst College, available on the death of his widow, $50,000. Deering, William, Evanston, Ill., gift to Northwestern University, $215,000, making his total gifts to it $400,000. Doelger, Barbara, Newark, N. J., bequests to four local charities, each $1,000; and for the poor of two cities in Germany, each $500. Donnell, Ezekiel J., New York, bequest to the New York Free Circulating Library, conditionally, an estate of $630,000. Dougherty. Rev. Father, Honesdale, Pa., bequest to the Catholic University of America, $5,000. Drury College, Springfield, Mo., gifts from Daniel K. Pearsons, $25,000; Judge M. L. Gray, $20,000; other friends, $55,000-all for endowment. Ellis, John, New York, bequests to the American Swedenborg Printing and Publishing Society, $30,000; Swedenborg Publishing Company of Philadelphia, $10,000; National Temperance Society, $10,000: and the New York Society of the New Church, $10,000. Ewing, Judge Nathaniel. Uniontown, Pa., gifts for First Presbyterian Church there, $20,000 and a $9,000 organ. Farrington, Ira P., Portland, Me., bequest to the Maine Eye ve and Ear Infirmary, $200,000. Field, Joseph, Chicago, gift to Mount Holyoke College, $6,000. Fiske, Mrs. Josiah M., New York, gift to Barnard College, $5,000. Flatley, Rev. Michael Francis, Malden, Mass., bequests to Boston College, $1,000; and to Roman Catholic institutions, $3,300 and valuable real estate. Fletcher, J. Varnum, Westford, Mass., gift, a public-library building. Flower Surgical Hospital, New York, gift from the Women's Guild of the New York Homœopathic Medical College and Hospital, a new medical wing; cost over $100,000. Fogg, H. H., Bangor, Me., gifts to local institutions, $5,000. Friedlander, Charles S., New York, bequests to Hebrew charitable institutions, $5,800. Friedman, Leonard, New York, bequests to local Hebrew charitable institutions, $11,000. Frothingham, Frederick Gray, Boston, bequests to the Newsboys' Reading-room Association, immediately, $3,000, and on the death of either of two sisters, $50,000, and to the town of Paulina, Iowa, for a public library, $2,000. Gail, G. W., Baltimore, Md., gift to Johns Hopkins University, the library of 5,000 volumes in Oriental literature and languages collected by Prof. Dillman, of Berlin. Gay, William A., Newburg, N. Y., bequests to St. Luke's Hospital and the Home for the Friendless at Newburg, each $3,000. Gleason, Joanna, Sudbury, Mass., bequests to the town of Carlisle for the poor who are not paupers, $7,000; the First and Orthodox Congregational Societies of that town, $10,000 and $5,000 respectively; the Unitarian and Methodist Societies of Sudbury and the Orthodox Society of South Sudbury, each $3,000; and the Goodman Improvement Society of Sudbury, $500. Goldenberg, Julius L., Flushing, N. Y., bequest for charitable institutions, $10,000, Gould, Edwin, New York, gift to Columbia University, an equipped boathouse on the Hudson river, cost $15,000, and a boat wharf, cost $4,500. Gould, Helen, New York, gift for the St. Louis cyclone sufferers, $100,000; to Vassar College, $8,000; and to the Presbyterian congregation at Roxbury, N. Y., for a new church edifice, $250,000. Grady, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth, Brooklyn, N. Y., bequests to Roman Catholic institutions, $10.500, and to St. Joseph's Seminary, Yonkers, N. Y., $10,000. Graves, Nathan F., Syracuse, N. Y., bequests to Syracuse University, $10,000, and for a home for indigent aged people, about $400,000. Graydon, Mary A., New York, bequests to local Methodist institutions, $8,000. Green, Mrs. Charles, Baltimore, Md., gift, a missionaries' summer home at Old Orchard, Me. Guleke, Herman F., M. D., New York, bequest to the German Hospital of New York and the Wartburg Orphans' School at Mount Vernon, N. Y., each $5,000. Hackley, Mrs. F. E., New York, gift to Barnard College, $10,000. Hagg, Mrs. Sarah, Brooklyn, N. Y., bequests to the Brooklyn Orphan Asylum, Brooklyn Industrial School Association, and Home for Destitute Children, each $5,000. Hamilton, Charlotte Augusta, New York, bequests to St. Luke's Hospital and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, each $3,000. Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., gift from a friend, for the new science building fund, $25,000; and from another friend for a chair of American history, $50,000. Havemeyer, Henry O., and Elias C. Benedict, New York, gift to the Greenwich, Conn., School Board, a gymnasium, cost $80,000. Hayes, Francis B., Lexington, Mass., bequests to the city of Boston for deposit in the Public Library, his valuable library; Massachusetts Horticultural Society, $10,000; town of Lexington, for a public fountain. $10,000; Massachusetts Home for Intemperate Women, $5,000; Berwick Academy, South Berwick, Me., $5,000; to his executor for free excursions for poor children of Boston, $5,000 ; and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the residue of his estate, valued at $600,000. Heath, Mrs. Catharine C., Newark, N. J., bequests to local charitable institutions, $19,000. Henderson, Charles M., Chicago, Ill., bequests to the Presbyterian Hospital, $10,000; Presbyterian churches and societies, $14,000; and two Presbyterian clergymen, each $3,000. Hinton, John W., and wife, Milwaukee, Wis., gift to the Protestant Home for the Aged, $50,000. Hoffman, Eugene Augustus, D. D., New York, gift to the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., cash, $50,000. Holden, Mrs. Ellen B., Boston, Mass., bequests to the New Jerusalem Church and the Washingtonian Home, each $5,000; Young Women's Christian Association, $3,000; and Young Men's Christian Union, $2,000. Houghton, Mayor A. C., North Adams, Mass., gift to the city, a public library building, valued at $125,000. Houghton, William S.. Boston, son and daughter of, gift to Wellesley College for a chapel, $100, 000. Howe, Ephraim, New Pork, bequests to Tufts College, $40,000; Clinton Liberal Institute, $10,000; Chapin House for the Aged and Infirm, $5.000; and St. Lawrence University, $1,000. Howe, Mary Ellen, Marlborough, Mass., bequests to the Unitarian Church, $5,500. Ivison, David B., New York, gift to Rutherford, N. J., free-library building, value $10,000. Jackson, Rev. Sheldon, Washington, D. C., gift to the University of Utah, $50,000. James, Arthur C., New York, gift to Amherst College, the entire expense of the college eclipse expedition to Japan, about $30,000. Johns Hopkins University, gifts from friends, $250,000. Jones, Jacob P., Philadelphia, Pa. (died, 1885), bequests, made available by the death of his widow in 1896, to the Old Men's Home, $25,000; Foster Home Association, $10,000; Female Society for the Relief and Employment of the Poor, $5,000; Shelter for Colored Orphans, $5,000; Pennsylvania Hospital, $10,000; Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons, $10,000; Merchants' Fund, $15,000; Howard Institution, $10,000, all in Philadelphia; and Haverford College, the residue of his estate, esti Harkness, Mrs. Anna M., Cleveland, Ohio, gift to the College for Women of Western Reserve Uni-mated at $400,000. versity, for a chair of biblical literature, $50,000. Harris, Jonathan Newton. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. Harrison, Alfred C., Philadelphia, gift to the University of Pennsylvania, $100,000. Hartt. Lucy Ann, Chelsea, Mass., bequest to the Old Ladies' Home, $30,000: three missionary societies, each $5,000; and the Congregational Church, $3.000. Harvard University, gift from a friend, for a chair of comparative pathology, $100,000. Havemeyer, Frederick Christian, New York, sons, daughters, and nephew of, gift to Columbia Jones, Julia C. Van Arsdale, Newark, N. J., bequests to charitable and missionary societies, $34, 000. Keith, Edson, Chicago, Ill., bequest to the Old People's Home, $10,000. Kennedy, John S., New York, gift to the New York Public Library, Tilden, Lenox, and Astor Foundations, the American historical collection made by Thomas Addis Emmet, M. D., at a cost of $300,000, for which Mr. Kennedy is believed to have paid $150,000, the remainder representing Dr. Emmet's share in the gift. Kernan, Benjamin A., New Orleans, La., bequests for asylums for the poor at Dalkey, Ireland, and New Orleans, $198,000. Keteltas, Henry, New York, bequests to the New York Historical Society, portraits and $5,000. Kunhardt, Mrs. C. R., New York, gift to the Peabody Home for Aged Women, $5,000. Lawrence, Bryan, New York, bequests to local Roman Catholic institutions, the American College in Rome, Italy, and the Roman Catholic University of America, an aggregate of $107,000; and to St. Francis's Hospital, St. Joseph's Hospital, Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poor, St. Joseph's Home for the Aged, and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, after payment of specific legacies, the residue of an estate, estimated at $600,000. Lawrence, Mrs. Samuel, and Mrs. James R. Swords. New York, gift to the library of Columbia University, $6,000. Lawton, Mrs. James Marsland, daughter of Gen. Robert Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame, gift to the United States Government, a fountain at West Point, N. Y.; cost, $10,000. Lawton, Mrs., Thomas A., Newport, R. I., bequests to Channing Memorial Church, $25,000, and to the Congregational church and Smith Memorial Hall in Dighton, each $5,000. Leary, Miss Annie, New York, gift to the Department of Charities and Correction, a chapel at Bellevue Hospital for Roman Catholic worship. Lembeck, Henry, Jersey City, N. J., gift to the city for a public park, a plot of 24 acres. Livingston, Mrs. Mary A., New York, bequests to marine and other benevolent societies, an aggregate of $45,000. Loomis Sanitarium for Consumptives, at Liberty, N. Y.: the buildings comprise the Administration Building, erected by J. Pierpont Morgan; Casino, for amusement and recreation, by Mrs. George Lewis; and cottages bearing the names of their donors. Low, Seth, President of Columbia University, gift to Barnard College, $10,000; also to New York Kindergarten Association, $5,000. Ludlow, Mrs. Elizabeth Mary, New York, gift to Columbia University for a chair of music, $150,000. Lyman, Edward H. R., New York, gift to Smith College, Northampton, Mass., a plant house for its botanical garden. McKean, Thomas, Philadelphia, Pa., gift to the University of Pennsylvania, conditional, $100,000. McMahon, Ellen, Brooklyn, bequest for a Roman Catholic school building, $6,000. Magee, C. L., Pittsburg, gift for the establishment of a zoölogical garden in one of the city parks, $100,000. Massey, Hart A., Cleveland, Ohio, and Toronto, Ontario, bequests to Canadian educational and Methodist institutions, $575,000; the American University, Washington, D. C., $50,000; and the Moody Northfield schools, $10,000. Maxwell, George, Rockville, Conn., bequest for a public library, $10,000, to which the town added $10,000. Mayer, Antoinette, New York, bequests to the Montefiore House and Mount Sinai Hospital, each $5.000. Merian, John J., Brooklyn. N. Y., bequests to charitable, church, and historical societies in New York and Brooklyn, $9,000. Merrifield, William T., Worcester, Mass., bequests to Congregational and local charitable institutions, $9,000. Merrill, Dr. Abner L., Andover, Mass., gifts to Phillips Exeter Academy, the high school, and the seminary, each $3,000 in bonds, for prizes in English composition, and to the two last also $3,000. Methodist National University, Washington, D. C., gifts from the clergy for an Asbury Memorial Hall, $100,000. Miller, John W., New York, bequests to the Ottilie Orphan Asylum, Newton, Long Island, $60.000; the Evangelical Reformed Church, Avenue B, $25,000 outright and $25,000 interest; and, on the death of his widow, to the German Evangelical Synod and Missionary Society. St. Louis, $10,000, and the Five Points House of Industry and the Wetmore Home, each $5,000. Mills, D. T., Boston, bequests, unavailable for several years, to the Home for Aged Couples, $10,000; Home for Aged Men, $5,000; Home for Aged Women, $5,000; and the Museum of Fine Arts, the residue of his estate, estimated from $500,000 to $750,000. Moir, William, New York, bequests to Presbyterian institutions, $55,000. Morgan, Junius S.. New York, gift to Princeton Un University, a collection of early editions of Vergil, valued by experts at $50,000. Morris, Daniel, Atlantic City, N. J., gift for a Roman Catholic orphanage at Hopewell, N. J., $47,775. Mount Holyoke College, gift from alumnæ in New York and Brooklyn, for a cottage, $30.000. Mullen, Patrick, Brooklyn, bequests to the Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poor, conditionally, the income of $10,000 annually, and to the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, for use in teaching the Irish language, a residue of about $85,000. Nettleton, Henry I., Durham, Conn., gift to Wesleyan University, a collection of subcarboniferous crinoids, valued at $10,000. Noyes, Augusta S., Brookline, Mass., bequests to the American Board, Woman's Board of Foreign Missions, and Congregational Home Missionary Society of New York city, each $2,000, O'Brien, Patrick B., New Orleans, La., bequests to the Catholic University of America, $150,000; the archiepiscopal diocese of New Orleans, for education of priests, $20,000; Hotel Dien, $6,000; and House of the Good Shepherd and the Church of the Sacred Heart, each $5,000. Offerman, Henry, Brooklyn, bequest to the Wartburg Orphans' Farm School of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, $5,000. Olcott, Mrs. F. P., New York, gift to Barnard College, $5,000. O'Neill, Mary, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., bequests to Roman Catholic churches and clergymen, $7,500. Paderewski, Ignace J., pianist, gift for a fund to encourage American composers by means of prizes, $10,000. Paige, Lucius Robinson. See OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. Palmer, F. A., New York, gift to Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, for a chair of Christian ethics, $50,000. Pearsons, Daniel Kimball, M. D., Chicago, gifts to Mount Holyoke College, $25,000, first payment of a conditional gift of $50,000, and to Drury College, $25,000, last payment of a similar gift. Perkins, Willard B., Colorado Springs, Col., bequests to the Lawrence (Mass.) General Hospital, $50,000; Lawrence High School, $2,000; Lawrence Young Men's Christian Association, $5,000; Colorado College, $24,000; Columbia College, $6,000; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $6,000; and city of Colorado Springs, $3,000. Perkins Institution for the Blind, Boston, Mass., bequests from Miss Margaret Copen, $13,770; Mrs. Ann W. Vose, $10.000; Samuel E. Sawyer, $2,000: and Albert Glover, $2,000. Peters, T. M., D. D., New York, friends of the |