ng the labors
required by all these occupations he found time to write for Didot's
_Univers Pittoresque_ a history of Carthage from the second Punic war to
the Vandal invasion, a history of the Vandal rule and the Byzantine
restoration, another of the African Church, and one of the Church of
Ancient Syria. He also furnished many important articles to the
Encyclopedic Dictionary, wrote often for the _National_ newspaper, and
for two years was chief editor of the _Nouvelle Revue Encyclopedique_.
He was a republican in sentiment, and a character of exceeding nobleness
and energy.

* * * * *

COLONEL COUNT D'HOZIER, a distinguished French officer, who was
compromised in the affair of Georges Cadoudal, died early in March, in
Paris, aged seventy-seven. On the occasion of the conspiracy referred
to, he was sentenced to death, but obtained his pardon through the
interference of the Empress Josephine, and as a commutation of his
punishment was imprisoned until the year 1814 in the prison of the
Chateau d'If--the scene of the confinement of Dumas' hero, the Comte de
Montechristo.

* * * * *

M. GEORGE BRENTANO, the oldest banker at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, died a
few weeks ago, aged eighty-eight. He was brother of two persons well
known in the world of letters, M. Clement Brentano and the Countess
Bettina d'Arnim, the correspondent of Goethe.

* * * * *

FREDERIC XAVIER FERNBACH, the inventor of that mode of encaustic
painting which is called by his name, died at Munich on the 27th
February. A history of his experiments and inventions was published many
years ago.

* * * * *

M. JULES MARTIEN, author of a volume on _Christianity in America_, died
in Paris on the twenty-first of March.

FOOTNOTES:

[M] Farmer's Genealogical Register: Articles _Hill-Russell_.

"OTSEGO HALL," THE RESIDENCE OF J. FENIMORE COOPER.

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In the delightful home which in the above engraving is reflected with
equal spirit and fidelity, our great novelist has composed the larger
portion of those admirable tales and histories that display his own
capacities, and the characteristics and tendencies of our people.

Here also was written the beautiful work by Mr. COOPER'S daughter,
entitled "Rural Hours." Could any thing tempt to such authorship more
strongly than a residence thus quiet, and surrounded