. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . e noble character has passed away. On the following Tuesday he wasburied in the little churchyard of Boulge, and the stone which marks hisgrave bears the simple inscription: Edward FitzGerald. Born 31st March1809. Died 14th June 1883. It is He that hath made us and not weourselves. Tennyson, on hearing of his death, wrote: I had no truer friend: hewas one of the kindliest of men, and I have never known one of so fineand delicate a wit. When Thackeray was asked
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . e noble character has passed away. On the following Tuesday he wasburied in the little churchyard of Boulge, and the stone which marks hisgrave bears the simple inscription: Edward FitzGerald. Born 31st March1809. Died 14th June 1883. It is He that hath made us and not weourselves. Tennyson, on hearing of his death, wrote: I had no truer friend: hewas one of the kindliest of men, and I have never known one of so fineand delicate a wit. When Thackeray was asked which of his friends he loved most, replied:Why, dear old Fitz to be sure. And Carlyle spoke of him as thepeaceable, affectionate, and ultra-modest man, and his innocent far nientelife. FitzGerald will be perhaps best remembered by his masterly paraphraseof Omar Khayyam, the Persian astronomer-poet of the eleventh century,and by his translations of Calderons Dramas. His favourite books were Don Quixote and Clarissa Harlowe. His favourite poet Crabbe. Authorities : W. Aldis Wright; Dictionary of National Biography. 207. Tiiii Death of GKxtRAL Gordon. (Khartoum, January 26th, 1885.) Reproduced by permission 0/ Messrs. Frosi ^^ Reed, Fine Art Publishers, o^ Bristol ami London, publishers 0/ the large etching by Herbert Dicksee. No. 96 The Death of Major-General Charles G. Gordon, 28th January 1833. Died 26th January 1885. One honest man, one wise man, one peaceful man, commands ahundred millions, without a baton and without a charger. He wants nofortress to protect him, he stands higher than any citadel can raise him,brightly conspicuous to the most distant nations, Gods servant by election,Gods image by beneficence.—Walter Savage Landor. GENERAL GORDON was called by the Prime Minister, Mr. Glad-stone, at a memorable crisis, to a task of mercy, beyond humanstrength. For eleven months he held out alone, drawing to himselfin the beleaguered city of Khartoum in Egypt the w
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