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scientific, and religious publications in Great Britain, the United States, and Canada. In 1881 Dr. Dawson was created a Companion of the Order of St. Michel and St. George, and in the following year was selected by the Governor-General, the Marquis of Lorne, to take the Presidency of the Royal Society of Canada, an institution founded to aid the development of literary and scientific research in the Canadian Dominion.

DAY, The Hon. Sir John Charles, son of Captain John Day, of the 49th Regiment, by Emily, daughter of Jan Caspar Hartsinck, was born at the Hague, June 20, 1826. He was educated at Fribourg, and at the Benedictine College of St. Gregory, at Downside, near Bath, and graduated B.A. at the University of London. He entered the Middle Temple in 1845; was called to the bar in Jan. 1849; joined the Home (now the South-Eastern) circuit; was made a Queen's Counsel in 1872; and elected a bencher of his inn in 1873. For many years he enjoyed a very extensive practice both in London and on circuit. In June, 1882, he was appointed a judge in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, in succession to Mr. Justice Bowen, who had been elevated to the Court of Appeal; and he received the usual honour of knighthood. Mr. Justice Day is the editor of the "Common Law Procedure Acts," and "Roscoe's Nisi Prius."

DAY, The Right Rev. Maurice Fitzgerald, D.D., Bishop of Cashel, is the youngest son of the late Rev. John Day, rector of Kiltullagh, co. Kerry, by Arabella, daughter of Sir William Godfrey, of Bushfield, in the same county. He was born at Kiltullagh 1816, and received his academical education at Trinity College, DubUn (B.A., 1838; M.A., 1858). For several years he was chaplain of St. Matthias, Dublin; was appointed Dean of Limerick, and vicar of St. Mary's, Limerick, in 1868; and was chosen to succeed the late Dr. Daly in the united sees of Cashel, Emly, Waterford, and Lismore, in March, 1872, the consecration ceremony being performed in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, on April 13.

DE AMICIS, Edmondo, a popular Italian writer, born at Oneglia, Oct. 21, 1846, of a Genoese family. He began his studies at Cuneo, and after a preliminary training in the Istituto Candallero at Turin, he entered the military school of Modena, which he quitted in 1865 as sub-lieutenant in the 3rd regiment of the line. In 1866 he took part in the battle of Custozza. The following year he was established at Florence as director of the Italia Militare. After the seizure of Rome by the troops of King Victor Emmanuel, it appeared to him that his career as a volunteer in the army of Italian Independence had naturally come to an end. Weary of the monotony of garrison life, he then abandoned the profession of arms, took up his abode at Turin, and devoted his energies exclusively to literature, in which he had already made a mark by his sketches of military life—"La Vita militare: bozzetti" (Milan, 1868). After composing his "Ricordo del 1870-71," he wrote a volume of "Novelle," comprising "Gli Amici di collegio," "Camilla Furio," "Un gran Giorno," "Alberto," "Fortezza," and "La Casa paterna" (Florence, 1872; 2nd edit. Milan, 1879). A series of tours through Spain, Holland, and Morocco, with visits to London, Paris, and Constantinople, afforded him the materials for several works which, written in a lively and attractive style, increased the author's fame, had a wide circulation, and were translated into several European languages. Their titles are:— "La Spagna" (Florence, 1873); "Ricordi di Londra," 1874; "Olanda" (Florence, 1874); "Cos-