Princess Clementine, the sixth and last surviving of the ten
children of Louis Philippe, and a grand-niece of Marie Antoinette, died on Saturday last at Vienna in her ninetieth year. A woman of great force of character and diplomatic talent, she is credited with having brought about the reconcilia- tion of the Comte de Chambord and the Comte de Paris, and it was admittedly in great measure due to her personal influence with the Coburg family, into which she married in 1843, that her youngest son, Prince Ferdinand, was placed on the throne of Bulgaria. By her death Bulgaria loses a good friend, and the Prince his best and most munificent adviser. On the same day the death occurred of Giosue Carducci, the famous Italian poet, who was awarded the Nobel prize for literature last year Beginning as a Republican, almost a Revolutionary, he ended as a firm supporter of the Monarchy, yet triumphed over criticism by sheer force of patriotism allied to uncompromising fearless- ness of utterance. We also note with much regret the death on Wednesday of Lord Davey, a great lawyer of commanding ability and singular acuteness of intellect.
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