The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-03
ISMAIL PASHA DEAD
ONCE kHEDIvE OF EGYPT, But
FORCED TO ADVOCATE.
Death of John Stuart BIackie, the
Noted English Author, Historian
and Scholar.

CAIRO, March 2-Ismai1 Pasha, ex-Vice-
roy and Khedive of Egypt. is dead. the
news being received from Gonstantinople.
Ismail Pasha was announced to be dying
Dec. % last. and the announcement was
repeated several times since, but this IS the
first official announcement or ms deatn.
The dead Pasl1a was the ex-Khedive OF
Egypt, a grandson of the celebrated Me-
hemet Ali, was born in Cairo in 1880, ana
succeeded his brother, Said Pasha, JAN IT,
1863. Ismail was educated in Paris, and on
his return to Egypt, in 1S49, opposed the
policy of Abbas Pasha, the then Viceroy
or Khedive In 1864 Ismail had much trou-,
BILE with NJ. De LessepS in relation to the
Suez canal, and the difficulties had to be
arranged by Emperor Napoleon. From this
on the Pasha took great interest in the
undertaking, and when near the completion,
in 1862 he visited many of the capitals of
Europe to secure the attendance of royalty
at the opening. On this journey the Khe-
dive by his air of sovereignty, greatly
offended the Sultan, but the quarrel was
amicably settled. The great event of his
reign as Viceroy was the attempt to Eu-
ropeanize Egypt. which resulted in Egypt
acquiring a national debt, of $4,000 600.
sold his stock in the. Suez canal to the
British government for f4,00o,0o0 Finally.
becoming aware of the hopeless state of
E5Fypf ! . ara straIshtsn out rs 4;
fairs The measures proposed and
arranged by the shrewd English resulted in
the Khedive being rendered powerless, his
his creditors and ministry appointed with
English representatives that practically
made Ismail a nonentity; Naturally revo-
and French worked on the Sultan until one
fine day in 1879 the Khedive found himself
shorn of his authority, He had to abdcatee
in favor of his Prince TeWfik. lSmail
left the country, but was not permitted to
land at Constantinople ar, and took up his
claim against Egypt for 100000 pounds
which he alleged was the value of his
robbed and his counsel, who was an En-
glishman, succeeded in recovering the
greater part of the claim.
John Stuart BIacI~ie.
LONDON, March PROF. John Stuart
Blackie, the well kno Hn author, historian
and scholar. is dead at the age of eighty
six years.
Among students Professor Blackie is well
recommended for his opposition to the moral
philosophy of John Stuart Mill, his crit
icism of historian Grote in his estimate of
the Greek sophists, and of Prof. Max Mueller
for his allegorical Interpretation of ancient
myths. Professor Blackie was born at Glas-
gov, in 1909. He early devoted himself to
the study of languages, history and philoso-
pHy, anu WAS IOF d long tIfIle prOI er5SOr
of Greek ia Edinburgh University. His first
of his many published works was a metri-
cal translation of Goethe's Faust in 1894
In 1874 he took the Latin professorship at
Aberdeen His metrical translation of Aes-
chylus led to his appointment to the Greek
chair at Edinburgh in 1852. He became a
profound Greek student and in 1866 pub
lished a translation of the Iliad in ballad
measure He also author of the
Homer" article in the Encyclopedias Brit
annica. His most popular work was self
Culture small volume of pratical advice
to young men issued in 1874. 1t had
remarkable sale in England India. America
and Europe. Other publications were a vol
ume of Greek translations in 1852; in 1857
Songs of Ancient Greece in the following
year, "A Treatise on Beauty in 1850
Lyrical Poems in English and Latin.''
Notes and Dissertations;' in 1885, a volume
of student songs entitled .Musa Burschi-
cosa;'' in 1870. in proof of his sympathy with
the fatherland in her struggle with France,
a volume of War Songs of the Germans;''
in 1871, -Four Phases of Morals'' in 1872
Lays of the Highlands and Islands," in
1874, "Horae Hellenicae;' in 1876 Songs
of Religion and Life in 1881, the new edi-
ton of Faust and in 1882, .tAltavona"
Since that time much of his work has been
confined to Scottish works. His life of Burns
came in 1887, and in 1899 "A Song of Lewes' .
being a series of historical ballads on per-
sons of representative men from Abraham
to Wellington and Nelson.