Leon Alexandre Henzey

Leon Alexandre Henzey, a French archaeolo-gist, born in Rouen in 1831. He studied at the normal school in Paris and at the French school in Athens, and became professor of history and archaeology at the school of fine arts. He published, as the result of his personal researches, Le Mont Olympe et l'Acarnanie (1860); and Napoleon III. having sent him to Macedonia and adjoining regions, he published with M. Daumet, Mission archeologique de Ma-cedoine: fouillcs et recherehes executees dans cette contree et dans les parties adjacentes de la Thrace, de la Thessalie, de l'lllyrie et de l'Epire en 1861 (1864 et seq.). In 1872 he published Un palais grec en Macedoine, narrating his discovery at Palatitza.

Leon De Rosot

Leon De Rosot, a French orientalist born at Loos, department of Le Nord, Aug. 5, 1837. He studied in Paris, and was appointed in 1863 interpreter of the Japanese ambassadors to the European courts. In 1868 he was appointed to the chair of Japanese at the special school of oriental languages in Paris. He is perpetual secretary of the Asiatic society, and is the founder of the society of American and oriental ethnography. He has published treatises on the Semitic languages and their history, figurative and hieroglyphical writing, the Co-rean language, text books for learning Japanese, Dictionnaire des signes idéographiques de la Chine (5 parts, 1864-'7), Études asiatiques de géographie et d'histoire (1864), etc.

Leon Difour

Leon Difour, a French naturalist, born about 1782, died at St. Sever, Landes, in April, 1865. He studied medicine at Montpellier, and after taking part in the Spanish campaign of 1823 as army physician, he settled in St. Sever. Besides numerous articles scattered in periodical publications, he wrote Relation de voyage dans les montagnes maudites (1821); Recher-ches anatomiqucs et physiologiques sur les he-mipteres (4to, 1833); Essai sur quelques points de l'etat actuel de la physique et de la chimie (1853); Proprieties des vegetaux et leurs applications a l'alimentation, la medecine, la tein-ture, etc. (1861).

Leonard Sylvain Jules Sandeau

Leonard Sylvain Jules Sandeau, a French author, born at Aubusson, department of Creuse, Feb. 19, 1811. He was a lover of George Sand, and published with her the celebrated novel Rose et Blanche. A complete collection of his novels appeared in 2 vols. in 1859. One of his most successful plays is Mlle, de la Seiglière, adapted from his novel of the same title. He is a member of the academy and a director of the Mazarin library.

Leone Levi

Leone Levi, a British author, born in Anco-na, Italy, June 6, 1821. He was educated for mercantile pursuits, and in 1844 went to England, and in 1847 was naturalized as a British subject. In 1849 he was mainly instrumental in organizing the Liverpool chamber of commerce, of which he became honorary secretary. In 1852 he was permitted to give evening lectures on commerce and commercial law in King's college, London, where he was afterward appointed professor of the principles and practice of commerce. He was called to the bar in 1851), and in 1861 was made doctor of political and economical science by the university of Tubingen. His principal publications are: "Commercial Law" (4 vols. 4to, 1850-,52); " The Law of Nature and Nations, as affected by Divine Law" (1855); "On Taxation: how it is Raised and how it is Expended" (1860); "International Commercial Law" (1864); and "History of British Commerce" (1872).