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Thayer, Abbott Henderson

artist, was born Aug. 12, 1849, in Boston, Mass. He painted chiefly animals until he had been two years abroad. Since that time he has devoted himself principally to figure-painting. He has also essayed landscapes with success. At the Paris salon of 1877 he exhibited Le sommeil; and in the following year he sent a portrait.

THAYER, ALEXANDER WHEELOCK, author, was born Oct. 22, 1817, in South Natick, Mass. He is a writer whose later life has been spent abroad, and who was consul at Trieste in 1859-82. His most important work, a Life of Beethoven, the third volume of which was published in Berlin in 1887, has not been printed in English. It is still unfinished. The Hebrews and the Red Sea; and Signior Masoni and Other Papers by the late I. Brown.