KARL WILHELM

DINDORF (1802-1883)  , German classical scholar, was born at Leipzig on the 2nd of January 1802 . From his earliest years he showed a strong taste for classical studies, and after completing F . Invernizi's edition of Aristophanes at an early age, and editing several grammarians and rhetoricians, was in 1828 appointed extraordinary professor of literary history in his native city . Disappointed at not obtaining the ordinary professorship when it became vacant in 1833, he resigned his post in the same year, and devoted himself entirely to study and literary work . His attention had at first been chiefly given to Athenaeus, whom he edited in 1827, and to the Greek dramatists, all of whom he edited separately and combined in his Poetae scenici Graeci (183o and later editions) . He also wrote a work on the metres of the Greek dramatic poets, and compiled special lexicons to Aeschylus and Sophocles . He edited Procopius for Niebuhr's Corpus of the Byzantine writers, and between 1846 and 1851 brought out at Oxford an important edition of Demosthenes; he also edited Lucian and Josephus for the Didot classics . His last important editorial labour was his Eusebius of Caesarea (1867-1871) . Much of his attention was occupied by the re-publication of Stephanus's Thesaurus (Paris, 1831-1865), chiefly executed by him and his brother Ludwig, a work of prodigious labour and utility . His reputation suffered somewhat through the imposture practised upon him by the Greek Constantine Simonides, who succeeded in deceiving him by a fabricated fragment of the Greek historian Uranus . The book was printed, and a few copies had been circulated, when the forgery was discovered, just in time to prevent its being given to the world under the auspices of the university of Oxford . Shortly after thedeath of his brother, he lost all his property and his library by rash speculations .

He died on the 1st of

August 1883 . His brother LUDWIG (18o5--1871) was born at Leipzig on the 3rd of January 1805, and died there on the 6th of September 1871 . He never held any academical position, and led so secluded a life that many doubted his existence, and declared that he was a mere pseudonym . The important share which he took in the edition of the Thesaurus is nevertheless authenticated by his own signature to his contributions . He also published valuable editions of Polybius, Dio Cassius and other Greek historians . D'INDY, PAUL-MARIE-THEODORE-VINCENT (1851- ), French musical composer, was born in Paris, on the 27th of March 1851 . He studied composition and the organ at the Paris Conservatoire under Cesar Franck, and obtained the grand prize offered by the city of Paris in 1885 with Le Chant de la Cloche, a dramatic legend after Schiller . His principal works, beside the above, are the symphonic trilogy Wallenstein, the symphonic works entitled Saugefleurie, La Foret enchantee, Istar, Symphonie sur un air montagnard francais; overture to Anthony and Cleopatra; Ste Marie Magdeleine, a cantata; Attendez-moi sous forme, a one-act opera; Fervaal, a musical drama in three acts . Vincent d'Indy is perhaps the most prominent among the disciples of Cesar Franck . Imbued with very high aims, he was always guided by a lofty ideal, and few musicians have attained so complete a mastery over the art of instrumentation . His music, however, lacks simplicity, and can never become popular in the widest sense . His opera Fervaal, which is styled " action musicale," is constructed upon the system of Leit-motifs .

Its legendary subject recalls both

Parsifal and Tristan, and the music is also suggestive of Wagnerian influence . D'Indy can scarcely be considered so typical a representative of modern French music as his juniors Alfred Bruneau, the composer of Le Rene, L'Attaque du moulin, Messidor, or Gustave Charpentier, the author of Louise, who chose subjects of modern life for their operatic works .