Herder

Johann Gottfried von, German author; born in 1744. From 1761. to 1769 he was an a istant teacher at the cathedral school of Riga, with which office that of a preacher was connected, and it was during this period that he published his “ Fragments on German Literature.” His greatest work is his ‘ Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Man.” He died in 1803.; Heredia, Jose Maria de, a French poet; born in Cuba, Nov. 22, 1842. He printed occasional poems, sonnets, ete., for private circulation, and though a Spaniard born he gradually came to be reckoned one of the most gifted and accomplished of French poets. He died in Paris Oct. 3, 1905.