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JUSTE— KALAKANA.

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Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessa- lonians^ GkJatians^ and Eomans, published in 1855, 2nd ed. 1858; and contributed an essay on the Interpretation of Scripture to "Essays and Reviews." In 1870 he was elected Master of Baliol College, and in 1871 published a translation of the "Dialogues of Plato/* in 4 vols., with introduc- tion, 2nd ed. in 5 vols. 1875. The honorary degree of LL.D. was con- ferred upon him by the University of Leyden in Feb. 1875. In 1881 he published a translation of Thucy- dides, with notes, in 2 vols. He was elected Vice-Chancellor of the University for the academical year, 1882-8.

JUSTE, THioDORB, a popular Belgian author, whose elucidations of the history of his native country are well-known in England, was bom at Brussels in 1818, and be- came successively Secretary of the Central Commission of Instruction, a member of the Belgian Archeeo- logical Academy, and Keeper of the Eoyal Museum of Artillery. Besides contributing extensively to journals and reviews, M. Juste has published the following works in Illustration of the hirtory of France and of the Low Countries : —

  • ' Histoire l^^mentaire et Populaire

de la Belgique," 1838, 3rd edit. 1848 J *' Histoire Populaire de la Revolution Fran^aise," 1839; "Un Tour en HoUande," 1839 ; " Histoire du Consulat et de TEmpire,'* 1840; " Essai BUT I'Histoire de I'lnstruc- tion Publique en Belgique," 1844 ;

  • ' Precis de I'Histoire Modeme con-

aid^r^ dans ses rapports avec la Belgique," 1845; "Histoire de la Revolution Beige de 1790," 3 vols. 1846 J "Charlemagne, 1846; "Pre- cis de THistoire du Moyen Age," 6 vols. 1846 ; " Histoire de la Revo- lution des Pays-Bas sous Philippe II." 2 vols. 1855 ; " Charles Quint et Marguerite d'Autriche," 1858; " Les Pays-Bas au XVI« Si^cle," 2 parts, 1858-63 ; " La Belgique en 1860," 8vo, 1861 ; " Christine de

Lalaing, Princesse d'Epinoy," 1861 ; " Histoire du Soul^vement des Pays- Bas centre la Domination Espa- gnole," 2 vols. 1862-63 ; " Souvenirs Diplomatiques du XVIII* Si^e," 1863; "Les Fondateurs de la Mo- narchie Beige," 1865; "Le Soul^ve- ment de la HoUande en 1813, et la Fondation du Royaume des Pays- Bas," 1869 ; " Notes Historiques et Biographiques," 1871^ et seg., form- ing a continuation of his works on the founders of the Belgian monarchy, and illustrating by docu- ments previously unpublirfied, Eng- lish politics during the first years of the national establishment of Belgium, and various episodes in the life of Leopold I. ; " La Revolu- tion Beige de 1830," 2 vols. 1872 ; and " GuiUaume le Tacitume," 1873.

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KAFFRARIA, Bishop op. {8ee Callaway, Db.)

KALAKANA, David, King of the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands, bom about 1838. He belongs to one of the highest families in the islands. "When King Kame- hameha V. died in 1872, there were two candidates for the vacant throne, David Kalakana and Wil- liam Lunalilo ; the latter was elected by a plebiscitum, which was confinned by the Legislature. Lunalilo died within a twelvemonth, and Kalakana again put forward his claims. A Legislature, specially convened for the purpose, elected him in Feb. 1874 ; but the validity of this election was contested by Queen Emma, widow of Kame- hameha IV., who died in 1863. Queen Emma is the daughter of a native chief by an Englishwoman, and was adopted by Dr. Rooke, an English physician on the islands, and, before her marriage with Kamehameha, was known as Emma Rooke. The dispute threatened to result in a civil war, the adherents