Engaged. James Russell Lowell, great-grandson of Poet James Russell Lowell; to Julia E. Brokaw, of Manhattan.

Married. Katherine Strawn, daughter of Silas Hardy Strawn, recently Special Commissioner to China; to one Wesley M. Dixon; in Chicago.

Married. Constance Towner, daughter of Governor Horace M. Towner of Porto Rico; to one Leslie B. Young; in San Juan, P. R. Hers was the first marriage in 400 years at the Executive Mansion, onetime Spanish.

Married. Rea Katherine Forhan, daughter of Dr. Richard Joseph ("Four out of Five") Forhan; to William John Pedrick, vice president of the Fifth Avenue Association; in Manhattan.

Married. Major General George Herbert Harries, 66, U. S. A., retired (repatriation post-War work; electrical business interests); to Mrs. Alice Loveland Thomas; in Manhattan.

Died. Peter Christopher Arnold Daly, 51, famed actor; in Manhattan, by fire (see p. 29).

Died. Houston Stewart Chamberlain, 72, famed Germanophile, husband of Richard Wagner's daughter Eva; in Bayreuth. Son of the late British Rear Admiral W. C. Chamberlain, and nephew of the late Field Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain, he was naturalized a German 1916, following decoration by the Kaiser for a book glorifying Germany.

Died. James C. Donnell, 72, President, Ohio Oil Co. (Standard Oil); said to be the last living man to call John D. Rockefeller, "John"; in Findlay, Ohio.

Died. Ernest Alfred Hamill, 75, Chairman of Board, Illinois Merchants' Trust Co.; in Chicago, of influenza.

Died. David Rowland Francis, 76, onetime (1889-93) Governor of Missouri, later (1896-97) Secretary of the Interior, and (1916-18) Ambassador to Russia; in St. Louis, after long illness. He was in Russia when Tsar Nicholas II was deposed. Through him, the U. S. recognized the Kerensky republic. He suffered from Bolsheviki attacks when the U. S. refused to recognize the revolution which placed the present Russian government in power.

Died. Armand Reclus, 83, who in 1879 traced the line afterward used without change for the Panama Canal; in Paris.