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SIR (THOMAS HENRY) HALL, an English novelist and dramatist; born in Runcorn, Cheshire, Eng., May 14, 1853; began his career as an architect in Liverpool. Contributions to the "Builder" and the "Building News" staff of the "Liverpool Mercury," and wrote in the "Academy" and the "Athenæum." He resided with Dante Rossetti in London till the poet's death. Among his non-fictional publications are: "Sonnets of Three Centuries"; "Recollections of Rossetti"; "Cobwebs of Criticism"; "My Story." His skill as a novelist has been since exemplified in "The Shadow of a Crime" (1885); "Α Son of Hagar" (1886); "The Deemster" (1887); "The Bondman" (1890); "The
SIR T. H. HALL CAINE "Scapegoat" (1891); "The Manxman" (1894); "The Christian" (1897); "The Eternal City" (1901); "The Prodigal Son" (1904); "The White Prophet" (1909); "The Woman Thou Gavest Me" (1913); etc. Most of these had very large sales, both in England and in the United States, and were almost equally successful when dramatized or filmed. "The Christian" provoked much discussion, the verdict in England being generally unfavorable to the motive of the book, while in the United States it was generally favorable. It was immediately translated into most of the languages of Europe, and provoked the same divided opinion everywhere. He traveled in Iceland (1890), in Russia (1892), on behalf of the persecuted Jews; and in 1895 visited the United States and Canada, where he represented the Society of Authors, and obtained important concessions from the Canadian Parliament as to the Canafairs of the Isle of Man and was dian copyright demands. In 1898 he visited the United States again. He took a prominent part in the public affairs of the Isle of Man and was knighted in 1918. During the World War he was prominently engaged in literary propaganda. which arose in the fever of the French CA IRA (sä ē-rä'), a popular Revolution, so named from its refrain:
Ah! ça ira, ça ira!
Les aristocrates à la lanterne! ("Ah! it will go!
To the lamp-post with the aristocrats!") styled the "Carillon National." The stage drummer. The song was pro- named Ladré; the melody to Becourt, a enough, were due to a street singer words, which are worthless rubbish came a French national song, and was styled the "Carillon National." The words, which enough, were due to a street singer stones erected as a sepulchral monu- CAIRN, a round or conical heap of worthless rubbish ment. They are found on the hills of hibited by the Directory in 1797. are