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THOMAS RAYNES- FORD, an American scholar; born in Ovid, N. Y., Jan. 1, 1838. He was graduated at Yale in 1859, and led the life of a student in Anglo-Saxon and early English, and a writer in critical and biographical works, till 1862, when he enlisted as a volunteer in the Union army, served as 1st lieutenant of the 126th New York Volunteers, and was mustered out at the close of the war; after 1871 occupied the chair of Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. Among his published works are Chaucer's "House of Fame" and "Parlement of Foules"; "History of the English Language" (1879); biography of James Fenimore Cooper in "American Men of Letters" series (1883); his crowning work, which brought him great celebrity, "Studies in Chaucer, his Life and Writings" (3 vols. 1892); "Shakespeare and Voltaire" (1902); "The Standard of Pronunciation in English" (1904); The Standard of Usage in English" (1908); "Shakes- LOUVAIN peare as Dramatic Artist" (1912). He died in 1915.
LOURDES (lörd), a town of France, in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées, arrondissement of and 6 miles N. N. E. of Argeles, on the Gave-de-Pau, 10 miles W. by N. from Bagnères-de-Bigorre, on the Toulouse and Bayonne railroad; situated at the foot of an almost inaccessible rock, and commanded by a strong castle, now used as a prison; in the neighborhood are marble and slate quarries. In modern times a famous place of pilgrimage, a fact due to the belief that in 1858 the Virgin Mary appeared in a grotto in the neighborhood, above which a magnificent basilica has since been erected. Pop. commune, 8,805.
LOURENCO MARQUEZ (lō-rān'sö märkes), one of the 6 districts of the province of Mozambique in Portuguese East Africa, and the name of the capital of the district and province. It is the seat of the governor-general of the province, is located on Delagoa Bay and is the terminus of the Delagoa Bay railway to Pretoria (347 miles) and of a new line, still under construction, to the border of Swaziland. Imports (1916) about $7,000,000; exports (1916) about $1,500,000. Pop. 13,154. See DELAGOA BAY; MOZAMBIQUE; PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA.