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Neilson (WILLIAM ALLAN born in in Doune)

WILLIAM ALLAN, born in 1869 in Doune, Scotland, took his M. A. degree at Edinburgh University in 1891, and for a time taught in Scotland. He went to Toronto in 1895 and was instructor in English structor in English at Bryn Mawr from 1898 to 1900. He taught in English at Harvard 1900-1904, and later as professor 1906-1917. His works include: "The Origins and Sources of the Court of Love" (1899); "Essentials of Poetry" (1912); "The Facts About Shakespeare" (1913); "Burns, How to Know Him" (1917) . Has also edited a number of works and contributed articles to techjournals and literary magazines. NEISSE (nis'se), a town of Prussian Silesia, and an important fortress of the second rank; in a broad valley on the Neisse, an affluent of the Oder; 47 miles S. E. of Breslau. It manufactures tapestry, linen, and chemicals and has great wool ma markets.

Pop. about 27,500.

Neisse was formerly the chief town of a principality, and residence of a princebishop.