Burton
Burton names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Burton SIR RICHARD FRANCIS, an English Orientalist and explorer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS, an English Orientalist and explorer, born in Hertfordshire, He was an officer of the Indian army, March 19, 1821. for several years engaged in surveys for public works; in this pursuit he learned the languages, habits, beliefs of , he went to Mecca and Medina in the many races. Obtaining leave of absence guise of a Mohammedan devotee; afterand Seasons" (1886); and "Sharp Eyes" ward he made extensive explorations in Africa, Brazil, Syria, Iceland; visited the United States twice and traversed the country from Atlantic to Pacific. His books of travel include "Pilgrimage to El Medinah," "Highlands of Brazil," "Gold Coast," "City of the Saints," "Unexplored Palestine." He translated into English from the Arabic, "The Thousand Nights and a Night," and "The Scented Garden," a collection of stories left in MS. and never published. He wrote a "Life of Camoens," with translation of the "Lusiads." He died in Trieste, Oct. 20, 1890. English
Burton MARION LEROY, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MARION LEROY, an American educator, born in Brooklyn, Ia., in 1874. He graduated from Carleton College in 1900 and took post-graduate studies at Yale. After teaching at several institutions he became assistant professor at Yale in 1907. He was pastor pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims at Brooklyn in the following year, and in 1900 was elected president of Smith College. He held this position until 1917, when he was chosen president of the University of Minnesota. In July, 1920, he became president of the University of Michigan. He was a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation and was a member of many learned societies. He was the author of "The Problem of Evil" (1909); "First Things" (1915); "On Being Divine" (1916).
Burton THEODORE ELIJAH, an American senator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THEODORE ELIJAH, an American senator; born in Jefferson, O., in 1851. He was educated at Oberlin College, from which he graduated in 1872. Three years later he was admitted to the bar and practiced law at Cleveland, O. He was a member of the 51st Congress, 1889-1891, and served in successive Congresses from 1895 to 1909. In the latter year he became United States senator, serving until 1915. He has written "Financial Crises and Periods of Industrial and Commercial Depression" (1902); "Life of John Sherman" (1906); "Corporations and the State" (1911); etc.
Burton RICHARD (EUGENE)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RICHARD (EUGENE), an American poet and educator, born in Hartford, Conn., March 14, 1859. He graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, and took a degree at Johns Hopkins University. He was active as editor of various publications and was head of the English department at the University of Minnesota from 1898-1902, and again since 1906. His published poems are "Dumb in June" (1895); "Memorial Day" (1897); "Message and Melody" (1903); "From the Book of Life" (1909); etc. He also wrote several volumes of essays, plays, and fiction.
Burton ROBERT, an writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT, an writer, born at Lindley, Leicestershire, Feb. 8, 1577. Obtaining two church livings, he resided at Christ C Church, Oxford. Here he wrote the "Anatomy of Melancholy" (published about 1621); a vast storehouse of shrewd comment, apt and learned quotation, humor, and erudition, from which Milton, Sterne, and others did not scruple to borrow. The work mirrors his own mind and temperament. He died at Oxford, Jan. 25, 1640.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's noted in 1921 that Richard Francis Burton's translation of "The Scented Garden" was "left in MS. and never published"; his widow Isabel had in fact burned the manuscript within weeks of his 1890 death, an act that remains one of the most debated destructions in literary history, and Burton is now remembered as much for the Nile-source quarrel with Speke as for his travel books. Three of the living men in the entry had careers still to run: Marion LeRoy Burton died in office at Michigan in 1925, commemorated there by the Burton Memorial Tower; Theodore E. Burton returned to Congress and to the Senate before his death in 1929; and the poet Richard Eugene Burton lived until 1940. Robert Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" needs no revision at all — it has never gone out of print, and a full scholarly edition was completed at Oxford at the end of the twentieth century.
Written for this edition, 2026.