La Fontaine

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

JEAN DE, one of the pet gourd (L. vulgaris). It is wild in classics of French literature; born in born in India, the Moluccas and Abyssinia. In Château-Thierry, Champagne, France, that state it is poisonous, but when cul- July 8, 1621. He was about 22 years old when his literary ambition was tivated its deleterious properties disappear. Anglo-Indians boil the fruit when awakened by the odes of Malherbe. A niece of Cardinal Mazarin admired, his young and use it as vegetable marrow. Natives of India slice and eat it as a verses, and carried him to Paris; and curry. The young shoots and leaves are also eaten. The seeds yield an oil which is used as an application in headaches. The flesh of the fruit is deemed to be diuretic, refrigerant and anti-bilious. It is cultivated in the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere. LAGENORHYNCHUS (la-je-nō-ring' kus), a genus of Delphinidæ. The beak of the upper jaw keeled on each side, the lower jaw with two or three small, conical, rudimentary teeth in the middle of each side. L. leucopleurus, the Delphinus tursio of Knox, occurs in Orkney and the Northern Ocean generally. L. albirostris is the white-beaked bottlenose. It has been taken on the coast of Norfolk, England. LAGERLÖF (OTTILIA LOVISA). SELMA, a Swedish novelist, born in LA FONTAINE 1858. Her first novel, "Gosta Berling's Saga," published in 1891, created a prothere, speedily welcomed into the best the best found sensation in Sweden and its repuliterary and aristocratic circles, he spent he spent tation quickly spread throughout Europe the last 35 years of his life. The first The fi and to America. It was followed by volume of his "Tales" appeared in 1664; in 166 other novels, bearing the mark of great a second was added in 1671. The 12 The talent. A year of travel in Egypt, books of his "Fables" were published in Tichel Palestine, and Greece was followed by equal parts in 1668 and 1678. It is the publication of two through them that La Fontaine is uni- " Jerusalem, " 1901-1902. versally known. He is an inimitable novels she produced are teller of small stories. His personal me of childish hich is perceptmade him at once the hing stock of his friends During the last two years sentiments of his He was admitted my in 1684, confriend Boileaul, and died 18, 1695. E (lä försh), a bayou in Louisiana, an outlet of which begins at Donaldright bank and flows if of Mexico, with a total miles. It is navigable by miles from its mouth. an), or LIGAN (II'-). found at such a hat it is uncertain carried to, and he finder. -näri-ä), in bot bitaces, containing club, or trum- It is wild in Abyssinia. In but when culis properties disapboil the fruit when vegetable marrow. and eat it as a and leaves are is yield an oil which tion in headaches. ruit is deemed to be nt and anti-bilious the warmer parts of ere. HUS (la-je-nō-ring inide. The beak on each side, the three small, conithe middle of the Delph rs in Orkney enerally. L red bottlenose. coast of Nor ILIA LOVISA) novalist, born in "Gdsta Berling's created a pro Sweden and its repuat Europe followed by It the mark of great in Egypt, Greece followed by volumes, entitled of two volumes, entitled Other notable 001-1902. Other notable " Miracles of Joduced are " Miracles of Anti-Christ," (1897); "From a Swedish Homestead" ( 1899); "Invisible Links" (1894); "Matilda Wrede" (1914). She received the degree of doctor from Upsala SELMA LAGERLÖF University in 1907, and in 1909 was awarded the Nobel 1009 Prize for the best work in literature. She was elected to the Swedish Academy in 1914 and was the first woman to receive this honor. LAGERSTROMIA (lag-ur-strumi-ā) named after Magnus ( Lagerström, of Gothenburg), the typical genus of the tribe Lagerstromieæ . It consists of 14 East Indian and Chinese trees and shrubs, with splendid flowers. L. indica, a shrub common in Indian gardens, has crumpled petals. It card is from China. The flowers of L. flos reginæ , or L. reginæ, are in panicles L. ragine , at first of a pale-rose color, but afterward deepening into a fine purple. It is a large, deciduous tree, growing in eastern Bengal and Burma. Its bark and leaves are considered to be purgative and hydragogue, and the seeds to be narcotic. The timber is regarded in the E. of India and Burma as the most valuable of any except teak. It is used in the East for ship and boat building, making carts, gun carriages, etc. L. lanceolata, L. microcarpa, and L. parviflora, growing in India, L. tomentosa in Burma and Pegu, and L. hypoleuca in the Andaman Islands, have also valuable wood. L. flos reginæ, L. parviflora, and L. tomentosa yield gum resins. The bark of L. parviflora is used in India for tanning, and along with the bark of Terminalia tomentosa for dyeing skins black. Vol. V-Cye-Z