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Page names 7 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Page THOMAS NELSON, an American novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS NELSON, an American novelist; born in Oakland, Va., April 23, 1853. He was educated at Washington and Lee University, and practiced law at Richmond, Va. His " Social Life " Santa Claus Keith " ( 1903 Italy 1913. Johnson. N. C., and Macon College newspaper pation he handled affairs with consumfirst story, "Marse Chan" (1887), atmate ability and tact.. tracted immediate attention. "Two Little Confederates" (1888); "On New- Found River" (1891); "Elsket and The celebration of historic events by Other Stories" (1891); "The Old dramatic reproductions of scenes con- South" (1892); "Pastime Stories" nected with them is at least as old as (1894); "Unc' Edinburgh" (1895); the Greeks and Romans. In modern times, in many countries of Europe, developments have been added to them according to the time and place, and carnivals, masques, popular parades, expositions, and military maneuvers are some of the exercises in vogue in different lands. In the United States the celebrations attendant on the commemoration of Independence Day led to the development of many of the elements in pageantry, and a great fillip to the movement was given during the celebration of the centennial of the Declaration of Independence in 1876. The central idea of the pageant is simply that of the unspoken drama given on a larger scale out of doors, the pre- 1 dominating feature being that of a moving tableau in which a procession of characters take part. The scale is confined simply to the number of persons taking part, and the dress, bearing, manners, and grouping is in accordance with the period represented and the event commemorated. In France the art of the pageant has been carried to a high degree of perfection, and as a rule its frequency and success has been most marked in countries like France, Italy, and Spain where the climate is favorable to outdoor representations of that WALTER HINES PAGE kind. From France the idea spread tc in Old Virginia " ( 1897); Great Britain, where in recent years a Partner " ( 1899); " Gordon succession of successful pageants have ); " Sword of the Spirit " been given, despite the uncertainty of the English weather. Thus in 1905 an (1913), etc. Appointed Ambassador to He resigned his office in historical pageant on a scale surpassing 1920, and was succeeded by R. U. that known to the modern generation of Englishmen was carried out with success at Dorset. The fashion spread throughout England, Ireland and Scot-
Page WALTER HINES
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WALTER HINES. Editor land, and since then many successful and diplomat. Born in 1855 at Cary, educated at Randolph- pageants have been given in those coun- , Virginia. He entered tries. The celebrations have usually work in 1880 as editor been held on several days in a week, and the proceeds have been used for public of a paper in St. Joseph (Mo.). Later purposes. he served on the editorial staff of the The equable climate of America has "New York World" and the "New York tended to the development of the pageant Evening Post." From 1890-1895 he was and historic tableaus have become the the editor of "The Forum," and later befashion, particularly at women's colcame editor of the "Atlantic Monthly" leges, during the milder half of the year. and the "World's Work." He was a In 1889 New York saw a national pagmember of the firm of Doubleday, Page, and Co. publishers, from 1899 until his eant reproducing "Dramatic Events in death in 1918. In 1913 President Wilson the History of New York." The carnivals of the Southern States have never appointed Page Ambassador to Great been without their pictorial representa- Britain, and both during the period of tions. At New York in 1914 was staged American neutrality and later particia America pageant who of the exhibited various nationalities of costumes and their national Tableaux of songs. large numbers various kinds, in which of children take part, have tennial become and increasing features of censimilar celebrations. The -Fulton Hudson celebration of 1909, the Lake Erie celebration of 1913, and the Star-Spangled Banner celebration of 1914, had also numerous dramatic features, and were conducted on a scale unknown in Europe. The course of the World War, particularly after the United States had entered into it, led to numerous celebrations intended to excite the warlike ardor of the people. In 1920 the events connected with the canonization of St. Jeanne d'Arc gave occasion to pageants in New York and elsewhere reproducing episodes in the career of the girl-warrior and expressive of sympathy with France as chief sufferer in the World War.
Page of a royal or noble personage
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
of a royal or noble personage, rather for formality or show than for servitude. The name "pages" appears to have been confined to slaves and attendants of an inferior class, in modern Europe, till the reigns of Charles VI. and Charles VII. of France. As chivalric institutions prevailed, the office, by whatever name it may be called, became of importance. Courts and castles were the schools in which the young noble passed through the degree of page, in order to reach the higher grades of esquire and knight, when he became hors de page. Pages are still, or were until recently, in the household of the Queen of Great Britain, with the title of "Pages of the Presence" etc. The word is also applied to messenger boys in National, State, and municipal legislative bodies.
Page CARROLL SMALLEY
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CARROLL SMALLEY. United States Senator from Vermont. Born 1843 at Westfield, Vt. Educated at different New England_academies, he entered business in Lamoille, Vt. He rapidly made headway and served as president of the Lamoille County Savings Bank and Trust Co., and was director in many important railroad and banking corporations. From 1869-1872 he was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives, and later of the te. Prominent in the activi- State Senate. ties of the Republican party, he was Chairman of the Vermont delegation to the National Convention in 1912. From 1890 to 1892 he was Governor of Ver- Senator Proctor of Vermont mont. died in 1908 and Page was elected to fill his unexpired term. He was twice re-elected.
Page CURTIS HIDDEN
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CURTIS HIDDEN. An American editor and translator. He was born at Greenwood, Mo., in 1870, and graduated from Harvard as A. M. and Ph. D. in 1894. He then went to reside in France and Italy, and returned to teach the Romance languages and Engsingle lish at Western Reserve University, Harvard, Columbia, the Northwestern University and Dartmouth. He translated Bergerac's " A Voyage to the Moon "; "Songs and Sonnets"; "The Ronsard's d's Best Plays of Molière"; and Anatole France's "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife." He has edited "Poet Lore," and some poetical reprints.
Page HERMAN, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HERMAN, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop, born in Boston in 1866. He graduated from Harvard in 1888 and studied in the Episcopal Theological School. He was ordained priest in 1891 and from that year to 1900 was in charge of mission churches in Idaho. In the latter year THOMAS NELSON PAGE he became rector of St. John's Church, Fall River, Mass. He was later rector Masure consecrated bishop of Spokane, Wash., in 1914.
Page . See Chivalry
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
. See Chivalry
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the seven, the two Virginians named Page have travelled in opposite directions. Walter Hines Page, whom Collier's calls Ambassador to Great Britain, had in fact died in 1918; his wartime letters, edited by Burton Hendrick and published in the 1920s, won a Pulitzer Prize, and the publishing house he co-founded, Doubleday, Page and Co., survives inside today's Doubleday imprint. Thomas Nelson Page, whose Marse Chan Collier's says attracted immediate attention, died in 1922 and is now read chiefly as a specimen of Lost Cause plantation nostalgia rather than as a leading novelist; Carroll Smalley Page, Vermont's senator, has faded almost entirely. The pageantry article is the period piece: the American historical-pageant craze it describes, at women's colleges and centennial festivals, collapsed in the 1930s, while the court page of chivalry survives only as legislative messenger, and even there the US House abolished its page program in 2011, leaving the Senate's, open to girls since 1971, as the last of them.
Written for this edition, 2026.