Roe
Roe names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Roe a small species of deer inhabiting Europe and some parts of western Asia
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a small species of deer inhabiting Europe and some parts of western Asia, chiefly in hilly or mountainous regions. It is seldom found in the higher and more naked mountain tracts, the haunt of the stag or red deer. It was once plentiful in Wales and in the hilly parts of England, as well as in the S. of Scotland, but is now very rare S. of Perthshire. The roe is about 2 feet 3 inches in height at the shoulder. Its weight is about 50 or 60 pounds. Its color is a shining tawnybrown in summer, more dull and grizzled in winter. The tail is very short, concealed among the hair. The antlers, which are peculiar to the male or roebuck, are eight or nine inches long, erect, round, very rough, longitudinally furrowed; having, in mature animals, two or three tines or branches, which, as well as the tip of the horn, are sharp-pointed, so that the antlers form very dangerous weapons. The habits of the roe are somegoat, or even of what like those of the ROE BUCK the chamois. Contrary to what is usual and female remain among deer, the male HEAD OF ROE BUCK attached during life. The voice of the that of a sheep, but roe-deer, resembling shorter and more barking, is often heard The venison is supethrough the night. stag, but not equal rior to that of the of the fallow deer. The horns to that of carving knives are used for handles . and similar articles
Roe EDWARD PAYSON, an Amer- Orange co
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWARD PAYSON, an Amer- Orange co., N. Y., ican novelist; born in wrote a great num- March 7, 1838. He novels. His first ber of very popular Burned Away" (1872), novel, "Barriers success, and was folmet with immediate Do?" (1873); lowed by "What Can She Opening of a Chestnut Burr" "The to Earnest" (1875); (1874); "From Jest Heart" (1876); "A "Near to Nature's Nineteenth Century" 66 Knight of the Illumined" (1878); "A (1877); "A Face ); "Without a Home" Day of Fate" (1880 Rivals" (1883); (1881); "His London " (1884); "Driven "Nature's Serial Story ); "He Fell in Love Back to Eden" (1885 ); "The Earth With His Wife" (1886 "A Hornet's Nest" Trembled" (1887); Yet Lost" (1888); "Miss (1887); "Found, "Taken Alive, and Lou" (1888); and died in Cornwall, Other Stories." He N. Y., July 19, 1888.
Roe CHARLES FRANCIS, an Amer-
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES FRANCIS, an Amer- ; born in New York ican military officer was graduated at the City, May 1, 1848; Academy in 1868, United States Military 2d Cavalry, then and was assigned to the slope. In 1898 he was on the Pacific -General of volunappointed a Brigadier in 1900. teers. He died
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's told readers in 1921 that the roe was "now very rare S. of Perthshire" — that is exactly what has been reversed. Reintroductions and escapes in the 19th century, plus the abandonment of intensive gamekeeping and the spread of forestry plantations, let Capreolus capreolus recolonise almost the whole of England and much of Wales; it is now among Britain's most numerous wild deer, counted in the hundreds of thousands, and culling rather than scarcity is the management question. The other two men on the page have fared differently: Edward Payson Roe, whose novels Collier's called "very popular" and lists at length, was one of the best-selling American writers of the 1870s and 80s and is now read almost only by scholars of the period, while Charles Francis Roe survives mainly as a witness to the Little Bighorn campaign, in which his 2nd Cavalry troop took part in 1876 — a connection the entry does not mention.
Written for this edition, 2026.