These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Burslem, Burton.
BRYSON, an American artist, born in Hyde Park, Mass., in 1869. He was educated in the public schools and studied art at the Art Stu- II-Cyc dent's League. He afterward carried on art studies in Paris and Florence. He won silver medals at the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Expositions. He was curator of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was associate at the National Academy.
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JOHN, an American essayist and descriptive writer, born in Roxbury, N. Y., April 3, 1837. He became a clerk in the Treasury Department and subsequently a National Bank Examiner. In 1874 he settled on a farm in New York State and has since de- JOHN BURROUGHS voted himself to nature study and literature. His books on rural themes include, "Wake Robin" (1871); "Winter Sunshine" (1875); "Birds and Poets" (1877); "Locusts and Wild Honey" (1879); "Pepacton; Notes of a Walker" (1881); ; "Fresh Fields" (1884); "Signs (1888); "Far and Near" (1904); "Ways of Nature" (1905); "Bird and Bough" (1906); "The Summer of the Years" 1913); ( ; "Field and Study" (1919); etc, He also wrote "Notes on Walt Whitman" (1867); and "Whitman: Study" a (1897); contributed frequently to various magazines. He died on March 29, 1921.
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a town of England, in Staffordshire, in the center of "The Potteries." Here is the Wedgwood Memorial Institute, comprising a free library, a museum, and a school of art, erected in honor of Josiah Wedgwood, who was born at Burslem in 1730. Burslem has extensive manufactures of china and earthenware, in which trade and coal mining the inhabitants are chiefly employed. Pop. about 45,000.
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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).
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Robert (1577-1640), an English clergyman. He spent his life in study and the writing of one book, The Anatomy of Melancholy . He was educated at Oxford and was appointed fellow at the age of twenty-two. From that time he lived in libraries. He says of himself, "I have read many books, but to little purpose, for want of good method. I have confusedly tumbled over divers authors in our libraries with small profit, for want of art, order, memory, judgment." See Anatomy Of Melancholy Doctor and poet, man of letters and savant, he is all at once; for want of dams, ideas pour like different liquids into the same vat, with strange spluttering and bubbling, with an unsavory smell and odd effect.--Taine. That fantastic great old man.--Lamb. To whom melancholy gave life and death.--Epitaph by Burton himself. 2026 Editor's Note: A man who spent his life reading about melancholy was widely believed to have suffered it acutely, writing, he said, to keep it at bay. Burton was also an astrologer, and a persistent Oxford story holds that he died on or near the day his own horoscope had predicted — which set students whispering that he had hanged himself to keep the prediction accurate. (Ed: BR 2026-06-17)
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a town of England in the counties of Stafford and Derby, 22 miles E. of Stafford, and 128 N. N. W. of London. It is famous, all the world over, for its ale. Brewing is here on the most extensive conducted scale; and the India pale ale, made by the great firms of Bass and Allsopp, bears a noted reputation both at home and abroad, more especially in India, its greatest market. Pop. about 50,000.
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