Carleton
WILLIAM, novelist, born in Prillisk, County Tyrone, in 1794. His intimate acquaintance with the traits and tendencies of Irish peasful ant, character and unwearying, and his humor harmless, were, grace- conspicuous in his first success, " Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry. " Then came: "Willy Reilly"; "The Fair of Emyvale," "Fardorougha the Miser," and several other novels of great power, in which much that seems anomalous in the manners and methods of the author's countrymen is made clear through the medium of a happy style and a realistic humor. He died in Dublin, Jan. 30, 1869.
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Carleton College
a coeducational institution in Northfield, Minn.; under the und organized in 1866, auspices of aus the Congregational Church; reported at the end of 1919: professors and instructors, 41; students, 450; number of graduates, 1,281; president, D. J. Cowling, D. D.
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Carleton Hill
Man American poet, born in Hudson, Mich., Oct. 21, 1845. He was best known in literature by his ballads of home life, many of them having gained gre great popularity. His books include: "Poems" (1871); "Farm Legends" (1875); "City Ballads" (1888); " "City Legends" (1889); "Songs of Two Centuries" (1902); "Drifted In" (1908); etc. He died in 1912. an Irish
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Carleton, Will
Will (1845-), an American poet. He was born at Hudson, Michigan, and educated at Hillsdale College. He has for some years resided in Brooklyn, New York . He has written several volumes of verse. The best known are Farm Ballads, Farm Legends, Farm Festivals, City Ballads, City Legends, and City Festivals. Mr. Carleton has been successful as a lecturer and reader of his own ballads. Among his most popular poems are Betsy and I are Out, Over the Hill to the Poor House, The First Settler's Story, The Chicago Fire, and The Christmas Baby. Carleton is a poet of the home. He presents the humorous and tragic incidents of farm and country life in the form of dramatic monologue. His characters are honest, brave, and kindly. Their homely speech seems a fitting vehicle for the expression of deep but simple feeling. In The New Church Organ the good sister tells how she dislikes the "new machine," and disapproves of "praising the Lord by note": "I've been a sister, good an' true, For five-an'-thirty year; I've done what seemed my part to do, And prayed my duty clear; But Death will stop my voice, I know, For he is on my track; And some day I to church will go, And never more come back; And when the folks gets up to sing- Whene'er that time shall be- I do not want no patent thing A-squealin' over me!"
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Carlin
JAMES JOSEPH, an American educator, born at Peabody, Mass., in 1872. He graduated from Boston College in 1892. He took post-graduate courses in several Jesuit institutions and was professor of theology, sacred scripture, and canon law at Woodstock Seminary from 1904 to 1908. He was ordained priest in 1907, and from 1910 to 1912 was lecturer on scholastic philosophy at Holy Cross College. He was chosen president of this institution in 1918.
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Carloman
the eldest son of Charles Martel, whom he succeeded as King of Austrasia in 741. He and his brother, Pepin, united in defending their dominions against the encroachments of their neighbors, and defeated the Germans in 743. Carloman then entered Saxony, took its duke prisoner, and, after several successful expeditions, became a monk of the order of St. Benedict. He assembled a famous council in 742, whose acts bear his name. Died 755. There were three others of the same name: The first was the younger brother of Charlemagne, with whom he had some contention about the kingdom, but, on his death, in 771, left him in full possession. The second was the son of Louis II., whom he succeeded in 879, in conjunction with his brother Louis III. On the death death of the latter, he was declared sole King of France, and was killed in hunting, by a wild boar, in 884. The third, Carloman, was the eldest son of I., King of Germany, whom he succeeded, in 876, in the kingdom of Bavaria.He made some partial conquests in Italy. Died 880.
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Carlotta
(MARIE CHARLOTTE AMÉLIA), ex-empress of Mexico. born in Brussels, June 7, 1840, the daughter of Leopold I. of Belgium. She was married to Maximilian, Archduke of Austria (1857). She accompanied her husband to Mexico in 1864, but in 1866 returned to Europe to solicit aid from the French Emperor and from the Pope. Her failure and the news of her husband's overthrow, unbalanced her mind.
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Carlovingians
the second dynasty of the French or Frankish kings, which supplanted the Merovingians, deriving the name from Charles Martel or his grandson Charlemagne (that is, Karl or Charles the Great). Charles Martel (715-741) and his son Pepin (741-768) were succeeded by Charlemagne and his brother Carloman (768-771). Charlemagne became sole king in 771, and was succeeded in the Empire of the West by his son Louis le Debonnaire (814). He divided his empire among his sons, and at his death (840) his son Charles the Bald became King of France. He died in 877, and was succeeded by a number of feeble princes. The dynasty ty came to an end with Louis V., who died in 987.
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Carlovitz
or Karlowitz, Peace of, a peace concluded January 26, 1699, between Austria, Poland, Venice, Russia, and Turkey, with the good offices of England and the Netherlands. Austria received large accessions of territory in Transylvania and Hungary; Russia gained Azov on the Black Sea . The treaty of Carlovitz is memorable, not only on account of the magnitude of the territorial change which it ratified; not only because it marks the period when men ceased to dread the Ottoman Empire as an aggressive power; but, also, because it was then that the Porte and Russia took part, for the first time, in a general European Congress; and because, by admitting to that Congress the representatives of England and Holland, neither of which states was a party to the war, both the Sultan and the Czar thus admitted the principle of intervention of the European powers, one with another, for the sake of the general good.-Creasy, History of the Ottoman Turks.
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