Eclogue
ek'log, as commonly used, a pastoral poem in which shepherds are introduced as conversing with one another. The word originally meant "selections," or "elegant extracts." In this sense it was applied often to poems of the same form. The satires of Horace, for instance, were called eclogues. The bucolics or pastoral poems of Virgil were called eclogues, probably by grammarians, and not by Virgil himself. Since Virgil's beautiful poems were called eclogues the term has come to signify a poem which is not only of a pastoral nature, but which is elegant in form, highly wrought, and exquisitely finished.
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AMER- ICAN, a society founded in 1885 by persons interested in questions of political economy or the economic side of social and political conditions. Its 2,500 members consist largely of teachers of economics in the colleges and schools and a number of business and professional men interested in current problems. The annual meeting of the society takes place during the Christmas vacation of the colleges and is held alternately in an eastern and a western city. The associcion publishes a very valuable periodical, a quarterly, the "American Economic Review." In addition to this the society ciety issues the reports of its annual meetings, which contain valuable monographs and theses on economic subjects.
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Eddy
MARY BAKER GLOVER, an American reformer; born in Bow, N. H.; received a public school education, and was connected with the C Congregational Church till 1866, when she discovered what are known as the principles of istian Science. In 1867 she began to teach them, and in 1879 founded the Church of Christ (Christian Scientist) in Boston, Mass. In 1881 she was ordained to the ministry nistry; in the same year ; established the Massachusetts Metaphysical College in Boston; and in 1883 started the "Christian Science Journal." She is the author of "Science and Health, With Key to the Scriptures" (the Christian Science text-book); and numerous other works. She died Dec. 3, 1910. See CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
SPENCER, an American diplomat, born in Chicago, Ill., in 1874. He graduated from Harvard University in 1896. He took post-graduate studies in Germany. In 1897-1898 he acted as private secretary of the late John Hay, while the latter was ambassador to Great Britain. In 1899 he was appointed 3d secretary of the American Embassy at London. He served successively in the embassies of Paris, Constantinople, St. Petersburg, and Berlin. In 1908-1909 he was Minister to Argentina, and in 1909 was Minister to Rumania, Serbia, and He resigned to enter the Bulgaria. Naval Reserve lieutenant-commander, and during the World War was engaged in active service. oup of gneiss
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Edelweis
a'del-vis, a species of flowering plant closely related to the everlasting. The name is German, signifying "noble white." Its real flowers are yellow and inconspicuous, inclosed by woolly leaves of a pure white. The edelweis is the emblem of purity. It is found in the snowy ranges of Switzerland, and is so much sought by Alpine tourists that it is in danger of extermination by persons who bring it to the hotels for sale. Efforts, not without success, have been made to raise edelweis in America as a plant for rockeries.
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Edfu
a town in upper Egypt. It is situated on the left bank of the Nile on the twenty-fifth parallel of north latitude. The town is noted for a celebrated Egyptian temple, "the most perfect existing example of an ancient Egyptian religious edifice." In plan, architecture, and sculpture, it is an imitation of the work done by the Pharoahs, but it was founded by one of the Ptolemies, 222 B. C. The entrance is a massive double gate or pylon, 250 feet wide and 115 feet high. A large court with a peristyle of columns lies within. Beyond this is a hall, and beyond this a second hall, and beyond the second hall is a sanctuary--a mystery of mysteries. The total length of the temple is 450 feet.
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Edgar Atheling
grandson of Edmund Ironside and son of Edward the Outlaw, was born in Hungary, where his father had been conveyed in infancy to escape the designs of Canute. After the battle of Hastings, Edgar (who had been brought to England in 1057) was proclaimed King of England by the Saxons, but made peace with William and accepted the Earldom of Oxford. Having been engaged in some conspiracy against the king he was forced to seek refuge in Scotland, where his sister Margaret became the wife of Malcolm Canmore. Edgar subsequently was reconciled with William and was allowed to live in Rouen, where a pension was assigned to him. Afterward with the sanction of William Rufus he undertook an expedition to Scotland for the purpose of displacing the usurper Donald Bane, in favor of his nephew Edgar, son of Malcolm Canmore, and in this He afterward object he succeeded. took part in Duke Robert's unsuccessful struggle with Henry I., but was allowed to spend the remainder of his life quietly in England.
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Edgeworth
MARIA, an English novelist born in Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, Jan. 1, 1767. Her principal works are: "Castle Rackrent" (1800); "Early Lessons" (1801); "Belinda" (1801); "Moral Tales" (1801); "The Modern Griselda" (1804); "Leonora" (1806); "Tales of Fashionable Life" (1809-1812); "Patronage" (1814); "Ormond" (1817); and "Helen" (1834). She died in Edgeworthstown, Ireland, May 22, 1849.
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Edict of Nantes
an edict by which, on April 13, 1598, Henry IV. of France granted toleration to his Protestant subjects. bjects. It was revoked on Oct. 22, 1685, by Louis XIV., the unwise act causing the expatriation of about 50,000 Protestant families, who carried their industry to England and other lands.
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AUTHOR Opposite page 52 BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA BETELGEUSE AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM BETELGEUSE IN ORION SIMON BOLIVAR BOMBAY, INDIA COLLECTION OF BOMBS BOMB EXPLOSION BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Opposite page 164 TOWER BRIDGE, LONDON BROOKLYN BRIDGE, NEW YORK HELL GATE BRIDGE, NEW YORK SUSPENSION BRIDGE, NIAGARA FIRTH OF FORTH BRIDGE QUEBEC BRIDGE, ST. LAWRENCE RIVER DUHAMEL TRESTLE BRIDGE OHIO RIVER BRIDGE AT HENDERSON ORE BRIDGES AT BETHLEHEM, PENN- SYLVANIA NILE BRIDGE NEAR CAIRO HOOGHLY RIVER BRIDGE, CALCUTTA Opposite page 260 BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA BOOMERANGS
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