Each of these 10 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Mrs. Sarah Pratt McLean (1856-), an American novelist. She is a native of Connecticut. Her first novel, Cape Cod Folks, brought her a reputation as a storyteller. It brought to her publishers considerable trouble in the way of lawsuits caused by the author's use of names of living people for her characters. Her other writings include Deacon Lysander, Tow Head, the Story of a Girl, Lastchance Junction, and Vesty of the Basins.
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a town and countyseat of Franklin co., Mass.; on the Boston and Maine railroad; 56 miles W. of Fitchburg. It contains Factory and North Parish villages; manufactures principally shoes, cutlery, silverware, machinists' tools, snow shovels, cement blocks, paper boxes, rakes, and baby carriages; and has electric lights, waterworks, public library, high school, a National bank, the county hospital and weekly newspapers. Pop. (1910) 10,427; (1920) 15,462.
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in ornithology, Vireoninæ, a sub-family of Muscicapidæ (flycatchers). They are so called from hav- Greenland is colder than the corresponding much green or olive in the colors of their plumage. They are small birds arriving in the United States from South America and the West Indies about the month of May, and departing again in August. Some of them sing sweetly.
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a seaport of Renfrewshire, the fifth largest town in Scotland, on the S. shore of the Firth of Clyde, 3% miles by water S. of Helensburgh, and 221½ by rail W. N. W. of Glasgow. The W. end of the town, with its elegant villas of every style of architecture, its esplanade 1½ miles long, its wide and well-paved streets, planted with trees, is attractive. The public buildings are many of them handsome; chief among them is the town hall and municipal buildings (1886), Renaissance in style, with a tower 245 245 feet high; the county ildings (1867), the custom house ouse (1818), and the Watt Institution (1837), containing a marble statue of Watt by Chantrey. There are several handsome churches. To Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart the town is indebted for the Well Park Park (1872) Park (1851), the Wellington , and , the Lyle Road (1880). The new cemetery, 90 acres in extent, with its Watt cairn, and fine waterworks (1827-1883) also deserve mention. The harbor works date from 1707. The annual trade exceeds $15,000,000. Shipbuilding has been carried on since 1760; sugar refining began in 1765, and there are also manufactures of steam engines, anchors and chain cables, ropes, sailcloth, paper, wool and worsted, etc. Besides being the birthplace of Watt, of Spence the mathematician, and of Principal Caird, it has memories of Rob Roy, John Wilson, and Galt, and contains the grave of Burns" "Highland Mary." Pop. about 70,000.
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a city of Indiana, the It is on the county-seat of Decatur co. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis railroad. The city is the center of an important agricultural and natural gas region. In the neighborhood are important limestone quarries. Its industries include flour mills and a wire factory. It is the seat of the State Odd Fellows' Home, and has a park and a Fellow public library. Pop. (1910) 5,420; (1920) 5,345.
a town and countyseat of Westmoreland co., Pa.; on the Pennsylvania railroad; 31 miles E. S. E. of Pittsburgh. It is in a coal-mining, coking and natural gas region; and contains a steam-heating apparatus factory, steel works, glass works, nut and bolt works, and has 3 National banks. Pop. (1910) 13,012; (1920) 15,033.
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a city of South Carolina, the county-seat of Greenwood co. It is on the Seaboard Air Line, the Piedmont and Northern, the Southern, and the Charleston and West Carolina railroads. Its industries include the manufacture of lumber, cottonseed-oil, cotton, spools, bobbins, etc. The city is the seat of the Brewer Normal School for negroes, the Lander Female College, and the Bailey Military Institute. Pop. (1910) 6,614; (1920) 8,703.
a city of Mississippi, the county-seat of Leflore co. It is on the Southern and the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroads. The city is the center of an important cotton-growing district and its industries include the manufacture of oil, cotton compresses, furniture, wagons, ice, lumber, etc. The notable buildings include a Carnegie library, Elks' Home, a court house, and school buildings. Pop. (1910) 5,836; (1920) 7,793.
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DAVID HUMMELL, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop, born at Wheeling, W. Va., in 1844. He BISHOP GREER graduated from Washington College in 1862 and studied theology at the Protestant Episcopal Seminary at Gambier, O. He was ordained priest in 1868, and was rector of churches in Kentucky and Rhode Island. In 1888 he was appointed rector of St. Bartholomew's Church in New York and served until 1904. He was elected Bishop Coadjutor for New York in 1903; and in 1908, following the death of Bishop Potter, ter, he was made Bishop of New York. He died in 1919. He wrote "Moral Power of History" (1890); "The Preacher and His Place" (1895); "Visions" (1898).
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or TONES (Latin cantus Gregorianus), the name given to certain choral melodies introduced into the service of the early Christian Church by Pope Gregory the Great, and still forming the basis of cathedral music. By the Gregorian tones, or modes (toni, modi) of Gregory, must be understood a certain melodious formula, made out of the union of a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth, or their inversion, to give the Church song greater variety. All the old writers agree as to the diatonic genus of the Gregorian tones, but they do not all agree as to the number of the tones: some counting 14, others 12, while in some old Roman choral books there are only 11.
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FERDINAND (greg-ō-rō'vē-ös), a German historian born in Neidenburg, East born and poet; Prussia, Jan. 19, 1821. He studied at Königsberg and at home, and says of deep scholarship; "Socialistic Elements in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister"; a tragedy, "The Death of Tiberius"; "Corsica"; books of travel and description, based on close personal study; also "Euphorion," an epic, and other poems of high repute. But his historical works, of unsurpassed learning and vivid realization of the spirit of their time, are the most commanding monument of his genius. "The City of Rome in the Middle Ages," "Lucretia Borgia," "Urban VIII., "The Monuments of the Popes," and "Athenais," need but be named. He died in Munich, May 1, 1891.
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