Each of these 12 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.
a borough of New Jersey and Seashore railroad . It is a has important industrial and residential suburb of Philadelphia, but ral interests. It is the site of the Shepand agricultuherd's Home, Bancroft Training School, and has two parks and a library. Pop. (1910) 4,143 ; (1920) 5,646.
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SIR FRANCIS SEYMOUR, London, England, Sept. 16, 1818. In an English etcher and surgeon; born in 1857 he was elected a Fellow of the College of Surgeons. "Etched Work of F. S. Haden" contains 185 plates from his hand; others have been published. The chief qualities of his work are vigor and breadth. He was president of the Society of Painter Etchers, and wrote 1880), "Lectures" and "About Etching" "Etched Work of Rembrandt" (1879- (1881). He died June 1, 1910.
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JANE (ä-dan'), a French actress; born in Marseilles, France, Nov. in early 25, 1859. She went on the stage childhood, and toured the United States in 1885 and 1896. Her best rôles are in such pieces as "The Forge Master"; "Marriage"; etc.
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a quaint old market-town of Suffolk, England, on the Bret, 9½ miles W. of Ipswich. Its chief buildings are the brick Rectory Tower (1495) and the noble parish church, with a spire 135 feet high. Formerly, from 1331, an important seat of the cloth trade, Hadleigh was the scene of the death of the Danish king Guthrum (889), of the martyrdom of Dr. Rowland Taylor (1555), and of the great conference (1833) out of which grew the at which "Tracts for the Times," and Newman, Hurrell Froude, Trench, and Rose, the then rector, were present.
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ARTHUR TWINING, an American educator; born in New Haven, Conn., April 23, 1856; was graduated at Yale College in 1876; studied at the University of Berlin; was Professor of Political Science at Yale University in 1886-1899 and was then elected its president. He resigned in 1920. He is the author of "Economics, an Account of the Relations Between Private Property and Public Welfare"; "Railroad Transportation, Its History and Laws"; and "Report on the System of Weekly Pay- " ments"; "Freedom and Responsibility 1903); "The Standard of Public Morality" (1907); "Undercurrents in Ameri- ARTHUR TWINING HADLEY can Politics" (1915). Chairman of Railroad Securities Commission (1910).
HENRY K., an American musician and composer, born at Somermusic ville, Mass., in 1871. He studied in Boston and in Europe. In 1895 he was appointed instructor in music in St. Paul's School, Garden City, L. I. He composed pieces of music for over 150 songs and the piano, as well as overtures, symphonies, chamber music, and other musical forms. He won many prizes for excellence in musical composition, and composed the operas "Azora" and Bianca." He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
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ERNST HEINRICH, a distinguished German naturalist; born He in Potsdam, Prussia, Feb. 16, 1834. studied natural science and medicine at Würzburg, Berlin, and Vienna under After Müller, Virchow, and Kölliker. working for a while at Naples and Mesbecame a privatdocent in the sina, he University of Jena in 1861, a professor extraordinary in 1862, and an ordinary His Professor of Zoology in 1865. purely scientific works have been translated into many languages. His popular books include: "On the Division of Labor in Nature and Human Life" (1869); "On the Origin and Genealogy of the Human Race" (1870); "Life in the Great Marine Animals" (1870); "The Calcareous Corals," (1873); "The System of the Medusa" (1880); "The Riddle of the Universe" (1902). A supplementary volume to this work called (English translation) "The Miracles of Life" appeared in 1910. Thoughts on the war "Eternity" (1916). He died Aug. 9, 1919. HÆMATITE, a mineral consisting chiefly of peroxide of iron; a valuable There are two principal vairon ore. rieties, red hæmatite and brown hæmatite. See IRON. (-globin), an al- HÆMOGLOBIN buminoid substance which forms the chief part of the red corpuscles of the blood of vertebrata. The defibrinated blood is mixed with dilute alcohol; after 24 hours the hæmoglobin separates out in violet-red rhombic octohedra. It is soluble in water, forming a red solution, and is reprecipitated by alcohol. The hæmoglobin in has two aqueous solution of h absorption bands in its spectrum, by which the presence of blood can be detected.
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(See Duguid, David.) 66 Hag of the Dribble, or "Gwrach y Rhibyn": One of the Welsh banshees, whose pleasure it is to carry stones across the mountains in her apron, then loosing the string, she lets the stones shower down, thus making a dribble." It is drabble." It is believed that at twilight this hag flaps her raven wing against the window of those who are doomed to die, and howls A a aui ui Anni." 65
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an extensive bay or gulf of Pomerania, Prussia, 10 miles N. of Stettin, at the mouth of the Oder, separated from the Baltic by a strip of land.
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the poetical name of KHWAJA SHAMS-AD-DIN MUHAMMAD, Persia's famous lyric-poet; born in Shiraz, about 1300. The most complete English edition of his works is that of H. Wilberforce Clarke: "The Dīvān i Hafiz, Translated" (1891). Hafiz seems to be most characteristic acteristic "Ghazels" or odes, whose themes are his lan in his many own emotions. Sir William Jones was one of the first English translators. Other English translations include: "Persian Poetry for English Readers" printed, 1883), by S. Robin (privately pri son; "Ghazels from the Divan of Hafiz" He died in Shiraz, in 1389. y Justin Huntley McCarthy. (1893), by
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in Hebrew literature, a branch of the Midrash, or most ancient Jewish exposition of the Old Testament; extends over the whole of these sacred books and is homiletic and poetical.
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an industrial town of Prussia, in the Ruhr coal district of Westphalia, 12 miles N. E. of Elberfeld- Barmen. Prior to the World War it carried on a great deal of puddling and iron founding, and has manufactures of iron, steel, and tin goods, cotton, cloth, leather, paper, beer, and tobacco. Pop. about 90,000.
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a town of Alsace-Lorraine; in the Hagenau forest, on the Moder, 21 miles N. by E. of Strassburg. It manufactures porcelain stoves, and has cotton and woolen s spinning. The chief trade is in hops and wine. The Romanesque church of St. George dates from the 12th century, and the Gothic church of Nicholas from the 13th. Pop. about 19,000.
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