Irving (SIR HENRY an English actor)
SIR HENRY, an English actor; born in Keinton, England, Feb. 6, 1838. His family name was Brodribb, which was changed to Irving by royal patent. He was trained to mercantile life, but went upon the stage in 1856, appearing in London a few years later. His rôles include Mephistopheles, Hamlet, Coriolanus, King Lear, Louis XI, Malvolio, Macbeth, and a repertory that has been presented not only in England, but in the United States, Australia, and France. He was knighted in 1895. He has published an edition of Shakespeare. He died Oct. 13, 1905.
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Irvington
a city of New Jersey in Essex co. It adjoins Newark of which it is a suburb. It has important industries, including smelters, foundries, automobile works, oil refineries, etc. There is a hospital, Bethany Home, Elks Home, a park, and a town hall. Pop. (1910) 11,877; (1920) 25,466.
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Irwin
MAY, an American actress, born in Whitby, Ontario, in 1862. She first appeared on the stage in 1876 and for many years following was a member of Tony Pastor's company. She later appeared under the management of Charles Frohman in many successful plays. She was one of the most popular comédiennes on the American stage.
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Irwin
WALLACE (ADMAH), an American writer, born in Oneida, N. Y., in 1876. He was educated at Denver High School and at Leland Stanford University. He became a special writer on newspapers and was for a time editor of the "San Francisco News Letter." His humorous writings in newspapers attracted wide attention, especially of the publications in 190 1902 of "The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum." This was followed by many other pieces of humorous verse which obtained a wide circulation. He also wrote much prose in a humorous vein. In addition to these he wrote novels and special articles. His best known works are "Chinatown Ballads" (1905); "Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy" (1909); "Pilgrims Into Folly" (1917); "The Blooming Angel" (1919).
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Irwin (II)
WILLIAM HENRY, an American journalist, writing under the name of Will Irwin, born in Oneida, N. Y. in 1873, brother of Wallace Irwin. He graduated from Stanford University in 1899. He acted as editor for several papers in San Francisco in 1906-7 and was managing editor of "McClure's Magazine." From 1908 he was a magazine writer. He acted as war correspondent during the World War for American and British papers and magazines. He was a member of the executive committee for the Commission for Relief in Belgium, in 1914-15. In 1918 he acted as chief of the foreign department on the Committee of Public Information. In addition to his war correspondence, he published several novels. His published writings include "The City that Was" (1907); "Old Chinatown" (1908); "The House of Mystery" (1910); "The Red Button" (1912); "The Splendid Story of Ypres" (1915).
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Isabella
Queen of Spain. See Columbus ; Ferdinand; Moors ; Charles V; INQUISITION; CASTILE.
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Isaeus
One of the ten Attic orators, was born at Chalcis, and came to Athens at an early age. He wrote judicial orations for others, and established and established a rhetorical school at Athens, in which Demosthenes is said to have been his pupil. a 2026 Editor's Note: A student of Isocrates , Isaeus was a metic logographer who specialized in inheritance law. He is best known for teaching Demosthenes , who later applied these rhetorical skills to successfully sue his own guardians for his inheritance. While only eleven of his speeches survive, Dionysius of Halicarnassus noted that his style was more prone to sophistry than that of his predecessor Lysias . (Ed: BR 2026-07-09)
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Isar
or ISER (izer), a river of Bavaria, rises in the Tyrol, N. E. of Innsbruck, and flows 220 miles, generally in a N. and N. E. direction, till it falls into the Danube near Deggendorf. Munich and Landshut are on the banks "of Iser, rolling rapidly." Hohenlinden is 20 miles away. Area of its drainage basin, 3,545 square miles.
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Isatine
(I'zä-tēn), a product obtained by suspending finely powdered indigo in three times its weight of boiling water, and adding gradually nitric acid of sp. gr. 1.35 till the blue color has disappeared. On cooling, crude isatine is deposited, and may be purified by dissolving in potash, precipitating with hydrochloric acid, and crystallizing from alcohol. It crystallizes in the form of brilliant yellowish-red prisms, which dissolve readily in boiling water, in alcohol, and in ether. It may aso be produced synthetically by the action of oxidizing agents on amido-oxindol, or by the reduction of orthonitro-phenyl glyoxalic acid in alkaline solution. Isatine does not unite with acids, but rather plays the part of an acid. It dissolves in potassic hydrate, forming a dark violet-colored solution of potassium isatine, which, on addition of argentic nitrate, gives carmine-red crystals of argentine isatine, CH.NO.Ag. It also yields crystalline compounds, with alkaline hydric sulphites. Boiled with concentrated nitric acid, it is converted first into nitrosalicylic acid, and finally into trinitrophenol. When strongly heated, isatine fuses and sublimes in part unchanged.
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Isatis
a genus of plants, order Brassicaceæ. I. tinctoria, the woad, is an annual plant, native of Europe, occasionally cultivated here for the sake of its leaves, which yield a dye that may be substituted for indigo. It grows about four feet high, with large leaves clasping the stem with their broad bases; flowers yellow, large, in terminal racemes.
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Isauria
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) in ancient geography, a district of Asia Minor, occupying the summit and N. slopes of Mount Taurus. The people were stern and savage pirates and robbers. At length their depredations and those of their neighbors, the Cilicians, became so formidable that the Roman proconsul, P. Servilius, chased them into their mountain fastnesses and coerced them into submission in 76 B. c., for which exploit he acquired the surname Isauricus. Nevertheless the Isaurians were not subdued, though Pompey drove them off the sea. They conquered the Cilicians and remained the terror of the neighboring states down to the 4th century. In the reign of the Emperor Gallienus (253-268) there even arose among this savage folk a rival emperor, Trebellianus, who, however, was finally crushed. This same people also gave two emperors to Byzantium, Zeno I. (474- 491) and Leo III. (718-741); the descendants of the latter ruled over the empire of the East for three generations. From the 5th century onward the Isaurians gradually disappear from history.
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