Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry
Sir Edwin Henry (1802-1873), a celebrated English animal painter. He was born in London. He showed talent at a very early age. One of his productions now at Kensington bears, in his father's handwriting, the words "at the age of five." He made a faithful study of animals, dissecting such as were obtainable, until he became a master in his particular line. Horses and dogs were his favorite subjects. He was elected member of the Royal Academy in 1831 and was knighted in 1850. Outside of art, his life was uneventful. Some of his best known paintings are the Hunted Stag, The Highland Shepherd's Chief Mourner, Tethered Rams, Monarch of the Glen, and The Stag at Bay. Over 500 of Landseer's paintings are catalogued. See Painting
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Landskrona
a of Sweden; on the Sound, 16 eden on the Sound, 16 N. E. from Copenhagen; it has from Copenhagen; it has harbor, carries on sugar - refining, carries on sugar - refining, , and the manufacture of and the manufacture of exports considerable and leather, exports considerable butter, and imports raw sugar, and imports raw sugar, grain. The town was a fort- The town was a fortress down to 1870. Opposite Landskrona in the Sound lies the island of Hven, on which Tycho Brahé built his observatory of Oranienborg. Pop. (1918) 18,062.
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Landsthing
the upper house of the Danish Parliament. See Denmark
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Landsturm
a local militia of Germany, consisting of those loca of the reserve who are too old to serve in the LANDWEHR (q. v.). The landsturm is never called on to serve out of its own district except in case of invasion. When the Russians invaded East Prussia in 1914, the Landsturm Landsturn played a leading part in driving them friving the back.
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Landwehr
a kind of German militia composed entirely of ), a kind satirely men who have served in the regular army, and who in time of peace follow their usual trades or callings, except during the time when they are called out for called out their annual training.
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Lane
FRANKLIN KNIGHT, an HIGHT American public official; born near Charnear C lottetown, Prince Edward Island, in 1854. He was publishing with Elkin brought to California in his early childhood in with and was educated at the University of partnership, California. He engaged in newspaper the business at partne in New York the ba studied law. He was admitted to the work and also bar in 1889. From no in Nov eBook 1897 to 1902 he was corporation counsel Book " ( 1894 volume 4. of San Francisco. In the " Introduction as volume latter year he was Democratic candidate for governor ley "; " Sir "Introd of the State. From 1905 to March cley"; " , 1913, he was a member of the e. Interstate Commerce Commission.
FRANKLIN K. His letters, throwing much light on the inside history of the Wilson cabinet during the World War, were published in 1922.
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Lang, Andrew
Andrew (1844), a Scottish author. He was born at Selkirk. He received his education at St. Andrew's and at Oxford. He wrote frequently for various periodicals and has published volumes on a variety of subjects. He has made prose translations of Greek classics, and has written several works on comparative mythology and religion. Letters to Dead Authors and Letters on Literature are interesting writings. Lang has produced a number of volumes of poetry. Ballads and Lyrics of Old France, Ballads in Blue China, Rhymes a la Mode, and Ballads of Books are among them. Perhaps Lang is as well known for his fairy tales as for his more ambitious writings. He has published The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, The Yellow Fairy Book, and The Green Fairy Book.
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Lang-Son
a town in Tongking; N. structure, in which the root maintains E. of Ha-noi; near the frontier of the itself unaltered in the whole group of Chinese province of Kwang-si. It was derivatives and inflections, and each sufa center of operations in the Francofix has an unchanged form and office. Chinese war of 1884-1885. The Basque and Armenian languages are also agglutinative, with this difference,
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Langland
William, an English poet. He lived about 1330-1400. He is the author of Piers the Plowman, a poem much read by the Lollards. See Lollards
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Langside
a S. suburb of Glasgow. , after her escape from Loch Leven sions of language, denominated isolating, Here , Queen Mary's forces were totally deagglutinating and inflectional. Isolatlanguages, of which feated by the Regent Moray, May 13, example, consist entirely of monosyllabic, Chinese is 1568. A monument (1887) commemounchanging roots. The Scythian is the rates the battle. type of what is called an agglutinative
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Language
human speech; the ag- LAN gregate of those articulate sounds, called gregato words, used to express perception and thought, accepted by and current among any community; the expression of thought by articulate sounds or words; thour! the body of uttered and audible sounds the by which, in human society, thought is by whi expressed. expres Also a particular set or aggregate of articulate sounds or words peculiar to a particular race, nation, tribe, or community; as, the English language, the French language, etc.; each of these often presents local varieties, to which the name of dialects has been given. Languages are divided according to two principles: First, morphologically, according to the structure of the language and the manner in which the sounds are formed or combined; and secondly; genealogically, according to their connection SAMUEL P. LANGLEY and relationship with respect to origin. The first class consists of three subdivi-
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Langue D'Oc
the South- Laniidæ into five sub-families: Lamianæ (bush Lamians rn French dialect, or PROVENÇAL (q. v.), oc in- (tree shrikes), Thamnophilinæ ss (bus so called because the people use shrikes), Dicrurinæ (drongo shrikes), shrikes) tead of oui for "yes," as in the N. prov- Ceblepyrinæ (caterpillar catchers), and nces. Tyranninæ (tyrant shrikes). Others HENRY PETTY (1780-1863), succeeded his divide them into the first two of these subbrother as Marquis of Lansdowne in families. 1809; was a successful debater in Parlia- 1809: ment, generally
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