Lazuli
a itramarine or of beautiful ultramarine mefly of zilles or color, consisting chiefly of silica sulphuric acid, alumina, with a little sulphuric acid, varies-much and lime. The color varies much Lapis lazull degree of intensity. Lapis lazuli is often marked by white associated among and 85 with Tan istose is The rocks and in granite, in Siberia, China, etc. The finest specimens China, hot Tibet, Chile, Bokhara. It seems to imens are brought from of any intrinsic ems to have been the only stone Egyptians under the rinsic value known to the valuable pigment, called er Pharaohs. The .) is made from it. ULTRAMARINE (q. v the minerals sometimes called It is one of azure stone.
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Le Brun
MARIE, a French painter; born in Paris, France, April 16, 1755. She was a daughter of one Vigée, a painter, and in 1776 married J. B. P. Le Brun, picture dealer. Her great beauty, as well as the charm of her painting, speedily made her the fashion in Paris and at Versailles. Her first portrait of Marie Antoinette (in 1779) led to lasting friendship. She subsequently painted numerous portraits of various members of the royal family, and in 1783 was admitted, after much opposition on account of her sex, a mem- . ber of the Royal Academy of Painting She left Paris for Italy at the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789, and after a species of triumphal progress through Europe, arrived in London in 1802. There she painted portraits of the Prince of Wales, Lord Byron, and other celebri ties. In 1805 she returned to Paris, where she lived till her death, March
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Le Cateau
formerly Cateau-Cambrésis: a town of France, in the Nord . department, 14 miles S. E. of Cambrai Has a town hall belonging to Renaissance period, and manufactures include mafigured chinery and textiles. The town prominently in the fighting of 1918, where Rawlinson's Third Army fought stubbornly. The town changed hands repeatedly. Pop. about 10,000.
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Le Catelet
a village in ships, and from Cambrai to St. line of geolog Quentin. It University part of the British and French Relations line that went through the villages peared in Namoy and Derain opposite of the "Elementε burg line in the World War. It fell Compend fore the Germans in the spring drive Its Kelatio 1918. died in the
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Le Conte
JOSEPH, an American ndidature scientist; born in Liberty co., Ga., buis Napol 26, 1823. He practiced medicine minisusiy several years at Macon, Ga., but in tempt to went to Cambridge, Mass., where ainst his studied natural history under Agassiz political He subsequently held several professor- France, ships, and after 1869 occupied the chair E. of Cambrai, on the 869 occupied the chair S. leading of geology and natural history in the ral history in the was University of California. "The Mutual fornia. "The Mutual support Relations of Religion and Science" apgion and Science" apof peared in 1874, and was followed by and was followed by lowed by Hinden- "Elements of Geology," "Light," "A Feology," y," "Light" "A be- Compend of Geology," "Evolution and ""Evolution and logy, of Its Relation to Religious Thought." He eligious Thought." He died in the Yosemite Valley, California, mite Valley, California, tributary July 6, 1901. Vo-
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Le Conte, Joseph
Joseph (1823-1901), an American geologist. He was born in Liberty County, Georgia. His father, Lewis Le Conte, was a physician and a naturalist, the owner of a private botanical garden of note. Joseph was graduated at Franklin College, Georgia, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York . He took up the practice of medicine at Macon, Georgia, but drifted into the companionship of Agassiz and accompanied that eminent naturalist to Florida in 1850. Le Conte held chairs of natural science and geology in Oglethorpe University, Franklin College, and the University of South Carolina . In 1869 he accepted the chair of geology in the University of California, a position which he honored. He died in the valley of the Yosemite. Le Conte was a product of the field, rather than of the laboratory. He wrote pleasingly. His Elements of Geology, published in 1878, went far to popularize geology in college classes. A smaller Compend of Geology performed a similar service in the high school and academy. Other writings were Evolution: Its Nature and Its Evidence, and Religion and Science. He was an editor of the Journal of Geology and of Science, to which he contributed valuable papers relating to mountain formations as manifested in the Sierra Nevadas.
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Le Fanu
JOSEPH SHERIDAN graduated from (luh fänü' or lef'a-nü), an Irish journaljoined (1837) ist and novelist; born in Dublin, Ireland, iversity Mags- Aug. 28, 1814. Having graduated from and proprietor. Trinity College, Dublin, he joined (1837) the Irish ballads, the staff of the "Dublin University Magaand "Shamus zine," becoming editor and proprietor. Irish novelista He first won fame with the Irish ballads, larity to Charles "Phaudbrig Croohore" and "Shamus Churchyard" O'Brien." Among modern Irish novelists (1864): "Guy he stands next in popularity to Charles Lever. "The House by the Churchyard" Davily (1872). Deverell" (1865); "The Tenants of Feb. 7, 1873. Malory" (1867); "The Wyvern Mystery" (1869); "In a Glass Darkly" (1872). ing which is handed He died in Dublin, Feb. 7, 1873. an ancestor or pre-
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Le Gallienne
RICHARD, first an English author; born in Liverpool, England, Jan. an 20, 1866. He was educated at Liverpool College. He served articles at to a firm of onicar to chartered accountants for seven en years; abandoned business for literature, and become literary critic for the "Star." He published "Volumes in Folio" (1888); "George Meredith" (1890); "The Book- Bills of Narcissus" (1891); "English Poems" ( 1892); "The Religion of a Literary Man " (1893); "Prose Fancies" (1894); " Robert Louis Stevenson and other Poems" (1895); "Retrospective Reviews " (1896); "The Quest of the Golden Girl" (1896); "If I were God" (1897 ). He edited "The Compleat Angler," and a verse translation of Omar Khayyam. "The Romance of Zion Chapel" (1898); "Little Dinners with the Sphinx" (1909); "Vanishing Roads" (1915), etc.
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Le Queux
WILLIAM, an English an Englis July 2, 198 novelist; born in London, July 2, 1864. He studied art in Paris under Spiridion; ader Spiridion entered into journalism, becoming attached to "Galignani" and Paris "Morning News"; went to London; joined staff of " Globe " in gallery of House of Com- Jouse of Com mons, 1890; resigned novel writin 1893. milty Bond ( 1890); " The Great War in England 1897 " ( 1892); " Zoraida (1894); "T Temptress " ( 1895); " A ecret Servic ( 1896); " Devil's Great White Queen " ( 1896); " The Day (1896); "T ); "The Da of Temptation" (1897); "In White Raiin White Ra ment" (1900); "The Zeppelin Destroyer" elin Destroye (1916), etc. British consul San Marino, ul San Marin 1900.
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