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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Le Roux
known as HUGUES, a French journalist; born in 1821; prop 17 he was Havre in 1860. In early life he was n London connected with the "Political and Litername he a ary Review," and subsequently succeeded Co the Jules Claretie as writer of the Paris 1848 he can chronique in the "Temps." He is author of a series of popular romances, includand Lisée ing "Médéric and " and "One of Us" (1886); "Souls in Agony" (1888); "The Parisian Inferno" (1888); "Le Fils a Papa" (1900). His miscellane ous works "In the Sahara" are: (1891); "On Board a Yacht: Portugal, Spain, etc." (1891); "Portraits de Cire," "Nos Filles," "Au Sahara," etc.
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Le Roy
JULIEN. A celebrated French horologist. He was the inventor of the horizontal mechanism for turret clocks. He introduced improvements in nearly all the branches of horology of his day. He died in 1759. LE ROY, PIERRE. A son of Julien Le Roy and unquestionably the greatest of all French horologists. He was born in 1717 and died in 1785. He was the inventor of the Duplex escapement. LESSELS, M. A celebrated German clockmaker who worked for a long time with
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Le Sage
ALAIN RÉNÉ (luhsäzh'), a French novelist and dramatist; born in Sarzeau, near Vannes, May 8, 1668. He abandoned law for literature, with scant success till 1707, when the 805 on comedy "Crispin His Master's Rival" 854, on was received with high public favor; as isited E was "Turcaret" in the year 1909. His analizing novels "The Devil on Two Sticks" (1707) and " nade chief Gil Blas" (1717) were suggested The canal v by Spanish originals. He also wrote 869. He "The Bachelor of Salamanca" and "The Life olumes of and Adventures of M. de Beaunents Relat chène." He died in Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1887, "R Nov. 17, 1747. Lis attemp anama re LESBOS. See MITYLENE. olitical sca
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Lead-Ladle
Ladles for melting and pouring lead may be of cast or wrought iron, of any dimension or form best adapted to the purpose for which they are to be used.
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Lead-shot
Important: Safety Warning This page describes trade processes that use dangerously toxic materials such as cyanide solutions, mercury amalgams, or strong acids. These processes require training, equipment, and precautions far beyond what the text describes. This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon. The common method of making small lead-shot is as follows: The melted lead is made to fall through the air from a considerable elevation, and thus leaden rain, as it were, is solidified into leaden hail or shot. The tower in which the manufacture takes place is about 180 feet high, 30 feet diameter at the base, and 15 feet at the top. The melting is conducted at the top in brick furnaces built against the wall, the lead is rained down from a colander, through a central opening into a water-tank below. The size of the shot is regulated by the mesh of the colander, the latter being a hollow hemisphere of sheet iron about 10 inches in diameter. When the shot are taken out of the water they are dried upon metal-plates, that are heated by steam, and the imperfect ones are separated from those that are spherical. The addition of a slight proportion of arsenic to the lead used for shot helps it to solidify, as well as rendering it more fluid. The alloy for lead-shot is lead 56, arsenic 1. See LEAD; ARSENIC; HOLLOW-SHOT.
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Leadville
a city and county-seat of Lake co., Col.; on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé, the Denver and Rio Grande, and the Colorado Midland railroads; 80 miles S. W. of Denver, the State capital. Leadville is one of the most important localities in the world for the mining and reduction of the ores of the precious metals, some of the mines being 700 feet deep. It is the mining, farming and grazing trade center for an extensive region; contains a court house, jail, hospital, and almshouse; has rich deposits of gold, silver and lead, large sampling, refining and reduction works, smelting furnaces, etc. The city is lighted by electricity and gas; has an excellent water supply, well organized fire weekly and police departments, daily and banks. Pop. periodicals, National (1910) 7,508; (1920) 4,959.
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