Lokman
lok-man', the reputed author of a collection of fables in Arabic. He has been represented variously as a nephew of Job, a king, a tailor, a carpenter, a shepherd, and an Ethiopian slave. A tale is told of his master offering him fruit of intense bitterness. Lokman ate it without a grimace. Asked how he could do so, he replied that he had received so many benefits from his master that he could not show dislike for the only unpleasant gift he had ever had at his hand. The answer so pleased the master that he gave Lokman his liberty. Whether an authentic Lokman lived is not known. The fables resemble those of Greece and India. They were put into their present form in the thirteenth century. See Aesop ; La Fontaine ; Grimm
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Lombard
PETER, a French philosopher; born about the beginning of the 12th century, at a village near Novara, in Lombardy. He was educated at Bologna, and came to France with recommendations to Bernard of Clairvaux. His uncommon talents soon procured him a chair of theology in Paris. In 1159 he was appointed Bishop of Paris, but he died in the following year. He was very generally styled Magister Sententiarum, or the "Master of Sentences," from his work "Four Books of Sentences," an arranged collection of sentences from Augustine and other fathers, on points of Christian doctrine . A subtle heresy, "Nihilism," was detected by some in Peter's teaching , and the theological doctors of Paris in 1300 denounced it in 16 propositions culled from his writings. Peter Lombard's work was the subject of many commentaries down to the time of the Reformation. it on the conquest b
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Lombard College
coeducational institution in Galesburg, III.; the led it Gal a up of the founded in 1851 under the auspices of Universalist Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors vely in and instructors, 20; students, 250; president, J. M. Tilden, LL. D. ruled
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Lombard Street
a short street in London, so called from having been the residence of the Lombard money changers of an early day. Their extortionate rates of interest caused their expulsion by the government of Queen Elizabeth. The street is still the street of the bankers, corresponding in this respect to Wall Street of New York . It is but a step from Lombard Street to the Bank of England .
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Lombroso, Professor Cesare
A celebrated Italian anthropologist. A few years before his death he took up the study of spiritualism and experimented extensively with the well-known medium Eusapia Palladino, in company with Messieurs Richet, Maxwell, Flammarion, and Professor Schiaparelli. He embodied the results of his investigations in several well-known works, and concluded that although man was probably not immortal, his "shell" or shadow, a mere conglomeration of thought forces, remained on earth behind him for some considerable time after his demise. (See "After Death-What?" 1909.)
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Lomond
lo'mond, Loch, a Scottish lake, the largest in Great Britain . It lies northward from Glasgow twenty miles. It is almost twenty-five miles in length and from one and a half to seven miles in width. The greatest depth is sixty feet. Ben Lomond, on the eastern shore, the southernmost spur of the Grampians, rises from the water's edge to a height of 3,192 feet. The waters are beautifully clear and are studded with green islands. Salmon, trout, pike, perch, and fresh water herrings are taken in season. Loch Lomond, Loch Katrine, and the Trossachs lie in the traditional course followed by tourists on the way from Glasgow to Edinburgh or the reverse. Loch Lomond is a favorite fishing ground for trout. The hotels keep a record of catches. See Katrine ; Highland; Scot
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Lomza
POLAND, a fortified city, 96 miles N. E. of Warsaw, on the E. bank of the Narev. Pop. about 30,000, a large portion of which is Jewish. It is the center of an agricultural region which produces most of the grain crops. The city and its environs was the scene of several important battles between the Russians and Germans during the struggle for Warsaw. 1
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London Company
a company of merchants and others dwelling in and near London. It was chartered in 1606. The members had perhaps large ideas and large expectations of empire. It founded a colony at Jamestown in 1607 and was dissolved in 1624.
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London, Jack
Jack (1876-), an American author. He was born in San Francisco and received his education at the University of California. While still a boy, he went to sea before the mast . He visited the Klondike and he tramped through Canada and the United States . He has written short stories for various periodicals, and several longer tales. Among them may be mentioned The Son of the Wolf, Tales of the Far North, The God of his Fathers, The Call of the Wild, The Children of the Frost, Love of Life and Other Stories, Sea Wolf, and White Fang.
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Long Branch
a city in Monmouth co., N. J.; on the Atlantic Ocean and the Shrewsbury river, and on the Pennsylvania and the New Jersey Central railroads; 42 miles S. of New York City. Long Branch is one of the oldest and most noted summer resorts in the United States, and has a long beach, affording excellent bathing facilities. The advantages of its beach and of its proximity to New York and Philadelphia were recognized as early as 1790 and quickly gave it its prominent position among summer pleasure resorts, cottages, parks, a board walk, and driveways, and electric railway communication with other New Jersey coast resorts. It has a National bank, public library, public schools, electric lights, and the Monmouth Memorial Hospital. The commission form of government has been adopted. Pop. (1910) 13,298; (1920) 13,521.
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Long Island City
a former munic- LONG ipality in Queens co., and the second city in size on Long Island, tory. The fifth Parliament summoned PARLIAMENT, in English his- N. Y.; since Jan. by Charles I. It convened at West- 1, 1898, a part of the Borough of Queens minster en in the Greater New York. Before the executed Strafford and Laud, abolished , Tuesday, Nov. 3, 1640. It consolidation it comprised Hunter's Point, Ravenswood, wood, the Star Chamber and the High Comthis sistar Blissville, Dutch Kills, inshamber and thighstitu- Steinway, and Astoria. It is separated from Brooklyn tional reforms, and provided against its by Newtown creek, is condissolution or prorogation without its nected with the Borough of Manhattan own consent. After having been reduced by several bridges and ferries, and by the expulsion of 96 Presbyterian contains extensive warehouses, oil remembers fineries, lumber yards, machine shops, known as the RUMP (q. v.), executed the , its remaining membership, and many manufacturing establishments king and established the Commonwealth, of the first magnitude. The increased transportation facilities in recent years 20, 1653. It was recalled twice in 1659. but was dissolved by Cromwell, April have made Long Island City one of the On Feb. 21, 1660, the expelled Presmanufacturing cities of byterian members were reseated and the street are hospitals, banks, Long Parliament, thus restored, voted newspapers railroad. services Pop., its own dissolution on March 16, 1660.
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