Lorenz
ADOLF, an orthopædic surgeon of Vienna, Austria. In 1880 he became assistant to Professor Albert, who occupied the chair of surgery at the University of Vienna. Instead of taking up general surgery he specialized in orthopædic surgery. He became famous as the "bloodless surgeon" because of his reduction of the dislocation of the hip joint by manipulation rather than cutting. In 1902 he visited the United States and England, holding clinics in the more important hospitals.
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Loreto
an interior department of Peru, in the N. E. part of the Republic, watered for thousands of miles by the Marañon and its tributaries; area (est.) 288,500 square miles; pop. (est.) 100,000 (chiefly Indians). Vast portions of the department are still unexplored, being covered with thick forests. The climate is hot and unhealthy. Chief products: rubber, salt, quinine, tobacco, tropical fruits. Capital, Iquitos.
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Loretto
or LORETO, a city of Italy, in the province of Ancona, about 15 miles S. E. of Ancona. It is a famous resort of pilgrims, who come to visit the Casa Santa or Holy House of Loretto, which is said to have been the house of the Holy Family at Nazareth, and to have been miraculously conveyed by the angels first to Fiume in Dalmatia, and afterward to Loretto. The Holy House is in the center of a beautiful church built by Majano and Bramante (1464-1587). The number of pilgrims amounts to 50,000 yearly. The town is the seat of a bishop since 1586. Pop. about 7,000.
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Lorimer
GEORGE HORACE, American editor, born in Louisville, Ky, 1868, graduated from Yale, then devoted himself to general newspaper work, till 1899, when he became editor of the " Saturday Evening Post, " for whose wide popularity his ability was largely responsible. He is also known as a humorous writer. Among the most popular of his books are "Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son" (1902) and "Jack Spurlock-Prodigal" (1908).
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Loring
WILLIAM WING, an American military officer; born in Wilmington, N. C., Dec. 4, 1818; participated in the Seminole War, the war for Texan independence, the Mexican War, Indian wars, etc. In May, 1861, he resigned his commission; became a Brigadier-General in the Confederate army and later Major- General. He went to Egypt in 1869 and reorganized the army of the Khedive. In 1879 he returned to the United States and published "A Confederate Soldier in Egypt" (1883). He died Dec. 30, 1886. LORRAINE. See ALSACE-LORRAINE.
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Lorna Doone
lori'na doon, a novel by Richard Blackmore, published in 1869. It is a romance of Exmoor. It is written in autobiographical style, the writer purporting to be John Ridd, the son of a farmer who was slain by the Doones, a band of outlaws. The Doones made their home in an almost inaccessible rocky defile in Bagworthy Forest. John Ridd, while still a boy, accidentally meets Lorna Doone, the pretty little "Queen" of the Doones. He never forgets the little girl and determines to win her for his wife. His dangerous wooing, their marriage, the plot of the Doones to destroy his home, and the final defeat of the outlaws, make up an exciting story which carries the reader away to a free out-of-door life, with the rush of falling water, the sweep of wild winds, and the courage and daring of a brave-hearted, strong-willed youth. The simple, somewhat quaint language of the story is in keeping with the times and with the character and mental equipment of honest John Ridd. Lorna Doone is the best known of Blackmore's writings and is as popular in America as in England. See Blackmore
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Lory
a group of birds composed of about 90 species, closely allied to the parrots; brush-tongued; dense, richly colored plumage; active and gentle. They are to be found in Polynesia and Australasia, except New Zealand.
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Los Andes
a state in Venezuela, situated in the western part of that country, now divided into three states: Trujillo, Mérida, and Tachira. The population is about 350,000, and the area about 50,000 square miles.
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Los Andes
UNIVERSITY OF, one of the two universities of the Republic of Venezuela, the other being the Central University at Caracas. It is at Mérida, and has professors, doctors, and honorary
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Los Rios
inland province of Ecuador, capital Babahoyo (Bodegas). Mountainous, being on slope of Andes, communicates with sea by Guayaquil river, chief industries farming and stock raising. Pop. about 35,000.
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Los Santos
town, Panama, 95 miles S. W. of the city of Panama, near the Bay of Parita, in province of the same name of which the capital is Las Tablas.
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Lossing
BENSON JOHN, an Amer ican historian; born in Beekman, Dutchess co., N. Y., Feb. 12, 1813. He published "Pictorial Field-Books" of the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War, the first in 1850-1852 (2 vols.), the second in 1868, the third 1866-1869 (3 vols.). He was a wood engraver, and himself made the engravings for the works, the scenic ones largely from sketches on the spots. He wrote also "Lives of the Presidents of the United States" (1847); "Biographies of Eminent Americans" (1855); "Cyclopædia of United States History" (1881, revised and enlarged to 10 vols., by George J. Hagar 1901); "History of New York City" (1884); "The Empire State" (1887); etc. He died near Dover Plains, N. Y., June 3, 1891. LOT (15) (Latin Oltis), one of the largest tributaries of the Garonne in southern France, rising in the Cévennes, flowing in a generally W. direction, being known at first as the Olt, through the departments of Lozère, Aveyron, Lot, and Lot - et - Garonne, and joining the Garonne from the right at Aiguillon, after a course of nearly 300 miles, nearly twothirds being navigable.
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Lost Word of Kabbalism
Lost Word in Masonry. A word relating to some mystic plan, which though it is held to have disappeared, will at some time be restored, and will then make the whole system plain. It is not really lost, only withheld for a season. In the same way the Graal was not lost, but withdrawn to its own place and the search for it occupied the noblest figures in chivalry. It represents the Key to the enigma of Creation; in terms of Christianity, the Kingdom of Heaven.
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