Luray Cave
a celebrated cave in Page County, Virginia, seventy-eight miles southwest of Washington. The cave is in the Shenandoah Valley under the western spurs of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The cave consists of numerous chambers in a limestone formation. Striking stalactites abound. The extensive chambers and passages were explored in 1878. While not so well known as the Mammoth Cave , the Luray Cave is considered quite as wonderful. Electric lights reveal a fairyland of marvelous red, brown, and yellow.
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Luray Cavern
a cave, not large, but remarkable for the vast number and extraordinary shapes of its stalactites, close to Luray village, Va., 90 miles N. W. of Richmond. Many of these wonderful columns exceed 50 feet in length; numbers of them are hollow, giving out bell-like notes when struck; and the colors range from waxy white to yellow, brown, or rosy red. The cavern, which is lit with electric light, attracts thousands of visitors every year.
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Luristan
a mountainous province in the W. of Persia; area 15,600 square miles; pop. about 300,000. It corresponds roughly to the ancient Susiana, was the seat of the ancient Elamite empire, and is now occupied by numerous minor tribes. LUSHWANKAN. See PORT ARTHUR.
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Lusiad
. See Camoens
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Lussin
or LOSSINI, an island in the Adriatic Sea, formerly belonging to Austria, but since the World War in the possession of Italy. Area, 29 square miles. Pop. 15,000. family. It has five to six pairs of strings, each pair tuned in unisons or octaves. and Norway; and there are Lutheran The several frets of the lute are distinguished by the letters of the alphabet. The lute consists of four parts: The table; the body, which has 9 or 10 sides; the neck, which has as many stops or divisions; and the head or cross, in which the screws for tuning it are inserted. The performer strikes the string with The fingers of the right hand, and regulates the sounds with those of the left. Simply constructed, it is called the French lute. With two necks-one for the bass notes-it is called a theorbo.
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Lutetia
a name by which the city of Paris was often anciently referred to: the word means "mud hovels." The Romans named the collection of huts they found here Lutetia Parisiorum, "the mud-town of the Parisii"; the first name being dropped left the present title, Paris. Also Asteroid 21, discovered by Goldschmidt at Paris, Nov. 15, 1852.
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Luther League of America
THE. A union of the young people of the Lutheran churches, founded at Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1895. Its creed is that of the Lutheran church, viz. the Augsburg Confession, and it will receive any society that subscribes to that basis. It holds its conventions every other year and has an executive committee and corresponding secretary. It publishes "The Luther League Review" monthly in New York. The Luther League has a membership in the United States of about 50,000 and is organized in 19 States. The Luther Leagues of Canada and Porto Rico are members of the League in the United States.
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Luton
a market-town of Bedfordshire, England, on the little Lea, among the Chiltern Hills, 31 miles N. N. W. of London; is the chief seat in England of the straw-plait (for hats, bonnets, etc.), an industry dating from the reign of James I., and employing 20,000 persons here and in the neighborhood; has St. Mary's Church, Plait-hall (1869), a town-hall, corn exchange, people's park, etc. Pop. about 45,000. LÜTZEN (lüt'sen), a small town in the Prussian province of Saxony, famous for two great battles fought in its vicinity. The first a brilliant victory of the Swedes in the Thirty Years' War, took place Nov. 6, 1632. The battle on May 2, 1813, was fought somewhat farther to the S., at the village of Grossgörschen. It was the first great conflict of the united Russian and Prussian army with the army of Napoleon in that decisive campaign; and the French were left in possession of the field.
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Lutzen
. See Gustavus Adolphus
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Lutzk
Russia, a strongly fortified town on the Styr river, fifty miles W. of Rovno and 120 miles S. W. of Lublin. This fortress, together with Dubno and Rovno, formed a very powerful triangle of permanent fortifications erected by Russia in recent years. Lutzk was taken by the Germans on Aug. 30, 1915, after only three days of fighting, the stronghold having been previously abandoned by the Russians for strategic reasons. Twenty-three days later it was recaptured by the Russians. Four days later the Russians were again forced to withdraw. On June 8 it was again taken by the Russians, under General Brusiloff, during his famous Galician drive, together with over 11,000 prisoners and much war material. Henceforth the fortress remained in Russian hands until the termination of hostilities on the eastern front. The town is the center of an agricultural grain-raising region, with a population, before the war, of about 32,000.
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Luxburg
COUNT KARL, German Chargé d'Affaires at Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1917, during the Great War. In the summer of that year, he sent secret dispatches to Berlin through the Swedish legation via Stockholm, which were made public by Secretary Lansing of the United States Department of State. These dispatches urged that certain Argentine ships should be "spurlos versenkt"-destroyed without a trace. The publication of the documents resulted in the dismissal of Count Luxburg from Argentina, and the virtual entrance of Argentina into the war. Luxburg was also Minister to Uruguay, and on his dismissal from Argentina, he asked for a passport to Montevideo instead of to Berlin.
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Luxembourg Palace
famous for its architecture, art galleries, and gardens. The building was begun in 1616 and completed in 1620 by Salomon de Brosse for Marie de Medici. In 1835-41 the main body of the structure was doubled in size and a magnificent hall was built for the House of Peers, later occupied by the Prefecture of the Seine and since by the Senate. Always a royal or public picture gallery, the paintings are mostly by French French artists, American painters being next. The main structure fronts on a Court of Honor measuring 300 by 360 feet inclosed on sides and front by low wings. The gar dens, among the most noted in France, are the only Renaissance gardens in Paris. Originally laid out by De Brosse, they were nearly stripped in the Revolution, but restored in 1801.
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