Rehan
ADA, an American actress ; born in Limerick , Ireland, April 22, 1860. In 1865 she came with her parents to the United States. She first appeared on the stage in Newark, N. J., when 14 years old. In 1879 she joined Augustin Daly's company. She frequently played before London audiences , and also in France and in Germany. Miss Rehan created over 40 rôles in comedy . Among her best known personations are Katherine , in "The Taming of the Shrew "; Rosalind, in "As You Like It"; Viola, in "Twelfth Night"; Maid Marian, in "The Foresters"; etc. She only acted occasionally after 1889. Died 1916.
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Reheating-furnace
These furnaces, although used for various purposes, are all of the reverberatory type, similar to a puddling-furnace. They are used for heating wrought-iron piles, blooms, billets, etc., and the ingots, slabs, blooms, etc., of steel, to the temperature suitable for hammering or rolling. They are sometimes called balling-furnaces. See REVERBERATORY FURNACE. Relievo, or Rilievo, is a term applied to works in sculpture and the fine arts where figures are made to project from the ground or body on which they are formed and to which they remain attached. It is Basso-rilievo when the figures project only slightly from the ground, Mezzo-rilievo when they stand out half their natural proportions, and Alto-rilievo, or high relief, when the figures are so prominent from the ground that merely a small part of them remains attached. See INTAGLIO.
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Reichenberg
the chief seat of the cloth manufacture in north Bohemia; on the Neisse river; 52 miles N. E. of Prague. Some 10,000 workmen are employed; cotton and woolen fabrics, machinery, and leather are manufactured. The cloth industry was establised here in the 16th century. Pop. about 40,000.
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Reichsrath
the representative council of the former Empire of Austria. See AUSTRIA.
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Reichstadt
NAPOLEON FRAN- COIS CHARLES JOSEPH, DUKE DE. See NAPOLEON II.
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Reid
SIR GEORGE HOUSTOUN, an Australian political leader, born in Scotland in 1845 and died in Australia in 1918. In 1852 his family emigrated to Australia and he entered the government service there when he was nineteen years old. In 1880, after having served in the colonial legislature of New South Wales, he was appointed minister of instruction, a position he occupied but a few months. From 1894 to 1899 he was premier of New South Wales, and later when the Commonwealth was formed became prime minister, championing the cause of free trade. Defeated in 1905, he continued to lead his party for three years afterward, when he retired from active politics.
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Reid (GEORGE a Scotch artist born)
GEORGE, a Scotch artist; born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Oct. 31, 1841. After having been trained as a lithographer, he studied art in Edinburgh, Utrecht, Paris, and The Hague. In 1891 he became president of the Royal Scottish Academy. He is most widely known by his portraits. He was also noted as a flower and landscape painter and a book illustrator. Died 1913.
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Reid (II)
OGDEN MILLS, an American newspaper editor and owner, son of Whitelaw Reid. Born in New York in 1882 he graduated from Yale University in 1904 and then went to Bonn University, Germany. In 1908 he was admitted to the bar, but soon afterward joined the editorial staff of the New York "Tribune." In 1913 he succeeded his father as editor of the paper.
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Reid (III)
SIR WEMYSS, an English journalist; born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, in 1842. He contributed largely to English reviews and magazines, and published: "Cabinet Portraits: Sketches of Leading Statesmen of Both Parties" (1872); "Charlotte Brontë: A Monograph" (1877); "Politicians of Today" (1879); "A Memoir of John Deakin Heaton" (1883); "Gladys lys Fane: A Story of Two Lives" (1883); "Mauleverer's Millions" (1885); "Life of William Edward Forster" (1888). He was editor of the "Speaker" from its foundation till 1899. He was knighted in 1894, and died in 1905.
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Reid (MAYNE a British novelist born)
MAYNE, a British novelist; born in north Ireland, in 1818. His love of adventure took him to Mexico and then to the United States, where he traveled extensively as hunter or trader; he joined the United States army in 1845 and fought in the Mexican War. He afterward returned to London, where he became well known as a writer of thrilling juvenile stories. Among the number are the "Rifle Rangers," "Scalp Hunters," the "War Trail," the "Headless Horseman," the "White Chief," etc. He died near London, Oct. 22, 1883.
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Reid (THOMAS a Scotch philosopher)
THOMAS, a Scotch philosopher; born in Strachan, Scotland, April 26, 1710. He was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and in 1737 was presented to the living of New Machar in Aberdeenshire. His first philosophical work was an "Essay on Quantity" (1748). In 1752 the professors of King's College, Aberdeen, elected Reid Professor of Moral Philosophy in that college; and in 1764 he published his well-known work, "An Inquiry Into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense." The same year he succeeded Adam Smith as Professor of Moral Philosophy in Glasgow University, a position which he occupied till 1781. His other writings are "Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man," and "Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind." His philosophy was directed against the principles and inferences of Berkeley and Hume, to which he opposed the doctrine of common sense. He died Oct. 7, 1796.
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Reid (WHITELAW an American editor)
WHITELAW, an American editor; born in Xenia, O., O., Oct. 27, 1837. He He was graduated at Miami University in 1856; was on the editorial staff of several leading Ohio papers; in 1869 became managing editor of the New York "Tribune," and, after 1872, editor-inchief and in financial control. He twice declined appointment as minister to Germany; and was minister to France in 1889-1892, where he negotiated valuable reciprocity treaties. In 1892 he was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for Vice-President. He represented the United States as special ambassador at Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1897; member of the American-Spanish Peace Commission in 1898; special ambassador of the United States at the coronation of King Edward VII. in 1902, and ambassador 1905-1912. He is author of: "Ohio in the War" (1868); "Schools of Journalism" (1871); "The Scholar in Politics" (1873); "Some Consequences of the Last Treaty of Paris" (1899); "Our New Duties" and "Later Aspects of Our New Duties" (1899); "Our New Interests" (1900); "Problems of Expansion" (1900). Died in 1912.
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