Street
JULIAN (LEONARD), an American writer, born at Chicago, Ill., in 1879. He was educated in the public schools of Chicago and at Ridley College, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. From From 1899 to 1901 he was on the reportorial and editorial staff of the New York "Mail and Express." Besides contributing articles and stories to many magazines he wrote: "My Enemy the Motor" (1908); "The Need of Change" (1909); "Paris à la Carte" (1911); "Ship-Bored" (1911); "The Goldfish" (1912); "Welcome to Our City" (1913); "Abroad at Home" (1914); "The Most Interesting American" (1915); "American Adventures" (1917); "After Thirty" (1919).
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Strehlenau
NICOLAUS NIEM- BSCH VON. a German poet, born in 1802.
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Strepsiptera
a small and very peculiar and anomalous order of insects. The females are wingless, and live as parasites in the abdomen of bees, wasps, and other hymenopterous insects. The males have the front pair of wings in the form of twisted filaments, the posterior pair are fan-shaped and membranous. The jaws are rudimentary. The heads of the parasitic females protrude from between the abdominal joints of their host. The strepsiptera are viviparous, and the larvæ are little caterpillars which attach themselves to the bodies of wasps and bees. The female larvæ never leave their hosts; the male larvæ undergo their metamorphosis within the bodies of their hosts, from which in due time they emerge as perfect winged males. Stylops Dalii and S. Spencii are common species.
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Stress
a convenient term used to express the mutual action between any two por portions of matter. Thus the pressure between a table and a book resting on it is of the nature of a stress, which has two aspects, according as we fix our attention on the table or the book. With reference to the former the pressure is downward, with reference to the latter upward, and these two forces, which according to Newton's third law are equal and opposite, form when regarded as a whole the stress. Similarly the attraction of the earth for the sun and the attraction of the sun for the earth are opposite aspects of the same stress, and the same can be said of all forces which obey Newton's third law, i. e., of all known forces which invariably exist in pairs. The so-called centrifugal force is merely the one aspect of the stress whose other aspect is the force which acts upon the body normally to the path. See STRAIN: STRENGTH OF MATERIALS.
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Striated Rocks
or STRIATED BOWLDERS, rocks or bowlders with striæ along their surface, the result of the passage over them of masses of ice with projecting stones imbedded in the lower part. Such striated rocks exist along the sides and at the foot of mountain ranges wherever glaciers have descended. They are found also in the Arctic and temperate zones wherever ice has passed from the N. during the glacial period.
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Strickland
AGNES, an English historian; born in Reydon Hall, Suffolk, England, Aug. 19, 1806. Her first work, aided by her sister Susannah, was a volume of "Patriotic Songs," followed by "Worcester Field," a historical poem. She wrote: "Queen Victoria from Her Birth to Her Bridal" (1840); "Historic Scenes and Poetic Fancies" (1850); "Lives of the Bachelor Kings of England" (1861); (1861); "Lives of the Seven Bishops" (1866); ; "Lives of the Tudor Princesses" (1868). Her best works are "Lives of the Queens of England" (12 vols. 1840-1848), and "Lives of the Queens of Scotland" (8 vols. 1850-1859). She died in Reydon Hall July 8, 1874.
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Strickland, Agnes
Agnes (1806-1874), an English writer. She was born in Suffolk. The list of her writings contains many titles. She is known best as the author of a very remarkable series of Lives of the Queens of England in twelve volumes and Lives of the Queens of Scotland in eight volumes. Progress in writing history is so rapid that one feels in reading her Lives that they are already somewhat out of date.
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Strickle
A straight edge may be classed as a strickle when the edge is bevelled for the purpose of cutting sand or loam. Any board or iron plate used for fashioning cores or moulds, loam-boards for pipe-cores, pipe-sweeps, loam-moulders' sweep-boards, etc., are all classed, according to locality, as strickles, strikes, or sweeps. In skilful hands the strickle affords an excellent opportunity for the display of high-class moulding. Each of the devices mentioned are explained in order as they occur. See FORMER.
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Strindberg, August
August (1849-), a Swedish novelist and dramatic writer. He was born at Stockholm. He spent some years in Paris, but, returning to his native country, became the leader of the realistic school of writers in Sweden. The titles of a few of his best known works are The Red Room, a study of Bohemian life, The Secret of the Club, and The Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven. See Sweden ; Literature ; Swedish
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Stringer
ARTHUR (JOHN AR- BUTHNOTT), a Canadian-American author, born at London, Ontario, in 1874. He was educated at Toronto University and the University of Oxford. From 1898 to 1901 he was an editorial writer for the American Press Association and from 1903 to 1904 literary editor of "Success." Besides contributing many short stories to magazines he wrote: "Watchers of Twilight" (1894); "Pauline and Other Poems" (1895); "Epigrams" (1896); "A Study in King Lear" (1897); "The Loom of Destiny" (1898); "The Silver Poppy" (1899); "Lonely O'Malley" (1901); "Hephæstus and Other Poems" (1902); "The Wire Tappers" (1906); "Phantom Wires" (1907); "The Occasional Offender" (1907); "The Woman in the Rain" (1907); "Under Groove" (1909); "Irish Poems" (1911); "Open Water" (1912); "Gun Runner" (1912); "Shadow" (1913); "Prairie Wife" (1915); "Hand of Peril" (1916); "Door of Dread" (1917); "House of Intrigue” (1918); "Man Who Couldn't Sleep" (1919); "Prairie Mother" (1920).
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Strobel
EDWARD HENRY, an American educator; born in Charleston, S. C., Dec. 7, 1855; was graduated at Harvard University in 1877 and at its Law Department in 1882; and was admitted to the bar in 1883. He was secretary of the United States legation in Madrid, Spain, in 1885-1890; a special United States agent to Morocco in 1888 and 1889; and United States minister to Chile in 1894-1897. He was counsel for the latter country before the United States and Chilean Claims Commission in 1899. His publications include: "The Spanish Revolution" (1898); "Specie Payment in Chile" (1896); etc. He died Jan. 15, 1908.
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