Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold
Mary Augusta Arnold (1851-), an English novelist. She is the granddaughter of Thomas Arnold of Rugby. She was born at Hobart, Tasmania, her father holding an educational post at that place. The family returned to England in 1856. In 1872 Miss Arnold was married to Thomas Humphry Ward. She has used the name of Mrs. Humphry Ward as a pen name . Mrs. Ward's first literary work was a child's story. She translated Amiel's Journal and wrote Miss Bretherton, but her work attracted no special attention until the appearance of Robert Elsmere in 1888, which made its author famous at once. Other novels are The History of David Grieve, Marcella, Eleanor, Lady Rose's Daughter, The Marriage of William Ashe, and Helbeck of Bannisdale. Mrs. Ward's novels are conceived powerfully and are well executed, although they vary greatly in point of excellence.
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Warden
DAVID BAILLIE, an Irish-American scholar; born in 1778. He was gradua graduated at the New York Medical College, was United States secretary of legation at Paris, and subsequently consul from 1804 to his death. He was a member of the French Institute, and published: "Inquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of the Negroes" (1810); "Origin and Nature of Consular Establishments" (1816); "Description of the District of Columbia" (1816); "Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States" (1819); "L'Art de vérifier les dates: Chronologie Historique de l'Amérique" (Art of Verifying Dates: Historical Chronology of America, 10 vols. Paris, 1826-1844); "Bibliotheca Americana Septentrionalis" (North American Library), etc. (1820); "Recherches sur les Antiquités de l'Amérique Septentrionale" (Researches in North American Antiquities, 1827); and "Bibliotheca Americana" na" (1831). He died in Paris, Oct. 9, 1845.
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Ware
WILLIAM, an clergyman, editor, and author; born in m, Mass., Aug. 3, 1797. In addi- Hingham, tion to his pastorates, and his editorship of the "Christian Examiner," he wrote the following: "Letters from Palmyra" (1837), first published in the "Knickerbocker Magazine," subsequently republished as "Zenobia; or, The Fall of Palmyra" (new ed.1868); "Probus; or, Rome 3(18 ( in the Third Century" 1838), republished as "Aurelian" (new ed. 1868); "Julian; or, Scenes in Judea" (1841); "Sketches of European Capitals" (1851); "Lectures on the Works and Genius of Washington Allston" (1852); and a "Life of Nathaniel Bacon," in Sparks' series. He edited "American Unitarian ian Biography" (1850). He died in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 19, 1852.
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Warehousing System
a customs regulation, by which imported goods may be lodged in public or bonded warehouses, at a reasonable rent, without payment of the duties on importation, till they be on, thus withdrawn for home consumption, lessening the pressure of the duties, which would otherwise cripple the purchasing power of the merchant. In the United States the warehousing system has been extended to other than imported goods. Thus spirituous liquors may be deposited by the manufacturer in government warehouses and payment of the internal revenue duty delayed till the are said to be in bond.
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Warm-Blooded Animals
the name given to mammalia and aves or birds, in contradistinction to fishes, amphibians, and reptilia, as lower vertebrata, and to all invertebrate animals. In the latter, the blood is only a degree or two warmer than the medium in which they live, while in mammals and birds the blood greatly exceeds the outer temperature in heat. heat. The average mammalian temperature varies from 99° F. to 100° F., as in man and his nearest allies, to 103° F. in the whales. In birds, the lowest temperature is about 104° F., which are the warmest-blooded animals, and may range to 110° or 112° F. This would represent an excessive fever heat in man. In hibernating animals the temperature falls considerably, as the tissue waste is reduced to its minimum. The production of heat depends on the union of oxygen in the blood with carbon and hydrogen in the tissues; active habits, as in birds, demanding large supply of oxygen, and producing a heat accordingly.
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Warneck
GUSTAV ADOLF vär nek), a German theologian; born in ( ' Naumburg, March 6, 1834. He wrote: "Missions in the Light of the Bible" (1878); "The Relations between Missions and Modern Civilization" (1879); "The Mission in Pictures from its History" (1884); "Sketch of the History of Missions from the Reformation to the Present Time"; "The Ultramontane Art of Fence" (1889); "The Romanism of Today in the Light of its Missions to the Heathen" (1889); "The Evangelical Alliance and its Opponents" (1889); "Pothe Question of Slavery" (1889). He sition of the Evangelical Mission Toward died in 1910.
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Warner, Charles Dudley
Charles Dudley (1829-1900), an American editor and writer. He was a native of Plainfield, Massachusetts. He was graduated at Hamilton College in 1851 and by the law department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1856. He practiced law in Chicago for a few years. In 1860 he removed to Hartford, Connecticut, where he continued to reside for the rest of his life. Here he lived neighbor to Mark Twain and Mrs. Stowe. He held various editorial positions on the Evening Press and on the Courant, a morning paper in which he held an interest. Letters of travel, printed in the Courant, and a series of articles, afterward published under the title of My Summer in a Garden, brought him into prominence as a cheery, humorous writer. In 1884 he took charge of the Editor's Drawer, a department of Harper's Magazine. Warner's reputation as a man of letters rests on his success as an essayist. A list of his writings gives a score or two of titles. The most noted are perhaps Back-Log Studies, My Summer in a Garden, My Winter on the Nile, The Golden House, a novel, and The Relation of Literature to Life. He was editor-in-chief also of the American Men of Letters Series, and the Library of the World's Best Literature. The single essay by which he is best known to schoolboys is A-Hunting of the Deer.
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Warrant Officer
one of the highest ranks to which seamen under ordinary circumstances can attain. They are divided into three classes-gunners, boatswains, and carpenters, the gunners taking precedence of the other two. Formerly, before ironclads superseded Ho wooden ships, there was only one officer of this rank of each class carried on board even the largest ships. Now, in addition to the officer of each class appointed to carry out the special duties of gunner, boatswain, and carpenter on board every ship, there are usually three or four junior gunners or boatswains appointed to battleships and some of the larger of other classes of ships to perform what are called quarter-deck duties, in addition to which in many of the larger ships an extra gunner or boatswain is appointed for torpedo duties. A certain proportion of these officers who have duly qualified in navigation are now appointed to command torpedo boats.
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