philosopher, the son of an advocate who had left his native

A. Dumas converted acetic acid into trichloracetic acid,

Jan Six (d. 1702), the friend and patron of Rembrandt, was

Europe and the disturber of the world's peace,'' Alexander

are too often stained with deep and degrading debauchery.

Hope in 1498, nearly ruined its commerce; the canal, which

woman. To avoid the disgrace of perishing by a woman's hand,

indifference and a disinclination to bear the burden of

The operations of the accountant-general are now conducted

Esq. (1756 and 1766). Both books are an extraordinary mixture

Theodore's quarrel with great Britain

students. Alexandria is a distributing and jobbing centre for

Hellene, who yet had personal sympathy with Jewish primitive

Nietzsche, Emerson, W. Lloyd Garrison, Thoreau, Alexander

Albanians. The Via Egnatia, which Strabo (vii. fragment 3)

from about the end of the 16th century by means of botanic

supplied. When hand-to-hand weapons were the principal

a chemical laboratory. The university has since been removed

Of waterfowl, the Canada goose (Brantd eanadensis)

most serious loss was that of General Joseph Warren, one

were of the greatest value, not only to the Saxon corps but

b, proboscis sheath; c, beginning of the neck; d,

ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850- ), American novelist, was born near

cholera in 1827 and 1832 and another earthquake in 1830 had

correction''). The caustic, in the first case, resembles

state. Practices which, when new, admit of regulation are

Primipilus, Propraetor.

a fixed price of blood; at Argyrokastro, for instance, the

capital of Aberdeenshire, and chief seaport in the north of

are thousands of varieties of butterflies and other insects.

Bresse and the geese and turkeys of the Dombes are largely

detailed to each division (i.e. to replenish each set of

latter year, with the exception of Pondoland, the whole of

Gurma---were entered from all sides by rival British, French

the chain, but these are limestones with nummulites or

territory, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands have a single

prehistoric civilization was remarked long ago by the classical

city proper or in Mustapha. Of the inhabitants 105,908 were

unimportant. The two buildings cited above, two human faces,

penetrated by certain red rays belonging to a narrow region

injuriously affected by the juices of a plant quite innocuous

Richard I., vol. iii. (Rolls Series, 1886). . (H. W. C. D.)

achieved during and after the period of partition may now be

AKRON, a city and the county-seat of Summit county, Ohio,

technically victorious, but the success was a barren one

secretary. Alembert was much interested in music both as

was greatly extended, and commerce by land took to a large

which the calendars are based. The earliest English calendar

all competitors would be treated alike, each would have the

that this earth possesses peculiar properties, and is one of

(1758-1792), French statesman, and nephew of Calonne. He was

South America on the river Maranon, which was named after them

only twenty divines of other countries. All his divines are

out by the Italian government in 1882. In this year Count

explorers the Acholi were called Shuli, a name now obsolete.

wheat has practically gone out of cultivation, but barley

southern California in which co-operation has made possible

but these merely attracted to him the favourable attention

the same manoeuvres, combined with constant "tapping" at

crushing of which in the following year established Adelaide's

AMPHITRITE, in ancient Greek mythology, a sea-goddess,

ABATEMENT IN LITIGATION. In civil proceedings, no action

Alexander now went on through the mountain belt, teaching the

are said (though the statement is doubtful) to have been

may now be traced. By the convention of the 14th of February

or English currency in France. The balance of trade between

the words which we have borrowed from French into English

and the first of Evans's ``Minoan'' periods (see CRETE).

known as the Tavole Amalfitane, was recognized in the

observed or not; and it was with the intention of definitely

not only a strong religious impulse, but a store of tales of

him to undertake banking. The Spanish government gave him

Utrecht, bestowed the fief on his brother, Guy of Hainaut.

of Conradin, the last of the Hohenstaufen, promising him

world, for the eyes of all nations were now turned with fear

unsuitable for an ancient city, and does not at all answer to

provinces in Spain are inhabited by so laborious, active and

deacon of the church of St Bartholomew at Liege, his native

definite article al, and maliakh, a word of uncertain

Borgia's daughter Lucrezia (see BORGIA, LUCREZIA) lived with

Whittier: Holmes: Lowell.

Total resistance . . . . . . . .= 40.38

specially marked in the great central highlands between Kabul