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ligious painting, notably the Pilgrims at Em- 

 maus (Louvre). His etchings are represented 

 by Descent from the Cross, Christ Healing the 

 Sick and Burgomaster Jan Sir. In all there are 

 about 280 canvases and 320 etchings of the mas- 

 ter extant, representing the years between 

 1625 and 1668. 



REMENYI, rch'maynye, EDOUARD (1830- 

 1898), a famous Hungarian violinist and writer. 

 He received his musical education at the Con- 

 servatory of Vienna, but was compelled to 

 e Austria because of his prominence in the 

 insurrection against Austrian rule. He won his 

 greatest triumphs in America. To him music 

 was a vital thing, not a mere accomplishment. 

 As he wrote in one of his essays, "It is my 

 life, my blood, my everything," and his play- 

 ing revealed that these words were true. He 

 fd almost every country of note in the 

 world, but it was American life and scenery 

 which inspired his finest essays, notably Popu- 

 lar Music, American vs. European Civilization 

 and Love of Natural Scenery. 



REM'INGTON, FREDERIC (1861-1909), an 

 American painter, sculptor and writer, who suc- 

 cessfully portrayed the life and atmosphere 

 of the great West of pioneer days. He was 

 born at Canton, N. Y., and received his art 

 training in New York City. The inspiration 

 for his work came after a trip to the Western 

 country, where he herded with cowboys, shot 

 antelope and buffalo and camped with the In- 

 dians. The beauty of the great Western plains, 

 with their marvelous desert colors and atmos- 

 phere of mystery, made an indelible impres- 

 sion upon him, which his canvases reveal in a 

 .-tnking way. 



He began his artistic career first as an illus- 

 trator of stories of Western life and later as a 

 painter not only of Indians and cowboys but 

 of the mines as well, each in their natural en- 

 vironment Later he became interested in 

 bronze work, and his two statuettes, Bronco 

 Buxti r and Wounded Bunkie, were executed 

 with tin- -kill and feeling which character 



paintings. Both of these are now in the 

 Metropolitan Museum in New York. That in- 

 stitution also possesses one of his best paintings 

 Cavalry Charge on the Southern Plains. He 

 wrote and illustrated Pony Tracks, Crooked 

 i of an Indian. 



REM'SEN, Ii:v (1846- ), an American 

 chemist and educator, for eleven years presi- 

 dent of Johns Hopkins University. He was 

 born in New York City and was educated in 

 the Cell, City of New York, the Col- 



lege of Physicians and Surgeons of the same 

 city, and the universities of Gottingen and Mu- 

 nich. From 1872-1876 he was professor of 

 chemistry and physics at Williams College, and 

 on the founding of Johns Hopkins University 

 he went to Baltimore to found the department 

 of chemistry in the university. In 1901 he was 

 made president of Johns Hopkins, from which 

 position he resigned in 1912 to devote himself 

 again to chemical research. 



Dr. Remsen is editor of the American Chem- 

 ical Journal, and has done much important in- 

 vestigation in the fields of organic and inor- 

 ganic chemistry. His textbooks have been 

 republished in England and translated into 

 several languages. Among his works are Theo- 

 retical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Intro- 

 duction to Chemistry, Elements of Chemistry 

 and The University Movement. 



RENAISSANCE, renehsahNs', a French 

 word meaning new birth, applied to the revival 

 or rebirth of interest in intellectual matters, 

 marking a period of transition from medieval 

 to modern methods of thought and study. It 

 has become customary to attempt to fix a 

 definite period to this Renaissance, some au- 

 thorities stating that it was due to the influx 

 of Greek manuscripts and scholars into Eu- 

 rope after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, 

 Though the capture of the eastern seat of 

 learning by the Turks must naturally have had 

 the effect of driving westward much culture 

 and learning, the Renaissance was really the 

 result of a gradual process of education which 

 had been extending over the west of Europe 

 for a century previously. 



The Middle Ages are disparagingly spoken of 

 as days of dark barbarity and ignorance, but 

 such was not entirely the case. Those days 

 had a culture of their own, and the change of 

 method of thought in art, literature and sci- 

 ence was in a great measure due to the increas- 

 ing number of students who went East to study 

 after having had their intellectual curiosity 

 awakened in the West. Mediev.il learning in 

 Europe was almost entirely confined to the 

 clergy, and had been chiefly devoted to solving 

 and explaining n-Iinnuw mysteries. The influx 

 of more advanced learning from the East 

 broadened Western minds, opened up new 

 channels and gave to study a more crit- 

 ical, analytical turn. Gradually the conven- 

 tional narrow rules governing the study of 

 the sciences were overthrown. An era of in- 

 quiry was ushered in. Men's minds were 

 ready to receive new impressions, a new im- 



