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rels; and the muskrats and beavers can live in 

 water. One species of squirrel can fly. Most 

 rodents are covered with fur, but the porcupine 

 has a covering that is truly a "coat of mail." 

 for mingled with the coarse hairs on its back 

 and sides are numerous stiff, barbed spines. 

 Rodents are found in practically all parts of 

 th<- world, and they constitute the largest order 

 of mammals. 



Consult Gregory's The Order of Mammals; Os- 

 born's The Age of Mammals. 



Related Subject*. The most Important of 

 these animals are described in these volumes. 

 A list follows: 



come accorded him by the English people, he 

 presented to the Museum of Victoria and Al- 

 bert eighteen of his finest pieces of sculpture. 



Consult Mauclair's Aupuste Rodin (translation 

 by Black). 



Agouti 



Bandicoot 



Beaver 



Chinchilla 



Chipmunk 



Deer Mouse 



Dormouse 



Flying Squirrel 



Gopher 



Ground Hog 



Guinea Pig 



Hamster 



Hare 



Hedgehog 



Jerboa 



Lemming 



Marmot 



Mouse 



Muskrat 



Pika 



Porcupine 



Prairie Dog 



Rabbit 



Rat 



Squirrel 



Vole 



RODIN, rodaN', AUGUSTE (1840-1917), the 

 greatest French sculptor of his age. His theory 

 that nature should be the artist's one source of 

 inspiration, and that only those creations which 

 possess no character are ugly in art, has been 

 consistently applied throughout his career. Ro- 

 din was bora in Paris, and in that city received 

 :ill of his not very extended schooling. Hus 

 genius flowered early, as one of his finest pieces, 

 a head entitled Broken Nose, was modeled 

 when he was only twenty-two. For several 

 years after the Franco-German War, during 

 which he was a member of the National Guard, 

 he worked and studied in Brussels. 



Rodin's famous Age oj Bronz< , which created 

 a sensation because of its daring realism, was 

 ( xhilutcd in 1877 in the Paris Salon. Tin n 

 followed a bust of Saint John (now in the 

 Metropolitan Museum, New York lohn 



I'r, whiny, TL> (see accoiii|i:in\ \\\v. illus- 



tration), Adam and Eve (also in the Metro- 

 politan), the monument to the six Bourgeois 

 de Calais, The Kiss, the Danaid, the Bath, r 

 (Metropolitan) and many other works, includ- 

 ing busts of several noted men. In 1914, when 

 tli' uropc broke out, Rodin's studio, 



ih' II on, was t r by the gov- 



iont and converted into a day nursery. 

 The aged sculptor, finding no haven in troubled 

 France for creative work, went over to London. 

 As a token of his appreciation of the kind \\ I- 



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"THE THINKER" 



One of the most remarkable of modern works 

 of art. 



ROE, ro, EDWARD PAYSON (1838-1888), an 

 American novelist and clergyman, born in 

 Orange County, N. Y. He was educated at 

 Williams College and at Auburn and Union 

 Theological seminaries, served as a chaplain 

 during the War of Secession, and then held tin 

 Presbyterian pastorate at Highland Falls, N ^ 

 Resigning \\\\~*. he moved to rornwall-on-Hud- 

 son, where he devoted himself to lecturing, 

 writing and fruit culture. He wrote ;i loni: 

 series of i which great numbers w re 



sold. They were almost as popular in England 

 as in America, and some were translated into 

 German. However, none of them possesses any 

 special literary merit, and all follow the same 

 traditional form of the novel. The Opening of 

 a Chestnut Burr was probably the most popu- 

 lar. Barriers Burned A wa y has its climax in th<- 

 great Chicago fire, and The Earth Tr< mMni 

 -on tains a description of scenes in Charleston, 

 S. C., during the earthquakes of 1886. He Fell 



