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ROHLFS 



ROGATION, roga'shun, DAYS, in the Ro- 

 man Catholic Church, the Monday, Tuesday 

 and Wednesday before Ascension Day (which 

 see). On these days prayers known as the 

 litanies are appointed to be sung or recited by 

 the priests and people in public procession. The 

 week in which the days occur is sometimes called 

 Rogation Week. The name comes from the 

 Latin rogare, meaning to ask, and the equiva- 

 lent Greek word means litany. See LITANY. 



ROGERS, roj'erz, JOHN (1829-1904), an 

 American sculptor who became widely known 

 for his clay models of groups representing typi- 

 cal scenes in American life and history. Of his 

 many popular statuettes none is a greater fa- 

 vorite than his John Aldcn and Priscilla. The 

 reader will find a reproduction of this attrac- 

 tive piece of work on page 1616, in connection 

 with the article COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH. 

 Other popular figures are his Charily Patient, 

 Going for the Cows and The Town Pump. 

 Rogers was born at Salem, Mass. His art 

 studies were pursued in Rome and in Paris, 

 and his first work of importance was the Slave 

 Auction, exhibited in America in 1860. Sev- 

 eral war groups followed, including the Picket 

 Guard and Union Refugees. In some of his his- 

 torical statuettes will be found portrait studies 

 of Lincoln, Grant, Whittier and other famous 

 men. Many of his clay figures have been 

 copied in bronze, and he used this metal for 

 his more elaborate figures, notably an eques- 

 trian statue of General Reynolds, in front of 

 the Philadelphia city hall. The Metropolitan 

 Museum possesses several good examples of his 

 groups in bronze. 



ROGERS, RANDOLPH (1825-1892), an Ameri- 

 can sculptor, famed for his memorial and sym- 

 bolic monuments. He designed and modeled 

 the bronze doors for the Capitol at Washing- 

 ton, which illustrate the life of Columbus, and 

 he executed a great statue of Lincoln for Phila- 

 delphia, a statue of the Genius of Connecticut 

 for Hartford, a colossal America for Providence, 

 I: I., a figure representing the state of Mirhi- 

 gan for Detroit, and the figures of Marshall, 

 Mason and Nelson for the Richmond (Va.) 

 Washington Monument. His Nydia, the Blind 

 of Pompeii (Art Institute, Chicago) and 

 Hoy with Dog won him wide popularity. 

 Rogers was born at Waterloo, N. Y., but passed 

 his boyhood in Ann Arbor, Mich. He studied 

 art in Rome under Bartolini and other sculp- 

 tors, and from 1885 until his death he lived in 

 Italy. The University of Michigan possesses a 

 complete collection of casts of his works. 



ROGERS, ROBERT (1864- ), a Canadian 

 statesman, after 1912 Dominion Minister of 

 Public Works. He was born at Lakefield, Que., 

 and was educated at Lachute Academy and at 

 Montreal. In 1881 he went to the Northv. 

 and for some years made his home at Charle- 

 voix, Man. He prospered as a grain dealer, 

 and later became interested in mines and vari- 

 ous industrial enterprises. Taking active part 

 in the affairs of the Conservative party, he was 

 president of the party's provincial convention 

 in 1891, and in 1896 was an unsuccessful candi- 

 date for the House of Commons. From 1899 

 to 1911 he sat in the Manitoba provincial as- 

 sembly, from 1900 to 1911 also serving in the 

 Roblin Ministry, first without portfolio and 

 later as minister of public works. In 1911 his 

 activities were transferred to a new field, for 

 he was appointed Dominion Minister of the 

 Interior and was elected to the House of Com- 

 mons. A year later he became Minister of 

 Public Works, a position for which his long 

 experience in the Manitoba government made 

 him especially qualified. 



ROHLFS, rohlfs, ANNA KATHARINE GREEN 

 (1846- ), an American novelist, born at 



Brooklyn, N. Y. While she was still an infant 

 her family moved to Buffalo, N. Y., and there 

 and in Ripley Female College, Poultney, Vt., 

 she was educated. Her short stories began to 

 appear in magazines while she was still a school- 

 girl, and her first novel, The Leavcnworth Case, 

 was published when she was twenty-two years 

 old. This book is a detective story, very much 

 on the order of the famous Sherlock Holmes 

 stories of Conan Doyle, and is still admired 

 for the ingenuity of its plot and for the ability 

 with which a'case is established against a crimi- 

 nal by bits of insignificant circumstantial evi- 

 dence. The author married an actor, Charles 

 Rohlfs, in 1884, and soon after their marriage 

 her husband turned the novel into a drama and 

 produced it with great success. Other of the 

 more important books by Mrs. Rohlfs, all of 

 the detective order, yet wholesornr in their in- 

 fluence, are The Sword of Damocles, Marked 

 :<onal" The Millionaire Baby, The Woman 

 in the Alcove, The House of Whispering Pines, 

 The Mayor's Wife, Three Thousand Dollars 

 and the Golden Slipper and Other Problems 

 for Violet Strange. These stories are filled with 

 dramatic incidents, and this characteristic, to- 

 gether with their \v. 11 -woven plots, has made 

 those which have been dramatized even more 

 successful on the stage than was The Leaven- 

 worth Case. 



