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by notice to the assessor. Between 25th September 

 and 16th Octol>er sheriffs hold open registration 

 courts for the purpose of revising tlie lists of voters 

 and disposing of claims and objections. The revised 

 list is delivered by the sheriff to the town-clerk or 

 the sheriff-clerk, and, being printed, constitutes 

 the register of persons entitled to vote at any 

 election before the 1st of November in the succeed- 

 ing year. Appeals in registration cases are carried 

 to a special court, constituted by the Reform Act 

 of 1868, consisting of three judges of the Court of 

 Session, one judge from each division of the Inner 

 House, and one from the Lords Ordinary. 



See works by G. L. Broune (1878), Cox and Grady 

 (new ed. 1880), F. E. Davis ( new eJ. 1880), F. N. Rogers 

 (14th ed. 1885), 3. H. Saint (1885-87), and M. Mackenzie 

 (1888). 



Regilllll Domini (Lat., 'royal gift'), an 

 annual grant of public money formerly received by 

 the Presbyterian and other Nonconformist ministers 

 in England, Scotland, and Ireland. It began in 

 1672, when Charles II. gave 600 of secret-service 

 money to be distributed annually among the Pres- 

 byterian clergy in Ireland, on hearing that they 

 had been loyal to him, and hail even suffered on 

 his account. The grant was discontinued in the 

 latter part of the reign of that monarch, as well as 

 in the time of James II., but was renewed in Ire- 

 land by William III. in 1690, who increased it to 

 1200 a year. It was further augmented in 1723 

 by (Jeorge I., in consequence of the Presbyterians 

 having supported the House of Brunswick, and 

 raised by 2200 in 1784, and again by 5000 in 1792. 

 The amount of the Irish grant for 1868 was 45,000. 

 The propriety of receiving the Kegium Donum was 

 of late years much disputed by those of the same 

 persuasion in England and Scotland. The Irish 

 Kegium Donum was withdrawn by the Act of 1869, 

 which came into force in 1871, disendowing the 

 Irish Episcopal Church. Compensation was made 

 of life interests ; ami the ministers were allowed to 

 commute on the same terms as the clergy of the 

 Church. In 1874 it was reported that the commuta- 

 tion money paid had amounted to 579,762. The 

 Regiiim Donum in England was enjoyed by the 

 three denominations, Presbyterians, Independents, 

 and Baptists, from 1723 till 1851. The amount 

 required, 1695 per annum, was annually voted by 

 parliament till July 17, 1857. The Scotch Episco- 

 palians also enjoyed for a time a small part. 



Soc Reid's Hiftory of the Irish Pfrsbyltrian Church ; 

 and for the English Regiuni Donum, Stoughton's History 

 of Rtti'jinn in Kwjland, Skeat's Free Churcha, and 

 t>r Kilmunil Ciilainy's Account of hit own Life. 



Rcgnard. JKAN FRANCOIS, French comic 

 dramatist, was born at Paris in 1655. A rich shop- 

 keeper's son, lie found himself at twenty master of 

 H considerable fortune, and at once set out on his 

 travels. In Italy he gave himself up to gambling, 

 but, strange to say, increased rather than dimin- 

 islie.l IMS means. In liis autobiographical romance, 

 I. /< I'roi'fiii-nlr, we read, but somewhat dubiously, 

 of the passion of himself as Zelmis for a young Pro- 

 vencal wife (Elvire), his voyaging back to France 

 with her and her husband, their capture and Bale 

 as slaves by Algerian pirates, how he made himself 

 pleasing to his master by skill in cookery, was 

 carried by him to Constantinople, and, at the end of 

 his two years' captivity and many strange adven- 

 tures, was ransomed, together with the lady, for 

 12,000 crowns. Her he was next about to marry 

 when the husband reappeared, and sent the lover 

 off again on aimless wanderings through Holland, 

 Denmark, and Sweden, to Lapland, and back by 

 Poland, Turkey, Hungary, and Germany. From 

 his return to Paris (1683) he gave himself to 

 letters, and found his true vocation in the success 



of Le Divorce at the Theatre Italien in 1688. 

 Eight years later his fine comedy, Le Jovevr, 

 achieved success at the Theatre Francais. Its 

 successors were Le Distrait ( 1697 ), Le Retour 

 Imprevu (1700), Les Folies Amonreuses (1704), 

 Les Menechmes (1705), and his masterpiece, Le 

 Legatoire Unicersel (1708). He died before his 

 time, and so suddenly as to originate various con- 

 tradictory reports, 4th September 1709. Regnard 

 was an indifferent poet, but he was a master of 

 dramatic situation and of comic dialogue, if not of 

 verisimilitude or reality. To this day the reader 

 endorses Boileau's judgment, expressed once when 

 some one charged Regnard with mediocrity ' II 

 n'est pas mediocrement gai.' ' Qui ne se plait 

 point \ Regnard,' said Voltaire, ' n'est pas digne 

 d 'admirer Moliere.' 



There are editions by Didot (1820), Miohiels (1854), 

 and Fournier (1875). See the study by Mahrenholtz 

 (Oppeln, 1887), and Biblioijraphie by Maroheville (1877). 



IC<-".naiilt. ALEXANDRE GEORGES HENRI, 

 painter, was born in Paris, 30th October 1843, 

 the son of Henri Victor Regnault (q.v.). His 

 aptitude for drawing manifested itself very early, 

 and he was continually sketching the animals in 

 the Jardin des Plantes. After an excellent career 

 in the Lycee Najioleon, he left school in 1859, 

 and studied art under Lamothe and Cabanel ; and, 

 after two unsuccessful attempts, gained the pru- 

 de Rome in 1866. Reaching Rome early in the 

 following year, he executed there a remarkable 

 portrait of Madame Duparc, and his historical 

 subject of ' Automedon breaking the Horses of 

 Achilles,' and drew on wood illustrations for Way's 

 Some. He next passed to Spain with his friend 

 Clarin ; and here, as afterwards in T anglers, he 

 found subjects of that wildly picturesque character, 

 which best suited his genius. In 1869 he painted 

 his powerful equestrian portrait of General Prim, 

 now in the Louvre, and his 'Judith,' and in 1870 

 contributed his 'Salome' to the Salon. In 1870 

 was also painted, at Tangiers, liis terrible picture, 

 ' The Execution without Judgment under the 

 Moorish Kings of Granada' a work now in the 

 Louvre. In the same year he returned to Paris 

 on the outbreak of the Franco- Prussian war; and 

 though, as a ////./ tie Rome, he was exempt from 

 military service, he volunteered as a private 

 soldier, and on the 19th January 1871 was slain 

 on the field of Buzenval, in liis twenty-eighth 

 year. As an artist he had by no means fully 

 expressed himself ; but he had produced much that 

 was marked by great energy and power, that 

 caught in a peculiarly vivid way the splendid and 

 barbaric life of the East a life, in the words of the 

 painter himself, 'at once rich and great, terrible 

 and voluptuous.' A monument to Regnault, sculp- 

 tured by Henri Chapu, has been erected in tne 

 Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. 



See the Lives, in French, by Cazalis (1872) and Marx 

 ( 1887), and his Corretpondance, ed. by Duparc ( 1873). 



RoKlinillt. HENT.I VICTOR, chemist and phy- 

 sicist, was born at Aix-la-Chapelle, 21st July 1810. 

 A shopman in a Paris bazaar, he made such good 

 use of his scanty leisure as to qualify himself 

 for admission (in 1830) to the Ecole Poly technique, 

 and, after the two years' course, came out as a 

 mining engineer. He became a professor in Lyons, 

 whence, in 1840, he was recalled to Paris as a 

 member of the Academy of Sciences, in conse- 

 quence of some important discoveries in organic 

 chemistry. Having filled chairs in the Ecole Poly- 

 technique and the College de France, he became 

 in 1854 director of the imperial porcelain-manu- 

 factory of Sevres. He devoted himself to the 

 determination of important physical data, such 

 as the laws of expansion of gases, the measure- 



