ELLIOTT 



Elliott, MAXINE (b. 1873). 

 American actress. Born in Rock- 

 land, Maine, Feb. 5, 1873, she 

 began acting 

 in The Middle- 

 man.with E. S. 

 Willard (New 

 York, Nov. 10, 

 1890), and was 

 soon taking 

 leading parts, 

 including that 

 of Mrs. Allen by 



Maxine Elliott, in A Woman 

 American actress of No Import- 



. *L. Ca,waU Smith - ance . Her 



Shakespearean renderings were 

 greatly praised. Her first appear- 

 ance in London was as Silvia in The 

 Two Gentlemen of Verona, Daly's, 

 July 2, 1895 ; from then onwards 

 she acted in England frequently, 

 a notable success being Zuleika in 

 Joseph and His Brethren (His 

 Majesty's, 1913). Her sister, Ger- 

 trude, also an actress, is the wife of 

 Sir J. Forbes-Robertson (q.v. ). 



Ellipse (Gr. elleipsis). A curve 

 such that the sum of the distances 

 of any point on it, from two fixed 

 points within it, is constant. When 

 the fixed points coincide the curve 

 becomes a circle. See Conic Sections. 

 Ellipsis. Figure of speech, 

 whereby part of a sentence, strictly 

 necessary for complete fullness of 

 expression, but which can easily be 

 supplied from the grammatical 

 connexion, is omitted. It is often 

 deliberately employed in writing, in 

 order to lay stress upon what is 

 more important and essential, un- 

 essentials being omitted. 



Ellipsoid. Solid of which all 

 sections are either ellipses or circles. 

 See Geometry. 



Ellis, ROBINSON (1834-1913). 

 British classical scholar. He was 

 born at Banning, in Kent, Sept. 5, 

 1834, and educated at Rugby 

 and Balliol College, Oxford, where 

 his career was most distinguished. 

 In 1883 he became reader in Latin 

 at the university, and in 1893 pro- 

 fessor of Latin. He is chiefly known 

 for his work on Catullus, whose 

 poems he edited and also translated 

 in the original metres; while his 

 Commentary on Catullus (1876, 

 2nd ed. 1889) ranks as the highest 

 authority on its subject. He died at 

 Oxford, Oct. 9, 1913. 



Efliston, 

 ROBERT WIL- 

 LIAM (1774- 

 1831). British 

 actor and thea- 

 trical manager. 

 Born in Lon- 

 don, April 7, 

 1774, the son of 



Robert W.Elliston. a ^tchmaker 

 British actor and educated 



After Harlowe at O. Paul S 



School, he made his first appearance 

 at Bath, as Tressel in Richard III. 

 On Aug. 29, 1796, he played Sir 

 Edward Mortimer in a revival of 

 George Colman's The Iron Chest at 

 The Haymarket, where he acted 

 during thesummerseasons of 1803-5 

 and 1811. He made his debut at 

 Dairy Lane, Sept. 20, 1804, succeed- 

 ing Kemble as Rolla in Pizarro, 

 continued amemberof the company 

 till 1809, rejoined it from 1812-15, 

 and was lessee of the theatre from 

 1819-26, when he retired, bank- 

 rupt. He afterwards became lessee 

 of the Surrey Theatre, where he 

 played until within a fortnight of 

 his death in 1831. Both as a 

 tragedian and a comedian Elliston 

 stands high in the annals of the 

 British stage. See Life and Enter- 

 prises of R. W. Elliston, George 

 Raymond, 1857. 



Ellora. Ruined town of India, in 

 Hyderabad state. Situated 13 m. 



Ellipse. S S' are foci on the axis 

 X X'. A A' is called the principal 

 diameter. P is any point on the 

 ellipse, and has the property that 

 S P + S' P is constant 



N.W. of Aurangabad, it is famous 

 for the Kailas temple built in the 

 8th century, and for its rock tem- 

 ples and caves dating from the 5th 

 to the 9th or 10th century. These 

 caves cover the face of a hill for 1 J 

 m. and belong to three groups 

 Buddhist, 12 caves, Brahminical, 

 17, and Jain, 5. See illus. p. 1799. 



Ellore. Town of Madras, India, 

 in the Kistna dist. It stands near 

 Colair Lake, 38 m. N. of Masulipa- 

 tam. Ellore is noted for its carpets, 

 and has a large trade hi grain. 

 Pop. 37,819, nearly all Hindus. 



Ellsworth. City of Maine, 

 U.S.A., the co. seat of Hancock co. 

 A port of entry on Union river, at 

 the head of navigation, it is 30 m. 

 S.E. of Bangor on the Maine Cen- 

 tral Rly. It has several prominent 

 buildings. There are foundries and 

 an important fish hatchery. Settled 

 in 1763, it was incorporated in 1800 

 and granted a city charter in 1869. 

 Pop. 3,549. 



Ellwood, THOMAS (1639-1714). 

 English author and Quaker. He 

 was born at Crowell, Oxfordshire, 

 and became a Quaker in 1659, a 

 conversion which cost him several 

 terms of imprisonment. He became 

 companion and reader to Milton 

 after the latter lost his sight, and 

 suggested to him the idea of Para- 

 dise Regained. He assisted George 



Fox in the dissemination of his 

 principles, and wrote various 

 polemical treatises, but his most 

 important work is his autobio- 

 graphy, which was finished by 

 Joseph Wyeth and published in 

 1714; new ed. by Crump, 1900. 

 He died March 1, 1714. % 



Elm ( Ulmus). Familiar native 

 tree of Britain, of the natural 

 order Urticaceae. More frequently 

 found in avcn- 

 ues, parks, and 

 hedges than in 

 woods and for- 

 ests, elms flour- 

 ish in any soil, 

 but to attain 

 to their full 

 height of 80 ft. 

 or thereabouts, 

 and to make the 

 best wood, re- 





Elm tree in full foliage. Above, 

 leaves and flowers of the common elm 



Photo. F. B. Sinking 



quire a rich alluvial loam. The 

 most familiar species are wych 

 elm (7. montana) and the bell elm 

 (U. campestris). Both may be 

 planted in open weather at any 

 time between autumn and spring. 

 The usual way of increasing in pri- 

 vate gardens is by layering, or in the 

 case of the bell elm by removal of 

 suckers, as this tree seeds scantily. 



Elms should not be planted 

 near dwelling-houses, as the tim- 

 ber has a tendency to decay in- 

 wardly, involving danger of the 

 limbs dropping off suddenly, with- 

 out any warning, especially in 

 high winds. 



Elmalu, ELMALI, OR AIMALI. 

 Town of Asia Minor, in the vilayet 

 of Konia. Situated on the river 

 Myra, 25 m. from its entrance into 

 the Mediterranean, it is about 60 m. 

 S. W. of Analia. Pop. 4,000. The 

 word means apple town. 



