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Farnol, JOHN JEFFREY (b. 1878). 

 British novelist. Born Feb. 10, 

 1878, and educated at a private 

 school, he began writing while in 

 his teens. In 1902 he went to 

 America, where he painted theatri- 

 cal scenery, and contributed stories 

 to various periodicals. In America 

 he published his first volume, My 

 Lady Caprice, 1907 (later reissued 

 a s Chronicles 

 of the Imp). 

 In 1910 he re- 

 turned to Eng- 

 land, and by 

 the publication 

 of The Broad 

 Highway 

 achieved popu- 

 larity as a 

 Jeffrey Farnpl, writer of 

 British novelist healthy senti . 

 Elliott* Fry men tal adven- 



turous romance. Later stories in- 

 cluded The Money Moon, 1911; 

 The Amateur Gentleman, 1913 ; 

 The Honourable Mr. Tawnish, 

 1914; Beltane the Smith, 1915; 

 Our Admirable Betty, 1918; and 

 Black Bartlemy's Treasure, 1920. 

 Farnol also wrote Some War Im- 

 pressions, 1918. 



Farnworth. Urban district and 

 parish of Lancashire. It is 3 m. 

 S.E. of Bolton, of which it is practi- 

 cally a suburb, and has a station on 

 the L. & Y. Rly. Sharing in the in- 

 dustries of Bolton, it has spinning 

 mills, engineering works, and ma- 

 chinery shops, while around are 

 coal mines. Bricks and tiles are 

 made here. S. John's is the chief 

 church, and there are a number of 

 Nonconformist places of worship. 

 The council owns the electric 

 lighting and tramway under- 

 takings, markets, baths, cemetery, 

 town hall, library, and refuse 

 destructor. Water is supplied by 

 Bolton Corporation. The gas 

 supply is owned by a public com- 

 pany. Market days, Mon. and Sat. 

 Pop. 28,131. 



Faro. Gambling card game. It is 

 one of the oldest of banking games, 

 supposed to be of Italian origin, and 

 under the name of Pharaon was 

 very popular in the time of Louis 

 XIV. It requires costly apparatus 

 and a lay-out. A full pack of 52 

 cards is put into a dealing box with 

 an open top, one card being re- 

 leased at a time. The first card in 

 sight at the beginning of each deal 

 is called soda and the last card left 

 in the box is in hoc. The dealer or 

 banker withdraws soda and places 

 it some little distance away ; the 

 next card, termed the loser, he lays 

 by the side of the box. The third 

 card taken out is the winner, which 

 he places on the soda ; thus, each 

 alternate card is a winner or loser, 

 eventually forming two separate 



piles, with soda and loser for foun- 

 dation. The object of the players is 

 to forecast correctly (indicated by 

 the way in which they stake their 

 money upon the lay-out) which 

 particular card of any suit will win 

 or lose. 



Faro. Administrative dist. of 

 S. Portugal, coextensive with the 

 prov. of Algarve. The climate is 

 genial and the soil fertile, pro- 

 ducing olives, dates, almonds, figs, 

 and cereals. Area, 1,937 sq. m. 

 Pop. 274,122. 



Faro. Seaport and city of Por- 

 tugal, capital of Faro dist. It 

 stands on the Atlantic, at the 

 mouth of the Rio Fermoso, 20 m. 

 S.W. of Tavira, and is the terminus 

 of the Lisbon-Faro Rly. Its har- 



Sheep, fish (wet and dried), wool, 

 feathers, skins, tallow, butter, and 

 fish-oil are exported. The largest 

 island is Stromo, with the capital, 

 Thorshavn ; Sudero is the next 

 largest. There are cathedral ruins 

 in Kirkebo on Stromo. Colonised by 

 the Norwegians in the 9th century, 

 they became Danish in 1380. The 

 people still speak an old Norse dia- 

 lect. They have a local parliament 

 and are represented in the Danish 

 parliament. The chief magistrates 

 are an amtman, who is also a 

 commandant, and a landvogt, who 

 is chief of police. In religion they 

 are mostly Lutheran. Area, 540 sq. 

 m. Pop. 19,617. See Map, p. 2523 ; 

 consult also The Faroes and Ice- 

 land. T N. Annandale. 1905 



Faroe. Klaksvig, the principal town on Bordo Island, and Klaksvig Mountain 



bour is large and sheltered, but 

 shallow and tidal. The town pos- 

 sesses a cathedral, a military hos- 

 pital, a museum, and a ruined 

 Moorish castle. Its large public 

 square is the centre of the life 

 of the city. It exports fruit, 

 vegetables, wine, cork, sumach, 

 sardines, anchovies, tunny, and 

 baskets. Burned by the English 

 in 1596, it was almost destroyed 

 by an earthquake in 1755. Pop. 

 11,789. 



Faroe (Dan. Fdroerne, sheep 

 island). Group of islands in the N. 

 Atlantic, belonging to Denmark. 

 The group lies about 195 m. N.W 

 of the Shetlands, and 250 m. S.E. 

 of Iceland. There are 21 islands, 

 17 of them inhabited. Of volcanic 

 and basaltic formation, they are 

 mountainous,rising in Slatarretinde 

 in the island of Ostero to 2,890 ft., 

 with lofty and steep cliffs and deep 

 fiords, and separated from each 

 other by swift and dangerous cur- 

 rents. The rainfall is heavy, and 

 storms are frequent. Lying between 

 lat. 61 20' and 62 20' N., not a 

 great distance from the Arctic 

 Circle, the climate is mild but 

 moist, and the harbours are seldom 

 frozen. There are no trees, and 

 barley is the only cereal grown ; 

 turnips and potatoes thrive, and 

 coal and peat are found. 



The chief industries are sheep- 

 raising, cattle-breeding, wild- 

 fowling, whaling, and fishing. 



Farquhar, HORACE BRAND FAR- 

 QUHAR, IST EARL (b. 1844-1923). 

 British politician. Born May 19, 

 1844, a younger son of Sir W. M. 

 Townsend-Farquhar, he was edu- 

 cated at Eton. He became a part- 

 ner in the firm of Sir Samuel 

 Scott & Co., bankers, but, devoting 

 much time to social life, became 

 ^^^^^^^^^_ one of the in- 

 timates of the 

 ^ prince of Wales, 

 kjitok' I afterwards 

 " f Edward VII. 

 | From 1901-7 

 MBlK ''* ; be was master 

 r:^^| TJ. of the house- 

 j^fc^ p^k hold to the 



i^Mv JLJBfe king. He sat 



Earl Farquhar, i n Parliament 



British politician as a Unionist 



for W. Maryle- 



bone, 1895-98, retiring on being 

 made a baron. From 1889 to 1901 

 he was a member of the L.C.C., 

 and he was actively connected with 

 the central Unionist organizations. 

 Extra lord-in-waiting both to King 

 Edward and King George, he was 

 lord steward, 1915-16, made an 

 earl, 1922, and died Aug. 30, . 1923. 

 Farquhar, SIR ARTHUR MURRAY 

 (b. 1855). British sailor. Born 

 Jan. 19, 1855, he entered the navy 

 in 1868 and was lieutenant of the 

 Bacchante 1879-82, on board 

 which the duke of Clarence and 

 George V (then prince George) 

 were training. Promoted captain 



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