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Frog Hopper. Name popularly 

 given to a large family (Cercopidae) 

 of hemipterous insects. Their 

 larvae may be 

 noticed on 

 plants, where 

 they are 

 covered with 

 froth and are 

 often known 

 as "cuckoo 

 spit." The 

 adult insects 



Frog Hopper of the Alder, Aphro- 

 phora alni. Above, spiny-legged 

 frog-hopper, Evacanthus interruptus 



are grey or greeny, and leap 

 vigorously if disturbed. 



Frog more. Royal residence of 

 Berkshire, England. It is within 

 the Home Park, Windsor, 1 m. S.E. 



Frogmore, Windsor. Royal Mausoleum 

 built by Queen Victoria, 1862 70 



F. W. Hardie 



of the castle : and was purchased 

 by Queen Charlotte in 1800. The 

 duchess of Kent died here in 1861. 

 Since then it has been used by 

 other members of the royal family. 

 A cruciform structure surmounted 

 by an octagonal lantern was erected 

 by Queen Victoria over the tomb 

 of the Prince Consort. The re- 

 mains of the queen were buried 

 here in 1901. 



Frogmouth. Family of night- 

 flying, insectivorous birds. Re- 

 sembling the nightjar, they are 

 notable for their very wide mouths. 

 There are numerous species, dis- 

 tributed over Australia, Malaya, 

 and the eastern districts of India. 



Frogs, THE. Comedy by Aristo- 

 phanes, produced 405*B.c. The god 

 Dionysos goes down to Hades to 

 fetch up Euripides from the dead. 



A contest for supremacy takes place 

 between the rival tragedians Aeschy- 

 lus and Euripides, in which each 

 humorously criticises the specimens 

 of style given by his opponent. The 

 palm is awarded to Aeschylus, who 

 returns to earth with Dionysos to 

 offer the benefit of his advice to the 

 Athenians. The play takes its 

 name from the chorus of frogs who 

 accompany the god in his passage 

 over the lake of the underworld. 



Frohman, CHARLES (1860-1915). 

 American theatrical manager. Born 

 at Sandusky, Ohio, June 12, 1860, 



au-Mont. In 1388 Froissart visited 

 Beam, and travelled with the 

 knight Espaing de Lyon, whose 

 stories gave 

 him much pic- 

 turesque mat- 

 ter for his 

 Chronicles, to 

 the brilliant 

 court of Gaston 

 Phoebus of 

 Foix at Orthez. 

 In 1395 he paid 

 another visit to 



Jean Froissart, 

 French chronicler 



Charles Frohman, 



American theatrical 



manager 



&h i c offices, 

 ew York, and 

 then as box- 

 office clerk at 

 Hooley's Thea- 

 tre, Brooklyn. 

 In 1893 he 

 established 

 himself at the 

 Empire Thea- 

 tre, New York, and later had 

 five other theatres under his con- 

 trol in that city. In 1897 he be- 

 came lessee of the Duke of York's, 

 London, where he brought out Sir 

 James Barrie's plays, The Admir- 

 able Crichton, 1903 ; Peter Pan, 

 1904 ; What Every Woman Knows, 

 1908 ; and experimented with a 

 repertory system in 1910, produc- 

 ing plays by Barrie, Bernard Shaw, 

 John Galsworthy, and Granville 

 Barker. He was drowned in the 

 Lusitania, May 7, 1915. See Charles 

 Frohman : Manager and Man, I. F. 

 Marcosson and D. Frohman, 1916. 

 Froissart, JEAN (c.l338-c.!404). 

 French chronicler. The son of 

 an heraldic painter, Froissart was 

 born at Valenciennes, and probably 

 started to write the first part of his 

 history about 1358. He became 



England, and 



he was first died at Chimay. 

 employed in The Chronicles, in four books, 

 The Daily Gra- trace the history of the main events 

 England, Scotland, Ireland. 



m 



France, Flanders, and Spain, 

 well as happenings at the papal 

 courts at Rome and Avignon, be- 

 tween 1325 and 1400, and form one 

 of the greatest of medieval histori- 

 cal works. The first book, much of 

 its material borrowed from the 

 earlier chronicler Jean le Bel, views 

 the course of events largely from 

 the English point of view, written 

 as it was under English patronage. 

 But on the whole Froissart gives a 

 fair version of events as he saw 

 them, or as the witnesses available 

 described them to him. He spared 

 no effort in the search for reliable 

 testimony. 



Modern research has corrected 

 errors of chronology, statistics, and 

 topography, but Froissart shows a 

 great advance on most of his pre- 

 decessors. He definitely presents 

 his picture as a whole, relating 

 cause and event in due sequence, 

 not content merely to enumerate 

 bald facts. But his work is chiefly 

 prized for its vivacious narrative of 

 the best side of the chivalric age. 

 Froissart, who also wrote some in- 

 ferior verse, was the friend of several 

 notable poets, especially Eustache 



secretary to Philippa of Hainault, Deschamps, and probably Chaucer, 

 queen of Edward III of England, The first dated edition of the Chron- 



in 1361, and while in her service 

 visited the court of David II of 

 Scotland. For a short time he 

 returned to his native Flanders, but 

 in 1366 followed Edward the Black 

 Prince to Gas- , 

 cony, and paid 

 visits to several 

 courts of N. Italy. 

 Philippa died in 

 1369, and he 

 found other pa - 

 trons in Count 

 Robert of Namui . 

 Duke Wenceslas 

 of Brabant, and 

 Guy de Blois, 

 the overlord o f 

 Chimay. From 

 the last he ob- 

 tained the bene- 

 fice of Lestines- Frome, Somerset. 



icles appeared in 1504 ; the first 

 Eng. trans, by Lord Berners, 1525. 

 Frome OR FROME SEIAVOOD. 

 Urban dist. and market town of 

 Somerset, England. It stands on 



The market place and cross 



