GIRTON COLLEGE 



G1SSING 



sketch on the T hames side. He was 



the founder of the modern school 



of painters in water colours. He died 



of consumption, 



^jjjjjiifa^ I m the Strand, 



mja IK London, Nov. 



'. 9, 1802. 



Turner said, 

 ! "HadTomGir- 

 rl tin lived I 

 ; should have 

 | starved," and 

 ..JO Ruskin allows 

 that Turner 

 "owed more to 

 his teaching and 

 After j. opie c ompanionship 

 than to his own genius in the first 

 years of his life." Girtin's broad, 

 simple manner, his pure, deep, har- 

 monious colouring, his handling of 

 masses, his mastery of aerial effects, 

 and his sense of tone and feeling en- 

 title him to a foremost place in the 

 English school. Most of his best 

 works such as the White House, 

 Chelsea, and Battersea Reach are 

 in private hands, but he is ade- 

 quately represented at the British 

 Museum. See Life, L. Binyon, 1900. 

 Girton College. College at Cam- 

 bridge for the higher education of 

 women. Founded in a house at 

 Hitchin, Oct. 16, 

 1869, almost the 

 first of its kind, 

 it was removed to 

 Cambridge, Oct., 

 1873. The found- 

 ers included Miss 

 Emily Da vies 

 and Mme. Bodi- 

 chon. The name 

 is that of a village 

 just outside Cambridge where build- 

 ings, since enlarged, for the college 

 were erected facing the old Roman 

 Via Devana. It has a strong staff of 

 lecturers and tutors, accommoda- 

 tion for 150 students, and grounds 

 of 33 acres. 



Girvan. Police burgh and mar- 

 ket town of Ayrshire, Scotland. At 



Girton College 

 badge 



Girvan, Ayrshire. 



The town and parish church from 

 the harbour 



and some towers, 

 around which are 

 public promen- 

 ades. Gisors be- 

 ing a town on the 

 frontiers of Nor- 

 mandy, the Eng- 

 lish and the 

 French fought 

 continually for it. 

 The chief church 

 is S. G e r v a i s, 

 part of which 

 dates from the 

 13th century. 

 Other public 

 buildings are the 

 hotel de ville, 



formerly a convent, and a hospital. 



In the Middle Ages, Gisors was the 



capital of the county of Vexin. 



Pop. 5,508. 



visited in the holiday season, and 



there are a golf course, tennis courts, 



and other attractions. It is the 



nearest town to the Turnberry golf 



courses, 5 m. by 



rly. or road. The > 



river after which it ',. 



is named has a I 



course of 35 m., 



and flows through 



the fertile vale of 



Girvan from its 



starting point in 



a small loch called 



Girvan Eye. Mar- 



ket day, Mon. 



Pop. 4,473. 



Gisborne. Port 

 of North Island, 

 New Zealand, in 

 Cook co. It stands Gisborne, New Zealand. The North Island port at the 

 on Poverty Bay. mouth of the Turanganui river 



and has dailv By courtesy of Dominion of New Zealand Government 



steamer communication with Na- Gissing, GEORGE ROBERT (1857- 

 pier. A fine town, the centre of a 1903). British novelist. He was 

 rich pastoral and agricultural dis- born at Wakefield, Nov. 22, 1857, 

 trict, it has freezing works, and and educated 

 exports wool and mutton. Here at Owen's Col- 

 Captain Cook first landed in New lege, Manches- 

 Zealand in 1769. Pop. 12,660. ter. After 

 Gisors. Town of France, in the spending some 

 dept. of Eure. It lies 44 m. by rly. months 

 N.W. of Paris, on the river Epte. 

 It is noted for its castle, built 



by Henry I and enlarged by later r P e 



and 



Girton College, Cambridge. The main buildings, designed by Alfred Waterhouse, 



1872 



the mouth of the Girvan in Ayr- 

 shire, it is a station on the Glas- 

 gow and S.W. Rly. It is 63 m. 

 S.W. of Glasgow and 21 S.W. of 

 Ayr. The chief industry is fishing. 

 The town has a harbour. It is 



in 



America he re- 

 turned to Eu- 

 in 1877, 

 in 1878 

 published a 

 Werther - like 

 romance called 



Workers in the Dawn, the result 

 of some months of study at 

 Jena. In 1882 he became tutor to 

 Frederic Harrison's sons, and sub- 

 sequently brought out three novels, 

 The Unclassed, 1884; Demos, 

 1886 ; and Thyrza, 1887 ; all con- 

 cerned with the suffering of sensi- 

 tive souls in sordid environment. 



More able, but equally joyless, 

 novels were The Nether World, New 

 Grub Street, Born in Exile, and 

 The Odd Women. A scholar of 

 had been re^- parts and a man of sound critical 

 The remains judgement, Gissing's charming per - 

 include the donjon, built on an sonal qualities and tastes are re- 

 artificial mound, the outer walls, vealed in his monograph on Chartos 



kings of England, when they ruled 

 this part of France, and by Philip 

 Augustus after it 

 covered by him. 



