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GRAND REMONSTRANCE 



Grandison, SIR CHARLES, THE 

 HISTORY OF. Novel by Samuel 

 Richardson first published anony- 

 mously in 1753-54. The story is told 

 in a lengthy series of lengthy letters. 

 Purposing to present a character 

 of ideal human goodness, the 

 author created in Sir Charles a prig 

 rather than a hero. 



Grand Junction Canal. Arti- 

 ficial waterway of England. It 

 stretches from the Oxford Canal at 

 Braunston, Northamptonshire, to 

 the Thames at Brentford, Middle- 

 sex, a distance of 93| m. ; with its 

 branches it has a total length of 

 140 m. It passes through the 

 counties of Northampton, Bucks, 

 Hertford, and Middlesex, and has 

 98 locks. It forms an important 

 canal section of the proposed great 

 system for England. See Canal. 



Grand Jury. In English law, a 

 body of men, fixed between 12 and 

 23, who at the assizes and quarter 

 sessions are summoned to inquire 

 into the charges against supposed 

 criminals. They decide whether or 

 not there is a prima facie case 

 against a prisoner or defendant. 

 The jury is the descendant of the 

 jury of presentment that existed 

 under Henry II and probably 

 earlier. The procedure is for the 

 grand jury, having been first 

 charged by the judge, to examine 

 the various bills of indictment ; and 

 to declare each a true bill or no 

 true bill. Grand jurymen must be 

 men of standing of the county and 

 are summoned by the sheriff. In 

 1917 an Act was passed suspending 

 grand juries for the period of the 

 war, and this suspension continued 

 until 1922. See Jury. 



Grand, National, THK Princi- 

 pal cross-country horse-race. In- 

 augurated in 1839, it takes place 

 annually at Aintree, near Liver- 

 pool, on the Friday of the Liver- 

 pool Spring Meeting. The course is 

 4 m. 856 yds., and includes 30 

 jumps. The water jump is 15 ft. 

 broad, and two other difficult 

 obstacles are Valentine's and 

 Becher's Brooks. The race was sus- 

 pended from 1916-18 inclusive, 

 through the Great War, a substi- 

 tute race, called the Racecourse 

 Association Steeplechase in 1916, 

 and the War National Steeplechase 

 in 1917 and 1918, being run at 

 Gatwick. Four horses have twice 

 won the Grand National, Abd-el- 

 Kader, 1850 and 1851 ; The Lamb, 

 1868 and 1871 ; The Colonel, 1869 

 and 1870; and Manifesto, 1897 

 and 1899. Poethlyn won it in 

 1919, and was also successful in the 

 substitute race in 1918. The high- 

 est weight carried to victory is 12 st. 

 7 Ib. this being achieved by Clois- 

 ter, 1893, Manifesto, 1899, Jerry 

 M., 1912, and Poethlyn, 1919. 



Grandpre. Town of France, in 

 dept. of Ardennes. It is on the Aire, 

 36 m. S.S.E. of Mezieres. Ito 13th 

 century church, with the rest of the 

 town, was much damaged in the 

 Great War. The town was partly 

 captured by the 77th U.S. division 

 on Oct. 15, 1918, and a severe 

 struggle ensued for its citadel and 

 hills to the N. See Argonne, Cam- 

 paigns of the. 



Grand Pre. Village in King's 

 co., Nova Scotia.. Situated on the 

 shores of the basin of Minas, 46 m. 

 N.W. of Halifax, it was the scene 



Grand Pre, Nova bcocia. The 

 Evangeline statue unveiled in 1920 



of the surprise, defeat, and capture 

 of Col. Noble's Massachusetts regi- 

 ment by the French in 1747, and 

 of the expulsion of the Acadians 

 by the British in 1755 (see Mont- 

 calm and Wolfe, F. Parkman, 

 1884), which forms the theme of 

 the first part of Longfellow's poem 

 Evangeline (q.v.). By a purchase 

 the C.P.R. secured control of the 

 well beside the willows on the farm 

 tradition associates with Evange- 

 line's story, and here in Septem- 

 ber, 1920, Lady Burnham unveiled 

 a statue of Evangeline. It stands in 

 a park laid out with willows, pop- 

 lars, and flowers, and containing a 

 Norman gateway, and, thanks to 

 the cooperation with the C.P.R. of 

 the French -Canadian Societe de 

 I'Assomption, a chapel of contem- 

 porary architecture. 



The statue in bronze, by Henri 

 Hebert, was cast in Paris and 

 fashioned from a small model of 

 burnt clay by the artist's father, 

 Philippe Hebert, the sculptor, a 

 descendant of Louis Hebert. Louis 

 emigrated from France in the 

 time of Henry of Navarre, with 

 other members of his family, dyked 

 and reclaimed the marshlands of 

 Minas Basin, gave a name to the 

 valley which was later corrupted 

 into Bear River, and shared 

 the exile of the Acadians in 1755. 



Grand Prix. International race 

 for three-year-old horses run at 

 Longchamps over a distance of 1 

 m. 7 fur. An English horse named 

 The Ranger won the race on its 

 inauguration in 1863, and among 

 other successful English com- 

 petitors were Robert the Devil, 

 1880 ; Paradox, 1885 ; Minting, 

 1886; Spearmint, 1906; Galloper 

 Light, 1919 ; Comrade, 1920. The 

 race was suspended from 1914-18, 

 inclusive, through the Great War. 



Grand Prix de Rome. State 

 prize for composition at the Paris 

 Conservatoire which is competed for 

 annually in July, the result being 

 announced in Nov. The successful 

 candidate is crowned with laurel, 

 proclaimed laureat, and sent to 

 Rome to study for four years, during 

 which time he receives an income 

 from the French government. The 

 proxime accessit receives a gold 

 medal. A similar Prix de Rome 

 at the Brussels Conservatoire is 

 awarded at intervals of two years. 



Grand Rapids. City of Michi- 

 gan, U.S.A., the co. seat of Kent 

 co. On the Grand river, at the head 

 of navigation, it is 65 m. W.N.W. of 

 Lansing, and is served by the Michi- 

 gan Central and other rlys. It con- 

 tains a federal building, the city 

 hall and the county court house, 

 and has a number of benevolent 

 institutions. Grand Rapids trades 

 extensively in the produce of the 

 agricultural and fruit-growing dis- 

 trict in which it stands, and 

 manufactures lumber products, 

 furniture, carpets and rugs, car- 

 riages, agricultural implements, 

 and knitted goods. In the locality 

 gypsum is worked. Founded in 

 1833, it was incorporated five years 

 later, and granted a city charter 

 in 1850. In 1905 it was reincor- 

 porated. Pop. 135,040. 



Grand Rapids. City of Wis- 

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

 Wood co. On the Wisconsin river, 

 90 m. N.N.W. of Madison, it is 

 served by the Chicago, Milwaukee 

 and St. Paul, and other rlys. The 

 river divides the city into two 

 parts, connected by a fine bridge. 

 A rly. centre and the distributing 

 point for a large district, Grand 

 Rapids has machinery works, a 

 foundry, and lumber, paper, pulp, 

 furniture, and wagon manufac- 

 tures. Its buildings include a city 

 hall, court house, hospital, and 

 public library. A city charter was 

 granted in 1869. Pop. 6,521. 



Grand Remonstrance, THK. 

 In English history, the statement 

 of the case of the Commons against 

 Charles I. It was drawn up by the 

 Long Parliament in 1641, im- 

 mediately before the outbreak of 

 the Civil War. The first part de- 

 tailed the acts of misgovernment 



