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of which the largest is N. Kennedy 

 river. In the N. of Cooktown land 

 dist., it has no harbours, being N. 

 of the settled area. 



Princess Ida. "Comic opera 

 written by W. S. Gilbert, com- 

 posed by Arthur Sullivan, and 

 produced, Jan. 5, 1884, at The 

 Savoy, where it attained a run of 

 246 performances. Rutland Bar- 

 rington, George Grossmith, Henry 

 Bracey, Durward Lely, Richard 

 Temple, Rosina Brandram, Jessie 

 Bond, and Leonora Braham were 

 members of the original cast. 



Princess's Theatre. Former 

 London playhouse. It was at No. 

 73, later No. 152, Oxford Street. 

 Built originally as a bazaar, the 

 Queen's Bazaar, it was opened as a 

 theatre in 1841, rebuilt and re- 

 opened in 1880, and, after being 

 closed for a number of years, was 

 announced in Oct., 1921, for con 

 version into business premises. 

 Charles Kean and Wilson Barrett 

 achieved some of their greatest 

 successes here, and it was at this 

 theatre that Ellen Terry made her 

 first appearance on the stage, April 

 28, 1856, as Mamillius, in A 

 Winter's Tale. 



Prince Steamship Line. Brit- 

 ish steamship company. Founded 

 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1883, its 

 vessels all bear a second name of 

 Prince, e.g. Spanish Prince. Regu- 

 lar services are maintained between 

 Manchester and N. African ports; 

 Tyne, Antwerp, and London and 

 N. African ports, also to S. America. 

 Vessels of this line also ply between 

 New York and S. America, S. Africa 

 and the Far East. 



Princes Theatre. London 

 playhouse in Shaftesbury Avenue, 

 W. First known as The New 

 Prince's, it was opened by W. F. 

 Melville, Dec. 26, 1911, with The 

 Three Musketeers. There was a 

 notable revival of the Gilbert and 

 Sullivan operas here in 1921. 



Princeton. City of Indiana, 

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

 Situated 28 m. N. of Evansville, 

 and served by the Chicago and 

 Eastern Illinois rly., it stands in an 

 oil and gas region, and has rly. 

 workshops, flour mills, brick works, 

 and carriage works. Pop. 7,100. 



Princeton. Bor. of New Jersey, 

 U.S.A., in Mercer co. It is 10 m. 

 N.N.E. of Trenton, and is served 

 by the Pennsylvania Rly. and the 

 Delaware and Raritan canal. The 

 seat of Princeton University, it has 

 also the Princeton Theological 

 Seminary, S. Joseph's College, and 

 the Rockefeller Medical Research 

 Institute. Princeton was the scene 

 in 1777 of a success by Washington 

 over a British force. Congress 

 sat here temporarily in 1783. 

 Pop. 5,900. 



Princeton University. Uni- 

 versity of the U.S.A., situated at 

 Princeton, New Jersey. It was 

 founded as the College of New 



Princeton University. Holder Tower 

 and Hall 



Jersey, in 1746, at Elizabeth- 

 town, moved to Newark, 1748, and 

 to Princeton, 1756. The buildings 

 suffered severely during the War of 

 Independence, but steadily pro- 

 gressed throughout the 19th cen- 

 tury. Nassau Hall was founded in 

 1756, and there are more than a 

 dozen dormitory halls, together 

 with museums, laboratories, stad- 

 ium, etc. Princeton is one of 

 America's foremost universities 

 in scholarship and sport, and has a 

 professorial staff of about 180. 

 The number of students is about 

 1,800. Degrees of A.B., Litt.B., 

 B.S., and C.E. are granted. See 

 Wilson, Woodrow. 



Princetown. Village of Devon- 

 shire, England. It stands on the W. 

 side of Dartmoor, 22 m. from 

 Plymouth, with a station on the 

 G.W. Rly. The existence of the 

 place is due to the prison opened 

 here in 1809 ; but it is also a centre 

 for visitors to the moor. See Dart- 

 moor Prison. 



Frincip, GAVEILO (1895-1918). 

 Assassin of the Archduke Ferdin- 

 and. Born in Grahovo, Bosnia, 

 Princip, who fired the fatal shots 

 at the Archduke Ferdinand and his 

 wife at Serajevo, on June 28, 1914, 

 which precipitated the Great War, 

 had been a student of Belgrade 

 University. On interrogation he 

 declared that he had for a long 

 time decided to kill some eminent 

 personage f romNationalist motives. 

 Princip acted in concert with 

 Chabrinovich, who threw the bomb 

 which missed the royal pair, and it 

 was suspected that the young men 

 were the agents of persons engaged 

 in a wider conspiracy. The trial in 

 connexion with the murder took 



place at Serajevo. Princip and 

 Chabrinovich were sentenced to 

 twenty years' penal servitude, 

 seven others to various extended 

 -terms, and a man named Mitar 

 Kerovich to penal servitude for 

 life. Princip died from tubercu- 

 losis at the fortress of Theresien- 

 stadt, near Prague, May 1, 1918. 



Principal (L&i. princeps, chief). 

 In general, one who is chief and is 

 entrusted with the lead. As a title, 

 principal is often used for the head 

 of colleges, seminaries, universities, 

 etc., e.g. the heads of London, Bir- 

 mingham, and other universities 

 are principals. In building, the 

 principal is an important beam or 

 timber in a framework. In finance, 

 the principal is a sum of money 

 which, in an investment, produces 

 interest or revenue. 



In law, the principal is the person 

 who commits a crime, whether the 

 absolute perpetrator or the aider 

 and abettor. Also, a person com- 

 petent to do an act himself and 

 employing another to do it for him 

 is a principal, the other being an 

 agent. A principal is liable to third 

 parties in respect of all acts done 

 by an agent, either upon express 

 authority or instructions, or within 

 the apparent scope of his authority. 

 The maxim applicable is Qui 

 facit per alium, facit per se, who 

 acts by another, acts by himself. 



Principal. Musical term with 

 several connotations. ( 1 ) The name 

 given in Great Britain to the 4-ft. 

 diapason on the organ. In Germany 

 principal designates all diapasons 

 of 32-ft., 16-ft., 8 ft., 4 ft., and 2-ft. 

 pitch. (2) Term used by Handel 

 for a third trumpet of larger bore 

 than the first and second trumpets. 

 In old trumpet music, the lowest 

 was called the principal. (3) The 

 chief soloists in a concert, and the 

 leaders of departments in the or- 

 chestra are termed principals. 



Principe. Portuguese island in 

 the Gulf of Biafra. It lies midway 

 between the islands of Fernando 

 Po (q.v.) and San Thome (17. v.). 

 The island is mountainous, and the 

 climate unhealthy. The chief pro- 

 duct is cocoa. Pop. 5,000. 



Pringle, THOMAS (1789-1834). 

 Scottish poet. Born at Blaiklaw, 

 Teviotdale, Jan. 5, 1789, the son of 

 a farmer, he was educated at 

 Edinburgh University. With 

 James Cleghorn, he edited the first 

 number of the Edinburgh Monthly 

 Magazine, which, after Pringle had 

 severed his connexion, became 

 Blackwood's Magazine. In 1820 

 he emigrated to Cape Colony, but 

 his Whig politics got him into 

 trouble, and in 1826 he was back in 

 London as secretary of the Anti- 

 Slavery Society, a post which he 

 held till his death. His earlier 



