REDFERN 



Redfern. Southern suburb of 

 Sydney, New South Wales. An in- 

 dustrial district, it has railway and 

 iron works, boot and tobacco 

 factories. See Sydney. 



Rcdficld, WILLIAM CHARLES (b. 

 1858). American politician. Born 

 at Albany, New York, June 18, 

 1858, he was 

 educated at 

 Pittsfield, 

 Mass., and 

 entered the 



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engineering 

 profession. He 

 was Democrat 

 member of 

 Congress for 

 W. C. Redfield, the 5th New 

 American politician Y ork district, 

 1911-13, and was secretary of com- 

 merce in Wilson's cabinet, 1913-19. 

 He published The New Industrial 

 Day, in 1912. 



Red Flag. Symbol of inter- 

 national socialism. Red has been 

 traditionally recognized as the 

 colour of social revolutionary 

 movements in modern times, and 

 in most countries the Red Flag, 

 like the black flag of anarchism, 

 is an accepted standard. The 

 words of the socialist song, The 

 Red Flag, are by Jim Connell, 

 and have been set to the tunes of 

 The White Cockade, Maryland, 

 and a Beethoven air arranged by 

 Granville Bantock. 



Redgauntlet, A TALE OF THE 

 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Nineteenth 

 of the Waverley Novels. It abounds 

 in scenes of abiding interest and 

 charm, touched with the glamour 

 of expiring Jacobitism, and told 

 in part through the media of 

 letters and journals. The period is 

 1766, and the scenes are laid in 

 Cumberland and' the Scottish 

 borders of the Sol way. Alan (or 

 Saunders) Fairford recalls Scott's 

 father ; Alan Fairford is auto- 



The Red Flag. 



' Mar}laHj." Arraiftil if Hui.H S. ROBIKTON. 

 (Cefyrigkl.) 





I Look round: the Fr 



The sturdy German chant 



In Moscow's vaults its hymns are < 



Chicago swells the surging throng. 



aved above t 

 :n all ahead 



emcd dark as night ; 

 a deed and vow. 



umphs past. 



It gives the hope of peace at last ; 

 The banner bright, the symbol plain 



5. It s 



6 With heads uncovered sweat we al 

 To bear it onward till we fall ; 

 Come dungeon dark or gallows 

 This song shall be our parting hym 



Words and music of the socialist song 



By courtesy of the publishers, Reformer*' Bookstall, Limt 



biographical ; Lilias Redgauntlet extent of about 

 is a memory of the author's youth ; 

 the romantic Darsie Latimer is a 

 portrait of Scott's friend, Will 

 Clerk. Wandering Willie, the 



RED HILL 



tory farm-school 

 for boys here, 

 and at Earls- 

 wood is an 

 institution for 

 mental defect- 

 ives. Pop. 18,000. 

 RcdHill. Pre- 

 historic mound 

 of burnt earth, 

 found especially 

 in Essex. Scat- 

 tered along estu- 

 ary and tidal 

 river margins, 

 not more than 

 5 ft. above high- 

 water mark, they 

 are low, flat 

 masses, varying 

 in size from a few 

 rods to several 

 acres. Some 

 hundreds are ex- 

 t a n t. An ex- 

 ploration c o m- 

 mittee appointed 

 in 1906 spent 

 four seasons 

 in excavating 

 typical e x- 

 amples, and pre- 

 sented reports to 

 the Society of 

 Antiquaries in 

 1908 and 1910. 

 It was found 

 that the loose 

 burnt clay was 

 sometimes inter- 

 im, Glasgow mingled to the 

 p.c. with frag- 



pelf and place, 

 an's frown, 

 m down. 



ments of coarse earthenware called 

 briquetage, comprising so-called 

 firebars, pedestals, and T-pieces. 

 Occasional Samian potsherds appa- 



blind fiddler (whose weird Tale of rently date the mounds not later 



the Redgauntlets fired the imagina- than the 1st century A.D. Frag- 



tion of R. L. Stevenson, and is by 



many regarded as the finest short 



trees. 



Similar briquetage found in 

 Lorraine and Belgium pertains to 



Redgauntlet. Lilias Redgauntlet, 



the heroine of Scott's novel. From 



an illustration by E. T. Fairis 



ments of charcoal, never exceeding 

 1 in. across, came from furze, 



story in the language), Nanty broom, and the commoner forest I 



Ewart, Peter Peebles, and the 



Quaker Geddeses are notable 



characters. 



Redhill. Market town of Surrey, open earthenware furnaces, using 

 England, part of 

 the num. borough 

 of Reigate. It is 

 21 m. from Lon- 

 don and is an im- 

 portant junction 

 of the S.E. & C. 

 and the L.B. & 

 S.C. Rlys. The 

 town takes its 

 name from the red 

 sand formerly dug 

 on the common. 

 Fuller's earth is 

 obtained in the 

 neighbourhood. 

 The Philanthropic 

 Society maintains 

 a large reforma- 



Redhill, Surrey. Cross roads in the centre ol the town, 

 looking up Station Road 



