REGENT'S CANAL 



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REGGIO Dl CALABRIA 



Regent's Canal. English canal 

 within the co. of London. It was 

 constructed in 1812-20 by J. Nash, 

 and named after the then prince 

 regent, afterwards George IV. The 

 E. end is N. of the Thames, opposite 

 the Surrey Commercial Docks ; 

 it goes through the N. of Regent's 

 Park to join the Grand Junction 

 Canal in Paddington. 



Regent's Park. London park. 

 Covering 472 acres, in the bor. of 

 Marylebone, between St. John's 

 Wood and Camden Town, it con- 

 tains the gardens of the Zoological, 

 Botanic, and Toxophilite societies. 

 There is an artificial lake of 22 

 acres, and the Regent's Canal skirts 

 the N. side. On the W. side are 

 Regent's Park College and S. Dun- 

 stan's Hostel for Blind Soldiers. 

 Bedford College for Women is in 

 the S. S. Katharine's Royal Col- 

 legiate Hospital was removed to 

 the E. side from its original site 

 near the Tower, 1825-29. 



Deriving its name from the 

 prince regent, afterwards George 

 IV, and once part of the ancient 

 manor of Tyburn, Regent's Park 

 occupies the site of old Marylebone 

 Park, later called Marylebone 

 Farm and Fields. Under an Act 

 of Parliament, 1811, it was laid 

 out in 1812 by James Morgan from 

 designs by John Nash, is crown 

 property, and was opened to the 

 public in 1838. During the Great 

 War the headquarters of the army 

 post-office were set up here. 



Regent Street. London thor- 

 oughfare. It runs from Waterloo 

 Place, Pall Mall, and passing 

 Piccadilly (formerly Regent) Cir- 

 cus and Oxford Circus, finishes at 

 Langham Place. One of London's 

 great shopping centres, it was 

 made, in 1813-20, from designs by 

 John Nash to connect Carlton 

 House (q.v.) with Regent's Park 



Regent's Park. Flan o! the London park, opened to the public in 1838 



Regent Street. Tbe Quadrant 



Based upon the Ordnance Surrey Map 

 Slatio 



and the house which was to be 

 built there or on Primrose Hill for 

 the prince regent. At No: 215, 

 between Maddox Street and Con- 

 duit* Street, was the office of 

 Fraser's Magazine. See London ; 

 Piccadilly Circus ; Polytechnic. 



Reger, MAX (1873-1916). Ger- 

 man composer. Bom at Brand, 

 Bavaria, March 19, 1873, he 

 was a prolific 

 composer and 

 of some im- 

 portance as a 

 follower of the 

 Brahms tradi- 

 tion in the 

 German school , 

 but the com- 

 plexity of 

 m u c h of his 

 work hinders 

 its ready appreciation, 

 fantasies and 

 fugues, and his 

 violin and piano 

 concertos are 

 among his most 

 important com- 

 positions, which 

 include chamber 

 music, many 

 songs and piano 

 works. He died 

 at Jena, May 12, 

 1916. 



Reggio di 

 Calabria. South- 

 ernmost prov. of 



Max Reger, 

 German composer 



His organ 



vith the tanetion of the Controller of H.M. 

 ery Office 



the Italian mainland, in Calabria. 

 It is almost surrounded by the 

 Mediterranean Sea, and has an 

 area of 1,219 sq. m. A promon- 

 tory with a central ridge, a spur 

 of the Apennines, it rises in Aspro- 

 monte (q.v.) to nearly 9,000 ft. 

 The region is subject to seismic 

 disturbances, but is on the whole 

 fertile, producing chestnuts, oil, 

 wine, silk. Coal is mined. Scilla, 

 held by the British, 1806-8, is 

 famous in the legend of Scylla and 

 Charybdis (q.v.). Pop. 469,000. 



Reggio di Calabria. City of 

 Italy, capital of the prov. of Reggio 

 di Calabria. The ancient Regium 

 Julium, it stands on the strait of 

 Messina, 8 m. S.E. of the city of 

 Messinajmd 248 m. by rly. S.S.E. of 

 Naples. Always subject to earth- 

 quakes, it has several times been 

 destroyed, notably in 91 B.C., in 



Reg|rio di Calabria, Italy. The Corso Garibaldi 



