RIVIERE 



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RlVINGTON 



Riviera. Map of the French and the western portion of the Italian Riviera 



As a health resort the Riviera is 

 specially suited to sufferers from 

 chronic rheumatism, nervous dis- 

 orders, various chronic forms of 

 catarrh, asthma, and the early 

 attacks of phthisis, as well as to 

 convalescents from other diseases 

 who require reinvigorating ; all 

 such visitors can readily find 

 suitable resorts off the main roads 

 and away from the noise and bustle 

 of the most fashionable spas. 



Minor resorts, beginning in the 

 E. and going W., are Pietra Santa, 

 pop. 9,000, with the cathedral of 

 San Martino, the churoh of Sant' 

 Agostino and the Battistero ; Sera- 

 vezza, pop. 10,000, with marble 

 quarries inaugurated by Michael 

 Angelo in 1517 and a palace of 

 Cosimo I, erected in 1559 ; Santa 

 Margherita, pop. 7,000. with an 

 ancient church and the Castello 

 Cervara ; Camogli, pop. 7,000, 

 with a school of navigation and 

 the memory of its former great- 

 ness as a port for sailing vessels ; 

 Recco, pop. 4,000, birthplace of 

 Nicoloso da Recco, who discovered 

 the Canary Islands, with the parish 

 church of San Giovanni ; Bogliasco, 

 pop. 2,000, with a very picturesque 

 ancient Roman bridge ; Nervi, 

 pop. 3,600, and Pegli, pop. 6,000, 

 with a moist and dust-free atmo- 

 sphere and a mild climate very 

 suitable to winter visitors ; Var- 

 azze, pop. 10,000, with shipbuild- 

 ing yards and the 12th century 

 church of Sant' Ambrogio. See 

 Corniche, La ; Genoa ; Mentone ; 

 Nice : consult also A Book of the 



Briton Riviere, 

 British painter 



Russell 



Riviera, S. Baring-Gould, 1905; 

 The Riviera, William Scott, 1907 ; 

 The Riviera of the Corniche Road, 

 Sir F. Treves, 1921. 



Riviere, BRITON (1840-1920). 

 British painter. Born in London, of 

 Huguenot descent, on Aug. 14, 

 1840, he was 

 educated a t 

 Cheltenham 

 and Oxford. 

 Riviere ex- 

 hibited three 

 pictures at 

 the Royal 

 Academy a s 

 early as 1857, 

 and establish- 

 ed his grow- 

 ing reputation 

 firmly by his Academy picture, 

 Charity, in 1870. He became an 

 animal painter of remarkable 

 skill, and among his notable suc- 

 cesses were Circe, 1871, widely 

 circulated as an engraving ; Daniel, 

 1872 ; Sympathy, 1878 ; Actaeon, 

 1884; Adonis Wounded, 1887. 

 Examples of his work are to be seen 

 in the Tate Gallery, many pro- 

 vincial galleries, and at that of 

 the Guildhall, London. A.R.A. in 

 1878, he became R.A. in 1881, and 

 died April 20, 1920. See Androcles. 

 . Riviere du Loup. River of 

 Quebec, Canada. It rises in the 

 highlands of the province, in the 

 Grand Lac des lies, flows through 

 the Lac au Sorcier, and continuing 

 S. falls into the St. Lawrence about 

 midway between Montreal and 

 Quebec in the lake of St. Peter, one 



Inset, plans of Nice and Monaco 

 of the expansions of the great river. 

 The town of Fraserville stands 

 on the right bank of the Riviere 

 du Loup en Bas, N.E. of Quebec. 

 Louiseville is on the left bank of 

 the Riviere du Loup en Haut. 



Rivington, CHARLES (1688- 

 1742). English publisher. Born at 

 Chesterfield, Derbyshire, he was 

 apprenticed to 

 a London book- 

 seller, and in 

 1711 took over 

 the business of 

 R. Chiswell 

 under the sign 

 of the Bible 

 and Crown. 

 Thereafter, 

 the religous 

 philosophical 

 publications issued by him estab- 

 lished the reputation of the firm. 

 In 1741^12 he published Richard- 

 son's Pamela. Dying Feb. 22, 

 1742, he was succeeded by his son, 

 John (1720-92), who, becoming 

 publisher of the S.P.C.K. in 1760, 

 extended and widened the scope 

 of business by editions of English 

 classics. On his death the business 

 was carried on by his sons Francis 

 (1745-1822) and Charles (1754- 

 1831), who started The British 

 Critic in 1793, and further ex- 

 tended the firm. The business 

 passed to the children of these 

 brothers, and was taken over by 

 Longman from Francis Hansard, 

 grandson of Charles the elder, in 

 1890. See The Publishing Family 

 of Rivington, S. Rivington, 1919. 



Charles Riyington, 

 English publisher 



