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Carrier-Belleuse, whom he accom- 

 panied to Brussels, 1870. In 1875 

 lie went to Italy, where he became 

 intimate with the work of Michel- 

 angelo, Donatello, and other mas- 

 ters. Returning to France, 1877, 

 his noble figure study, The Age of 

 Bronze, made an impression. k ; , 



Several of Rodin'sUvgreatest 

 works were executed foi commis- 

 sions. The great Gate of Hell, 

 undertaken for the Musee des 

 Arts Decoratifs in 1880, occupied 

 him for most of the latter part 

 of his life, and supplied him with 

 many themes which he worked out 

 in separate pieces of sculpture. The 

 Damvillers monument to Bastien- 

 Lepage was completed in 1889 ; 



Anguste Rodin. The Burghers of Calais, a group erected in Calais, 1895, of 



whioh a bronze replica is in the Victoria Tower Gardens, London. Top, right, 



The Thinker, placed in front of the Pantheon, Paris 



the Nancy statue of Claude Lorrain 

 occupied 1889-92. The Burghers 

 of Calais group, commissioned in 

 1886, was completed in 1895 ; a 

 replica of this characteristic group 

 was erected in England in Victoria 

 Tower Gardens, Westminster, in 

 1918. In 1905 Rodin presented 

 twenty of his works to the British 

 people in token of his admira- 

 tion, bequeathing his remaining 

 works to France on his death at 

 Meudon, Nov. 17, 1917. See Sculp- 

 ture ; consult also Lives, R. Dircks, 

 1904; C. Mauclair, Eng. trans. 

 1905; F. Lawton, 1906. - 



Rodin g. River of Essex, 

 England. It rises about 2 m. N.W. 

 of Dunmow, and flows 34 m. 

 in a generally S.S.W. direction, 

 to the river Thames, 2 m. S.E. 

 of East Ham. The lower course 

 has been canalised to Hford. See 

 Roothings. 



Rodman, HUGH (b. 1859). 

 American sailor. Born in Ken- 

 tucky, Jan. 6, 1859, he passed 

 through the naval academy, enter- 

 ing the navy in 1880. He served 

 in the Spanish-American War, and 

 in 1917 became a rear-admiral. 

 During the intervening years he 

 had been superintendent of trans- 

 portation, Panama Canal. During 

 the Great War he commanded a 

 section of the Atlantic fleet, and 

 later the squadron that served 

 with the British Grand Fleet in 

 the North Sea. In 1919 Rodman 

 was made commander-in-chief of 

 the Pacific fleet. 



Rodney, GEORGE BRYDGES ROD- 

 NEY, IST BARON (1719-92). English 

 sailor. Born in London, Feb. 13, 

 1719, he entered the navy at the 

 age of 14, and attained the rank of 

 captain in 1742. Constantly at sea 

 and with various commands, he 



RODO 



distinguished himself hi the battle 

 off Ushant, 1747, and subsequently 

 erved on the N. American station. 

 Promoted to 

 flag rank in 

 1759, he bom- 

 barded Havre 

 iu"ith'at year, 

 and in 1761; 

 while in com- 

 mand of the 

 Leeward Is- 

 lands station, 

 captured Mar- - 1st Baron Eodney, 

 tinique, Santa English sailor 

 Lucia, Grena- After B '^ oldt 

 da, and St. Vincent. Made a 

 baronet, 1764, he was governor of 

 Greenwich Hospital, 1765-71. 



Severely handicapped by poverty 

 and by the refusal of the govern- 

 ment to pay eight years' arrears of 

 pay, Rodney spent some time in 

 retirement, but in 1779 was re- 

 appointed to the Leeward Islands. 

 He received orders to relieve Gib- 

 raltar, and this he performed by 

 utterly defeating the Spanish fleet 

 off Cape St. Vincent, Jan. 16, 1780. 

 Proceeding to the West Indies, he 

 fought several indecisive battles and 

 was superseded in 1781. The fol- 

 lowing year he returned to the 

 W. Indies, and defeated Grasse oft 

 Martinique, April 12, 1782. The 

 French were routed, but Rodney 

 refused to pursue. He was recalled, 

 but was made a baron. He died 

 May 23, 1792. The barony passed 

 to his son George (1753-1802), 

 whose descendant, George, became 

 the 8th baron in 1909. See Saints, 

 Battle of the ; St. Vincent ; consult 

 also Lives, G. B. Mundy, 1830 ; D. 

 Hannay, 1891. f j 



Rodo, Josfi ENRIQUE (1872- 

 1917). Uruguayan man of letters 

 and publicist. The name of Rodo 

 el gran Rodo 

 is famous 

 throughout the 

 whole Spanish 

 speaking Avorld 

 as that of a 

 great writer 

 and thinker. 

 He is the pe- 

 culiar glory of 

 the Republic 

 / of Uruguay, 

 * in whose 

 capital city, where he was born, 

 his too brief life was spent. As a 

 critic of literature his judgements 

 were unerringly true ; his philoso- 

 phic writings, notably Ariel and 

 The Mirror of Prospero, neither 

 yet translated into English, take 

 an optimistic and heroic view of 

 'life ; " as clear as cut crystal " is 

 a fellow critic's description of his 

 literary style. An intense admirer 

 of British institutions, he died in 

 Sicily, May 3, 1917. 



