LITERATURE 



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Edith, The Lady. Ivanhoe, Scott. Mother of 

 Athelstane "the Unready" (thane of Coningsburgh). 



Edith Granger. Daughter of the Hon. Mrs. Skew- 

 ton, married to Colonel Granger of "Ours." who died 

 within two years. Edith became Mr. Dombey's second 

 wife, but the marriage was altogether unhappy. 



Edith IMantaueiirt. The Lady. The Talisman, 

 Called "The Fair Maid of Anjou." a kinswoman 

 .ard I., and attendant on Queen Berenga'ria. 

 KM rnund. A bastard son of Gloucester in Shake- 

 spere's tragedy of " King Lear." 



l-Muard. Sir. The Iron Chest, Coleman. He 

 commits a murder, and keeps a narrative of the trans- 

 it an iron chest. Later, he trusts the secret to 

 his secretary, Wilfred, and the whole transaction now be- 

 came public. 



ird. Count Robert of Paris, Scott. Brother 



ward, the Varangian guard. He was slain in 

 battle. 



Lil win. (l)The hereof Goldsmith's ballad entitled 

 1. Trait." (-') The hero of Mallet's ballad "Edwin 

 :uma." (3) The hero of Beattie's "Minstrel." 

 !..!> rn. Idylls of the King (Enid). Tenny- 

 Min. Sun of Nudd. A suitor for the hand of Enid and 

 an evil genius of her father, who opposed him. Later. 

 Iviyrn went to the court of King Arthur and became 

 quite a changed man from a malicious "sparrow- 

 hawk" he was converted into a courteous gentleman. 



us. Father of Hermia in Shakespere's "Mid- 

 summer Night's Dream." 



. Brother of Weland, a great archer. The 

 Story related is similar to the William Tell story. There 

 are many such stories. One day. King Nidung com- 

 manded him to shoot at an apple placed on the head of 

 his own son. Egil selected two arrows, and being asked 

 why he wanted two, replied. "One to shoot thee with, 



; . if I fail." Such stories, though probably not 

 true to fact, are true to the spirit of patriotism, and are 

 worth repeating. 



Eg'ian-tine, Madame. The prioress in Chaucer's 

 "Canterbury Tales," who was "full pleasant and amiable 

 of port." She was distinguished for the ladylike deli- 

 cacy of her manners at table, and for her partiality to 

 "small hounds." and a peculiar mixture in her manner 

 and dress of feminine vanity and slight worldliness, 

 together with an ignorance of the world. She is noted 

 for her partiality to lap-dogs, her delicate oath, "by 

 Seint Eloy," her "entuning the service swetely in her 

 nose," and her speaking French "after the scole of 

 Stratford atte Bowe." 



i-mour. (1) A character in Shakespere's "Two 

 Gentlemen of Verona." who is an agent of Silvia in her 

 escape. (2) (Sir.) A valiant knight of the Hound 

 Table, celebrated in the romances of chivalry, and in an 

 oM ballad. [Written also "Eglamore."] 



n Thief. 

 Duke iti 

 is to the 



l.ivir. Harold the Dauntless. Scott. A Danish 

 A ho assumes boy's clothing, and waits on Harold 

 "the Dauntless," as his page. 



n. . A mythic lady in the romances of King 



court . She is called " the lily maid of Astolat 



ivson's "Idylls of the King. For love of Kir 



Launcelot she died, and then at her request was borne 



on a barge to the castle of King Arthur, holding a lily 



in one hand and a letter to taunrelnt in the other. 



According to Sir Thomas Malory, Elaine was sister of 



KitiK Arthur by the same mother. She married Sir 



Nentres of Carlot, and was by King Arthur the mother 



l.i iii-r-i. h. In German hero legends, a dwarf who 

 p .e Lombard Emperor Otnit to win the daughter 

 ria. He is identical with the Oberon 

 .h.ih fairy mythology. 



I HHIVV. A constable, in Shakespere's "Measure for 

 Measure." modest and well-meaning, though of simple 

 nutxl :in<l the object of wit among those who are wiser 

 but not better. 



II i-r i do. A name given by the Spaniards to 



Binary country, suppo.-> Sixteenth Cen- 



tury, to be situated in the interior of South America, 

 between the rivers Orinoco and Amazon, and aboandiag 

 in gold and all manner of precious stones. Expeditions 

 were fitted out for the purpose of dmcovrring this fabu- 

 lous region; and. though all such attempts proved 

 -. the rumors of its existence continued to be 

 1 down to the beginning of the Eighteenth Gen- 



tra. The daughter of Agamemnon and Cly- 

 tetnnestra. and the heroine of a tragedy by Sophocles 

 i. She saved the lif 



LU. [ruien aiso Higiamore. j 

 tian Thief. A personage alluded to by the 

 Shakespere's "Twelfth Night." The reference 

 i story of Thyamis, a robber-chief and native 



and of another by Euripides. 



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brother. Orestes, and afterwards assisted him to avenge 

 their father's death. (See Agamemnon, Clytemnestra. 

 an-l < tasetes. 



Elf-land. The realm ruled over by Oberon, King of 

 Faery 



El'githa. Ivanhoe. Scott. A female attendant at 

 Rotherwood on the Lady Rowe'na. 



El'1-dure. A legendary King of Britain, fabled to 

 have been advanced to the throne in place of his brother, 

 Artegal, or Arthgallo. Returning to the country after 

 a long exile. Artegal accidentally encountered his brother, 

 who received him with open arms, took him home to 

 the palace, and reinstated him in his old position, abdi- 

 cating the throne himself. Wordsworth "** taken the 

 story of these two brothers for the subject of a poem. 



E'lim. The Messiah, Klopstock. The guardian 

 angel of Libbeus the Apostle. Libbeus. the tenderest 

 and most gentle of the apostles, at the death of Jesus 

 also died from grief. 



Elliott, Hobble. There are seven by this name in 

 the " Black Dwarf." by Sir Walter Scott. The farmer 

 Elliott himself and his bride-elect. Grace Armstrong; 

 Mrs. Elliott. Hobbie's grandmother; John and Harry. 

 Hobbie's brothers; Lilias. Jean, and Arnot. Hobbie's 

 sisters. 



El'ope. Milton gives this name to the dumb serpent 

 which gives no warning of its approach. 



El'speth. (1) A character in Sir Walter Scott's 

 "Antiquary." (2) An old servant to Dandie Dinmont. 

 in Scott's "Guy Mannering." 



Elsie. The daughter of Gottlieb, a farm tenant of 

 Prince Henry of Hoheneck. who offered her life as a 

 substitute for the prince. She was rescued as she was 

 about to make the sacrifice. Longfellow has told this 

 story in "The Golden Legend." 



Elzevier, or Elzevir. The name of a celebrated 

 family of printers at Amsterdam, Leyden. and other 

 places in Holland, whose beautiful editions were chiefly 

 published between the years 1583 and 1680. These 

 editions are unrivaled both for beauty and correctr 

 It is said that the Elzeviers generally employed 

 to correct the press, under the conviction that they 

 would be less likely than men. on their own responsi- 

 bility, to introduce alterations into the text. They 

 printed in all about two thousand books, of which nine 

 hundred sixty-eight were in I^tin. forty-four in Greek. 

 one hundred twenty-six in French, thirty-two in Flem- 

 ish, eleven in German, ten in Italian, ana twenty-two in 

 Oriental languages. Rare editions of the Elzeviers are 

 highly valued by collectors. 



Em'elye. The sister-in-law of "Duke Theseus.'* 

 beloved by the two knights. Pal'amon and AKcyte. 



E-mile'. The hero of Jean Jacques Rousseau's 

 novel of the same name, in which he has depicted hie 

 ideal of a perfectly educated young man. 



E-mil'l-a. (1) A lady attending Hermione in 

 Shakespere's "Winter's Tale." (2) Wife to lago, and 

 waiting woman to Desdemona, in the tragedy of "Oth- 

 ello," a woman of thorough vulgarity and loose prin- 

 ciples, united to a high degree of spirit, energetic feel- 

 ing, strong sense, and low cunning. (3) The sweetheart 

 of Peregrine Pickle in Smollett's novel "The Adven- 

 tures of Peregrine Pickle." 



Em'ly, Little. David Copperfleld. Dickens. 

 Daughter .,f Torn, the brother-in-law of Dan'el Peggotty. 

 a Yarmouth fisherman, by whom the orphan child was 

 brought up. David Copperfield and Em ly were at one 

 time playfellows. While engaged to Ham Peggotty 

 (Dan'el's nephew). Little Km ly run* away with Steer- 

 forth, a friend of David's, who was a handsome but un- 

 principled gentleman. Being subsequently reclaimed. 

 she emigrates to Australia with Dan'el Peggotty and old 

 Mrs. Qummidge. 



Ernpyre'an. According to Ptolemy, (here arc five 

 heavens, the last of which is pure elemental fire and the 

 seat of Deity: this fifth heaven is called the empyrean 

 he Greek "en-pur." in fire). 



Endrll. Martha. l>a%ld < opperMehl. ll. kenn. 

 A poor girl, to whom Em'ly goes when Steerforth deserts 



The story was made the subject of an English poem 

 bv Keats, in memory of his much-loved friend, the poet 



E'nW. A mythical lady mentioned in a Welsh triad 



f the three celebrated ladies of Arthur's 

 beautiful p njugal patience and affection 



IT storv i* t<>l.i in th.- ' Mabinnsjion," and in Tenny- 

 *on'. " Idyll* of tin- Kine " In the midst of an impure 

 court ahe in the personinrrti,,n ..f purity. 



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