BIOGRAPHY 



437 



greatly strengthened the Vandal power in Spain. In 



429 he invaded northern Africa, stamped out Christianity, 



and from his new capital, Carthage, made incursions on 



the inhabitants of Italy and Sicily. In 455, being in- 



. Rome by the widcw of Valentinian to take part 



against his murderer Maximus, he caused the city to 



H! for fourteen days, and carried away among 



his prisoners the Empress Fudocia and her sons, besides 



much treasure. Genseric professed to be an Arian 



ian. Died, 477. 



i. i-ii rue is the name given to four (Hanoverian) kings 

 i.l. George I. (Lewis), son of Ernest Augustus. 

 <>f Hanover, by Sophia, granddaughter of James 

 I., was born at Osnaburg, 1660, and died in 1727. He 

 .-1 his father, 1698, and on the death of Queen 

 as declared her successor under the act of settle- 

 Mich excluded the Roman Catholic descendants 

 ee II. George was entirely ignorant of the Eng- 

 lish language, and was only tolerated by the English 

 George II. (Augustus), son and successor of 

 ior, was born at Hanover, 1683; crowned in 1727, 

 1 in 1760. George distinguished himself in the 

 general European War of 1740, in which he was the 

 ally <>f Austria against France, Spain, and Prussia, and 

 Mnunanded in person in the victory over the French at 

 :i. 174M. In 17">">, war was renewed, and George 

 allied himself with Frederick the Great of Prussia against 

 France in the Seven Years' War. George III., grandson 

 of the former, and son of Frederick, Prince of Wales. 

 was born in 1738, and died in 1820, after the longest 

 reign of any English monarch. During his reign the 

 in colonies secured their independence. George 

 IV., son and successor of the former, was born in 1762, 

 i in 1830. He was an unpopular monarch, and 

 was succeeded by his brother, William IV. 



<.roru . Henry, journalist, author; born in Sacra- 

 Cal., Novembers, 1862; son of Henry G. (po- 

 onomist); educated at public schools; in print- 

 ing office at 16; in newspaper work since 1881; accom- 

 panied his father. 1883, on lecturing tour in Great Britain, 

 as secretary; on his father's sudden death during 

 mayoralty campaign, 1897, was nominated to succeed 

 his father as candidate of Jeffersonian party for mayor 

 of Greater New York, but received small vote. Author: 

 "Life of Henry George," 1900. Address: 180 St. Nicho- 

 las AVI 'i <>rk. 



. Hi-nr.v, American land reformer; was born 



in Philadelphia, in 1839, and, after being successively 



in a counting-house and a printer's office and at sea, 



: California, and in 1866 joined the staff of a 



mcisco paper. He afterwards became editor of 



two papers there, and made his first essay on the land 



question in "Our Land and Land Policy," published in 



1^71 In 1876 he was state inspector of gas-meters, 



but in 1880 removed to New York, and the next year 



Ireland on his way to England. He was there 



arrested as a "suspect" under Mr. Forster's act, but 



was soon released. "Progress and Poverty" had been 



:i 1>79, and its author undertook lecturing tours 



in 1883 and 1889 in support of his principles. Beside 



this book he published "The Irish Land Question." 



"Social Problems." and "Protection and Free Trade." 



In .1886 he was a candidate for the mayoralty of New 



York. Died MI 1897. 



<.II.IH.II. Lihvard. English historian; born in Putney, 



in 1.:'... HI. 'I in stminster and Magdalen 



i.l. Wliile at the university he was re- 



ito the Romish Church, but having been sent to 



.ist at Lausanne became a Protestant again the 



ir. At Lausanne he met Voltaire, an. I fell in 



love with Mademoiselle Curchod, afterwards ' 



!! returned to London in 17.'. 

 abort term of service in the Hampshire militia, n 

 the Continent, staying especially at Par 



in. I he wrote "Me'moires I 



md Bretagne," and set to work on his great book, 

 "The Decline and Fall of the Uoman Empire." the first 

 volume oi which appeared in 1776 and the last in I7ss. 

 He entered parliament m 1771. a- 

 North, wrote the "Mc'moire Juctiftcattf, an>i 

 a place at the board of tin. I.- 1 p.m I. 

 lived at Lausanne, an<! d . ">n after In 



. Id boil-., .l.iin,--.. nal; Lorn in 



Baltimore, .lulv J.'i. 1834; at early age taken I. 



. I; >eKa!i 



there; returned to United States, and resided 

 Orleans with his fa 



leg-. Maryland. I- , < :. !. 1867, < M UUft 



d:iine.| priont, June 30, 1801; 



assiaUii Baltimore, for a few month*; 



more); later private wcrptnry to Archh 



and chancellor of the arch-diocese; assistant chancellor, 



'second plenary council of American Roman Catholic 

 Church. Baltimore. October, 1866; vicar apostolic 

 of North Carolina, with rank and title of bishop, 1868; 

 coadjutor archbishop of Baltimore. May 20, 1877; suc- 

 ceeded to the see, October 3, 1877; presided at third 

 national council at Baltimore, November, 1884; was 

 nominated as cardinal; invested with the princely in- 

 signia, June 30, 1886. Author: "The Faith of Our 

 Fathers," "Our Christian Heritage," "The Ambassador 

 of Christ." 



Gibson, Charles Dana, illustrator; born in Rox- 

 bury, Mass., September 14, 1867; educated at Flushing. 

 L. I., also Art Students' League. New York, 1884-85; 

 has done much illustrating in principal magazines; also 

 illustrated numerous hooks. Author: "Sketches in 

 London," "People of Dickens," "Drawings," "Pictures 

 of People," "Sketches and Cartoons," "The Education 

 of Mr. Pipp," "Sketches in Egypt." "The Americans," 

 "A Widow and Her Friends." "The Social Ladder." 



Glldersleevo, Basil Lanneau, professor of Greek in 

 Johns Hopkins since 1876; born in Charleston. S. C., 

 October 2.<. ls:n ; graduated at Princeton. IM'.i. A. M., 

 lv~>J; studied at universities of Berlin, Bonn and Gdt- 

 tingen (Ph. D., 1853; LL. D.. 1869. William and V 

 Harvard, 1896, Yale, 1901. University of Chicago. 1901; 

 D. C. L., University of the South, 1884; L. H. D.. 

 Princeton. 1899) ; professor of Greek. 1856-76, and of 

 Latin. 1861-66. University of Virginia. Editor "Ameri- 

 Journal of Philology " since it was founded, 1880. 

 "" "Latin Grammar," "Latin Series" (primer. 



can 

 Author: 



reader, school Latin grammar, Ijitin composition, etc.). 

 " Essays and Studies," "( '.reek Syntax." Editor: "Per- 

 sius." "Justin Martyr," "Odes of Pindar." 



(Oilman, Daniel Colt, educator; born in Norwich. 

 Conn.. July 6. 1X31; graduated at Yale, 1852 (A. M., 

 1855); continued studies in Cambridge, New Haven 

 and Berlin (LL. D.. Harvard. Is7i; St .John 1 .. Md . lx7rt; 

 Columlii de. lss'.; fniver.-ity of North Caro- 



lina, 1SS9; Princeton, 1896; University of Toronto, 

 1 '.)<:*; t'niversity of Wisconsin, 1904); librarian, secre- 

 tary of Sheffield Scientific School, antl professor of physi- 

 cal and political geography, Yale. 1856-72; president 

 of University of California, 1872-75; first president of 

 Johns Hopkins University. Is7 :, 1<H)2; first p: 

 of Carnesrie Institution. Washington, 1901-1904. Author 

 "Bi-centennial Discourse, Norwich, Conn.." "Inaugural 

 Address," "Life of James Monroe," "University Prob- 

 lems," "Introduction to De Toc<-ueville's Democracy 

 in America," "Life of James D. Dana, geoloci-- 

 ence and letters in Yale," editor-in-chief, "New Inter- 

 national Encyclopaedia." 



Giotto, Ambroeiotto Bondone, born in 127>: 

 Italian painter and architect ; pupil of Cimabue and 

 friend of Dante, whose portrait he painted at Kavenna; 

 was son of a citizen of Florence, and apprentice. I to a 

 wools t a pier ; painted frescoes at Assisi. and was probably 

 the founder of the modern school of portrait-painting. 

 About 1299 he went to Home, where he painted and 

 worked in mosaics; and subsequently was employed 

 at Padua and Florence, where his frescoes in the Peru/n 

 chapel of Santa Croce were discovered in 1S03. He also 

 painted the "Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes," at 

 Naples, and designed the campanile of Florence. He 

 died in 1 :<:t>, and was buried in the cathedral there. 



<irard. "Mcplien -rahnl'). an American philan- 

 thropist, Don near Bordeaux. Fra: <>; rose 

 from a humble sphere of life to In-come a trader in 

 Philadelphia, in 177ii. in which city he eventually be- 

 came a merchant and hanger, and amassed a large 

 Dying in is.il. he JMqMSjMM SJ.lMXl.OOO to 

 ion ot a colleen for orphan l>ov>. cond ; 

 rigidlv secular Principles. Tins building, the finest in 



style m the United States, 

 in is.;.;. :k nd completed in 1848. 



l.l.idileii. \\ .ixhlnulon. author. Oon 



; gvman: l>orn in Pottsgrove, Pa,, 

 graduate of Williams, 



Iversity. Ind.<; held several oastorate* and editorial 

 positions prior to becoming (1882) pastor of 

 I gregational Church. Columbus, o.; especially known as 



Author. 'Plain ThouthU 



Mi.-iry II. 1830; 

 I ). D., Roanoke Collect 



il tNUrtorate* and 



iss. ,,,,.,, ,, , 



othor: "Pi.-im 



n the Art of I.ivmtt." 'From the Hub to the Hudson." 

 kmgmen and Thnr Employer*." " Hemg n Chrie- 







iinn I^iMrue of Connr. 'nnes New 



and 01.; Minx Men and the ChurcnwO" Ap- 



Quf- 



l- and the Man," "The Cosmopolis City 



' hur.l, and the Kimrdom." "Srx. 



rlmg Bible p. ' "Art 



' "The Christian 1'a --v Much 



