BIOGRAPHY 



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"Paul Jones," "Maid Marion." "Decatur and Somers." as artillery officer in Union army during the Civil War; 



-range, Sad Comedy." "The Sprightly Romance 

 of Marsac," "A Virginia Cavalier." "The Rock of the 

 Lion." "Gavin Hamilton," "The House of Egrempnt," 

 " Papa Bouchard," "Francezka," "Children of Destiny," 

 "1-iri," "The Great Scoon." Plays: "Maid Marion," 

 "Sprightly Romance of Marsac." 



Seeley, John Robert, historian; born in 1834. In 

 1863. he was appointed professor of Latin at University 

 College, London, and, in 1869, became Regius professor 

 of modern historv at Cambridge. In 1865, he published 

 anonymously "Ecce Homo," and he also wrote "Life 

 of Stein." "The Expansion of England," 

 and '(Greater Creece and Greater Britain." Died, 1895. 



oi-iiihrirh. Marcella, born in 1858; Austrian singer; 



made her de"but at Athens in 1877, in "I Puritani," 



and afterwards sang at Vienna, Dresden, London, ami 



York, her favorite parts being Susanna, Martha, 



rlina. 



Bcn i. Lucius Anna-iis, born about 4 B. C.; stoic I 



; .her; was banished from Rome on a false charge, 

 but, returning after eight years, became tutor to Nero. 

 Being accused of conspiracy, he died, 65 B. C., by open- 

 ing his veins and suffocating himself in a warm bath. 

 His works consist of treatises and epistles, but the 

 tragedies ascribed to him are of doubtful authenticity. 



->. r\ .-IN-. .Michel, born in loll; Spanish theologian; 

 escaped from the Inquisition at Vienna to Geneva, 

 where he was burnt to death for his Arianism by the 

 orders of Calvin, in 1553. 



id, William Henry, born in 1801; American 

 statesman; was elected governor of New York in 1838, 

 and. in 1849, became United States senator. He now 

 headed the Republican party, and. having been an 

 unsuccessful candidate for the presidency, became sec- 

 retary of state under Lincoln, in 1861. He was at- 

 tacked at the same time as the latter, but recovered. 

 He wrote a " Life of John Quincy Adams," and other 

 a. Died, 1872. 



Miaftrr. William Kufus, major-general in United 

 States Army, retired ; born in Galesburg, Mich., October 

 16. 1835. Kn't-nd Union army as first lieutenant. 



d brigadier-general, March 13, 1865, for gallant 

 and meritorious services during the war; mustered 

 out of volunteer service, November 2, 1865; entered 

 regular army as lieutenant-colonel, January 26, 1867; 



d colonel, United States Army, March 2, 1867, 

 and given Congressional medal of honor for gallant 

 and meritorious services at battle of Fair Oaks, Va. 

 Major-general of volunteers. May, 1898; went to Tampa, 



nee to Cuba, where he commanded the military 

 operations ending in capitulation of General Linares' 

 army and surrender of Santiago de Cuba, July, 1898. 

 !. June 30, 1901, as major-general 



Bhah-Jehaa ("King of the World"), fifth of the 



.1 emperors of Delhi; succeeded his father in 1627; 



a man of great administrative ability and a skilled 



warrior; conquered the Deccan and the kingdom of 



la. arid generally raised the Mogul Empire to 



its zenith; his court was truly Eastern in its sumptuous 



ence; the "Peacock Throne" alone cost $35.- 



000.000. Died in prison in 1666, a victim to the perfidy 



usurping son. Aurungzebe. 



Bhakespere, orShakspeare, William, the greatest 

 dramatic poets, was born in Stratford-on- 

 Avon. \\arwi.k-hitc. :n l.">til. Of the incidents of his 

 youth almost nothing in known, excepting that he mar- 

 ried in his 19th year, and soon afterwards resorted to 

 . where he became an actor of repute at the 

 Globe and Blackfriars' theaters. In 1594, he inaugu- 

 nirv career by the publication of his poem 

 Adonis"; and, in the following year, his 

 ibUabad play appeared, the precursor of a suc- 

 cession of works which constitute the crowning glory 

 .-h dramatic literature. Shakespere enfoyed 

 or of Queen Elizabeth and James I., ana the 

 ip of Southampton. Halcmh. Mm Jonson, and 

 Of the principal of In- contemporaries. After 

 realizing an easy fortune by hi contributions to the 

 stage, he retired to hid native town, ami th.-r. 

 1016. Shakespere's tragedies of ' H Macbeth." 



"Other. <> and Juliet Miig I^ear" are 



iii example* of In \<\\<T of expressing the 

 passions of the human until : v. 



.medic*, particularly "The Merry 



"Twelfth Night." "Tt:.- Tinning of the Shrew." etc.. 



are unsurpassed in he I .nith i, l.-m/'ia/r < !' tUJ dr:in.:i - 



o .ailed, perhaps the finewt are "A* V 



Shaler, Nathaniel South* it* . n*t; born in 

 Newport. Kv . m ixii : graduate -f Lawrence .- 

 School. 1 >G2, 8. C. D., 1865; eerved two year* 



of Kentucky geological survey. 1873-80, devoting part 

 of each year to that work; from 1884 to 1906. geologist 

 in charge of Atlantic division of United States geological 

 survey. Author: "A First Book in Geology, 

 tucky, a Pioneer Commonwealth," "The Nature of 

 Intellectual Property," "The Story of Our Continent." 

 "The Interpretation of Nature." "Illustrations of the 

 Earth's Surface." "Sea and Land," "The United States 

 of America: a Study of the American Commonwealth." 

 "Fossil Brachippods of the Ohio Valley," "American 

 Highways," " Features of Coasts and Oceans." " Domes- 

 ticated Animals: Their Relation to Man." "The Indi- 

 vidual: Study of Life and Death," "The Neighbor," 

 "The Citizen/' etc. Died, 1906. 



Shaw, Albert, editor of "American Monthly Review 

 of Reviews"; born in Shandon, Butler County, O., 

 July 23. 1857; graduate of Iowa College, 1879; took 

 course in history and political science, Johns Hopkins 

 (Ph. D.. 1884; LL. D., University of Wisconsin. 1904). 

 Editorial writer with "Minneapolis Tribune." 1883-88, 

 1889-90; studied in Europe. 1888-89. Established. 

 1891, and has ever since conducted, "American Review 

 of Reviews." Member of numerous learned societies; 

 has lectured in many universities and colleges. Author: 

 " Icaria A Chapter in the History of Communism." 

 "Local Government in Illinois." "Cooperation in the 

 Northwest." "Municipal Government in Great Britain." 

 "Municipal Government in Continental Europe." 

 Editor: "The National Revenues"; also many articles 

 on political science and economics, and particularly on 

 municipal governments, in magazines, etc. 



Shaw, (eorKe Bernard, was born in Dublin. July 

 26, 1856, and went to London in 1876. He published 

 a few novels. "Cashel Byron's Profession." etc.. which 

 attracted little attention; joined the Fabian Society in 

 1884; wrote musical critiques in the "London Star." 

 1888-90, and the "World." 1890-94; edited Fabian 

 essays in 1889. and. in 1895, began his work as a dra- 

 matic critic, writing in the "Saturday Review." In 

 1898, he published "Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant." 

 and since then his chief literary work has been writing 

 for the stage. His plays include " Man and Superman. 

 "John Bull's Other Island." "Major Barbara. 

 Doctor's Dilemma," "Ctrsar and Cleopatra." 



Shaw, Henry Wheeler, an American humorist; 

 l>orn in Lanesborough. Mass.. April 21. 1818. In 1859. 

 he began to write, and. in I860, sent "An Essa on the 

 Mull, bi Josh Billings" to a New York paper. It \\a- 

 reprinted in several comic Journals, and e\'< 

 copied. His most successful literary venture, 1 

 was a travesty on the "Old Farmer's Almanac." 127.OOO 

 copies of which were sold in its second year. He began 

 to lecture in 1863. and for twenty years previous to his 

 death, contributed regularly to the New York "World." 

 He died in Monterey. Cal ./October 14. 1885. 



Shays, Daniel, an American insurgent; born in 

 Hopkinton, Mass., in 1747; served as ensign at the 

 battle of Bunker Hill, and attained the rank of captain 

 in the Continental army. He took a leading part in 

 the popular movement in Western Massachusetts for 

 the redress of alleged grievances, appearing before 

 Springfield, Mass.. at the head of 1.000 men. to prevent 

 the session of the Supreme Court at that place, and 

 commanding the rebel party at Pellham and at the 

 engagement with the militia at Petersham. After the 

 rebellion wax put down, however, he was pardoned by 

 the government, and later, in hi- old a-. \*a> alio\\.-d 

 a pension for his services during the Revolutionary 

 War. He died in Sparta, N. Y.. September 2U. 1825. 



Shelley* Perry Bysshe, one of the mo-t eminent of 

 EnfUu poets, was born of a noble family, in County 

 Sussex, in 1792. He was early diMingumhed by hu 

 original turn of mind for speculative inquiry, ami was 

 expelled from Oxford University on an alleged charge 

 of atheism. Refusing to recant certain philosophical 

 opinion* he had f.. nurd, ami which had given nse to 



I the displeasure of his fall 

 .Mily. Retiring to Ixttidmt. he there 

 upon authorship by the production of hi- fine 

 "Queen Mab." and contracted nn unfortunate marriage 

 with a pernon of humble rank, from whom he soon sepa 

 rated. In 1K10. a: 



the daughter of William (ifidwm. m> rrlehratrd 

 as the author*** of " Frankenm- MI the follow- 



ing year, gave to the world his principal work. "The 



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In 1H18. he o 



urn. and took up hid residence in Italy, where he 

 became the aMoriate of Lord Byron and l*igh Hunt. 

 and where he wrote his tragedy of "The Cenci"; the 



