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while he began to write plays which he thought 

 would very soon make him famous. 



It was not until he began to write travel 

 stories, however, during his journeys in Ger- 

 many and Italy, that people paid any partic- 

 ular attention to him; and not until 1835, 

 ti his first volume of Fairy Tales appeared, 

 did he really become famous. More of these 

 tales were published from time to time, and 

 while his other works, such as the novels 

 called The Improvvisatore, 0. T. and Only a 

 Fiddler, and his Life's Romance were highly 

 praised, it was for the charming fairy stories 

 that grown people as well as children waited 

 most eagerly. 



It is pleasant to know that Andersen's great- 

 ness was fully acknowledged before his death, 

 and that during his last years he had honor and 

 happiness enough to make up for the misery 

 of his early life. The king and queen of 

 Denmark were proud to call him their friend, 

 and famous people in every country loved and 

 respected him. When he died, men, women 

 and children all over the world were as sor- 

 rowful as if they had lost a personal friend. 



His Ugly Duckling, probably the most fa- 

 mous of his stories, is given in full in the 

 article STORY TELLING. 



ANDERSON, MARIE ANTOINETTE (1859- 

 ), commonly called MARY ANDERSON, one 

 of the most popular of American actresses. 

 Though she retired from the stage in 1890, 

 after a career of only fifteen years, her fame 

 still lives and her interpretations of Juliet in 

 Romeo and Juliet, and of Rosalind in As You 

 Like It have rarely been equalled. She studied 

 for the stage under the guidance of Charlotte 

 Cushman, a famous actress, and at the age 

 of sixteen made her debut as Juliet. Later 

 she played Meg Merrilies in Guy Mannering, 

 Perdita in A Winter's Tale, Galatea in W. S. 

 Gilbert's Pygmalion and Galatea, and Clarice 

 in his Comedy and Tragedy, written especially 

 for her. After her marriage to Antonio de 

 Navarro in 1890 she retired from the stage 

 and made her home in England. In 1896 she 

 wrote A Few Memoirs, and in 1911 assisted in 

 the dramatization of The Garden of Allah, a 

 novel by Robert Hichens. 



ANDERSON, IND., a railroad center and im- 

 portant industrial city, notable for the vari- 

 ety of its manufactures. The city was founded 

 in 1822 and was incorporated in 1865; the 

 population, chiefly American, increased from 

 22,476 in 1910 to 23,453 in 1914. It was first 

 settled as the home of the Delaware Indians 



and was known as Anderson's Town, from the 

 chief of the tribe, whose name was "Kick- 

 tha-we-nund," or Anderson. The area is a little 

 less than five square miles. 



Anderson is situated a little to the north- 

 east of the geographical centre of the state, 

 on the west fork of the White River, in Mad- 

 ison County, of which it is the county seat. 

 Indianapolis is thirty-six miles southwest, and 

 Muncie is eighteen miles northeast. It is the 

 center of one of the most extensive electric 

 traction systems in the middle west, and has 

 the largest power house in the state. It is 

 the junction point of the Cleveland, Cincin- 

 nati, Chicago & Saint Louis, or Big Four 

 Route, the Pennsylvania Line and the Central 

 Indiana Railway. 



As a manufacturing city, Anderson's impor- 

 tance is due to its location in a natural gas 

 district. In its 115 factories, which employ 

 nearly 8,500 people, almost every commodity 

 known to trade is manufactured, and the an- 

 nual output averages about $22,000,000. The 

 Remy Electric Company, the Nicholson File 

 Company and the American Steel and Wire 

 Company are among the principal manufac- 

 turing industries. The surrounding district is 

 rich in agricultural products and deposits of 

 coal. A manual training high school, construct- 

 ed in 1912 at a cost of $285,000, two business 

 colleges and a Carnegie Library, in addition to 

 the public school system, serve the educational 

 interests. The city has six banks and its most 

 notable buildings are the post office, the court- 

 house, erected in 1882 at a cost of $200,000, 

 and Saint John's hospital. An interesting fea- 

 ture of the vicinity is the Prehistoric Mound's 

 Park. B.F.A. 



AN'DERSON, S. C., a city with a popula- 

 tion, chiefly American, which increased from 

 9,654 in 1910 to 11,124 in 1914. Sixty-five per 

 cent of the inhabitants are white. The city 

 was founded in 1827 and was incorporated as 

 a city in 1882. The area is about three square 

 miles. 



Anderson is the county seat of Anderson 

 County, located in the heart of a rich agri- 

 cultural section in the northwestern part of the 

 state. Greenville is thirty-two miles north- 

 east, and Columbia, the capital, is 126 miles 

 southeast. The city is served by the Charles- 

 ton & Western Carolina Railway and the Blue 

 Ridge branch of the Southern Railway. There 

 is electric railway service to points north, east 

 and south. Anderson eounty ranks second in 

 the United States in the production of cotton, 



