RAT KASH 



BALL 



COST OF THE WARS, 1912 TO 1913 



The figures for Rumania are estimates, and are probably too large. 



GAINS IN TERRITORY AND POPULATION 



men, received the greatest increases in terri- 

 tory. The above tables summarize the cost 

 of the wars to each of the nations involved and 

 also indicate approximately the gains made by 

 each. W.E.L. 



BALKASH, bahlkahsh', a large inland body 

 of salt water, lying 780 feet above sea level, 

 near the eastern border of Russian Central 

 Asia. Its area of 8,500 square miles is one-third 

 that of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, 

 a little larger than that of the state of Massa- 

 chusetts and nearly three times as great as that 

 of Salt Lake in Utah. Its length is 330 miles, 

 and its width varies from six miles in the 

 eastern portion to fifty-four miles in the west. 

 The water of the lake is clear but shallow, its 

 maximum depth being less than eighty foet. 

 The northern shores are low and marshy and 

 the fisheries are unimportant. The lake is fed 

 by the waters of the River Hi and is remark- 

 able in that it has no visible outlet, the surplus 

 being apparently carried off by evaporation. 



BALL, THOMAS (1819-1911), an American 

 sculptor whose influence in his special field 

 of work has been permanent and uplifting. His 

 first interest in art was acquired in his early 

 youth, and was due to his being employed by 

 the old New England Museum, in Boston, as 

 boy-of-all-work. He first took up the study 

 and practice of portrait painting, beginning his 



work as a sculptor by modeling a small bust of 

 Jenny Lind, who was at the time appearing in 

 song recitals in America. Then he attempted 

 busts of other personages, and finally achieved 

 success when he completed a life-size bust of 

 Daniel Webster. In 1854 he was able to go to 

 Florence, Italy, for further study, and remained 

 there two years. Much of his later life was 

 also spent in that city. He died in Montclair, 

 N.J. 



Ball devoted four years (1860-1864) to model- 

 ing an equestrian statue of Washington, and 

 when it was unveiled in New York it was 

 declared to be the best of its type produced up 

 to that time. A few years later he completed 

 his statue of Edwin Forrest in the role of Corio- 

 lanus, now a prized possession of the Actors' 

 Home in Philadelphia. In 1875 a bronze repre- 

 sentation of Lincoln freeing a kneeling slave 

 the Emancipation Group was unveiled in 

 Washington, and the following year saw the 

 completion of the colossal bronze, Daniel Web- 

 ster, in Central Park, New York. His statue 

 of Josiah Quincy occupies a prominent place 

 before the city hall, Boston, and in the Forest 

 Hills Cemetery of that city is the well-known 

 head, Saint John, the Evangelist, sculptured by 

 him. 



Ball was seventy years of age when he began 

 the masterpiece of his later period, the Wash- 



