Scotland 



Serbia 



Spain 



Adlge 



Arno 



Danube 



Dnieper 



Dniester 



Don 



Elbe 



Garonne 



Loire 



Main 



Marne 



Meuse 



Moselle 



"Neva 



EURYDICE 



Sweden 



Switzerland 



Turkey 



RIVERS 



Oder 



Po 



Rhine 



Rhone 



Rubicon 



Saone 



Save 



Scheldt 



Seine 



Somme 



Tiber 



Ural 



Vistula 



Volga 



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EVANGELINE 



EURYDICE, u rid' i see, in Greek mythology, 

 was the wife of Orpheus. After her death 

 from the bite of a serpent, her husband de- 

 scended into Hades and so charmed Pluto 

 with the music of his lyre that he was per- 

 mitted to take Eurydice back to earth, . on 

 condition, however, that he should precede 

 her on the way to the upper regions and that 

 he should not look behind him. Orpheus, 

 yielding to his natural anxiety, disobeyed this 

 latter injunction, and Eurydice was drawn 

 back into the infernal regions. There is no 

 possible connection between this story and 

 the Bible narrative of Lot's wife, although 

 there is a popular belief to that effect. The 

 tales simply happen to run parallel, so far as 

 is known. A beautiful version of the legend 

 is found in Vergil's Georgics. Eurydice and 

 Orpheus are frequently represented in Greek 

 art. 



EUSTACHIO, aoostah'kyo, BARTOLOMMEO 

 ( ? -1576), an Italian surgeon who was one of 

 the founders of modern anatomy. He is par- 

 ticularly famed as the discoverer of the Eusta- 

 chian tube in the ear, which was named for him 

 (see EAR). 



EUTERPE, utur'pe, one of the nine Muses 

 in classical mythology, created by Zeus in 

 answer to a request on the part of the vic- 

 torious deities, after the war with the Titans, 

 that some special divinities be called into 

 existence to commemorate in song the glorious 

 deeds of the Olympian gods. 



Euterpe, whose name means she who delights, 

 was the Muse of lyric poetry. She is repre- 

 sented as a virgin crowned with flowers and 

 holding an instrument in her hand, usually a 

 flute. The invention of the flute was attrib- 

 uted to her. See MUSES. 



EVANGEL 'ICAL ALLI'ANCE, an interna- 

 tional association of Episcopalians, Presby- 



terians, Baptists, Methodists, Independents, 

 Lutherans, Moravians and a few others, formed 

 in London in 1846. It originated in a desire 

 to bring the Protestant Churches in closer touch 

 with each other and extend the Christian faith. 

 Representatives from England, France, Ger- 

 many, Ireland, Scotland, Switzerland and the 

 United States formed the alliance, and the 

 organization thus commenced has extended 

 throughout the Protestant world. Branches 

 have been established in many countries, the 

 one in America in 1867, and international con- 

 ferences are held at intervals of two to four 

 years. The alliance has done much to promote 

 religious liberty, especially in Turkey, Russia 

 and Japan, and has broken down many re- 

 ligious barriers. 



EVANGEL 'ICAL ASSOCIATION , a re- 

 ligious denomination, which extends not only 

 into most parts of. the United States and Can- 

 ada, but also into Germany, Switzerland and 

 Japan. It was founded among the Germans in 

 Pennsylvania in 1807, by Jacob Albright. The 

 doctrines, government and methods of worship 

 are much like those of the Methodist Episcopal 

 Church, to which the founder originally be- 

 longed. It has bishops, chosen by the general 

 conference of the Church for four years, and 

 ministers appointed each year at the meetings 

 of the annual conferences. In 1891 a division 

 occurred in the membership, after a contro- 

 versy of several years in regard to the methods 

 of management, and about 40,000 members 

 withdrew to form the United Evangelical 

 Church. At present the Evangelical Associa- 

 tion has nearly 112,000 members, while the 

 other branch has 75,000. Since many of the 

 members are English-speaking, the Church 

 papers, published in Cleveland, are printed in 

 both German and English. 



EVANGELINE, e van' jelin, one of the most 

 popular poems ever written by an American, 

 a metrical story of Gabriel and Evangeline, two 

 lovers whose tragic history is founded on the 

 historic conquest of Acadia (Nova Scotia) by 

 the English. It is read by those who love the 

 musical verse, for its beautiful, smooth-flowing 

 lines, and by those who want merely a story, 

 for the strength and pathos of its "mournful 

 tradition still sung by the pines of the forest." 

 It is by Longfellow, and was his first long 

 narrative poem. Ha'wthorne had heard the 

 tale of the lovers, driven from their home by 

 the British expulsion . order in 1755, and of 

 their long search for each other which ended 

 only when Gabriel lay on his deathbed. He 



