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violin to the city of Genoa, where it is still 

 carefully preserved. 



PAGE, DAVID PERKINS (1810-1&48), an 

 American educator, whose Theory and Practice 

 of Teaching, or the Motives of Good School 

 ping, was for many years after its publica- 

 tion the most influential work in the world re- 

 :..! to pedagogy. He was born at Epping, 

 X II . studied for two terms at the Hampton 

 iemy.and then began to teach. His prepa- 

 ration had been inadequate, but he was a born 

 teacher, j; to an unusual degree the 



power of inspiring his pupils with a desire to 

 learn, and when the Albany Normal School was 

 founded in 1845 he was made its principal. 

 This position he held until his death, three 

 years later. 



PAGE, THOMAS NELSON (1853- ), an 

 American novelist and story-writer, born at 

 Oakland, Va., of a family prominent in the his- 

 tory of the state. He graduated from Wash- 

 ington and Lee University and from the Uni- 

 versity of Vir- 

 ginia Law School ; 

 practiced law for 

 eighteen years in 

 Richmond, Va., 

 and in 1893 re- 

 moved to Wash- 

 ington, D. C., 

 where he devoted 

 himself to literary 

 pursuits. His 

 stories, almost 

 without excep- 

 tion, are of life in THOMAS NELSON PAGE 

 the South, and his pictures are usually sym- 

 pathetic and accurate. Marse Chan, his first 

 successful story, deals with a subject which is 

 prominent in many of his tales the affection 

 between master and slave. It was republishcd 

 with other tales, including Meh Lady and Unc' 

 Edinburgh Drowndin', in a volume entitled In 

 Ole \ II best-known novels are ; 



Rock, Gordon Keith, Bred in the Bone and 

 q Mum I, Assistant. Besides these, he has 

 written dialect poetry and a number of essays, 

 latter dealing with the present negro prob- 

 In 1913 Page was appointed ambassador 

 which post he filled ably for six years, 

 until 1919. 



PAGE, WALTER HINES (1856-1918), an Ameri- 

 can editor m.l <hplomat, born at Gary, N. C. 

 II was educated at Randolph-Macon Col 

 and Johns Hopkins University; in the I 

 he held a fellowship from 1876 to 1878. After 



filling various editorial positions on North 

 Carolina papers, he became editor of The 

 Forum in 1890 and after serving in this posi- 

 tion for five years went to the publishing firm 

 of Houghton, Mifflin & Company as their lit- 

 erary adviser. In addition to this work he 

 editor of The Atlantic Monthly from 1896 

 to 1899, when he resigned to become a partner 

 in the publishing house of Doubleday, Page 

 & Company. In 1900 he founded The World's 

 Work, and was its editor-in-chief until his 

 appointment by President Wilson in 1913 as 

 ambassador to Great Britain, to succeed White- 

 law Reid, deceased. He served with distinction 

 through the trying years of the War of the 

 Nations, resigning in August, 1918, because of 

 overwork and ill health. 



His magazine articles and editorials have 

 given him fame through their remarkable 

 grasp of contemporary economic and social 

 conditions and their fair and just treatment 

 of disturbing questions, and as ambassador 

 he made a creditable record during a critical 

 period in his country's history. He is author of 

 The Rebuilding of Old Commonwealths. 



TWOCI1I \OODA8 



(a) Famous pagoda built of glazed tile nt 



pagoda MM In 



low-roofed bull. linns; tn-.-s ami hrub ore grow- 

 ing In the MMOMnve roof*. 



PAGODA, pa go' da, a word which in mod- 

 ern use has lost much of its original in 

 In reality pagoda is the name of that part of 



