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is a quality of his verse, however, which all 

 can appreciate its music and its delicate, ethe- 

 real beauty. This is especially to be found in 

 such lyrics as the Ode to the West Wind, The 

 Cloud, The Ode to a Skylark and Lines to an 

 Indian Air, and in the elegy Adonais, written 

 on the death of Keats. In his poetry the most 

 charming personifications abound, for to him 

 nature always appeared as the symbol of his 

 own moods and emotions. All in all, Shelley 

 ranks as one of the first of English lyric poets ; 

 perhaps when at his best no one has ever sur- 

 passed him. A.MC c. 



Consult Glutton-Brock's Shelley, the Man and 

 the Poet; Angeli's Shelley and His Friends in 

 Italy. 



SHEM, the eldest son of Noah and tradi- 

 tional ancestor of the Semitic peoples (see SEM- 

 ITES). Shem and his brother Japheth showed 

 a respectful attitude toward their father (Gene- 

 sis IX, 20-23), in contrast to the irreverence of 

 Ham, and Noah accordingly prophesied that 

 the descendants of Shem would subdue the 

 Canaanites, or descendants of Ham, and that 

 the Canaanites would serve both them and the 

 descendants of Japheth. Japheth would also 

 benefit by the achievements of the Semites. 

 The fulfilment of this prophecy is the subject 

 of much interesting research and discussion, 

 some believing it to be of merely local and 

 others of world-wide application. 



SHENANDO'AH, PA., a borough in Schuyl- 

 kill County, in the east-central part of the 

 state, 105 miles northwest of Philadelphia. It 

 is served by the Pennsylvania', the Lehigh Val- 

 ley and the Philadelphia & Reading railroads 

 and by electric interurban lines. Within the 

 city and in the immediate neighborhood are a 

 number of rich anthracite coal mines. The 

 mining and shipping of coal is the leading in- 

 dustry, and there are in the place machine 

 shops, foundries and mining-tool works. Shen- 

 andoah was settled in 1850 and was incorpo- 

 rated as a borough in 1866. It has good schools 

 and churches and a public library. In 1910 

 the population was 25,774; it had increased to 

 29,201 (Federal estimate) in 1916. The area is 

 one and one-half square miles. 



SHENANDOAH RIVER, a river of Virginia 

 which flows in a northeasterly direction for 170 

 miles through a beautiful valley formed by the 

 Blue Ridge and the central Appalachian moun- 

 tains. At Harper's Ferry it unites with the 

 Potomac. The river furnishes a great amount 

 of water power, but is navigable only by small 

 steamers for about 100 miles. The Shenandoah 



Valley was an important battle field during the 

 War of Secession. "Stonewall" Jackson's 1862 

 campaign there Won him fame, and Sheridan 

 made his historic ride of twenty miles from 

 Cedar Creek to Winchester in the valley, reor- 

 ganizing his troops and returning to defeat 

 Early. See SHERIDAN, PHILIP HENRY. 



SHEP'ARD, HELEN GOULD, eldest daughter 

 of Jay Gould. See GOULD (family). 



SHEPHERD, shep'erd, DOG, the general 

 name of a group of dogs used to guard flocks 

 of sheep. They are usually large and strong, 

 but the group includes also the small Spitz, or 

 Pomeranian. Of all the shepherd dogs the fin- 

 est breed is the Scotch collie, described in these 

 volumes under the heading COLLIE. 



SHER'ATON, THOMAS. See FURNITURE, 

 subhead English Development. 



SHERBROOKE, shur' brook, a city in Que- 

 bec, the county town of Sherbrooke County, 

 and one of the leading manufacturing centers 

 of the province. It is in the southern part of 

 Quebec, about forty miles north of the Ver- 

 mont boundary, at the junction of the Magog 

 and Saint Francis rivers, and on the Grand 

 Trunk, Canadian Pacific, Boston & Maine and 

 Quebec Central railways. It is 101 miles by 

 rail southeast of Montreal, 122 miles south of 

 Quebec and 196 miles northwest of Portland, 

 Me. Population in 1911, 16,405; in 1916, esti- 

 mated, 20,000. 



Sherbrooke derives abundant water power 

 from the two streams at whose junction it is 

 situated. Among its manufactures are mining 

 and other machinery; woolen, silk and cotton 

 goods of all kinds, including carpets and cloth- 

 ing; cigars, and, during the War of the Na- 

 tions, shells. Sherbrooke has two public hos- 

 pitals, a public library, a fine post office, and 

 a courthouse which cost $60,000 to build. The 

 water works and the gas and electric light sys- 

 tems are owned and operated by the city. 



Sherbrooke was named for Sir John Sher- 

 brooke (1764-1830), a British general who fought 

 under Wellington in Spain and in 1811 was 

 appointed lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia. 

 From 1816 to 1818 he was Governor-General of 

 British North America. 



SHER'IDAN, PHILIP HENRY (1831-1888), a 

 Union officer in the War of Secession, distin- 

 guished for his high courage and brilliant quali- 

 ties of leadership. His military career was prac- 

 tically an unbroken series of victories, and he 

 was one of the three Union officers in that war 

 who attained the rank of general, the others 

 being Grant and Sherman. Sheridan was born 



