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# Clouds (Shorter)

“Laughter and song for my cheer…”
* Shorter, Dora Sigerson (1893), "Clouds" in Verses
* Shorter, Dora Sigerson (1907), "Clouds" in The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter
# Clouds without Water/A Quean of the Quality

A
Quean of the
Quality being the
Quatorzains of a
Quietist
# Clouds without Water/The Alchemist

The Alchemist
# Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Michel Le Tellier (2)

From volume 14 of the work.
Born 19 April, 1603; died at Paris, 30 Oct., 1685. He was commissioned by Cardinal Mazarin to organize the royal army, and having helped to appease the troubles of the Fronde, he left to his son Louvois in 1666 his duties as secretary of war. After his appointment as chancellor by Louis XIV in 1677 he had a decisive share in the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which he signed, 2 Oct., 1685, a few days before his death. Before expiring he sang the canticle of Simon "Nunc dimittis", he shared Louis XIV's illusion that there were almost no Protestants left in France, and that the act suppressing the liberty of Protestant worship was no more than the public recognition of an accomplished fact, the disappearance of Protestantism. His eldest son, Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois (b. at Paris, 18 Jan., 1641; d. 16 July, 1691), noted for the remarkable expedition with which he organized the armies for the wars of Louis XIV, was partly responsible for this false idea, for he led the king to believe that the dragonades, military expedition which Louvois sent into Protestant villages, had finally overcome all resistance. The youngest son of Michel Le Tellier was Charles-Maurice Le Tellier. Michel's funeral oration was delivered by Boussuet and Fléchier.
ANDRE, Michel Le Tellier et l'organisation de l'armee monarchique (Paris, 1906); ROUSSET, Hist. de Louvois (4 vols., Paris, 1861-1863).
GEORGES GOYAU
# Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Michel Corneille (the Younger)

From volume 4 of the work.
French painter, etcher and engraver, b. in Paris in 1642; d. at the Gobelins manufactory at Paris, 16 August, 1708. He was the son of an artist, Michel Corneille of Orléans, and on this account is sometimes called the "younger Michel". He is also and more commonly known as the "elder Corneille" (Corneille l'Aîné), to distinguish him from a younger brother, Jean-Baptiste Corneille, also a painter. His father was the first and the most indefatigable of his teachers; his other masters were Mignard and the celebrated Lebrun. Devoting himself wholly to historical painting, Michel won the Academy Prize and went to Rome on the king's pension; but feeling his genius hampered by the restrictions of the prize, he gave up the money so that he might study the antique in his own way. Coming under the then powerful influence of the Eclectics, he studied with the Carracci and modelled his style on theirs. In 1663 he returned to Paris and was elected a member of the Royal Academy, his picture on entering being "Our Lord's Appearance to St. Peter after His Resurrection". In 1673 he became an adjunct, and, in 1690, a full, professor in the Academy.
Corneille painted for the king at Versailles, Meudon, and Fontainebleau, and decorated in fresco many of the great Paris churches, notably Notre-Dame, the church of the Capuchins, and the chapel of Saint-Grégoire in the Invalides. His style, reminiscent of the old masters, is the conventional style of the Eclectics; his drawing is remarkably careful and exact, the expression on the faces of his religious subjects is dignified and noble, the management of chiaroscuro excellent, and the composition harmonious, but suggestive of the Venetian School. From his insufficient knowledge of the composition of pigments, the colour in many of his pictures has suffered such a change that it is to-day disagreeable; but the artist possessed a good colour-sense, and contemporary records go to prove that his colour was refined and pleasing. He etched and engraved over a hundred plates in a bold and free style, for he was a master of the line; but he subsequently spoiled the effect by too much and too precise work with the graver. A dishonest dealer put Raphael's name on some of Michel Corneille's plates, and for a long time no one disputed their attribution to the great master. For many years Corneille resided at the Gobelins manufactory, and was sometimes called "Corneille des Gobelins". Among his paintings are a "Repose in Egypt", now in the Louvre, and a "Baptism of Constantine", in the museum at Bordeaux. Among his more important etched and engraved works are: "The Nativity"; "Flight into Egypt"; "Abraham journeying with Lot" (wrongly ascribed to Raphael), and "Jacob wrestling with the Angel", a plate after Annibale Caracci.
Mémoires inédits sur la vie et les ouvrages de l'Académie royale de peinture (Paris, 1884); Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (Berlin, 1870); DURRIEN, La peinture à l'exposition de primitifs français (Paris, 1904).
LEIGH HUNT
# Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Michel Baudouin

From volume 2 of the work.
Italian missionary, born in Quebec, Canada, 8 March, 1692, entered the Society of Jesus in France at the age of twenty-one, arrived in Louisiana (on his return to America) in 1728; d. at New Orleans in, or after, 1768. Shortly after his arrival in Louisiana, he was sent to the Choctaw Mission, where he labored for eighteen years. When he was on the eve of deriving some fruit from his labors, he was recalled by his superior to New Orleans, owing to the disturbances excited by the English among the Indians and the dangers to which he was exposed. He was Superior-General of the Louisiana mission from 1749 until the expulsion of the Jesuits from that colony in 1763. When that untoward event took place, Father Baudouin was not banished from the country as his fellow Jesuits were, but with a pension of three or four hundred francs was allowed to remain in the colony, a planter having offered the aged priest a home on his estate.
Thwaites, Jesuit Relations, Index Vol. LXXII, 78, where full references are given; Kip, early Jesuit Missions in North America (London, 1847), II.
EDWARD P. SPILLANE
# Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Michel Corneille (the Elder)

From volume 4 of the work.
French painter, etcher, and engraver, b. in Orléans about 1601; d. at Paris, 1664. He was one of many who studied with that celebrated master, Simon Vouet, who exerted a despotic influence over the French School, and impressed his artistic personality so strongly on all his pupils. Michel devoted himself to historical paintings, and was one of the twelve original members of the Royal Academy at its foundation in 1648. He became its rector in 1656. He was an excellent colourist - in this more Venetian than French - and his early style resembled that of Simon Vouet; later his work had all the merits and all the faults of the post-Raphaelite, or decadent, "sweet", school of Italian art, showing the far-reaching influence of the Carracci. He was long employed in the decoration of churches in Paris, his masterpiece being the celebrated "St. Paul and St. Barnabas at Lystra", painted for the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. His etched and engraved work differed very little from that of the Carracci and of his two sons. It was chiefly reproductive. Notable examples are the "Murder of the Innocents", after Raphael, and the "Virgin Suckling the Infant Jesus", after Lodovico Carracci.
MEYER, Geschichte der französischen Malerei (Leipzig, 1867); see, also, bibliography under CORNEILLE, MICHEL (the Younger).
LEIGH HUNT
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Nevada, University of

Edition of 1921; disclaimer.
​NEVADA, UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational, non-sectarian institution at Reno. The following statistics were compiled at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 48; students, 379; volumes in the library, 40,000; production funds, $305,737; number of graduates, 586; president, W. E. Clark, Ph.D.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/New Bedford

Edition of 1921; disclaimer.
NEW BEDFORD, a city, port of entry, and one of the county-seats of Bristol Co., Mass.; on Buzzards Bay, and on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad; 55 miles S. of Boston. It contains a custom house, county court house, public library, parks, hospitals, and an excellent school system. National and savings banks, waterworks, electric lights, electric street railroads, and daily and weekly newspapers. New Bedford is one of the leading cities in the United States as an industrial center. The city ranks first in the United States in the manufacture of fine cotton goods and fine cotton yarns. The number of cotton-mill employees in 1920 was about 38,000. There was over $6,000,000 invested in other industries, including a rope
factory, a copper rolling mill, one of the largest twist drill plants in the world, a large cut glass works, a shoe factory, a paint mill, and numerous other smaller industries. A large pier, costing over $450,000, has been built by the State. The British destroyed a large part of New Bedford in 1778, in retaliation for the injury done to British commerce by privateers from that port. Pop. (1910) 96,652; (1920) 121,217.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/New Hampshire College

Edition of 1921; disclaimer.
​NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE, an Institution maintained by the State at Durham, N. H., having for its object the promotion of agricultural and scientific education. The courses given are in the arts and sciences, engineering, agriculture, and a two-year course in industrial mechanics. In 1916 a department of education was added. To residents of New Hampshire the tuition is free. The endowment amounts to $940,000, while the net income is $26,000. The college grounds and buildings are valued at $850,000. Students in 1914-1915 numbered 514.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/New Hanover

Edition of 1921; disclaimer.
​NEW HANOVER, an island of the Bismarck archipelago; off the N. E. coast of New Guinea, with an area of 530 square miles.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Nevada (Missouri)

Edition of 1921; disclaimer.
​NEVADA, a city of Missouri, the county-seat of Vernon co., 103 miles S. of Kansas City, and is situated on the Missouri Pacific, and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads. Within its limits are several important mineral springs. It contains a Roman Catholic convent school, a State hospital for the insane and several other public and semi-public institutions. It is the center of an important agricultural and stock-raising industry. It has zinc smelters, iron works, flour and lumber mills. Pop. (1910) 7,175; (1920) 7,139.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Nevers

Edition of 1921; disclaimer.
​NEVERS (nē-ver′), the capital of the French department of Nièvre, formerly of the province of Nivernais. It is picturesquely seated on a hillside, 600 feet above sea-level, at the influx of the Nièvre to the Loire, 159 miles S. S. E. of Paris. The Noviodunum of Cæsar, it has been the seat of a bishop since 506; its beautiful cathedral, restored in 1879, belongs mainly to the 13th century. The stately court house, dating from 1475, was formerly the castle of the Dukes of Nevers. The city contains a fine public garden, a bridge of 14 arches over the Loire, a medieval gateway, and a triumphal arch (1746) commemorating Fontenoy. The industries comprise the manufacture of cannon, iron cables and chains, porcelain (introduced by Italians about 1565). Pop. about 28,000.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/New Hebrides

* related portals: Vanuatu.
* sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata item.
Edition of 1921; disclaimer.
​NEW HEBRIDES, a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean, W. of the Fiji Islands, from lat. 13° to 20° S., long. 168° to 170° E.; area est. at 5,000 square miles. The largest ones are Mallicollo, and Espiritu Santo. One, Tanna, has an active volcano; and in consequence probably of volcanic action, Aurora, one of the most fertile, sank out of sight in 1871. Another violent volcanic outbreak occurred on Ambryn Island in 1913-1914. They are wooded and hilly, ebony and sandalwood being obtained; and their chief products are yams, bananas, cocoanuts, and sweet potatoes. The chief animal is a small pig, not larger when full grown than a rabbit. The native inhabitants, belonging to the Papuan race, were in general degraded and very ​ferocious, but have become more or less Christianized. These islands, according to the Anglo-French convention of 1906, are under the control of two joint French and British high commissions. Pop. about 75,000.
# Chinese Merry Tales (1909)/10

Chapter X.—Scepticism and Cruelty of Cats. (貓逐鼠.)
THERE was a cat who was very clever at catching rats.
One day the cat chased a rat into a vase. The cat was reluctant to leave and stayed by the side of the vase, patiently waiting for the rat to come out. The rat was in terrible fear, ​and did not venture to show his head. The cat happened to sneeze. The rat in the vase said something about good wishes—such words as "Happiness and prosperity." The cat said: "No matter how you compliment me, I am determined to eat you."
# Chinese Merry Tales (1909)/13

Chapter XIII.—"I Burnt Him Yesterday." (Enquiring after his Father (問令尊.)
THERE was a man who was about to leave home. He directed his son thus: " When I am away, if anyone enquire after your respected elder (father) you may reply thus: "My father has gone out; please come in and have some tea." As the son was rather stupid, the father, fearing he might forget, wrote down these few sentences on a piece of paper and handed it to his son. His son put the paper in his sleeve. When he has occasion to use it, he would secretly take out the paper and have a peep at it. For three days no one came to enquire after his father. The son said: "The writing is no earthly use." That night he burnt the paper before the lamp. When the fourth day came, a visitor Happened to call and asked: "Where is your respected elder?" The son searched his sleeve for half a day and could not find the paper. He told the visitor; "It is lost." (Mu liao also means dead). When the visitor heard these words, he was much surprised and replied: "When did he die?" "I burned him (it) last night," the son replied.
# Chinese Life in the Tibetan Foothills/Book 8/Superstitions connected with the first day of the year

​Superstitions connected with the first day of the year. On that day no one in the family may mention the words demon, tiger, cat, snake, monkey, suicide, blood, wounds, short-lived, death, sickness, son died, daughters departed, speechless, lost money; also the following with a play on the double meaning of the words: tuan lu, short road, suicide; tuan t‘su, to sever head from body; pu tsai, lost, also meaning dead; pu hao, not good, also meaning to be sick, etc.
On this first day the brooms of the house are carefully hidden for fear they may be used and sweep away the family inheritance. The scales for weighing vegetables are also hidden as the marks and figures make it resemble a snake. For any member of the household to have dishevelled hair on that day is very unlucky, as that is said to be how demons look, and is a bad omen for the New Year. The breaking of ​a rice basin or the spilling of water in the kitchen is a very unlucky thing and is taken to mean that the family affairs will be troubled. To have a house set on fire, or for any one to mention fire on the first day is a very unlucky thing.
Those who are in mourning will cast away their mourning weeds for the day; but will not pay calls on that day, for fear of disturbing the weeping god. No weeping is allowed in the family on that day lest it should last throughout the year. It is very unpropitious to quarrel, sing, lose or lend an article, to catch the clothing on anything and tear it, to give a ladleful of water, or even a light to light a neighbour's fire or lamp. No one will ask for the payment of an outstanding account on New Year's day for fear they may become beggars. Neither will they sell or allow anything to go out of the house for the same reason. Money is given to beggars on New Year's day, having been previously given out for the express purpose. The practice of sitting on another person's door-step is deeply resented by some families at all times; others do not forbid men, but they would be deeply insulted if women should sit there; but on New Year's day no one is allowed to sit there as it stops the flow of wealth and hinders the passage of the spirits to and from the house. On this day the bell on the idol's shrine must not be touched by strange hands; if an outsider should dare to disturb the family gods he will be severely dealt with for his trouble. To tell any person on New Year's day that he has pei shih, or turned his back on the times, is a very serious insult, as it means the family affairs will be unlucky throughout the year.
# Chinese Life in the Tibetan Foothills/Book 8/Things to be Avoided

BOOK VIII—SUPERSTITIOUS DREAD
Things to be Avoided (忌諱), chi wei
The first question of importance in Ssŭch‘uan is how to gain a livelihood; the people say that every thing else is false, hunger only is real. But next to satisfying hunger, comes the great art of appeasing and hoodwinking demons. There can be little doubt that superstitious dread haunts most people from youth to old age. A young woman well known to us happened to overlay her child in the night, and next day she showed no signs of grief or trouble; on being pressed for a reason, she replied, "Oh, we must cheat the demon;" the idea being that if she had shown any sorrow, the demon would have come and taken the other child also. Much of the callous exterior of this people is not real, but put on for fear of demons.
Lucky days are chosen for almost every event of importance in life; beginning an education, starting on a journey, opening shop at New Year time, marriages, funerals, changing houses, repairing or building houses, will not only be begun on a lucky day, but in a lucky year. It has seemed to me that the day of a person's birth and the day of his death are the only events which they make no pretence at controlling.
Odd numbers are more lucky than even ones; for example, an odd number of days must elapse between a death ​and a funeral, and every seventh day is observed by the women as a time for weeping till seven times is reached, and the mourning in many cases ended.
The first and fifteenth are the recognized days for worship in the temple and in the home. The seventh moon of each year is the most idolatrous of the twelve, when the spirits of the family ancestors are supposed to return and share the feast of meat and wine. The pagoda of each city, which is said to be built in the shape of a Chinese pencil and intended to govern the literary welfare of the city, has, as far as I have seen, always got an odd number of storeys. The Chinese are not without their superstitious dread of the foreigner. I have been asked many times if I could see three feet into the ground; and the call, Yang jên tao pao (洋人盜寶), indicates that they believe that our eyes have wondrous powers of finding treasure which they believe lies hidden in the earth. It is quite a common thing to meet a man on the road who will put his nose in his sleeve while passing lest he should smell the foreigner. The smell of the ink of a foreign book is unlucky in the house. The small print of foreign books will injure their eyes, foreigners' tea will bewitch them, etc. We shall now look at a few of the things to be avoided in classified order.
# Chinese Merry Tales (1909)

Chinese Merry Tales
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY
Y. T. WOO, Mem. of Am. Inst. of M. E.
Author of "Practical Chemistry" and "Practical Photography."
SHANGHAI:
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION PRESS.
1909
Preface.
THE object of translating the Chinese Merry Tales is to give the English-speaking public an insight to Chinese character, society, and humour. Of the last, the majority of Europeans think that the Chinese are lacking. I hope the Chinese students of the English language may derive some benefit from this book by comparing the translation with the original in Chinese.
The author desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to Baron Guido Vitale, who collected and edited most of the tales in this book and brought them into Mandarin dialect.
Y. T. Woo.
CONTENTS.
This work is a translation and has a separate copyright status to the applicable copyright protections of the original content.
# Chinese Merry Tales (1909)/1

Chinese Merry Tales
Chapter I.—Vine Bowers and Their Dangers. (Falling of a Vine Bower 葡萄架)
ONCE upon a time a District Magistrate was trying a case. His secretary was present in the Court. His face was marked with bruises, and the Magistrate asked him, "What is the matter with your face?" He replied: "While I was sitting under the grape vine bowers, cooling myself, a sudden gust of wind came and blew down the vine bower; hence I received these wounds." The Magistrate did not believe this and said: "It is evident that your wounds were caused by finger nails. You must have been fighting with your wife, who scratched your face. Am I not right?" The secretary's face turned red, and he said: "Your Honor's supposition is correct." The Magistrate said: "Your wife's temper is so violent and vehement, I will send for her and give her a good beating, in order to relieve your suppressed anger."
Just as he was saying this, the Magistrate saw his furious wife come up from the back of the Yamen, saying: "Whom do you wish to lick?" The Magistrate on seeing this, immediately addressed his underlings thus, "Let us adjourn the Court. You must all disperse at once. Your master's vine bower will also soon tumble down."
# Chinese Life in the Tibetan Foothills/Index

INDEX
# Chinese Life in the Tibetan Foothills/Preface

PREFACE
These studies were never intended for public consumption, but for personal benefit and enlightenment and it was only at the request of several friends, coupled with the fear of permanent loss owing to the disturbed state of the country, that I was induced to submit them for publication. The object of the studies was to obtain the Chinese view point concerning the many mysterious customs and practices which perplexed me in daily intercourse with this people. In order to attain this end two things have had to be rigorously guarded against—first, an adverse spirit of criticism, which closes up every avenue of information; and second, the danger of being content when only personal curiosity is satisfied instead of trying to see things as the Chinese see them.
It should be stated that no foreign text books have been studied; questions of a scientific, ethnological and comparative nature have been set aside in order to present the local view of the subject in hand. The writer does not claim to have fully attained his end or to have exhausted the information obtainable on any given subject; while variations may be found in almost every county in the province, to say nothing of the whole of China.
The little city of Kwan Hsien, which lies 40 miles to the north-west of Chengtu in the province of Szechuan, is the hub of "The Tibetan Foothills." It was from this centre, so richly endowed with natural beauty, so famous for its ancient yet efficient irrigation system, so crowded with a teeming cosmopolitan population, that these pages were gradually compiled.
The whole of the subject matter contained in this volume has passed through the pages of the "New China Review," under the editorship of Mr. Samuel Couling to whom I owe a great debt of gratitude for editing the MS. and correcting the proofs. If the printing, numbering and colour of paper should not be quite uniform all readers will kindly consider the difficulty under which the Editor has laboured while putting these papers through his magazine.
JAMES HUTSON
Chengtu, January, 1921.
# The New York Times/1918/11/11/Classified/Business Notices

Layout 2
Business Notices.
CORPORATIONS organized New York, including everything, $63.50; collections everywhere. Eichner, 1547 Broadway, Bryant 7745.