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# The Dancing Girl of Gades

Mundy's account of Julius Cæsar raised quite a controversy in Adventure magazine. Those interested can find editorial matter and letters regarding this matter; taken from the Camp-Fire section of the magazine in which this story was published.
THE DANCING GIRL OF GADES
A Complete Novel by
Talbot Mundy
* I. b.c. 54. off the coast of britain … 03
* II. off gades … 08
* III. visitors … 11
* IV. gades by night … 15
* V. chloe—"qui saltavit placuit" … 19
* VI. herod ben mordecai … 22
* VII. the cottage in pkauchios' garden … 28
* VIII. gaius suetonius … 33
* IX. pkauchios the astrologer … 39
* X. balbus qui murum aedificabit … 43
* XI. conspiracy … 49
* XII. the committee of nineteen … 53
* XIII. at simon's house … 59
* XIV. in balbus' dining hall … 63
* XV. cæsar—imperator! … 69
"The Dancing Girl of Gades," copyright, 1925, by Talbot Mundy.
Copyright, 1925, by the Ridgeway Company in the United States and Great Britain. AU rights reserved.
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# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Farrell, Very Rev. James

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​Farrell, Very Rev. James, M.A., first Dean of Adelaide, was born in Ireland on Nov. 26th, 1803, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated M.A. Having taken orders in the Church of England, he emigrated to South Australia, and arrived in Sept. 1840, when he acted as assistant to Rev. C. B. Howard, the first Colonial Chaplain. He had sole charge of the Anglican communion in Adelaide from 1843 to 1846, when he was relieved by the arrival of Archdeacon Woodcock and the Rev. James Pollitt. On Dr. Short (the first bishop's) arrival, in Dec. 1847, Mr. Farrell was created Dean of Trinity Church, which at first served as the cathedral of the diocese. Prior to this, in Nov. 1845, Mr. Farrell married the widow of the Rev. C. B. Howard, whom he succeeded as Colonial Chaplain, an office which expired with him. He died at Malvern, whilst on a visit to England, on April 26th, 1869. He left four scholarships of £50 each to St. Peter's Collegiate School, Adelaide; and a window was erected to his memory in Trinity Church, which he had been incumbent of as well as dean.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Fenton, Hon. Michael

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​Fenton, Hon. Michael, formerly captain in the 12th Regiment, after service in India, sold out and emigrated to Tasmania in 1829, settling on a grant of land at Fenton Forest, near Glenora, on the river Derwent. He was appointed a member of the nominee Legislative Council by Sir John Franklin in 1840, and was one of the "Patriotic Six," who resigned their seats in the Council, in order to frustrate the financial policy of Governor Wilmot, in 1846, but was reappointed by royal warrant in March 1847. In 1851 he became one of the first elected members of the Legislative Council, representing New Norfolk. In 1855 he was elected Speaker in succession to Sir R. Dry. When responsible government was conceded he entered the House of Assembly for the same district, and was elected the first Speaker in Dec. 1856. Mr. Fenton continued to fill the chair of the House till May 1861, when he resigned, and was succeeded by Sir Robert Officer. He died at Fenton Forest on April 6th, 1874, aged eighty-five years.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Featherston, Isaac Earl

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​Featherston, Isaac Earl, M.D., sometime Agent-General, New Zealand, fourth son of Thomas Featherston, of Cotfield House, Durham, was born in Durham on March 21st, 1813, and took his M.D. degree at Edinburgh in 1836. He was one of the earliest settlers in Wellington, N.Z., under the New Zealand Company. He took a prominent part in the agitation for self-government in and about 1850. In 1852, when the province of Wellington was constituted, he was elected first superintendent, and represented Wanganui in Parliament from 1853 to 1871, when he resigned the superintendency. From July 12th to August 2nd, 1861, he was Colonial Secretary under Mr. Fox, and held office without portfolio under the same gentleman from Nov. 16th, 1869, to March 31st, 1871. In Jan. 1866 he persuaded the friendly Maoris about Wanganui to join General Chute in his campaign on the west coast, and his march toward Mount Egmont; and he himself accompanied and led the Maori contingent in the various actions at Otapawa and elsewhere. For his gallantry on these occasions he received the New Zealand Cross, on the recommendation of General Chute. In 1869 Dr. Featherston was sent home to England, in company with Mr. Dillon Bell, as commissioner to treat with the Imperial Government for a force to put down rebellion and to raise another force for colonial service. When the Vogel Government started the Public Works policy, the Commissioners were instructed to arrange with the Home Government to guarantee a loan for £1,000,000 for public works and immigration, to be spent at a rate not exceeding £200,000 a year. This they succeeded in doing. By the Public Works and Immigration Act of 1870, the office of Agent-General in London was created, and Dr. Featherston became first Agent-General. This post he held from the year 1871 till his death at Brighton on June 19th, 1876. Dr. Featherston married, in 1839, a daughter of Mr. A. Scott, of Edinburgh.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Fenton, Francis Dart

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​Fenton, Francis Dart, a native of Yorkshire, went out to Auckland, N.Z., in 1850, and cultivated land on the Waikato River. In 1851 he was appointed by Sir George Grey (then Governor) to a position in the Deeds Office at Auckland, and subsequently became Resident Magistrate and Collector of Customs at Kaipara. In March 1856 he was made Native Secretary by Governor Browne; but his policy clashing with that of Mr. (afterwards Sir) Donald McLean, Chief Native Land Commissioner, he was compelled to resign, and was appointed Resident Magistrate at Whaingaroa. On May 9th, 1857, as the result of a paper of suggestions which he had addressed to the Governor, he was summoned to act as magistrate at Waikato at a critical time in the difficulties preceding the Waikato war. His appointment, "at the earnest request of the natives," was the promise of a new departure on the part of the Government, who had resolved that the Maoris should be governed by laws "enacted with their own consent," and instructed Mr. Fenton to prepare a code upon this understanding. Mr. Fenton proceeded to Waikato, but on July 14th, 1857, Potatau accepted the kingship offered him by the malcontent tribes, and he was shortly afterwards withdrawn. From 1858 to 1864 Mr. Fenton acted as assistant law officer of the Crown. In 1861 he prepared the Domain Act, and in 1863 was charged with the working of the New Zealand Settlement Act. Mr. Fenton was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand in Jan. 1857. In 1865 Mr. Fenton was employed to draw up the Native Lands Act, and became Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, a post which he held for seventeen years. In ​1869 he was called to the Legislative Council, and introduced a bill to amend the Native Lands Act, which was passed, but he failed to pass the Native Reserves Bill. He assisted in the successful opposition to the importation of Ghoorka regiments for the purposes of the war, but was ultimately disqualified as an official from sitting in the Council. He was for two years district judge of Auckland, in addition to his other appointments, and retired from public service in 1882. Mr. Fenton is singularly well acquainted with the Maori language, and the history and customs of the people. In addition to various pamphlets, he is the author of "Observations on the State of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of New Zealand" (Auckland, 1859), and "Suggestions for a History of the Origin and Migrations of the Maori People" (1885).
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Faucett, Hon. Peter

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​Faucett, Hon. Peter, M.L.C., formerly Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court, New South Wales, was born in Dublin, and educated at Trinity College, where he graduated B.A. in 1842, and was called to the bar in 1845. He emigrated to Sydney In 1852, and was admitted to the colonial bar. He was returned to the first Legislative Assembly as member for King and Georgiana in 1856, and was elected for East Sydney in 1860. He was Solicitor-General in the Martin Ministry from Oct. 1863 to Feb. 1865, and in October of the latter year was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. In 1889 he retired on a pension, having been called to the Legislative Council in the previous year.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Favenc, Ernest

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​Favenc, Ernest, the explorer and historian of exploration, was born in London and educated in Berlin, arriving in New South Wales in 1863. After residing in Sydney a year he relinquished his commercial employment and went on to a station in the frontier squatting districts of Northern Queensland, where he was actively engaged during the early pioneering times. Subsequently he gave his attention to "overlanding" (i.e. taking cattle across country) and wrote for the press under the nom de plume of "Dramingo." In 1878 the proprietor of the Queenslander newspaper employed him to explore the line of country extending from Blackall, on the west boundary line of Queensland, to Port Darwin, with the view of solving the question then being debated as to whether a railway could be constructed across the continent along that route. The task was successfully performed by Mr. Favenc at the head of a small and well-equipped party. In 1888 Messrs. Favenc and Crawford explored the McArthur from the Queensland boundary, In 1888 Mr. Favenc ​published a "History of Australian Exploration" (London and Sydney). Mr. Favenc has the advantage of being a good artist as well as a facile writer. His magnum opus, the "History of Australian Exploration," was dedicated to Sir Henry Parkes, and was published in one large volume at the expense of the New South Wales Government. Prior to the issue of the work on Exploration, Mr. Favenc had published two other brochures, entitled respectively, "The Great Australian Plain," and "Western Australia."
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Farrell, John

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​Farrell, John, was born in Buenos Ayres, La Plata, South America, on Dec. 18th, 1851, of Irish parentage. He came with his parents to Victoria in the following year, and up to the age of twenty was engaged in farming in that colony. He afterwards learned the trade of a brewer in Sandhurst, and followed this business for several years in New South Wales. He contributed during this period a number of poems on Australia and other subjects to various periodicals, notably the Bulletin, which attracted a good deal of notice; and in 1887 published a volume, "How He Died, and other Poems." On the publication of "Progress and Poverty," Mr. Farrell became convinced that Henry George had found the solution to the problems of social want and misery, and has since largely devoted himself to the work of spreading abroad a knowledge of the single tax principle. In 1888 he established a newspaper at Lithgow, N.S.W., with this object, which had a considerable influence on public thought. In 1889 he joined with several others in bringing Henry George through the colonies on a lecturing tour, and in June 1890 became editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph. Some months afterwards he resigned this position, but remains on the editorial staff of that journal. Mr, Farrell was married in Melbourne in 1876, and is regarded as one of the most uncompromising leaders of the Single Tax Movement in Australia.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Fehon, William Meeke

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​Fehon, William Meeke, Commissioner of Railways, New South Wales, was born on March 5th, 1834, in London. He was employed on some of the leading railway companies in England and Canada, prior to emigrating to Victoria, where he arrived in April 1858, and was appointed traffic manager of the Victoria railways. Mr. Fehon subsequently engaged in pastoral and commercial pursuits, but in 1888 accepted a position as one of the Commissioners of Railways in New South Wales.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Fellows, Hon. Thomas Howard

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​Fellows, Hon. Thomas Howard, formerly Puisne Judge, Victoria, son of Thomas Fellows, of Moneyhill, Herts, solicitor, was born in England in 1823, and, after being educated at Eton and studying under Chitty in London, was ​called to the bar in 1852, and soon afterwards emigrated to Victoria. In that colony he gained a high repute in his profession, and, having become a member of the old Legislative Council in 1855, was appointed Solicitor-General in the Haines Ministry in June 1856, in succession to Mr. (afterwards Sir) Robert Molesworth, who was raised to the bench. This post he held till Feb. 1857, when he succeeded Sir William Stawell (appointed Chief Justice) as Attorney-General. In the meantime responsible government had been inaugurated, and Mr. Fellows had been returned to the first Legislative Assembly for St. Kilda as the colleague of Mr. (now Sir) F. T. Sargood. In March 1857 Mr. Fellows retired from office on the defeat of the Haines Ministry. They came back to power again a month later, and Mr. Fellows was their Solicitor-General till March 1858, when he quitted the Assembly, and was elected to the Legislative Council, in opposition to Mr. T. T. à-Beckett. He represented the Nicholson Ministry in the Upper House, without portfolio, from Oct. to Nov. 1860. In Oct. 1863 Mr. Fellows joined that powerful combination, the first MᶜCulloch Ministry, as Postmaster-General, but quitted the Cabinet in March 1864, as soon as the drift of their policy was made apparent. He now appeared as the determined opponent of his former colleagues, and led the Council in their resistance to the Tariff and Darling grant "tacks." The better to champion the cause of the Conservative party, he resigned his seat in the Council, and was returned in 1867 to the Legislative Assembly for St. Kilda. The MᶜCullochites commanded an overwhelming majority in the Lower House, but Mr. Fellows discharged the difficult task of marshalling his meagre minority with conspicuous tact and ability. In 1868 Sir James MᶜCulloch resigned, owing to a difference with the Governor over the procedure to be pursued in relation to the Darling grant; and after prolonged negotiations, during the course of which Mr. Fellows was frequently suggested as Premier, Sir Charles Sladen agreed to champion the forlorn hope of the Council in their constitutional battle with the Assembly, Mr. Fellows agreeing to take the leadership of the latter body, with the portfolio of Minister of Justice. In spite of several hostile votes carried against them in the popular Chamber, the Sladen Ministry held on from May 6th to July 11th, 1868, when the crisis was terminated by a request from Sir Charles Darling that the grant should be withdrawn, as he had made his peace with the Colonial Office. Mr. Fellows did not again take office, though he remained in the Assembly till 1872, when, it having been decided to nominate a fifth Puisne Judge, he was appointed to that position by the Francis Ministry, and remained on the bench till his death, on April 8th, 1878.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Vogel, Hermann Wilhelm

Edition of 1920. See also Hermann Wilhelm Vogel on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
VOGEL, Hermann Wilhelm, German photochemist and spectrum-analyst: b. Dobrilugk, Lower Lusatia, Prussia, 26 March 1834; d. Berlin, 17 Dec. 1898. He studied at the Royal Industrial Institute of Berlin, in 1860-65 was an assistant in the mineralogical museum of the University of Berlin, and from 1884 was director of the photo-technical laboratory of the Technical Institute there. He twice visited the United States (1870, 1883). His studies were directed in particular to the processes of photo-chemistry, the absorption-spectrum and the spectra of oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen. His silver-tester, photometer for pigment-printing and heliotype-printing, and universal spectroscope were introduced into general use. Among his writings was a ‘Handbuch der Photographie,’ of which numerous editions appeared. His ‘Das Photographische Pigmentverfahren’ was also frequently reprinted.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Volkmann, Richard von

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VOLKMANN, Richard von (“Richard Leander”), German surgeon and author, son of Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann (q.v.): b. Leipzig, Germany, 17 Aug. 1830; d. Jena, Germany, 28 Nov. 1889. He was educated at Halle, Giessen and Berlin, in 1857-67 was private-docent of surgery at Halle, becoming professor of surgery and chief of the hospital at that university in 1867. He was a surgeon in the army during the wars of 1866 and 1870-71, becoming surgeon-general in the latter war. He was eminent as a lecturer, made many important investigations in surgery and pathology, and was among the pioneers in introducing the surgical methods of Lister into Germany. He wrote ‘Traumereien au französischen Kaminen Märchen’ (1871; 24th ed., 1894); ‘Aus der Burscheuzeit’ (1876); ‘Gedichte’ (1877); while among his professional writings are ‘Beiträge zur Chirurgie’ (1875); ‘Be merkungen über einige vom Krebs zu trennende Geschwülste’ (1858), etc.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Volkmann, Wilhelm Fridolin

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VOLKMANN, Wilhelm Fridolin, Ritter von Volkmar, German philosopher: b. 1821; d. 1877. He was born and educated at Prague, where he later was made professor of philosophy. He is probably the most conspicuous expounder of the general principles of Herbart's psychology. These are set forth in his ‘Lehrbuch der Psychologie’ (3d ed., by Cornelius, 1884-85).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Vogel, Eduard

Edition of 1920. See also Eduard Vogel on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer. The name of (Hugh) Clapperton erroneously appears here where James Richardson's ought to be.
VOGEL, fō'gĕl, Eduard, German explorer: b. Crefeld, Prussia, 7 March 1829; d. Wara, Wadai, about 8 Feb. 1856. He was educated at Leipzig and at Berlin, making a special study of astronomy and natural science. In 1851-53
he assisted Hind at Bishop's Observatory in London, and in the latter year was selected by the English government to conduct an expedition to join that of Clapperton, Barth and Overweg in central Africa. He sailed from England, 20 Feb. 1853, and on 13 Jan. 1854 reached Kuka, the capital of Bornu. From this point he made several expeditions into the surrounding country, and on 1 Dec. 1854 met Barth near Zinder. He penetrated south to Yacobi and the Benue, and on 1 Dec. 1855 returned to Kuka. From this time his notes of his explorations cease, but subsequent information discloses that he set out to the east on 1 Jan. 1856, reached Wara in Wadai, and was there assassinated. For his notes consult ‘Erinneningen an einen Verschollenen,’ by his sister, Elise Polko (1863); also Pahde, ‘Der Afrikaforscher Eduard Vogel’ (1889).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Volkmann, Alfred Wilhelm

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VOLKMANN, fōlk'män, Alfred Wilhelm, German physiologist; b. Leipzig, Germany, 1 June 1801; d. Halle, Germany, 21 April 1877. He was educated in Leipzig, London and Paris, was appointed professor of physiology at Dorpat in 1837, and in 1843 accepted the chair of physiology and anatomy at the University of Halle. He made a specialty of the study of the nervous and optic systems. He writings include ‘Anatomy of Animals’ (1831-33); ‘The Independence of the Sympathetic System of Nerves’ (1842); ‘Elasticity of Muscles’ (1856); ‘Physiological Researches in the Department of Optics’ (1863-64), etc.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Volk, Douglas

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VOLK, Douglas, American artist: b. Pittsfield, Mass., 23 Feb. 1856. He acquired his art by study at Rome, Italy, and with Gérôme in Paris (1873-78). He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1875. He was instructor at Cooper Institute, New York (1879-94; 1908-12); instructor of the Art Students' League; organized the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts (1896) and has been instructor in the National Academy of Design, New York, since 1910. He has won innumerable medals and is a member of many societies. Good examples of his work are found in most American collections, e.g., in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa.; in the Corcoran Gallery at Washington, D. C.; in the Pittsfield Museum; in the Minnesota Capitol; in the National Museum at Washington; in the Montclair (N. J.) Art Museum; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; in the National Arts Club; in the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery; in the Muskegon, Mich., Art Museum; in the Omaha Art Museum and in the Portland, Me., Art Society, etc.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Volk, Leonard Wells

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VOLK, Leonard Wells, American sculptor: b. Wellstown, N. Y., 7 Nov. 1828; d. Osceola, Wis., 19 Aug. 1895. He was employed as a marble cutter in his father's shop and devoted his spare time to modeling, producting a bust of Henry Clay among his first pieces of work.
Later he studied art in Italy (1855-57) under the patronage of Stephen A. Douglas, and on his return established himself in Chicago, where he modeled a bust of Douglas. He produced many works, including the life size statues of Douglas and Lincoln (1876) in the Illinois State capitol.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Vogel, Julius

Edition of 1920. See also Julius Vogel on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
VOGEL, Sir Julius, Australasian statesman: b. London, 24 Feb. 1835; d. near there, 12 March 1899. He was educated at the London University College School and at the Royal School of Mines, and in 1851, attracted by the discoveries of gold in Australia, went to Melbourne. He engaged in journalism, and in 1861 established in Otago, New Zealand, the Daily Times, the first and still the leading morning newspaper in that colony. In 1863 he entered the New Zealand House of Representatives and in 1869 he was appointed colonial treasurer, and subsequently was postmaster-general, commissioner of customs and prime minister. He resigned the latter office in 1876 and was agent-general for New Zealand in London in 1876-81. In 1884 he re-entered New Zealand politics, was elected to Parliament and again appointed treasurer but in 1888 resigned and returned to England. He was afterward engaged under the New Zealand government in London until his death. He greatly furthered immigration to New Zealand, was instrumental in building railways, was active in bringing about the Australian federation, and secured the passage of a law for inscribing colonial stocks. He was knighted in I875. His writings include ‘Great Britain and Her Colonies’ (1865); ‘Official Handbook of New Zealand’ (1875); ‘A. D. 2000,’ a novel, etc.