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# The Golden Threshold/Folk Songs/Village-Song

VILLAGE-SONG
Honey, child, honey, child, whither are you going? Would you cast your jewels all to the breezes blowing? Would you leave the mother who on golden grain has fed you? Would you grieve the lover who is riding forth to wed you?
Mother mine, to the wild forest I am going. Where upon the champa boughs the champa buds are blowing; To the köil-haunted river-isles where lotus lilies glisten. The voices of the fairy-folk are calling me: O listen!
​Honey, child, honey, child, the world is full of pleasure, Of bridal-songs and cradle-songs and sandal-scented leisure. Your bridal robes are in the loom, silver and saffron glowing, Your bridal cakes are on the hearth: O whither are you going?
The bridal-songs and cradle-songs have cadences of sorrow, The laughter of the sun to-day, the wind of death to-morrow. Far sweeter sound the forest-notes where forest-streams are falling; O mother mine, I cannot stay, the fairy-folk are calling.
# The Golden Threshold/Poems/Indian Dancers

INDIAN DANCERS
Eyes ravished with rapture, celestially panting, what passionate bosoms aflaming with fire Drink deep of the hush of the hyacinth heavens that glimmer around them in fountains of light; O wild and entrancing the strain of keen music that cleaveth the stars like a wail of desire, And beautiful dancers with houri-like faces bewitch the voluptuous watches of night.
The scents of red roses and sandalwood flutter and die in the maze of their gem-tangled hair, ​And smiles are entwining like magical serpents the poppies of lips that are opiate-sweet; Their glittering garments of purple are burning like tremulous dawns in the quivering air, And exquisite, subtle and slow are the tinkle and tread of their rhythmical, slumber-soft feet.
Now silent, now singing and swaying and swinging, like blossoms that bend to the breezes or showers, Now wantonly winding, they flash, now they falter, and, lingering, languish in radiant choir; Their jewel-girt arms and warm, wavering, lily-long fingers enchant through melodious hours, Eyes ravished with rapture, celestially panting, what passionate bosoms aflaming with fire!
# Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Avaru

​Avaru.—A synonym of Agaru.
# Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Aviri

​Aviri (Indigofera tinctoria).—An exogamous sept of Padma Sālē's, who use indigo in the manufacture of coloured cloth fabrics.
# Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Badagi

​Badagi.— The carpenter sub-division of Pānchālas.
# Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Atikunnan

​Atikunnan.—Recorded, in the Travancore Census Report, 1901, as a sub-division of Nāyar.
# Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Avisa

​Avisa (Sesbania grandiflora).—A gōtra of Mēdara.
# Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Attikankana

​Attikankana (cotton marriage thread).—A sub-division of Kurubas, who tie a cotton thread round the wrist at weddings.
# Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Ayōdhya

​Ayōdhya (Oudh).—A sub-division of Kāpus, who say that they originally lived in Oudh.
# Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Aunvallur

​Aunvallur (possessors of cattle).—A fanciful name for Idaiyans.
# The House of Intrigue

Arthur Stringer's "The House of Intrigue" is a second detective story with a familiar crew of thieves of both sexes, lawyers, a doctor, an heiress, and a detective, who at the end straightens out the whole affair. If only Mr. Stringer, who is a writer of real ability, had chosen a more startling climax and a better explanation for the mystery the book would have been one of the biggest successes ever offered to a public demanding to be thrilled. As it is, the story is entertaining and worthy of banishing sleep until the end is reached. —The Forum, June 1918.
THE HOUSE OF INTRIGUE
By ARTHUR STRINGER
Author of THE PRAIRIE WIFE, THE DOOR OF DREAD, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY
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Copyright 1918 The Bobbs-Merrill Company
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THE HOUSE OF INTRIGUE
* Chapter I
* Chapter II
* Chapter III
* Chapter IV
* Chapter V
* Chapter VI
* Chapter VII
* Chapter VIII
* Chapter IX
* Chapter X
* Chapter XI
* Chapter XII
* Chapter XIII
* Chapter XIV
* Chapter XV
* Chapter XVI
* Chapter XVII
* Chapter XVIII
* Chapter XIX
* Chapter XX
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# The House of Falling Leaves/The House of Falling Leaves

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THE HOUSE OF FALLING LEAVES
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OFF our New England coast the sea to-night Is moaning the full sorrow of its heart: There is no will to comfort it apart Since moon and stars are hidden from its sight. And out beyond the furthest harbor-light There runs a tide that marks not any chart Wherewith man knows the ending and the start Of that long voyage in the infinite.
If change and fate and hapless circumstance May baffle and perplex the moaning sea, And day and night in alternate advance Still hold the primal Reasoning in fee, Cannot my Grief be strong enough to chance My voice across the tide I cannot see?
II
We go from house to house, from town to town, And fill the distance full of smiles and words; We take all pleasure that our strength affords And care not if the sun be up or down. The way of it no man has ever known— But suddenly there is a snap of chords Within the heart that sounds like hollow boards,— We question every shadow that is thrown.
O to be near when the last word is said! And see the last reflection in the eye— For when the word is brought our friend is dead, How bitter is the tear that will not dry, Because so far away our steps are led When Love should draw us close to say Good-bye!
III
Four seasons are there to the circling year: Four houses where the dreams of men abide— The stark and naked Winter without pride, The Spring like a young maiden soft and fair; The Summer like a bride about to bear The issue of the love she deified; And lastly, Autumn, on the turning tide That ebbs the voice of nature to its bier.
Four houses with two spacious chambers each, Named Birth and Death, wherein Time joys and grieves. Is there no Fate so wise enough to teach Into which door Life enters and retrieves? What matter since his voice is out of reach, And Sorrow fills My House of Falling Leaves!
IV
The House of Falling Leaves we entered in— He and I—we entered in and found it fair; At midnight some one called him up the stair, And closed him in the Room I could not win. Now must I go alone out in the din Of hurrying days: for forth he cannot fare; I must go on with Time, and leave him there In Autumn's house where dreams will soon grow thin.
When Time shall close the door unto the house And opens that of Winter's soon to be, And dreams go moving through the ruined boughs— He who went in comes out a Memory. From his deep sleep no sound may e'er arouse,— The moaning rain, nor wind-embattled sea.
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# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Priestley, Neville George

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​Priestley, Neville George, Indian P.W.D., (retired); joined service as Assistant Superintendent, State Railways, 1879; became District Traffic Superintendent, 1884; services lent to B.B. and C.I. Railway Co.; also to E.B. Railway Co.; Agent, S.I.R. Co., 1906; retired, 1911; Director of S.I.Ry. Co., London, since 1911; came out to India for the opening of the Indo-Ceylon Railway, and welcomed Their Excellencies the Governors of Madras and Ceylon, on behalf of the Directors, 1914. Address: c/o India Office, London.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Primrose, Sir Henry William

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​Primrose, Sir Henry William, C.S.I. (1885), C.B. (1895), K.C.B. (1889), I.S.O. (1904); s. of B.S. Primrose; b. 1846; educ: at Glenalmond and Balliol College, Oxford; joined service in the Treasury, 1869; Private Secretary to Viceroy of India, late Lord Ripon, 1880-84; Private Secretary to late Mr. Gladstone, 1866; Chairman, Board of Customs, 1895-99; Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue, 1899-07; Chairman, Pacific Cable Board, 1908; Delegate, Sugar Bounty Conference, Brussels, 1901. Address: 44, Ennismore Gardens, S.W. Club: Brooks.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Prinsep, Sir Henry Thoby

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​Prinsep, Sir Henry Thoby, Kt., (1896); K.C.I.E. (1894), Judge, High Court, Calcutta; s. of late H. I. Prinsep; b. 1836; educ: Harrow, and Haileybury College; joined I.C.S. in Bengal, 1855; served in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58; Judicial Commissioner, Mysore, 1876; Judge, High Court, Calcutta, 1877, Additional Member, Imperial Legislative Council, 1897-98; retired, 1904. Address: 31, Hyde Park Gardens, S.W. Club: East India United Service.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Pritchard, L. E.

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​Pritchard, L. E., Accountant General, Bengal; joined service as Probationer, 1883; became Comptroller, Hyderabad, 1891; services lent to the State of Jammu and Kashmir where he ​was Accountant-General, 1899; became Deputy Comptroller General, 1905; Accountant-General successively of the Punjab, 1908; Madras, 1910; Burma; and also of Bengal, 1914. Address: Calcutta, India.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Prithiraj Singh

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​Prithiraj Singh, Maharaj, Patna; belongs to Chubau clan of Rajputs; succeeded to estate, 1910; area of the estate, 2,399 sq. miles; population, 3 lakhs. Address: Patna, Sambalpur District, Bengal Presidency, India.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Prendergast, Sir Harry North Dalrymple

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​Prendergast, Sir Harry North Dalrymple, G C.B. (1902), K.C.B. (1885); C.B. (1875); s. of Thomas Prendergast, M.C.S.; b. 1834; educ: Cheltenham and Addiscombe; entered Indian Engineers in Madras, 1854; became General, 1887; served in the Persian War, 1857; served in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-8; in the Central India Field Force; gained the V.C., at Mandiswar saving the life of Lt. Dew of the 14th Light Dragoons at the risk of his own, by attempting to cut down a rebel, 1857; also for gallantry in actions, when A.D.C. to Sir Hugh Rose, at Ratghat and Betwa; Brevet-Major; in Abesinian War, 1867-8; commanded Sappers in the Expedition to Malta, 1878; acted as Military Secretary to Government of Madras; commanded Western Districts, 1880; Ceded Districts, 1881; commanded the British Burma Division, 1883; Hyderabad Subsidiary Force, 1884; Burma Expedition; 1885-6; Offg. Resident, Travancore and Cochin, 1887; Offg. Resident in Mysore, 1887; Governor-General’s Agent, Baroda, 1889; Governor General’s Agent, Beluchistan, 1889; Offg. Resident in Mysore and Commissioner of Coorg, 1891-2. Address: 2 Haran Court, Richmond, Surrey. Club: United Service.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Price, Sir John Frederick

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​Price, Sir John Frederick, C.S.I. (1893), K.C.S.I. (1898), T.C.S. (retired); e.s. of late John Price; g.s. of late Sir Rose Price of Trengwainton; first Baronet; b. 1839; educ: Melbourne; joined I.C.S. in Madras, 1862; served in the lower grades in various places; became Chief Secretary to Government, 1888; Member, Legislative Council, Madras; retired, 1897. Publications: The Private Diary of Anantharanga Pillai (translated from Tamil). Address: Trengwainton, Exmouth, S. Devon.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Preston, Sidney

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​Preston, Sidney, C.I.E. (1901), P.W.D. India (retired); b. in London, 1850; educ; University Collegiate School and King’s College, London; joined service in the Indian P.W.D., 1870; served in the Irrigation department in the Punjab and in the United Provinces; became Secretary, Government of India (P.W.D.) and Inspector General of Irrigation; retired, 1905; Associate Member, Institute of Civil Engineers; Member of the Society of Arts; Fellow, King’s College, London. Address; 3, Helena Road, Ealing, W.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Prideaux, Col. William Francis

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​Prideaux, Col. William Francis, C.S.I. (1895); b. 1840; s. of F W. Prideaux of the India Office, London; educ: at Aldenham; served in India Office, 1859; joined the Bombay Army, 1860, and Staff Corps, 1865; served with Mr. Rassam’s Mission to King Theodore of Abyssinia, 1864; imprisoned at Magdala from July 1866 to April 1868; employed under the Foreign Office in India; acting Consul-General at Zanzibar, 1873-75; in the Persian Gulf, 1876-77; Resident in Jaipur, Udaipur and Kashmir; became Colonel, 1890. Publications: the Lay of the Himyarites; many papers on Archaeology and Numismatics besides notes for a Biography of Edward Fitzgerald; a Biography of R. L. Stevenson.
# Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Allah

From volume 1 of the work.
​Allah, the name of God in Arabic. It is a compound word from the article, 'al, and ilāh, divinity, and signifies "the god" par excellence. This form of the divine name is in itself a sure proof that ilāh was at one time an appellative, common to all the local and tribal gods. Gradually, with the addition of the article, it was restricted to one of them who took precedence of the others; finally, with the triumph of monotheism, He was recognized as the only true God. In one form or another this Hebrew root אל occurs in all Semitic languages as a designation of the Divinity; but whether אל was originally a proper name, pointing to a primitive monotheism, with subsequent deviation into polytheism and further rehabilitation, or was from the beginning an appellative which became a proper name only when the Semites had reached monotheism is a much debated question. It is certain, however, that before the time of Mohammed, owing to their contact with Jews and Christians, the Arabs were generally monotheists. The notion of Allah in Arabic theology is substantially the same as that of God among the Jews, and also among the Christians, with the exception of the Trinity, which is positively excluded in the Koran, cxii: "Say God, is one God, the eternal God, he begetteth not, neither is he begotten and there is not any one like unto him." His attributes, denied by the heterodox Motazilites, are ninety-nine in number. Each one of them is represented by a bead in the Moslem chaplet, while on the one hundredth and larger bead, the name of Allah itself is pronounced. It is preposterous to assert with Curtiss (Ursemitische Religion, 119) that the nomadic tribes of Arabia, consider seriously the Oum-el-Gheith, "mother of the rain", as the bride of Allah and even if the expression were used such symbolical language would not impair, in the least, the purity of monotheism held by those tribes. (Cf. Revue Biblique, Oct., 1906, 580 sqq.) Let it be noted that although Allah is an Arabic term, it is used by all Moslems, whatever be their language, as the name of God.
D'Herbelot, Bibliothèque Orientale (Maastricht, 1776). s.v. Allah; Smith, The Religion of the Semites, (2d ed. London, 1901); Lagrange, Etudes sur les Religions Sémitiques (Paris, 1903).
R. Butin.
# Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Allori

From volume 1 of the work.
​Allori, (1) Angiolo di Cosimo, called Il Bronzino, an exceptionally able painter and a poet, b. at Ponticello, near Florence, in 1502; d. at Florence in 1572. He was a pupil of Raffaelino del Garbo and later of Jacopo da Pontormo, whom he assisted, and some of whose unfinished works he completed. Allori, who was the friend of Vasari, became court painter to the Medicean tyrant Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Among his brilliant series of portraits are those of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. A great admirer of Michael Angelo, his work shows that master's grandiose influence. Among his religious, allegorical, and historical paintings the chief is the "Limbo", or "Descent of Christ into Hell", in the Uffizi. For Florentine public buildings Allori executed various works. Some of his most notable paintings in public galleries are "Young Sculptor", "Boy with a Letter", "A Lady", and "Ferdinando de' Medici", in the Uffizi; "The Engineer", at the Pitti Palace; "Cosimo I", "Knight of St. Stephan", "A Lady", and "Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time", in the National Gallery in London, the last two painted for Francis I of France; "Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen", in the Louvre; the "Dead Christ", in the Florence Academy; and "Venus and Cupid", at Buda-Pesth. In the galleries of Vienna and Dresden appear portraits of his patron, Cosimo, accompanied by the Duchess Eleonora. Similar portraits are found at Lucca in both the Royal Palace and the Communal Gallery, and in Rome in the palace of the Borghese. The duchess is also represented at the Uffizi.
(2) Allessandro, a nephew of (1), b. at Florence, 1535, d. there 1607, was an artist of much ability and was patronized by the Grand Duke Francesco.
(3) Cristofano, Allessandro's son, known as Bronzino the Younger, b. at Florence, 1577, d. there 1621, a pupil of his father, of Santo di Tito and Cigoli, and of somewhat irregular life, was a painter of talent both in figure and landscape and one of the best colourists of the Florentine school.
Vasari, Lives of the Painters (Eng. Tr. London, 1850; New York, 1896); Charles Blanc, L'Ecole Florentine, in his Histoire des peinires de toutes les ecoles (40 vols., Paris, 1848–76); Baldinucci, Notizie de' professori del disegno da Cimabue in quà (Florence, 1681–1728, 1767–74, 1846–47; Turin, 1768 ​1817). Desobry and Bachelet Dictionnaire général, (Paris, 1857, 1883); Champlin and Perkins, Cyclopedia of Painters and Painting (New York, 1887); Bryan, Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (London and New York, 1903–5).
Augustus Van Cleef.
# Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Aloisio Gardellini

From volume 6 of the work.
Born at Rome, 4 Aug., 1759; died there, 8 Oct., 1829. He is famous chiefly for his collection of the decrees of the Congregation of Rites. Until 1587, the celebration of the Sacrifice of the Mass and the administration of the sacraments had been subject to regulations made by various popes. Necessarily, in the course of time, these regulations became somewhat confused by reason of overlapping, amplification, and abolition. In the year mentioned above, Sixtus V, in the Constitution "Immensae aeterni Dei", called into being a body of cardinals, bishops, and clerics, whose work was to guard and guide the decorous celebration of the church offices. A collection of papal regulations and congregational decrees was published in 1730 by John Baptist Pithonius, a Venetian priest, the title of his book being "Constitutiones pontificae et Romanorum Congregationum decisiones ad sacros Ritus spectantes". This work was somewhat imperfect, and it was not until 1807 that Gardellini published the first two volumes of his well-known collection of the decrees of the Congregation of Rites, to which was prefixed "Sacrorum rituum studiosis monitum". Gardellini was a very profound student, especially of the liturgy and kindred subjects, and in diligence, piety, and learning was unexcelled. His collection of decrees gives evidence of most painstaking labour, and comprises all the decrees from 1602. Three further volumes were published in 1816, and a sixth volume was brought out in 1819. This volume contained more recent decrees down to the date of publication, and also the Commentary on the Clementine Instruction regarding the devotion of the Forty Hours. There were a few slight errors in the complete work, and the exacting love of perfection, so characteristic of Gardellini, would not allow him to leave these errors uncorrected. Accordingly, a new and corrected edition was published in 1827, and in this edition he included certain answers given between the years 1558 and 1599. In recognition of his great services, Gardellini was appointed assessor of the Congregation of Rites. Other editions of the decrees have been issued subsequently, but the collection of Gardellini is the foundation of them all; the latest is that of Muhlbauer with the decrees in alphabetical order (1863-65; with five supplementary volumes, 1876-87). The latest edition of the "Decreta Authentica" of the Congregation of Rites was published in 1898.
DAVID DUNFORD
# Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Alma

From volume 1 of the work.
​Alma, a Hebrew word signifying a "young woman", unmarried as well as married, and thus distinct from bēthúlah, "a virgin" (see Hebrew Lexicons). The interest that attaches to this word is due to the famous passage of Isaias, vii, 14: "the Alma shall conceive", etc. We can only mention some of the various opinions with regard to the meaning of Alma in this verse. She is said to be, (1) the wife of Achaz; (2) the prophetess mentioned in Is., viii, 3; (3) any young married woman, who on account of the promised victory of Judah, could at some near date call her child Immanuel (God with us); (4) metaphorically, the Chosen People; (5) the Virgin Mother of the Messiah. This last view is the one adopted by St. Matthew, i, 23, and after him by Christian tradition. (See Emmanuel; Messias.)
Condamin, and other Commentaries on Isaias.
R. Butin.