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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Storey, James

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​STOREY. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 14; h-p., 32.)
James Storey entered the Navy, in March, 1801, as A.B., on board the Zealous 74, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzee, with whom he was for 16 months employed in the Baltic, off the port of Cadiz, and in the West Indies. He served next, from 27 Oct. 1803 until 7 Aug. 1809, nearly the whole time as Midshipman, in the Lyra Impress-tender, Lieut.-Commanders Nathaniel Thos. France, Thos. Flinn, Thos. Dowell, and Robt. Daniell Lancaster, at North Shields and at Sheerness; he then joined the Ville de Paris 110, of which ship, bearing the flags in the Mediterranean of Admirals Lord Collingwood and Thos. Fras. Fremantle, he was created a Lieutenant 28 April, 1810; and he was subsequently, between Feb. 1813 and Sept. 1815, employed at Portsmouth in the Royal William and Prince, bearing each the flag of Sir Rich. Bickerton, Boyne, commanded by himself, and Prince again, flag-ship of Sir R. Bickerton and Sir Edw. Thornbrough. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Story, Henry Alexander

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​STORY. (Commander, 1846. f-p., 12; h-p., 9.)
Henry Alexander Story was born 25 July, 1813.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College in Dec. 1826; and embarked, 11 Dec. 1828, as Midshipman, on board the Madagascar 46, Capt. Hon. Sir Robt. Cavendish Spencer, stationed in the Mediterranean; where he removed in succession to the Aetna bomb, Capt. Stephen Lushington, and Windsor Castle 76, Capt. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie. He served afterwards in the West Indies until Nov. 1833 (in Aug. of which year he passed his examination) in the Sapphire 28, Capt. Hon. Wm. Wellesley, Falcon 10, Capt. John Garrett, Fly 18, Capt. Peter M‘Quhae, and Blanche 46, Capt. Arthur Farquhar. He was next, in Feb. 1837, nominated Mate of the Russell 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Henry Dillon, in the Mediterranean; he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 28 June, 1838; and he was subsequently appointed – 10 April, 1839, to the Druid 44, Capt. Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill, from which ship, after participating in the earlier operations of the war in China, and assisting at the capture of the enemy’s forts at Tycocktow and Chuenpee, he invalided early in 1841 – 15 Dec. 1842, as First, to the Gorgon steamer, Capt. Chas. Hotham, fitting for South America, whence he returned about Oct. 1843 – and 11 Oct. 1845, in a similar capacity, to the Retribution steam-frigate, Capt. Stephen Lushington, attached to the Channel squadron. He attained his present rank 9 Nov. 1846; and has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stother, John Meyricke

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​STOTHER. (Retired Commander, 1846. f-p., 19; h-p., 27.)
John Meyricke Stother was born 14 Sept. 1785. This officer entered the Navy, 13 July, 1801, as L.M., on board the Dreadnought 98, Capt. Jas. Vashon, stationed off Cadiz, whence he returned to England and was paid off in July, 1802. In the following Nov. he became Midshipman (a rating he had attained in Sept. 1801) of the Caroline 36, Capt. Benj. Wm. Page, fitting for the East Indies; during his passage whither he contributed to the capture, among other vessels, of the De Haasje Dutch brig-of-war. Six months after he had left the Caroline he was received, in June, 1804, on board the Ruby 64, Capts. Chas. Rowley, Corbet Jas. d’Auvergne, Temple Hardy, and John Draper; in which ship he served off the Texel, accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen, and continued employed, off Lisbon and Cadiz, until April, 1808. In June of the latter year he removed as Master’s Mate to the Ardent 64, Capt. Jas. Giles Vashon, on the Leith station; where, on 9 Nov. in the same year, he was confirmed a Lieutenant (rather more than three months after he had been ordered to act as such) in the Raven sloop, Capt. Fras. John Nott. He served next, from March, 1810, until Aug. 1815, off the Texel, in the Baltic, off Flushing, and in the Downs and Channel, in the Resolution 74, Capt. Temple Hardy, Conquestador 74, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, Redpole 10, Capts. Colin Macdonatd and Alex. Fraser, and York 74, Capt. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg; and from 19 Feb. 1826 until July, 1831, he was employed in the Coast Guard. He accepted his present rank 27 Jan. 1846.
Commander Stother is married. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stopford, Robert Fanshawe

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​STOPFORD. (Capt., 1840. f-p., 16; h-p., 7.)
Robert Fanshawe Stopford, born 19 Dec. 1811, is eldest son of the late Admiral Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.
This officer entered the Navy 6 Aug. 1824; and obtained his first commission 24 Dec. 1830. His succeeding appointments were – 25 Feb. 1831, to the St. Vincent 120, Capt. Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, stationed in the Mediterranean, where he remained for about three years – 12 Aug. 1835, to the Cleopatra 26, Capt. Hon. Geo. Grey, in which ship he escorted the Countess of Durham and suite to St. Petersburgh, then proceeded to South America, and ultimately conveyed the Marquess of Clanricarde as Ambassador to the former Court – and, 7 April, 1837, to the Princess Charlotte 104, as Flag-Lieutenant to his father in the Mediterranean. He was advanced to the rank of Commander 28 June, 1838; was appointed in that capacity to the Zebra 16 and Phoenix steamer, both in the ​mediterranean, 3 Jan. 1839 and 1 March, 1840; and on 4 Nov. in the latter year was promoted to the rank he now holds, as a reward for his services on the coast of Syria and at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre; with the despatches relative to which latter event he was sent home. He obtained command, 13 March, 1841, of the Talbot 26, again in the Mediterranean, whence he returned to England and was paid off in April, 1842; and since 25 Aug. 1847 he has been serving in the Asia 84, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby in the Pacific.
Capt. Stopford married, in 1843, Emily Anna, daughter of the late Capt. Wm. Wilbraham, R.N. (1809). Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stoyle, Henry

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​STOYLE. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Henry Stoyle entered the Navy 9 Sept. 1818; passed his examination 7 Oct. 1829; obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard 4 June, 1841; and was advanced, 23 Nov. following, to the rank of Lieutenant. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stratford, William Samuel

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​STRATFORD, F.R.S. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 7; h-p., 34.)
William Samuel Stratford entered the Navy 10 Feb. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Pompée 74, Capt. Rich. Dacres; and while in that ship, which bore the flags successively of Admirals Sir Wm. Sidney Smith and Henry Edwin Stanhope, he co-operated in the defence of Gaeta and the reduction of Capri, accompanied the expedition to the Dardanells, assisted at the destruction of a Turkish squadron off Point Pesquies, and was present as Midshipman in the attack upon Copenhagen. After serving for a few weeks with Capt. John Serrell in the Victory 104, at Chatham, he rejoined Sir W. S. Smith, in March, 1808, on board the Foudroyant 80, and sailed for the coast of Brazil. On his return home in May, 1809, he was nominated Master’s Mate of the Puissant 74, Capt. Hall, lying at Spithead; he served next, in that capacity, from 15 April, 1810, until 12 March, 1812, in the Theseus 74, Capt. Wm. Prowse, in the North Sea; and on 14 March, 1815, he was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant. He has since been on half-pay.
Since 22 April, 1831, Lieut. Stratford, who is a Fellow of the Royal Society, has been Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac. He published, in 1831, ‘An Index to the Stars in the Catalogue of the Royal Astronomical Society;’ and in 1838 a volume ‘On the Elements of the Orbit of Halley’s Comet.’ He is married and has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Strangways, Edmund Ludlow

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​STRANGWAYS. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Edmund Ludlow Strangways entered the Navy 5 Feb. 1830; passed his examination 10 July, 1837; and for his services in the Hon.E.I.Co.’s war-steamer Nemesis under the present Capt. Wm. Hutcheon Hall, during the war in China (where he landed, 27 Feb. 1841, and assisted at the capture of 54 pieces of cannon on the enemy’s works close to Whampoa Reach), was promoted, after he had been further, for about 12 months, employed in the Mediterranean in the Formidable 84, Capt. Sir Chas. Sullivan, to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Dec. 1842. His succeeding appointments were – 29 April, 1843, as Additional, to the Illustrious 72, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Adam in North America and the West Indies – 1 Nov. following, to the Electra 18, Capt. Arthur Darley, on the same station – and 16 March, 1846, after a few months of half-pay, to the Favorite 14, Capt. Alex. Murray, fitting for the coast of Africa, where he was superseded about May, 1847. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, p. 1501.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p. 3821.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Strange, James Newburgh

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​STRANGE. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 15; h-p., 5.)
James Newburgh Strange was born 2 Oct. 1812.
This officer entered the Navy, 18 April, 1827, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hussar 46, Capt. Edw. Boxer, stationed on the coast of North America. He next, in Aug. and Nov. 1830, joined the Prince Regent 120 and Undaunted 46, Capts. Jas. Whitley Dean Dundas and Edw. Harvey; and after serving for about three years in the latter ship at the Cape of Good Hope, he was appointed, in April, 1834, Mate (he had passed his examination 13 May, 1833) of the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Thos. Hastings. From June, 1835, until April, 1837, he was employed in the Mediterranean in the Barham 50, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry; on his arrival home in June of the latter year in the Revenge 78, Capt. Wm. Elliott, he joined the Britannia 120, Capt. J. W. D. Dundas, lying at Portsmouth; and in the following Sept. he was placed on board the Pearl 20, Capt. Lord Clarence Edw. Paget, on the North America and West India station. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Feb. 1838, and was subsequently appointed – 24 Feb. and 29 July, 1838, to the Cornwallis 74, flagship of Hon. Sir Chas. Paget, and Inconstant 36, Capt. Dan. Pring, both on the station last named – 30 July, 1840, as Additional, after four months of half-pay, to the William and Mary yacht, Capt. Phipps Hornby – and in Oct. 1840 and Nov. 1841, to the Wilberforce and Albert steamers, Capts. Wm. Allen and Edm. Gardiner Fishbourne, in which vessels he continued employed on the Niger expedition, latterly as First-Lieutenant, until advanced to his present rank 30 March, 1842. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Strange, Thomas (a)

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​STRANGE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
Thomas Strange (a) entered the Navy, 9 Dec. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Fortunée 36, Capts. Henry Vansittart and Seymour; in which ship, after serving for nearly four years on the Channel and Irish stations, he conveyed Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle, towards the close of 1810, to the Mediterranean, and on 11 Oct. 1811, having returned with an Algerine Ambassador to England, assisted at the capture of a most notorious privateer, Le Vice-Amiral Martin, of 18 guns and 140 men. In July, 1812 (he had attained the ratings of Midshipman and Master’s Mate in Aug. 1808 and Oct. 1810), he was again placed under Capt. Vansittart, in the Clarence 74. In that ship he continued employed in the North Sea and off Brest and Rochefort until 30 July, 1813, when by some means he fell into the hands of the enemy. On his return from France in April, 1814, he again joined the Clarence, then commanded by Capt. Fred. Warren; in the following Aug. he removed to the Redwing 18, Capt. Thos. Young, stationed off Lisbon and in the West Indies; and in May, 1815, he was presented with a Lieutenant’s commission bearing date 15 Feb. preceding. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Strange married Eliza, daughter of Joseph Taylor, Esq., and sister of Thos. Taylor, Esq., M.D., of Dunkerrow Castle, co. Kerry. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Comettant, Oscar

From volume 1 of the work.
[ G. C. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Comma

From volume 1 of the work.
​COMMA. A comma is a very minute interval of sound, the difference resulting from the process of tuning up by several steps from one note to another in two different ways. There are two commas.
1. The common comma is found by tuning up four perfect fifths from a fixed note, on the one hand, and two octaves and a major third on the other, which ostensibly produce the same note, thus—
or by multiplying the number of the vibrations of the lowest note by ⅔ for each fifth, by 2 for each octave, and by $^5$⁄$_4$ for the perfect third. The result in each case will be found to be different, and the vibrations of the two sounds are found by the latter process to be in the ratio of 80:81. The difference between the two is a comma.
2. The comma maxima, or Pythagorean comma, is the difference resulting from the process of tuning up twelve perfect fifths on the one hand, and the corresponding number of octaves on the other; or, by multiplying the number of vibrations of the lowest note by 3/2 for every fifth, and by 2 for every octave. The difference will appear in the vibration of the two notes thus obtained in the ratio of 524,288:551,441, [App. p.595 "531,441"] or nearly 80:81.0915.
[ C. H. H. P. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Commer, Franz

From volume 1 of the work.
[ A. M. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Commano, Giovanni

From volume 1 of the work.
[ J. M. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Common Time

From volume 1 of the work.
​COMMON TIME. The rhythm of two or four beats in a bar, also called Equal time. According to the method of teaching usually observed in England, common time is divided into two kinds, Simple and Compound, Simple common time including all rhythms of two or four in a bar, except those in which the 'measure note,' or equivalent of a beat, is dotted; while a rhythm of two or four beats, each of which is dotted and therefore divisible into three, is called Compound common time. Thus 4-4 time or four crochets in a bar, and 2-4 or two crochets, are simple common times; while 6-4 or six crochets, 6-8 or six quavers, and 12-8 or twelve quavers, are compound common, because though the number of beats in a bar is even, each beat is of the value of three crochets or quavers respectively, and may be expressed by a dotted note. A better and more logical method is that taught in Germany, by which all rhythms are divided into Equal and Unequal, that is having two or three beats as a foundation, and each of these again into Simple and Compound; simple rhythms being such as have either two or three beats in a bar, the first alone accented, and compound rhythms those in which each bar is made up of two or more bars of simple time, and which have therefore two or more accents, the first being the strongest. It will be seen that according to this system, 4-4 time, which we call simple common time, will be considered as compound common, being made up of two bars of 2-4 time, just as 6-8 is compound common, being made up of two bars of 3-8 time. And this plan has the advantage that it allows for the secondary accent which properly belongs to the third beat of a bar of 4-4 time, but which is not accounted for by the theory that the time is simple.
[ F. T. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Compass

From volume 1 of the work.
​COMPASS, from the Latin compassus, 'a circle,' designates the range of notes of any voice or instrument as lying within the limits of the extreme sounds it is capable of producing.
The compass of the various instruments which are in use in modern music will be found under their respective names; but it may be said generally that it is limited in the direction of the bass, but often varies in the direction of the treble according to the skill of the player, except in instruments of fixed intonation.
The compass of a modern orchestra is generally from about the lowest note of the double basses to about E in altissimo, which can be taken by the violin if properly led up to.
The compass of voices for chorus purposes is from F below the bass stave to A above the treble stave. Solos are not often written above C in alt, except for special singers: as the part of Astrafiammante in Mozart's 'Zauberflöte,' which was written for Josepha Hofer, his sister-in-law, and goes up to F in altissimo. [See Agujari.]
[ C. H. H. P. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Commodo

[ M. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Compline

​COMPLINE (Lat. Completorium). The last of the 'Horæ Diurnæ,' or 'Day Hours,' of the Roman Ritual.
[ W. S. R. ]
# A Door just opened on a street—

A Door just opened on a street — I — lost — was passing by — An instant's Width of Warmth disclosed — And Wealth — and Company.
The Door as instant shut — And I — I — lost — was passing by — Lost doubly — but by contrast — most — Informing — misery —
# A Dream, after reading Dante's Episode of Paola and Francesca

* "On a Dream", in The Poetical Works of John Keats (1884)
* "A Dream, after reading Dante's Episode of Paolo and Francesca", in The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats (1899), edited by Horace Elisha Scudder
# A Dream (Blake)

"A Dream" was first published in Songs of Innocence (1789).
* "A Dream" in Songs of Innocence (1789)―for versions, see Songs of Innocence and of Experience
* "A Dream" in Poems That Every Child Should Know (1904)
# A Library Primer (1899)/Chapter XLVII

The Library department of the National educational association holds meetings annually at the same time and place with the N. E. A.
The National educational association is the largest organized body of members of the teaching profession in the world. Its annual meetings bring together from 5000 to 15,000 teachers of every grade, from the kindergarten to the university. It includes a number of departments, each devoted to a special branch of educational work. The Library department was established in 1897. It has held successful meetings. It is doing much to bring together librarians and teachers. It is arousing much interest in the subject of the use of books by young people, briefly touched on in the later chapters of this book.
Following the example of the N. E. A., many state and county associations of teachers throughout the country have established library departments. At these are discussed the many aspects of such difficult and as yet unanswered questions as: What do children most like to read? How interest them in reading? What is the best reading for them?
# A Library Primer (1899)/Chapter XV

(See also chapter List of things needed in beginning work.)
Century magazine (monthly), illus. N.Y. Century Co. Ed. by R.W. Gilder, $4.
Harper's new monthly magazine, illus. N.Y. Harper. Ed. by H.M. Alden, $4.
Harper's round table (monthly), illus. N.Y. Harper, $1.
St Nicholas (monthly), illus. N.Y. Century Co. Ed. by Mary Mapes Dodge, $3.
Forum (monthly), N.Y. Forum Co., $3.
Harper's weekly, illus. N.Y. Harper, $4.
Youth's companion (weekly). Boston. Perry Mason Co., $1.75.
McClure's magazine (monthly), illus. N.Y. Doubleday & McClure, $1.
Ladies' home journal (monthly), illus. Phila. Curtis Pub. Co., $1.
Independent (weekly). N.Y. $2.
Outlook (weekly), illus. N.Y. $3.
Engineering magazine (monthly). N.Y. $3.
Life (weekly), illus. N.Y. $5.
Nineteenth century (monthly). N.Y. Leonard Scott Co., $4.50.
Review of reviews (monthly), illus. N.Y. Ed. by Albert Shaw, $2.50.
Contemporary review (monthly). N.Y. Leonard Scott Co., $4.50.
Critic (monthly), illus. N.Y. Critic Co., $2.
Nation (weekly). N.Y. Evening Post Co., $3.
Educational review (monthly), N.Y. Holt, $3.
Kindergarten magazine (monthly), illus. Chicago Kindergarten Literature Co., $2.
Appleton's popular science monthly, illus. N.Y. Appleton, $5.
Scientific American (weekly), illus. N.Y. Munn, $3. With supplement, $7.
Scientific American supplement (weekly), illus. N.Y. Munn, $5.
Art amateur (monthly), illus. N.Y. Montague Marks. $4.
Outing (monthly), illus. N.Y. Outing Co., $3
# A Library Primer (1899)/Chapter XLIII

As far as the welfare of the library is concerned, the money spent in publishing an elaborate annual report can often be better invested in a few popular books, or, better still, in a few attractively printed statements of progress and of needs, distributed through the community on special occasions. If there must be an annual report for the general public—which will not read it—it should be brief and interesting, without many figures and without many complaints. Do not think it necessary, in making up your report, to adopt the form or the list of contents usually followed by libraries. Give the necessary figures as briefly as may be, and adapt the rest of the report to the library and its community.
# A Library Primer (1899)/Chapter XLV

The American Library Association was organized in 1876. It holds annual meetings. It publishes its proceedings in volumes, of which those now in print may be purchased of the A. L. A. Publishing section, 10½ Beacon st., Boston, or of the secretary. It seeks in every practicable way to develop and strengthen the public library as an essential part of the American educational system. It therefore strives by individual effort of members, and where practicable by local organization, to stimulate public interest in establishing or improving libraries, and thus to bring the best reading within reach of all.
Librarians, trustees, and persons interested may become members; the annual fee is $2. Membership entitles one to a copy of the proceedings; it has now about 800 members.
Every person actively engaged in library work owes it to herself, as well as to her profession, to join the American Library Association. If the association is large, if its meetings are well attended, if its proceedings as published show that the problems of library work are carefully studied, if the published proceedings are widely circulated, it is easier to persuade the intelligent part of the public that the librarian's profession is serious, dignified, and calls to its membership men and women of ability and zeal. If the public is persuaded of these things, the position of the humblest as well as of the highest in the profession is thereby rendered better worth the holding. To attend diligently to one's business is sometimes a most proper form of advertising one's merits. To be a zealous and active member of the A. L. A. is to attend to an important part of one's business; for one can't join it and work with it and for it and not increase one's efficiency in many ways.
State associations have been organized in the following states: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Vermont, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa.
The following states have state library commissions: Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Wisconsin, Indiana, Colorado, Michigan, New Jersey, Minnesota.
The following cities have library clubs: Buffalo, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York city, Washington city.
An inquiry for information regarding any of these associations or clubs, addressed to any librarian in the states given, will receive attention.
Much of what is said above about the A. L. A. applies with equal force to the association of one's state or neighborhood. Often, moreover, it is possible to attend a state association meeting at small expense of time or money.