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# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Midsummer Night's Dream, A

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MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, A. First printed in 1600 and mentioned by Meres in 1598. ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’ was probably written in 1594, or even earlier. It was doubtless written for some wedding festival as it has many of the characteristics of a masque. The incidents connected with Theseus and Hippolyta were taken from Plutarch's ‘Life of Theseus’ and perhaps Chancer's ‘Knights Tale,’ while the fairy story which makes up such a large part of the play was Shakespeare's transformation of the somewhat crude elements of mediæval folklore. The first and last acts take place in Athens at the palace of Theseus, and the other three acts in the forest near Athens. Theseus and his queen fit into the story in so far as they celebrate their nuptials, and as they are interested in the love affairs of Demetrius and Helena, Lysander and Hermia; they are brought into the forest only by their love of the chase, which is realistically portrayed. The well-known words of Theseus upon “the lunatic, the lover and the poet, as of imagination all compact,” are in striking contrast with the fantastic fairies that really dominate the play. Even farther removed from fairy-land are the prosaic mechanics who represent, with all the
characteristics of low comedy, the story of Pyramus and Thésbe. By their rehearsal in the forest they are caught for a moment in the magic web of Oberon, Titania and Puck. Under the same influences fall the Athenian lovers, who after unfortunate experiences are brought to the happy conclusion of their dreams. The title of the play, as indeed the major part of the story and the background, suggest the tone, the atmosphere, of the play. It is the magical midsummer-night with the moon in the sky that forms the appropriate setting of the mystery, the fantasy, and the unreason of fairy-land. Oberon, Titania and Puck, along with the other incarnations of the beauty and magic of nature, have fixed in the popular imagination the principal elements of fairy-land. The fact that they were represented by boys on the Elizabethean stage gave to these creations the spirit of childhood that has been lost in the modern stage representation. No analysis can suggest the delicacy, or the beauty, or the charm of these airy nothings to which Shakespeare has given a local habitation and a name.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Midway Islands

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MIDWAY ISLANDS, North Pacific Ocean, so named from being midway between Asia and America, are the northernmost islets of the Hawaiian group, extending about 1,800 miles north by west of Honolulu. The islands have come into prominence as the intermediate station of the American-Pacific cable to the Ladrone and Philippine islands via Honolulu. The group consists of a low coral atoll 18 miles in circumference, enclosing Sand Island, Eastern Island and two islets. Sand Island, the largest, is one and three-fourths miles long, three-fourths of a mile wide and has an average elevation of from 3 to 10 feet above sea-level, the highest point attaining 43 feet. Eastern Island is one and one-fourth miles long, one-half mile wide and from 6 to 12 feet high. Both islands are partly covered with coarse grass and bushes, the breeding ground of the tern or sea-swallow. Good water is obtained by sinking wells, while fish of many varieties, turtles, crabs and crawfish, etc., abound in the lagoon; sea-birds also are easily caught. The islands are inhabited only by the employees at the cable stations. From 1887-89 a shipwrecked crew lived here for 14 months until rescued, losing, however, several of their number from scurvy. A short distance west of the islands a submarine mountain rises 2,200 feet from the ocean bed to within 82 fathoms of the surface, and between the islands and Guam is an abyss of over 4,900 fathoms, one of the deepest in the world.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Meyer, Paul Hyacinthe

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MEYER, [Marie] Paul Hyacinthe, French philologist: b. Paris, 17 Jan. 1840; d. 19 March 1917. He was educated at the Lycée Louis le Grand and at the École des Chartes, specializing in the Romance languages. He was attached to the manuscript department of the Bibliothèque Nationale in 1863-65 and in 1865 founded the Revue Critique. He was keeper of the national archives in 1866-72 and in 1872 founded Romania, to which he was the leading contributor. He was appointed professor of the languages and literatures of southern Europe at the College of France in 1876, and from 1882 he was a director of the École Nationale des Chartes. He became honorary professor at the College of France in 1906. His work in connection with romance literature is of exceptional value and he is considered the leading modern authority on the French language. He was a member of the Institute of France, a commander in the Legion of Honor and an associate of the British Academy. He edited a large number of old French texts, many of which were for the Société de l'histoire de France and the Société des anciens textes français. Among them are ‘Aye d'Avignon’ (1861); ‘Flamença’ (1865); ‘Histoire Guillaume le Maréchal, comte de Striguil et de Pembroke’ (3 vols., 1891-1901); ‘Fragments d'une vie de Saint Thomas de Cantorbéry’ (1885), etc. Author of ‘Rapports sur les documents manuscrits de l'ancienne littérature de la France conservés dans les bibliothèques de la Grande Bretagne’ (1871); ‘Recueil d'anciens textes bas-Latins, provencaux et français’ (2 parts, 1874-76); ‘Alexandre le Grand dans la littérature française du moyen âge’ (2 vols., 1886); ‘Histoire des relations de la France avec Venise’ (1896); ‘Documents linguistiques du midi de la France’ (1909), etc.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Meyer, Lothar Julius

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MEYER, Lothar Julius, German chemist: b. Varel, Oldenburg, 19 Aug. 1830; d. Tübingen, 11 April 1895. He studied medicine at Zürich
and Würzburg and later spedalized in physiological chemistry at Heidelberg, and in mathematical physics at Königsberg. He became privatdocent in physics and chemistry at Breslau in 1859, taught in the School of Forestry at Neustadt-Eberswalde in 1866-68, and at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic in 1868-76; and from 1876 he was professor of chemistry at Tübingen. He is known for his theory of the action of carbon monoxide on the blood; and for his work in the periodic classification of the elements. Author of ‘Die modernen Theorien der Chemie’ (1896); ‘Die Stomgewichte der Elemente aus den Originalzahlen neu berechnet’ (1883); ‘Grundzüge der theoretischen Chemie’ (1902).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Mikado

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MIKADO (Japanese Mi, “exalted,” Kado, “gate”), the ancient and poetic title of the Japanese emperor, in origin identical with “Sublime Porte” as used of the Ottoman sultan, that is, probably transferred to the ruler and judge from the gateway of his palace, at which he did justice. The word mikado was never used as a separate title for a spiritual ruler; the incorrect idea to the contrary results from the well-known historical fact that much of the temporal power of the Mikado was long usurped by shoguns or generals, who, however, always admitted that they derived their power from the Mikado. The present Mikado, Yoshihito (q.v.), is the 122d (or 124th) of his line, which dates back to 660 B.C.; of him the title “Mikado” is less used than Tenshi Sama, “Son of Heaven,” or Shu-jo, “Supreme Master.” See Japan.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Meyer, Joseph

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MEYER, Joseph, German publisher: b. Gotha, 9 May 1796; d. 27 June 1856. He organised various industrial under takings, founded a publishing, business at Gotha, which soon attained large proportions, was removed by him to Hildburghausen (1828), and in 1874 was transferred to Leipzig. The best known of his publications is the ‘Meyers Konversations-lexikon,’ the rival of Brockbaus in the encyclopædia field, which has been brought down to date by constant revisions and supplements. He published also a series of the German Classics, a ‘Historical Library,’ and a ‘Library of Natural Philosophy.’
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Meyer, Victor

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MEYER, Victor, German chemist: b. Berlin, 8 Sept. 1848; d. Heidelberg, 8 Aug. 1897. He studied at the University of Berlin and under Bunsen at Heidelberg. In 1868 he entered the laboratory of Baeyer at Berlin, and in 1871 he became professor at the Stuttgart Polytechnic. He was professor of chemistry and director of the laboratory at Zürich in 1872-85, professor at Göttingen in 1885-89, and from 1889 until his death he occupied the chair of his former master, Bunsen, at Heidelberg. He is famous for his experiments establishing a method of determining vapor densities and for the discovery of thiophen. He was awarded the Davy medal of the Royal Society in 1891. Author of ‘Die Thiophengruppe’ (1888); ‘Chemische Probleme der Gegenwart’ (1890);
‘Lehrbuch der organischen Chemie’ (2 vols., 1891-92); ‘Märztage im Kanarischen Archipel’ (1893), etc.
# The Golden Ass of Apuleius/Chapter 35

THE THIRTY-FIFTH CHAPTER
How a woman killed her selfe and her child, because her husband haunted harlots.
FTER that we had passed a great part of our journey, we came to a village where we lay all night, but harken, and I will tell you what mischiefe happened there: you shall understand there was a servant to whom his Master had committed the whole government of his house, and was Master of the lodging where we lay: this servant had married a Maiden of the same house, howbeit he was greatly in love with a harlot of the towne, and accustomed to resort unto her, wherewith ​his wife was so highly displeased and became so jealous, that she gathered together all her husbands substance, with his tales and books of account, and threw them into a light fire: she was not contented with this, but she tooke a cord and bound her child which she had by her husband, about her middle and cast her selfe headlong into a deepe pit. The Master taking in evill part the death of these twaine, tooke his servant which was the cause of this murther by his luxurie, and first after that he had put off all his apparell, he annointed his body with honey, and then bound him sure to a fig-tree, where in a rotten stocke a great number of Pismares had builded their neasts, the Pismares after they had felt the sweetnesse of the honey came upon his body, and by little and little (in continuance of time) devoured all his flesh, in such sort, that there remained on the tree but his bare bones: this was declared unto us by the inhabitants of the village there, who greatly sorrowed for the death of this servant: then we avoiding likewise from this dreadfull lodging incontinently departed away.
# The Golden Ass of Apuleius/Chapter 34

THE THIRTY-FOURTH CHAPTER
How the shepheards determined to abide in a certaine wood to cure their wounds.
HEN we had gone a good part of our way, we came to a certaine wood invironed with great trees and compassed about with pleasant meddowes, whereas the Shepheards appointed to continue a certaine space to cure their wounds and sores; then they sate downe on the ground to refresh their wearie minds, and afterwards they sought for medicines, to heale their bodies: some washed away their blood with the water of the running River: some stopped their wounds with Spunges and cloutes, in this manner every one provided for his owne safety. In the meane season wee perceived an old man, who seemed to be a Shepheard, by reason of the Goates and Sheep that fed round about him. Then one of our company demanded whether he had any milke, butter, or cheese to sell. To whom he made answere saying: Doe you looke for any meate or drinke, or any other refection here? Know you not in what place you be?
And therewithall he tooke his sheepe and drave them away as fast as he might possible. This answere made our shepheards greatly to feare, that they thought of nothing else, but to enquire what Country they were in: Howbeit they saw no manner of person of whom they might demand. At length as they were thus in doubt, they perceived another old man with a staffe in his hand very weary with travell, who approaching nigh to our company, began to weepe and complaine saying: Alas masters I pray you succour me miserable caitife, and restore my nephew to me againe, that by following a sparrow that flew before him, is fallen into a ditch hereby, and verily I thinke he is in danger of death. As for me, I am not able to helpe him out by reason ​of mine old age, but you that are so valiant and lusty may easily helpe me herein, and deliver me my boy, my heire and guide of my life. These words made us all to pity him. And then the youngest and stoutest of our company, who alone escaped best the late skirmish of Dogges and stones, rose up and demanded in what ditch the boy was fallen: Mary (quod he) yonder, and pointed with his finger, and brought him to a great thicket of bushes and thornes where they both entred in. In the meane season, after we cured our wounds, we tooke up our packs, purposing to depart away. And because we would not goe away without the young man our fellow: The shepheards whistled and called for him, but when he gave no answer, they sent one out of their company to seeke him out, who after a while returned againe with a pale face and sorrowfull newes, saying that he saw a terrible Dragon eating and devouring their companion: and as for the old man, hee could see him in no place. When they heard this, (remembring likewise the words of the first old man that shaked his head, and drave away his sheep) they ran away beating us before them, to fly from this desart and pestilent Country.
# The Greater Power

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McLeod & Allen, Toronto, 1909 edition. Frontispiece by William Herbert Dunton
"I am afraid, I'm going to lose him, after all
The
GREATER POWER
By HAROLD BINDLOSS
Author of "The Cattle Baron's Daughter," "By Right of Purchase," "Lorimer, of the North-west," "Thrice Armed," etc.
With Frontispiece in Colours by W. HERBERT DUNTON
McLEOD & ALLEN PUBLISHERS TORONTO

### CONTENTS

CHAPTER
* Overburdened
* The Trail
* Waynefleet's Ranch
* Laura Waynefleet's Wish
* The Flood
* The Breaking of the Dam
* Laura Makes a Dress
* By Combat
* Gordon Speaks his Mind
* The Calling Cañon
* The Great Idea
* Wisbech Makes Inquiries
* On the Trestle
* In the Moonlight
* Martial's Misadventure
* Acton's Warning
* An Eventful Day
* Tranquility
* Nasmyth Hears the River
* Nasmyth Goes Away
* The Men of the Bush
* Nasmyth Sets to Work
* The Derrick
* Realities
* Nasmyth Decides
* One Night's Task
* Timber Rights
* A Painful Duty
* A Futile Scheme
* Second Thoughts
* The Last Shot
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# The Historye of Reynard the Foxe/capitulo .ii.

The first complaynt made Isegrym the wulf on Reynart capitulo .ii.
Isegrym the wulf wyth his lynage and frendes cam and stode to fore the kynge / And sayde hye and myghty prynce my lord the kynge I beseche yow that thurgh your grete myght / ryght / and mercy that ye wyl haue pyte on the grete trespas and the vnresonable mysdedes that reynart the foxe hath don to me and to my wyf that is to wete he is comen in to my hows ayenst the wylle of my wyf / And there he hath be pyssed my chyldren where they laye in suche wyse as they therof been woxen blynde / wherupon was a day sette / and was judged that reygnart sholde come and haue excused hym hierof / and haue sworen on the holy sayntes that he was not gylty therof / And whan the book wyth the sayntes was brought forth / tho had reygnart bythouht hym other wyse / And wente his waye agayn in to his hole / as he had nought sette therby / And dere kynge this knowen wel many of the bestes that now be comen hyther to your court / And yet hath he trespaced to me in many other thinges / he is not lyuyng that coude telle alle that I now leue vntolde / But the shame and vyllonye that he hath don to my wyf / that shal I neuer hyde ne suffre it vnauengyd but that he shal make to me large amendes /
# The Historye of Reynard the Foxe/capitulo .iii. (2)

The complaint of Curtise the Hound capitulo .iii.
When these words were spoken so stood there a little hound and was named Curtise, and complained to the king, how that in the cold winter in the hard frost he had been sore forewintered, in such wise as he had kept no more meat than a pudding, which pudding Reynard the Fox had taken away from him.
Tho spoke Thibert the Cat
With this so came Thibert the Cat with an irous mood, and sprang in among them and said, "My lord the king, I hear here that Reynard is sore complained on, and here is none but that he hath enough to do to clear himself, that Curtise here complaineth of that is passed many years gone, how be it that I complain not? That pudding was mine, for I had won it by night in a mill; the miller lay in sleep; if Curtise had any part hereon, that came by me too."
Then spoke Panther: "Think ye Thibert that it were good that Reynard should not be complained on? He is a very murderer, a rover, and a thief, he loveth no man so well, not our lord the king, hear that he well would that he should lese good and worship, so that he might win so much as a leg of a fat hen; I shall tell you what I saw him do yesterday to Kyward the Hare that here standeth in the king's peace and safeguard; he promised to Kyward and said he would teach him his credo, and make him a good chaplain; he made him go sit between his legs and sang and cried loud, 'Credo. Credo.' My way lay thereby there that I heard this song; tho went I near and found Master Reynard that had left that he first read and sang, and began to play his old play, for he had caught Kyward by the throat, and had I not that time come he should have taken his life from him like as ye here may see on Kyward the Hare the fresh wound yet, forsooth my lord the king if ye suffer this unpunished and let him go quite that hath thus broken your peace; and will do no right after the sentence and judgement of your men, your children many years hereafter shall be mispraised and blamed therefore."
"Sickerly," Panther said, "Isegrim ye say truth, it were good that right and justice were done, for them that would fain live in peace."
# The Historye of Reynard the Foxe/capitulo .ii. (2)

The first complaint made Isegrim the Wolf on Reynard capitulo .ii.
Isegrim the Wolf with his lineage and friends came and stood tofore the king; and said, "High and mighty prince my lord the king I beseech you that through your great might, right, and mercy that ye will have pity on the great trespass and the unreasonable misdeeds that Reynard the Fox hath done to me and to my wife that is to wit he is come into my house against the will of my wife; and there he hath bepissed my children where they lay in such wise as they thereof been waxen blind," whereupon was a day set, and was judged that Reynard should come and have excused him hereof, and have sworn on the holy saints that he was not guilty thereof; and when the book with the saints was brought forth, tho had Reynard bethought him otherwise; and went his way again into his hole, as he had not set thereby; "And dear king this know well many of the beasts that now be come hither to your court; and yet hath he trespassed to me in many other things; he is not living that could tell all that I now leave untold; but the shame and villainy that he hath done to my wife; that shall I never hide ne suffer it unavenged but that he shall make to me large amends."
# The Historye of Reynard the Foxe/capitulo .iii.

The complaynt of Courtoys the hounde capitulo .iii.
Whan thyse wordes were spoken so stode there a lytyl hounde and was named courtoys / and complayned to the kynge / how that in the colde wynter in the harde froste he had ben sore forwynterd / in such wyse as he had kepte nomore mete than a puddyng / wyche puddyng reygnard the foxe had taken away from hym
Tho spak thybert the catte
Wyth this so cam Tybert the catte wyth an Irous moed / and sprang in emonge them and sayde My lord the kyng / I here hier that reygnart is sore complayned on / and hier is none but that he hath ynowh to doo to clere hym self / that courtoys hier complayneth of that is passyd many yeres goon / how be it that I complayne not / that pudyng was myne / ffor I hadde wonne it by nyghte in a mylle / The myllar laye and slepe / yf courtoys had ony parte hieron / that came by me to /
Thenne spak panther / Thynke ye Tybert that it were good that reynard sholde not be complayned on / he is a very murderer / a rouer / and a theef / he loueth noman so wel / not our lord the kyng here that he wel wold that he shuld lese good and worshyp / so that he myght wynne so moche as a legge of a fat henne / I shal telle yow what I sawe hym do yesterday to Cuwaert the hare that hier standeth in the kynges pees and saufgarde / he promysed to Cuwaert and sayde he wold teche hym his credo / and make hym a good chapelayn / he made hym goo sytte bytwene his legges and sange and cryde lowde Credo. Credo. my waye laye ther by there that I herde this songe / Tho wente I ner and fonde maister reynard that had lefte that he fyrst redde and songe / and bygan to playe his olde playe / ffor he had caught kywaert by the throte / and had I not that tyme comen he sholde haue taken his lyf from hym like as ye hiere may see on kywaert the hare the fresse wounde yet / ffor sothe my lord the kyng yf ye suffre this vnpunyshyd and lete hym go quyte that hath thus broken your peas / And wyl do no right after the sentence and jugement of your men / your Chyldren many yeris herafter shal be myspreysed and blamed therfore /
Sykerly panther sayd Isegrym ye saye trouthe / hit were good that right and justyse were don / for them that wolde fayn lyue in peas /
# The Historye of Reynard the Foxe/capitulo .primo.

How the lyon kynge of alle bestis sent out his mandementis that alle beestis sholde come to his feest and court capitulo .primo.
It was aboute the tyme of penthecoste or whytsontyde / that the wodes comynly be lusty and gladsom / And the trees clad with leuys and blossoms and the ground with herbes and flowris swete smellyng and also the fowles and byrdes syngen melodyously in theyr armonye / That the lyon the noble kynge of all beestis wolde in the holy dayes of thys feest holde on open Court at stade / whyche he dyde to knowe ouer all in his lande / And commanded by strayte conmyssyons and maundements that euery beest shold come thyder / in suche wyse that alle the beestis grete and smale cam to the courte sauf reynard the fox / for he knewe hym self fawty and gylty in many thynges ayenst many beestis that thyder sholde comen that he durste not auenture to goo thyder / whan the kynge of alle beestis had assemblid alle his court / ther was none of them alle / but that he had complayned sore on Reynart the foxe.