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# The New International Encyclopædia/Keller, Adelbert von

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KELLER, kĕl'lẽr, Adelbert von (1812-83). A German philologist, born at Pleidelsheim, and educated at Tübingen, where, after study at Paris, he became privat-docent and assistant librarian (1835). After travels in Italy and research in Italian libraries, he was professor and librarian at Tübingen until 1850, when he became president of the Litterarische Verein. In this office much of his work as editor of German works was done, while his work in Romance belongs to the earlier period. He wrote: Li Romans des sept sages (1836); Altfranzösische Sagen (last ed. 1876); a complete edition of Cervantes (1838-42); Romancero del Cid (1840); Zwei Fabliaux (1840); Diokletians Leben (1841); Li romans don chevalier au leon (1841); Gesta Romanorum (1842); with Rapp, a translation of Shakespeare (1843-40); Rómvart (1844); Altdeutsche Gedichte (1846); Alte gute Schwänke (last ed. 1846); Lieder Heinrichs von Württemberg (1849); Lieder Guillems von Burgenden (1849); Meister Altwerts Werke (1850); Italienischer Novellenschatz (1851-52); Fastnachtsspiele aus dem fünfzehnten Jahrhundert (1853-58); Ayrers Dramen (1864-65); Das deutsche Heldenbach (1867); Hans Sachs (1870-81); Tüngers Facetiæ (1875); Uhland als Dramatiker, mit Benutzung seines handscrhriftlichen Nachlasses dargestellt (1877); Das Nibelungenlied nach der Piaristenhandschrift (1880); and Verzeichnis altdeutscher Handschriften (edited by Sievers, 1890).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Keller, Gottfried

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KELLER, Gottfried (1819-90). A Swiss novelist and poet, remarkable for his blending of the humorous and the tragic, the realistic and the romantic. After a vain attempt to become a painter at Munich (1840-42), he returned to his native Zurich and devoted himself to literature. From 1848 to 1854 he lived chiefly at Heidelberg and Berlin, and in the latter year was made First State Secretary (Staatsschreiber) of Canton Zurich, a post which he resigned in 1876. He died at Zurich in 1890. His first volumes were poetry: Gedichte (Heidelberg, 1846) and Neue Gedichte (Brunswick, 1851). His poems were collected in 1883 (10th ed., 2 vols., Berlin, 1895). By far his most significant work is the autobiographical romance Der grüne Heinrich (1854; much altered for the better in a revision of 1879; 16th ed. 1897). Die Leute von Seldwyla (1856: 2d part 1876) is marked by the poetic faithfulness of its delineation of Swiss peasant character. Of its short stories, “Romeo und Julie auf dem Dorfe” and “Der Schmied seines Glücks” are among the most finished in German literature. Keller published a volume of Sieben Legenden (1872; 4th ed. 1887); two volumes of Züricher Novellen (1876; 18th ed. 1896); and other tales in Das Sinngedicht (1883; 10th ed. 1901). A satirical novel, Martin Salander (1886), was his last work. Consult: Brahm, Gottfried Keller (Berlin, 1883); Vischer, Altes
und Neues, vol. ii. (Stuttgart, 1889); and Köster, Gottfried Keller (Leipzig, 1900). Keller's Gesammelte Werke appeared in ten volumes (new ed., Berlin, 1900 et .seq.), and selections from them have been translated into English, with a memoir, by Kate Freiligrath-Kroeker (London, 1891).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Keller, Helen Adams

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KELLER, Helen Adams (1880—). An American girl who became remarkable for the intellectual accomplishments which she acquired in spite of being deaf, dumb, and blind. She was born in Tuscumbia, Ala. On her father's side she is descended from Alexander Spottswood, a colonial Governor of Virginia, and is connected with the Lees and other old Soutliern families; while through her mother she is related to the New England families of Adams, Hale, and Everett. When she was nineteen months old she was attacked by scarlet fever, which left her without the senses of sight and hearing. Until her eighth year no serious attempt was made to educate her. She then was placed under the care of Miss Anna Sullivan, who had received her training at the Perkins Institution in Boston, and from that time her progress was remarkable. When she had learned to read and write and to use the finger alphabet, she determined that she would learn to speak. Miss Sarah Fuller, of the Horace Mann School in New York, was her teacher, and so rapid was her progress that in less than a month she was able to talk intelligibly. After studying for some years at the Wright-Humason School and at the Cambridge School, she entered Radcliffe College in 1900. Consult the autobiography, The Story of My Life, with a study by J. S. Macy (1903).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Keller, Albert von

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KELLER, Albert von (1845—). A German-Swiss historical and genre painter, born at Gais, near Zurich. He studied philosophy and law at the University of Munich, before taking up painting as a pupil of Lenbach, and afterwards of Ramberg at the academy there. After traveling in Italy, France, England, and the Netherlands, he exhibited in Vienna (1873) “An Audience with Louis XV.,” then painted for a time groups and female figures in modern costume, and in Paris (1882-83) scenes from the life of antiquity with rich architectural surroundings. “A Roman Bath” (Königsberg Museum) was followed by the masterly “Raising of Jairus's Daughter” (1886, New Pinakothek, Munich), “Empress Faustina in the Temple of Juno at Præneste,” “Witch's Sleep” (1888), a girl hypnotized standing on the burning stake, and “Saint Julia on the Cross” (1892). He is considered one of the finest modern colorists, and was awarded gold medals in Munich and Berlin. He was made professor at and honorary member of the Munich Academy, and was decorated in 1898 with the Order of the Bavarian Crown, which conferred upon him nobility. A selection of his works, in photogravure, was published in Munich in 1899.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Keller, Emile

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KELLER, kắ'lâr', Emile (1828—). A French politician, born at Belfort. In 1857 he was elected Deputy for the Haut-Rhin District, and soon made himself prominent as a leader of the Roman Catholic Party. He lost his seat in 1863, but was reëlected in 1869. He commanded a volunteer corps in the Franco-Prussian War, and as a member for Haut-Rhin again in 1871 he made a stirring speech against the cession of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany. When the treaty was signed, he left the Assembly, with other Alsatians, but was back as member for Belfort in 1876, and again in 1885. His publications include: Histoire de France (1858); L'Encyclique et les libertés de l'Eglise gallicane (1860); L'Encyclique et les principes de 1789 (1865); Le général de Lamoricière (1873); Les congrégations religieuses en France (1880).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Keller, Ferdinand (archæologist)

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KELLER, kĕl'lẽr, Ferdinand (1800-81). A Swiss archæologist, born at Marthalen. He studied theology and natural sciences at Zurich, Lausanne, and Paris. In 1831 he was made an instructor at Zurich, and secretary of the Society for Natural Research, and in this capacity he published various works on naked rock soil and vent-holes. The discovery of the sepulchral mound at Burghölzli led to the founding of an antiquarian society of which Keller was long president, and of a museum, the growth of which was largely due to him. His most important discovery was the pile-dwelling at Obermeilen in the winter of 1853. Besides his articles on this subject in the proceedings of the Antiquarian Society he published: Bauriss des Klosters Sankt Gallen vom Jahr 820 (1844), and an archæological map of Eastern Switzerland (1874). Consult: Meyer von Knonau, Lebensabriss von Ferdinand Keller (Zurich, 1882); and Lee, The Lake Dwellings of Switzerland, and Other Parts of Europe, by Dr. F. Keller (2d ed., London, 1878).
# The Lost Valley and Other Stories

* The Lost Valley
* The Wendigo
* Old Clothes
* Perspective
* The Terror of the Twins
* The Man from the 'Gods'
* The Man Who Played upon the Leaf
* The Price of Wiggins's Orgy
* Carlton's Drive
* The Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute
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# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 1/Chapter 13

CHAP. XIII.
It is so long since the reader of this rhapsodical work has been parted from the midwife, that it is high time to mention her again to him, merely to put him in mind that there is such a body still in the world, and whom, upon the best judgment I can form upon my own plan at present,—I am going to introduce to him for good and all: But as fresh matter may be started, and much unexpected business fall out betwixt the reader and myself, which may require immediate dispatch;—'twas right to take care that the poor woman should not be lost in the mean time;—because when she is wanted, we can no way do without her.
​I think I told you that this good woman was a person of no small note and consequence throughout our whole village and township;—that her fame had spread itself to the very out-edge and circumference of that circle of importance, of which kind every soul living, whether he has a shirt to his back or no,—has one surrounding him;—which said circle, by the way, whenever 'tis said that such a one is of great weight and importance in the world,—I desire may be enlarged or contracted in your worship's fancy, in a compound-ratio of the station, profession, knowledge, abilities, height and depth (measuring both ways) of the personage brought before you.
In the present case, if I remember, I fixed it about four or five miles, which not only comprehended the whole pa​rish, but extended itself to two or three of the adjacent hamlets in the skirts of the next parish; which made a considerable thing of it. I must add, That she was, moreover, very well looked on at one large grange-house and some other odd houses and farms within two or three miles, as I said, from the smoke of her own chimney:— But I must here, once for all, inform you, that all this will be more exactly delineated and explain'd in a map, now in the hands of the engraver, which, with many other pieces and developments of this work, will be added to the end of the twentieth volume,—not to swell the work,—I detest the thought of such a thing;—but by way of commentary, scholium, illustration, and key to such passages, incidents, or inuendos as shall be thought to be either of private interpretation, or of dark ​or doubtful meaning after my life and my opinions shall have been read over, (now don't forget the meaning of the word) by all the world;—which, betwixt you and me, and in spight of all the gentlemen reviewers in Great-Britain, and of all that their worships shall undertake to write or say to the contrary,—I am determined shall be the case.—I need not tell your worship, that all this is spoke in confidence.
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# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 1/Chapter 14

CHAP. XIV.
Upon looking into my mother's marriage settlement, in order to satisfy myself and reader in a point necessary to be clear'd up, before we could proceed any farther in this history;—I had the good fortune to pop upon the ​very thing I wanted before I had read a day and a half straight forwards,—it might have taken me up a month;—which shews plainly, that when a man sits down to write a history,—tho' it be but the history of Jack Hickathrift or Tom Thumb, he knows no more than his heels what lets and confounded hindrances he is to meet with in his way,—or what a dance he may be led, by one excursion or another, before all is over. Could a historiographer drive on his history, as a muleteer drives on his mule,—straight forward;—for instance, from Rome all the way to Loretto, without ever once turning his head aside either to the right hand or to the left,—he might venture to foretell you to an hour when he should get to his journey's end;—but the thing is, morally speaking, impossible: For, if he is a man of the least spirit, he ​will have fifty deviations from a straight line to make with this or that party as he goes along, which he can no ways avoid. He will have views and prospects to himself perpetually soliciting his eye, which he can no more help standing still to look at than he can fly; he will moreover have various
All which both the man and his mule are quite exempt from. To sum up all; there are archives at every stage to be look'd into, and rolls, records, documents, and endless genealogies, which justice ever ​and anon calls him back to stay the reading of:—In short, there is no end of it;—for my own part, I declare I have been at it these six weeks, making all the speed I possibly could,—and am not yet born:—I have just been able, and that's all, to tell you when it happen'd, but not how;—so that you see the thing is yet far from being accomplished.
These unforeseen stoppages, which I own I had no conception of when I first set out;—but which, I am convinced now, will rather increase than diminish as I advance,—have struck out a hint which I am resolved to follow;—and that is,—not to be in a hurry;—but to go on leisurely, writing and publishing two volumes of my life every year;—which, if I am suffered to go on quietly, and can make a tolerable bargain with my book​seller, I shall continue to do as long as I live.
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# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 1/Chapter 16

CHAP. XVI.
My father, as any body may naturally imagine, came down with my mother into the country, in but a pettish kind of a humour. The first twenty or five-and-twenty miles he did nothing in the world but fret and teaze himself, and indeed my mother too, about the cursed expence, which he said might every shilling of it have been saved;—then what vexed him more than every ​thing else was the provoking time of the year,—which, as I told you, was towards the end of September, when his wall-fruit and green gages especially, in which he was very curious, were just ready for pulling:—"Had he been whistled up to London, upon a Tom Fool's errand, in any other month of the whole year, he should not have said three words about it."
For the next two whole stages, no subject would go down, but the heavy blow he had sustain'd from the loss of a son, whom it seems he had fully reckon'd upon in his mind, and register'd down in his pocket-book, as a second staff for his old age, in case Bobby should fail him. "The disappointment of this, he said, was ten times more to a wise man than all the money which the journey, &c. ​had cost him, put together,—rot the hundred and twenty pounds,—he did not mind it a rush."
From Stilton, all the way to Grantham, nothing in the whole affair provoked him so much as the condolences of his friends, and the foolish figure they should both make at church, the first Sunday;—of which, in the satirical vehemence of his wit, now sharpen'd a little by vexation, he would give so many humorous and provoking descriptions,—and place his rib and self in so many tormenting lights and attitudes in the face of the whole congregation;—that my mother declared, these two stages were so truly tragi-comical, that she did nothing but laugh and cry in a breath, from one end to the other of them all the way.
​From Grantham, till they had cross'd the Trent, my father was out of all kind of patience at the vile trick and imposition which he fancied my mother had put upon him in this affair.—"Certainly, he would say to himself, over and over again, "the woman could not be deceived herself;—if she could,—what weakness!—tormenting word!—which led his imagination a thorny dance, and, before all was over, play'd the duce and all with him;"—for sure as ever the word weakness was uttered, and struck full upon his brain,—so sure it set him upon running divisions upon how many kinds of weaknesses there were;—that there was such a thing as weakness of the body,—as well as weakness of the mind,—and then he would do nothing but syllogize within himself for a stage or two ​together, How far the cause of all these vexations might, or might not, have arisen out of himself.
In short, he had so many little subjects of disquietude springing out of this one affair, all fretting successively in his mind as they rose up in it, that my mother, whatever was her journey up, had but an uneasy journey of it down.—In a word, as she complained to my uncle Toby, he would have tired out the patience of any flesh alive.
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# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 1/Chapter 17

CHAP. XVII.
THough my father travelled homewards, as I told you, in none of the best of moods,—pshaw-ing and pishing all the way down,—yet he had the ​complaisance to keep the worst part of the story still to himself;—which was the resolution he had taken of doing himself the justice, which my uncle Toby's clause in the marriage settlement empowered him; nor was it till the very night in which I was begot, which was thirteen months after, that she had the least intimation of his design;—when my father, happening, as you remember, to be a little chagrin'd and out of temper,—took occasion as they lay chatting gravely in bed afterwards, talking over what was to come,—to let her know that she must accommodate herself as well as she could to the bargain made between them in their marriage deeds; which was to lye-in of her next child in the country to balance the last year's journey.
​My father was a gentleman of many virtues,—but he had a strong spice of that in his temper which might, or might not, add to the number.—'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,—and of obstinacy in a bad one: Of this my mother had so much knowledge, that she knew 'twas to no purpose to make any remonstrance,—so she e'en resolved to sit down quietly, and make the most of it.
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# The New International Encyclopædia/Virginia (heroine)

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​ VIRGIN′IA. The heroine of a Roman legend of the days of the Republic. See Appius Claudius Crassus.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Virginia Snake-root

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​ VIRGINIA SNAKE-ROOT. See Aristolochia.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Virginia City

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​ VIRGINIA CITY. The county-seat of Storey County, Nev., 52 miles southeast of Reno; on the Virginia and Truckee Railroad. It is situated at an elevation of over 6000 feet in a region noted for its extensive mineral deposits (Map: Nevada, D 2). The most important of the mines here is the Comstock Lode (q.v.). It was discovered in 1859, and the value of the output from 1860 to 1890 was $340,000,000. Since 1890, however, the production has materially decreased. The court-house and the Miners' Union Library are noteworthy features of the town. Under the charter of 1881 the government is vested in a board of three county commissioners. Virginia City grew up around the Comstock Lode, and was called successively Ophir and Silver City. It received its present name from James Fenimore, an early settler who was familiarly known as ‘Old Virginia.’ It was incorporated in 1864. Population, in 1890, 8511; in 1900, 2695.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Virginia Rail

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​ VIRGINIA RAIL. See Rail.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Virginia Theological Seminary

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​ VIRGINIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. An important seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, at Alexandria, Va. It had its origin in the theological class established at the College of William and Mary in 1821 and transferred to Alexandria in 1823. In 1827 the Seminary was removed to its present location, 2½ miles west of Alexandria. In 1854 it received from the Legislature a charter the provisions of which were enlarged in 1884. Since 1899 it has granted the degree B.D. to graduating students who have attained a certain high standing. In 1903 the faculty numbered 9, the students 45, and the alumni 1014, of whom 532 were living. The endowment fund amounted to $391,196, exclusive of a library fund, and the library comprised about 25,000 volumes. The entrance requirements are relatively high and the course of study occupies three years. The Seminary has had a considerable influence in missionary work, and of its alumni 27, in 1903, had been advanced to the episcopate, including Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, and Henry C. Potter, Bishop of New York.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Virginians, The

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​ VIRGINIANS, The. An historical novel by Thackeray, a sequel to Henry Esmond. It was published first in monthly parts (October 31, 1857-October 1, 1859), and then in book form (1858-59), with illustrations by the author himself. The scene is laid in the eighteenth century in England and the colonies. The two brothers who are its heroes are descendants of the Warrington family (see Pendennis), and Martha Washington is among the characters described.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Virginia Military Institute

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​ VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE. A State institution at Lexington, Va., established in 1839, when the General Assembly, in place of the company of soldiers hitherto stationed at the western arsenal at Lexington, authorized the creation of a company of cadets, who, in addition to the duties of an armed guard, should pursue a course of scientific and military studies. In 1860 the cadets marched for Richmond and were employed in drilling the recruits at Camp Lee. The school was reopened in 1862 on the demand of the Confederate military authorities, but was burned by order of General David Hunter in 1864. After the close of the war the buildings were restored and the course of instruction was enlarged and extended. The courses are partly prescribed and partly elective. A cadet who attains the prescribed proficiency in one of the elective courses, in addition to the degree of graduate, may receive the degree of bachelor of science. Nearly the whole body of graduates prior to 1860 were officers in the Confederate Army. Since 1898 about 170 alumni of the institute have been officers in the United States armies. Stonewall Jackson was professor of physics and artillery instruction from 1851 to 1861. The institute in 1903 had 275 cadets, 20 instructors, and a library of 12,000 volumes. Its grounds and buildings were valued at $500,000. It has no endowment, being supported by the State.