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# Deccan Nursery Tales/The King and the Water-Goddesses

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THE KING AND THE WATER-GODDESES
Once upon a time there was a town called Atpat. Over it there ruled a king. One day he founded a new village, and close by he built a village tank. But no matter how hard he tried he could not get it filled with water. So he prayed to the water-goddesses to help him, and the water-goddesses were pleased and said, "O King, O King, sacrifice to us the eldest son of your daughter-in-law, and the tank will fill with water." The king heard it and went home very troubled. He was ready to sacrifice his grandson; for though he loved the boy, yet he knew that the life of one was less than the welfare of many. But he knew that his daughter-in-law would never agree. At last he thought of a trick. He went up to her and said, "Daughter-in-law, it is a long time since you went to see your parents. You had ​better go and pay them a visit and leave your eldest boy behind. I shall look after him here." The daughter-in-law consented and went to visit her parents, leaving her son behind. The king waited for a favourable day and then bathed and anointed his grandson. He gave a feast in his honour and covered his body with costly jewelry. He then took him into the middle of the pond and made him lie down on a bed and told him not to stir. The water-goddesses were pleased, and a great mass of water suddenly rushed into the tank, and it was filled right up to the brink. After a time the daughter-in-law came back from her father's house and brought her brother with her. They asked where her son was, but they could get no information. Whenever they asked the king, he did nothing but say how the water had come into the tank, and what a beautiful tank it was, and how happy it would make all the villagers. At last the daughter-in-law guessed what had happened, and when the seventh day of the bright half of the month of Shravan, or August, came round, she and her brother went to the edge of the tank and began to worship the water-goddesses. She took a ​cucumber leaf, and on it she placed some curds and rice. Next she mixed with them some butter and a farthing's worth of betel-nut. Then she told her brother to pray, "O Goddess, Mother of All, if any one of our family is drowned in the tank please give him back to us." He did so and then threw the offering into the lake. Then they both turned to go home. But as she was turning homewards, she felt some one pull her by the legs. She looked down and saw that it was her missing son. When she saw him she dragged him with all her might to the bank, and then she and her brother walked home with him. When the king heard that she was coming, together with her missing son, he wondered greatly, and going to her he fell at her feet and said, "O my daughter, I offered your son to the water-goddesses; how has he come back again?" She said, "I worshipped the water-goddesses and made offerings to them. Then my son came out of the water, and I lifted him up and drew him to the shore." The king was overjoyed and showed the greatest favour to his daughter-in-law. And she and her little son lived happily ever afterwards.
# Deccan Nursery Tales/The Golden Temple

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THE GOLDEN TEMPLE
"THE GOD REVEALED HIMSELF TO THE KING AND HIS COMPANIONS IN ALL HIS GLORY AND SPLENDOUR."
​king and his companions in all his glory and splendour. For a moment only they saw him, and then he vanished. The king and his companions stared, too astonished to move or speak. But the ugly little daughter-in-law prostrated herself and offered to the god flowers and incense. Then she cried out, "O God Shiva, please, please vouchsafe my prayer and make my father-in-law and my mother-in-law, my brothers-in-law and my sisters-in-law like me as much as they now dislike me." When the king heard her prayer his heart softened to her, and he spoke kindly to her and gave her jewelry and trinkets. In a little while he took off his turban and, placing it on a peg, walked out to look at a lovely lake which, unnoticed by any one before, now stretched out close by the temple. And behind him strolled out his companions. But when they had gone out of sight, the beautiful golden temple by the lake vanished for ever. After looking at the lake the king came back to fetch his turban which he had left in the temple. But he could not find the beautiful temple all of pure, yellow gold, with its jewel-studded pillars and its crystal jars. ​The king asked the little daughter-in-law the cause. She said nothing, but straightway walked deeper into the forest. And the king and his companions, although weary to death, followed her. At last they came to the temple where she had worshipped, together with the serpent-maidens from Patâla and the bevy of wood-nymphs. It was a tiny temple, and inside it there was a rough altar. At the foot of the altar lay the flowers which the ugly daughter-in-law had offered to the god, and close by on a peg hung the turban left by the king. Again the king asked his daughter-in-law the meaning of what had happened. She replied, "This temple that you see is my own poor little temple. But, because of my prayers, the god Shiva showed himself to you in the beautiful temple, all of pure, yellow gold, with its jewel-studded pillars and its crystal jars." When the king heard her reply, he grew more pleased than ever with the daughter-in-law whom formerly he had so disliked. And because the god had revealed himself at her prayer, the king, to do her honour, sent for his royal palanquin and had her carried home in state. And the ugly little daughter-in-law ​became out of the four the king's favourite. And he was so much nicer to her than he was to his other three daughters-in-law that they became as jealous as cats. But the king and the ugly little daughter-in-law did not mind them the least little bit. And they both lived happily ever afterwards.
* ↑ Shravan ＝ August.
* ↑ Nag-kanya. These are the maidens of the race of the Nagas, who are said to have sprung from Kadru, wife of Kasyapa. One of them, Ulupi, married the hero Arjuna. They live in Patâla, the lowest of the seven underground regions.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop

1904 Errata appended.
​CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881), author, generally called Marcus Clarke, was born at 11 Leonard Place, Kensington, on 24 April 1846. His father, William Hislop Clarke, was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, 25 June 1830, and was an equity draftsman, in practice at 9 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, who married Amelia Elizabeth Matthews. Marcus, the only son, emigrated to Victoria, Australia, in 1863, and was for four years resident on a station on the Wimmera river, with the object of gaining experience to enable him to engage profitably in pastoral pursuits, but in 1867, abandoning his original intentions, went to Melbourne and joined the staff of the ‘Argus,’ a daily paper. His first publication, ‘The Peripatetic Philosopher,’ consisted of a series of papers in the ‘Australasian,’ which attracted some attention. In the following year he brought out a novel called ‘Long Odds,’ and in 1870 produced at the Theatre Royal the pantomime of ‘Little Bo-Peep.’ He was appointed secretary to the trustees of the Public Library, Melbourne, in 1872, and four years later became the assistant-librarian. His drama ‘Plot,’ which had a successful run, was played at the Princess's Theatre in 1873, and was followed by his adaptation of Molière's ‘Bourgeois Gentilhomme.’ The best pantomime ever produced in the Australian colonies was Clarke's ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,’ given at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, at Christmas 1873. During this time he was actively engaged on the press; he for some years wrote the dramatic criticism for the ‘Argus,’ and contributed to the leading and critical columns of all the principal journals in Melbourne. His reputation rests chiefly upon a novel called ‘His Natural Life,’ 1874, a very strongly written story, which met with high praise from English and foreign reviews. It has been republished in London by Bentley, 1875 and 1878, in New York by Harper Brothers, and in Germany by the firm of Otto Hanke, under the title of ‘De portirt auf Lebenszeit.’ He was also the author of ‘Holiday Peak,’ a collection of stories, and wrote the letterpress to ‘Pictures in the National Gallery, Melbourne,’ by T. F. Chuck, 1873. He died in Melbourne, 2 Aug. 1881, aged only 35. He married in 1868 Marion, the second daughter of John Dunn, the well-known comedian.
[Men of the Time in Australia, Victorian Series (1878), p. 36; Heaton's Australian Dictionary of Dates (1879), p. 39; Times, 28 Sept. 1881, p. 6.]
G. C. B.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Clarke, Joseph (1758-1834)

​CLARKE, JOSEPH (1758–1834), physician, second son of James Clarke, agriculturist, was born in Desertlin parish, co. Londonderry, on 8 April 1758. He studied arts at Glasgow in 1775–6, and medicine at Edinburgh in 1776–9, graduating in September 1779. In the spring of 1781 he attended William Hunter's lectures in London, and received a stimulus to obstetrical studies, which determined him to settle in Dublin as an accoucheur. Becoming pupil in 1781 and assistant physician in 1783 at the Lying-in Hospital, he was elected master (or physician) of that hospital in 1786, having in the same year married a niece of Dr. Cleghorn [q. v.], founder of the anatomical school in Trinity College, whom he assisted in his lectures from 1784 to 1788.
Already in 1783 Clarke had suggested the improved ventilation of the Lying-in Hospital, to diminish the serious mortality of infants there within nine days of birth, amounting to one in six, a mortality afterwards reduced to one in nineteen, and later to one in 108. On his appointment as master he began to lecture in the hospital, and established a school of midwifery. On the termination of his seven years of office as master he published (in vol. i. of the ‘Transactions of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland’) a report of 10,387 cases, recounting in detail all points worthy of note, and forming one of the most valuable records in existence on the subject. It was afterwards supplemented by his notes of 3,878 births in private practice, in which he had not lost one mother from ​protracted labour (see Collins, Sketch of Clarke). He was remarkable for his abstention from the use of the forceps, which he only employed once in private practice. His receipts in fees of from 10l. to 150l. amounted to 37,252l. He retired from practice in 1829, and died on 10 Sept. 1834 at Edinburgh, while attending the meeting of the British Association there.
Clarke's ‘Observations on the Puerperal Fever,’ originally published in the ‘Edinburgh Medical Commentaries,’ xv. 299, 1790, have been reprinted by Dr. Fleetwood Churchill in ‘Essays on the Puerperal Fever,’ Sydenham Society, 1849. He published several important papers in the ‘Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy,’ of which he was vice-president, among which may be mentioned ‘Remarks on the Causes and Cure of some Diseases of Infancy,’ vol. vi., and ‘On Bilious Colic and Convulsions in Early Infancy,’ vol. xi. Two letters of his to Richard Price, D.D., author of ‘A Treatise on Life Annuities,’ dealing with some causes of the excess of mortality of males above that of females, were printed in the ‘Philosophical Transactions’ for 1786, p. 349.
[Collins's Sketch of the Life and Writings of Joseph Clarke, M.D., with results of his private practice, 1849.]
G. T. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Clarke, John (d.1879)

​CLARKE, JOHN (d. 1879), comedian, is first heard of in London as a photographer in Farringdon Street. This employment he quitted to become general utility actor in various country theatres. A brief appearance at the Strand Theatre under Allcroft's management as Master Toby in ‘Civilisation,’ a play by Wilkins, was followed by a representation, 7 Oct. 1852, at Drury Lane of Fathom in the ‘Hunchback.’ A speculative season, to which he owed this engagement, soon came to an end, and Clarke returned to the country. He reappeared at the Strand as principal comedian, September 1853. His first distinct success was won in burlesque, a line in which his reputation dated from his performance, September 1856, of Ikey the Jew in Leicester Buckingham's travesty of ‘Belphegor.’ At Christmas 1857 Clarke was engaged for the pantomime at Drury Lane, then under the management of E. T. Smith. He returned, 1858, to the Strand, which had passed into the hands of Miss Swanborough, and played with success in a series of well-remembered burlesques by F. Talfourd, H. J. Byron, and other authors. His chief triumphs were in the ‘Bonnie Fishwife,’ as Isaac of York, and as Varney. Clarke then played with Webster at the Adelphi, at the Olympic, where his Quilp obtained much approval, ​at the Globe, and in pantomime at Covent Garden. On 15 April 1865 he took part in the performance of the company headed by Miss Marie Wilton (now Mrs. Bancroft), with which the little theatre in Tottenham Street, Tottenham Court Road, reopened as the Prince of Wales's, and played Amina in Byron's burlesque of ‘La Sonnambula.’ His last appearance was at the Criterion, where he appeared in some new pieces, and in the ‘Porter's Knot.’ In 1873 he married Miss Teresa Furtado, a well-known actress, who died 9 Aug. 1877. After her death he broke down. He died 20 Feb. 1879, aged about fifty, in Torriano Avenue, London, N.W. He was a competent actor, with a grating voice and a hard style. His burlesque dancing was marred by an accident to his leg experienced while riding on horseback.
J. K.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Clarke, John Randall

​CLARKE, JOHN RANDALL (1827?–1863), architect and author, was son of Joseph Clarke, who settled in Gloucester about 1827, having a civil appointment in that city. John was educated at the college school, Gloucester, and adopted architecture as his profession. Being, however, of a literary turn of mind, he devoted his time to literature rather than to the practical exercise of his profession, producing both verse and prose with fluency. He published an ‘Architectural History of Gloucester from the earliest period to the close of the eighteenth century,’ and a ‘History of Llanthony Abbey,’ illustrated from drawings by himself and others. He also produced two works of fiction, ‘Gloucester Cathedral’ and ‘Manxley Hall.’ He contributed to the ‘Gentleman's Magazine,’ ‘Le Follet,’ the ‘Era,’ and other periodicals. He frequently delivered lectures, which were well attended, to the Gloucester Literary and Scientific Association. Some of these, including two lectures on the churches of Gloucester, were published by subscription, and the last that he delivered, on ‘King Arthur, his Relation and History and Fiction,’ was published by his friends after his death. Clarke's performances were marred by an over-estimation of his own powers, but were very creditable for a man of his age. The promise thus given by his talents was checked in its fulfilment by his premature death at his father's residence at College Green, Gloucester, on 31 March 1863, aged 36.
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Clarke, Joseph (1811?-1860)

​CLARKE, JOSEPH (1811?–1860), divine, of St. John's College, Cambridge, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1841, was incumbent of Stretford, Lancashire, and rural dean of Manchester. He was wrecked in the Orion, passenger steamer between Liverpool and Greenock, on 17 June 1850, and was picked up by a boat when almost exhausted. He published an account of this event with the title ‘The Wreck of the Orion,’ three editions, 8vo, also ‘Trees of Righteousness,’ 12mo. He made collections for a history of his parish, and bequeathed his manuscripts to the Bishop of Manchester; they were of considerable use to the Rev. F. R. Raines in preparing his ‘History of the Chantries within the County of Lancaster,’ published by the Chetham Society in 1862. Clarke died at Stretford on 18 Feb. 1860 at the age of forty-nine.
[Gent. Mag. 3rd ser. 1860, viii. 463, 1863, xv. 243; Clarke's Wreck of the Orion; History of the Chantries (Chetham Soc.), introd. xxxi.]
W. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Clarke, Joseph (d.1749)

1904 Errata appended.
​CLARKE, JOSEPH (d. 1749), controversialist, son of Joseph Clarke, D.D., rector of Long Ditton, Surrey, was educated at Westminster School, and afterwards at Magdalene College, Cambridge, under Thomas Johnson. He was elected a fellow of his college, proceeded to the degree of M.A., and died after a long illness on 30 Dec. 1749. His funeral sermon, preached in the parish church of Long Ditton on 4 Jan. 1750–1, by the Rev. Richard Wooddeson, M.A., master of the school at Kingston-on-Thames, was printed at London, 1751, 8vo.
His works are: 1. ‘Treatise of Space,’ 1733. 2. ‘A Defence of the Athanasian Creed, as a preservative against Heresy.’ 3. ‘A full and particular Reply to Mr. Chandler's Case of Subscription to Explanatory Articles of Faith, &c.’ 1749, 8vo.
He also edited Waterland's ‘Sermons on several important Subjects of Religion and Morality,’ 2 vols. Lond. 1742, 2nd ed. 1776.
T. C.
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.67 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Clarke, John (1761-1815)

​CLARKE, JOHN, M.D. (1761–1815), physician, son of a surgeon of the same name, was born at Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, in 1761. He was educated at St. Paul's School, where he was admitted 6 Nov. 1772, aged 11, and afterwards at St. George's Hospital. After becoming a member of the Corporation of Surgeons, as the body then separated from the barbers, but not yet raised to the degree of a college, was called, he began practice in Chancery Lane, and at the same time lectured on midwifery in the private medical school founded by Dr. William Hunter. His lectures were popular, and Dr. Munk was told by his brother, Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, that this was in part due to a custom of illustrating the points of midwifery by familiar analogies. Clarke received a license in midwifery from the College of Physicians in 1787, and took a Scotch degree. He was the chief midwifery practitioner of London for several years, but later in life gave up midwifery, and, moving to the west end of the town, was consulted on the diseases of women and children. He was also lecturer on midwifery at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He died in August 1815, and besides a paper on a tumour of the placenta, read before the Royal Society, published three books: ‘An Essay on the Epidemic Disease of Lying-in Women in 1787–8,’ 4to, London, 1788; ‘Practical Essays on Pregnancy and Labour, and the Diseases of Lying-in Women,’ 8vo, London, 1793; and ‘Commentaries on some of the most important Diseases of Children,’ 8vo, London, 1815. The last, of which his death prevented the publication of more than one part, is the work on which his fame rests, and it entitles him to rank as a medical discoverer; for it contains the first exact description of laryngismus stridulus. This disease, which consists in a sudden onset of difficult breathing, obviously originating in the windpipe, was confused by Boerhaave with asthma, and by later writers with true croup. Its anatomical cause is not yet known; but Clarke's exact clinical description (Commentaries, chap. iv.) was the first step to a precise study of the affection.
N. M.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Clarke, John (1706-1761)

​CLARKE, JOHN (1706–1761), schoolmaster, was born at Kirby-Misperton, otherwise called Kirby Over-Car, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, on 3 May 1706. He ​was educated in the school at Wakefield, and in that at Kirkleatham in Cleveland, under Thomas Clark, successively master of both those schools. In 1723 he was admitted a sizar of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1726. He was elected a fellow of his college on 1 Oct. 1729 and commenced M.A. in 1730 (Cantabrigienses Graduati, ed. 1787, p. 85). On taking holy orders he was presented to the perpetual curacy of Nun Monkton. He became successively master of the grammar schools of Skipton, Beverley (1735), and Wakefield (1751), Yorkshire (Poulson, Beverlac, pp. 467–469). Clarke was an accomplished classical scholar, and the appellation of ‘Little Aristophanes,’ for he was small of stature, was given to him in consequence of the encomium with which Dr. Bentley honoured him, after a severe examination of his proficiency in the works of that poet. He died on 8 Feb. 1761, and was buried in the church of Kirby-Misperton, where a monument was erected to his memory by some of his former pupils, who also placed a marble tablet, with an elegant Latin inscription, in the three schools over which he had presided (Whitaker, Loidis and Elmete, 291; Gent. Mag. lxiv. pt. ii. pp. 694, 695). Dr. Thomas Zouch, one of the eminent men whom he educated, published a life of him under the title of ‘The Good Schoolmaster,’ York, 1798, reprinted in vol. ii. of Zouch's Works, edited by Wrangham, York, 1820, 8vo.
T. C.