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# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Tales of Hoffman

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TALES OF HOFFMAN (Les Contes d'Hoffman), Opera comique in prologue and three acts by Jacques Offenbach (libretto by Barbier), first produced at Paris, 10 Feb. 1881, several months after the composer's death. In spite of the unparalleled success which Offenbach had achieved with his light-hearted, clever and unfailingly melodious operas bouffes, he evidently desired to bequeath to posterity a work of more serious artistic import; and he spent his most ambitious efforts and years of his life on the ‘Tales of Hoffman.’ As his end approached, he begged the manager to produce it in time for him to witness the premiere. While he did not live to see it, the public took to the work no less heartily than to the operettas and it will undoubtedly outlive them. The story is novel and cleverly put together. The prologue shows Hoffman and his fellow students in Luther's Inn at Nuremburg; he is persuaded to tell of his three love encounters and these form the three succeeding acts. The opera ends as it began, Hoffman acclaimed a hero by his admiring friends. Inspired by its romance and fantasy, Offenbach has written a genuinely attractive score, which displays his talent for melody-making and ingenious characterization at its best. The barcarolle, in the second act, once heard, is never to be forgotten. Alone it
would have made the opera, but there are many other numbers worthy of recall — the burlesque ballad of Kleinzach, sung by Hoffman in the prologue and epilogue. Nicklausse's song of the doll, the automaton's song, “Les oiseaux dans la charmille,” Antonia's romance, “Elle a fui,” and the trio finale of the third act. Offenbach's treatment of the dramatic situations is always clever and at times subtle. The orchestration, while simple, is refined and the general artistic level of the work greatly above that on which he was usually content to stand. In Europe, ‘Tales of Hoffman’ has been pursued by superstitious fear on the part of the managers owing to the fact that its first performance at the Ring Theatre in Vienna was the occasion of a conflagration which caused great loss of life. Its revival in New York by Oscar Hammerstein in 1907 proved that its original appeal is still potent.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Tales of a Wayside Inn

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TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN. The ‘Tales of a Wayside Inn,’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was published in three parts, in 1863, 1872 and 1873, respectively. The poet followed the old plan of presenting a series of stories as told by different persons — in this case by friends of the author who, though they were not named, were so plainly characterized as to be easily recognizable. Among those of wider fame are Ole Bull, the violinist, and Thomas William Parsons, the poet and translator of Dante. The “Wayside Inn” was the old Red Horse Inn at Sudbury, 20 miles from Cambridge — a favorite resort for parties from Harvard College. Each of the three parts has a prelude and a finale, and there are interludes which link together the tales and introduce the narrators. Most of the stories were derived by Longfellow from his wide reading — many of them from the legends of continental Europe, a few from American sources. The ‘Birds of Killingworth’ was developed from no slight a hint that it may fairly be said to be of the poet's own invention. Longfellow, while not a poor story-teller, was hardly at his best in narrative, particularly in narrative with vigorous action, and the ‘Tales of a Wayside Inn,’ taken as a whole, is not to be listed among his most distinguished works. A few of the Tales have, however, won a place for themselves. Among these are ‘Paul Revere's Ride,’ told by the Landlord, and ‘King Robert of Sicily,’ which is ascribed to the Sicilian.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Tales of the Argonauts, The

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TALES OF THE ARGONAUTS, The. ‘The Tales of the Argonauts’ is a volume of short sketches collected and published by [Francis] Bret Harte in 1875; but the title is sometimes loosely applied to all this author's
stories of early California. Nothing in the ‘Tales of the Argonauts’ proper quite equals in merit ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp,’ ‘The Outcasts of Poker Flat’ and ‘Tennessee's Partner,’ which had appeared in an earlier collection; but ‘An Iliad of Sandy Bar,’ ‘How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar,’ and some others have been deservedly popular. The Argonauts are of course the gold-seekers of 1849 and the years immediately following. These adventurers came from all quarters of the globe and all ranks of society, and they had in common only the possession of the strength and determination necessary to reach the new Colchis. Here they lived, at first, wholly free from the conventional restraints imposed by an organized society, and each man showed himself for what he was. Many of these primitive social conditions still existed when Harte went to California in 1854, and they made a great impression on the observant boy. He did not use them in literature, however, until he was able to look back on them in the light of a man's experience. Californians objected that his pictures were unreal; but they give the impression of essential truth to life — an impression not spoiled by his persistent habit of showing the good elements in even the lowest and most debased characters. Harte occasionally seems to have adopted some of the less fortunate devices of Dickens, but his manner was chiefly his own. He lacks literary finish, though he was painstaking in regard to style; but in these early tales he has a sure command of humor and pathos, and a complete mastery of his unique material.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Talent

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TALENT, the name of a weight and denomination of money among the ancient Greeks, and also applied by Greek writers to various standard weights and denominations of money of different nations; the weight and value differing in the various nations and at various times. The Attic talent as a weight contained 60 Attic minæ or 6,000 Attic drachmæ, equal to 56 pounds, 11 ounces, British troy weight. As a denomination of silver money it was equal to $1,220. The great talent of the Romans is computed to be equal to $500, and the little talent to $375. A Hebrew weight and denomination of money, equivalent to 3,000 shekels, also receives this name. As a weight it was equal to about 93¾ pounds avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver it has been variously estimated at from $1,500 to $1,880.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Tanauan

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TANAUAN, tä-nä'wän, Philippines, (1) Pueblo, province of Batangas, Luzon, in the northeastern part of the province, 24 miles north of Batangas. It is on the main road to Manila, and was wiped out by a volcanic eruption of Taal, in 1754, but rebuilt. It is the centre of sugar and tobacco raising and fruit growing country, and has large markets. There are good schools. Pop. 20,040. (2) Pueblo, province of Leyte, on the northeastern coast, on
San Pedro and San Pablo Bay, nine miles south of Tacloban. It is on the coast road. Pop. 18,510.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Tancred

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TANCRED, tăng'krĕd, soldier and Crusader: b. about 1068; d. 5 Dec. 1112. His father was a Sicilian or Italian marquis named Odo or Ottobonus; his mother the sister of the celebrated Norman, Robert Guiscard, whose eldest son, Bohemond, was the friend and brother-in-arms of Tancred. (See Guiscard). In 1096 the two heroes embarked for Epirus, and thence marched to Macedonia. At the siege of Nicæa (1097) Tancred first appears among the heroes who directed the course of events, and he also took a conspicuous part in the battle of Dorylæum (July 1097). He now advanced, with Godfrey's brother Baldwin, over the Taurus toward Jerusalem. Tancred first pentrated through the passes of the mountains, and obtained possession of Tarsus by capitulation. The perfidious conduct of Baldwin caused a quarrel between him and Tancred, but it terminated in the reconciliation of the chiefs, who now joined the main army which was then marching upon Antioch. On the march to Jerusalem, Tancred had command of the advance guard, and he was the first to storm the walls of the town. During the scenes of horror which attended the capture of Jerusalem (July 1099) he conducted himself with humanity. The Sultan of Egypt advanced to attempt the recovery of Jerusalem, but was totally defeated by Godfrey of Bouillon and Tancred before Ascalon (12 August). Tancred captured Tiberias, besieged Jaffa and, after the death of Godfrey, endeavored to effect the election of Bohemond as king of Jerusalem; but the unworthy Baldwin obtained the throne. Tancred subsequently conducted the defense of Antioch, and after Bohemond's death in 1111 obtained that principality. He is represented by Tasso in the ‘Jerusalem Delivered’ as a brilliant and blameless hero. He is also celebrated in Rossini's opera ‘Tancredi’ (1813). Consult Guizot, ‘Collection des Memoires-Gesta Tancredi’; Delabarre, ‘Histoire de Tancrède’ (1822).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Tandubato

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TANDUBATO, tän-doo-bä-tō', Philippines, one of the smaller islands of the Tawi Tawi group, of the Sulu Archipelago, lying off the northeast coast of the island of Tawi Tawi; length, north and south, six miles; greatest width, five miles. The island is mountainous, Tandubato peak being the highest point. See Tawi Tawi.
# The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge/Last Songs/Ceol Sidhe

CEOL SIDHE
When May is here, and every morn Is dappled with pied bells, And dewdrops glance along the thorn And wings flash in the dells, I take my pipe and play a tune Of dreams, a whispered melody, For feet that dance beneath the moon In fairy jollity.
And when the pastoral hills are grey And the dim stars are spread, A scamper fills the grass like play Of feet where fairies tread. ​And many a little whispering thing Is calling to the Shee. The dewy bells of evening ring, And all is melody.
France, December 29th, 1916.
# The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge/Last Songs/Dawn

DAWN
Quiet miles of golden sky, And in my heart a sudden flower. I want to clap my hands and cry For Beauty in her secret bower.
Quiet golden miles of dawn— Smiling all the East along; And in my heart nigh fully blown, A little rose-bud of a song.
# The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge/Last Songs/Home

HOME
A burst of sudden wings at dawn, Faint voices in a dreamy noon, Evenings of mist and murmurings, And nights with rainbows of the moon.
And through these things a wood-way dim, And waters dim, and slow sheep seen On uphill paths that wind away Through summer sounds and harvest green.
This is a song a robin sang This morning on a broken tree, It was about the little fields That call across the world to me.
Belgium, July, 1917.
# The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge/Last Songs/In a Café

IN A CAFÉ
Kiss the maid and pass her round, Lips like hers were made for many. Our loves are far from us to-night, But these red lips are sweet as any,
Let no empty glass be seen Aloof from our good table's sparkle, At the acme of our cheer Here are francs to keep the circle.
They are far who miss us most— Sip and kiss—how well we love them, Battling through the world to keep Their hearts at peace, their God above them.
February 11th, 1917.
# The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge/Last Songs/Autumn

AUTUMN
Now leafy winds are blowing cold, And South by West the sun goes down, A quiet huddles up the fold In sheltered corners of the brown.
Like scattered fire the wild fruit strews The ground beneath the blowing tree, And there the busy squirrel hews His deep and secret granary.
And when the night comes starry clear, The lonely quail complains beside The glistening waters on the mere Where widowed Beauties yet abide.
​And I, too, make my own complaint Upon a reed I plucked in June, And love to hear it echoed faint Upon another heart in tune.
Londonderry, September 29th, 1916.
# The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge/Last Songs/Fairies

FAIRIES
Maiden-Poet, come with me To the heaped up cairn of Maeve, And there we'll dance a fairy dance Upon a fairy's grave.
In and out among the trees, Filling all the night with sound, The morning, strung upon her star, Shall chase us round and round.
What are we but fairies too, Living but in dreams alone, Or, at the most, but children still, Innocent and overgrown?
February 6th, 1917.
# The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge/Last Songs/At Currabwee

AT CURRABWEE
Every night at Currabwee Little men with leather hats Mend the boots of Faery From the tough wings of the bats. So my mother told to me, And she is wise you will agree.
Louder than a cricket's wing All night long their hammer's glee Times the merry songs they sing Of Ireland glorious and free. So I heard Joseph Plunkett say, You know he heard them but last May.
And when the night is very cold They warm their hands against the light ​Of stars that make the waters gold Where they are labouring all the night. So Pearse said, and he knew the truth, Among the stars he spent his youth.
And I, myself, have often heard Their singing as the stars went by, For am I not of those who reared The banner of old Ireland high, From Dublin town to Turkey's shores, And where the Vardar loudly roars?
December, 1916.
# The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge/Last Songs/In France

IN FRANCE
The silence of maternal hills Is round me in my evening dreams; And round me music-making bills And mingling waves of pastoral streams.
Whatever way I turn I find The path is old unto me still. The hills of home are in my mind, And there I wander as I will.
February 3rd, 1917.
# The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge/Last Songs/At a Poet's Grave

AT A POET'S GRAVE
When I leave down this pipe my friend And sleep with flowers I loved, apart, My songs shall rise in wilding things Whose roots are in my heart.
And here where that sweet poet sleeps I hear the songs he left unsung, When winds are fluttering the flowers And summer-bells are rung.
November, 1916.
# The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge/Last Songs/Had I a Golden Pound

HAD I A GOLDEN POUND
(AFTER THE IRISH)
Had I a golden pound to spend, My love should mend and sew no more. And I would buy her a little quern, Easy to turn on the kitchen floor.
And for her windows curtains white, With birds in flight and flowers in bloom, To face with pride the road to town, And mellow down her sunlit room.
And with the silver change we'd prove The truth of Love to life's own end, With hearts the years could but embolden, Had I a golden pound to spend.
February 5th, 1917.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Rooke, Hon. Henry Isidore Joachim Raphael

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​Rooke, Hon. Henry Isidore Joachim Raphael, M.L.C., J.P., is a merchant in Launceston, and formerly represented Deloraine in the House of Assembly. He was first elected to the Legislative Council in July 1886, and in the following March was Chief Secretary for four weeks in the Agnew Ministry. He is a member of the Executive Council, and Captain and Paymaster of the Launceston Rifle Corps.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Rose, W. Kinnaird

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​Rose, W. Kinnaird, late editor of the Brisbane Courier, was born in Glasgow in 1845, and educated at Kilmarnock and Ayr Schools and at Edinburgh University. Having embraced a journalistic career, Mr. Rose acted as special commissioner of the London Daily Telegraph in the conduct of an inquiry into the condition of the Scotch agricultural labourers, and had considerable experience as a special correspondent in various parts of Europe. He acted in this capacity for the Edinburgh Scotsman during the Turco-Russian war, and was for some time on the staff of General Skobeleff. He was several times wounded, being present at Plevna, the capture of the Gravitza redoubt, and most of the memorable scenes of that bloody and hotly contested war. Subsequently be returned to Edinburgh University for three years, and studied for the Bar with distinguished success. In 1879 he went as special commissioner to the East, to inquire into the condition of the Christian population in Roumelia, Macedonia, Albania and Armenia, and his report formed a subject of debate in both Houses of Parliament. On the advice of Sir Thomas McIlwraith, in 1884 he went to Queensland and was admitted to the local Bar in December of that year. Mr. Rose was one of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the Polynesian labour traffic in 1885, and formed an opinion decidedly adverse to this method of supplying labour to the Queensland sugar plantations as the system was then conducted. At the beginning of 1888 he became editor-in-chief of the Courier, which position he occupied until 1891, when he left for England. Amongst other incidents of Mr. Rose's career were his narrow escape from assassination in Albania, and his imprisonment in Rome on a charge of possessing forged notes which had been foisted upon him by a dealer in antiquities. Mr. Rose is the author of "The Modern Bayard; a Life of General Skobeleff," "A History of Agriculture in Scotland," "Political Ethnology," ​ "A Popular Handbook on Forestry," and other works.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Rous, Admiral Hon. Henry John

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​Rous, Admiral Hon. Henry John, second son of the Earl of Stradbroke, was born on Jan. 23rd, 1795, and, entering the Royal Navy, came out to Sydney in command of the Rainbow in 1825. He remained in Australian waters for four years, discovering the Richmond and Clarence rivers in New South Wales in August 1829. He also displayed very keen interest in turf matters, for which his name became a household word, importing the thoroughbred horse "Emigrant," which became the sire of numerous Australian performers. He was elected a member of the Parramatta Jockey Club in Sept. 1829, just before his departure for England, where he was member for Westminster from 1841 to 1846. His connection with the English Jockey Club and his almost unique position in the sporting world are matters of history. He married, in 1836, Sophia, daughter of J. B. Cuthbert, and in the same year retired from the navy. He died in 1877.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Rowan, Marian Ellis

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​Rowan, Marian Ellis, daughter of Charles Ryan, of Derriweit, Macedon, is a native of Victoria, and is well known for her talent in depicting the wild flowers of the bush. She has made special journeys to Western Australia, to Queensland, and to other parts of Australia, in search of material for her studies. She has been an exhibitor at many exhibitions, and has executed some black-and-white work for the publishers of the "Picturesque Atlas of Australasia." Mrs. Rowan was married to Captain F. C. Rowan in Oct 1873, and accompanied her husband to New Zealand, from which she returned to Melbourne in 1877.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Rosewarne, David Davey

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​Rosewarne, David Davey, F.G.S., son of David Davey Rosewarne, was born at Redruth, Cornwall, on April 7th, 1854. He was taken at an early age to California, and in 1877 to New Zealand, where he engaged in mining pursuits, which he has ever since followed. He married, at Thames, N.Z., Rebecca, daughter of William Huntley, a settler of fifty years in that colony. In Feb. 1889 he was appointed by the Government of South Australia, Inspector of Mines, Warden of Goldfields, and Inspector under the Mining on Private Property Act of 1888. In the following year he was sent to London as Executive Commissioner for South Australia at the International Exhibition of Mining and Metallurgy, held at the Crystal Palace in 1890, in which year he resigned his official employment under the Government of South Australia, and accepted the management of the Aclare Silver Mine in that colony.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Rusden, George William

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​Rusden, George William, J.P. third son of the Rev. George Keylock Rusden, M.A., of Pembroke College, Cambridge by his marriage with Anne, only daughter of Rev. Thomas Townsend, was born at Leith Hill Place, in Surrey, on July 9th, 1819, and went to New South Wales with his father in 1834. Primarily engaging in pastoral pursuits he was in 1849 appointed Agent for National Schools, first in Port Phillip, and afterwards in New South Wales and Moreton Bay. On the separation of Victoria from New South Wales in 1851, he was appointed Under-Secretary or Chief Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office. The next year he became Clerk of the Executive Council; and in 1856, when two Houses of Parliament were established under the new Constitution Act, he was appointed Clerk of the Legislative Council and Clerk of the Parliaments. He was for some time a member of the National Board of Education in Victoria, and was a member of the Council of Melbourne University from its foundation. Mr. Rusden, who originated the Shakespeare scholarships, founded in 1864, retired in 1882, and has latterly resided in England. In 1885 he was the defendant in a libel action brought against him by Mr. John Bryce of New Zealand, in connection with certain statements made with respect to the latter in the "History of New Zealand." In the result Mr. Bryce obtained a verdict for £5000 damages. Sir John Gorst was counsel for Mr. Rusden, whose allegations were understood to be based on information supplied by Sir Arthur Gordon and Bishop Hadfield. He is author of the following works. "Moryarra: an Australian Legend," 2 cantos; "National Education," 1 vol.; "Discovery, Survey and Settlement of Port Phillip," 1872; "Curiosities of Colonisation," London, 1874; "History of New Zealand," 3 vols., London, 1883; "Aureretanga: Groans of the Maoris," 1888; "History of Australia," 3 vols., London, 1883: "Letter to the ''Times'', on the Law of Libel," 1890; "Lectures on Work and Learning," 1857; "Old Road to Responsible Government," 1856; "Character of Falstaff," 1870; "Constitutional Rights," 1865; "Caucus Premonitions," ​1884; "Letter to General Macarthur," 1860; "Status of Colonial Bishops," 1868; "Translations and Fragments," 1874; "Les Propos de Labienus," 1874; and some other pamphlets.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Russell, Captain William Russell

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​Russell, Captain William Russell, M.H.R., is the son of Lieut.-Col. Andrew Hamilton Russell (q.v.), and was born at Sandhurst, Berkshire, England, on Nov. 12th, 1838. He went to New Zealand with his father in 1845 and remained three years, returning to England to be educated. Having joined the army, he was successively captain in the 58th and 14th regiments, revisiting New Zealand on military service in 1857, and again in 1861, when, having decided to settle in New Zealand, he purchased an estate at Flaxmere, near Hastings, in the Hawke's Bay district, where he is extensively engaged in squatting pursuits. Captain Russell was formerly a member of the Hawke's Bay Provincial Council, and having entered the General Assembly as M.H.R. for that district, was Postmaster-General and Commissioner of Telegraphs in the fourth Atkinson administration from August 28th to Sept. 3rd, 1884, and Colonial Secretary and Minister of Defence and Justice from Oct. 1889 to Dec. 1890. Captain Russell, who represented New Zealand at the Federation Conference held in Melbourne in 1890 and also at the Australasian National Convention held in Sydney in 1891, is President of the New Zealand Jockey Club. He was married at Chichester, Sussex, on July 11th, 1867, to Miss Harriette Julia Hodgskin. Captain Russell is one of the leaders of the Conservative party in New Zealand.