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# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Ambassadors, The

Edition of 1920. See also The Ambassadors on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
AMBASSADORS, The. ‘The Ambassadors’ is often spoken of as enjoying the doubtful distinction of being the most talked about and least read novel in the English language. It holds first place in the affection of most people with whom the love of Henry James is a literary cult; it is the author's own favorite among his works. He calls it “quite the best ‘all round’ of all my productions.” Yet, in spite of the fact that it was published in 1903, 25 years after ‘Daisy Miller’ and ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ had created an audience for their author's work, half of the first edition remained on the publisher's shelves for years. It requires something more than the fact that ‘The Ambassadors’ is written in James' “later manner” and is full of subleties of character, situation and expression to account for these extremes of admiration and neglect, and that something is undoubtedly the age of the hero. Middle age has never been popular in fiction, and 'The Ambassadors,' through Lambert Strether — probably the finest character James ever created — is the mirror of New England middle age beside the youth of Paris. The essence of the story, according to Henry James' preface to the New York edition (the best analysis of the work), is contained in the words of Strether to the friend of the New England boy whom he has been sent to save from the clutches of Paris and whom he finds “disobligingly and bewilderingly not lost.” “Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?”
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/American Philological Association

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AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, a society inaugurated by William D. Whitney, of Yale, at Poughkeepsie 1869 as an outgrowth of the Oriental Society, Classical Section. Its object is the “advancement and diffusion of philological knowledge”; it publishes an annual volume of ‘Transactions’ and also ‘Proceedings,’ detailing its meetings and giving titles of papers presented. It has a membership of some 718.
# The Dial (Third Series)/Volume 75/Crocus

CROCUS
BY ALFRED KREYMBORG
When trees have lost remembrance of the leaves
that spring bequeathes to summer, autumn weaves
and loosens mournfully—this dirge, to whom
does it belong—who treads the hidden loom?
When peaks are overwhelmed with snow and ice,
and clouds with crape bedeck and shroud the skies—
nor any sun or moon or star, it seems,
can wedge a path of light through such black dreams—
all motion cold, and dead all trace thereof:
What sudden shock below, or spark above,
starts torrents raging down till rivers surge—
that aid the first small crocus to emerge?
The earth will turn and spin and fairly soar,
that couldn't move a tortoise foot before—
and planets permeate the atmosphere
till misery depart and mystery clear!—
And yet, so insignificant a hearse?—
who gave it the endurance so to brave
such elements?—shove winter down a grave?—
and then lead on again the universe?
# The Dial (Third Series)/Volume 75/Briefer Mention (October 1923)

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# The Dial (Third Series)/Volume 75/Briefer Mention (September 1923)

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# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Miller, Hon. Maxwell

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​Miller, Hon. Maxwell, third son of Serjeant Miller, Judge of the Leicestershire County Court, was born in London in the year 1832. He was educated at St. Paul's School, whence he went up with a scholarship to Worcester College, Oxford. Here he gained the Fitzgerald scholarship, which transferred him to Queen's College. In 1852, at the instance of his elder brother William, who had emigrated to Victoria, he sailed for Melbourne. Soon after his arrival, Dr. Perry, the then Bishop of Melbourne, offered him the appointment of Secretary to the Diocese. This office he held until he obtained one of the two Inspectorships of Education for Victoria, the other Inspector being Mr. (now the Right Hon.) H. C. E. Childers. He resigned this office to become one of the sub-editors of the Argus newspaper, and shortly after his brother William and he received an invitation to conduct a newspaper in Hobart, which was being started in the Liberal interest. The Tasmanian Daily News was the result, a paper which, though creditable for its literary matter and effective as a political weapon, ended in heavy pecuniary loss after two or three years' existence. On the introduction of responsible government in 1856, Mr. Miller was returned to the House of Assembly as a member for Hobart, and soon made his mark as a debater. In conjunction with Mr. (now Sir F.) Smith, he introduced the scheme of Superior Education and endowed Tasmanian scholarships, which remained in force in the colony for some twenty-five years until the recent establishment of the Tasmanian University. Mr. Miller held office without portfolio in the short-lived ministry of Mr. Gregson, from Feb. 26th to April 1857. In 1863 Mr. Miller resigned his seat, and accepted the appointment of assistant-clerk to the House, an office which he held until within a short time of his death, which took place at Hobart, April 10th, 1867. Mr. Miller was a brother of Mr. Robert Byron Miller (q.v.). He was the author of "The Tasmanian House of Assembly: A Metrical Catalogue" (Hobart, 1860), a trenchant political satire.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Miller, Hon. Robert Byron

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​Miller, Hon. Robert Byron, eldest son of Serjeant Miller and brother of above, entered as a student at the Middle Temple in April 1843, and was called to the bar in Jan. 1848. Emigrating to Tasmania, he was admitted to the bar of that colony in August 1855. Having entered Parliament, he was Attorney-General in the Whyte Ministry from Jan. 1863 to Nov. 1866, and was sworn of the Executive Council. He married, on April 11th, 1855, Emily, third daughter of George Berkeley Harrison, of London.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Mitchell, Hon. Sir William Henry Fancourt

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​Mitchell, Hon. Sir William Henry Fancourt, M.L.C., who was for fourteen years President of the Legislative Council of Victoria, was the son of the Rev. George Barkley Mitchell, vicar of St. Mary's and All Saints', Leicester, and chaplain to the late Duke of York. He arrived in Tasmania at a very early age, and for a time filled the office of acting Colonial Secretary. He went to Port Phillip about 1840. and engaged in squatting pursuits, taking up country in the neighbourhood of Kyneton. At the time of the first gold discoveries, when the police were in a very disorganised state, the Lieutenant-Governor, Mr. La Trobe, appointed him Chief Commissioner of Police, with almost unlimited powers, and the result was that after a time a tolerably efficient force was created. He introduced the cadet system by promising a number of young fellows commissions and outfits as police cadets on their passing through a successful probation in chasing bushrangers and doing escort duty. Bushranging was by this means to a great extent stamped out Captain (afterwards Sir) Charles Macmahon was appointed by the Chief Commissioner as head of the city police, and Mitchell going home on leave of absence, Macmahon succeeded him as acting Chief Commissioner. On his return in Sept. 1856 he entered political life, and was elected to the Legislative Council as one of the five original members for the north-western province, for which he was re-elected whilst he remained in public life. Mr. Mitchell was Postmaster-General of Victoria in the Haines Government from April 1857 to March 1858, during which time he effected an almost total reorganisation of the department. He was Commissioner for Railways from Dec. 1861 until June 1863 in the third O'Shanassy administration. In March 1869 he was elected Chairman of Committees of the Legislative Council, and retained that office until Oct. 1870, when, on the retirement of Sir James F. Palmer, he was elected President. In 1875 he received the honour of knighthood, and was five times re-elected President of the Upper House of the Victorian Legislature prior to his final retirement in Nov. 1884. He died on Nov. 4th, 1884.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Mills, James

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​Mills, James, M.H.R., son of William Mills, formerly Collector of Customs at Christchurch, N.Z., was born in 1848. In 1869 he was left managing trustee of the properties of the late Mr. John Jones, mainly situate in Otago, and carried on business as a steamship owner from that year till 1875, when he started the Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand, of which he has been managing director since its formation. Mr. Mills entered the House of Representatives as member for Port Chalmers in April 1887, on the death of Mr. Macandrew, and was re-elected on the dissolution in October of that year; as also in Dec. 1890.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Mitchelson, Hon. Edwin

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​Mitchelson, Hon. Edwin, M.H.R., is a native of Auckland, N.Z., where he is extensively engaged in the kauri gum trade and general mercantile business. He entered the New Zealand Parliament in 1881, and became a member of the third Atkinson Ministry in 1883, with the portfolio of Public Works, which he held from Nov. 1883 to August 1884, accepting the same post in the fourth Atkinson administration on August 28th, 1884. It only, however, lasted six days. In the last Atkinson Cabinet Mr. Mitchelson was Minister for Public Works from Oct. ​1887 to Oct. 1889 and Minister of Native Affairs, Postmaster-General, and Electric Telegraph Commissioner from that date till Jan. 1891. During the latter part of the period he was acting Premier in place of Sir H. A. Atkinson, who was incapacitated by illness. Mr. Mitchelson is still M.H.R. for Eden.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Milne, Hon. Sir William

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​Milne, Hon. Sir William, the son of the late William Milne, of Glasgow, merchant, was born in 1822, and educated at the High School, Glasgow. He was one of the pioneer settlers of South Australia, and was engaged in business at Adelaide from 1839 to 1857, when he was returned to the Legislative Assembly for Onkaparinga. This constituency he represented till 1868, and was returned to the Legislative Council in the following year. He was Commissioner of Crown Lands in ​the Baker Ministry from August to Sept. 1857, and in the Hanson Government from July 1859 to May 1860; Commissioner of Public Works under Mr. Waterhouse, from Feb. 1862 to July 1863; Commissioner of lands in the Ayers Ministry, from July to August 1864; Commissioner of Public Works in the Blyth Government, from August 1864 to March 1865; Commissioner of Lands in the Boucaut Ministry, from March 1866 to May 1867; Chief Secretary under Mr. Hart, from May 1870 to Nov. 1871, and in the Blyth Government from that date till Jan. 1872. Sir William Milne was President of the Legislative Council from July 1873 to Feb. 1881, when he resigned. He married in 1842 Eliza, daughter of John Disher, of Adelaide. Sir William was knighted in 1876.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Mitford, Eustace Reveley

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​Mitford, Eustace Reveley, a voluminous contributor to the South Australian press, under the nom de plume of "Pasquine," was nearly related to the well-known authoress Miss Mitford. He died on Oct. 24th, 1869, at the age of fifty-eight. His writings were collected after his death and published for the benefit of his widow.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Miller, Hon. Henry John

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​Miller, Hon. Henry John, M.L.C. New Zealand, an old settler in Oamaru, Otago, has been a member of the Legislative Council of New Zealand for twenty-five years. Mr. Miller held office in the Fox Ministry as a member of the Executive Council from July to Sept 1872.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Moffatt, Hon. Thomas de Lacy

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​Moffatt, Hon. Thomas de Lacy, M.L.A., was returned to the first Legislative Assembly of Queensland in April 1860 for the district of Western Downs. He became Colonial Treasurer in the first Herbert Ministry in August 1863, and retained this post till his death on Oct. 2nd, 1864.
# The Essays of Montaigne/Book II/Chapter XIV
### Chapter XIV. That the mind hinders itself.

'Tis a pleasant imagination to fancy a mind exactly balanced betwixt two equal desires: for, doubtless, it can never pitch upon either, forasmuch as the choice and application would manifest an inequality of esteem; and were we set betwixt the bottle and the ham, with an equal appetite to drink and eat, there would doubtless be no remedy, but we must die of thirst and hunger. To provide against this inconvenience, the Stoics, when they are asked whence the election in the soul of two indifferent things proceeds, and that makes us, out of a great number of crowns, rather take one than another, they being all alike, and there being no reason to incline us to such a preference, make answer, that this movement of the soul is extraordinary and irregular, entering into us by a foreign, accidental, and fortuitous impulse. It might rather, methinks, he said, that nothing presents itself to us wherein there is not some difference, how little soever; and that, either by the sight or touch, there is always some choice that, though it be imperceptibly, tempts and attracts us; so, whoever shall presuppose a packthread equally strong throughout, it is utterly impossible it should break; for, where will you have the breaking to begin? and that it should break altogether is not in nature. Whoever, also, should hereunto join the geometrical propositions that, by the certainty of their demonstrations, conclude the contained to be greater than the containing, the centre to be as great as its circumference, and that find out two lines incessantly approaching each other, which yet can never meet, and the philosopher's stone, and the quadrature of the circle, where the reason and the effect are so opposite, might, peradventure, find some argument to second this bold saying of Pliny:
 "Solum certum nihil esse certi,  et homine nihil miserius ant superbius."
 ["It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing  is more miserable or more proud than man."—Nat. Hist., ii. 7.]
# The Elephant in the Moon

* "The Elephant in the Moon—A Satyr—in short Verse", in The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, Volume 1 (1759)
* "The Elephant in the Moon—A Satyr—in long Verse", in The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, Volume 1 (1759)
# The Eleventh Moon

First published in The Bookfellow, 15 October 1920
'Twas in the eleventh moon I went wool gathering in the dim, Near by me was a lover lad and the sweetness was on him.
Lightly his eyes went to the east and he with joy was dumb, His sweet love walked a miracle out of the moonlight come.
Oh, but he was the fine lover! with a lover's thirsting eye: —When two hearts beat the tune is sweet and knows not how to die.
Her laugh it was the rainbow's laugh delicious to the land, And she gave to him for close loving her little silken hand.
Her face was made of Summer thought joined with the giddy Spring: Gently I said, O heart, she is too heavenly a thing.
The moon did seem as music spilled upon her spotless gown, And at her height of happiness the summer tear came down.
Night—and the silence honey-wet: the moon came to the full: It was a time for gentle thought and the gathering of wool.
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# The Eleventh Hour

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* "The Eleventh Hour" (1907), a mystery short story by Perceval Gibbon
* "The Eleventh Hour" (1910), a mystery short story by Edwin Balmer and William MacHarg
* "The Eleventh Hour" (1915), a short story by Ralph Stock
* "The Eleventh Hour" (1917), a short story by Ethel M. Dell
* At the Eleventh Hour, a 1916 military essay by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
# The Haunted Baronet

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The Haunted Baronet is a novella published in 1871 in Chronicles of Golden Friars, a collection of short stories set in the imaginary English village of Golden Friars.
* Chapter I: The George and Dragon
* Chapter II: The Drowned Woman
* Chapter III: Philip Feltram
* Chapter IV: The Baronet Appears
* Chapter V: Mrs. Julaper's Room
* Chapter VI: The Intruder
* Chapter VII: The Bank Note
* Chapter VIII: Feltram's Plan
* Chapter IX: The Crazy Parson
* Chapter X: Adventure in Tom Marlin's Boat
* Chapter XI: Sir Bale's Dream
* Chapter XII: Marcella Bligh and Judith Wale Keep Watch
* Chapter XIII: The Mist on the Mountain
* Chapter XIV: A New Philip Feltram
* Chapter XV: The Purse of Gold
* Chapter XVI: The Message from Cloostedd
* Chapter XVII: On the Course--Beeswing, Falcon, and Lightning
* Chapter XVIII: On the Lake, at Last
* Chapter XIX: Mystagogus
* Chapter XX: The Haunted Forest
* Chapter XXI: Rindermere
* Chapter XXII: Sir Bale is Frightened
* Chapter XXIII: A Lady in Black
* Chapter XXIV: An Old Portrait
* Chapter XXV: Through the Wall
* Chapter XXVI: Perplexed
* Chapter XXVII: The Hour
* Chapter XXVIII: Sir Bale in the Gallery
* Chapter XXIX: Dr. Torvey's Opinion
* Chapter XXX: Hush!
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# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Dashkoff, Princess Ekaterina Romanovna

Edition of 1920. See also Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
DASHKOFF, däsh'kōf, Princess Ekat'erina Romanov'na, Russian scholar: b. Petrograd 22 March 1743; d. Moscow 16 Jan. 1810. She married Prince Dashkoff when only 15 years old, but was left a widow three years after. She was an intimate friend of the Empress Catherine II, and one of the heads of the conspiracy formed against Peter III, the success of which secured the throne to Catherine. Soon afterward, quarreling with Catherine, she obtained permission to travel, and visited Germany, England, France and Italy, making the acquaintance of many eminent men. On her return the princess was appointed director of the Academy of Arts and Sciences; and in 1783, president of the Russian Academy, established at her own suggestion in imitation of the French Académie. Besides writing several comedies and occasional papers, the Princess Dashkoff was mainly instrumental in inducing the Russian Academy to draw up a dictionary of the Russian language, and herself executed part of the work. On the death of Catherine she was removed from office and retired to Moscow. Consult her autobiography (trans. by Mrs. W. Bradford, London 1840.)
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Dass, Peder

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DASS, Peder, or Petter, Norwegian poet: b. Nord-Herö, parish of Alstahoog, Nordland, 1647; d. Aug. 1708. He studied at the University of Copenhagen, became pastor of the parish of Alstahoog in 1689 and grew rich from commerce and fisheries, buying for himself the royal domain of Vefsen. He became the most popular poet in Norway, leaving 127 poems of which only 24 are now extant, his masterpiece being a descriptive poem: ‘The Trumpet of the Nordland,’ written in the Dano-Norwegian dialect. His works were collected by Eriksen (Christiania 1873-77).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Davidson, James Wheeler

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DAVIDSON, James Wheeler, American capitalist: b. Austin, Minn., 14 June 1872. He was graduated from the Northwestern Military Academy, Highland Park, Ill., in 1891. He was a member of the Peary Artic Expedition to the North Polar regions, 1893-94; war correspondent with Chinese army, 1895; and with the Japanese army, 1895-96. In June 1897, he was appointed by President Cleveland consular agent for the island of Formosa, where he remained nine years, during which time he wrote numerous monographs on Formosan affairs, as well as a large volume entitled ‘Formosa Past and Present’ (1890), which is considered as a standard book of reference on this subject. In 1903 he obtained leave of absence, and under the auspices of the Russian Communications Department made a careful survey of the territory adjacent to the Asian section of the Trans-Siberian Railway, collecting material for a complete report of this territory, extracts from which appeared in the Century Magazine (April-June 1903). In 1904 he was appointed to Dalny, Manchuria, one of the political consulates, where he was expected to promote Secretary Hay's “open door” policy. Later be became consul at Antung, Manchuria, and commercial attaché to the American legation, Pekin, and special agent of the Department of State. He was appointed by President Roosevelt in 1905 consul-general at Shanghai. He was decorated by the Emperor of Japan in 1895 with Order of Rising Sun for services rendered Japanese army in capturing the capital of Formosa. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and member of the Asiatic Society, the Explorers' Club and the Authors' Club. He has large lumbering interests and in 1915 was president of eight banks in North Dakota. His publications include ‘Formosa Camphor and Its Future’ (1895); ‘A Review of the History of Formosa’ (1896); ‘Formosa Under Japanese Rule’ (1903), and contributions to the publications of scientific societies and magazines.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Dasyprocta

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DASYPROCTA, a genus of agoutis (Dasyproctidæ), a familiar group of rodent mammals inhabiting Central and South America, and some of the West India Islands. The agoutis are a little larger than the common rabbit, have a rabbit-like head, but with short ears, hooped, pig-like claws, and are swift-footed. They live in the woodland, and search for food by night in the open country. See Aguti.