OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Rink, Johann

From volume 3 of the work.
​RINK or RINCK, Johann Christian Heinrich, the celebrated organist and composer for his instrument, born at Elgersburg in Saxe-Gotha, Feb. 18, 1770, and died at Darmstadt, Aug. 7, 1846. His talent developed itself at an early period, and, like Johann Schneider [see that name], he had the advantage of a direct traditional reading of the works of Sebastian Bach, having studied at Erfurt under Kittel, one of the great composer's best pupils. Rink having sat at the feet of Forkel at the University of Göttingen, obtained in 1789 the organistship of Giessen, where he held several other musical appointments. In 1806 he became organist at Darmstadt, and 'professor' at its college; in 1813 was appointed Court organist, and in 1817 chamber musician to the Grand Duke (Ludwig I). Rink made several artistic tours in Germany, his playing always eliciting much admiration. At Trèves, in 1827, he was greeted with special honour. He received various decorations, in 1831 membership of the Dutch Society for Encouragement of Music; in 1838 the cross of the first class from his Grand Duke; in 1840 'Doctor of Philosophy and Arts' from the University of Giessen. Out of his 125 works a few are for chamber, including sonatas for PF., violin, and violoncello, and PF. duets. But his reputation is based on his organ music, or rather on his 'Practical Organ School,' a standard work. Rink's compositions for his instrument show no trace of such sublime influence as might have been looked for from a pupil, in the second generation, of Bach; indeed throughout them fugue-writing is conspicuous by its absence. But without attaining the high standard which has been reached by living composers for the instrument in Germany, his organ-pieces contain much that is interesting to an organ student, and never degenerate into the debased and flippant style of the French or English organ-music so prevalent at present.
[ H.S.O. ]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Riotte, Philipp

From volume 3 of the work.
​RIOTTE, Philipp Jacob, born at St. Mendel, Treves, Aug. 16, 1776. Andre of Offenbach was his teacher in music, and he made his first appearance at Frankfort in Feb. 1804. In 1806 he was music-director at Gotha. In 1808 he conducted the French operas before the assembled royalties at the Congress of Erfurt. In April 1809 his operetta 'Das Grenzstädtchen' was produced at the Kärnthnerthor Theatre, Vienna, and thenceforward Vienna was his residence. In 1818 he became conductor at the Theatre an-der-Wien, beyond which he does not seem to have advanced up to his death, Aug. 20. 1856. The list of his theatrical works is immense. His biography in Wurzbach's Lexicon enumerates, between 1809 and 1848, no less than 48 pieces, operas, operettas, ballets, pantomimes, music to plays, etc., written mostly by himself, and sometimes in conjunction with others. In 1852 he wound up his long labours by a The Crusade,' which was performed in the great Redoutensaal, Vienna, with much applause. In other notices he is said to have produced an opera called 'Mozart's Zauberflöte' at Prague about 1820. He left also a symphony (op. 25), 9 solo-sonatas, 6 do. for PF. and violin, 3 concertos for clarinet and orchestra, but these are defunct. He became very popular by a piece called 'The Battle of Leipzig,' for PF. solo, which was republished over half Germany, and had a prodigious sale.
[ G. ]
# A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field

A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field. By J. Clerk Maxwell, F.R.S.
Received October 27,—Read December 8, 1864.
* Part I - Introductory
* Part II - On Electromagnetic Induction
* Part III - General Equations of the Electromagnetic Field
* Part IV - Mechanical Actions in the Field
* Part V - Theory of Condensers
* Part VI - Electromagnetic Theory of Light
* Part VII - Calculation of the Coefficients of Electromagnetic Induction
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
# A Little Child's Monument/Guardian Angels of Children

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., pages 85–89
Verily their angels Ever behold the face Of our Eternal Father, Sunned in His full grace. Yet in the stormless sunshine They do not love to dwell; There is no place in heaven They love half so well As the lowly chamber Of a little child; Dearer to them the breathing Of his bosom mild Than are all the pæans Round about the throne, Scorning the cold splendour Of an idle crown. Love rears her radiant palace In our shadow-world of fears, She mourns by our dark ocean Of tempestuous tears!
Angels tend the children Waking or asleep, They rebuke the evil, Who have made them weep. Heaven's crystal glory gloweth Rainbowed as they fly To where earth's night, illumined In their sweet charity, Dawneth silently!
In the lordly castle, In the dungeon deep. In the lonely hovel, Love-vigil they keep. Fair be the children, cherished, Sweethearted, rosed with health, Or poor and starved, and wanting The soul's holier wealth, Inheritors of sorrow, By leaguering ills deformed, Plague-smitten soul and body, Poor hearts love never warmed,— With all the angels tarry; And though the fire be low, They will fan the ember To a living glow; Inhabiting our sorrow, Our chilled heart of wrong,
Until it yield, and mellow Bloom to a sweet song. They, knowing our mortal fever Soon will pass away, Through long nights of sorrow Calm await the Day. Asleep they lead the lambkins To meadows of sweet dream, In gentle arms they bear them By many a cooling stream; Where the sunbeams cherish White and yellow flowers, They may sail on silver Among fairy bowers, Losing all the terror Of our waking world, Sails of their frail shallop In flowery havens furled.
A poor boy rides the pony So wistfully admired, While a poor maiden nurses The doll richly attired; They feel no more so tired! Pains and griefs no longer Vex the innocent breast, Now dear angels lull them Into such deep rest!
Cruel faces vanish, And all the loveless waste, In a fair home they find them, Tenderly embraced.
And when we deem them dying, More life the Lord imparts, Their faint frail breath subsideth On warm angel hearts; Like a wavelet failing On a sand so fair: Ah! then the angels welcome Heaven's cloudless crystal air! Because of the frail snow-flake Their kind bosoms wear. The snow-flake melts in glory, The little child awakes; Under the smiles of Jesus, Death-frozen for our sakes, There are no more snow-flakes! With our snows bejewelled How the angels shine, Earth's frozen flower a sunlet Pulsing light divine!
Dear babes, help one another! All the saints help you: We are with them in heaven,
Doing as they do. Every cross of sorrow Is a blessed pain; The Lord Jesus bore it, Proving it pure gain.
# A Little Child's Monument/Early Primrose

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., pages 18–19
There was a paly primrose, Budding very early In the little garden, When he lay so ill. "Do you think I may be Well enough to go there When the flower opens, Papa?" he asked of me. But only a day after Our little Sunshine left us, And the primrose opened The very day he died. I wonder if he saw it, Saw the flower open, Went to pay the visit Yonder after all! I know we laid the flower On a stilly bosom Of an ivory image; But I want to know
If indeed he wandered In the little garden, Or noted on the bosom Of his fading form The paly primrose open; How I want to know!
# A Little Child's Monument/God's Child

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., pages 36–37
He wanders round the garden wild, I hear him singing sweet; I know it is my fairy child, I hear his dancing feet.
Birds low warble in the nest, Leaves murmur merrily; My boy is leaning on the breast Of God most tranquilly.
He gazes in deep eyes Divine, With innocent clear eyes; He is God's baby more than mine The Father is all-wise.
Carol, my darling! laugh and leap! For art thou not God's own? … … Ah wildly, wildly must I weep … God hath destroyed His son!
Stabbed with a sudden traitor thrust The heart so unafraid! Then dung him down into the dust, To perish on the blade!
Earth felt, and, staggered with the blow, Reeled shuddering under me! Dead worlds, like shrivelled leaves, fell low From Life’s uprooted tree!
How shall I name Thee, Thou Supreme? Hate, Treachery, or Crime? … … When may we rise from our dark dream Beyond the bounds of Time? …
He is but folded closer still Within the Father’s bosom, Lest our earth airs may work him ill, My baby boy, my blossom!
# A Little Child's Monument/Flower to Flower

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., pages 142–144
Eucharis lilies, Roses red, Lie on the form of the Early dead; Eucharis lilies, Roses white. Lie on the shrine of a Jewel of Light! Tho' the jewel be flown, O, the Shrine is fair; Flowers are breathing Everywhere, Within his bosom and Wavy hair; Flowers for emblem, Flowers for faith, Sweet mortal words The Immortal saith! Beautiful souls Akin to his,
Who seem to be born Out of all he is, Who love to be born, And to die for this. Flowers for remembrance, Flowers for truth; Thoughts of the angel of Innocent youth; Dews of the morning Over their mirth, Softly awaking From sleep in earth; Sweet resurrection, A holy birth! Red for renouncement, Green is for hope, White for humility, Flowers who droop; Pale for his purity; Fair they link, Leaning a hand to us, Ere we sink. Azure for infinite Heaven's embrace, Tender and true Celestial grace; Red for the heart's blood Of Christ our Lord;
Blue for His Love, who will Keep His Word. Pansy and violet, Primrose pale, Lily of the valley, Folded frail, And water-lily Fulfil the tale. Pansy and violet, Lilies white, All for the form of a Lily of Light!
# A Little Child's Monument/Lament

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., pages 1–2
I am lying in the tomb, love, Lying in the tomb, Tho' I move within the gloom, love, Breathe within the gloom! Men deem life not fled, dear, Deem my life not fled, Tho' I with thee am dead, dear, I with thee am dead, O my little child!
What is the grey world, darling, What is the grey world, Where the worm is curled, darling, The deathworm is curled? They tell me of the spring, dear! Do I want the spring? Will she waft upon her wing, dear,
The joy-pulse of her wing, Thy songs, thy blossoming, O my little child!
For the hallowing of thy smile, love, The rainbow of thy smile, Gleaming for a while, love, Gleaming to beguile! Replunged me in the cold, dear, Leaves me in the cold And I feel so very old, dear. Very, very old!
Would they put me out of pain, dear, Out of all my pain, Since I may not live again, dear, Never live again!
I am lying in the grave, love, In thy little grave, Yet I hear the wind rave, love, And the wild wave! I would lie asleep, darling, With thee lie asleep, Unhearing the world weep, darling, Little children weep! O my little child!
# A Little Child's Monument/Dead

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., pages 11–12
I.
Where the child's joy-carol Rang sweeter than the spheres, There, centre of deep silence, Darkness, and tears. On his bed The child lay dead.
II.
There a man sat stolid, Stupefied and cold, Save when the lamp's flicker To poor love told Some mocking lie Of quivering eye, Or lip that said, "He is not dead."
III.
Weary Night went weeping, Moaning long and low, Till dim Dawn, awaking, Found them so— The heart that bled, And his dim dead.
IV.
"Measure him for his coffin," He heard a stranger say; And then he broke to laughing, "God! measure my poor clay, And shut me in my coffin, A soul gone grey! For hope lies dead, Life is fled."
# A Little Child's Monument/Death

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., pages 82–84
Death is very beautiful, Solemn, pure, and calm, As in a shadowy cloister cool, A lowly murmured psalm, After some fierce battle-cry In the windy glare hard by. Nay, very terrible is death! A cold, white shape of fear; By it we talk with bated breath, As if the thing could hear. So like, and so unlike the face! Ah! why borrow their dear grace? Nay! thou cold mockery of life! Death, take any other guise! If they with living joy be rife, Why looks their image on this wise? Why make us deem they turn to this, Who were the pulse of all our bliss? Death is Satan's cruel jest, His blaspheming parody!
"Lo! I give your darling rest; Come and see him by-and-by! Kiss the unanswering icy stone, And know thyself alone, alone! My repose is long and deep, Not a passing earthly sleep."
Nay! this hath some inner sense; I would resolve the mystery; 'Tis but a symbol of intense Unwearying life for these who die. Lord! may we wake to see Thy face, And our beloved in Thine embrace? We dream a dream of cold white death, And all our being shuddereth. Ah! when may we interpret, Lord, The meaning of Thy mystic Word?
Death is very pitiful, Death for a dear child! A pure white bud some wanton pull Scatters on the wild! And yet one woe may deeper move, The dying and the death of Love! He seemed so amiable, so fair, All holy, a perennial youth! Dumb and stark he lieth there; God Himself may weep for ruth.
"Dear Love, perchance, may not be dead, Only sleeping," some one said.
Ah! death is very beautiful, Solemn, pure, and calm, As in a shadowy cloister cool, A holy chanted psalm, After some fierce battle-cry In the windy glare hard by, Singing, "We are saved from evil, From the wandering waves' upheaval, Folded far from very death, Wherein the spirit withereth."
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Mead (Robert)

​MEAD (ROBERT), bookseller (?) in London; (?) Crane in St. Paul's Churchyard. [Ch. Meredith's house], 1617-56. Son of Thomas Mead, of Weston, co. Somerset, husbandman. Apprentice to John Standish for nine years from Michaelmas, 1599. Took up his freedom October 3rd, 1608. [Arber, iii. 683.] Warden of the Company of Stationers, 1638, 1642; Master of the Company, 1644, 1645, 1649. In company with Christopher Meredith took over all the copyrights of Richard Hawkins, but they transferred them to William Leake a few months later. [Arber, iv. 420, 452.] No book has been found bearing Mead's name in the imprint.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Mearne (Samuel)

​MEARNE (SAMUEL), bookseller and bookbinder in London; Little Britain, 1655-83. The first heard of Samuel Mearne is in 1655, when in company with Cornelius Bee, q.v., and W. Minshew, he was granted a pass to go to Holland [Domestic State Papers, 1655, p. 598]. In 1659 he entered a book in the Registers of the Stationers' Company entitled Meditations in Three Centuries, by the Rev. Henry Tabb, so that he was clearly in business as a bookseller at this time. He was appointed a searcher under the Company of Stationers at the Restoration, and an interesting series of papers dealing with this part of his work will be found in the Hist. MSS. Commn. Report 9 [Appendix, p. 72 et seq.] Mearne also held a share in the King's Printing Office. [Library, N.S., October, 1901, p. 373.] At the desire of Charles II he purchased the collection of pamphlets made by the bookseller George Thomason, but does not appear to have been paid for them, and they were subsequently sold by his successors to King George III. It is, however, chiefly as a bookbinder that Samuel Mearne is remembered. In 1660 he received a patent as bookbinder to Charles II for life at an annual fee of £6 per annum, and several of his accounts for binding books are preserved among the Wardrobe accounts at the Public Record Office. From these it appears that he generally bound his books in red or black Turkey leather. He executed some very choice bindings, the best known being those described as the "cottage" design. Samuel Mearne died in 1683, and his will is in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. [C. Davenport, Samuel Mearne, Binder to K. Charles II. Publications of the Caxton Club. Chicago, 1906.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Meighen (Mercy)

​MEIGHEN (MERCY), bookseller in London, (?) Under St. Clements Church [Strand], 1642-54. Widow of Richard Meighen. In partnership with G. Bedell. In 1650 Thomas Collins was taken as third partner. The retirement or death of M. Meighen in 1654 caused some confusion. Gabriel Bedell's name is found in connection with R. Marriot and T. Garthwaite, and the imprint J. Crook, G. Bedell & Partners is held to refer to this house, which before the end of the year became Gabriel Bedell & T. Collins.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Milbourne (Thomas)

​MILBOURNE (THOMAS), printer in London; Jewin Street [Aldersgate Street], 1659-67. Took up his freedom July 7th, 1634. [Arber, iii. 687.] Was in trouble in 1666 for printing The Catholic Apology. [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, vol. 182 (68, 69).] He made overtures for printing the weekly Gazette, and undertook that a new fount of type should be cast for it. In the survey taken on July 29th, 1668, he was returned as having two presses, no apprentices and two workmen.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Miller (Abraham)

​MILLER (ABRAHAM), printer in London; Blackfriars, 1646-53. Eldest son of George Miller. He succeeded to the business on the death of his father in 1646. Printed, amongst others, for E. Dod, Nath. Ekins, William Lee and Christopher Meredith.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Melvill (David)

​MELVILL (DAVID), bookseller in Aberdeen, 1622-43. Buried February 8th, 1643. Son, Robert Melvill. All his books that have been found were printed for him by E. Raban. [H. G. Aldis, List of Books, p. 117.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Meredith (Christopher)

​MEREDITH (CHRISTOPHER), bookseller in London; Crane in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1629-53. Took up his freedom October 4th, 1624. [Arber, iii. 686.] Was associated at one time and another with Edward Brewster, Robert Mead, and Philemon Stevens. Dealt chiefly, if not wholly, in theological books. He died on May 19th, 1653. [Smyth's Obituary, p. 34.] His will, dated January 24th, 1652, was proved on September 1st, 1653. He left no son, and bequeathed his copyrights to his brother-in-law, Andrew Kembe, q.v. His two houses in St. Paul's Churchyard, the one he occupied (The Crane), and the one occupied by Francis Egglesfield (The Marigold), which he had purchased of Thomas Man, were left to the Company of Stationers (1) To provide an annual sum of £10 to be lent to poor freemen of the Company; (2) To provide bibles for his tenants of the manor of Kempsey, co. Worcester, and school books for the use of the school there. Meredith also owned the house in Paternoster Row called The Chequer. Philemon Stephens, John Legate, and Andrew Kembe were named as executors in the event of the death of the executors nominated [P.C.C. 229. Brent]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Merreall (Alexander)

​MERREALL (ALEXANDER), bookseller in London; White Hart and Bear in Bread Street, 1662. Mentioned in an advertisement of the Welsh bible in octavo, in Mercurius Publicus, February 6th, 166 1/2.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Milborne, or Milbourne (Robert)

​MILBORNE, or MILBOURNE (ROBERT), bookseller in London, (1) At the Great South Door of Pauls, 1623-6. [Sayle, 930]; (2) The Greyhound, Paul's Churchyard, 1628-35. [Sayle, 930]; (3) Unicorn, near Fleet Bridge, 1636-9; (4) Holy Lambe in Little Britain, 1641; (5) Britains Burse (?) [New Exchange, Strand]. 1618-41. Took up his freedom March ​1st, 1617. [Arber, iii. 684.] He died at the end of 1642 or the beginning of 1643, as on February 23rd in the latter year thirty-four of his copyrights were transferred to Thomas Dainty, and by him re-assigned to the widow of Ch. Meredith. [Stationers' Registers, Liber D.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Meighen (Richard)

​MEIGHEN (RICHARD), bookseller in London; Under St. Clements Church [Strand], 1615-41. Is found in partnership with Ephraim Dawson, W. Lee, and D. Pakeman in the publication of law books early in 1641, but he ​died before the close of this or early in the succeeding year, administration of his goods being granted to his widow, Mercy Meighen, on March 21st, 164 1/2.
# 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/James, Henry

See also the disclaimer.
JAMES, HENRY (1843-1916), Anglo-American man of letters (see 15.143), died in London Feb. 28 1916. In 1913 nearly 300 of his English friends presented him with his portrait by J. S. Sargent, on the occasion of his 70th birthday; in the following year the portrait was damaged by a militant suffragette as it hung upon the walls of the Royal Academy. The outbreak of the World War aroused in him such a passionate sympathy for England and her Allies that he decided to identify himself once for all with England and to apply for naturalization. On July 26 1915 he became a British subject. The following Jan. he was awarded the Order of Merit, the insignia being brought to him on his sick-bed by his friend Viscount Bryce. His later works include A Small Boy and Others (1913), Notes of a Son and Brother (1914), The Middle Years (1917, left uncompleted). Two unfinished novels, The Ivory Tower and The Sense of the Past, appeared in 1917. In 1915 he contributed a preface to the Letters from America of Rupert Brooke, and his impressions of the war were published in 1919 under the title of Within the Rim.
See The Letters of Henry James, selected and edited by Percy Lubbock, 2 vols. (1920).
# 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/James of Hereford, Henry James, 1st Baron

See also Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
​JAMES OF HEREFORD, HENRY JAMES, 1st Baron (1828–1911), English lawyer and statesman (see 15.144), died at Epsom Aug. 18 1911.
# 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Jellinek, George

See also George Jellinek on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
​JELLINEK, GEORGE (1852–1911), Hungarian jurist (see 15.315), died at Heidelberg Jan. 12 1911.
# 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Jelf, Sir Arthur Richard

See also Arthur Richard Jelf on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
JELF, SIR ARTHUR RICHARD (1837-1917), English judge, was born at Pankow, near Berlin, Sept. 10 1837, the son of the Rev. Richard William Jelf, principal of King's College, London, by his wife Countess Emmy Schlippenbach, at one time maid of honour to the Queen of Hanover. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1860. He was called to the bar in 1863, and became a Q.C. in 1880. From 1879 to 1901 he was recorder of Shrewsbury, and in 1901 was raised to the bench, retiring in 1910. He died at Putney July 24 1917.