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# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chu I (朱邑)

​450 Chu I 朱邑 (T. 仲鄕). Died B.C. 61. A pure and incorrupt official of the Han dynasty, who rose to be Minister of Agriculture. In early life he had been a petty Magistrate at 桐鄕 T'ung-hsiang in Chehkiang, and had so won the love of the people that ​he left orders with his son to bury him there, where his memory would be kindly cherished. The Emperor Hsüan Ti greatly lamented his death, and presented a hundred ounces of gold to the family.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chu Ju

​454 Chu Ju 侏儒. A dwarf of the Chou dynasty. The Chinese "Tom Thumb."
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chu Kao-chih

​456 Chu Kao-chih 朱高熾. A.D. 1878-1425. The eldest son of the Emperor Yung Lo. He reigned as fourth sovereign of the Ming dynasty for one year. He released all political prisoners, and set to work to lighten the heavy burdens which had been imposed on the people by the splendour and enterprise of his father. Canonised as 仁宗昭皇帝.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chu Hsü

​447 Chu Hsü 朱序. 4th cent. A.D. Governor of Hsiang-yang in Hupeh when it was besieged by the lieutenants of Fu Chien. His mother, heading a body of some hundred men, together with all the women of the city, proceeded to throw up an earthwork, afterwards known as the 夫人城 Ladies’ Rampart, by means of which the enemy’s assault was effectually repulsed.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chu Huan (朱桓, 18th c.)

​449 Chu Huan 朱桓 (T. 浯村. H. 拙存). Author of the 歷代名臣言行錄, a biographical dictionary of eminent officials, published in A.D. 1758.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chu I-chün

​452 Chu I-chün 朱翊鈞. A.D. 1563-1620. Son of Chu Tsai-hou, whom he succeeded in 1572 as thirteenth Emperor of the Ming dynasty. His long reign ushered in the ruin of the dynasty. It opened well, his Minister Chang Chü-chêng ruling for the first ten years arbitrarily but well. In 1578 the population was returned at 60½ millions, and in 1580 the arable land was found to be over 106 million acres, an increase of 45 million acres in a century. The frontiers were kept at peace and even extended, and the country was very rich. The death of Chang left the Emperor free to indulge in sensualism and extravagance; and in 1599, the metropolitan treasuries being empty, provincial surpluses were ​annexed to provide Tls. 24,000,000 for the marriage of the Heir Apparent. For a quarter of a century before 1610, when one single public Court was held to celebrate the reconciliation of the Emperor with his heir, no one but eunuchs ever saw the sovereign. The Court was torn by several parties, half the offices were left vacant, memorials were not answered, and distress in the provinces went unrelieved. Meanwhile, the empire was harassed with special taxes, inquisitorially collected on petty household articles by eunuchs, to pay for mines, the proceeds of which went into the Privy Purse. The middle class were mostly ruined, and the people, finding life unendurable, took to brigandage. In 1583 Nurhachu appears in history, and before the end of the reign the Manchus had risen to power and were invading Korea and threatening Liao-yang, meeting with but a feeble resistance from the ill-paid soldiery and corrupt officers of the Mings. The Japanese invaded Korea in 1592; and when on the death of 平秀吉 P'ng Hsiu-chi they at last evacuated Fusan, China had lost incalculable sums and thousands of men. Aboriginal risings, Mongol incursions, Yellow River floods, droughts and famines, are recorded again and again; and the avaricious monarch left a ruined country to his feeble successors. Canonised as 神宗顯皇帝.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chu I (朱异)

​ ​451 Chu I 朱异. (T. 彥和). A.D. 483-549. A native of Ch'ien-t'ang in Chehkiang, who as a youth was a great gambler and a disgrace to his neighbourhood. When he grew up, he reformed and devoted himself to study, acquiring a profound knowledge of the Classics, of history, and even of the arts and sciences. He was personally examined by Shên Yo, and received an official post when only 21 years of age. His fine presence and marvellous power of work led to his appointment to the Privy Council by the Emperor Wu Ti, an office which he held for twelve years without once incurring reproof. He was greedy of wealth, venal, a sycophant, and fond of luxury and sensuality. He and his sons lived in a group of palaces within a splendid park, never spending a cash in charity. He advised the Emperor to accept Hon Ching's offer of allegiance, and died of shame when Hou Ching promptly revolted and besieged the capital. Author of commentaries on the Book of Rites and the Canon of Changes.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chu Jung

​455 Chu Jung 祝融. A legendary being, said by some to have been a Minister under Huang Ti; by others, to be identical with Ch'ung li, a descendant of Chuan Hsü; while a third account makes him contemporary with Fu Hsi. He is the God of Fire and rules over the south; hence he is sometimes called 南方君 and 南方赤帝. He is also known to the Taoists as 赤精成子 and is represented as an animal with a human face.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chu Huan (朱桓, 3th c.)

​448 Chu Huan 朱桓 (T. 休穆). Died A.D. 238. A hot-tempered but brave and honest officer under Sun Ch'üan. In A.D. 222 he was ennobled as Marquis for successfully repelling an incursion by 曹仁 Ts'ao Jen of the Wei Kingdom.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Strozzi, (Laurentia)

STROZZI (LAURENTIA), a learned Italian Nun, of the 15th Century,
Who wrote a book of Hymns, and Odes upon all the holy days, which was translated into French, and set to music by Mauduit.
F. C.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Sosipatra

SOSIPATRA, a Lydian, the Wife of Edesius,
Who being of a prophetic spirit, and foretelling future events, in verse no doubt, as the ancients especially were wont to do, some have not scrupled to place her among the poets. She is mentioned by Eugapius and Volaterranus.
Female Worthies.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Sulpicia

She wrote some thousands of pieces. The fragment of a satire against Domitian, who published a decree for ​the banishment of the philosophers from Rome, may be found in Scaliger's Appendix Virgiliana, and other collections; but has usually been printed at the end of the Satires of Juvenal, to whom it has been falsely attributed by some. She was the first Roman lady who taught her sex to vie with the Greeks in poetry. Her language is easy and elegant, and she seems to have had a happy talent for satire. She however wrote in many other ways, with great applause. Some elegies likewise, attributed to Tibullus, which abound in striking beauties, and are even worthy of the great poet they were erroneously given to, are now restored to Sulpicia. They are addressed to a young man (perhaps Calenus, a Roman knight, who was afterwards her husband) under the name of Cerinthus, which was that of a beautiful slave from Chalcis, mentioned by Horace, and applied only to the handsome. She is mentioned by Martial and Sidonius Apollinaris, and is said to have addressed to her husband, Calenus, a poem, on conjugal love. That the Romans should have produced not one poetess before Sulpicla, to put them more on a level with the Greeks, is matter of no small astonishment. She was certainly a woman of great genius, learning and beauty.
Grainger's Tibullus, and Biog. Dict.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Spilemberg, (Irene de)

SPILEMBERG (IRENE DE), a Venetian,
Whose paintings were frequently mistaken for those of Titian, her cotemporary. She died at the age of twenty-six, and her very competitor honoured her death by his tears.
Father Feejoo.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Strozzi, (Madeline)

STROZZI (MADELINE), a Florentine Nun, of the 17th Century,
Who charmed the tediousness and indolence of a cloister, by learning, and was known by her works all over Europe.
Essay by M. Thomas.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Sorel, (Agnes)

SOREL (AGNES), the Mistress of Charles VII. King of France; died of a Dysentery, 1449.
One who, to many virtues, added that of turning the influence she possessed over the king to his glory, and the good of her country. She would not suffer him to sink into the luxurious indolence to which he was inclined; but animated him, by intreaties and remonstrances, to active measures against the English, and to perseverance, even when fortune did not seem in his favour.
F. C.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Talbot, (Miss)

T.
TALBOT (MISS), a Writer of the last Century,
Who with her mother was an inmate in the house of Bishop Seeker, wrote Essays, in two volumes, and other works.
# A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Suze, (Henrietta de Coligni, Countess de)

SUZE (HENRIETTA DE COLIGNI, COUNTESS DE), a French Lady, Daughter of the Marshal de Coligni; an elegant Poetess, died 1673.
She married first Thomas Hamilton, a Scottish nobleman; and after his death, the Count De la Suze. This second marriage proved very unfortunate to her, and occasioned her infinite vexations. The count had conceived ​such a jealousy of her, that to keep her out of the way of temptation, he confined her in one of his country houses. The countess being thus immured knew not how to recover her liberty, but by declaring herself a Roman catholic, her husband being a Hugonot. This, however, produced nothing, except a more violent enmity. At length she proposed a dissolution of their marriage, and to induce him to agree to it, offered him 25,000 crowns. The count accepted the terms, and the parliament dissolved their marriage: upon which it was said that the countess had lost 50,000 crowns in the management of this affair; since, if she would have been patient a little longer, instead of paying 25,000 crowns to her husband, she would have received 25,000 from him; so desirous was he to get rid of her. Queen Christina, of Sweden, said upon the occasion, "That the Countess de la Suze had turned catholic, and separated from her husband, that she might never see him more, either in this world or the next."
This lady had brought herself into extreme embarrassments. One morning about eight o'clock, an officer came to seize her goods: her woman acquainting her with the affair, the officer was desired to walk up to her chamber, where she was in bed. "Sir," said she, "I have scarce had a wink of sleep all night, and must beg your patience for an hour or two." After which she fell asleep till ten o'clock, and then dressed herself in order to go and dine in town, where she had been invited. As she came out of her apartment, she said to the officer, "Sir, I thank you very heartily for your civility, and leave you master here."
Being free from all troublesome connexions, she gave herself up intirely to poetry; and excelled particularly in the elegiac way; her songs, madrigals, and odes, being ​reckoned much inferior to her elegies, which abound in wit, delicacy, and fine turn of sentiment. Her poems are collected and printed with those of Pelisson and Mad. de Scudery, at Treyoux, 1725, in four volumes, 12 mo.
Female Worthies.
# A Brief Bible History

A BRIEF BIBLE HISTORY
A SURVEY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS
JAMES OSCAR BOYD, Ph.D., D.D.
AND
JOHN GRESHAM MACHEN, D.D.
PHILADELPHIA
THE WESTMINSTER PRESS
1922
Introduction
This book surveys the history of God's redeeming grace. It reviews Old Testament history, disclosing the stream of God's redeeming purposes flowing down through the older times. It reviews New Testament history, disclosing the broadening and deepening of that purpose for us men and for mankind in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and his Church.
The chapters included in this book appear also as a part of Teaching the Teacher, a First Book in Teacher Training, and are issued in this form to supply the demand for a brief Bible history, for popular reading.
Harold McA. Robinson.
Contents
Section I
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCH IN OLD TESTAMENT TIMES
Section II
THE LIFE OF CHRIST AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCH IN NEW TESTAMENT TIMES
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# A Child's Journey with Dickens/Advertisements

By Kate Douglas Wiggin
ROBINETTA. Illustrated.
REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM. Holiday Edition. Illustrated.
SUSANNA AND SUE. Illustrated.
THE OLD PEABODY PEW. With decorations and illustrations.
REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM.
NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA. Illustrated.
ROSE O' THE RIVER. Illustrated in color.
THE AFFAIR AT THE INN. Illustrated.
THE DIARY OF A GOOSE GIRL. Illustrated.
A CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP, and PENELOPE'S ENGLISH EXPERIENCES, Illustrated.
PENELOPE'S PROGRESS.
PENELOPE'S IRISH EXPERIENCES.
PENELOPE'S EXPERIENCES. I. England; II. Scotland; III. Ireland; Holiday Edition. With many illustrations by Charles E. Brock.
A CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP. Holiday Edition, enlarged. Illustrated by C. E. Brock.
THE BIRDS' CHRISTMAS CAROL. Illustrated.
THE STORY OF PATSY. Illustrated.
A SUMMER IN A CAÑON. A California Story. Illustrated.
TIMOTHY'S QUEST. A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, who cares to read it. Also Holiday Edition. Illustrated.
POLLY OLIVER'S PROBLEM. Illustrated.
THE VILLAGE WATCH-TOWER.
MARM LISA.
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# A Child's History of England and Miscellaneous Pieces

Press of
Braunworth & Co.
Bookbinders and Printers
Brooklyn, N. Y.
* A Child's History of England
* The Holly-Tree Inn and Other Reprinted Pieces
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# A Child's Hymn to the Blessed Virgin

First published in Catholic Hymns, 1853.
* "A Child's Hymn to the Blessed Virgin" in Catholic Hymns (1st ed.), 1853.
* "A Child's Hymn to the Blessed Virgin" in Catholic Hymns (2nd ed.), 1860.
* "A Child's Hymn to the Blessed Virgin" in The Catholic Prayer Book and Manual of Meditations, 1883.
# A Child's Own Book of Verse

* Volume 1
* Volume 2
* Volume 3
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# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Servan, Joseph Michel Antoine

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​SERVAN, JOSEPH MICHEL ANTOINE (1737-1807), French publicist, was born at Romans (Dauphiné) on the 3rd of November 1737. After studying law he was appointed avocat-général at the parlement of Grenoble at the age of twenty-seven. In his Discours sur la justice criminelle (1766) he made an eloquent protest against legal abuses and the severity of the criminal code. In 1767 he gained great repute by his defence of a Protestant woman who, as a result of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, had been abandoned by her Catholic husband. In 1772, however, on the parlement refusing to accede to his request that a present made by a grand seigneur to a singer should be annulled on the ground of immorality, he resigned, and went into retirement. He excused himself on the score of ill-health from sitting in the States General of 1789, to which he had been elected deputy, and refused to take his seat in the Corps Législatif under the Empire. Among his writings may be mentioned Réflexions sur les Confessions de J.-J. Rousseau (1783) and Essai sur la formation des assemblées nationales, provinciales, et municipales (1789). His Œuvres choisies and Œuvres inédites have been published by De Portets. His brother Joseph Servan de Gerbey (1741-1808) was war minister in the Girondist ministry of 1792.
See “Lettres inédites de Servan,” in Souvenirs et mémoires (vol. iv., Paris, 1900).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Serval

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​SERVAL (Felis serval), an African wildcat, ranging from Algeria to the Cape. It is of medium size, with long limbs, short tail, and tawny fur spotted with black; the head and body may measure 40 in. and the tail 16 in. Messrs Nicolls and Eglington, joint authors of The Sportsman in South Africa, state that the serval is fairly common in South Central Africa, frequenting the thick bush near rivers, and preying on the smaller antelopes, guinea-fowls and francolins. The mantles made from its skin are reserved for chiefs and dignitaries of native tribes. Serval kittens can be tamed with little trouble, but are difficult to rear.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Service Tree

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​ SERVICE TREE, Pyrus domestica, a native of the Mediterranean region, not infrequently planted in southern Europe for its fruit. It has been regarded as a native of England on the evidence of a single specimen, which has probably been planted, now existing in the forest of Wyre. Though not much cultivated its fruit is esteemed by some persons, and therefore two or three trees may very well be provided with a place in the orchard, or in a sheltered corner of the lawn. The tree is seldom productive till it has arrived at a goodly size and age. The fruit has a. peculiar acid flavour, and, like the medlar, is fit for use only when thoroughly mellowed by being kept till it has become bletted. There is a pear-shaped variety, pyriformis, and also an apple-shaped variety, maliformis, both of which maybe propagated by layers, and still better by grafting on seedling plants of their own kind. The fruit is sometimes brought to market in winter. The service is nearly allied to the mountain ash, Pyrus Aucuparia, which it resembles in having regularly primate leaves. P. torminalis is the wild service, a small tree occurring locally in woods and hedges from Lancashire southwards; the fruit is sold in country markets. These, with other species, including P. Aria, white beam, so-called from the leaves which are white and flocculent beneath, form the subgenus Sorbus, which was regarded by Linnaeus as a distinct genus.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Servan, Jean Nicolas

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​SERVAN (or Servando known as Servandoni), JEAN NICOLAS (1695-1766), French decorator, architect and scene-painter, was born on the 2nd of May 1695. He was the son of a carriage-builder at Lyons. From 1724 to 1742 he was director of decorations at the Paris Opera, at that time situated in a wing of the Palais-Royal. His activity was considerable, whether as a painter or as an inventor of scenic contrivances for fêtes at the marriage of royal personages. He also designed the decorations for altars, and the façade for the church of Saint Sulpice in Paris. He died in Paris on the 19th of January 1766. His writings include Description abrégée de l'église Saint Pierre de Rome (Paris, 1738), and La Relation de la representation de la forêt enchantée sur le théâtre des Tuileries, le 31 mars 1754.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Serurier, Jeaume Mathieu Philibert, Comte

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​SERURIER, JEAUME MATHIEU PHILIBERT, Comte (1742-1819), French soldier, was born at Laon of middle-class parentage. After being lieutenant of the Laon militia, he entered the royal army, and served in the campaigns in Hanover (1759), Portugal (1762) and Corsica (1771). At the beginning of the Revolution he had attained the rank of major, and in its course he became colonel, brigadier-general and finally general of division. He fought under Kellermann and B. L. J. Schérer in the army of the Alps in 1795, and under Bonaparte in Italy at Vico, Mondovi, Castiglione and Mantua. Besides his military qualities, he showed great administrative talent in governing Venice (1797) and Lucca (1798). He helped Bonaparte in the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire, and had a brilliant career under the empire, when he was made senator, count, marshal, and governor of the palace of the Invalides. In 1814, however, he voted for the downfall of Napoleon, and under the Restoration was made a peer of France. He was dismissed from all his posts for having joined Napoleon during the Hundred Days, and died in retirement. A statue has been raised to his memory at Laon.
See L. Tuetey, Un Général de l'armée d'Italie, Serurier (Paris, 1899).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Serres, Olivia

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SERRES, OLIVIA (1772-1834), an English impostor, who claimed the title of Princess Olive of Cumberland, was born at Warwick on the 3rd of April 1772. She was the daughter of Robert Wilmot, a house-painter in that town, who subsequently moved to London. In 1791 she married her drawing-master, John Thomas Serres (1759-1825), marine painter to George III., but in 1804 separated from him. She then devoted herself to painting and literature, producing a novel, some poems and a memoir of her uncle, the Rev. Dr Wilmot, in which she endeavoured to prove that he was the author of the Letters of Junius. In 1817, in a petition to George III., she put forward a claim to be the natural daughter of Henry Frederick, duke of Cumberland, the king's brother, and in 1820, after the death of George III., claimed to be the duke's legitimate daughter. In a memorial to George IV. she assumed the title of Princess Olive of Cumberland, placed the royal arms on her carriage and dressed her servants in the royal liveries. Her story represented that her mother was the issue of a secret marriage between Dr Wilmot and the princess Poniatowski, sister of Stanislaus, king of Poland, and that she had married the duke of Cumberland in 1767 at the London house of a nobleman. She herself, ten days after her birth, was, she alleged, taken from her mother, and substituted for the still-born child of Robert Wilmot. Mrs Serres's claim was supported by documents, and she bore sufficient resemblance to her alleged father to be able to impose on the numerous class of persons to whom any item of so-called secret history is attractive. In 1823 Sir Robert Peel, then Home Secretary, speaking in parliament, declared her claims unfounded, and her husband, who had never given her pretensions any support, expressly denied his belief in them in his will. Mrs Serres died on the 21st of November 1834, leaving two daughters. The eldest, who married Antony Ryves, a portrait painter, upheld her mother's claims and styled herself Princess Lavinia of Cumberland. In 1866 she took her case into court, producing all the documents on which her mother had relied, but the jury, without waiting to hear the conclusion of the reply for the crown, unanimously declared the signatures to be forgeries. Mrs Serres's pretensions were probably the result of an absurd vanity. Between 1807 and 1815 she had managed to make the acquaintance of some members of the Royal family, and from this time onwards seems to have been obsessed with the idea of raising herelf , at all costs, to their social level. The tale once invented, she brooded so continuously over it that she probably ended by believing it herself.
See W. J. Thoms, Hannah Light foot, and Dr Wilmot's Polish Princess (London, 1867); Princess of Cumberland's Statement to the English Nation; Annual Register (1866), Case of Ryves v. the Attorney-General.