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Can we take this as a decision that it can be tagged with PD-EdictGov, so that the situation is clear for the future? - Htonl (talk) 08:14, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Queen Elizabeth II's Remarks to the people of the United States
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{{closed|1=delete|text= I'm open to good sourcing, but the copyright on the letters run from first general publication. I don't know when they were first published exactly, but it had to be after Howard achieved his fame; if it was after 1963, they wouldn't have needed a renewal. In the unlikely case they were first published after 2002, they'll be under life+70 and hence out of copyright since 2006. In any case, we need sources.--Prosfilaes (talk) 05:25, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

 * Note that I don't contest those letters that were published near the time of writing.--Prosfilaes (talk) 05:29, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

 * Oof, that is a mess. As you note, anything first published prior to 1989 would have needed a copyright notice, and anything published before 1964 would have needed a renewal.  Stuff published 2002 or before may well be copyrighted.  One complicating matter is if the publications were done with permission -- if permission was not sought from rightsholders, that would not count as true publication, and they could still be "unpublished" (and thus PD by 70pma) today.   I did come across this book, which actually lists the works publishing each of his individual letters (or at least a tone of them).  There was a 1989 volume of Selected Letters, though there are definitely some which first came out in some 2007 books (not sure if we have any of those here though).   The preface of that book also gives some details on who the rightsholders were -- kinda messy.   But, that book (not all of which is viewable on Google Books) does give the provenance of a great many letters, so the status of many could be much better determined (and sources given).  Carl Lindberg (talk) 18:51, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

 * I have that book. I'll try to add more information when I can.  Note that the author of the book, Paul Herman, wrote this article, listing all of Howard's public domain works, which is what I used to add the red links to this page.  It doesn't actually say why idividual works are public domain but most of the letters appear to have been "previously unpublished" as of 2007.  I'll try to work out the details from both book and article. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 12:55, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

 * Sorry, this took a while; my home computer has been having problems. I've added publication dates based on the book The Neverending Hunt and the website HowardWorks. I've deleted some of the unreferenced red links and added copyvio templates to some of the already existing works which I think may not be public domain. These are listed here to keep everything in one place. There may be a few more to add to these. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 20:55, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

 * The Howard Collector #5 & #7 have been explicitly renewed (even if it wasn't a legal requirement), and baring other evidence, we have to assume the later ones were at least copyrighted. Everything first published in that Swedish publication is fair game.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:59, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

 * The other 2002 and earlier letters are out, but the rest of the 21st century stuff should be fine.--Prosfilaes (talk) 23:22, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

 * I've removed some more links, including those to the letters listed below. Is this OK now?  What is the policy for the letters that were partially published before 2006 and fully published afterwards? - AdamBMorgan (talk) 11:42, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

 * When we're talking about "partially published", how much are we talking about? If it's a couple sentences, I'd be tempted to mumble something about fair use and subcopyrightable and let it pass; if it's like a page, that's not going to fly. We could keep the parts not previously published, I guess.--Prosfilaes (talk) 03:51, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

 * I've deleted all those following, as seemingly not under dispute.--Prosfilaes (talk) 03:54, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

June 1, 1934, to R. H. Barlow
This letter was first published in The Howard Collector #18 (Fall 1973) and it is not listed in Paul Herman's list of public domain letters. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 21:06, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

June 14, 1934, to R. H. Barlow
This letter was first published in The Howard Collector #18 (Fall 1973) and it is not listed in Paul Herman's list of public domain letters. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 21:06, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

July 1933, to August Derleth
This letter was first published in The Howard Collector #15 (Fall 1971) and it is not listed in Paul Herman's list of public domain letters. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 21:06, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

May 9, 1936 to August Derleth
This letter was first published in The Howard Collector #5 (Summer 1964) and it is not listed in Paul Herman's list of public domain letters. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 21:06, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

July 1933, to H. P. Lovecraft
This letter was first published in The Howard Collector #15 (Fall 1971) and it is not listed in Paul Herman's list of public domain letters. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 21:06, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

July 23, 1935, to Clark Ashton Smith
This letter was first published in The Howard Collector #11 (Spring 1969) and it is not listed in Paul Herman's list of public domain letters. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 21:06, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

March 15, 1933, to Clark Ashton Smith
This letter was first published in The Howard Collector #5 (Summer 1964) and it is not listed in Paul Herman's list of public domain letters. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 21:06, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

May 6, 1935, to Farnsworth Wright
This letter was first published in The Howard Collector #9 (Spring 1967) and it is not listed in Paul Herman's list of public domain letters. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 21:06, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

December 17, 1934, to Emil Petaja
This letter was first published in The Howard Collector #7 (Winter 1965) and it is not listed in Paul Herman's list of public domain letters. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 21:06, 17 August 2010 (UTC) }}

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List of Countries Where Politicians' Speeches are Copyright-Free
{{closed|text= Given the discussions above. I would like us to prepare a simple list like the above. It should be concerned only with the speeches of politicians (as if it tries to cover too many matters, it will become, inevitably, a very complicated list and hard to decipher and we will be back in the original position - there is already huge amounts of information about what is and what is not copyright free for each country...It is hard to decipher the copyright position. For example, I interpret the gudiance on WikiSource concerning Taiwan copyright rules to mean that a speech by a Taiwan politician is not copyright protected and can be hosted on this Website.  User Billinghurst appears to disagree. What is the position? Any help with this list would be appreciated. These are the frist few countries that require urgent clarification. Feel free to chip in other countries where you know the position. Thanks Formosa (talk) 18:01, 10 April 2010 (UTC):

The List
List of Countries Where Politicians' Speeches are Copyright-Free:

[Suggestion to Reader: Add other countries where you know the position]
 * Iran
 * USA (Federal politicians only);

Position requires clarification:
 * France?
 * Ireland? -"The [2000 Copyright and Related Rights] Act also clarifies provisions relating to Government copyright, which will apply to works made under the direction or control of the Government, and which will subsist for 50 years following the creation of the work concerned." ]  2000 Copyright and Related Rights Act Information Note.  Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Copyright and Related Rights Section, Intellectual Property Unit, Ireland.  (March 2001).
 * United Kingdom: Controlled by Crown copyright ResScholar (talk) 05:54, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Taiwan?

The List & Taiwan
I think Taiwan should be listed with the USA and Iran because the WikiSource Guidance says: "Works ineligible for copyright in Taiwan The constitution, acts, regulations, official documents (including proclamations, text of speeches, news releases, and other documents prepared by civil servants in the course of carrying out their duties), and their translations and compilations by central or local government agencies. ". What do others think? Formosa (talk) 18:04, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

 * Perhaps this discussion should take place at multilingual Wikisource, where the expertise of other Wikisources can be drawn together. ResScholar (talk) 05:52, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

 * If by "politician" you mean "government employee" I think I understand what you are trying to do. But why don't you dispense with the levels of abstraction you have adopted in your disagreement with Billinghurst, and say what problems you are having licensing the works you would like to present?  For instance, what Wikisource guide are you talking about, and what does it have to do with your license requirements? ResScholar (talk) 06:12, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

 * I would support reviewing the approach to copyright issues surrounding Taiwan, as the words used in the template could do with clarification, especially as this page has a difference and may be better wording. Having better documentation and clarification to support these matters would be useful to all. I would prefer such an approach rather than trying to clump it with anything. — billinghurst  sDrewth  07:21, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

 * Re "But why don't you dispense with the levels of abstraction you have adopted in your disagreement with Billinghurst, and say what problems you are having licensing the works you would like to present?" I do not think i could have been any clearer. I would like to put a list together of the countries where politicians' (elected politicians to be even clearer) are copyright free. If the expertise does not exist here (or the will-power), that is a pity but there is nothing abstract or unclear about the idea. Formosa (talk) 14:00, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Billinghurst - Could I nominate you to do the review of the Taiwan copyright position. Given that I wanted to put up President Ma's speech, if I opined on the Taiwan copyright position, I might be accused of bias. You could then let us know if speeches by Taiwan elected politicians can be hosted on this website. In hope of a positive response - Thanks! Formosa (talk) 14:09, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 * User ResScholar - Thank you for adding that elected politicians speeches in the UK are protected by Crown Copyright. I take it that means we cannot host them on this website. Can you confirm if I am correct? (I wasn't too sure what the implications of the words "Crown Copyright" are).Formosa (talk) 14:32, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Billinghurst - Assuming ResScholar confirms that elected politicans speeches (made within the usual timeframes etc) are not copyright free and cannot generally, be hosted on this website, could I ask you to delete Margaret Thatcher's speech (discussed above). I would but I am not an Admin and I think you are. Thanks. Formosa (talk) 14:32, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

ResScholar - I would add that for me the List I am talking about would be very useful. I like politics so I lean towards politicans speeches etc as things to put up here on WikiSource...So this is all a very practical matter for me. When I say politicians, I am happy for that to exclude any one who is not elected. Thanks. Formosa (talk) 14:37, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree including Taiwan in a "List of Countries Where Politicians' Speeches are Copyright-Free" after critically reading Article 9 of the Copyright Act (Republic of China). Make sure that civil servants in the course of carrying out their duties have made them. If you have any doubt, ask me as your only Chinese-speaking administrator here.--Jusjih (talk) 01:47, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Jusjih - Many thanks for your assistance. I appreciate it. Given your conclusion that you think Taiwan can be included on the List, please could you have a look at: The Quest for Modernity. That is an article containing a speech by ROC President Ma Ying-Jeou. User: Billinghurst (Administrator) deleted it. If you think it is in order, please Billinghurst, could you restore the speech. Or please could you discuss this with Administrator Jusjih. Thanks. I hope this speech can be restored. I believe its being stored here would not infringe ROC copyright. Formosa (talk) 16:51, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately I cannot undelete it when it was made at Harvard University in the USA where this website is located, without evidence of USA copyright permission. As PD-in-USGov says that 17 U.S.C. 105 does not automatically apply outside the USA, neither does Article 9 of the ROC Copyright Act automatically apply outside Taiwan. Please explain which ROC website you saw the text, or I uphold Billinghurst's deletion as valid.--Jusjih (talk) 03:23, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The speech has been published on the official website of the Office of the President of the Republic of China. You can read it by going to and then clicking on press releases and opening the link entitled "President Ma's remarks at the video conference with the Fairbank Center, Harvard University". Thanks for looking into this. It is appreciated. Formosa (talk) 10:38, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Also User:Jusjih, you are mistaken when you say "I cannot undelete it when it was made at Harvard University in the USA". President Ma Ying-jeou made the speech in the Republic of China at his Presidential Office in Taipei. It was merely broadcast live to the Fairbank Centre, Harvard University, USA. User:Jusjih - Do these facts now change the position? Formosa (talk) 07:13, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

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 Rh aware of his man, requested to know in what way he would paint the sound of dump—dump—dump.

Fuseli, upon hearing that a figure had been broken in the Antique Academy, entered the room with the following vociferation. "Which is the man who broke the cast? where is he? which is he?—Well, Sir, it is you who have broken the cast. Will you look round the room, and see if there be any other you would wish me to order out for you to break?"

Fuseli, for a length of time, had been teased by an idle and stupid student for his opinion of his drawing. "It is bad; take it into the fields and shoot at it, that's a good boy."

When Morton, the Portrait-painter, first studied at the Academy, he commenced drawing the sandal of a foot before he got in the toes. Fuseli, after turning his drawing in every direction, asked him what he intended it for. "Is it a horse's bridle?" The assiduous student, though he had considered his mode no bad way of drawing the foot, found, by the admonition of the Keeper, that it was not the best way of doing it. Some students would have been displeased at the remark, but upon Morton's exertions it acted with so strong a stimulus, that he had the honour of gaining two medals in


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 438 the Royal Academy for drawings of the human figure.

It has been reported that Fuseli and Lavater, whose friendship commenced in their childhood, were obliged to quit Switzerland when very young, for most seriously and premeditatedly frightening a young lady, by attempting to produce the apparition of her deceased lover. True it is, that no persons could more mutually regard each other than Lavater and Fuseli, nor was their attachment lessened till the death of the Physiognomist, who certainly had paid every compliment to the Artist; for he not only introduced his portrait in his work, of which he spoke in the highest terms, but


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 Rh placed the English translation of that interesting book entirely under his direction.

Fuseli was short in stature, his eyes full, prominent, and, like the eagle's, piercingly find in them a degree of finishing almost over-curious, and which, for this reason, affords a singular contrast with the boldness of the whole. Any one may see, without my telling it, that this character is not destitute of ambition, and that the sense of his own merit escapes him not. It may also be suspected that he is subject to impetuous emotions; but will any one say that he loves with tenderness, with warmth, to excess? There is nothing, however, more true: though, on the other hand, his sensibility has occasion continually to be kept awake by the presence of the beloved object: absent, he forgets it, and troubles himself no more. The person to whom he is fondly attached, while near him, may lead him like a child; but, quit him, and the most perfect indifference will follow. He must be roused, be struck, in order to be carried along. Though capable of the greatest actions, to him the slightest complaisance is an effort. His imagination is ever aiming at the sublime, and delighting itself with prodigies.

"The sanctuary of the Graces is not shut against him, but he has no great skill in sacrificing to them, and gives himself very little concern about it. Though formed to feel it, he seldom reaches the sublime. Nature intended him for a great poet, a great painter, a great orator; but, to borrow his own words, 'inexorable fate does not always proportion the will to our powers; it sometimes assigns a copious proportion of will to ordinary minds, whose faculties are very contracted; and frequently associates with the greatest faculties, a will feeble and impotent.'"


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 to have descended from the Maddockes of Wales, who formerly held the sovereignty of that principality; but the same combination of events which deprived them of a crown, reduced him below the rank of mediocrity; for this man, who could boast of a regal ancestry, was actually reduced to traverse the extent of country from Wales to London on foot in search of employment, at the age of thirteen, friendless and alone; and having heard that Cheapside was the most likely place to obtain what he wanted, on his arrival in town he repaired thither. After waiting some time, he observed a merchant soil his shoe in crossing the street. Full of ardour for any circumstance that might give rise to employment, he availed himself of this, and immediately ran and cleaned the shoe. The merchant, struck with the boy's humiliating, attention, inquired into his situation, and hearing his history, took him into his service: when some time had elapsed he employed him in his counting-house; and he afterwards became a partner in the firm, and acquired a considerable fortune.

Mr. Lofft is known in the literary world by various publications of a professional kind as a barrister; and several poetical pieces and essays of a political nature.


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seat is the neat retirement of Capel Lofft, Esq., to whom the Public are in a great measure indebted for their knowledge of the Farmer's Boy. The proprietor has been at considerable pains to make every appendage consistent with his own peculiar taste; to this end he has inscribed almost every tree in his garden and its vicinity to names of classic celebrity, such as Homer, Demosthenes, Cicero, Milton, Cowley, and many others: the large elm in the foreground of the View is called the Evelyn Elm, in memory of the antiquary and planter of that name. And to commemorate a visit to Troston Hall by the celebrated philanthropist Howard, in the year 1786, a Laurel was planted which now bears his name. Two horsechesnut trees and two oaks were planted here by R. Bloomfield in January 1805, which are carefully reared.

This estate was purchased by Robert Maddockes, Esq., in the year 1680, from whose family it came to its present possessor, by whom a very remarkable anecdote is related of the father of this Robert Maddockes, which exhibits a singular instance of the fluctuations of family greatness. He is said


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 440 He dressed well, and at all timed looked like a superior man. His remarks wale generally witty, and sometimes severely cutting: but to the ladies, particularly those who were qualified to give him the retort-courteous, he was cautiously and precisely polite. In early life, he suffered each of his many female admirers to suppose herself the favourite fair. Miss Moser, at one period, drew that conclusion, and for a long time he flirted with Angelica Kauffmann; but be found at last that that lady's glances were directed towards Sir Joshua Reynolds and Mr. Parker. In Fuseli's marriage state, Mrs. Wolstoncroft fell desperately in love with him; and many other ladies were extremely delighted with his conversation, even to the extent of a long life, for his company was much courted.

One evening, when Mr. Nollekens accompanied Fuseli to dine with Mr. and Mrs. Coutts, the lively hostess, who had dressed herself as Morgiana, went round the room, after dinner, presenting a dagger to the breast of every one of her visitors, as if she intended to stab them; and when she came to Nollekens, Fuseli was heard to cry out, "You may strike with safety; Nolly was never known to bleed."


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 428 the Academy, when showing his drawing to Mr. Fuseli, assured him that he had finished it without using a crumb of bread. "Take my advice," said Fuseli; "go and buy a two-penny loaf, and I think with that you will be able to rub it all out."

Mrs. Fuseli being in a great rage, was advised by her husband to swear. "Harriet, my dear, why don't you swear? it will ease your mind."

Fuseli thus reprimanded one of the porters in the hall, for calling the students fellows. "Fellows! I would have you to know, that those fellows, as you call them, may one day or another be Academicians."

One morning, two members of the Royal Academy, who had been disappointed in their wishes for the election of Fuseli as a member the preceding evening, agreed to repeat their assurances of their future exertions in his favour. Accordingly they made him a visit; and as soon as the door was opened, Fuseli, who stood in the passage, knowing how the election had gone, with his accustomed humomr, fiercely exclaimed, "Come in, come in!" but finding they continued to scrape their shoes, he again cried out, "Why the devil don't you come in? if you don't come in, you will do me a great


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 Rh injury." "How?" asked one of them. "Why, if you stand there, my neighbour over the way will say, 'I saw two blackguards stand at Fuseli's door; I dare say he is going to prison!'"

Fuseli's severe criticisms upon the works of his brother artists were often so pointedly witty, that in some instances he rendered his best friends both uneasy and ridiculous; but as he good-naturedly bore many sarcasms from Doctor Wolcott and other critics of his time, so he thought his friends would receive, with equal good temper, whatever he said of them or their productions. I must, however, do him the justice to say, that I firmly believe his observations were not kept in reserve to show off in the presence of great people—a practice too common with men viciously inclined; for sometimes his most stinging remarks were made to those of the least perception: and I firmly believe that many of his best are now entirely lost, though now and then Sam Stowger would relate a few of them. One I recollect hearing respecting Northcote's picture of the Judgment of Solomon, in which the King's right hand was raised, as ordering the executioner to divide the living child. Mr. Northcote, to avoid vulgarity, employed two fingers of the hand to accompany the commands; but, unfortunately,


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Several decayed trees are still existing near the inner margin of the moat; the remains of a circle of elms that, according to the Poet, once completely surrounded the mansion. This he describes as the residence of one of the characters introduced into the tale before mentioned, and has probably taken up his ideas of the ancient hospitality of the place from some tradition still extant in the neighbourhood:

The view of from  was taken near "the darksome copse that whispered on the hill," and presents the "White Park Gate" through which the terror-struck villager fled when pursued by the long-eared apparition.


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A village contiguous to Sapiston, is situated in a pleasant valley, which is watered and fertilized by a branch of the river Ouse. The meadows afford abundant pasture, and the neighbouring uplands are richly cultivated. The whole parish is the property of his Grace the Duke of Grafton, and lying within a mile or two of Euston Hall, experiences much of his attention. The Duke is perfectly easy of access, and lends a ready ear, and a benevolent hand, to the complaints and necessities of every suitor.

In this village, nearly opposite to the church, is a cottage, in which was born the Poet's mother: a sycamore tree stands near the door: this was planted by her father, who, together with his wife, lies interred in front of the church. In the annexed view of, is seen the foot bridge adverted to in the tale of The Broken Crutch; and near the spot from which the view was taken is a moated eminence, formerly the site of a mansion supposed to have been destroyed by fire.


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 this part of his little-known history, he could not have been a young man at the time of his execution.

His lands of Brechin, Rothernay, Kinloch, and Knoegy were given by the king to David of Barclay, who, in 1315, had married his sister Margaret, and from whom the present possessors, the earls of Panmure, are descended.

BREE, ROBERT, M.D. (1759–1839), physician, was born at Solihull, Warwickshire, in 1759. He was educated at Coventry and at University College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 6 April 1775, and took his B.A. degree on 10 Nov. 1778, and, having studied medicine at Edinburgh, proceeded M.A. on 10 July 1781. He was admitted, 31 July 1781, an extra-licentiate of the College of Physicians; took his bachelor's degree in medicine on 4 July 1782, and that of M.D. on 12 July 1791. He had first settled at Northampton, and was appointed physician to the general infirmary in that town, which after a short stay he left for Leicester, to the infirmary of which he became physician. An obstinate attack of asthma caused in 1793 a temporary retirement from his profession. In 1794 he accepted the command of a company in a regiment of militia, and in 1796 settled at Birmingham, where he was appointed in March 1801 physician to the General Hospital. Bree published 'A Practical Inquiry into Disordered Respiration, distinguishing the Species of Convulsive Asthma, their Causes, and Indications of Cure,' 8vo, London, 1797. It reached a fifth edition in 1815, and was translated into several languages. 'In this work,' says Dr. Munk, the author 'embodied the numerous experiments in his own case, gave a more full and complete view of asthma and dyspnœa than had hitherto appeared, and laid down some important therapeutic rules, the practical value of which has been universally acknowledged.' Bree was consulted for asthma by the Duke of Sussex, by whose advice Bree removed in 1804 to Hanover Square, London. He was admitted a candidate of the Royal College of Physicians on 31 March 1806, and a fellow on 23 March of the following year. He was censor in the years 1810, 1819, and 1830, and on 2 July in the last-mentioned year was named an elect. In 1827 Bree was chosen Harveian lecturer, and published the lecture course he delivered.

Bree withdrew from practice in 1833, and, after suffering from renewed asthma, died in Park Square West, Regent's Park, on 6 Oct. 1839. He contributed two papers 'On the Use of Digitalis in Consumption' to the 'Medical and Physical Journal,' 1799. He was also the author of a paper 'On Painful Affections of the Side from Tumid Spleen,' read 1 Jan. 1811 before the Medical and Chirurgical Society, of which Bree, who had some years before been elected a fellow of the Royal Society, became a member of council and a vice-president in March following; and of a second paper on the same subject, read 26 May 1812, 'A Case of Splenitis, with further Remarks on that Disease.' These papers were afterwards published in the first and second volumes of the 'Medico-Chirurgical Transactions.' Bree was further the author of a small tract on 'Cholera Asphyxia,' 8vo, London, 1832.

BREEKS, JAMES WILKINSON (1830–1872), Indian civil servant and author of 'An Account of the Primitive Tribes and Monuments in the Nilagiris,' was born at Warcop, Westmoreland, on 5 March 1830, and entered the Madras civil service in 1849. After filling various subordinate offices in the revenue and financial departments, he was appointed private secretary to Sir William Denison, governor of Madras, in 1861, holding that appointment until the latter part of 1864, when, owing to ill-health, he left India and joined a mercantile firm in London, with the intention of retiring from the public service; but this arrangement not proving satisfactory, he returned to Madras in the autumn of 1867, and was shortly afterwards appointed to the newly constituted office of commissioner of the Nilagiris, the principal sanatorium of the south of India. While thus employed, Breeks, in common with other heads of districts in the Madras presidency, was, in 1871, called upon by the government, at the instance of the trustees of the Indian Museum at Calcutta, to make a collection of arms, ornaments, dresses, household utensils, tools, agricultural implements, &c., which would serve to illustrate the habits and modes of life of the aboriginal tribes in the district, as well as a collection of objects found in ancient cairns and monuments.


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 remove the remains for the annual scraping, or again for the introduction of a fresh tenant.

2. When carnal interment gave way to incineration, at once the need for large mausoleums ceased, and mourners saved themselves the labour of erecting huge cromlechs, and contented themselves instead with the more modest kistvaen, or stone chest. This is constructed in precisely the same manner as the dolmen, but is much smaller. A beautiful diminutive example, from Peter Tavy Common, has been transported to the Plymouth Municipal Museum. It measures 21 inches long, 13 inches wide, and 14 inches deep. On Dartmoor there are many hundreds of these kistvaens, of various sizes, but most have been rifled by treasure-seekers; indeed, all but such as were covered with earth and so escaped observation have been plundered.

The kistvaens were always buried under cairns, and almost invariably a circle of stones surrounded the cairn, marking its bounds.

The finest kistvaens are—one at Merrivale Bridge, one adjoining a pound near Post Bridge, one on Lake-head Hill, one near Drizzlecombe, one on Hound Tor, and two on the slope of Bellever. One is near the Powder Mills. There are several, also, about the Plym.

3. The stone circle is called by the French a cromlech. The name means curved stone. The circle, of which Stonehenge is the noblest known example in Europe, consists of a number of stones set up at intervals in a ring. The purport is purely conjectural. Undoubtedly interments have been made

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 within them; but none, so far, have been found in those on Dartmoor. In the great circle on Penmaenmavvr there were burials at the foot of several of the monoliths, and, indeed, one of these served as the backstone of a kistvaen.

Among semi-barbarous tribes it is customary that the tribe should have its place of assembly and consultation, and this is marked round by either stones or posts set up in the ground. Among some of the great clan circles, if one of the constituent tribes fails to send its representative, the stone set up where he would sit is thrown down.

The areas within the circles on Dartmoor, so far as they have been examined, show that great fires have been lighted in them; the floors are thickly bedded in charcoal. It may be that they were the crematoria of the tribe, and certainly numerous cairns and kistvaens are to be found around them; or it may be that great fires were lighted in them when the tribe met for its parliament, or its games and war-dances. It has been noticed that usually these circles of upright stones are placed on the neck of land between two rivers.

Some have speculated that they were intended for astronomical observation, and for determining the solstices; but such fancies may be dismissed till we have evidence of their being erected and employed for such a purpose by some existing savage race.

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 addicted to their old paganism. Mr. Jackson, in his Great Frozen Land (London, 1895), says:—

"The rings of stones which I frequently met with in Waigatz are the sites of their midnight services, and are made, of course, by the Samoyeds. They are called yon-pa-ha-pai. It is possible that within these circles the human sacrifices with which Samoyeds used to propitiate Chaddi were offered up; and, although these are things of the past now, it is only a few years ago that a Samoyed, living in Novaia Zemlia, sacrificed a young girl" (p. 89).

A tradition or fancy relative to more than one of these circles is that the stones represent maidens who insisted on dancing on a Sunday, and were, for their profanity, turned into stone when the church bells rang for divine service. It is further said that on May Day or Midsummer Day they dance in a ring.

There are several of these circles on the moor. The finest are those of Scaur Hill, near Chagford, of the Grey Wethers—two side by side, but most of the stones of one are fallen—the circle on Langstone Moor above Peter Tavy, Trowlesworthy, Sherberton, and Fernworthy. The diameters vary from thirty-six feet to three hundred and sixty. One that must have been very fine was near Huccaby, but most of the stones constituting it have been removed for the construction of a wall hard by.

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 The discharge of this duty, which he performed in a very thorough and satisfactory manner, cost him his life; for having occasion, towards the close of his investigation, to visit a feverish locality in a low part of the mountain range, he there laid the seeds of an illness which a few months later caused his death. In the meantime he had made a complete collection of the utensils, arms, &c., in use among the four aboriginal tribes of the Nilagiris, the Todas, Kotas, Kurumbas, and Irulas, and of the contents of many cairns and cromlechs, and had written the greater part of the rough draft of a report, which, completed and edited by his widow, who had been closely associated with him in his inquiries, was published in London by order of the secretary of state.

This report contains a very full account of each of the four tribes above mentioned, illustrated by drawings and photographs, and supplemented by a brief notice of some similar remains in other parts of India. Photographs of the men and women of the several tribes, of their villages, houses, temples, &c., are also given; as well as a vocabulary of the tribes, and descriptive catalogues of the ornaments, implements, &c., now in use. The book is a valuable record of intelligent and accurate research.

The Breeks Memorial School at Ootacamund, for the children of poor Europeans and Eurasians, was erected by public subscription shortly after his death as a memorial of his services to the Nilagiri community.

Breeks married in 1863 Susan Maria, the eldest surviving daughter of Colonel Sir William Thomas Denison, R.E., K.C.B., at that time governor of Madras. He left three sons and one daughter.

 BREEN, JAMES (1826–1866), astronomer, was the second son of Hugh Breen, senior, who superintended the lunar reductions at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. He was born at Armagh, in Ireland, 5 July 1826, was engaged at the age of sixteen as a calculator at Greenwich, and exchanged the post for that of assistant in the Cambridge Observatory in August 1846. In 1854 he published 'The Planetary Worlds: the Topography and Telescopic Appearance of the Sun, Planets, Moon, and Comets,' a useful little work suggested by discussions on the plurality of worlds, showing considerable acquaintance with the history of the subject, as well as the practical familiarity conferred by the use of one of the finest refractors then in existence. After twelve years' zealous cooperation with Challis, he resigned his appointment towards the close of 1858, and cultivated literature in Paris until 1860, when he went to Spain, and observed the total eclipse of the sun (18 July) at Camuesa, with Messrs. Wray and Buckingham of the Himalaya expedition. In the following year, after some months in Switzerland, he settled in London, and devoted himself to literary and linguistic studies, reading much at the British Museum, and contributing regularly, but for the most part anonymously, to the 'Popular Science Review' and other periodicals. He had made arrangements for the publication of a work on stars, nebulae, and clusters, of which two sheets were already printed, when his strength finally gave way before the ravages of slow consumption. He died at noon, 25 Aug. 1866, aged 40, and was buried with his father at Nunhead. He had been elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, 10 June 1862. Extracts from his observations at Cambridge 1851-8 appeared in the 'Astronomische Nachrichten' and 'Monthly Notices.' He calculated the orbits of the ξ double star Ursæ Majoris, assigning a period of 63.14 years; of Petersen's third (1850), and Brorsen's (1851, iii.) comets (Monthly Notices, x. 155, xxii. 158; Astr. Nach. No. 786). His observations of Donati's comet with the Northumberland equatorial were printed in the 'Memoirs of the R. A. Soc.' xxx. 68.

 BREGWIN or BREGOWINE (d. 765), archbishop of Canterbury, the son of noble parents dwelling in the old Saxon land, came to England for the sake of the learning spread abroad here by Theodore and Hadrian. In this learning he is said to have excelled. He was elected archbishop in the presence of a large and rejoicing crowd, and was consecrated on or about St. Michael's day 759 ( i. 57, ed. Thorpe; Anglo-Saxon Chron.; Eccl. Documents, iii. 397). In the account of the synod held at Clovesho in 798 there is a notice of a synod held by Bregwin, in which complaint was made of the unjust detention of an estate granted to Christ Church by Æthelbald of Mercia (Eccl. Documents, iii. 399, 512). A letter is extant addressed by Bregwin to Lullus, archbishop of Mentz, informing him of the death of the Abbess Bugge, or Eadburh (Epp. Bonif. ed. Jaffé, No. 113). From this letter it appears that Bregwin made the acquaintance of Lullus during a visit to Rome,


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 4. The stone row is almost invariably associated with cairns and kistvaens, and clearly had some relation to funeral rites. The stone settings are often single, sometimes double, or are as many as eight. They do not always run parallel; they start from a cairn, and end with a blocking-stone set across the line. In Scotland they are confined to Caithness. The finest known are at Carnac, in Brittany. It is probable that just as a Bedouin now erects a stone near a fakir's tomb as a token of respect, so each of these rude blocks was set up by a member of a tribe, or by a household, in honour of the chief buried in the cairn at the head of the row.

It is remarkable how greatly the set stones vary in size. Some are quite insignificant, and could be planted by a boy, while others require the united efforts of three, four, or even many men, with modern appliances of three legs and block, to lift and place them in position. This seems to show that the rows are not the result of concerted design, but of individual execution as the ability of the man or family permitted to set up a stone large or small. Usually the largest stones are planted near the cairn, and they dwindle to the blocking-stone, which is of respectable size.

There is no district known so rich in stone rows as Dartmoor. As many as fifty have been observed. The finest are those of Drizzlecombe, where there are three double rows, not parallel; Down Tor, a single line; Merrivale Bridge, two parallel double rows, but the stones constituting them small; Stall Moor, a single line that looks like a procession of cricketers

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 in flannels stalking over the moor; Challacombe; at Glazebrook are thirteen rows; also Staldon Moor. Some of these rows which are small are nevertheless instructive. On the north slope of Cosdon is a cairn that originally contained three kistvaens, one of which is perfect, one exists in part, and evidence of the existence of the third was found on exploration. From this cairn start three rows of stones, one for each kistvaen. A remarkably perfect set of stone rows is on Watern Hill, behind the Warren Inn, on the road from Post Bridge to Moreton. It is actually visible from the road, but as the stones are small it does not attract attention. It starts from a cairn and a tall upright stone set at right angles to the rows, which are brought to a termination by blocking-stones. Another perfect row is at Assacombe, starting from a cairn with two or three big upright stones, and running down a rather steep hill to a blocking-stone which remains intact.

The longest of all the rows is that on Staldon, which springs from a circle of 59 feet 9 inches in diameter, inclosing the remains of a cairn, runs with a single line for two miles and a quarter, and crosses the Erme river. Had a straight line been followed, an obstruction in the precipitous bank of the river would have been encountered, to avoid which the builders of this great monument took a sweep eastward, where the bank was more sloping. In the Cosdon lines of stones already referred to, the rows waver so as to avoid a platform of rock in which the constructors were unable to plant their stones.

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 connected a row 260 feet long, with an upright stone 17 feet 9 inches high at the end of the row.

All sorts of random guesses have been made about these rows. Some have made them out to be sacred cursi, where races were run, but then some lines are single, some are eightfold. Others have supposed that these were the supporting stones to cattle sheds, but these stones are often not more than 2 feet 6 inches high, and the rows often run for over 600 feet.

We must, as already said, look to present usage for their interpretation, and that afforded by the practice of the Khassias of the Brahmapootra, and by the Bedouin, seems the simplest stones set up as memorials or tributes of respect to the dead man who is buried at the head of the row.

There would seem to have been no feeling attached to the direction in which these lines run.

One singular feature is that in several cases a second row starts off from a small cairn in or close to the main row, and runs away in quite a different direction.

5. The menhir, or tall stone, is a rude, unwrought obelisk. In some cases it is nothing other than the starting or the blocking stone of a row which has been destroyed. This is the case with that at Merrivale Bridge. But such is not always the case. There were no rows in connection with the menhirs on Devil Tor and the Whitmoor Stone.

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__________ Scene One Peasant's parlor.

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. Both are sitting at a small table, eating.

Gottlieb Was it to your liking?

Hinze Very good, very nice indeed.

Gottlieb But now my fate must be decided quickly, because otherwise I don't know what I'm to do.

Hinze Patience! Just a few more days. Good fortune must be given some time to grow; who would expect to become happy all of a sudden? My good man, that sort of thing only happens in books; in the real world things do not move so quickly.

Fischer Did you hear that? The cat dares to speak of the real world! I have half a mind to go home before this play drives me mad.

Leutner It's almost as if that's what the writer intended.

Müller A excellent kind of artistic pleasure, I must say: to be driven mad!

Schlosser This is too much. Instead of being happy merely to exist, if only in an imaginary world, he wishes to disabbuse the other man of his fantastic hopes and treat him as a dreamer, even though he, at least in his rôle as a peasant, is not contradicting the laws of our everyday world!

Gottlieb If I only knew, dear Hinze, how you have acquired this experience, this intelligence!

Hinze Do you think, then, that when I lie for days in front of the stove with my eyes shut, it is all for nothing? I always pursue my studies there in silence. The powers of the mind only grow in secrecy and unobserved; it is always a sign that you have made the least progress whenever you feel the inclination to crane your neck around as much as possible to see how far you have come. By the way, be so good as to untie my napkin.

Gottlieb doing it Benedicite!

They kiss.

Gottlieb I hope you're satisfied with that.

Hinze I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Gottlieb The boots seem to fit very nicely, and you have charming little feet.

Hinze That is only because we cats always walk on our toes, as you must already have read in your natural history.

Gottlieb I have great deal of respect for you on account of those boots.

Hinze hanging a knapsack round his neck I'm going now. Look, I've also made a bag with a drawstring for myself.

Gottlieb What's all this for?

Hinze Just leave me be! I want to look like a hunter. Now, where's my cane?

Gottlieb Here.

Hinze Well, good-bye, then.

Exit Hinze.

Gottlieb A hunter? I can't make head or tail of him.

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SCHWAB, CHARLES M., an American capitalist and public official, born at Williamsburg, Pa., in 1862. While still a boy he entered the employment of the Carnegie Company as a stake driver. He attracted the attention of the officials of the company by his efficiency and was gradually promoted until he became in 1881 chief engineer. He was soon afterward appointed assistant manager and from 1889 to 1897 was general superintendent of the Edgar Thompson Steel Works. During the same period he was also superintendent and general superintendent of the Homestead Steel Works. From 1897 to 1901 he was president of the Carnegie Steel Company, Ltd., having become one of the most trusted lieutenants of Andrew Carnegie. He persuaded the latter to accept the plans made by J. P. Morgan for the formation of the United States Steel Corporation and on the formation of that organization was elected its president. He resigned in 1903 and became president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, which was built up under his management, until it became one of the largest steel making enterprises in the world. During the first years of the World War his company had a virtual monopoly in contracts to supply the Allies with certain kinds of munitions. Mr. Schwab made many visits to Europe in connection with the manufacture and supply of munitions to the Allied governments, during this period. When the United States Government undertook the construction of ships in 1918 and formed the Emergency Fleet Corporation, Mr. Schwab was appointed director-general of shipbuilding, and largely through his efforts the problem of the replacing of ships destroyed by submarines was solved. He served until December, 1918. Mr. Schwab established an industrial school at Homestead, Pa.;

gave an auditorium to the Pennsylvania State College; founded a home for children on Staten Island, N. Y.; and gave to his native town, Loretta, Pa., a Catholic church costing $150,000. He was one of the most valuable advisers of the government during the reconstruction period following the World War.


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 Rh hourly in the spirit, and see him in my remembrance, in the regions of my imagination. I hear his advice, and even now write from his dictate. Forgive me for expressing to you my enthusiasm, which I wish all to partake of, since it is to me a source of immortal joy, even in this world. By it I am the companion of angels. May you continue to be so more and more; and to be more and more persuaded that every mortal loss is an immortal gain. The ruins of Time build mansions in Eternity.

I have also sent a proof of "Pericles" for your remarks, thanking you for the kindness with which you express them, and feeling heartily your grief with a brothers sympathy.—I remain, dear Sir, your humble servant,

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SCHWAN, THEODORE, an American soldier, born at Hanover, Germany, in 1841. He was educated in Germany and removed to the United States in 1857. He served during the Civil War, rising to the rank of 1st lieutenant. At the close of the war he enlisted in the Regular Army and was appointed captain. He was promoted to various grades, becoming lieutenant-colonel in 1895, and brigadier-general of volunteers in 1898. In the following year he was honorably discharged from the volunteer service, and in 1901 was appointed brigadier-general in the United States Army. After 40 years of service he retired at his own request in 1909. He was awarded a medal of honor for distinguished service in the Civil War. During the Spanish-American War, he commanded the 1st Division of the 9th Army Corps, and was chief of staff of the Division of Porto Rico. He saw service also in military expeditions in the Philippines. In 1916 he was promoted to be major-general in the United States Army.


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 70 your wishes shall in due time be fulfilled. The immense flood of Grecian light and glory which is coming on Europe will more than realise our warmest wishes. ... I begin to emerge from a deep pit of melancholy,—melancholy without any real reason,—a disease which God keep you from. Our artists of all ranks praise your outlines and wish for more. Flaxman is very warm in your commendation. Mr. Hayley has lately mentioned your work on outline in notes to an Essay on Sculpture. . . . Poor Fuseli, sore from the lash of envious tongues, praises you and dispraises with the same breath. . . . I am still employed in making designs and little pictures, with now and then an engraving, and find that in future to live will not be so difficult as it has been. . ..

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Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Schwartz, Berthold

SCHWARTZ, BERTHOLD, a monk of the order of Cordeliers, at the end of the 13th century, was a native of Freiburg, in Germany, and an able chemist. It is said that as he was making some experiments with niter he was led to his invention of gunpowder, which was first applied to warlike purposes by the Venetians in 1300. There is, however, much discrepancy in the accounts of this discovery; and it is certain that Roger Bacon, who died in 1292, was acquainted with an inflammable composition similar to gunpowder, the knowledge of which the Europeans appear to have derived from the Orientals.


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Rh Serene of brow, and plump of cheek, While 'tother, eating mice alone, Was little else than skin and bone; Though ever busy on the watch, As cats should be, his prey to catch, Peering around with famish'd look, In ev'ry cranny, hole, and nook, He toil'd from morn till eve, and yet Could scarce a full meal ever get. At length, by hunger sore distress'd, His elder brother he address'd:— "How is't that you can have good cheer, While I at death's door am so near? Though you are idle all the day. And I'm at work, and never play, How is it, brother, please explain, Why you are fat and I am lean?" "The reason, brother, 's very plain," Said fatty in complacent strain, You've quite too conscientious been. You hunt for mice." "Is that not right?" The younger answered with some spite. "Ah, yes," the elder makes reply, "'Tis right enough, perhaps, but I Can always near my master sit, And seek to please him by my wit. I share his favors, his repast; Ask little first, take much at last; Strive to amuse him with my tricks, Learn'd in the school of politics,

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 Rh principal happiness of my life. I have presumed on your friendship in staying so long away and not calling to know of your welfare, but hope now everything is nearly completed for our removal to Felpham, that I shall see you on Sunday, as we have appointed Sunday afternoon to call on Mrs. Flaxman at Hampstead. I send you a few lines, which I hope you will excuse. And as the time is arrived when men shall again converse in Heaven and walk with angels, I know you will be pleased with the intention, and hope you will forgive the poetry.


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Two cats of ancient pedigree, The finest of their race e'er seen, Were diff'rent in a great degree, For one was fat and 'tother lean. The elder daily had a feast, Like senator, or judge, or priest; Was round and portly, fresh, and sleek,

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Translation:Announcement of the Council for Democratic Reform No. 21

Table of Contents

 * Preamble
 * Clause 1
 * Clause 2
 * Clause 3
 * Clause 4
 * Coming into force
 * Signature

Provisons
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE COUNCIL FOR DEMOCRATIC REFORM

No. 21

Re: Ban on interception of telephones or other communication devices

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THE COUNCIL FOR DEMOCRATIC REFORM,

WHEREAS there have been unlawful interception, employment or disclosure of any information communicated through telephone or other communication devices which infringe the personal liberty of communication and cause suspicion amongst the people employing communication devices;

THEREFORE, in order to protect the personal liberty of lawful communication and to preserve national law and order;

HEREBY, DECREED:

Clause 1

Any person who intercepts, employs or discloses an information communicated through telephone or other communication device without lawful authority shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or to a fine of not exceeding one hundred thousand baht or to both.

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Clause 2

Any person who has obtained an information from the commission of the offence under clause 1 and, without lawful authority, employs or discloses before a third party such information, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or to a fine of not exceeding one hundred thousand baht or to both.

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Clause 3

Whoever employs another person to commit the offence under clause 1 or 2 shall be liable to twice heavier penalties than those prescribed for the offence under clause 1 or 2, as the case may be.

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Clause 4

Should the offender be the licensee to provide telephone or communication service or the concessionaire to provide such service, apart from being liable to the punishment as prescribed for the offence under clause 1 or 2, as the case may be, the offender’s license or concession shall also be terminated.

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The present Announcement shall come into force as from the date of its publication in the Government Gazette.

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 * Announced on the 24th Day of September, BE 2549 (2006).
 * General Sonthi BOONYARATGLIN,
 * Leader of the Council for Democratic Reform.


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WHEREAS it is expedient to prescribe a duty on an accused in a criminal case to make fingerprints in accordance with an order of a criminal justice officer, so as to enhance the efficient prevention and suppression of crimes; THE COUNCIL FOR DEMOCRATIC REFORM HEREBY DECREED:

An accused in a criminal case shall bear the duty to make fingerprints, handprints or footprints in accordance with an order of a public prosecutor, judicial officer or inquirer. The contravener shall be deemed to have committed an offence against justice and be liable to imprisonment for a term of not exceeding six months, or to a fine of not exceeding one thousand baht or to both.

The present Announcement shall come into force as from the date of its publication in the Government Gazette.

 * Announced on the 29th Day of September, BE 2549 (2006).
 * General Sonthi BOONYARATGLIN,
 * Leader of the Council for Democratic Reform.


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 R. Hash. IV, 5; a. fr.—3) Aboth, name of a treatise of the Mishnah, containing sayings of Talmudic authorities and belonging to the fourth section,, of the Mishnah collection ; also styled a. . A similar collection of a later date is contained in Talmud Babli editions, named  Aboth d'Rabbi Nathan. [Y. Yoma VIII, 44$d$ top  v. .]

ch., v. m. (b. h.; ) swelling, spreading, whence 1) the young shoots of a tree, opp. to the branches growing directly from the trunk. B. Kam. 81$a$ ed. (Ar. a. Ms., v. , cmp. Rashi a. 1.). [Y. Erub. III, 21$a$ top ; Y. Succ. II, 53$a$ .]—2) pl., state of growth, development. Ḥull. 58$a$ cascuta which became wormy during its growth. Ib. 127$b$ figs which shrunk during development. Y. Sabb. VII, 10$c$ bot. he who presses olives from where they grow (before they are ripe to be taken off). [Tosef. Maasr. I, 4, Var. , read, v. .] Ib. 5 they differ concerning the plants in their growing state (between ripening [] and. blossoming []; Var.  incorr.); cmp. Ch. v..

ch.=h. II. Targ. Gen. XVII, 4. Targ. O. ib. XLI, 43; a. fr.—Freq. (also in. Hebr. phraseol.) my father. Snh. III, 2. B. Bath IX, 3; a. fr. Meg. 12$b$ my father's steward. my grandfather. Ber. 10$a$ bot.—Snh. 113$a$ bot. father Elijah (sarcastically).—, N.'s father. Ber. 81$b$; Y. B. Mets. IV, 9$c$ top; a. fr.—, grandfather. Targ. II, Esth. VII, 10. Yeb. 21$b$.—Trnsf. origin, source. Sabb. 22$a$ the source of all analogous cases is the law about blood (that you must cover it from a sense of propriety).—Pl.,  Targ. Y. Deut; XXIV, 16. Targ. I Chr. I, 2; a. fr. Men. 53$a$ of distinguished birth.— Kid. 83$a$; a. fr.— [ Targ. Prov. XIX, 14. Ms.; read with ed. Wil. ; oth. ed. corr. acc.]

(,, in Y.) pr. n. m. Abba, (Ba, Va), a frequent name. [Sometimes distinguished persons go by that name, being orig. a title (v. next w.) while their real names are dropped; v. esp. Ber. 18$b$ I want Abba &c.] The most distinguished are 1), v. .—2)  v. .— 3)   Abba bar Abbahu (Ba), father of Samuel, an Amora.— 4) , in Bab. q. v.— 5), contr. Abba Mari, an Amora.—, , contr. with  into ,  Rabbin, Rabbina.

Abba (father), a title of Scholars (less than Rabbi), as Abba Saul, A. Yudan, etc.; cmp. foreg.

m. 1) thicket, woods, grove. M. Kat. 12$b$  a forest in Sh'lanya. Keth. 79$a$, v. . Snh. 39$b$ (prov.)  (Ag. Hatt. , v. Rabb. D. S. a. I. note) from the very woods shall it go into the hatchet (as a handle to strike the woods).—2) fruit, v..

(reduplic. of, , ; v. ) prop. swelling, heaviness (cmp. ), hence disorder of the stomach, vomiting (spasms); usu. in connection with ), fever with vomiting. Gen. R. s. 19 did you ever hear, this ass here that is driven out Ar. (ed. corrup. ) has fever, has vomiting (spasms)? Ib. s. 53 . V..

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f. offence, displeasure. Targ. Koh. VII, 3.

(b. h.; √, cmp., , , , &c., v.  a. ; to be thick, to be heavy, to press; to surround; to twist; to be warm, glow etc. V. , , , , ,  &c.) to be thick, to swell, break forth; v.  a..

ch. same, to grow, ripen. Targ. Hos. IX, 10 q. v.

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m. (corr. ) of noble descent Koh. R. beg.; a. fr. (Midr. Till, to Ps. I ; Cant. R. beg., corr. acc.).—Pl. Yalk. Ps. 863 (read ) he is the son of nobles; Midr. Till. to Ps. CV (corr. acc.) cmp. . (read ), pl.  most noble. Ruth R. to I, 2. Midr. Sam. ch. I.

v.

(b. h.; √, v. ) to be pressed, go around in despair (v. Prov. XXXI, 6; Deut. XXVI, 6). to be given up, whence 1) to be lost, perish; to be beyond recognition. Sifré Deut. 301 (ref. to Deut. XXVI, 5) (read  or ; Yalk. Deut. a. l. prob. ; Ms. Zer. Abr. 3 ) Jacob went to Aram with no hope but to perish (be a slave &c.). Ohol. XVII, 3 a field in which there is a grave that cannot be located. Keth. XIII, 7  the path to his field cannot be traced. Gen. R. s. 91  we have lost something; a. fr.—2) to lose. Ib. and we who have lost (mourn for) R. S.; a. fr.—Part. pass. lost, irretrievable, perishing, decayed. Keth. 108$a$ on a contribution to the Temple which has been lost on the road. Y. Shebi. IX, 38$d$ top they perish of themselves (they decay naturally); a. fr.

Nif. to be lost, perish. Keth. 104$a$; a. fr. Sifré Deut. 301 v. supra.

Pi. 1) to waste, lose, forfeit, destroy. Ned. 33$b$ he wasted his money, (cannot reclaim it). Keth. XIII, 6  he forfeited his claim. Ab. Zar. 55$a$  shall we give up our honest dealing? Ib. IV, 7  shall He destroy His world?


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The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Taft, Alphonso

TAFT, Alphonso, American jurist: b. Townshend, Vt., 5 Nov. 1810; d. San Diego, Cal., 21 May 1891. He was graduated from Yale in 1833, became a tutor there and was admitted to the bar in 1838, In 1840 he settled in Cincinnati and took part in politics, being a member of the Republican convention in 1856. In 1865 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, serving until 1872, when he resigned to resume his law practice. On 8 March 1876 he was appointed Secretary of War but after two months was transferred to the post of Attorney-General. During 1877-82 he practised law in Cincinnati, and in April of the latter year was sent as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Austria. From 1884 to August 1885 he was Minister to Russia.


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78       While 'tother runs away. A sturgeon saw the murd’rous deed, And hasten'd off with all his speed— From horror at the act he fled. To hide deep in the river’s bed. But there, amidst distressing fears, Strange, unexpected news he hears— The crocodile was shedding tears! Could murd'rers then, with blood still wet, For their foul deeds feel such regret? Was he then suff'ring from the stings, Which true contrition always brings? And can the gods have the intent T' avenge, not save, the innocent? This villain surely now relents, "I'll go to him and tell him true, What it imports his soul to do." The honest sturgeon then proceeds To seek the monster 'midst the reeds. "Yes, weep," said he, "as well you may, For this foul deed you've done to-day. Remorse a balm is, and it heals The pains a wounded spirit feels. Then use this balm with thanks and joy, You monster! thus to eat a boy! Now that repentance you have felt;— Now that in tears your heart does melt, There's yet relief from all your fears." "Pooh!" said the knave, "that I've shed tears

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The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Taft, William Howard

TAFT, William Howard, 27th President of the United States: b. Mount Auburn, Cincinnati, 15 Sept. 1857, son of Judge Alphonso (q.v.) and Louisa M. (Torrey) Taft. After graduating with honors from Yale (1878) he studied law in Cincinnati being admitted to the bar in 1880. From 1881 to 1883 he was assistant prosecuting attorney in Hamilton County, Ohio, and for a time Collector of Federal Internal Revenue. From 1883 to 1887 he practised law in Cincinnati, after 1885 being assistant county solicitor. In 1886 he married Miss Helen Herron. In 1887 Governor Foraker appointed him to fill an unexpired term as judge of the Superior court. He was later elected for a full term; but in 1890 he was appointed solicitor-general of the United States by President Harrison. In 1892 he was made a Federal judge of the sixth circuit, a position for which by temperament and training he was admirably fitted, and the work of which he found most congenial.

On 12 March 1900 President McKinley chose him to head a commission to establish civil government in the Philippines, and on 4 July 1901 he became first civil governor. Taft accepted both appointments at the expense of his personal preference for a career on the bench, being influenced by a deep sense of responsibility toward and a genuine affection for the Filipinos. In 1902 Roosevelt twice offered him an appointment to the Supreme Bench of the United States, but he put aside what has been his chief personal ambition because he felt his immediate duty was to continue in the islands. As an executive his work was highly successful. In 1902 he conducted at Rome the important negotiations for the purchase of the Catholic Friars' lands. To a remarkable degree he won the confidence and affection of the Filipinos, though he disappointed many by his frank statement that in his judgment it might be two

generations before they would be ready for complete self-government. He believed in “The Philippines for the Filipinos,” and opposed exploitation primarily in the interest of American capital. He urged tariff concessions for Philippine products.

On 1 Feb. 1904 he became Roosevelt's Secretary of War, and for over four years was engaged in such important enterprises as the building of the Panama Canal. In 1906, when disorders called for American intervention, he was sent to Cuba, and for a time acted as provisional governor. In 1907 he visited Cuba and Panama, and later Japan and China, going to the Philippines for the opening of the legislative assembly, and returning by way of Russia. In 1906-13 he acted as president of the reorganized American Red Cross.

By 1907 Roosevelt was exerting his influence to secure the Republican nomination for his Secretary of War, whom he described as possessing “a standard of absolutely unflinching rectitude on every point of public duty, and a literally dauntless courage and willingness to bear responsibility,” besides a knowledge of men, tact and kindliness. Nominated on the first ballot, June 1908, Taft resigned as Secretary. The campaign with Bryan was fought largely on the issue of continuing the “Roosevelt policies,” the President declaring that Taft was ”the man who I feel is in an especial sense the representative of all that in which I most believe in political life.” With this recommendation, and on the strength of his ideal training for the office, Taft was given 321 electoral votes to Bryan's 162.

As President he lacked the magnetism and dramatic force of his predecessor. In general he took a moderate position on public questions. “We middle-of-the-road people,” he said (1911), “who are not extremists are, we believe, the real Progressives, because you do not make progress by great strides; you make progress step by step.” His position on important issues may be summarized as follows: (1) In connection with the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill he used his influence in favor of downward revision to a protective basis, just sufficient to cover the difference in cost of production between here and abroad. Though not satisfied with some provisions, he signed and defended the law as the best ever passed. He favored further revision on the basis of reports to be made by a tariff commission; and he vetoed later revisions of several schedules largely because they were not based on such reports. He worked for reciprocity with Canada. (2) On conservation his fundamental views were not so different from those of the Progressives as they seemed to believe. He hesitated, however, to stretch the executive power, and Congress was slow to give him the power he requested. Unfortunately his support of Secretary Ballinger against Roosevelt's friend, Pinchot, appeared to place him in opposition to the policies of his predecessor. (3) In the matter of railroad and trust regulation he favored strict enforcement of existing law and his administration secured the dissolution of the Standard Oil and Tobacco trusts. He urged the clarification of the Sherman law and favored Federal charters for corporations doing interstate business. (4) He was opposed to the more radical schemes of direct popular

government, in particular the “recall of judicial decisions.” (5) He favored and extended civil service reform, worked for efficiency and economy in government, especially urging a budget system and advocating pensions for Federal employees. (6) In foreign affairs he worked heartily for peace, negotiating treaties for arbitration and the judicial settlement of international difficulties, which were rejected by the Senate. By “dollar diplomacy” the administration sought to secure opportunities for trade and the investment of capital. This policy was denounced by some as leading to imperialistic interference in the affairs of weaker nations, and making government diplomacy a mere agent of big business.

Some of these views were too progressive to suit the old leaders, and yet it was not long before the insurgent Progressive-Republicans were denouncing the President as too friendly with reactionary party bosses and big business, and a deserter from progressive standards. Believing in the necessity of party government, the President did feel it necessary to work with and through the party majority in Congress. For a time he withheld patronage from insurgent senators and representatives, and when he changed his policy the damage had been done. The defense of the Tariff Bill, the dismissal of Pinchot, the repeated vetoes of later tariff reduction bills, the veto of the grant of statehood to New Mexico and Arizona because of radical provisions in their constitutions, all increased his unpopularity. The elections of 1910 gave the Democrats a majority in the House and showed a popular discontent with the old Republican rule and a drift toward Progressive Republicanism or toward the Democratic party. In Congress the insurgent Republicans often joined the Democrats to defeat the regular Republicans. In 1910 Roosevelt returned from Africa, and before long was openly taking issue with the policies of his successor. By 1911 the Progressive Republicans were planning to prevent the renomination of Taft. At first La Follette was to be their candidate, then they turned to Roosevelt. Early in 1912 he agreed to accept the nomination. In the States having direct primaries Roosevelt made a much better showing than Taft; but the control of the party machinery by the regulars brought about the President's renomination. The Progressives started a new party, ensuring the overwhelming defeat of the President in November and the election of Wilson.

The outstanding feature of the administration was the conflict between conservative and progressive forces; but the confusion and recrimination should not obscure important developments during these four years. Among these were the reform of the rules of the House of Representatives (1910); the corporation tax (1909); increased powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission; Postal Savings Bank (1910) and Parcel Post (1912); Children's Bureau (1912) and Department of Labor (1913); publicity for and limitation of campaign contributions (1910-11); submission of amendments on income tax and direct election of senators.

Since 1913 Mr. Taft has been Kent professor of law at Yale University, lecturing on constitutional law in the college and the law school. He has continued to take an active

interest in promoting international peace and a League of Nations. During the World War he was joint chairman of the National War Labor Conference Board.

With the calming of factional bitterness, Mr. Taft has gained again in the public esteem and confidence, and the accomplishments as well as the mistakes and difficulties of his administration appear in a better perspective.

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Twenty-seventh President of the United States


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 can hardly be doubted; it was continued to be erected, with an inscription on it, in Romano-British times, and its modern representative is in every churchyard. The menhirs, locally termed longstones, or langstones, must at one time have been numerous. There was a langstone near Sourton, another by Tavistock, one at Sheeps Tor, others by Modbury; these stones have disappeared and have left but their names to tell where they once stood. One on Peter Tavy Common gave its title to the moor which the Ordnance surveyors have rendered Launceston Moor. The stone is at one end of a row, and served as a way mark over the down. It had fallen, but is re-erected. But there are still a good many remaining. The tallest is one already referred to at Drizzlecombe. Bairdown Man (maen = a stone) is by Devil Tor in a singularly desolate spot. We have none comparable to the Devil's Arrows at Boroughbridge in Yorkshire—but the best have been carried away to serve as monolithic church pillars. The Chinese hold that the spirits of the dead inhabit the memorials set up in their honour; and the carved monoliths in Abyssinia, erected by the race when it passed from Arabia to Africa, have carved in their faces little doors, for the ingress and egress of the spirits. Holed menhirs are found in many places. I know one in France, La Pierre Fiche, near Pouancé (Maine-et-Loire), where such a little door or window, intended for the popping out and in of the spirit, has been utilised to hold an

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ACT TWO

__________ Scene Two Open country.

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with his cane, knapsack and bag.

Hinze Glorious weather! What a beautiful, warm day; afterwards I will lie out in the sun for a bit.

He spreads out his bag.

Hinze Well, Fortune favor me! Of course, when I reflect how that capricious goddess rarely favors shrewdly laid plans and always ends up confounding the intelligence of us mortals, I really should lose all my courage. But be still, my heart; a little work and sweat for a kingdom is surely worth the effort. So long as there are no dogs around here; I can't stand the sight of those creatures; I despise their kind because they submit themselves so willingly to the lowest form of human bondage; they're good for nothing except flattering and biting; and they have no style at all, without which social intercourse is absolutely impossible. There's no game to be caught.

He begins to sing a hunting song: "In the field I creep, silent and wild," etc. A nightingale begins to warble in a nearby bush.

Hinze She sings superbly, the songstress of the grove but how delicious she must taste! The great are so lucky; they can eat as many nightingales and larks as they like; we poor common people must content ourselves with their singing, with the beauty of their nature, with their incomprehensibly sweet harmony. It's so annoying that I can never listen to a bird singing without at the same time wanting to eat it. Nature! Nature! Why do you always mar my finest emotions by saddling me with such a vulgar taste in music! I almost feel like taking off my boots and gingerly climbing up that tree; she must be perching somewhere up there.

There is stamping in the pit.

Hinze Nightingales are good-natured creatures; I never realized that they prefer to sing when the weather is stormy and tempestuous, but now I see how wrong I was. Ay! Sing on, you warbler, until you run out of breath! She must taste delicious. But I'm forgetting all about my hunting with these sweet dreams. Truly, there's no game to be caught. Hello, someone's coming!

enter.

He Say, honey, can you hear that nightingale?

She I'm not deaf, my dear.

He Oh, how my heart overflows with joy to be surrounded like this by nature in all her harmonious perfection, where every sound is an echo of my own love, and all heaven bows down and pours out its ether to me.

She You're beginning to rave, my dear!

He Don't call the most natural emotions of my heart raving.

He kneels down.

He Look, I swear to you here in the sight of the glorious heavens

Hinze approaching them courteously I beg your pardon, but could you please move along? Your charming displays of affection are making it impossible for me to hunt.

He With the Sun as my witness, the Earth and everything else: You yourself, dearer to me than Earth, Sun, and all the planetsWhat is it, my good friend?

Hinze I'm trying to hunt I beg you most humbly.

She Barbarian! You dare to interrupt a passionate avowal of love! Clearly, you are not of woman born. You are not fit to live in human society.

Hinze If you would only consider

She Wait one moment, my good friend; can't you see that my beloved, lost in the intoxication of the moment, is on his knees.

He Do you believe me now?

She Oh! I already believed you, even before you opened your mouth!

She bends down to him affectionately.

She Dearest! I love you! Oh, inexpressibly!

He Am I mad? Oh, and if I'm not, why do I not become so immediately with an excess of joy, wretched contemptible creature that I am? I am no longer on Earth; behold me closely, dearest, and tell me: Am I not perhaps wandering up there at the center of the immortal Sun?

She You are in my arms, and they shall never release you either.

He Oh, come, this open country is too narrow for my emotions, we must scale the highest mountain and tell the whole of Nature how happy we are!

They go off quickly and full of delight. Loud applause and cries of "Bravo!" are heard in the pit.

Wiesener clapping The lover really threw himself into his rôle. Ow! I've applauded so much that my hands have swollen right up.

Neighbor You don't know how to restrain yourself when you're happy.

Wiesener Yes, I'm always like that.

Fischer Ah! that was certainly something for the heart! That makes one feel good again!

Leutner Really beautiful diction in that scene!

Müller But I wonder whether it was really essential to the plot?

Schlosser I never worry about the plot; if I cry, I cry, that's enough; that passage was simply divine.

Hinze O Love, how powerful art thou! Thy voice calmeth the storm, it reduceth the thundering public to silence. Thou confoundest the hearts of the critics; they have forgotten their anger; their refinement has been mislaid. But there's still no game to be had.

A rabbit creeps into the bag; Hinze rushes over and pulls the drawstring tight.

Hinze What have we here, my good friend! This creature is a cousin of mine, so to speak. Yes, that's the way of the world nowadays: dog eat dog, sibling rivalry; if you want to get on in the world, you've got to be prepared to push others out of your way.

He takes the rabbit out of the bag and puts it into his knapsack.

Hinze Wait! Wait! I really must take care not to devour the game myself. If I just tie up the knapsack as quickly as possible, I should be able to hold my appetite in check. Fie! For shame, Hinze! Is it not the nobleman's duty to sacrifice himself and his desires for the good of his fellow creatures? That is the reason we were created, and whoever cannot do that oh, it were better for him if he had never been born!

As he is on the point of withdrawing, there is loud applause. Everyone cries "Encore" and he has to repeat his beautiful closing speech. Then he bows respectfully and goes off with the rabbit.

Fischer Oh, what a noble fellow!

Müller And what fine human sentiments!

Schlosser I suppose things like this can still be edifying in their own way, but whenever I see such tomfoolery I just want to lay about me like a madman.

Leutner I too began to feel quite wistful the nightingale  the lovers  the final tirade  why, this play has some really beautiful passages after all!

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But why should she thus disagree? "Oh," cried the fox, "I plainly see; My lady takes a contr'y view, Because she is a spinner too."

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A mountebank amidst a crowd Thus cried aloud— "Walk up, Messieurs and try the cure For every evil men endure! It is a powder which will give All things for which you strive and live.

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82 To fools it gives intelligence; And to the guilty innocence. Honors on rascals it bestows, And to old women brings young beaux; Secures old men young, pretty wives; Makes madmen lead well-temper'd lives— In short, whatever you would gain, It will assist you to attain It is a perfect panacea."

The juggler's table I drew near, This wond'rous powder to behold Of which such miracles were told. It was a little powder'd gold!

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 image of the Virgin, and has been barred to prevent the statue making off or being made off with. In Irish post-Christian records there is frequent allusion to the early saints carrying about their lechs (flat stones) with them, to be set up over them when dead, and this explains the fantastic stories afterwards told of saints as of having crossed from Ireland to Wales, or Cornwall, or Brittany floating on stones. In the original record it was related that the saint came over with his lech, and a later redactor of the story converted this into coming on it, as a raft. The lech was cut into a cross when the Celts became Christians, or crosses were inscribed on them. Some of the most fantastic of the saints, when travelling over the country, would not sit down to dinner till they had visited and prayed at all the crosses set up over tombs anywhere near. A pretty story is told of S. Cainnech. Bishop Aed's sister had been carried off by Colman MacDermot, King of the Hy Niall, and he refused to surrender her. Aed went to Cainnech with his grievance, and Cainnech at once resolved on intervention. Colman had retired to an island in the Ross Lake, or Marsh, and shrewdly suspecting that the saint would administer a lecture, he removed the boats to the island fort or crannoge. However, Cainnech was not to be deterred, and managed to wade or swim across. Subdued by his pertinacity, the king surrendered the girl. Many years after, one winter day, Cainnech was traversing a moor, when he noticed a rude stone cross, on the head and arms of which the snow lay

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 in a crust. He halted to inquire whose cross that was, and learned that it had been erected on the spot where King Colman had been assassinated some years previously. Cainnech at once went to the lech, leaned his brow against it, and as he recalled the

interviews he had had with the king, and thought on his good as well as his bad qualities, his outbursts of violence, and his accesses of compunction, the old man's tears began to flow, and his disciples noticed the snow melting and dripping from the arms of the cross, thawed by the tears of the venerable abbot.

Now see how many rugged crosses there are on

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 Dartmoor! Some certainly are waymarks, others as surely indicate graves. Would that we knew the tales connected with them! Then go into any churchyard and observe the tombstones. We are children of the men who set up menhirs, and we do the same thing to this day, though the stones we erect are mean and small compared with the great standing monoliths they set up to their dead. In many of the churches around the moor are monuments that derive from the cromlech and kistvaens as certainly as does the modern tombstone from the menhir. The graveyard of Sourton was rich in these great slabs standing on four supporters. A late rector who "restored" Sourton church, and supposed he did God service by so doing, threw all these down and employed the slabs as pavement to the church paths; he placed the supporters outside in the village for anyone to carry off as he listed. The finest menhirs on Dartmoor are—one at Drizzlecombe, the Langstone near Caistor Rock, the Whitmoor Stone, the Bairdown Man, the Langstone at Merrivale, and that on Langstone Moor, Peter Tavy. There must have been numbers more, for their former presence is testified to by many place names. They have been carried off, and it is matter of wonder that any remain. 6. Hut circles. The cairn and kistvaen were the places of burial of the dead, but the hut circles were the habitations of the living. So many of them have been dug out during the last six years, that we may safely draw conclusions as to the period to

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 which they belong. They were occupied by the Neolithic population that at one time thickly covered Dartmoor.

In the Archæologia of 1875 is an account of the

exploration of a set of hut circles near Bintley, Northumberland, and this revealed successive occupation by Celts (?) of the Bronze Age; then Romano-British, who left fragments of Samian ware and a

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