Calvert, Grorge

HENRY, an American man of letters, B. in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1803. His grandfather, Benedict Calvert, a descendant of the Baltimore family, though a loyalist in the revolutionary contest, was an intimate friend of General Washington. C. graduated at Harvard College in 1823, and then went to Europe and studied at Göttingen, where he imbibed a taste for German literature, which colored many of his subsequent productions. After his return to America he edited a newspaper for a while, and in 1832 published Illustrations of Phrenology. Among his later writings are, a Volume from the Life of Herbert Barclay (1833); a translation of Schiller's Don Carlos (1836); Count Julian, a tragedy (1840); a translation in part of The Göthe and Schiller Correspondence (1845); Scenes and Thoughts in Europe (1816-52); and Göthe, his Life and Works (1872.) Cal'vert, in Maryland, a county bordering on Chesapeake Bay; area, 250 sq. m. It is a peninsula, formed by the Chesapeake and Patuxent rivers. Surface, undulating; soil, moderately fertile; staple products, tobacco and Indian corn. Cap. Prince Frederick. Pop. in 1890, 8,901. Calvert Island, on the W. coast of British N. America, Lat. 51° 30′ N., Lon. 128° 10 W.-Also a group of islands in the Pacific, Lat. 8° 55′ N., Lon. 172° 10 E. Cal'vert on Mills, in Maryland , a post-office of Balti IMG:content-0029.png:[blocks in formation] "Even those that should be the most liberal, make it their busine to disdain and calumniate one another." -Sprat. Calumnia'tion, n. Act of calumniating; false and malicious accusation.