BRENT, CHARLES HENRY

(1862), American clergyman; 6. New Castle, Ontario. He graduated with cla ical honors at Trinity College, Toronto, in 1884 and entered the Episcopal ministry. He had pastorates at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Buffalo (1887); St. John the Evangolist, Boston (1888-91) and at St Stephen’s, Boston (1891-1901). In the latter year he was elected bishop of the Philippines. He was offered the bishopric of Washington in 1908 but declined. He was chief commi ioner of the United States and president of the International Opium Conference (1908-09) and chairman of the United States delegation to the conference of the same body at the Hague (1911-12). His publications include The Consolations of the Cro , 1902; Adventure for God, 1904; The Mind of Christ, 1908; The Sixth Sense, 1914; Prisoners of Hope, 1915; and Mount of Vision, 1918. river, Italy; enters Adriatic. Ger. poet and novelist; bro. of Goethe’s friend, Bettina von im; author of Godwi, a romance, Ponce de Leon, a drama, and numerous other novels and dramas; also of some charming short stories, which have been trans. into English. market town, Middle sex, England; scene ot Dan. defeat, 1016; Royalist victory, 1642, Pop. 17,000. E.) province, N. Italy; area, 1,800 sq. miles. Pop. 1919, 595,547. (2) (45° 33’ N., 10° 13’ EB.) city, Lombardy, at foot of Alps; under Venice, XVI.- XVIII. cent’s; captured by Austrians, 1849; joined Italy, 1859; ancient cathedral; iron goods; silks. Pop. 90,000. MADAME, Ru ian revolutionary; was condemne d to penal servitude for life (1874); after twenty years set free. chief town of Pru . Silesia, Germany, on Oder; center of extensive manufacturing district; has important railway and water communication. Industries include manufacture of beet sugar, linens, woolens, cottons, silk, machinery, earthenware, distilling; large trade in cereals, wool, linen, coal, metals, timber, lumber, hemp, flax. B. has univ., R.O. cathedral, Jewish synagogue, some fine churches; town hall (XIV, cent.). Pop. 1919, 528,260. fortified seaport, Finistére, France; leading naval station; large roadstead; fine military and commercial harbors; fortifications begun by Richelieu; Fr. fleet defeated by Lord Howe, June 1, 1794. Brest was one of the important depots for The American Expeditionary ee in the World War. Pop. 1921, 960. Grodno government, Poland (52° 15’ N., 23° 42’ E.), on r. bk. of Bug.; great ry. center; added to Ru ia (1795); grain, wood, cattle, tobacco; in early part of Great War base of Ru ian operations in Poland; last of ‘Polish Quadrilateral’ to be evacuated (1915); entered by Germans Aug. 25, 1915; became head-~ quarters of Prince Leopold of Bavaria.