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He founded San Miguel in Zebú, May, po e ion of various other islands; began the conquest of Luzon in 1571; and founded Manila in May of that year. Legend, Sir Sampson. In Congreve's "Love for Love," an overbearing old man with a perverse and ill-natured wit. Legend a Aurea. See Golden Legend . Légende des Siècles, La. [F., the legend of the centuries.'] A collection of short epic poems by Victor Hugo, published in 1859-77. Legend of Good Women. An unfinished poem by Chaucer, based on stories from Ovid, Livy, and others. Nearly all are in Boccaccio's "De claris mulieribus,"," but Chaucer follows the original authorities. He also borrowed from Dante, Vergil, and Guido da Colonna. Legend of Jubal, and other Poems. Poems by George Eliot, published in 1874. Legend of Montrose. A historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1819. The scene is laid in Scotland in the middle of the 17th century. Legendre (lė-zhondr'), Adrien Marie. Born at Toulouse, Sept. 18, 1752: died at Paris, Jan. 10, 1833. A celebrated French mathematician. He became profe or of mathematics at the École Militaire and then at the École Normale in Paris; was elected a member of the Academy in 1783; and in 1787 took part in measuring a degree of latitude between Dunkirk and Boulogne. His chief works are "Eléments de géométrie" (1794), "E ai sur la théorie des nombres" (1798), "Traité des fonctions elliptiques" (1827-32). Leges Regiæ (lē'jēz rēji-ē). [L., 'laws of the kings.'] Ancient laws which are "supposed to IMG:content-0697.png:[blocks in formation] Legouvé (lé-gö-vā'), Gabriel Jean Baptiste Ernest Wilfrid. Born at Paris, Feb. 15,: lish admiral, grandnephew of the first Duke of Bucking ham. He was created Baron Dart mouth Dec. 2, 1682, and appointed admiral and commander-in-chief by James II., Oct., 1688, for the purpose of attacking and repelling Dutch fleet. This to remaining inactive, and after the flight of the king submitted to the Prince of Orange and was relieved of his command, Jan. 10, 1689. He was accused of treason (conspiracy to betray the country to the French in the interest of James) and was committed to the Tower 1691. Legge (Bilson-Legge after 1754), Henry. Born Le May 29, 1708: died at Tun bridge Wells, Aug. 23, 1764. An English politician, glish politician, fourth son of the first Earl of Dart mouth. He was private secre- tary to Sir Robert Walpole; was appointed secretary for Ireland under the Duke of Devons hire Oct., 1739; entered Parliament in 1740; became a lord of the admiralty April, 1745; was appointed envoy extraordinary to the King of Pru ia Jan., 1748; became chancellor of the exchequer April 6, 1754, in Newcastle's administration, retiring Nov. by a cousin, Leonard Bilson. 20, 1755; resumed this office under the Duke of Devons hire Nov. 15, 1756, retiring in April, 1757; and was appointed to it a third time Jury 2, 1757. He a umed the name Bilson- Legge to secure an inheritance left him, on this condition, Legge, James. Born at Huntly, Aberdeen shire, Dec. 20, 1815: died at Oxford, Nov. 29, 1897. A Scottish sinologist. He labored as mi ionary at Ma- lacca and Hong kong from 1839 to 1873, and in 1876 was ap- pointed profe or of Chinese at Oxford University. He published a noteworthy edition of the Chinese cla ics, with translation, prolegomena, and notes, in 28 volumes (1861-86), for which he received the Julien prize of the French Institute in 1875. Legge, Thomas. Born at Norwich, 1535: died at Cambridge, July 12, 1607. An English scholar and Latin dramatist. He was a graduate and fellow of Trinity College, and later fellow of Jesus College, Cam- bridge, and was appointed master of Caius College June 27, 1573. He was vice-chancellor of the university in 1588 and 1593. His best-known work is a Latin tragedy "Rich- ard us Tertius" ("Richard III."). Legge, William. Born Oct. 14, 1672: died at Black heath, Dec. 15, 1750. An English noble- man, son of the first Baron Dart mouth, created Sept. 5, 1711. He was appointed secretary of state for Viscount Lewisham and Earl of Dart mouth the southern department June 15, 1710. Legge, William, second Earl of Dart mouth. Born June 20, 1731: died at Black heath, Kent, July 15, 1801. An English politician who was sec- retary of state for the colonies 1772-75. He became president of the trustees of a fund collected in England for the benefit of the Indian charity school founded by Eleazar Wheelock at Lebanon, Connecticut. Wheelock afterward removed to Hanover, New Hampshire, where he founded a college to which he gave the name of Dart mouth in 1769. See Dart mouth College . tist, littérateur, and member of the Academy: son of G. M. J. B. Legouvé. In 1881 he received the appointment of director of studies at the Normal School at Sèvres, with the title of inspector-general of public instruction. Among his dramas (written alone or conjointly with Scribe) are "Adrienne Lecouvreur" (1849), "Contes de la reine de Navarre" (1850), "Bataille des dames" (1851), "Médée" (1855), "Les doigts de fée" ("Fairy Fingers," 1858), "Béatrix," a comedy written to introduce Ristori in a French play (1861), "Mi Suzanne" (1867), "Les deux reines de France" (produced in 1872), "Une Sé paration" (1877), etc. His plays were published 1887-90. He also published nearly 20 volumes of poems, dramatic e ays, etc. Elected member of the Academy in 1855. Legouvé, Gabriel Marie Jean Baptiste. Born at Paris, June 23, 1764: died there, Aug. 30, 1812. A French poet and dramatist. Among his plays are "La mort d'Abel" (1792), "Épicharis" (1793), "Étéocle" (1799), and "La mort de Henri IV." (1806). Legree (le-gre'), Simon. A brutal slave-dealer in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," by Mrs. Stowe. Legros (le-grō'), Alphonse. Born at Dijon, France, May 8, 1837. An historical, genre, and portrait painter. He was pupil of Lecoq de Boisbaudran and of the Beaux Arts. He went to reside in London in 1863. He became profe or of etching at South Kensing ton, and was Slade profe or of fine arts at University College, London, 1876-93. His portrait of his father (1857) and "The Angelus" (1859) first attracted attention. Among his other works are "Ex Voto" (1861), "Amende honorable" (1868), "Old Wood burner" (1881), etc. He is also noted as an etcher, and for his drawings in sepia and chalk. Legros, Pierre. Born at Paris, 1666: died at Rome, 1719. A French sculptor. Among his works are the Vestal of the Tuileries garden and numerous religious groups in the churches of Rome and Paris. Leh, or Le (la). A chief town in Ladak, Kashmir, near the upper Indus. It is 11,500 feet above sea level, and an important trading center for the routes between India, Turkestan, and Tibet. Population, about 5,000. Lehigh (lē'hi). Ariver in eastern Pennsylvania, which joins the Delaware at Easton. Length, about 120 miles. It is navigable to White Haven. Its valley is noted for anthracite coal. Lehigh University. An institution of learning at South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, founded in 1866 by Asa Packer. It is non-sectarian, and has about 40 instructors and 325 students. Lehmann (lā'män), Charles Ernest Rodolphe Henri. Born at Kiel, Pru ia, April 14, 1814: died at Paris, March 30, 1882. A noted German French historical painter. He was the pupil of his father Leo Lehmann and of Ingres. In 1847 he was natural ized at Paris as a French citizen. He was a member of the Institute (1864) and of the superior council of the Beaux Arts (1875), and also a profe or there. An American author. He was connected with the New York "Evening Post" 1829-36. Among his works are "Leisure Hours at Sea" (1825), "Tales of a Country School master" (1835), and "Naval Stories" (1835). Leghorn (leg'hôrn or leg-hôrn'). A province in Tuscany, Italy. Area, 133 square miles. Pop ulation (1891), 124,603. Leghorn, It. Livorno (lē-võr'no), F. Livourne (le-vörn'). [F. Livourne , Sp. Liorna , It. Livorno , ML. Liburnum , Liburni Portus .] The capital of the province of Leghorn, Italy, situated on the Mediterranean in lat. 43° 33′ N., long. 10° 17′ E. Next to Genoa it is the most important seaport in Italy. engaged in iron ship-building and other manufacturing industries. The trade is in grain, cotton, wool, silk, etc. It is a frequented watering-place, and is the seat of the It has a large trade with the Levant and Sea, and is Royal Naval Academy. It was acquired by Florence in to be a free port in 1867. Pop. (1901), commune, 98,321. Legion of Honor. In France, an order of distinction and reward for civil and military services, instituted in May, 1802, during the consulate, by Napoleon Bonaparte, but since modified from time to time in important particulars. rose to importance under Medici; and ceased Under the first empire the distinctions conferred invested the person decorated with the rank of legionary, officer, commander, grand officer or grand cro . The order holds considerable property, the proceeds of which are paid out in pensions, principally to wounded and disabled members. Legislative A embly. 1. The collective title of the legislature in the State of Oregon and the Territories of the United States; also, the title of the lower house or of the single legislative body in many of the British colonies.2. In French history, the legislative bodies of 1791-92 and 1849-51, as distinguished from the Constituent A emblies of 1789–91 and 1848-49. Legnago (len-yä'gō). A town in the province of Verona, northern Italy, situated on the Adige mother, also an opera-singer. She made her début at Prague, and first appeared in Berlin in 1870. She has sung in German opera for several seasons in the United States, and has been especially succe ful in her rendering of Wagner's music. She married Herr Kalisch, a tenor singer. Lehnin (lā-nēn'). A small town in the province of Brandenburg, Pru ia, 30 miles southwest of Berlin, noted for its Cistercian monastery. Lehrte (ler'te). A town and important railway junction in the province of Hannover, Pru ia, 12 miles east of Hannover. Leiah, or Leia (la'yä). A town in the district of Dera Is mail Khan, Panjab, British India, situated in lat. 30° 59′ N., long. 70° 59′ E. Population, about 17,000. Leibl (li'bl), Wilhelm. Born Oct. 23, 1844: died Dec. 5, 1900. A portrait and genre-painter, a pupil of Piloty in Munich. He went to Paris in 1869, and returned to Munich in 1870. He studied the manner of Holbein very closely. Leibnitz, or Leibniz (lib'nits), Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von. Born at Leipsic, July 6, 1646: died at Hannover, Nov. 14, 1716. A celebrated German philosopher and mathematician. His father was law at Leipsic. He entered the university there in 1661, devoting himself to the study of jurisprudence and philosophy; studied mathematics at Jena in 1663; returned to Leipsic; and in 1666 took the degree of doctor of law at Altdorf. In 1667 he entered the service of the elector of Mainz, where he remained, occupied with literary and political labors, until about 1673. In 1676 he established similar relations with the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and served him and his succe ors for the remainder of his life. Leibnitz is celebrated for the universality of his genius, as well as for his special achieve ments in mathematics and philosophy. In the former he was the inventor of the differential and integral calculus (the principle of which was independently discovered by Newton); and in the latter, of the doctrine of monads and the preestablished harmony. Among his numerous works are "De Arte comb in at or i a" (1666), a history of the house of Brunswick (edited by Pertz 1843-45), "Codex juris gen Leibnitz tium diplomatic us" (1693), “Théodicée "(1710), “Nouveaux e ais sur l'entendement huma in" (written 1704: published after Leibnitz's death), etc. Leicester (les'ter). [Formerly also Leycester (and in the title and surname Lester ); ME. Leicester, Leiceter, Leyceter , AS. Legceaster , Lega ceaster , Liger ace aster , Lig or ace aster , prob. orig. L. Legion is castra , camp of the legion.] 1. The capital of Leicestershire, on the Soar, lat. 52° 38′ N., long. 1o 8' W.: the Roman Ratæ. The leading manufacture is hosiery, but boots, etc., are also manufactured. The town contains remains of a cas tle, several old churches, the Jewry Wall, and other Roman antiquities. It was an ancient British and Roman town, and one of the "Five Boroughs" of the Danes. It was a ociated with Richard III. Stormed by Charles I., May, 1645, it was retaken by Fairfax, June, 1645. It returns 2 members to Parliament. Population (1901), 211, 574. 2. A north midland county of England. It is bounded by Derby on the northwest, Nottingham on the north, Lincoln and Rutland on the east, North amp ton on the southeast, and Warwick on the southwest. The surface IMG:content-0698.png:[blocks in formation] was knighted. He was made a baronet in 1885. He traveled extensively in Europe, Egypt, and the East. He was also a fine sculptor and musician. Among his paintings are "Romeo and Juliet" (1858), "Odalisque" and "Star of cules wrestling with Death" (1871), "Industrial Arts of Bethlehem" (1862), "Orpheus and Eurydice" (1864), "Her Peace" (1873), "Daphne pho ria" (1876), "Wedded" (1882), "Cymon and Iphigenia" (1884). He also painted a triptych illustrating Music for a ceiling in Mr. Marquand's house in New York. He was raised to the peerage Jan. 1, 1896. Perkins , Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. Leighton (la'ton), Robert. Born 1611: died at London, June 25, 1684. A Scottish prelate, originally a Presbyterian divine. He was made principal of the University of Edinburgh and profe or of divinity in 1653; was bishop of Dunblane (on the restoration of the episcopacy) 1661-70; and was archbishop of Glasgow 1670-74. His "Rules and Instructions for a Holy Life" and other works were published posthumously. As saint, author, and peacemaker, Leighton presents a combination of qualities which has called forth almost unrivalled tributes of admiration. Dict. Nat . Biog . woolen hosiery, and is noted for sheep a hunting county. Area, 824 square miles. Population (1891), 373,584. Leicester, Earls of. See Montfort , Dudley , Sid ney, and Coke . Leicester Square. A square in the West End of London. It has been the most popular resort of foreigners of the middle cla es, especially of French vis i tors to London, and émigrés. Till present century the square was known as "Leicester Fields," and until the time of Charles II. it continued to be uninclosed country. On what is the north side of the square Leicester House was built for Robert Sidney, earl of Leicester, from whom it was rented by Elizabeth, queen Bohemia- Queen of Hearts" - who died there Feb. 13, 1662. Frederick, prince of Wales, resided there in 1737. Hare , Lon don, II. 124. Leichhardt (lich härt), Fried rich Wilhelm Ludwig. Born at Trebatsch, near Beskow, Pru ia, Oct. 23, 1813: disappeared in Australia, 1848. A German explorer in Australia. He traversed Queensland and Arnhem Land 1844-45, and attempted to traverse the continent in 1848. He was last heard from April 3, 1848, being then on the river Cogoon. He published a "Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia, from More ton Bay to Port E ington, during the Years 1844-45" (1847). Leichlingen (lich'ling-en). A town in the Rhine Province, Pru ia, situated on the Wupper 12 miles north by east of Cologne. Population, about 5,000. Leidy (li'di), Joseph. Born at Philadelphia, Sept. 9, 1823: died there, April 30, 1891. An American naturalist, profe or of anatomy (1853) and director of the department of biol ogy (1884) at the University of Pennsylvania. He was also president of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences (1882), and held other offices. Among his works are "Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy (1860: rewritten 1889), "Cretaceous Reptiles of the United States" (1865), "Extinct Mammalian Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska, etc." (1870), "Extinct Vertebrate Fauna of the Western Territories" (Vol. I, 1874), "Description of Vertebrate Remains from the Phosphate Beds of South Carolina" (1877), "Tape-Worm in Birds" (1887), etc. Leigh (le). A manufacturing town in Lancashire, England, 20 miles east-northeast of Liverpool. Population (1891), 28,702. Leigh, Edward. Born at Shawell, Leicestershire, March 24, 1602: died at Rush all Hall, Staff ords hire, June 2, 1671. An English Puritan theologian. He wrote "Critic a Sacra, or Philologic all and Theologic all Observations upon all the Greek Words of the New Testament, etc." (1639), "Critic a Sacra: Observations on all the Radices or Primitive Hebrew Words of the Old Testament, etc." (1642), etc. Leigh, Egerton. Born in Cheshire, 1815: died at London, July 1, 1876. An English soldier (lieutenant-colonel of militia) and antiquarian: author of "A Glo ary of Words used in the Dialect of Cheshire" (1877). Leigh, Sir Amyas. The principal character in Kingsley's novel "Westward Ho!" Leighton (la'ton), Alexander. Born in Scotland, 1568: died 1649. A Scottish physician and divine. He was a fierce opponent of Romanism, and was fined, mutilated, and imprisoned (1630-40) for his attack upon the episcopacy and the queen, and released and recompensed with a gift of £6,000 by the Long Parliament. He wrote "Speculum Belli Sacri, or the Looking Gla of War" (1624), and "An Appeal to the Parliament, or Sion's Plea against the Prelacie" (1628). Leighton, Alexander. Born at Dundee in 1800: died Dec. 24,1874, A Scottish writer and editor: writer, in part, of the "Tales of the Borders." Leighton, Frederick, Lord. Born Dec. died Jan. 25, 1896. A noted English historical and portrait painter. When 11 years old he studied drawing in Rome under Francesco Meli. He studied at the Berlin Academy, the Florence Academy, at Frankfort, Bru els, at the Louvre life school at Paris, and finally for three years at Rome. He exhibited at the Royal Academy "The Proce ion of Cimabue's Madonna" (1855): it is at Bucking ham Palace. He then returned to Paris to study under Ary Scheffer, and sent pictures nearly every year the Royal Academy. He was elected royal academician in