Calves' Head Club

A club said to have been instituted in a tract reprinted in the "Harleian instituted in ridicule of the memory of Charles Head Club," etc., undertaking to show how this club met for some years, 1693-97, on the anniversary of the king's death. An ax was reverenced, and a dish of calves' heads represented the king and his friends. It seems to have met in secret after the Restoration and till 1734, when some ill will was excited against it, and riots were said to have ensued. Miscellany," called "The Secret History of the Calves' Calvi (käl'vē). A fortified port on the western coast of Corsica, in lat. 42°35′ N., long. 8° 46′ E. It was taken by the English in 1794. Calvin (kal'vin), John, originally, in French, Jean Chauvin, or Cauvin, or Caulvin. [L. Johannes Calvin us, G. Johann Calvin, It. Gio vanni Calvino ; L. Calvin us , from calvus , bald.] Born at Noyon, Picardy, France, July 10, 1509; died at Geneva, May 27, 1564. A celebrated Protestant reformer and theologian. He studied at Paris, Orléans, and Bourges; embraced the Reformation about 1528; was banished from Paris in 1533; published his in 1536; and was banished in 1538, and returned in 1541. He had a controversy with Bolsec in 1551, and with Servetus in 1553 (see Servetus ), and founded the Academy of "Institutes" (which see) at Basel in 1536; fled to Geneva IMG:content-0248.png:[blocks in formation] Calvo, Carlos. Born Feb. 26, 1824: died May 4, 1893. An Argentine historian. He resided lished. These include important treatises on international law, the "Coleccion de tratados de la America Latina," also published in French and continued in a second series as "Anales hist or i cos de la revolucion en la America Latina." Calvo, Mariano Enrique. Born at Sucre about 1795: died at Cochabamba, 1842. A Bolivian politician. He was vice-president of the confederation of Peru and Bolivia, 1836-39. In 1840 he attempted a revolť against President Velasco, and was imprisoned. Calvus (kal'vus), Caius Licinius Macer. Roman poet and forensic orator. Calvé (käl-vā'), Madame (Emma de Roquer). Calydon (kal'i-don). [Gr. Καλυδών .] In ancient Born at Decazeville, Aveyron, France, in 1866. A a city of Ætolia, Greece, situated distinguished soprano opera-singer, of French near near the river Evenus in lat. 38° 24' N., long. and Spanish parentage. She studied in Paris under 21° 34′ E. It is the legendary scene of the hunt of the Marchesi and others, and made her début in opera at the Calydonian boar (which see). Gounod's "Faust." She played in Paris in 1884; made a Théatre de la Monnaie, Bru els, in 1882, as Marguerite in Calydon. A great forest celebrated in the Ar- tour in Italy; returned to Paris; made a European tour thurian romances. It was supposed to be in (Ru ia, Italy, Belgium, England, Spain); and came to the north of England. America in 1893-94, 1895-96, 1896-97. Among her popular Calydonian Hunt. In Greek legend, the chase brutally cruel to his wife and children, in "The Yorkshire Tragedy," once attributed to Shak- spere. The story is that of a real person of in England in 1839. that name. Calverley, Charles Stuart. Born at Martley, Worcesters hire, Dec. 22, 1831: died at London, Feb. 17, 1884. An English barrister and poet. In 1852 he resumed his family name, Calverley, which his grandfather had changed to Blayds in 1807. He wrote IMG:content-0249.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0250.png:[blocks in formation]