Sir Walter Scott, published in 1815

Guyon (gi'on; F.pron.ge-ôn'), Madame (Jeanne Marie Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon). Born at Montargis, Loiret, April 13, 1648: died at Blois, June 9, 1717. A French mystic, one of the founders of quietism. She married Jacques de la Motte-Guyon at 16 years of age. In 1695 she was imprisoned for her religious opinions, and later was banished to Blois. She wrote "Moyen court et très facile pour l'or a is on" (1688-90), "Les torrents spirituels" (1704), "Poésies spirituel les" (1689), autobiography (1720), translation of the Bible (1713-15), etc. Guyon (gion), Sir. The personification of temperance in Spenser's "Faerie Queene," bk. ii. con in 1863. The latter was deposed by a revolution in 1868. Guzman Blanco headed a succe ful counter-revolution in 1870, and (Falcon having died) became president. By succe ive reëlections he retained the office until 1882, and his influence was strong under subsequent administrations until 1888. Guzman de Alfarache. A romance by Mateo Aleman, named from its hero. It is "nearly of the same age as 'Don Quixote,' and of great genius, though it can hardly be ranked as a novel or a work of imagination. It is a series of strange, unconnected adventures, rather drily told, but accompanied by the most severe and sarcastic commentary. The satire, the wit, the eloquence and reasoning, are of the most potent kind: but they are didactic rather than dramatic. They would suit a homily or a pasquinade as well [as] or better than a romance. Still there are in this extraordinary book occasional sketches of character and humorous descriptions to which it would be difficult to produce anything superior." Hazlitt . As it has reached us, it is divided into two parts, the first of which was published at Madrid in 1599. Its hero, who supposed himself to be the son of a decayed and not very reputable Genoese merchant established at Seville, escapes, as a boy, from his mother, after his father's ruin and death, and plunges into the world upon adventure. He soon finds himself at Madrid, though not till he has pa ed through the hands of justice; and in that capital undergoes all sorts of suffering, serving as a scullion to a cook, and as a ragged errand-boy to whomsoever would employ him; until, seizing a good opportunity, he steals a large sum of money that had been intrusted to him, and escapes to Toledo, where he sets up for a gentleman. But there he becomes, in his turn, the victim of a cunning like his own; and, finding his money nearly gone, enlists for the Italian wars. His star is now on the wane. At Bar celona he again turns sharper and thief. At Genoa and Rome he sinks to the lowest condition of a street beggar. But a cardinal picks him up in the last city and makes him his page: a place in which, but for his bold frauds and tricks, he might long have thriven, and which at last he leaves in great distre , from lo es at play, and enters the service of the French amba ador. Here the First Part IMG:content-0564.png:[blocks in formation] Gwalior (gwä'lē-ôr). 1. A protected state of India, of irregular outline, lying between the Northwest Provinces on the northeast and the states of Rajputana on the west. It is ruled by the Sindhia dynasty: their forces were defeated in 1803 and 1843. Area, 29,000 square miles. Population (1891), 3,366,496. 2. The capital of the state of Gwalior, situated in lat. 26° 13' N., long. 78° 10′ E. It is the seat of Jain and early Hindu antiquities, and is noted for its fortre . Population (1891), 104,083. Gwamba (gwäm'bä). A Bantu tribe occupying the vast tract between Zululand and the Sabi River, mostly in Portuguese East Africa, but also represented in Transvaal. Scattered tribes are found as far north as Lake Nya a, where they are called Batonga, which is the nickname given them by the Zulus. They call themselves Magwamba, and their language Shi