GILBERT OF SEMPRINGHAM, ST

(4. 1189), Eng. ecclesiastic; founder of the Gilbertine Order of canons regular and nuns. ' @ib‘ath GILBOA habbatal, (cor. hill probably of Baal), a of chain Heb. of hilis in Palestine between the plains of Esdraelon and the valley of the Jordan, now called Jebel Fukua. Famous for being the scene of the death of King Saul and his three sons after the Philis_ tines had defeated them. Eng. historian; wrote De excidio Britanniae liber querulus, history of Britain from Rom. invasion to VI cent. (1849-1916), an American editor and litéfary critic; 6. in Flushing, N. VY She began her journalistic career at the age of twenty, shortly after becoming a member of the editorial staff of Scribner’s Monthly, which later became the present Century Magazine. For some years she was also on the staff of the New York Herald as literary, dramatic and musical critic, In 1881 she and her brother, J. B. Gilder, founded the magazine The Critic, which soon took rank as one of the forePes ot ope hatte eae 2a most periodicals of its kind. She was obvography of a Tombog, » Ani The Tombog af Work, 1904. journalist; 6. in Flushing, N. Y. as & student at the United States Naval Academy from 1872-1874, From 18741877 was a reporter in New Jersey. Wrote New York letters to Boston Advertiser, Buifalo Courier. From 1877-1880 was reporter and a istant city editor of New York Herald. In 1881, with his sister, started 'The Critic, which later became Putnam’s Magazine. Co-editor for 28 years. From 18931901 president of The Critic Company. Treasurer of the American Copyright League, 1886. First secretary of the Universal Settlement Company. Writes poetry and prose for magazines. From 1895-1902 was literary adviser to The Century Company. in London, 19021914, was United States Government dispatch agent. Editor, 1910-1911, of New York Times Review of Books; editor of J. R. Lowell’s Impre ions 0: gyal Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of ealth. (1844-1909), an American editor and poet; 6. in Bordentown, N.J. He served as a private in the Federal Army during the Civil War, after which he took up newspaper work, becoming editor of the Newark, N.J. Advertiser. Later he became editor of ‘Hours at Home,’. and when that publication was merged with Scribners’ Monthly, in 1870, he remained on the staff. After this | latter G publication became the present entury Magazine, he continued as editor for some years. He wrote, Five Books of Song, 1894; In Palestine, and Other Poems, 1898, and Poems a