DE MORGAN, WILLIAM FREND

(1839-1917), Eng. novelist. Pub. his first novel, Joseph Vance, 1906, when sixty-six—a long and leisurely book reminiscent of Dickens and containing in the elder Vance one of the most humorous figures in Eng. literature. Other novels: Alice-for-Short, 1907; Never can HapWhen Ghost meets Gk. statesman and orator. Early left an orphan, D. had a small fortune from his j., but his guardians made away with most of it. He studied law, and devoted all his energies to becoming a good public speaker, at first being very b: and meeting with derision. He entered political life in 355, and henceforward devoted himself to his life’s work of trying to revive the best spirit and traditions of Gk. life. D. believed that Athens was the rightful leader of Greece, and it was her mi ion to play this part not merely in her own interest, but in that of Greece as a whole. Philip, king of Macedon, in opposition to whom D. tried to stir up his fellow-citizens, was for him a type of what was not Gk, but barbarian. D. delivered his Firsé Philippic and the three Olynthiae Orations, while Philip was still a foreign foe outside Greece, his Second and Third Philippic when Philip was a power in Greece itself. This last speech has been spoken of as D.’s ‘crowning effort.’ From 338 to 322 D. worked loyally for Athens in her internal affairs. His speech On the Crown is the greatest of this period. In the political troubles after the death of Alexander the Great, D. was condemned to death. He fled to Aigina and then to Calauria, and committed suicide by taking poison. town, Rumelia; important in Middle Ages as chief market of Thrace; linen, poverty, silk, and grain exported, Pop., Scot. hist or lan and scholar; prof. of Cla ics at Bologna; author of Hist or i a