GRIMM’S

Law was called after its discoverer, Takob Grimm. It formulates the principles of interchange between mute consonants in Aryan languages. The exceptions to it, which are important, were explained by Verner’s Law. or sandstone grit, but are now made artificially too. The best stones come trom Newcastle. Edward III. in 1351, and were revived again as the fourpenny-piece Dy William IV. in 1835, but none have been struck since 1856. and studied at Oxford and Paris. He was appointed Bishop of Lincoln, and made himself famous by refusing to give English benefices to foreigners, even when relations of the Pope. ence has always been given in it to aesthetic schools c.g. Burne Jones, Ro etti, etc.; died in 1871. He began to collect materials for.his great History of Greece in 1823, and published the first two volumes in 1846, and the remaining ten were out before 1857. It is a wonderful monument of scholarly research. which dates from the end of the 12th century. centuries, The bitter feud between them and the Ghi bel lines (q.v.) lasted for 300 years. Among his most famous pictures are his “ Aurora,’ “ Magdalene,” “ Michael Vanquishing Satan,” etc. century, but did not become important till the 13th, when their political influence was becoming so great that the Emperor Frederick II. nominally abolished them. The decree, howevqr, like many subsequent ones, was ineffectual. The oldest of the London G. are those-of the Weavers (1164 A.D.), Saddlers (1280 A.D.), Fishmongers (1284 A.D.), etc., and they were all required to have a charter from the Crown. G. were abolished in France at the time of the Revolution of 1789, and were made absolutely legal in Britain in 1835. A.D., but was burned to the ground in the great fire of 1666, and had to be rebuilt. The hall, in which the City Fathers have their sumptuous feasts at the expense of the ratepayers, is 153 ft. long, 48 wide, and 55 high.