LOOS

a town in northern Franc which is notable for being the scene ¢ one of the most fiercely fought battle of the World War. Although many othe engagements took placé'there, the batt! of Loos as it is generally known beg a September 25, 1915. It was fough {between the British and the Germa armies and was the greatest engagemer |in which the British had taken part u and|to that time. The fighting continuec with brief intervals, for three weeks an |12 British divisions were used. Whil the British gained in the battle ove 7,000 yards of front and captured 3,00 prisoners, they lost 50,000 men an | 2,000 officers. The result of the greg battle was on the whole indecisive See WorLD War. 1562-1625), a Spanish poet and dram: | ¥S% 6. in Madrid. He took part i the expedition to the Azores in 1582, an also served in the Invincible Armada i 1588. He was secretary to the Duke c A * | 12 y: Was in high estimation in his own day, an | nis influence in Spain was as great; that of Voltaire in France. He was voluminous writer, and epics, pastoral odes, sonnets, and novels all fell from h | pen, but it is, however, to his dram at works that he owes his eminent pla | in literary history, and of these he wrot | altogether over 2000. Some of his be: known are: Los Ramilletes de Madri La Boba para los Otros y Discreta par Flores de Don Juan; Desprecio agrad de Talamca. Among his other works ai the Angelica, an epic poem, written i | imitation of the Orlando Furioso; tk | Arcadia, a pastoral romance; Dragonte a poem concerned with the history an death of Drake; Isidro, a sacred poe! which deals with the life of Isidor patron saint of Madrid; Peregrino « su Patria, ® romance; Jerusalem Cor guistada, an epic in competition wit ‘pastoral; La Filomena, La Circe, written polo, and La Dorotea, a prose drama