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of Elizabeth an Lit., p. 37. Lyme-Regis (līm'rējis). A seaport and bathing-place in Dorset, England, situated on the English Channel 26 miles east of Exeter. The Duke of Mon mouth landed here in his rising of 1685. Population (1891), 2,365. Lymfjord. See Limfjord . Lymington (lim'ing-ton). A seaport and watering-place in Hampshire, England, situated at the junction of the Lym with the Solent, 13 miles southwest of Southampton: noted for yacht-building. Population (1891), 4,551. Lynch (linch), Charles. Born 1736: died 1796. A Virginia planter and colonel. He is said to have set himself, in conjunction with two neighbors, to secure good order by punishing offenders with stripes or banishment without proce of law. This is said to be the origin of the expre ion "lynch law." Lynch, Patricio. Born at Santiago, Chile, 1824: died at sea, May, 1886. A Chile an naval officer, of Irish descent. After entering the navy, 1838, he was permitted to take service with the British marine 1840-47. In 1865 he fought against the Spaniards. In 1880 he ravaged the northern coast regions of Peru; subsequently commanded a division in the attack on Lima; and was military governor of that city for the Chileans, May 4, 1881, to Oct. 22, 1883. He deposed and imprisoned President Calderon, Nov., 1881, and in 1883 invested Iglesias with supreme power. He carried away a vast amount of plunder. From 1884 to 1886 he was minister to Spain. Lynch, Thomas. Born in Prince George parish, S. C., Aug. 5, 1749: lost at sea, 1779. An American politician, a signer of the Declaration of Independence as delegate to Congre from South Carolina in 1776. Lynch, William F. Born in Virginia, 1801: died at Baltimore, Oct. 17, 1865. An American naval officer. He commanded an exploring expedition to the Jordan and Dead Sea in 1848, and published a narrative of the expedition (1849). Later he was in the Confederate service. Lynchburg (linch'berg). A city in Campbell County, Virginia, situated on the James River 91 miles west by south of Richmond. The chief shire, England, near Barn staple: noted for its picturesque situation. Lynn (lin). A city in E ex County, Ma achusetts, situated on Lynn harbor 10 miles north east of Boston. It is noted for its extensive manufacin 1629, became a city in 1850, and was devastated by fire in 1889. Population (1900), 68,513. Lynn, Ethel. The pseudonym of Mrs. Beers (Ethe linda Eliot). ture of shoes, and for leather manufacture. It was settled Lynn Regis (lin re'jis), or King's Lynn. A seaport in Norfolk, England, situated on the Great Ouse, near the Wash, in lat. 52° 45′ Ν., long. 0°24′ E. It has important commerce. It was a famous port in old times, and was visited by various monarchs. Population (1891), 18,265. Lynton (lin ton). A village of Devons hire, England, near Barn staple: noted for its pic turesque situation. Lynx (lingks), The. A small northern constellation, introduced by Hevelius in 1690, the name being chosen because the sharp-sighted ne of a lynx is required to distinguish any of its stars. It is placed between the Great Bear and Auriga, north of the Twins. Its ten brightest stars are of the fifth magni tude. Lyó-Baa. See Mitla . Lyon (li'on), Mary. Born at Buck land, Ma ., Feb. 28, 1797: died at South Hadley, Ma ., March 5, 1849. An American teacher, founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley), of which she was principal 1837-49. Lyon, Matthew. Born in Wicklow County, Ireland, 1746: died at Spadra Bluff, Ark., Aug. 1, 1822. An American politician, member of Congre from Vermont 1797-1801, and from Kentucky 1803-11. Lyon, Nathaniel. Born at Ashford, Conn., July 14, 1818: killed at Wilson's Creek, Mo., Aug. 10, 1861. An American general. He served in the Mexican war, and at the beginning of the Civil War rendered efficient service to the Union cause as commander of the United States arsenal at St. Louis. He captured a force of Sece ionists at Camp Jackson, Mi ouri, in May, 1861; was appointed commander of the Department of Mi ouri in June, 1861; defeated the Sece ionists at Booneville, June 17, 1861; and was defeated and killed at Wilson's Creek, Mi ouri, Aug. 10, 1861. Lyone e (li-o-nes'), or Leonnoys. A mythical region near Cornwall, in the Arthur i an cycle of romance. It was the land from which Arthur came, and of which Meliadus was king. Tristram, the son of the latter, was also born there. It is said to be more than 40 fathoms under water between the Land's End and the isles of Scilly, the sea having gradually encroached upon the land. Lyonnais (lē-ō-nā'). An ancient government of France. It was bounded by Burgundy on the north, the Saône and Rhone on the east, Langue doc on the south, and Auvergne and Bourbonnais on the west. It comprised Lyonnais proper, Forez, and Beaujolais, and formed e entially the departments of Rhône and Loire. Lyonnais proper was a medieval county. It was united to France by Philip the Fair in 1307. Lyons (li'onz), F. Lyon (le-ôn'). The capital of the department of Rhône, France, situated at the junction of the Saône with the Rhone, in lat. 45° 46′ N., long. 4° 49′ E.: the ancient Lugdunum. It is the third city in France, a fortre , and a great railway, commercial, and manufacturing center. It has the largest silk manufactures in the world. The cathedral, chiefly of the 12th and 13th centuries, has an exceedingly impre ive interior. There are double aisles, and fine roses in both transepts and in the west front. The medieval gla is magnificent, and the tracery illustrates the entire development of medieval architecture. The exterior is much masked by abutting buildings, but is admirable where visible. The churches of Notre Dame de Fourvières (modern), of Ainay (chiefly Romanesque), and of St.-Nizier, the hôtel de ville, the palais des arts (containing picture-galleries, sculpture, antiquities, natural-history collections, marbles), the bourse, and the Académie Univ ers it a ire (with 5 faculties) are noteworthy. Lyons was founded by Greeks in 560 B. C.; was developed especially by the Roman consul Plancus 41 B. C.; was the capital of Lugdunensis; was made by Claudius a Roman colony; was the capital of the first Burgundian kingdom, and afterward pa ed to the Franks; was plundered by the Saracens in the 8th century; came under the power of the Archbishop of Lyons; and was united to France at the beginning of (1245 and 1274). Its silk industry suffered from the revothe 11th century. Two important councils were held there cation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Revolting against the Convention, it was besieged in 1793 and partly destroyed by Collot d'Herbois. Since then it has been the scene of several insurrections, especially in 1834. A great inundation visited it in 1856. It was the birthplace of Claudius, Car a call a, Suchet, and Ampère. Population (1901), 453,145. Hampshire, Nov. 29, 1790: died at Arundel Castle, Nov. 24, 1858. A British admiral and diplomatist. He was minister at the court of Athens 1835-49, to the Swi Confederation 1849-51, and then to Sweden. In 1853 he was appointed (then a rear-admiral) second in command in the Mediterranean. He played an important part in the Crime an war, becoming naval commander-in chief in Jan., 1855. He was created Baron Lyons in 1856. Lyons, Gulf of. See Lion , Golfe du . Lyons, Richard Bicker ton Pemell, first Earl Lyons. Born at Lymington, England, April 26, 1817: died at London, Dec. 5, 1887. An English diplomatist, son of the first Baron Lyons. He was minister to the United States 1858-65, and ambas sad or to Turkey 1865-67, and to France 1867-87. He succeeded his father as the second Baron Lyons in 1858, and was created Viscount Lyons in 1881 and Earl Lyons in 1887. Lyra (līʻrä). [L., ‘the lyre.'] An ancient northern constellation, representing the lyre of Hermes or of Orpheus. Also called The Harp. The brightest star of this constellation is Vega (a Lyræ). It is the seventh in order of brightne in the heavens, and the third brightest in the northern hemisphere, being half a magnitude brighter than a standard star of the first magnitude. It forms, with two small stars near it, an equilateral triangle, one of the most striking configurations of the summer sky. Vega, Arcturus, and Polar is form a large triangle, nearly right-angled at Vega. Lyrical Ballads. A collection of poems by Words worth and Cole ridge, including the latter's "Ancient Mariner," published in 1798. Lys (lēs), or Leye (li'e). A river in northeastern France and western Belgium, which joins the Schelde at Ghent. Length, 127 miles; navigable 98 miles. Lysander (li-san'der). [Gr. Λύσανδρος .] Killed near Haliartus, Bœotia, Greece, 395 в. с. А Spartan commander. He gained the victory of No tium in 407, and that of Ægo spot am i in 405, and took Athens and destroyed its walls in 404. Lysander. In Shakspere's "Midsummer Night's Dream," a young A then i an in love with Hermia. Lys dans la Vallée, Le. A novel by Balzac, written in 1835-36. Lysefjord (lü'se-fyôrd). A fiord on the southwestern coast of Norway, near Stavanger. It is inclosed by high mountains, and the scenery is of remarkable grandeur. Length, 23 miles. Lysias (lis'i-as). [Gr. Λυσίας .] Died about 380 в. с. One of the ten Attic orators. He lived at Thurii until about 412, and later at Athens, and lived in exile under the rule of the Thirty Tyrants, 404. See the extract. Lysias did a great work for Attic prose, and is, in his own style, one of its most perfect writers. He broke away from the stiff monotony of the old school, and dared to be natural and simple, using the language of daily life, but with perfect purity and grace. His father was a Syracusan, and Lysias, though born at Athens, had not the rights of a citizen. After pa ing his youth and early manhood at Thurii in south Italy, he settled at Athens, a wealthy man,, in 412 B. C. In 404 he fled from the Thirty Tyrants, who had put his brother Polemarch us to death; and, after the restoration of the Democracy, impeached Eratosthenes, one of the Thirty, in the most splendid of his extant speeches (403 B. c.), the only one which we know that he himself spoke at Athens. But in 388 B. c. he addre ed the a embled Greeks at Olympia, in a fine speech of which we have a fragment, urging them to unite against the two great foes of Greece - Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in the west, and Persia in the east. The speech "Against Agoratus" (399 B. C.?) was written for the impeachment of an informer who had slandered away the lives of citizens under the Thirty Tyrants. The great majority of our 34 speeches were composed by Lysias for his clients to speak in public or private causes. Jebb , Greek Lit., p. 118. Lysicrates (lī-sik'ra-tēz), Choragic Monument of. The finest surviving example of this cla of Greek monuments. It consists, above a cubical base, of a cylindrical structure 9 feet in diameter with 6 engaged Corinthian columns. The roof is cut from a single block of marble, and is crowned by a rich anthemion acroterium. The graceful reliefs of the frieze represent the chastisement of the Tyrrhenian pirates by Bacchus. Lysimachus (li-sim'a-kus). [Gr. Λυσίμαχος .] Born at Pella (?), in Macedonia (of The alian parentage), about 361 в. с.: killed at the battle on the plain of Corus, Asia Minor, 281 в. с. A general of Alexander the Great. After the latter's death, he received the kingdom of Thrace. He joined the league against An tigon us in 315; a umed the title of king in 306; was one of the victors at Ipsus in 301; received a large part of Asia Minor; obtained Macedonia 287-286; and was finally defeated by Seleucus Nicator. Lysippus (li-sip'us). [Gr. Λύσιππος .] Flourished about 372-316 в. с. А Greek sculptor, a native of Sicyon. According to Pliny he revised the canon of Poly clit us, making the head smaller, the legs longer, and adjusting details to a greater elongation. This new canon has been preserved in the A poxy omen us of the Vatican, which was discovered in 1849, and is a very perfect copy of the great bronze original placed by Agrippa before his IMG:content-0722.png:[ocr errors] ال 2 Lysippus baths in Rome. Lysippus also developed and fixed the extreme athletic type in Hercules, whom he repeatedly represented. A small table figure of Hercules in bronze was made for Alexander, and carried about with him in his campaigns. It was afterward owned by Hannibal and Sulla. The Torso Belvedere is supposed to have been copied from this figure by A poll on i us of Athens. Through Chares of Lindus his characteristics were transmitted to the great Rhodian school which produced the Laocoon. Lysippus was the favorite sculptor of Alexander the Great, and author of most of his portraits in sculpture. Lysis (lī'sis). A dialogue of Plato: the narration by So crates of a conversation on friendship which took place in a palæstr a outside the walls of Athens, between himself, the boyish friends Lysis and Menexenus, Hip pot hales, and Ctesippus. ■ Lysis trat a (li-sis'tra-tä). A comedy of Aristo phanes, exhibited in 411 в. с. Lyskamm (lēs'käm). A peak of the Valais Alps, immediately west of Monte Rosa. Height, 14,890 feet. Lysterfjord (lüs'ter-fyôrd). A northeastern arm of the Sogne Fjord, on the western coast of Norway. Length, 25 miles. Lystra (lis'trä). [Gr. Λύστρα.] In ancient geography, a city in Lycaonia, Asia Minor: position undetermined. Lyte (lit), Henry Francis. Born at Kelso, Scotland, Scotla June 1, 1793: died at Nice, France, Νοv. 20, 1847. A British hymn-writer, author of "Abide with me," etc. Lyttelton (lit'el-ton), George, first Baron Lyttelton. Born at Hagley, Worcesters hire, England, Jan. 17, 1709: died there, Aug. 22, 1773. An English author and politician. He was chancellor of the exchequer 1755-56. His chief works are "Observations on the Conversion and Apostleship of St. Paul" (1747), "Dialogues of the Dead" (1760), "History of Henry II." (1767-71), and poems. Lytton (lit'on), Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, first Baron Lytton. Born at London, May 25, 1803: died at Torquay, Jan. 18, 1873. A noted English novelist, poet, dramatist, politician, and orator. He graduated at Cambridge (B. A. 1826); was a member of Parliament 1831-41 and 1852-66; was colonial secretary 1858-59; and was raised to the peerage in 1866. He wrote "Falkland" (1827), "Pelham, or the Adventures of a Gentleman" (1828), "The Disowned" (1829), "Devereux" (1829), "Paul Clifford" (1830), "Eugene Aram" (1832), "Go dolphin" (1833), "England and the English" (1833), "Pilgrims of the Rhine" (1834), "Last Days of Pompeii" (1834), "Rienzi" (1835), "The Student" and "The Crisis" (1835), "Ernest Malt ravers" (1837), "Alice, or the Mysteries" (1838), "Athens, its Rise and Fall" (1837), "Leila" (1838), "Night and Morning" (1841), "Zanoni" (1842), "Last of the Barons" (1843), "Lucretia, or the Children of the Lytton Night" (1846), "Harold" (1848), "The Caxtons" (1850), "My Novel, or Varieties of English Life" (1853), "What will He do with It?" (1858), "A Strange Story "(1861), "Caxtoniana" (1863), "Kenelm Chillingly" (1873), "The Parisians "(1873), "The Coming Race" (1871), "Pausanias," an unfinished romance, edited by his son (1876). Among his poems are "Poems and Ballads of Schiller" (translation, 1844), "The New Timon"(1847), "King Arthur" (1849), "St. Stephens" (1860), "Lost Tales of Miletus" (1866), translation of Horace's "Odes" (1869). Among his dramas are "The Lady of Lyons" (1838), "Richelieu" (1839), "Cromwell" (1842), "Money" (1840), "Not so Bad as we Seem" (1852), "The Rightful Heir" (1869). Lytton, Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer, first Earl of Lytton: pseudonym Owen Meredith. Born at London, Nov. 8, 1831: died at Paris, Nov. 24, 1891. An English diplomatist, politician, and poet: son of the first Baron Lytton. He succeeded his father as the second Baron Lytton in 1873, and was created earl of Lytton in 1880. He was minister to Portugal 1874-76; governor-general of India 18781880; amba ador to France 1887-91. He wrote "Clytemnestra" (1855), "The Wanderer" (1859), "Lucile" (1860), "Serbski Pesme: National Songs of Servia" (1861), "The Ring of Amasis" (1863), "Chronicles and Characters" and "Poems” (1867), "Orval” (1869), "Julian Fane" (1871), "Fables in Song" (1874), "Poems" (1877), "The Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton," Vols. I and II (1883), "Glenaveril, or the Metamorphoses" (1885), "After Paradise" (1887), etc. "King Poppy" was published posthumously in 1892. cccccccccccccccc aartens, Maarten. The nom de plume of J. M. H. van der Poorten-Schwarz, a modern novelist. The Century Cyclopedia of Names