KING’S COUNSEL

in England and Ireland a_ barrister app. by letters patent. K. O’s do not accept pleading or conveyancing, but in court they are the leaders. Colonial K. C’s are app. by Brit. Lord Chancellor. face generally level, with Bog of Allen in center, Slieve Bloom Mis. in S.; drained cro ed by Grand Canal; cereals, dairy farming, live stock. Area, 770 sq. m.; pop. 56,700. gh G’S EVIL, old term applied to scrofula, a condition usually of childhood manifested by enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, especially of the neck, with a tendency to chronic inflammation elsewhere, so named because of a popular belief that it could be cured by the royal touch. The sovereigns of France and of England were alone believed to have this power, James II. being the last English king to touch, but the practice was continued by his descendants, James, the Old Pretender, and his sons Charles (the Young Pretender) and Henry, also by Queen e. Eng. clergyman and novelist: 6. Dartmoor, Devon; ed. Cambridge; became Andromeda and other Poems, 1858; which in eluded some excellent songs and bal- }1 ads. His first novels, Alion Locke and Yeast, show K.’s ‘Christian Socialism,’ His romances and novels, Hypatia, Wesiward Ho!, Two Years Ago, At Last, and the inimitable Waiter Babies, are famous.