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Emba (em'bä). A river in Uralsk, Asiatic Ru ia, which flows into the Caspian Sea from the northeast. kä-syon'). [F., ' of education.'] A treatise on education, in the form of a romance, by Jean Jacques Rou eau, published in 1762: named from its chief character. Emilia (ā-mēl'e-ä), L. Emilia (e-mil'i-ä). [The Roman province Æmilia was named from the censor Emilius Lepidus, builder of the Via Æmilia.] A division of northern Italy forming a compart i men to, lying south of the Po and north of Tuscany. It comprises the provinces of Bologna, Ferrara, Forli, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Ravenna, and Reggio nell' Emilia. Area, 7,967 square miles. Pop ulation (1891), 2,260,848. Emilia (e-mil'i-ä). [L. Æmilia , fem. of Æmi lius .] 1. A character in Chaucer's "Knight's Tale," Dryden's "Palamon and Arcite," Beaumont and Fletcher's "Two Noble Kinsmen," and other versions of the same story. She is a very beautiful woman, loved by both Palamon and Arcite, and won by the former. The name is variously spelled Emelie , Emelye , Emily , etc. 2. In Shakspere's tragedy "Othello," the wife of Iago. She reveals his perfidy, and he kills her.-3. An attendant on Hermione in Shakspere's "Winter's Tale."-4. The woman loved by Peregrine Pickle, in Smollett's "Adventures of Peregrine Pickle." Emilia Galotti (a-mē'lē-ä gä-lot'tē). A tragedy by Le ing, produced in Germany in 1772, and produced on the English stage by Thompson in 1794. IMG:content-0395.png:[blocks in formation] Éminence Grise (a-me-nons' grēz), L'. [F., The Gray Cardinal.'] A painting by Gérôme, now in the Stebbins collection, New York. It represents the noted confe or of Cardinal de Richelieu descending a palace staircase, feignedly oblivious of the cringing before him and the gestures of hatred behind him of a body of brilliant courtiers. Emin Pasha (a'mēn pash'a) or Bey (bā) (Eduard Schnitzer). Born at Oppeln, Germany, March 28, 1840: killed near Nyangwe by the Arabs in 1892. A noted African explorer. Born of Jewish parents, he became a Protestant in 1846, and profe ed Islamism when he entered the service of Mohammedan governments. After studies in medicine and ornithology he in 1865, to Turkey, where he ac companied a high official in his journeys until 1873. In 1875 he made a short visit to Germany. In 1876 he joined Gordon Pasha, then governor of the Sudan, explored the Nile up to Lake Albert, and visited Mtesa in 1878 he was was made bey and governor of the Equatorial