BARLEY-BREAK

old Eng. count game, played by three persons of eac sex in couples, placed in three positions close to one another, the middle couple trying to catch the others, who, when ear get were put in the middle position, or hell. (1834-1896), American lawyer and soldier; born Brooklyn, N.Y. He graduated at Harvard in 1855 and began the practice of law in New York. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the Twelfth N.Y. National Guard and in three months became lieutenant colonel of the Sixty-first N.Y. Volunteers. He showed conspicuous skill and bravery at Antietam, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and was promoted to the rank of brigadier general and brevet major general. He was Secretary of State for New York (1866-68) and in 1872-73 was Attorney General of the State. He was an active factor in running down the Tweed ring. authore ; born Clontarf, near Dublin. She was the daughter of a profe or of Trinity College, received a thorough education and early evinced the po e ion of rare literary ability. In both verse and prose she portrayed with gentle humor and remarkable insight the joys and sorrows of simple Irish village life. Her first marked succe was her Irish Idylls published in 1892. Among her other works are included: Bogland Studies (1892); Kerrigan’s Qualtty (1893); The Battle of the Frogs and Mice (1894); Ghost Bereft and Other Stories (1902); From Beach and Bogland (1905); and Flaws, a Novel (1911). Dublin University conferred on her the degree of Doctor of Letters. ican diplomat and man of letters, born at Redding, Conn. He received_his education at Dart mouth and Yale, served two years as chaplain in the army and in 1786 was admitted to the bar. His tastes led him to literature however, and he wrote extensively on political and literary subjects. He had great poetical aspirations, but his poems, though greatly lauded at the time, never rose above mediocrity. His most pretentious works were The Columbiad and Hasty Pudding. He traveled abroad in the fnterests of a land scheme in 1788 and remained there for several years during which time his political opinions were greatly liberalized. In 1793 he realized 2 considerable fortune in commerce, and in 1795 became consul at Algiers, where he rendered valuable services to American prisoners. In 1805 he returned to America and remained there, chiefly engaged in literary pursuits, until 1811, when he accepted a mi ion to Napoleon. He met the latter near Vilna, during the disastrous retreat from Moscow, and died of exposure in a Polish village.