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95. Glastonbury Thorn. See Glastonbury. Glatigny (glä-tēn-yē'), Albert. Born in 1839: died in 1873. A French poet of the type of Villon. He lived as a strolling actor. Among his poems is the "Ballade des enfans sans souci." Glatz (gläts), Bohem. Kladsko (kläd'skō). A town in the province of Silesia, Pru ia, on the Nei e 50 miles south-southwest of Breslau. It is strongly fortified, and has been frequently besieged and taken. Population (1890), 11,643. Glatz, County of. A former county adjoining Bohemia, now included in the province of Silesia, Pru ia. It was acquired by Pru ia in 1742. Glatzer Gebirge (gläts'er ge-bēr'ge). A group of mountains of the Sudetic chain, near the frontiers of Pru ian Silesia, Bohemia, and Moravia. The principal peak is the Schneeberg (4,680 feet). IMG:content-0537.png:[blocks in formation] 2,1719: died at Halberstadt, Feb. 18, 1803. A extent by the ince ant inroads of the sea. German poet. He studied jurisprudence at Halle, and was subsequently tutor in Potsdam, secretary to Prince William in the second Silesian war, secretary to Prince Leopold of De au, and finally canon in Halberstadt, where he died. His fame rests principally upon the "Preu ische Kriegslieder von einem Grenadier" ("Pru ian War Songs by a Grenadier"), which appeared during 1757-58, and in the latter year were collected and published with a preface by Le ing. A collection of Anacreontic songs, "Versuch in scherzhaften Liedern" ("E ays in Humorous Poetry"), "), had already appeared in 1744. In 1772 appeared, in 1773 "Gedichte nach den Minnesingern" ("Poems after the Minnesingers"), and in 1779 "Gedichte nach Walther von der Vogelweide" ("Poems after Walther von der Vogelweide"). His collected works were published 1811-13, in 7 volumes, to which was added an eighth in 1841. Here a Roman fleet in Nero's time collected 13,000 lbs. of the precious "gle um" in a single visit; and the sailors brought home picturesque accounts of the natives picking up the gla y fo il at the flood-tide and in the pools left by the ebb; "and it is so light," they said, "that it rolls about and seems to hang in the shallow water."