CURTANA

Edward the Confe or’s pointle ‘Sword of Mercy,’ used in Eng. coronations. 24° 40’ K.), town, on Arges, Rumania; one of ancient capitals of Walachia; bp.’s seo; cathedral (built XVI. cent.) is finest specimen of Byzantine arch. in 1894), American diplomat and executive; b. Bellefonte, Pa. He studied law at Dick in son College and began practice in 1839. He became Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1854 and was elected governor in 1860 and again in 1863. He was one of the so called ‘war governors,’ and during the conflict was a tower of strength to the Union cause. He was made Minister to Ru ia in 1869. In 1873 he shifted his political allegiance to the Democratic party and was a member of Congre as a Democrat from 1881 to 1887. American linguist and archaeologist; b. Milwaukee, Wis. He graduated at Harvard in 1863, even at that time having distinguished himself by his facility in acquiring foreign languages, Entering the diplomatic service a year later, he was for six years secretary of legation at St. Petersburg. The knowledge he there acquired of Ru ian and kindred languages made po ible his translations of the works of Tolstoy and Sienkiewicz. He was connected from 1873 to 1881 with the Smithsonian institution, and later delved deeply into the ethnology of the North American Indians. Apart from his translations, his works include Myths and Folk-Tales of the Ru ians, Western Slavs and Magyars, 1894; Hero Tales of Ireland, 1894; The Mongols, 1907; A Journey in Southern Ru ia, 1909; Myths of the Medocs, 1912; the three latter works being posthumous publications.