List on belonged rather to farce than comedy

Like Suett, he excited more laughter than he ever enjoyed himself. He suffered from attacks of the nerves, and, in his most humorous representations, was the more humorous from his humor always partaking of a melancholy tone. Doran, Eng. Stage, II. 351. List on, Sir Robert. Born at Over toun, parish of Kirk list on, Scotland, Oct. 8, 1742: died near Edinburgh, July 15, 1836. A British diplomatist. He was secretary of emba y at Madrid March, 1783; minister plenipotentiary there May, 1783, to Aug., 1788; envoy extraordinary at Constantinople 1793-96; and amba ador at Washington 1796. He was later envoy at The Hague, and amba ador at Constantinople. List on, Robert. Born at Ecclesmachan, Linlithgowshire, Oct. 28, 1794: died at London, Dec. 7, 1847. A Scottish surgeon, profe or of chemical surgery in the University of London (from 1835), noted especially for his skill as an operator, and as the inventor of a splint, named from him, which is used in cases of dislocation of the thigh. Lisuarte of England. In the romance "Amadis of Gaul," the King of England, and the father of Oriana, the wife of Amadis. Lisuarte of Greece. The grandson of Amadis, and son of Esplandian. Two of the books of the Amadis of Gaul romance contain his adventures: the seventh, by Felicia no de Silva (1514); and the eighth, by Juan Diaz (1526). Liszt (list), Franz. Born at Raiding, Hungary, Oct. 22, 1811: died at Bayreuth, Bavaria, July 31, 1886. A celebrated Hungarian composer, and one of the greatest of pianists. He made his first public appearance when only 9 years old at Oden burg. In 1823 at a concert in Vienna he was received with much enthusiasm, and Beethoven ki ed him after he had finished playing. He went to Paris to study, and became intimate with Victor Hugo, Lamartine, George Sand, and others. From 1835 to 1845 lasted his connection with the Comte e d'Agoult (Daniel Stern), by whom he had three children, one of whom married Von Bülow and afterward Richard Wagner. In 1849 he became musical director at Weimar, where he brought out Wagner's "Tannhäuser" and "Lohengrin" and Berlioz's "Benvenuto Cell in i." He resigned his appointment in 1859 and divided his time between Weimar, Rome, and Budapest. He revisited England in 1886. In 1865 he entered the church, and is known as the Abbé Liszt. Among his numerous works are "Symphonic Poems," the oratorios "Christ us" and "Saint Eliza beth, ma Rhapsodie hongroise," and other arrangements and many pianoforte etc. He published books, among which are "Die Zigeuner und ihre Musik" "The Gipsies and their Music," 1861), "Lohengrin et Tannhäuser," works on Franz, Chopin, Schumann, etc. Litany (lē'tä-nē). A river of Syria which flows into the Mediterranean 4 miles north of Tyre: the ancient Leontes. It is called near its mouth the Nahr-el-Kasimiyeh. Length, over 100 miles. Litchfield (lich'feld). The capital of Litchfield County, Connecticut, 27 miles west of Hartford. It was the seat of a noted law school 1784-1838. Population (1890), 3,304. Little Venice Little Giant, The. A popular surname of Stephen A. Douglas. Little hampton (lit-l-hampton). A watering place in the county of Su ex, England, situated at the mouth of the Arun, on the English Channel, 18 miles west of Brighton. Population (1891), 4,452. Little Iliad, The. A Greek epic poem of the Trojan cycle, by Lesches, a Lesbian. It continued the Iliad to the fall of Troy. Little John. One of the chief followers of Robin Hood, said to have been one John Nailor. He was enormously tall and strong. Little john (lit'l-jon), Hugh. The name given to John Hugh Lockhart, son of John Gibson Lockhart, and grandson of Sir Walter Scott, for whom the latter wrote "Tales of a Grandfather." Little Kanawha. A river in West Virginia which joins the Ohio at Parkers burg. Length, over 100 miles. Little Mac. A nickname of General George B. McClellan. taking down of the Thatched House the club removed to its centennial in 1864. It is still in existence. Chambers ; the Clarendon Hotel in Bond street, where it celebrated Timbs. Liternum (li-ter'num). In ancient geography, a town in Camp an i a, Italy, situated on the coast about 14 miles northwest of Naples. Lithgow (lith'gō), William. Born at Lanark, 1582: died, probably at Lanark, about 1645. A Scottish traveler in Europe and the East. He was the author of "The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures and Pain full Peregrinations of Long Nineteen Years, etc." (London, 1632), "a book of uncommon value and interest for its descriptions of men and manners even more than of places,.. probably the earliest authority for coffee-drinking in Europe, Turkish baths, etc." ( Dict .