Knosus

See Cnosus. near Rutland Gate. Knights of the Golden Circle. A former secret order in the United States, in sympathy with the Sece ionists. Knights of the Round Table. See Round He succeeded to the patronage of James II., William III., and Anne, and was knighted March 3, 1691. Some of his Table . best portraits are in the series of admirals. He was con- temporary and rival of Sir Peter Lely. He painted the por ten reigning sovereigns. Knep. See Knipp . Knickerbocker's History of New York. A burlesque history of New York, by Washington Irving, published in 1809. This he wrote under the name of Died rich Knickerbocker. Kniebis (knē'bis). A mountain group in the Black Forest, on the borders of Baden and Würtemberg, about lat. 48° 30′ Ν. Knight (nīt), Charles. Born at Windsor, England, March 15, 1791: died at Addle stone, Surrey, England, March 9, 1873. An English publisher and author. His chief work is a "Popular History of England" (8 vols. 1856-62). He edited "The Penny Magazine" (1832-45), "The Penny Cyclopædia" (1833-44), "The Pictorial Shakspere" (1841), "The English Cyclopædia," etc. Knight, James. Died at Marble Island, Hudson Bay, about 1719. An English explorer, and agent of the Hudson Bay Company. He was governor of Fort Albany in 1673, and of the Nelson River settlement in 1714. In 1718 he built the Prince of Wales Fort at the mouth of Church ill River. In June, 1719, he sailed with two of the company's fleet to discover the fabled Straits of Anian, and to search for gold. The expedition did not return, and a searching party in 1722 failed to find any trace of it. The wreck of the ships was discovered at Marble Island by a whaling party in 1767. Dict. Nat. Biog. Knight, Joseph Philip. Born at Bradford on-Avon, July 26, 1812: died at Yarmouth, 1887. An English composer of songs, including "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep," etc. Knight, Richard Payne. Born near Ludlow, Here ford shire, 1750: died at London, April 23, 1824. An English numismatist and archæologist. About 1767 he went to Italy, and again in 1777 with Philip Hackert, a German painter, and Charles Gore. In his biography of Hackert, Goethe translated Knight's diary as the "Tagebuch einer Reise nach Sicilien." He was again in Italy in 1785, a ociated with Sir William Hamilton, British amba ador at Naples, and began his collection of bronzes with Fox. He wrote "An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus lately existing in Isernia" (1786), "An Analytical E ay on the Greek Alphabet," "An Inquiry into the Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology," etc. He bequeathed to the British Museum his collection of bronzes, coins, gems, marbles, and drawings. Knight, Thomas Andrew. Born near Ludlow, Here ford shire, Aug. 12, 1759: died at London, May 11, 1838. An English horticulturist and botanist, brother of Richard Payne Knight. Knight's Tale of Palamon and Arcite, The. One of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." It is a recasting by Chaucer of his version of Boccaccio's "Teseide," which he made before he wrote the "Legend of Good Women." The "Knight's Tale," in particular, naturally attracted the attention of the dramatists of the Elizabeth an age, who were always on the lookout for suitable material. Upon it was founded an early play called "Palemon and Arcite" that has not come down. It was the work of Richard Edwards, and was produced in 1566 at Oxford University before Queen Elizabeth. A play with this title is also recorded by Henslowe under the year 1594 as having been acted four times. From the same tale also was avow edly taken the drama called "The Two Noble Kinsmen,' which, when first printed in 1634, had on its title page as authors the names of Shakspeare and Fletcher. Whether either had anything to do with it is still a debated question.