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 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. 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, matRhapsodie hongroise," and other arrangements and many pianoforte pieces, etc. He published or books, among which are "Die Zigeuner und ihre Musik" ("The Gipsies and their Music," 1861), "Lohengrin et