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to M. W. of W. Ford, Richard. Born at London, 1796: died at He avi tree, near Exeter, 1858. An English trayeler and author. He wrote a "Handbook for Travelers in Spain" (1845), one of the first and best (and in its original form the fullest) of Murray's Handbooks. Fordham (for'dam). Formerly a village of West Farms, New York, now a part of New York city, 12 miles north of the City Hall. It is the seat of St. John's College (Roman Catholic). Ford's Theater. A former theater in Washington. President Lincoln was a a inated there April 14, 1865. It was afterward used by the government for the record division of the War Department. It collapsed June 9, 1893, and a number of lives were lost. Fordun (fôr-dun'), John of. Died after 1384. A Scottish chronicler who wrote a history of Scotland down to his own time, entitled "Chronic a Gentis Scotorum," which was continued by Walter Bower under the title of "Scoti chronic on." IMG:content-0421.png:[blocks in formation] Mrs. Aphra (1671).-2. John Armstrong (1754). For cell in i (for-chel-lē'nē), Egidio. Born near Feltre, Belluno, Italy, Aug. 26, 1688: died at Padua, April 4, 1768. A noted Italian lexicographer, a pupil and collaborator of Facciolati. He began the "Totius latin it at is lexicon, etc.," in 1718, and completed it with Facciolati's aid in 1753. It was published at Padua in 1771. "Love for Love," an old man with a fondne for "judicial astrology." He is made up of dreams, searching for omens. Forest Cantons. A collective name for the cantons of Lucerne, Schwyz, Uri, and Unter a hypocritical, vicious wife. walden, in Switzerland. Forest City, The. A name given to Cleveland, Ohio, on account of the number of its shade trees. Forchhammer (forch'hämmer), Johann Henry William Herbert. Georg. Born at Husum, near Schleswig, July Forest i (fo-res'të), E. Felice. Born near Fer- 1858. An Italian patriot. He was thrown into prison in 1819 for conspiring against the Austrian govern- ment, and was as detained in captivity until 1835, when he was exiled to America. He became profe or of the Italian 26, 1794: died at Copenhagen, Dec. 14, 1865. A rara, Italy, about 1793: died at Genoa, Sept. 14, Danish mineralogist, chemist, and geologist, profe or of mineralogy at the University of Co- penhagen. He published "Denmarks geog- nostiske For hold" (1835), etc. Italian wars; and from July, 1862, to Oct., 1863, commanded the French expedition against Mexico. During this period he captured Puebla, May 17, 1863, occupied Mexico City, and formed a provisional government. Forez (fō-ra'). An ancient territory of France, in the former government of Lyonnais, corresponding in large part to the department of Loire. It was a county in the middle ages, and was Forfar (fôr'fär), or Angus (ang'gus). A maritime county of Scotland. It is bounded by Aberdeen and Kincardine on the north, the North Sea on the east, the Firth of Tay on the south, and Perth on the west; and is the chief seat of Scottish linen manufacture (at Dundee). Area, 875 square miles. Population (1891), 277,735. Forfar. The capital of For far shire, Scotland, situated in the valley of Strath more 13 miles north-northeast of Dundee. It has manufactures of linen. It was an ancient royal residence, and is a royal burgh, and also a parliamentary burgh, belonging to the Montrose group. Population (1891), 12,844. united to the crown under Francis I. in 1532. Forge (forj), Anatole de la. Born in 1821: died at Paris, June 6, 1892. A French historian. He became a journalist in 1848; was prefect of the Aisne; and was wounded at St.-Quentin. He was made director of the pre in the ministry of the interim (1877), was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1881, and sat till 1889. Не wrote a "History of the Republic of Venice," "Public Instruction in Spain," etc. Forges-les-Eaux (forzh'lā-zō'). A town in the department of Seine-Inférieure, France, 24 miles northeast of Rouen. It was formerly noted for its cold chalybeate springs. Forio (fō'rē-ō). A small town on the northwestern coast of the island of Ischia, Italy, Forkel (for'kel), Johann Nikolaus. Born at Meeder, near Coburg, Germany, Feb. 22, 1749: died at Göttingen, Pru ia, March 17, 1818. A German writer on music, director of music at the University of Göttingen from 1779. His chief work is "All gem eine Literatur der Musik" (1792). Forli (for-le'). 1. A province in Emilia, Italy, bordering on the Adriatic. Area, 725 square miles. Population (1891), 269,374.-2. The capital of the province of Forlì, situated on the old Æmilian Way in lat. 44° 14′ N., long. 12o 2′ E.: the ancient Forum Livii. It has a pseudo-cla ical cathedral and a picture-gallery. The citadel, a picturesque castle of the 14th and 15th centuries, was the scene of the courageous exploits of Catharina Sforza, widow of Girolamo Riario. Forli was a republic in the later middle ages, and was annexed to the Papal States in 1504. Population (1891), estimated, 44,000. Forli, Melozzo da. Born at Forli, Italy, about 1438: died 1494. An Italian painter, noted for his skill in foreshortening. Formal (formal), James. In Wycherley's comedy "The Gentleman Dancing Master," an old, rich merchant, also known as Don Diego. He is deeply imbued with Spanish customs, and unsucce fully undertakes to keep his daughter shut up and away from men. For man (fôr'man), Simon. Born at Quid hampton, Dec. 30, 1552: died at London, Sept. 12, 1611. An English astrologer and quack. He practised his profe ion with some succe , though several times imprisoned, and was finally implicated in the murder of Sir Thomas Over bury. He died before the transaction became public. Jonson alludes to his love philters, etc., in his "Epicæne." He wrote a book "The Grounds of the Longitude, etc." (1591), and left several diaries and "The Booke of Plaies," etc., with accounts of early performances. Dict. Nat . Biog. Former Age, The. A poem by Chaucer, discovered by Bradshaw. It was first printed by Morris in 1866. It is a metrical portion of Chaucer's translation of Boethius, probably written after the prose translation was finished. singer. Formes (for'mes), Karl Johann. Born Aug. 7, 1810: died Dec. 15, 1889. A German ba Former Formey (for'mi), Johann He in rich Samuel. Born at Berlin, May 31, 1711: died at Berlin, March 7, 1797. A German philosophical and miscellaneous writer, of French (Huguenot) descent, profe or of oratory (1736) 736) and philosophy (1739) at the French College in Berlin, and perpetu perpetual secretary of the Berlin Academy Aca (1748). Formia (for'mē-ä). A town in the province of Caserta, Italy, situated on the Gulf of Gaeta 44 miles northwest of Naples: the ancient For miæ, formerly Mola di Gaeta. Population, Formigny (for-men-ye'), or Fourmigni (för language and literature in Columbia College, and in 1858 about 8,000. mēn-ye'). A village in the department of Calvados, France, near Bayeux. Here, in 1450, the English were defeated by the French with a lo of about 4,000. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century Cyclopedia of names Form or i ans Form or i ans (fôr-mō'ri-anz). See the extract. The first people, then, of whose existence in Ireland we can be said to know anything are commonly a erted to have been of Turanian origin, and are known as "Form or i ans. As far as we can gather, they were a dark, low- browed, stunted race, although, oddly enough, the word Form or i an in early Irish legend is always used as synonymous with the word giant. They were, at any rate, a race of utterly savage hunters and fishermen, ignorant of metal, of pottery, po ibly even of the use of fire; using the stone hammers or hatchets of which vast numbers may be seen in every museum. Lawle , Story of Ireland, p. 5. Formosa (fôr-mō'sä), Chin. Taiwan (tī'wän'). [Pg., 'the beautiful.'] An island east of China, forming, until ceded to Japan 1895, the province of the same name in China. It is traversed by mountains. Its products are tea, sugar, coal, etc. The chief towns are Tamsui, Taiwan, and Kelung. It is inhabited by Chinese and aborigines (Malayan, Negrito). The western part of the island was colonized by the Chinese about 200 years ago. It was the principal scene of warfare in the war of France with China in 1884 was blockaded by the French fleet, and oc cupied by the French the was the theater in partesi combats (the French being led by Admiral Courbet) in 1885. Length, 235 miles. Area, about 15,000 square miles. Population, probably about 2,000,000. Formosa. A territory of the Argentine Republic, in the Gran Chaco region, between the riv ers Paraguay, Pilcomayo, and Bermejo. Capi tal, Formosa. It was created in 1884 by division of the old territory of Chaco. Area, about 40,000 square miles. Civilized population, about 5,000. Formosa Bay, or Ungama (öng-gä'mä) Bay. An indentation on the eastern coast of Africa, about lat. 2° 30′ S. Formosa Strait. The channel which separates Formosa from the mainland. Breadth at the narrowest part, about 90 miles. For mos us (for-mō'sus). Born about 816: died 896. Pope 891-896. He was a mi ionary among the Bulgarians about 866. He crowned Arnulf of Carinthia emperor in 896. Fornarina (for-nä-rē'nä), La. [It., 'The Bakere .] A picture by Raphael, painted about 1509, now in the Palazzo Barber in i, Rome. It represents a half-nude woman seated in a wood. On her bracelet is written "Raphael Urbinas." It is commonly called "Raphael's Mistre ," the name "Fornarina" having been given to it about 1750. She is said to have been Marg her it a, the daughter of a baker. There are two other pictures to which this name has been given, both by Sebastian del Piombo, and each has been attributed to Raphael, and under this supposition has been engraved. One is now in the Old Museum at Berlin, and the other is in the Uffizi, Florence (dated 1512). Fornax (fôr'naks). [L., 'an oven.'] A southern constellation, invented and named by Lacaille in 1763. It lies south of the western part of Eridanus, and, as its boundaries are at present drawn, contains no star of greater magnitude than the fifth. Forney (for'ni), John Wei Born at Lancaster, Pa., Sept. 30, 1817: died at Philadelphia, Dec. 9, 1881. An American journalist and politician. He was editor of the Philadelphia "Pre " 1857-77, clerk of the United States House of Representatives 1851-55 and 1859-61, and secretary of the Senate 1861-68. Fornovo (for-nō'vō). A small town in the province of Parma, Italy, situated on the Taro 10 miles southwest of Parma. Here, July 6, 1495, the French under Charles VIII. defeated the Italians under Gonzaga, and secured the retreat of French army. Forobosco (fo-ro-bos'ko). A cheating mounte bank in "The Fair Maid of the Inn," by Fletcher and others. Forres (for'es). A royal burgh in Elginshire, Scotland, 12 miles west of Elgin. Population (1891), 2,928. For rest (for'est), Edwin. Born at Philadelphia, March 9, 1806: died there, Dec. 12, 1872. A celebrated American actor. He first appeared on the regular stage in 1820 as Douglas in Home's play of that His first notable succe was in New York, where name. he played "Othello" in 1826. In 1836 he appeared in London as Spartacus in "The Gladiator." After this he played with succe both in England and America, until in 1845 in London he was hi ed in "Macbeth." He attributed this to Mac ready's influence, and shortly after, when the latter was playing Hamlet in Edinburgh, For rest stood up in his box and hi ed violently. It is believed that this was the original cause of the Astor Place riot in 1849, of which the immediate occasion was the attempt of For rest's admirers to prevent Mac ready from appearing in the Astor Place Opera House. His last appearance in New York was in Feb., 1871, and in March of that year he ap peared for the last time as an actor in Boston. He afterward, however, gave Shaksperian readings, which were not succe ful. He left his house in Philadelphia as a home for aged actors. Here also he collected a large dramatic library. One of his most characteristic parts was Aylmere in "Jack Cade," which was written for him by Robert T. Conrad. Among his great parts were Lear, Coriolanus, Othello, Virgin i us, Damon, Spartacus, Tell, etc. For rest, Nathan Bedford. Born at Chapel Hill, Tenn., July 13, 1821: died at Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 29, 1877. An American cavalry commander in the Confederate service during the Civil War. He participated, as brigadier-general, in the battle of Chick am aug a, Sept. 19-20, 1863, and as major IMG:content-0423.png:[blocks in formation] low, April 12, 1864. He was promoted lieutenant-general in Feb., 1865, and surrendered on the 9th of May in the same year. For rest, Thomas. Died in India about 1802. An English navigator. He entered the service of the East India Company probably about 1748. He discovered For rest Strait (which received its name from him) in 1790, and made several voyages of exploration. He wrote "A Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas from Bal am bang an... during the years 1774-5-6" (1779), "A Journal of the Ether Brig, Capt. Thomas For rest, from Bengal to Quedah, in 1783" (1789), "A Voyage from Calcutta to the Mergui Archipelago" (1792), "A Treatise on the Monsoons in East India" (1782). For rester (for'es-ter), Alfred Henry: pseudonym Alfred Crowquill. Born at London, Sept. 10, 1804: died there, May 26, 1872. An English author and artist. He was a younger brother of Charles Robert For rester, with whom he shared the use of the pseudonym Alfred Crowquill. He contributed sketches to Vols. II, III, and IV of "Punch," and illustrated numerous works. For rester, Charles Robert. Born at London, 1803: died there, Jan. 15, 1850. An English author. He was an elder brother of Alfred Henry For rester, and with him used the pseudonym Alfred Crowquill; he also wrote under the name of Hal Will is. Among his works are "Absurdities in Prose and Verse, written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill" (1827), and "Phantasmagoria brother. of Fun" (1843), both of which were illustrated by his For rester, Fanny. A pen-name of Mi Emily Chubbuck, wife of the mi ionary Adoniram