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AUE, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Saxony, at the confluence of the Mulde and Schwarzwasser, 21 m. S.W. from Chemnitz on the railway to Adorf. It has a school of lacemaking, foundries, and manufactures of machinery, tin-plate and cotton goods. Pop. (190 ...

AUERBACH, BERTHOLD (1812-1882), German novelist, was born on the 28th of February 1812 at Nordstetten in the WUrttemberg Black Forest. His parents were Jews, and he was intended for the ministry; but after studying philosophy at Tubingen, Munich and Heidelberg ...

AUERSPERG, ANTON ALEXANDER, GRAF VON (1806-1876), Austrian poet, who wrote under the pseudonym of ANASTASIUS GRUN,wasbornon the nth of April 1806, at Laibach, the capital of the Austrian duchy of Carniola, and was head of the Thurn-amHart branch of the Carniol ...

AUDE, a river of south-western France, rising in the eastern Pyrenees and flowing into the Golfe du Lion. Rising in a small lake a short distance east of the Puy de Carlitte, it soon takes a northerly direction and flows for many miles through deep gorges of g

AQUAE (Lat. for " waters "), a name given by the Romans to sites where mineral springs issued from the earth. Over a hundred can br identified, some declaring by their modern names their ancient use: Aix-les-Bains in Savoy (Aquae Sabaudicae), Aiz-en-Provence (

AUGER (from the O. Eng. nafu-gdr, nave-borer; the original initial n having been lost, as in " adder," through a confusion in the case of a preceding indefinite article), a tool for boring (q.v.) or drilling.

... l developed in both sexes. In certain derivative forms constituting the family PaUenidae, however, the appendages of the 2nd pair are either rudimentary or atrophied altogether. Two families: I. Nymphonidae (genus Nymphon), and 2. Pallenidae (genus Patient). O ...

... ) ; (2) Lei Harangues, prononcfs en aisemblee de ttU. lei princes protestants d'AUemagne, par Monseigneur le due d' Angoulttne (1620); (3) a translation of a Spanish work by Diego de Torre*. To him has also been ascribed the work, La tentroJe etfidete RUation ...

... the Bear, margrave of Brandenburg. Albert was descended from Albert, count of BaUenstedt, whose son Esico (d. 1059 or 1060) appear* to have been the first to bear the title of count of Anhalt. Esico '§ grandson, Otto the Rich, count of Ballenstedt, was the fa ...

ANHALT-DESSAU, LEOPOLD I., PRINCE OF (1676-1747), called the "Old Dessauer" (Alter Dessauer), general field marshal in the Prussian army, was the only surviving son of John George II. , prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and was born on the 3rd of July 1676 at Dessau. F ...

... n German literature, art and science of such men as Heinrich Heine and Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882), Felix Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy) (1800-1847), and Jacob Meyerbeer (1794-1864), Karl Gustav Jacobi the mathematician (1804-1851), Gabriel Gustav Valentin the phy ...

... interspersed with bright and witty scenes. Among the best known are Der Meineidbauer (1871), Die Kreuzelschreiber (1872), Der G'wissenswurm (1874), Hand und Hen (1875), Doppelselbstmord (1875), Das vierte Gebot (1877), and Der Fleck auf der Ehr' (1889). Anzeng ...

... ) The first of these consists of books i.-vi., and throughout runs Contents. ParaUel to the Didascalia. Bickell, indeed, held that this latter was an abbreviated form of books i.-vi.; but it is now agreed on all hands that the Constitutions are based on the Di ...

... reich-Ungarn " (Vienna, 1889, in Kirchhoff's Landerkunde von Europa, vol. ii.); Auerbach, Les Races el les nalionalites en Autriche-Hongrie (Paris, 1897); Mayerhofer, Osterreich-ungarisches Ortslexikon (Vienna, 1896). For geology see C. Diener, &c., Bau und Bi ...

... self, but had it not been for the incomparable infantry trained by the "Old Dessauer" he would never have had the opportunity of doing so. Thus Leopold, heartily supported by Frederick William, who was himself called the great drill-master of Europe, turned to ...

... Oltica deile oscillazioni elettriche (Bologna, 1897). • Les Oscillations electriaues (Paris, 1894). ' Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism (Oxford, 1892). high vacua, having been led to it by his researches on the radiometer. The particular details o ...

... an popular poetry. Influenced by these studies and by the philosophy of Schopenhauer, he introduced a new spirit into Rumanian poetry. Mystically inclined and himself of a melancholy disposition, he lived in the glory of the medieval Rumanian past; stifled by ...

... ethod of preserving green fodder precisely similar to that used in the case of Sauerkraut has prevailed for upwards of a century. Special attention was first directed to the practice of ensilage by a French agriculturist, Auguste Goffart of the district of Sol ...

... 18411842), and a German translation of Hungary in 1514, under the title of Der Bauernkrieg in Ungarn was published at Pest in 1850. See A. Ban, Life and Art of Baron Joseph Eotvos (Hung.) (Budapest, 1902); Zoltan Ferenczi, Baron Joseph Eotvos (Hung.) (Budapest ...

... n, 1886); R. Homes, Erdbebenkunde (Leipzig, 1893). Die miUlere ftoke Kuropai (Plauen, 1874). Trailf de gfolotie (Paris, 1883). • Scot. Ceog. Mag. (1888), p.23Petermaani \fitltdunfen (1880). p. 17. Tram. (Jtftitiya) Imp. Rus. Geog. Soc. (1889), p. 113. Die milt ...

... was head of the Thurn-amHart branch of the Carniolan cadet line of the house of Auersperg. He received his university education first at Graz and then at Vienna, where he studied jurisprudence. In 1830 he succeeded to his ancestral property, and in 1832 appear ...

... at Venice in 1574 and 1558 respectively. A new edition of the latter by S. Landauer appeared in 1903. See Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca, vi. 790 seq.; E. Zeller, History off Greek Phil.; E. Baret, De Themist, sophista (Paris, 1853); Jourdain's Recherches crit ...

... 69—74) based on that of their predecessors; a glossary was afterwards added by Bauer. The reprint will be found in vols. Ixxx.-lxxxiv. of Migne, and considerable portions occur in Mansi. The church history has been published frequently in connexion with the hi ...

... c. Soc. Edin. (1883); also Thomson and Murray, Reportsofthe Voyage of H.M.S. "Chauenger" (Edinburgh, 1885).

... ing, Gotthelf leading J.he way with his tales, Uli the Serf and Uli the Tenant. Auerbach followed with his village stories, which opened a new world of thought; Stifter and a host of others brought up the rear. This new impulse in literature soon spread to Rus ...

... rnal taxes which were Internal imposed upon the manufacturers. When the war Reveaueended public sentiment demanded relief from these heavy burdens, and especially from the irksome internal taxes. The rapidly growing grain-raising districts of the Middle West e ...