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AUSTIN. ALFRED (1835- ), English poet-laureate, was born at Headingley, near Leeds, on the 3oth of May 1835. His father, Joseph Austin, was a merchant of the city of Leeds; his mother, a sister of Joseph Locke, M.P. for Honiton. Mr Austin was educated at Stony ...

ARNETH. ALFRED. RITTER VON (1810-1807), Austrian historian, born at Vienna on the loth of July 1819, was the son of Joseph Calasanza von Arneth (1791-1863), a well-known historian and archaeologist, who wrote a history of the Austrian empire (Vienna, 1827) and ...

... atories of the French crown. In England, by the treaty of Wedmore (878) between Alfred and the Danish king Guthrum, the Danes had already been established in a large part of England. Feudalism, by the time the Northmen had been subdued by its aid, was quite fi ...

... adventurous new-comers rapidly worked out one mining district after another, exhausting and abandoning the smaller " camps " to early decay and rushing in feverish excitement to new-found river fields, but establishing important centres of varied industries in ...

... literature which preceded the Norman Conquest. It goes back to the time of King Alfred, who seems to have frequently used the title rex Anglorum Saxonum or rex Angul-Saxonum. The origin of this title is not quite clear. It is generally believed to have arisen ...

... thrax the symptoms are more intestinal than pulmonary, and consist in severe exhausting diarrhoea, with vomiting and rapid sinking. Recovery from the internal variety, although not unknown, is more rare than from the external, and its most striking phenomena a ...

... gitation was revived by the arrest of a prominent Jewish staff officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, on a charge of treason. From the beginning the hand of the anti-Semite was flagrant in the new sensation. The first hint of the arrest appeared in the Libre Parole; ...

... the Clyde. In his domestic relations Antoninus was not so fortunate. His wife, Faustina, has almost become a byword for her lack of womanly virtue; but she seems to have kept her hold on his affections to the last. On her death he honoured her memory by the fo ...

... at made by Ottar or Othere between 880 and ooo and described (or translated) by Alfred the Great, king of England. The modern town dates, however, from the visit of the English voyager, Richard Chancellor, in 1553. An English factory was erected on the lower D ...

... d his reputation. In 1740 he wrote the music for Thomson and Mallet's Masque of Alfred, which is noteworthy as containing the most popular of all his airs — " Rule, Britannia!" In 1740 he also wrote his beautiful settings of the songs, " Under the greenwood tr ...

... ans le paganisme remain (Paris, 1907) (ch. vii. " L'Astrologie et la magie ") ; Alfred Maury, La Magie et I'astrologie a I'antiquite et au moyen Age (4th ed.. Paris, 1877); R. C. Thompson, Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon (2 vols ...

... and Tuesday markets are still continued. In the reign of Edward III. a house of Austin Friars was founded at Atherstone by Ralph Lord Basset of Drayton, which, however, never rose to much importance, and at its dissolution in 1536 was valued at 30 shillings an ...

... was also the native place of the novelists Leonard Sylvain, Julien Sandeau and Alfred Assollant (1827-1886). See Le Pere Anselme, Hist, genealogique de la maison de France, vol. v. pp. 318 et seq.; P. Mignaton, Hist, de la maison d'Aubusson (Paris, 1886); Cyp ...

... to predispose to others. It is sometimes a complication in certain forms of exhausting disease, such as phthisis or typhoid fever, and is then to be regarded as of serious import. A very fatal form occasionally attacks newborn infants, particularly in the fir ...

... Minna Bolingbroke and Elizabeth Armstrong (Mrs Watson and Mrs Stanhope Forbes), Alfred East, Robert Macbeth, Walter Sickert, Robert Gog, Mortimer Menpes, Percy Thomas, Raven Hill, and Prof. H. von lerkomer, in England; in France, Roussel, J. F. Raffaelli (b. 1 ...

... cial — which Egypt had made during British occupation, so ably set forth in Sir Alfred Milner's England in Egypt (published in 1892), together with the revelation in so strong a light of the character of the khalifa's despotism in the Sudan and the miserable c ...

... r (1903), a continuation of Die Waffen nieder. She was at one time secretary to Alfred Nobel, and as a champion of the " brotherhood of nations," had much influence on him and others; and in this connexion has published Krieg und Frieden (1896), Das Maschinen- ...

... hich is also responsible for the not improbable legend that Swithun accompanied Alfred on his visit to Rome in 856. The so-called lives of St Swithun written by Wulstan, Lantfred, and perhaps others towards the end of the loth century may be found in Bollandus ...

... red on the west by scattering growths of hardwood, extending as far westward as Austin. Sparse scrub timber, of little value except for posts, poles and rough beams and for fuel, occupies the region westward to approximately the longitude of the Pease river. O ...

... CTRICAL STAGE "BRIDGES," ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN. From a Photograph by Alfred Ellis &• Walery. SACHS' ELECTRICAL STAGE "BRIDGES," THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. XXVI. 734PLATE IV. Anglais, by Georges Bourdon (1902); Die Theater. Wien, 2 vols. quarto, by J ...

... goire, and in the production of so essentially a literary play as Henley's Beau Austin; and in classic parts his ability as a comedian was shown in The Merry Wives of Windsor, in which he played Falstaff, and as a tragedian in Hamlet; his presentations of Shak ...

... en the triolet has been cultivated very widely in English, most successfully by Austin Dobson, whose " Rose kissed me to-day," " I intended an Ode " and " In the School of Coquettes " are masterpieces of ingenuity and easy grace. In later French literature, tr ...

... l elections. Brigham Young GOVERNORS State of Deseret Territorial Brigham Young Alfred Gumming John W. Dawson Frank Fuller (Acting Governor) Stephen S. Harding James Duane Doty Charles Durkee. Edwin Higgins (Acting Governor) S. A. Mann (Acting Governor). J. Wi ...

... rapid success awoke the implacable hatred of Genoa, and led to the long and exhausting series of Genoese wars which ended at Chioggia in 1380. The closing of the great council was, no doubt, mainly due to the slowly formed resolution on the part of the great ...