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power of mimicry, and perfect method of narration added greatly to the charm. He once told, at the table of Dr Jowett, Master of Balliol, anecdotes through the whole of dinner on Saturday evening, through the whole of breakfast, lunch, and dinner the next day, through the whole journey on Monday morning from Oxford to Paddington, without ever once repeating himself. He was frequently to be seen at the Athenaeum, was a member both of Grillion’s and The Club, as well as of the Literary Society, of which he was president, and whose meetings he very rarely missed. Bishop Copleston is said to have divided the human race into three classes,—men, women, and Coleridges. If he did so, he meant, no doubt, to imply that the men of the family whose chief example was the poet of “ Christabel ” had a certain feminine charm combined with a trace of feminine weakness. In John Duke Coleridge the charm was certainly present. Coleridge’s first wife died in 1878. She was an artist of real genius, and her portrait of Cardinal Newman was considered much better than the one by Millais. A short notice of her by Dean Church of St Paul’s was published in the Guardian on 13th February 1878, and was reprinted in her husband’s privately printed collection of poems. Coleridge remained for many years a widower, but married in 1886 Amy Augusta Jackson Lawford, daughter of Henry Baring Lawford, Esq., who survived him. He was succeeded in the peerage by his eldest son, Bernard John Seymour. (m. g. d.) Colfax, Schuyler (1823-1885), vice-president of the United States, was born in New York City on the 23rd of March 1823, and died in Mankato, Minn., 13th January 1885. After a meagre education he served as a clerk in Indiana, and then turned to journalism. From 1855 to 1869 he was a Bepublican representative in Congress from Indiana. In 1863 he was elected Speaker of the House, and served for three terms. In 1868 he was elected vice-president on the ticket with General Grant. Owing to his alleged connexion with the corrupt distribution of shares of stock in the Credit Mobilier he was not renominated. In later years he was best known as a popular lecturer. Colima., one of the smallest states of Mexico, bounded by the state of Jalisco on the N., N.E., and W., by that of Michoacan on the E., and by the Pacific on the S., with an area of 2273 square miles, including the islands of Revill Gigedo. The population in 1879 was 65,827, and in 1895 it was 55,752. The principal industries are agriculture, stock-raising, and the exploitation of the salt deposits; the products are coffee, cacao, tobacco, rice, cotton, indigo, sugar-cane, cereals, and leguminous plants. The state is divided into three partidos and seven municipalities. The capital, Colima, 570 miles from Mexico City, has a population of 18,977, and is situated in a beautiful and fertile valley, irrigated by the Colima river. The city has good public buildings, a cathedral, theatre, and a fine market-house. It has tramways and an electric light system. Amongst other towns are Manzanillo, Coquimatlan, Ixtahuacan, Almoloyan, Comala. Colle di Val d’EEsa, a town and episcopal see of the province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy, 21 miles north-west from Siena, 13 by rail to Poggibonsi. It consists of two quarters, the upper old town, with a 13thcentury cathedral, and the lower new town, with busy ironworks, glass, pottery, paper, and brick factories. There is a technical school (1873). Here the Florentines defeated the Sienese in 1269. Population, about 6000.

College Point, formerly a village of Queens county, New York, U.S.A., but since January 1, 1898, a part of the borough of Queens, one of the five boroughs constituting the city of New York; on the east shore of Flushing Bay, an arm of Long Island Sound. Population (1880), 4192; (1890), 6127. (See New York City.) Colley, Sir George Pomeroy (1835-1881), British general, third son of George Pomeroy Colley of Rathangan, Co. Kildare, Ireland, and grandson of the fourth Viscount Harberton, was born on the 1st of November 1835, and entered the 2nd Queen’s Regiment from Sandhurst as ensign in 1852. From 1854 to 1860 he served in South Africa, and was employed in surveying and as a magistrate in charge of the Bashi river district in KafFraria. Early in 1860 he went with his regiment to China to join the Anglo-French Expedition, and took part in the capture of the Taku Forts and the entry into Peking (medal and clasp), returning to South Africa to complete his work in KafFraria (brevetmajority). In 1862 he entered the Staff College and passed out in one year with honours. After serving as brigade-major at Devonport for five years he went to the War Office in 1870 to assist in the preparation of Mr Cardwell’s measures of army reform. He was appointed professor of military administration at the Staff College in in 1871. Early in 1873 he joined Sir Garnet Wolseley at the Gold Coast, where he took charge of the transport, and the success of the Ashanti Expedition was in no small degree due to his exertions (medal, brevet colonelcy, and C.B.). In 1875 he accompanied Wolseley to Natal (C.M.G.). On his return home he was appointed military secretary to Lord Lytton, Governor-General of India, and in 1877 private secretary (K.C.S.I.). In 1879 he joined Wolseley as Chief of the Staff and Brigadier-General in S.E. Africa, but, on the murder of Cavagnari at Kabul, returned to India. In 1880 he succeeded Wolseley in S.E. Africa as High Commissioner and General Commanding, and conducted the operations against the rebel Boers. He was defeated at Lang’s Nek and at the Ingogo river, and killed at Majuba Hill on 27th February 1881. Colley contributed to periodical literature, and wrote the article “Army” in the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He had a very high reputation not only for a theoretical knowledge of military affairs, but also as a practical soldier; and his disastrous failure against the Boers completely upset all the estimates that had been made of his abilities. Collier, John Payne (1789-1883), English critic, was born in London, 11th January 1789. His father’s connexion with the press obtained for him a position on the Morning Chronicle as leader writer, dramatic critic, and reporter, which continued till 1847; he was also called to the Bar. All the time he could spare, however, was given to the study of Shakespeare and the early English drama. After some minor publications he produced, in 1831, his History of English Dramatic Poetry and Annals of the Stage, a badly arranged but valuable work. It obtained for him the post of librarian to the duke of Devonshire, and access to the chief collections of early English literature throughout the kingdom. These opportunities were unhappily misused to effect a series of literary fabrications, which may be charitably, and perhaps not unjustly, attributed to literary monomania, but of which it is difficult to speak with patience, so completely did they for a long time bewilder the chronology of Shakespeare’s writings, and such suspicion have they thrown upon MS. evidence in general. After New Facts, New Particulars, and Further Particulars respecting