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LEFT CBAIO 184 CRAIOVA to Europe and to the Orient, lecturing on religious subjects. His writings include "The Ideal Sunday School" (1876), "Suc- cessful Men of To-day" (1883), "Practi- cal Christian Sociology" (1895), "Patri- otic Studies" (1906), "Prohibition Hand- book" (1911), and "Bible Stories and Poems" (1914). He served as a member on many commissions on prohibition and other social subjects, and was a member of many commissions on war-time activ- ities during the World War. CRAIK, DINAH MARIA MULOCK, an English author; born in Stoke-upon- Trent in 1826. She early took the burden of supporting an ailing mother and two younger brothers and wrote stories. Her first serious appearance as a novelist was in 1849, with her story, "The Ogilvies," which was followed by "Olive," "The Head of the Family," and "Agatha's Husband." She never surpassed, how- ever, or even equaled her domestic novel, "John Halifax" (1857), which had an extraordinary popularity, and has been translated into French, German, Italian, CRAB Masked Crab. B. King Crab. CRAIG, (EDWARD) GORDON, an English theatrical manager. He was born in 1872 and acted for the first time in 1889 in London, at the Lyceum Thea- ter, under the direction of Henry Irving. He was active as an actor for eight years and in 1897 commenced the study of the art of the theater. He made many productions in Great Britain and on the Continent, in which he introduced fea- tures which were the results of his study. He founded a school for the art of the theater, Arena Goldoni, Florence, in 1913, and was a member of the Society of Twelve. His works include: "The Art of the Theater," essays in "The Mask," and in "The Marionette," "Portfolio of Etchings," "The Page," "On the Art of ^e Theater," "Towards a New Theater." CRAIGIE, PEARL RICHARDS. HoBBES, John Olivkr. See Greek, and Russian. The scene is laid at Tewkesbury, where a marble medallion has been placed to her memory in the abbey. A pension of £60 a year, awarded to her in 1864, she set aside for authors less fortunate than herself. In 1865 she married George Lillie Craik, a partner in the publishing house of Macmillan & Co. She died Oct. 12, 1887. CRAIOVA, or KRAJOVA, the chief cuy of the province of Doljiu, Rumania, situated on the river Jiu, 110 miles W. of Bucharest, with a population before the World War of about 45,000. The town is the center of an important grain district on the edge of the Wallachian Plain, It was the first important capture made by the Germans on the Rumanian northern front, after the Teutons had broken through the Carpathian Moun- tains in November, 1916, and began their