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LEFT ELGIN 606 ELIOT certo; "The Coronation March" (1911); "Masque, The Crown of India" (1912). Elgar received many distinctions, in- cluding the Order of Merit; Associate, Academie des Beaux- Arts, Belgium; Hon, Academician, Royal Swedish Acad- emy, Stockholm; Hon. Member Society des Compositeurs, Paris j Member Maatschaapij tot Bevordermg der Toon- kunst, Holland. ELGIN, a city in Kane co.. 111., on both sides of the Fox river; at the junc- tion of the Chicago and Northwestern, and the Chicago and Pacific railroads; 36 miles W. of Chicago. The river at this point is spanned by a handsome iron bridge and affords excellent water power. Elgin is noted for its varied and extensive manufactures, and contains the Elgin Watch Works, the Borden milk condensing works, butter and cheese fac- tories, boiler works, bicycle and sewing machine works, shoe, silver plated goods, and lumber factories. It has the Elgin Academy public high school, St. Mary's Academy, Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane. Gail Borden Free Library, several parks, electric lights and street railways, waterworks, 4 National and several savings banks, daily and weekly newspapers. Pop. (1910) 25,976; (1920) 27,431. ELGINSHIRE, MORAYSHIRE, or MITRRAYSHIRE, a county of Scotland, in the N. E. part, with an area of 475.75 square miles. In the S. are high moun- tains. The soil is fertile in the N. part, and agriculture is an important industry. There are also salmon and salt-water fisheries. The chief industry of the county is the distilling of whiskey. Pop., about 45,000. The principal town is Elgin. ELIAS, SAINT, a lofty mountain on the N. W. coast of America. It rises about 18,000 feet above the sea, being visible to mariners at a distance of 50 Jeagues. Physically, it marks pretty nearly the point where the shore, after trending in a N. W. drection, turns due W. ; politically it divides itself between the Territory of Alaska and the Domin- ion of Canada. ELIJAH, the most distinguished of the prophets of Israel, flourished in the 9th century B. C, during the reigns of Ahab and Ahaziah, and until the be- ginning of the reign of Jehoram, his special function being to denounce ven- geance on the kings of Israel for their apostasy. He incurred the anger of Jezebel, wife of Ahab, for slaying the pro- phets of Baal, but escaped to Horeb, afterward returning to Samaria to de- nounce Ahab for the murder of Naboth. Elijah at Irtigth ascended to heaven in a chariot of fire, Elisha his successor, be- ing witness. See I Kings xvii. to xxi. and II Kings i. and ii. ELIOT, CHARLES WILLIAM, Amer- ican educator and author; born in Boston, Masg., March 20, 1834; president of Har- vard University (1869-1909). President DR. CHARLES W. ELIOT Emeritus since 1909. He is the author of "Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis"; "Manual of Inorganic Chem- istry"; "John Gilley" (1904); "The Happy Life" (1905); "The Road To- wards Peace." He edited "The Harvard Classics," better known as the "Five- Foot-Shelf Library." (Collier, New York, 1910). ELIOT, GEORGE, the pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans, an Eng- lish novelist; born near Nuneaton, Nov. 22, 1820. She received at Coventry an excellent education, and shortly after her 21st year became a convert to Ra- tionalism. Her first literary undertaking was the completion of Mrs. Hennell's translation of Strauss' "Life of Jesus" (1846). After spending two years abroad she became subeditor of the