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LEFT GARLASCO 263 GABONNE Idols"; "Little Norsk"; (1893); "Rose of Dutcher's Coolly" (1895); "Jason Ed- wards"; "The Eagle's Heart" (1900); "The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop" HAMLIN GARLAND (1902); "Hesper" (1904); "The Forest- er's Daughter" (1914) ; "A Son of the Middle Border" (1917). GARLASCO, a town of northern Italy, in Piedmont, 24 miles S. E. of Novara. Near this place the Austrians crossed the Po, when invading Italy in 1849. GARLIC, in botany. Allium sativum, a perennial plant with a compound bulb composed of 10 to 12 smaller ones, called cloves, flat, narrow, erect, and pointed leaves, flowers akin to those of the onion, whitish or pinkish. It is used in Sicily, and some parts of Provence. It is cul- tivated in Portugal and other parts of the continent. The peasantry eat their bread with slices of it. In pharmacy, garlic, like other species of Allium, is stimulant, diuretic, and expectorant. GARNET, an isometric transparent or translucent brittle mineral, with dodeca- hedral cleavage, sometimes with twin crystals, having an octahedral compo- sition face. It occurs also massive and lamellar. Color, red, brown, yellow, white, or black, with a white streak. There are three leading varieties: (1) Alumina garnet, in which the sesqui- oxide is mainly alumina ; (2) Iron garnet, in which it is chiefly sesquioxide of iron; and (3) Chrome garnet, in which it is principally sesquioxide of chrome. Under these are ranked grossularite, pyrope, almandite, spessartite, andradite, bred- bergite, and ouvarovite. GARNETT, RICHARD, an English philologist; born in Otley, Yorkshire, England, July 25, 1789. He had already tried commerce and the Church, when in 1838 he was appointed assistant keeper of printed books at the British Museum. One of the founders of the Philological Society, he contributed many striking papers (on Celtic subjects, largely) to its "Proceedings" and to the "Quarterly Review." These were collected by his son in "Philological Essays" (1859). He died Sept. 27, 1850. Richard, his son, born in Lichfield, Feb. 27, 1835, was ap- pointed in 1851 assistant in the printed book department of the British Museum, where also he became superintendent of the reading room in 1875. This office he resigned in 18S4 to devote himself more exclusively to the printing of the "Mu- seum Catalogue," of which he had had charge from its commencement. He pub- lished: "Relics of Shelley" (1862); "Se- lections of Shelley's Poems" (1880) and "Letters" (1882) ; "De Quincey's Eng- lish Opium Eater" (1885) ; "Life of Car- lyle" (1887); "Life of Milton" (1890); "Poems" (1893) ; "History of Italian Lit- erature" (1898) ; "Essays in Librarian- ship and Bibliography" (1899) ; "Essays of an Ex-Librarian" (1901) "English Literature" with Edmund Gosse (1903- 1904). He died in 1906. GARNISHMENT, in law, (1) a warn- ing or legal notice to the agent or attor- ney of an absconding debtor to appear in court or give information. (2) A warn- ing or legal notice not to pay money, etc., to a defendant, but to appear and answer to a plaintiff creditor's suit. (3) A fee. GARO (ga'ro) HILLS, a district of India, forming the S. W. corner of As- sam; area, 3,350 square miles. It is a mountainous and forest region inter- sected by tributaries of the Brahmapu- tra. The native Garos are a robust and active race. Among them the wife is regarded as the head of the family, and property descends through females. Pop. about 154,000. GARONNE (ga-ron') (ancient Gar- umna), the principal river in the S. W. of France, rising within the Spanish frontier in the Val d'Aran, at the base of Mount Maladetta, in the Pyrenees, 6,142 feet above sea-level. About 26 miles from its source it enters the French ter-