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LEFT KAUNITZ 323 KEAN of the Glyptothek at Munich, and subse- quently succeeded in the Munich Academy. He decorated the Odeon, the palaces of Maximilian and Ludwig, and the new Pinacothek. His most ambi- tious pictures, excepting "The Madhouse" (1828), are to be found in a series (utilized in the decoration of the Berlin Museum) comprising the "Tower of Babel," "Age of Homer," "Destruction of Jerusalem," "Battle of the Huns and Romans," the "Crusades," and the "Ref- ormation" (1834-1863). He illustrated many books, including the "Reineke Fuchs," the "Gospels," and the works of Shakespeare, Goethe, and Schiller. He died in Munich, April 7, 1874. KAUNITZ (kou'nits), PRINCE WENZEL ANTON VON, COUNT OF RIETBERG, an Austrian statesman; born in Vienna, Feb. 2, 1711. While minister to France (1750-1752), he suc- ceeded in making an alliance between that country and Austria. From 1753 to 1792 he was state chancellor and chief minister and formed the coalition against Frederick the Great in 1756. He died June 27, 1794. KAURI (kou'ri) PINE, or KOWRIE {Davvmara anstralis), a species of dam- mar, a native of New Zealand. It is a tree of great size and beauty, attaining a height of 140 feet or more, with whorls of branches, the lower of which die off as it becomes old. The timber is white, close-grained, durable, flexible, and very valuable for masts, yards, and planks. The Fiji Islands, New Hebrides, and Aus- tralia produce other species. All of them are trees of dark, dense foliage, and produce a resin called Kauri resin, or Kauri gum, and sometimes Australian copal and Australian dammar, of which large quantities are exported from Auck- land. D. orientalis, a native of the Mo- luccas, exudes a similar resin, which is at first white like crystal, and is called white dammar, but with age it assumes a yellow amber tint. KAVA-KAVA, AVA-AVA, or KAWA, a small shrub, about six feet high, -with stems 1 to 11/2 inches thick, native of the South Sea Islands; sometimes called Piper tnethysticum. The rhizome is said to be valuable medicinally for certain diseases of the genito-urinary organs. KAVERI (ka've-ri), a river of South- ern India, rising in the western Ghats, and flowing S. E. across Mysore and Madras, to the Bay of Bengal, which it enters through two principal mouths; length, about 475 miles; drainage, about 28,000 square miles; flood discharge above the delta, 472,000 feet per second. The Kaveri is of no value for navigation, its bed being rocky, with numerous rapids and falls. It is of importance for irrigation in Mysore and in Coimbatore district, but especially in the marvelously fertile delta. For this purpose the main stream has been dammed since the 4th century A. D., the Coleroon (the N. branch) since 1838. KAVI, or KAWI (ka've), the ancient sacred language of Java, with a vocabu- lary based chiefly on Sanskrit. The only place where it in any degree exists today uncorrupted by the ordinary Java- nese, is the island of Bali. KAYES, or KHAYES (ka-yas'), a town of the French Sudan, on the river Senegal, the terminus of the railway and river service from St. Louis; pop. be- tween 6,000 and 7,000. KAYE-SMITH, SHEILA, an English author. Her first book, "A Tramping Methodist," was published in 1908, and this was followed by "Starbrace" in the following year. Since then she has pub- lished a number of other books, among them: "Samuel Richardson"; "Isle of Thorns"; "Three Against the World"; "Willow's Forge and Other Poems"; "Sussex Gorse"; "The Challenge to Sirius"; "Little England"; "Tamarisk Town." KLAZAN (ka-zan'), a city of European Russia, capital of the province of the same name; on the Kasanka, about 4 miles above its junction with the Volga. It is strongly fortified, with large wool- combing, weaving and dyeing establish- ments, tanneries and soap works. The timber, flour, and hemp fairs of Kazan are of the largest in the Russian Empire. The university is a great seat for Orien- tal learning. Pop. about 200,000. Ka- zan, the province, has an area of 24,587 square miles; domiciled pop. about 3,000,000. It is well watered by the Volga, the Kama, the Sura, the Viatka, the Kasanka; agriculture, cattle-raising, and fishing are the chief occupations. KAZVIN (kiiz-ven'), a town of Persia, 95 miles N. W. of Teheran, on the road to Resht. It manufactures brocade, vel- vet, cotton, and iron ware, and breeds camels and horses. Pop. 30,000 to 40,000. KEAN. CHARLES JOHN, an English actor; son of Edmund Kean; born in Waterford, Ireland, Jan. 18, 1811. He was educated at Eton, but in 1827 he took to the stage, and made his debut at Drury Lane as Young Norval. In 1830 he visited America, established his repu- tation, and reappeared as a leading actor