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LEFT LAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY 400 LAKE lake is nearly 60 miles long and about half that distance in width. Together with the smaller lakes in the valley it forms one of the sources of thj Nile. Discovered in 1876 by Stanley, who named it after Prince Edward, who later became Edward VII. LAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY, a co-educational institution in Lake Forest, 111., founded in 1857 under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and in- structors. 18, students, 167; president, H. W. Wright. LAKE MOHONK. See MOHONK Lake. LAKE OF GENNESARET. See GALI- LEE, Sea of. LAKE OF LOT, THE, the Arabic name for the Dead Sea. LAKE OF THE FOUR FOREST CAN- TONS, another name for the Lake of Lucerne. The city of Lucerne, and the towns of Kiisnacht, Brunnen, and Fliielen are on its shores. LAKE OF THE THOUSAND IS- LANDS, an expansion of the St. Law- rence {q. V.) extending about 40 miles below Lake Ontario. It contains about 1,500 rocky islets, the largest, Wolfe Island (48 square miles; pop. 2,383), measuring 21 miles by 7. LAKE OF THE WOODS, a large lake of North America, studded with numer- ous wooded islands; lat. 49° N., Ion. 95° W.; length nearly 100 miles, circuit about 300 miles. It is mostly in Ontario, but extends also into Manitoba and Min- nesota. It is fed by the Rainy river, and drained by the Winnipeg. LAKES (originally prepared from lac, whence the name), pigments or colors formed by precipitating animal or vege- table coloring matters from their solu- tions chiefly with alumina or oxide of tin. Cochineal and madder lakes are the only ones used by artists. The former are prepared with Cochineal (g. v.) and alumina, and according to their shade of red, or purple red, are known as carmine, crimson lake, scarlet lake, purple lake and Florentine lake. These were formerly much employed by water color painters, but they have not much stability. The madder pigments of this kind, called rose madder or madder lake and madder carmine, are quite perma- nent. There are several yellow lakes made, but they are unstable. Paper- stainers and decorators use several pink lakes. LAKE SCHOOL, a name applied in derision by the "Edinburgh Review" to a class of poets who, following the example of Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge, the founders of the school (who resided for a considerable part of their lives near the lakes of Cumberland and West- moreland), substituted a simple and natural taste for the stiff classicism of the 18th century. LAKE, SIR PERCY HENRY NOEL, a British soldier. He was born in 1855 and was gazetted in the 59th Foot in 1873. He acted as assistant field en- gineer in 1878-1879 in the Afghan War, and passed the Staff College with honors SIR PERCY lake in 1884. In 1885 he won the medal with clasp and bronze star in the Soudan Ex- pedition. In 1891-1892 he was secretary to Lord Wantage's Committee on "Terms of Service in the Army," and was later successively Assistant Quartermaster General and Chief Staff Officer, 2nd Army Corps. He was Chief of General Staff and then Inspector-General, Can- adian Militia, 1905-1910, Division Com- mander, India, 1911-1912, and Chief of General Staff, India, 1912-1915. He commanded in Mesopotamia in 1916 dur- ing World War. LAKE, SIMON, an American naval architect and inventor; born in Pleasant- ville, N. J., in 1866. He was educated at the Clinton Liberal Institute and the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Early in life he turned his attention to