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LEFT PAYNB 148 PATNB "Gleams of Memory" (autobiograph- ical), (1894). "The Disappearance of George Driffield" (1896); "Another's Burdens" (1897). He died in London, March 25, 1898. PAYNE, BRUCE RYBTJRN, an American educator, born at Morgan- ton, N. C., in 1874. He graduated from Trinity College, N. C, in 1896. After serving as instructor in several institutions he was appointed professor of philosophy and education in William and Mary College in 1904. From 1906 to 1911 he was professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. In the latter year he was appointed president of the Greorge Peabody College, of Nash- ville, and was a member of many im- portant societies, and was the author of the work. of educational systems in various European countries. PAYNE, JOHN, an English poet and Oriental scholar; born in London, Aug. 23, 1842. He studied for the bar, and in 1867 became a solicitor. Among his ■works are: "The Masque of Shadow" (1870); "Intaglios" (1871); "Songs of Life and Death" (1872); "Lautrec" (1878); a translation of the "Poems of Francis Villon" (1878) ; "New Poems" (1880); "Francis Villon— a Biograph- ical Study" (1881) ; a close and schol- arly translation of the "Arabian Nights* Entertainments," with the addition of those volumes of "Arabian Tales" not included in the common (1882); and a translation of the "Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam, including over 800 quatrains, several hundred more than had been be- fore translated (1897). He also made a translation of Dante's "Divina Corn- media," which was unpublished. He translated and adapted a number of works including "Poems of Hafiz" (1901); "Flowers of France" (1907) etc. Died 1916. PAYNE, JOHN BARTON, Secretary of the Interior of the United States. Born in Virginia 1855, and admitted to the bar in West Virginia in 1876. In 1883 he removed to Chicago where he practiced law and in 1893 was elected Judge of the Supreme Court of Cook CO. In 1898 he resigned his judicial po- sition and entered the firm of Winston, Payne, Strawn and Shaw, in which he remained until 1918. In that year he became counsel for the Shipping Board of the United States Government and later became its chairman. In 1920 President Wilson appointed him Secre- tary of the Interior. PAYNE, JOHN HOWARD, an Amer- ican dramatist; born in New York, June 9, 1792. At the age of 16 he made his first appearance at the Park Theater in the character of Young Norval with brilliant success. He also played in England and Ireland. He visited Lon- don in 1813 and there founded "The Opera Glass." In 1832 he retired from the stage and in 1851 was appointed United States consul to Tunis, He wrote, translated and adapted over 60 plays, but is most famous as the author of "Home, Sweet Home," originally in the opera of "Clari." He died in Tunis, April 10, 1852. In 1883 his remains were removed to the United States and interred in Oak Hill cemetery, near Washington, D. C. JOHN BARTON PAYNE. PAYNE, SERENO ELISHA, Amer- ican legislator. He was born at Ham- ilton, N. Y., in 1843, studied at the Uni- versity of Rochester, and was admitted to the bar in 1866.^ He became first city clerk, then supervisor, district attorney and head of the education board at Au- burn and, elected in 1883, for almost thirty years served in the House of Rep- resentatives. In politics he was a Re- publican, and specialized in tariff leg- islation, being largely responsible for the Payne-Aldrich Act of 1909. He died in 1914. PAYNE, WILL, an American journaU ist, born in Whiteside co., Ill,, in 1865. He was educated in the common schools. In 1890 he began newspaper work in