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LEFT WALSINGHAM 282 WALTON In 1837 he removed to Paris, where he was consul in 1845-1851. He wrote for "Dennie's Portfolio," and edited the "American Review of History and Pol- itics," the first American quarterly (22 vols. 1827-1837) ; most of the articles were from his pen. Others of his pub- lications are: "Correspondence Respect- ing Russia Between R. G. Harper and Robert Walsh, Jr." (1813); "An Essay on the Future State of Europe" (1813) ; biographical prefaces to an edition of the English poets in 50 small volumes; "An Appeal from the Judg- ments of Great Britain Respecting the United States of America" (1819). He conducted the "American Register" (1817-1818), the "National Gazette" (1821-1837), and the "Museum of For- eign Literature and Science" (vol. i. 1822); and edited "Didactics: Social, Literary, and Political," a collection of aphorisms (2 vols. 1836). He died in Paris, Feb. 7, 1859. WALSINGHAM, SIB FRANCIS, an English statesman; born in Chiselhurst, England, about 1530. After studying at King's College, Cambridge, he traveled on the Continent for some time, and ac- quired a good knowledge of foreign lan- guages and politics. He was introduced by Cecil, Lord Burleigh, to public ser- vice, under Queen Elizabeth, and em- ployed in embassies to France, the Netherlands, and Scotland. He also sat in the House of Commons for various constituencies, was knighted, made a member of the Privy Council, and one of the principal secretaries of state. The unraveling of the Babington plot against Queen Elizabeth was intrusted to Walsingham, and he was also one of the commissioners who tried Queen Mary. He died in Born Elms, near Lon- don, April 6, 1590. WALTER, THOMAS USTICK, an American architect; born in Phila- delphia, Pa., Sept. 4, 1804; began the study of architecture in the office of William Strickland, with whom he re- mained till 1830, when he engaged in independent practice. His first impor- tant work was the Moyamensing peni- tentiary, built in 1831. In 1833 he made the designs for the Girard College build- ing, which on its completion in 1847 was pronounced the finest specimen of classic architecture in the United States. His next great work was the breakwater at La Guayra for the Vene- zuelan Government. In 1851 his design for the extension of the National Cap- itol at Washington, D. C, was adopted. Having been appointed government ar- chitect, he removed to Washington, and remained there till the completion of the work in 1865. While in Washington he also designed the extensions of the pat- ent office, treasury, and postoffice build- ings, the dome of the Capitol, and the Government Hospital for the Insane. He was a member of the American Philo- sophical Society, and an original member of the American Institute of Architects; and was also Professor of architecture in Franklin Institute and lecturer on architecture in Columia College. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 30, 1887. WALTHAM, a city in Middlesex co., Mass.; on both sides of the Charles river, and on the Boston and Maine rail- road; 10 miles W. of Boston. It con- tains a public library, the Leland Home for Aged Women, a hospital. Home for the Feeble-minded, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants. National and savings banks, and sev- eral daily and weekly newspapers. The city is widely known for its manufac- ture of watches, for which there are several establishments, one of which is the largest watch factory in the world, in which watch making by machinery on an extensive scale was first at- tempted. Here also was built the first cotton mill in the United States where all the operations of cotton manufacture were conducted under one roof. The other industries include the manufac- ture of crayons, hosiery, brass goods, aeroplanes, bicycles, electric clocks, etc. Pop. (1910) 27,834; (1920) 30,915. WALTHER VON DER VOGEL- WEIDE (fo'gl-vi-de), the most eminent of the old German lyric poets of the class of Minnesingers; born about 1170. His earliest patrons were Duke Leopold VI. of Austria and his son, Frederick. Subsequently he visited, for shorter and longer periods, the courts of most Ger- man princes, who were in favor of an imperial as against a papal policy. The Emperor Frederick II. provided him with a small estate near Wiirzburg, where he seems to have always retired when disgusted with traveling, the courts, and intrigues. He was a poli- tician and reformer as well as a poet, and his verses breathe a liberalism far in advance of his times; while the sub- jects of his favorite love songs are noble women. He died in Wiirzburg, about 1230. WALTON, BRIAN, an English Bibli- cal scholar; born in Seymour, York- shire, England, in 1600. He was made chaplain to Charles II. and Bishop of Chester at the Restoration. His great- est work is "Biblia Sacra Polyglotta" (6 vols., folio 1657), including the Hebrew original of the Old Testamentj