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818 The building which will accommodate the Legislative Chambers is circular in plan and surrounded by a colonnade. The plan is divided into six sectors, utilized respectively by the Council Cham- bers and subsidiary accommodation for the Council of State, the Legislative Assembly and the Chamber of Princes, with three open courts separating these three chambers. A common library is situ- ated in the centre of the building. The foundation stone for this building was laid on Feb. 12 1921 by the Duke of Connaught, and the building has been designed by Mr. Baker.

The All-India War Memorial is to be a monument in the form of a triumphal arch. It will be built in white stone upon a red sandstone base and will rise to a height of 162 feet. It will be surmounted by a flare, so that on occasions of commemoration a column of smoke by day and of flame by night will rise. The structure consists of a mass pierced through from E. to W. by the great arch, 87? ft. high and 35 ft. wide, which spans the Processional Avenue. The piers thus formed are pierced by smaller arches which run through at right angles to the main arch. The freedom from intricate ornament and the simplicity of the design give the monument an appearance of dignity. Above the great cornice is inscribed the one word " INDIA," flanked by the dates " 1914 " and " 1919." This monu- ment was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, and the foundation stone was laid by the Duke of Connaught on Feb. 10 1921.

The estimate of cost for those works in the new capital which were being carried out by Government, according to the revised figures available in March 1921, was Rs. 12,91, 80,000 (or at Rs. 15 to the i. 8,612,000).

On Oct. I 1912, by proclamation, there was constituted the Administrative Province of Delhi under a chief commissioner. This area was taken entirely from the old Delhi district of the Punjab. Delhi province had originally an area of 528 sq. m., to which was added later an area of 45 sq. m., to the E. of the Jumna river and taken from the United Provinces, to serve as a grazing ground for the cattle of the city. The total area of the province is now therefore 573 sq. m., comprising, on the basis of the census of 1911, a pop. of 412,821. (H. W. M.*)

DELISLE, LEOPOLD VICTOR (1826-1910), French biblio- phile and historian (see 7.964), published in 1909 his edition of the Rouleau Mortuaire du B. Vital, Abbe de Savigni, and also Les Actes de Henri II. (vol. ii appeared in 1916). He died at Chantilly July 22 1910.

See R. L. Poole, Leopold Delisle (1911); X. Delisle, Lettres de Leopold D elide (1911-4).

DELIUS, FREDERICK (1863- ), English musical composer, born at Bradford, Yorks., Jan. 29 1863, was educated primarily at the International College, Isleworth, and was destined by his parents for a mercantile career. To Delius the prospect thus held out was unendurable, though, rather para- doxically, when he declined the business career proffered to him in Bradford, he set out for Florida, where he established himself as an orange planter. His spare time, however, was devoted to such musical study as he could obtain from such books as were in his diminutive Library. In this sense he, like Elgar, was self- taught. But he quickly broke away from orange-groves and betook himself to Leipzig, where he underwent a more or less regular course of training at the hands of Jadassohn, though probably he learnt more of practical use from Grieg who at that time was resident in Leipzig studying the art of scoring for a modern orchestra. In or about 1900 Delius took up his abode at Grez-sur-Loing (S. et L.), near Fontainebleau, which sub- sequently was his principal domicile, though he travelled in many lands. He was in Norway in 1897 when his incidental music was produced to Gunnar Heiberg's Folkeraadet, and, by its satirical use of the National Anthem, set the town by the ears. Meanwhile compositions flowed from his ready brain. He gave a concert of some of them in London in 1899 when his Legende for violin (composed in 1892) was produced. In 1893 his fantasie-overture Over the Hills and Far Away was done by Dr. Haym at Elberfeld, and followed. in 1897 by his pianoforte concerto in C minor. This fine work, however, was ultimately recast and produced in London at a promenade concert in 1907 by Theo. Szanto, a Hungarian pianist. But before then, in 1896, Delius's first opera, Koanga, was in the making. It was produced at Elberfeld in 1904. His second opera, Romeo and Juliet in the Village, was first performed at the Komische Oper in Berlin in 1907, and subsequently was given by Sir Thomas Beecham at Covent Garden in Feb. 1910 and, in a revised version, in 1919. A third opera, Fennimore and Gerda, was staged at Frankfurt a/M soon after the Armistice.

In between the intervals of opera-composing, Delius was very busy producing purely orchestral works, or works for chorus and orchestra for the concert room. Thus Life's Dance dates from 1898; Paris: the Song of a Great City from 1900; Appalachia (1903) ; Sea Drift (1904) ; A Mass of Life (after Nietzsche, 1905) ; Brigg Fair (1908) ; In a Summer Garden (1908) ; Requiem (1909) ; a Poem of Life and Love and Eventyr (1919). Besides all this Delius composed a violin concerto and a double concerto for violin and violoncello, a violin and a 'cello sonata, and a string quartet, many songs and several a capella choruses.

DEMOBILIZATION AND RESETTLEMENT. No labour prob- lem of greater difficulty has ever had to be faced than that of national demobilization, whether military or civilian, after the World War, because of the dimensions to which the calling -up of national man-power had attained. An account of post-war demobilization and resettlement in industry, in the United Kingdom, from the civilian point of view, divides itself into three clearly marked periods: (A.), the preparations during the pre- Armistice period; (B.), the action taken immediately after the Armistice; and (C.), during the first two years of resettlement. (For the Army demobilization, see ARMY.)

(A.) PRE-ARMISTICE PERIOD

There were two lines upon which British Government preparations proceeded during the pre- Armistice period in respect of civilian workers:

(a) The bringing of workers demobilized from munitions work and war work as quickly and as conveniently as possible to peace work.

(6) The rapid turnover from war to peace so that employment might be available for the largest number at the earliest moment. For the provision for unemployment, see the article UNEMPLOY- MENT.

(a) The Bringing of Workers Demobilized from Munitions Work and War Work. In making plans for the demobilization of civilians account had to be taken of the possibly simultaneous demobilization of the armed forces. The ideal would have been to have fitted civilian workers into their places before the forces had been demobilized so that there should be no confusion as between the two masses of demobilized persons. In point of fact it was recognized from the outset that it would be impossible to complete one process before the other began, first because industry could not in many places be started up again without the return of numbers of pivotal men with the forces, and secondly because large numbers of men with the forces had either a statutory right or a promise to return to a particular employment. It was accordingly necessary to frame a scheme for civilian workers which could work conveniently side by side with the scheme devised for the demobilization of the forces. The demobilization of the forces took into account throughout the necessity of approaching the matter, subject to paramount strategic considerations, upon an industrial basis. From the first report on military demobilization, signed in Dec. 1914 by Sir H. Llewellyn Smith and Sir R. H. Brade (as secretaries of the Board of Trade and War Office respectively), right through to the second interim report of the Ministry of Reconstruction Committee on the demobilization of the army, in Oct. 1917, this aspect of the question was steadily faced. It was recognized that demobilization must be so arranged as to render the transition from war to peace as easy as possible, which meant arranging it so far as possible to fall in with the immediate needs of the post-war industrial situation.

The principles upon which the recommendations as to military demobilization proceeded must be briefly explained, in order that the way in which these were related to those laid down for civilian workers may be appreciated.

The objects aimed at were to reduce unemployment to the lowest possible point, but at the same time to make adequate provision for such unemployment as was inevitable. In order to meet the first point it was recommended that demobilization should, subject to military exigencies, be carried out according to the requirements of trade and industry, which meant disbanding first men for whom employment was ascertained to be available or men in trades specified in a priority list drawn up with reference to the relative urgency of the industrial requirements of the country. To meet the second object the committee recommended the provision of a free unemployment insurance policy to be given on demobilization.