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 644 L I M L I M read seven plays of Sophocles, five of Euripides, three of Aristophanes, besides extracts from Xenophon arid Plutarch, by himself without a teacher.&quot; After his return he settled in London, as a private teacher of grammar, and is believed to have been the first who taught Greek in that city. In 1510 Colet, dean of St Paul s, who was then founding the school which afterwards became famous, appointed Lilye the first highmaster. He held this office only twelve years, dying of the plague in February 1523. Lilye s name deserves commemoration, not only as one of the pioneers of Greek learning, but as one of the joint authors of a book, familiar to many generations of students, down to the present century, the old Eton Latin grammar. The Brevissima Institutio, a sketch by Colet, corrected by Erasmus, and worked upon by Lilye, contains two portions, the authorship of which is indisputably Lilye s. These are the lines on the genders of nouns, beginning &quot; Propria quge maribus,&quot; and those on the con jugation of verbs, beginning &quot;As in prassenti.&quot; The &quot; Carmen de moribus &quot; bears Lilye s name in the early editions : but Hearne asserts that it was written by Leland, who was one of his scholars, and that Lilye only adopted it. Besides the Brevissima Institutio, Lilye wrote a variety of Latin pieces both in prose and verse. Some of the latter are printed along with the Latin verses of Sir Thomas More in Proyymnasmata Thomse Mori et Gulielmi Lylii Sodalium, Basel, 1518. Another volume of Latin verse directed against a rival schoolmaster and grammarian, Whittington, whose grammar that of Lilye superseded, is entitled Antibossicon ad Gnlielmum Hormannum, 1521. The only authority for the few facts which make up the above life of Lilye is a short sketch furnished by his son George to Paulus Jovius, who was collecting for his history the lives of the learned men of Great Britain. All the other names, such as Bale, Pits, Fuller, Wood, which figure in the dictionaries as authorities, are only transcripts of George Lilye. To these scanty memoranda the present article adds an extract from three letters of Lilye s pre served in the British Museum, Cotton. Nero, B. vi. fol. 157, now printed for the first time. LIMA, capital of the republic of Peru, as also of the department and province of Lima, is situated on an exten sive plain, 500 feet above the sea-level, and 7 miles east from its port Callao on the Pacific coast, in 12 2 34&quot; S. lat., 77 7 36&quot; W. long. The general configuration of the main portion of the city, previous to 1870 surrounded by walls, is that of an irregular triangle, whose base rests on JiAT Of CAL LAO CA1XA FIG. 1. Neighbourhood of Lima and Callao. the river Rimac, which separates the city from its offshoot or suburb of San Lazaro. Sheltered on the north and east by the spurs of the Andes, the city is exposed to the winds prevailing from the south-east, as also to those from the south and west. Although the atmosphere is moist, and the transitions of the seasons are rapid, the climate is not unhealthy, the rainfall being slight, and the variations of temperature not excessive. The summer commences in December, and the winter in June, and the mean temper ature for the year is about 73 Fahr. The city is divided into five quarters or parishes., and is well laid out with broad and regular thoroughfares, the streets intersecting one another at right angles. The houses are spacious, but generally of only two stories, and are approached by portals leading into an open court or yard. In the principal square, which covers an area of 9 English acres in the centre of the city, stands a fine fountain of bronze. Here also are the cathedral, a stone structure with two lofty towers and a broad fagade, the archiepiscopal palace, the Government house, and the Portal de los Escribanos, con taining the municipal offices and archives. Besides the cathedral there are five chief parochial and sixty-two other churches and chapels, and numerous monasteries and con vents. Of the churches, the largest is that of San Pedro (1598), which has seventeen altars; of the religious houses that of the Dominicans is the finest, and that of the Fran ciscans the most extensive. The university, built in 157G, is the oldest in America ; it contains the hall and offices 1. Cathedral. 2. Plaza Mayor. 3. Plaza Bolivar. 4. Principal Theatre. 5. Infantry Barracks. C. Artillery Barracks. FIG. 2. Plan of Lima. 7. Cavalry Barracks. 8. Penitentiary. 9. Military Hospital. 10.) 11. &amp;gt; Railway Stations. 12. 13. Municipal Hall. 14. Governor s Palace. 15. Telegraph Office. 10. Museum, &amp;lt;fcc. 17. Library. 18. Botanical Garden. used by the chamber of deputies. Lima has more than seventy schools, a public library containing upwards of forty thousand volumes, and many charitable institutions, several of them connected with the religious orders. The principal place of amusement is the amphitheatre for bull fights in the Plaza del Acho, accommodating nine thousand spectators. In the Plaza de la Exposicion is a marble statue of Columbus unveiling a figure of America. Of the many other monuments in Lima the most famous is the bronze equestrian statue of Simon Bolivar in the Plaza de la Independencia (or de Bolivar), 11 tons in weight, com memorating the battle of Ayacucho, which secured the independence of Peru. Among the public promenades are reckoned the cemetery outside the Maravillas gate, and the Paseo de la Alameda de los Descalzos, in the centre of which is a gorgeous garden. As the capital of Peru, Lima is one of the most important trading centres in South America. It has, however, but few home industries, its manufactured goods being chiefly imported from Europe via Callao, the medium of nearly all its foreign commerce. Several attempts have from time to time been made to establish factories, but the high