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seminary of the Reformed Church. The First Pennsylvania State Normal School is at Millersville, four miles distant. James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, lived here and is buried here, as were Thomas Mifflin, Gen. J. P. Reynolds and Thaddeus Stevens. The population in 1910 was 47,227.

Lancaster Sound, a passage connecting Baffin’s Bay with the Barrow Strait. It was discovered by Baffin, in 1616.

Land-League, an association formed in 1879 by Michael Davitt in Ireland, to buy land for the tenants, though connected with it was a widespread agitation for the abolition of all rents. It was, therefore, suppressed as illegal in 1881.

Lan′dor, Walter Savage, was born at Warwick, England, Jan. 30, 1775. At ten he was sent to Rugby School, but on account of his intractable temper he was expelled. After ten years with a tutor he was sent to Trinity College, but was expelled in 1794. In 1795 he published a volume of poems. In 1798 he published Gebir. A hasty marriage in 1811 proved unhappy, and he left his wife, going to France, devoting his time to writing and producing his tragedy of Count Julian.  His notable works are his Imaginary Conversations (1824-48), Examination of Shakespeare (1834), Pentameron (1837), Pericles and Aspasia and his Hellenics.  He died at Florence, Italy, Sept. 17, 1864. See Forster’s Life and Sidney Colvin’s Landor in the English Men of Letters Series.

Land′seer, Sir Edwin Henry, an English animal painter, son of an engraver, was born at London, March 7, 1802. He was carefully trained by his father to sketch animals from life, and began exhibiting at the Academy at 13, but the first work to bring him into prominence was Fighting Dogs Getting Wind. After 1823 he painted The Cat’s Paw, High Life and Low Life, King Charles’ Spaniels, Suspense, Jack in Office, The Challenge, The Monarch of the Glen, The Stag at Bay and others. He was knighted in 1850. In 1866 he was elected president of the Royal Academy, but declined the honor. He died after much mental suffering, Oct. 1, 1873, and was buried in St. Paul’s, London. See Sir Edwin H. Landseer by F. G. Stephens in the Great Artists Series, 1889.

Land’s End, the southwestern extremity of England (the ancient Bolerium), the western point of Cornwall. It is directly opposite to the Scilly Isles, which form a part of Cornwall, and is the southern land boundary of Mount’s Bay, which on the north terminates in Lizard’s Point.

Lands, Public, in the United States, refer to such lands as are held in ownership by the national government. Originally, indeed, the states which united in 1787 laid claim to the whole of the United States territory; but they speedily ceded to the national government all the lands which were not strictly within their limits. As a consequence, the United States became possessed of vast regions in the west. With the admission of new states into the Union vast tracts fell to the federal government, especially in the case of the Louisiana purchase and the acquisitions of Texas, Florida and Alaska. At the present time the lands still undisposed of reach over 800,000,000 acres. These lands are administered by the General Land Office, a bureau of the Department of the Interior. The great bulk of them lies in Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, California and Alaska. In Alaska alone there are estimated to be 359,492,760 acres of public lands.

Congress has been very liberal in the disposal of these lands, chiefly in the following ways: First, in the earlier days, by very cheap sales, either for cash or credit and in large bulk. Second, by grants to the states, especially for railroads, for canals, for irrigation and for education. Third, by grants to individuals for their services to the state. Fourth, for closer settlement, especially under the preëmption and homestead laws (see ). The last of these methods is now chiefly favored. Each state admitted to the Union since 1850 receives one township in every 18 for education, an additional grant of four townships for a university and a grant for a college of agriculture.

Lang, Andrew, LL. D., a British writer and versatile man of letters. He was born at Selkirk, Scotland in 1844, and was educated at Edinburgh Academy, St. Andrew’s University and Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with honors. He was elected a fellow of Merton in 1868, and in 1888 was appointed lecturer on natural religion at St. Andrew’s University. His versatility and indefatigable labors are shown in the fact that he was at once historian, biographer, essayist, novelist, creator of dainty stories and author of erudite works on human origins and similar subjects. His Ballads in Blue China appeared in 1881, and later he published Custom and Myth; Myth, Ritual and Religion; Lives of J. G. Lockhart; Lord Iddesleigh; Sir Walter Scott; Robert Burns; and Prince Charles Edward [Stuart]. He was aided in translations of the Odyssey and the Iliad. Later works include The Making of Religion; James VI and the Gowrie Mystery; Magic and Religion; History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation; and Knox and the Reformation.  He died at Banchovy, Scotland, July 21, 1912.

Langevin (länz-vă&#x1e45;), Louis Philip Adelard, was born at Saint Isidore, Quebec, on Aug. 23, 1855. In 1867 he entered the College of Montreal and spent eight years