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1755, and died at Paris, Sept. 14, 1820. He played a prominent part under Napoleon in all his wars, 1799-1814; was ennobled by the Bourbons; stood by Napoleon in 1815; and yet did not lose by his master's final fall.

Legal, Right Reverend Emile I., bishop of St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, was born in Nantes, France, 1849, educated there and ordained in 1874. Professor of mathematics for five years at St. Stanislaus College, Nantes, in 1879 he joined the Oblate missionaries. Sent in 1881 to the Northwest Territories, for nine years he served as a missionary amongst the Peigan Indians and eight years among the Blood Indians. Appointed co-adjutor in 1897 to Bishop Grand, he succeeded as bishop in 1902, promotes missions, has established a seminary and is building a large cathedral.

Le Galhenne, Richard, an English journalist, writer of prose and verse and editor, was born in Liverpool in 1866. Atter studying and serving for seven years with a firm of accountants he abandoned this profession for literature. For a time he was secretary to Wilson Barrett, and again wrote at different times for the Star, Daily Chronicle, Speaker and New York Journal. He is a keen critic, and in 1899 made a heavy attack upon Kiplingism in Rudyard Kipling. He has gained some reputation in the United States as a lecturer, and at present resides in New York. Among his works may be mentioned Retrospective Reviews, Prose Fancies, George Meredith, The Book-Bills of Narcissus and Robert Louis Stevenson and other Poems.

Legend (lej'Znd), from the Latin word legere, to read, was a term originally given to portions of Scripture and certain other religious writings, especially the lives of saints and martyrs, that were to be read in the services of the early Christian church. The founding of monasticism caused a vast mass of this literature to be brought forth, much of which, manifestly, was the work of the imagination. It ever is the tendency of the mind to enshrine saints and heroes in fable and give free scope to the feelings and the imagination in picturing their lives and characters. Consequently, notwithstanding the strange intermixture of truth and falsehood in these legendary tales, they gradually established themselves both in the eastern and the western church, and in the course of time gained a place in the literature of Christian nations. Although the origin of the word legend is ecclesiastical, it has also come to be applied to any fabulous narrative handed down by tradition.

Legendre (le-zhdn1'dr'), Adrien Marie, a distinguished mathematician, was born at Toulouse, France, in 1752. Legendre first made known the proposition of spherical success, now considered an essential the-prem of trigonometry; just as in 1806 he

enunciated the first proposal to tise the method of least squares in his New Methods for the Determination of the Orbits of the Comets. In 1827 appeared his Treatise on Ellipses — a subject with which his name must always remain associated. He wrote several other mathematical works, some of the highest importance. His best known book is his Elements of Geometry, translated into many languages — and by Thomas Carlyle into English. His Theory of Numbers is a classic still, and shows much original power. Legendre died at Paris, Jan. 10, 1833.

Leg'horn (It. Livorno), largest seaport in Tuscany, Italy, is situated on the Mediterranean coast, 13 miles by rail from Pisa and 62 from Florence. The houses for the most part are of modern style, lofty and roomy, the streets broad and clean, and there are fine squares, adorned with statues of the grand-duke of Tuscany. The northwestern portion of the city being intersected by numerous canals, it is sometimes called New Venice. The sulphur springs and sea-bathing attract a large concourse of travelers and visitors every season. The trade is large, the number of vessels entering and clearing the port in 1905 being about 8,500 of a combined total tonnage of 4,600,000 tons. Leghorn is defended both landward and seaward by forts and fortifications, constructed mostly in 1835-37. Population 108,000. Livorno also is a department in the province of Tuscany, whose area is 133 square miles and population 137,138. The exports, besides wines and fruits, embrace marble, hemp, hides, coral, soap, boracic acid, olive oil and the well-known Leghorn hat.

Le'gion, in the Roman military organization, was very similar to what in modern times is called an army-corps. In the time of the republic a legion was composed of 4,500 men as follows: 1,200 were hastati or inexperienced troops; 1,200 principes or well-trained soldiers; 1,200 velites or skirmishers; 600 pilani or veterans, forming a reserve; and 300 equites or knights, who acted as cavalry and belonged to families of rank. During this early period the legions were formed only for the season, the more complete organizations being effected during the civil wars and in the time of the Caesars.

Legion of Hon'or, an order of merit instituted by Napoleon in. 1802 as a reward for military and civil services, all previously existing military and religious orders having been abolished by the Revolution. It was founded, at least ostensibly, for the protection of republican principles and the maintenance of the laws of equality, citizens of all grades of society being equally eligible; and all persons admitted were required to do all in their power for the assertion of the principles of freedom and